Talk:List of Jeopardy! contestants/Archive 1

Quality Scale
This needs a quality scale assessment. Us441(talk)(contribs) 00:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Alphabetical order
I have reverted Sotto's rearrangement into alphabetical order. As indicated in the article's lead, "The players are listed chronologically by the date of their first appearance on the show." This is a more helpful ordering and a more sensible one given the ordering of sections. Robert K S (talk) 21:02, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Arthur Chu?
At what point is the "infamous" Arthur Chu (current winner) relevant enough for inclusion? http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/28/arthur_chu_jeopardy_s_reigning_champion_talks_to_ken_jennings_about_the.html 173.166.144.1 (talk) 08:27, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Julia Collins?
Julia Collins (who is still active on the show) now has the record for the most wins by a female contestant on Jeopardy! with 9 wins. This means that only 3 other Jeopardy! contestants have won more: Arthur Chu (11), Dave Madden (19), and of course, Ken Jennings (74). Has Julia Collins achieved enough success to now qualify for inclusion in this article?

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/meet-winningest-jeopardy-woman-160147240--abc-news-tv.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by EnigmaticCode (talk • contribs) 20:07, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

J-Archive as a reference
Please refrain from using The J-Archive as a reference in this article and instead please use Template:Cite episode. The J-Archive has been noted as a fansite and an unacceptable source in two previous discussions within the parent article's talk page (1, 2). AldezD (talk) 03:25, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Is Game Show NewsNet an acceptable source?
If we can't use the Jeopardy! Archive website, I suggest we use the Game Show NewsNet as an online source. We need references from someplace to talk about some of these Jeopardy! contestants. Mr. Brain (talk) 23:34, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, NO. Game Show NewsNet is another fan site and would almost certainly be vetoed. However, that cite does usually reveal where they got their articles and information from, so that could provide a solution if you are looking for a citation. --Bentvfan54321 (talk) 23:39, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, that's fine, but I'm gonna need a little help with fixing things on this article. I don't mean to be lazy, but I'm not really good at that type of stuff. Mr. Brain (talk) 00:04, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

"Matt Amodio" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Matt Amodio. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 August 1 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. AldezD (talk) 20:30, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Matt Amodio
Matt Amodio (as of August 4) is the current champion. Yes, he has won a lot of money and has won several days. This article is not going to be updated daily after each win. WP:NOTNEWS WP:NOTSTATS. Add him after his run ends rather than update daily WP:AO with new total wins/total dollars. AldezD (talk) 12:31, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Then what do you propose we do with the Matt Amodio redirect? Should we retarget it to Jeopardy! ? InfiniteNexus (talk) 16:45, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect it to this talk page discussion temporarily until he loses. AldezD (talk) 17:34, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:18, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * That works, temporarily. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:00, 5 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Yet another attempt by AldezD to own an article. Amodio has won 17 in a row. But to AldezD, he's a nobody. And anyone coming to the article looking for information about him will assume that Wikipedia is unreliable. It makes Wikipedia look stupid. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:31, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * —Two editors have agreed to a process to avoid adding him to the article until he loses. There is already a section that following discussion in this topic—a discussion you personally acknowledged. But instead of contributing, you  and duplicate the hidden section placing it in the live article space, which had a description of.
 * That is not the type of content that would be included once he does lose.
 * If you want to engage in the discussion here—and constructively contribute to the section that will eventually be unhidden—you're welcome to do so. AldezD (talk) 04:25, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * You need to read WP:OWN. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:13, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , again, WP:IDHT. The process agreed to here is to unhide the section and update it when he loses. AldezD (talk) 12:24, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * There obviously needs to be a mention of Matt Amodio and the current note is fine. Don't revert a third time Aldez.MorganDWright (talk) 05:58, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , see note above. You are adding WP:UNR content and duplicating a section that is hidden but already exists in the article. AldezD (talk) 12:24, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * UNR??? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:29, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , again WP:IDHT., and  are all unreferenced. The edits do not follow the same style nor tone of other sections in the article, and is simply a placeholder and duplicative.  following the discussion above. AldezD (talk) 13:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * You didn't link to UNR, so I assumed you made it up. And apparently the show itself is an unreliable source. Right. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:43, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , again, WP:IDHT. "The show itself is an unreliable source" does not address the requirements to add a source that are part of WP:V. AldezD (talk) 14:40, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

If you want to put it back in the live article space, unhide the section that already exists. But you need to include WP:V and WP:AO. Do not create a duplicate placeholder discussion. AldezD (talk) 13:01, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Like this?

Matt Amodio, a PhD student in computer science at Yale University from New Haven, Connecticut, has won $547,600 in 17 appearances on the show . In terms of prize money, he ranks as third most winning contestant all-time in regular season play, as well as sixth most successful in consecutive games won. During season 37, Amodio qualified as the first seed in the next Tournament of Champions.

←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:09, 13 August 2021 (UTC)


 * The raw link to MSN should be converted using Template:Cite web or Template:Cite news. You should include As of when referencing games/amount of money won, and update the reference each time those stats are edited. AldezD (talk) 15:19, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * What rule requires the "cite" gibberish? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:30, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * 1. You're adding a raw link and not using . 2. WP:REFB and specifically, WP:INTREF3.
 * And since I used the "as of" template, there's a capital letter in the middle of the sentence. How do you recommend fixing that? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:34, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Rephrase the sentence. "Matt Amodio, a PhD student in computer science at Yale University from New Haven, Connecticut., Amodio has won has won $547,600 in 17 appearances on the show and ranks as third most winning contestant all-time in regular season play, as well as sixth for most consecutive games won. During season 37, Amodio qualified as the first seed in the next Tournament of Champions."—again, with the properly-formatted in-line citations and using WP:PRECISELANG. AldezD (talk) 15:48, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I can do that, but you'll need to do the prettying-up of the not required in-line citation. I find that stuff unreadable, and hence unwriteable. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:50, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

This specifically needs to use coding and not simply tagged after the sentence using single open/closed brackets. You know how to format references since you're using coding elsewhere in your suggestion. I've already linked the guidelines of why Cite templates are preferred over a raw URL. AldezD (talk) 16:04, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * No, I don't know how to format them. I just copied what was there and tinkered with it a little bit. I still find those things unreadable. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:14, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I have since copied one of those things to my talk page, and have found that if I put each element on a separate line, I might be able to construct a new one in future, as needed. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:08, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

...Since it seems Amodio has definitely become notable enough for inclusion, I think it would make sense to put the hidden section in the live article space. As an uninvolved party in this discussion, it does seem like his current title of "third-highest winnings in regular Jeopardy!" would definitely make him notable enough for inclusion on this page, even though his run hasn't yet ended. It'll be another month before Jeopardy returns, and heck, Amodio could go on to win a thousand games. Now would be a good time to unhide it now that the season is over. (I've combined the existing hidden version with the one above, and also fixed some grammatical errors — and you can add "|lc=y" in the "as of" template to make it lowercase, by the way.) ... Thoughts? Paintspot Infez (talk) 19:19, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

This edit war is somewhat frivolous — He's clearly notable enough for inclusion. He's won more money and more games (and more reliable coverage) than many other contestants on this page. The hidden section's good to go. (Heck, I've even fixed the references and "cite web"s, and added the one above with the correct formatting.) If there's no objections, I can just unhide the new-and-improved hidden section. Paintspot Infez (talk) 19:25, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Okay, the refs have been improved, the "cite web"s have been implemented, the articles' authors have been included in the templates, the grammatical errors have been fixed, and the "as of" is now lowercase. Done — Just unhid it. (Glad this edit war can be over, hopefully.) Paintspot Infez (talk) 19:38, 13 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I have not been following this discussion very closely, but I do think that he is notable enough to be added in now, especially because the season is ending today and he's only trailing behind Jennings and Holzhauer. Also, I'm not going to read through all the lengthy rants above, but this back-and-forth debate is ridiculous. There's no need to be hostile here. InfiniteNexus (talk) 19:44, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Looks good as it is now with updated references formatted for the Reflist section. When updating for future daily wins once the new season begins, please be sure to reference properly using Template:Citeweb or Template:Cite episode with the proper parameters completed instead of just updating the numbers. Thanks for your edits everyone. AldezD (talk) 20:43, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Adding Other Contestants?
I'm trying to add some information about the contestants, Elise Beraru (first 5-time champion in Alex Trebek era), John Genova (first 5-time champion to win more than $50K), Paul Boymel (biggest winner of the first season and died in 2014), John Hnat (first 5-time champion to play in a single-player Final Jeopardy! Round), Bruce Fauman (1st runner-up in the 1985 Tournament of Champions and died in 2002), Paula Tupper (5-time female champion and died in 2018), Steve Rogitz (2nd runner-up of the 1985 Tournament of Champions, one of the only two contestants who played in all single-player, multi-player, three-player, and four-player Final Jeopardy Rounds, and the second 5-time champion to play in a single-player Final Jeopardy! Round), Michael Day (third 5-time champion to play in a single-player Final Jeopardy! Round), Nathan Walpow (5-time champion), Jay Rosenberg (5-time champion and died in 2008), Harvey Becker (sets a new record of $25,400), Beryl Arbit (the first 4-time female champion to play in a single-player Final Jeopardy! Round), Paul Rouffa (1st runner-up in the 1986 Tournament of Champions and the alternate for the 10th Anniversary Tournament), Lionel Goldbart (4-time champion, participated in the 10th Anniversary Tournament, and died in 2010), Barbara Lowe (5-time champion who defeated Lionel Goldbart), Marvin Shinkman (2nd runner-up in 1986 Tournament of Champions), Dave Traini (1st runner-up of the 1987 Tournament of Champions and 2nd runner-up in Super Jeopardy!), John Ryan (biggest winner of the 1986-1987 season), Eugene Finerman (2nd runner-up of the 1987 Tournament of Champions), Doug Molitor (the second 4-time champion to play in a single-player Final Jeopardy! Round and participated in the 10th Anniversary Tournament), Roy Holliday (5-time champion and participated in the 10th Anniversary Tournament), Richard Perez-Pena (5-time champion), Kate Waits (4-time female champion and Million Dollar Masters invitee), Sandra Gore (first 5-time female champion to reach the finals in the Tournament of Champions), Bruce Seymour (1990 Super Jeopardy! winner), Leah Greenwald (5-time champion), Barbara-Anne Eddy (5-time female champion), Michael Rankins (5-time champion), Bruce Naegeli (biggest winner of the 1987-1988 season, 1st runner-up of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, and died in 2009), Mark McDermott (5-time champion and participated in the 10th Anniversary Tournament), Jeff Richmond (5-time champion and one of the only two contestants who played in all single-player, multi-player, three-player, and four-player Final Jeopardy Rounds), Cigus Vanni (5-time champion), Brian Wangsgard (biggest winner of the 1988-1989 season and 2nd runner-up of the 1989 Tournament of Champions), Rich Lerner (1st runner-up of the 1989 Tournament of Champions), Larry McKnight (1st runner-up of the 1990 Tournament of Champions), Steve Berman (2nd runner-up of the 1990 Tournament of Champions), Richard Neale (4-time champion), Erik Larsen (5-time champion), Eric Terzuolo (5-time champion), Jim Scott (1991 Tournament of Champions winner), Steve Robin (1st runner-up of the 1991 Tournament of Champions), Bruce Ikawa (5-time champion), Leslie Frates (2nd runner-up of the 10th Anniversary Tournament), Andrew Westney (1991 Teen Tournament winner), Mark Born (biggest winner of the 1990-1991 season), Leszek Pawlowicz (1992 Tournament of Champions winner), Kirk Ditzler (5-time champion and died in 1998), India Cooper (who died in 2020), April McManus (1992 Teen Tournament winner), Robert Slaven (5-time champion and participated in the 10th Anniversary Tournament), Bruce Simmons (1st runner-up in the 1992 Tournament of Champions), Richard Kaplan (5-time champion and died in 1993), John Kelly (5-time champion), Leslie Shannon Miller (5-time female champion), Tom Nosek (1993 Tournament of Champions winner and died in 2020), Diane Siegel (5-time champion and the alternate for the Battle of the Decades 1980s week), Fraser Woodford (1993 Teen Tournament winner), David Tiemann (first 3-time champion to qualify for the Tournament of Champions), Bev Schwartzberg (5-time female champion), Phoebe Juel (1993 College Championship winner), Ed Schiffer (biggest winner of the 1992-1993 season), Marilyn Kneeland (1993 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up and died in 2019), Rachael Schwartz (1994 Tournament of Champions winner and first female contestant to win the Tournament of Champions), John Cuthbertson (2nd place in Round 4 of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions), Jean Grewe (5-time female champion), Tom Nichols (5-time champion), Amy Fine (5-time female champion), Steve Chernicoff (biggest winner of the 1993-1994 season), Bill Pitassy (5-time champion and died in 2019), Jonathan Groff (5-time champion), Bruce Borchardt (5-time champion), David Siegel (biggest winner of the 1994-1995 season and 1st runner up of 1995 Tournament of Champions), Isaac Segal (2nd runner-up of the 1995 Tournament of Champions), Len Krisak (5-time champion), Paul Thompson (biggest winner of the 1995-1996 season), Michael Daunt (2nd runner-up of 1996 Tournament of Champions and 1997 International Championship winner), Brad Plovan (5-time champion), Bill Sloan (5-time champion), Bob Scarpone (1996 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up) Shane Whitlock (1996 College Championship winner), Amanda Goad (1996 Teen Tournament winner by tiebreaker), Bernie Cullen (5-time champion), Claudia Perry (4-time champion and Million Dollar Masters semifinalist), Lyn Payne (4-time champion), Kim Worth (biggest winner of the 1996-1997 season and 1st runner-up of 1998 Tournament of Champions), Dan Melia (1998 Tournament of Champions winner), Fred "Catherine" Ramen (first transgender contestant), Pat Healy (5-time champion), Lara Robillard (5-time champion), Dave Abbott (1999 Tournament of Champions winner), Dan Girard (5-time champion), Lance Johnson (5-time champion), Juliet Wiley (2nd runner-up of the 1999 Tournament of Champions), James Arey (5-time champion), Michael Rooney (5-time champion), Carolyn Cracraft (1999 College Championship winner and died in 2019), Terry Currin (5-time champion), Darlene Lieblich (5-time female champion), Jeremy Bate (1st runner-up of the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the alternate for the Million Dollar Masters Tournament), Janet Wong (2000-A College Championship winner), Robin Carroll (2000 Tournament of Champions winner and 2001 International Championship winner), Doug Lach (biggest winner and one day total of the 1999-2000 season), Tad Carithers (1st runner-up of the 2001 Tournament of Champions), Michelle Clum (last 5-time female champion in the pre-doubled clue dollar value era), Michael Arnone (biggest one day total of the 2000-2001 season), Rick Knutsen (2nd runner-up of the 2001 Tournament of Champions), Babu Srinivasan (biggest winner of the 2000-2001 season), Mark Eckard (5-time champion who defeated Jason Block and died in 2017), Alan Bailey (5-time champion), Mark Dawson (2003 Tournament of Champions winner), Trevor Norris (last 5-time champion in the pre-doubled clue dollar value era), Vinita Kailasanath (2001 College Championship winner), Kathy Cassity (first 4-time champion in the doubled clue dollar value era), Jason McCune (4-time champion), Ben Tritle (first 5-time champion in the doubled clue dollar value era), Jill Bunzendahl Chimka (4-time female champion), Eric Floyd (biggest winner of the 2001-2002 season and 2nd runner-up of the 2003 Tournament of Champions), Mark Brown (5-time champion and died in 2013), Jackie Harrison (4-time champion), Brian Weikle (sets a new record of $52,000, biggest winner of the 2002-2003 season, 1st runner-up of the 2003 Tournament of Champions, and the alternate for the Battle of the Decades 1990s week), John Beck (last 5-time retired champion), Sam Ott (4-time female champion), Sean Ryan (first 6-time champion), Russ Schumacher (2004 Tournament of Champions winner), Keith Williams (2003 College Championship winner), Tom Walsh (first 7-time champion), Arthur Gandolfi (2nd runner-up of the 2004 Tournament of Champions), Chris Miller (3rd place in Round 4 of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions), Scott Renzoni (4-time champion who defeated Chris Miller), Anne Boyd (4-time female champion), Kerry Breitenbach (first 5-time female champion in the doubled clue dollar value era), Maria Wenglinsky (5-time female champion), Bill MacDonald (2nd runner-up of the 2006 Tournament of Champions), Vik Vaz (1st runner-up of the 2006 Tournament of Champions), Tom Kavanaugh (8-time champion), Kevin Marshall (6-time champion who defeated Tom Kavanaugh), Bob Mesko (5-time champion and died in 2012), Michael Falk (2006 Tournament of Champions winner), Doug Dorst (3-time champion), Craig Westphal (5-time champion), Celeste Dinucci (2007 Tournament of Champions winner), Chris Mazurek (4-time champion), Christian Haines (4-time champion and lost in Tiebreaker Round of the Semifinals), Doug Hicton (1st runner-up of the 2007 Tournament of Champions), Cliff Galiher (2007 College Championship winner and 2nd runner-up of the 2007 Tournament of Champions), Mehrun Etebari (biggest winner of the 2006-2007 season), Meryl Federman (2007 Teen Tournament Summer Olympic Games winner), Paul Glaser (5-time champion), Cora Peck (5-time champion), Dan Pawson (2009 Tournament of Champions winner), Tom Morris (4-time champion), Joey Beachum (2008 College Championship winner), Dave Simpson (4-time champion), Aaron Schroeder (2nd runner-up of the 2009 Tournament of Champions), Mark Wales (5-time champion), Erik Nelson (4-time champion), Anurag Kashyap (2008-B Teen Tournament winner), Jim Stevens (6-time champion), Liz Murphy (5-time female champion), Patrick Tucker (2009 College Championship winner), Justin Bernbach (biggest winner of the 2008-2009 season), Stefan Goodreau (2nd runner-up in the 2010 Tournament of Champions), Andy Srinivasan (4-time champion), Terry Linwood (5-time champion), Christine Valada (4-time champion), Rachel Rothenberg (2009 Teen Tournament winner), Ryan Chaffee (4-time champion), Jason Zollinger (biggest winner of the 2009-2010 season and 1st runner-up of the 2010 Tournament of Champions), Vijay Balse (2010 Tournament of Champions winner), Buddy Wright (2nd runner-up in the 2011 Tournament of Champions), Paul Kursky (5-time champion), Kara Spak (5-time champion), Erin McLean (2010-B College Championship winner and the alternate for the Battle of the Decades 2000s week), Tom Nissley (8-time champion and 1st runner-up of 2011 Tournament of Champions), Tom Kunzen (5-time champion and plays in a single player Final Jeopardy! Round), Jay Rhee (5-time champion), Mark Runsvold (4-time champion), Justin Sausville (6-time champion), Joon Pahk (8-time champion and biggest one day total of the 2011-2012 season), Jason Keller (biggest winner of the 2011-2012 season), Dave Leach (6-time champion who defeated Jason Keller), Dan MacShane (4-time champion who defeated Dave Leach), Monica Thieu (2012 College Championship winner and 1st runner-up of All Star Games against Team Ken), Elyse Mancuso (first Teen Tourament winner to win over $75,000), Joel Pool (6-time champion), David Menchaca (5-time champion), Stephanie Jass (7-time female champion), Keith Whitener (7-time champion and 1st runner-up in 2013 Tournament of Champions), Paul Nelson (5-time champion who defeated Keith Whitener), Ashok Poozhikunnel (4-time champion), Kristin Morgan (2nd runner-up of the 2013 Tournament of Champions), Leonard Cooper (2013 Teen Tournament Winner), Drew Horwood (8-time champion), Rebecca Rider (5-time female champion), Andrew Moore (6-time champion), Ben Ingram (biggest winner of the 2012-2013 season and 2014 Tournament of Champions winner), Mark Japinga (4-time champion who defeated Ben Ingram), Jared Hall (6-time champion), Rani Peffer (6-time female champion), John Pearson (2013 Teacher's Tournament winner and alternate for All Star Games), Jerry Slowik (5-time champion), Sarah McNitt (5-time female champion), Terry O'Shea (2014 College Championship winner), Sandie Baker (6-time female champion), Catherine Hardee (4-time champion), Vaughn Winchell (5-time champion), John Schultz (5-time champion), Jennifer Giles (2015 Teacher's Tournament winner), Kristin Sausville (5-time female champion and plays in a single player Final Jeopardy! Round), Michael Bilow (biggest one-day total of the 2014-2015 season), Kerry Greene (6-time female champion who defeated Michael Bilow and 2nd runner-up of the 2015 Tournament of Champions), Greg Seroka (biggest winner of the 2014-2015 season), Brennan Bushee (5-time champion), Andrew Pau (6-time champion), Tim Aten (7-time champion), Lisa Schlitt (6-time female champion), Lilly Chin (2017 College Championship winner and alternate for All Star Games), Alan Lin (1st runner up in the 2017 Tournament of Champions and 2nd runner-up of All Star Games against team Colby), Gilbert Collins (5-time champion), Rachel Lindgren (5-time female champion), Ryan Fenster (7-time champion), Rob Worman (6-time champion), Dhruv Gaur (2018 College Championship winner), Josh Hill (7-time champion), Larry Martin (2018 Teacher's Tournament winner who died in 2019 before reaching the Tournament of Champions), Kyle Jones (7-time champion), Francois Barcomb (winner of 2019 Teacher's Tournament and 2nd runner-up of the 2019 Tournament of Champions), Justin Bolsen (winner of the High School Reunion Tournament), Ryan Bilger (4-time champion), Sam Kavanaugh (2021 Tournament of Champions winner and first tournament winner on the Post-Trebek era), Karen Farrell (8-time female champion), Veronica Vichit-Vadakan (2nd runner-up in the 2021 Tournament of Champions), Paul Trifiletti (5-time champion), Sarah Jett Rayburn (last 4-time female champion of Trebek-era), Zach Newkirk (5-time champion who defeated Brian Chang), Kevin Walsh (last 5-time champion in Alex Trebek's lifetime and plays in a single player Final Jeopardy! Round), Ryan Hemmel (4-time champion), Brayden Smith (last 5-time champion in Alex Trebek era and died in 2021), Brian Chang (first 5-time champion in the post-Trebek era), Courtney Shah (first 5-time female champion in the post-Trebek era), Rowan Ward (winner of Match 2 in the Second Chance Tournament), Jessica Stephens (winner of Match 1 in the Second Chance Tournament), Tyler Rhode (5-time champion), Andrew He (5-time champion), Sam Buttrey (first winner of the Professors Tournament), Jaskaran Singh (winner of the National College Championship), Eric Ahasic (6-time champion who defeated Ryan Long), Megan Wachspress (6-time female champion who defeated Eric Ahasic), Luigi de Guzman (5-time champion), Ike Barinholtz (winner of Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy!), Ray Lalonde (13-time champion), Troy Meyer (6-time champion), and Stephen Webb (8-time champion) but I didn't provide a reliable source. So, could you please help me do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:8A14:1590:11C7:95DA:728D:5DCB (talk • contribs)
 * None of these people have achieved the "notoriety" of the people already in the article. For Paul Boymel, Bruce Fauman, Paula Tupper, Jay Rosenberg, Bruce Naegeli, Kirk Ditzler, India Cooper, Richard Kaplan, Tom Nosek, Marilyn Kneeland, Bill Pitassy, Carolyn Cracraft, Mark Eckard, Mark Brown, Bob Mesko, Larry Martin, and Brayden Smith: WP:NOTMEMORIAL. All previously-existing tournament articles (containing the tournament winners) have been deleted per consensus. For everything else, WP:NOTDIR, WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:BIO/WP:BIO1E, WP:SIGCOV, WP:REF/WP:BLPPRIMARY. AldezD (talk) 21:32, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Agreed. If there is a particular name that you are able to find some reliable sources supporting sufficient notability for inclusion here, you can propose that addition, but just dumping a boatload of names on the talk page and asking others to dig up sources for you isn't a sound strategy. OhNo itsJamie Talk 23:04, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * There are so many names in the OP's list, it would be better to find a page that lists all the contestants (of which there are thousands), and have it as an external link. And as some have said, the existing list may be too long. Some criteria may need to be stated, at the top of the list - i.e. what the minimum requirement would be for entry in the list; a threshold of wins or money. I don't think that's made clear, at present. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:09, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Standards within article, WP guidelines
Please be sure to follow MOS:ITAL when typing out the show's title, Jeopardy!. When referring to the title, it should be consistently written with the exclamation point at the end and in italics.

The article is already a tumefied list of minutia about contestants. Please keep standards to the person's name, number of games won and total dollar winnings, and any detail about their background. Please also include items pertinent to their achievement. Please refrain from adding trivia about "Only contestant other than X to achieve Y since Z"-style details. Thanks. AldezD (talk) 23:18, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

See Also section
Please stop adding "See Also" sections to this article. The article already contains a template with the child articles editors are adding to "See Also". AldezD (talk) 17:21, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * As I've told this editor several times, since templates are not seen on mobile they are irrelevant to what goes into a See also list. I've added the article about the personal strategies of Jeopardy! champions, what better See also listing than that? Please study WP:SEEALSO. Randy Kryn (talk) 17:32, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Article Title
Shouldn't this article be renamed "List of notable Jeopardy! contestants"? It's not a comprehensive list of Jeopardy contestants, nor would that ever be expected, but still, the current title does not match the contents of the article. Kstern (talk) 19:07, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Good point. -- Valjean (talk) 20:07, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Notability for list articles normally requires that the person has an article here. I see there are a number of entries which do not meet that criteria....yet, so I'm going to move them to this talk page. If someone wants to restore them to the list, just create an article. It doesn't have to be a big one. -- Valjean (talk) 23:24, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * A full article probably not needed for many of those removed as the summaries work well, are Jeopardy! centric, and are well sourced. Some or most should probably be returned. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:10, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Randy, I can understand your consternation. Please see the better explanation in next section. -- Valjean (talk) 19:01, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Why were many entries removed?
Why were these removed, not seeing a discussion. Most seem notable. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:04, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I've been here since 2003, and I don't remember when we started this practice, but's it's really helped clean up list articles. GNG is fine for normal articles, but list articles are different with different and more rigid notability requirements.


 * Notability for list articles normally requires that the person has an article here. The reason for this requirement is to avoid spamming of non-notable content into list articles, and this is a really serious and common problem. This "rule of thumb" is a quick way to easily restore the burden of proof to the one wishing to add something to a list article. It is their job to prove the subject is notable, and those who maintain list articles should not have the burden of going elsewhere to deal with notability discussions. If the subject can pass the often-torturous journey from article creation, then an AfD, and finally a successful article, that is good enough proof of notability to easily prove relevance for inclusion in a list article. Without this rule of thumb, list articles become difficult to maintain and quickly include non-notable spam. Anyone can claim notability based on a few mentions in RS, but is that really enough for inclusion in a list article? While that is enough for inclusion in a normal article, it usually isn't for a list article.
 * That's why I removed all the entries who did not have their own articles and moved them here. This stuff can become the basis for a stub article. If someone wants to restore them to the list, just create an article. It doesn't have to be a big one. Even a stub article will serve the purpose. -- Valjean (talk) 18:49, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your fine personal lecture which has inspired me to finally start my first essay, WP:SHADOW, by mentally calling dibs on WP:RULEOFTHUMB. As for this specific list article without getting into the deletion trend (except to say that a large swath of commonsense exceptions should be made, this page falls into that, and I'll get into that later but don't want to wall-of-text this reply), any of those summaries should be kept if they include a good reference. The ones I've read (haven't studied every summary) all seem to be notable contestants who've accomplished some sort of first or a record or something else on the extraordinary side. Since this list is so topic specific, and has probably included these names for awhile, it seems encyclopedic to keep them here. They are sourced, they are important to the history of the game, and they fill out the topic. They belong. Will get back to this soon, but thanks again. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:30, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm certainly open to further discussion and don't have a fixed mind on the matter. I'm basing my opinions on common practice, but there are exceptions to every rule. -- Valjean (talk) 02:53, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

I notice in the AfDs for this list that lack/ambiguity about "inclusion criteria" is raised as an objection, and I see that as a continued problem. Mention in a few RS isn't good enough on its own. We need clearer criteria, so if we can hammer that out, we can then refer to it in the future. -- Valjean (talk) 17:21, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Terry Thompson
Terry Thompson (née Armstrong, born c. 1935), a housewife and alumna of Swarthmore College, was the first Tournament of Champions winner. She won $8,590 over the course of her run on Jeopardy!, including $5,080 during her main run and $3,510 (plus a vacation to the Virgin Islands) in the tournament. Thompson noted that her husband was initially wary of her participating in a televised quiz show, as it had been only six years since the quiz show scandals had tarnished the medium's reputation.

Burns Cameron
Burns Cameron (born December 11, 1938), billed as "a businessman from Larchmont, New York" during his original run and "a realtor from Standish, Maine" on his 1990 appearance, won $11,110 in his appearances on Jeopardy!, including a then-record five-game total of $7,070 in December 1965. Cameron won the third annual Tournament of Champions in 1966, in which he won $4,040. Cameron also appeared on the 2,000th episode in 1972, an all-time-best game in which he faced Elliot Shteir and Jane Gschwend, two 1969 contestants who had surpassed his total in their five-day runs. He finished second and won $700 for charity. Cameron is cited as one of the best players of the Art Fleming era of the show. In 1990, when Jeopardy! creator Merv Griffin produced Super Jeopardy!, a separate weekly prime time network version based on the Trebek version of Jeopardy! to air Saturday nights in the summer on ABC, he invited Cameron to compete as the only player from the Fleming era. Cameron competed in the fifth quarterfinal game, where he finished second (by one point) and won $5,000.

Jane Gschwend
Jane Gschwend (c. 1920 –October 15, 1997), a high school dropout and homemaker from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, held the record for the most money won in regular Jeopardy! play for the original series with her $8,250 total over five days. She was upset in the semifinal round of the 1969 Tournament of Champions but returned as part of the all-time best charity game on the 2000th episode in 1972, winning that game. Host Art Fleming cited Gschwend as an example of how a common person without traditional credentials could succeed at the game.

Jerry Frankel
Jerry Frankel (February 10, 1953 – July 13, 1987), a musician and composer from Buffalo, New York, was a five-time undefeated champion during Trebek's first season, winning $32,650. He became that version's first Tournament of Champions winner, earning the $100,000 grand prize by defeating Bruce Fauman and Steve Rogitz in the two-game final.

Bob Verini
Bob Verini was an undefeated five-time champion in 1987 and won the 1987 Tournament of Champions, using the money to finance several theatrical productions. He was then the runner-up in Super Jeopardy! and finished third in the Million Dollar Masters. He also appeared in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions and the Battle of the Decades, both times losing his first game. Prior to Ken Jennings, Verini held the record for most matches appeared in. Verini's career earnings on Jeopardy! and Super Jeopardy! are $276,802.

Eric Newhouse
Eric Newhouse first appeared on Jeopardy! when he won the 1989 Teen Tournament. He was both a semifinalist in the 1989 Tournament of Champions and Super Jeopardy! After winning the 1998 Teen Reunion Tournament, Newhouse was invited to the Million Dollar Masters, where he placed second overall to Brad Rutter. Newhouse was one of nine players to advance directly to the second round of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions, but lost his initial game.

Tom Cubbage
Tom Cubbage is the only contestant in Jeopardy! history to win both the show's College Championship and the Tournament of Champions. Cubbage became the first ever winner of the College Championship in May 1989, winning $26,600. In November of that year, he was the $100,000 grand prize winner of the 1989 Tournament of Champions. He also appeared on Super Jeopardy! in 1990, and earned $5,000 for appearing as a quarterfinalist. 15 years later, in 2005, Cubbage competed in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. In the first round, he lost his game, finishing second to Bob Harris. In 2014, Cubbage returned to Jeopardy! to compete in the show's Battle of the Decades. In his first game of the tournament, he defeated fellow Jeopardy! alumni Verini and Jerome Vered. Cubbage lost his second game to Ken Jennings, but he finished the game with $19,500, allowing him to secure a wild-card spot in the next round. In the semifinals, Cubbage lost again, finishing third behind Leszek Pawlowicz and eventual tournament winner Brad Rutter.

Bob Blake
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, appeared on Jeopardy in September 1989, won all five games, and broke Forrest's five-day record with $82,501. Because Blake's winnings exceeded the then-limit of $75,000, $7,501 of his winnings were donated to his selected charity, Oxfam. He also competed in Super Jeopardy!, in which he was a semifinalist. He won the 1990 Tournament of Champions, earning $100,000. He also competed in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005. He was initially invited to compete in the Battle of the Decades tournament but declined because of conflicts with international travel.

Ed Toutant
Ed Toutant (December 27, 1951 – November 6, 2018) appeared on Jeopardy! in October 1989, winning one episode and $11,401. He later assisted IBM in programming Watson to prepare for the ''Jeopardy! IBM Challenge''. Toutant was better known for his appearance on another game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, in which he won the show's grand prize, a progressive jackpot of $1,860,000.

Ryan Holznagel
Ryan "Fritz" Holznagel is the editor-in-chief of Who2 Biographies and the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. He also represented the U.S. at the show's first ever Olympic tournament in 1996. Holznagel later participated in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005, and in the Battle of the Decades in 2014.

Pam Mueller
Pam Mueller is a former winner of the College Championship. She participated in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions, advancing all the way to the Sweet Six round before losing her match, finishing behind Frank Spangenberg and Jerome Vered. In 2014, Mueller competed in the show's Battle of the Decades. The story about her first match in this tournament, which saw her compete against fellow Jeopardy! champions Dan Melia and Ryan (Fritz) Holznagel, was featured on Who2 Biographies.

Buzzy Cohen
Austin David "Buzzy" Cohen (born March 5, 1985) is a recording music industry executive from Los Angeles, California, who won $164,603 over nine games in April and May 2016. Many of his victories were guaranteed victories, which allowed Cohen to wager nothing and use his final response to make sarcastic remarks toward Alex Trebek, a humorous style that earned him both praise and disdain from Jeopardy! fans. He returned for the 2017 Tournament of Champions, which he won, collecting the grand prize of $250,000.

Cohen appeared again in the 2019 Jeopardy! All-Star Games relay tournament. After Trebek died, Cohen hosted the May 2021 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

Seth Wilson
Seth Wilson is a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct professor formerly from Chicago now from Nacogdoches, Texas who won $265,002 over 12 games in September and October 2016, making him the contestant with the fifth-highest number of consecutive wins in the show's history, beating Arthur Chu's number of winning games. He later returned for the 2017 Tournament of Champions, but failed to win his first match, taking home a consolation prize of $5,000.

Wilson appeared again in the 2019 Jeopardy! All-Star Games relay tournament on Julia Collins's team with Ben Ingram.

Cindy Stowell
Cindy Stowell (July 16, 1975 – December 5, 2016) was a science content developer from Austin, Texas, who was diagnosed with untreatable terminal colon cancer between passing the qualifying test and auditioning in person. A lifelong fan of the show, Stowell requested that producers rush her into taping as soon as possible because of her condition, a stipulation the producers honored. She was under pain management and experienced fever and stomachache throughout her run, during which she won $105,803 over six games, which she donated to cancer charities. Her fellow contestants were unaware of her illness. Stowell died eight days before her first episode aired, but did get to watch the first three of her episodes when producers provided her with an advance DVD.

At the end of the Jeopardy! credits on December 21, 2016, Alex Trebek gave a tribute to Stowell and said, "For the past six Jeopardy! programs, you folks have been getting to know the talented champion Cindy Stowell. Appearing on our show was the fulfillment of a lifelong ambition. What you did not know is that when we taped these programs she was suffering from Stage IV cancer. And sadly, on December 5th, Cindy Stowell passed away. So from all of us here at Jeopardy!, our sincere condolences to her family and her friends." This was followed by "IN MEMORIAM Cindy Stowell 2016."

Austin Rogers
Austin Tyler Rogers (born November 27, 1978) is a bartender from New York City who earned $445,000 over 13 shows in 2017. Described by one account as "Krameresque" and by Trebek himself as "outside the box, completely different from what many viewers expect a 'Jeopardy!' contestant to be," Rogers is known for his flair and quirky poses, pantomiming humorous actions when being introduced. Although he does not own a television set, he prepared for qualification by watching a lot of Jeopardy! episodes and knowing its tricks. Before James Holzhauer, he was the only contestant with two of the top ten one-day totals: $69,000 on October 3, 2017 (third place) and $65,600 on October 2, 2017 (seventh place). In the 2017 Tournament of Champions, Rogers finished third behind Buzzy Cohen and Alan Lin. All three finalists (including Seth Wilson) appeared at the Jeopardy! All-Star Games tournament relay in 2019. Rogers was also a contestant on Cash Cab. He won $2,400 with one other rider doubling their winnings on the video bonus at the end of the trip.

Emma Boettcher
Emma Boettcher, a 27-year-old University of Chicago librarian, supplanted James Holzhauer as Jeopardy! champion on June 3, 2019, preventing him from surpassing the $2.52 million Ken Jennings earned during his 2004 winning streak. Boettcher was the highest-winning female contestant in any single game of Jeopardy! with $46,801, surpassing the $46,600 Maria Wenglinsky earned on November 1, 2005. She won three games, for a total of $98,002. Boettcher's performance was unusual in that most contestants who upset a long-running champion finish in last place in their next episode. Only Jonathan Fisher (who defeated 38-game champion Matt Amodio) had greater success than Boettcher following the defeat of someone who had won more than 10 games.

Boettcher said she would use her first-day winnings to pay off student loans and give back to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, where she received her master's degree in information science in 2016. Her master's paper for that degree, "Predicting the Difficulty of Trivia Questions Using Text Features", relied on Jeopardy! clues. Boettcher received her bachelor's degree in English from Princeton in 2014. She has worked at the University of Chicago as a user experience resident librarian since August 2016, with her focus on faculty and student experiences with the university's library services. She auditioned for the Jeopardy! College Championship while at Princeton, but was not selected.

Boettcher was granted a wild-card invitation to the 2019 Tournament of Champions, partly to set up a potential rematch with Holzhauer and partly because one of the automatic qualifiers, 2018 Teachers Tournament winner Larry Martin, died before reaching the tournament. Boettcher advanced to the finals of the tournament, landing a rematch with Holzhauer. She split the two-game final with him but lost by a larger margin in the first game, finishing as first runner-up with a $100,000 prize.

Jason Zuffranieri
Jason Zuffranieri, a 43-year-old math teacher at Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, won 19 games in a row, with total winnings of $532,496. He lost his 20th game on September 26, 2019, to Gabe Brison-Trezise, who prevented him from accumulating enough money to have a guaranteed win going into Final Jeopardy. Brison-Trezise gave the correct response to Final Jeopardy while Zuffranieri did not, relegating him to second place and $2,000.

With his performance, Zuffranieri became the fourth-winningest contestant in regular-season play, and moved into fifth place for most consecutive games won, tied with Madden and behind only Jennings, Holzhauer, Matt Amodio and Julia Collins. Zuffranieri is originally from Depew, New York, where much of his family still resides. He moved to Albuquerque during his childhood and was previously a rocket scientist before becoming a teacher. He tried out for the show eight times before being selected to participate. He returned for the 2021 Tournament of Champions and became a wildcard semifinalist after contestant Ryan Bilger won in a runaway game, but lost the semifinal match to Jennifer Quail, thus taking home a $10,000 consolation prize.

Jennifer Quail
Jennifer Quail, a wine tasting consultant and published author from Dowagiac, Michigan, won $228,800 during her eight appearances on the show,  making her the second-most successful female contestant in terms of money won and consecutive appearances in regular play – behind Julia Collins and ahead of Larissa Kelly. She lost on her ninth appearance, finishing in second place, with a consolation prize of $2,000. Quail appeared in the 2021 Tournament of Champions, finishing as the first runner-up to winner Sam Kavanaugh.

MacKenzie Jones
MacKenzie Jones, a program development director from Tulsa, Oklahoma, won $204,808 in eight appearances on the show. She was the fourth female contestant to win eight or more games and the fourth female contestant to win $200,000 or more in regular play. On her third appearance, Jones tied Boettcher's highest single-game total for a female contestant during regular play at $46,801, beating her opponent on that day by $1. She lost on her ninth appearance, finishing in second place, earning an additional $2,000. She returned for the 2021 Tournament of Champions, but failed to win her first match, taking home a consolation prize of $5,000.

Jonathan Fisher
Jonathan Fisher, an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida, won $246,100 in 11 wins on Jeopardy!, losing his 12th appearance. He ended Amodio's 38-game streak on October 11, 2021. During season 38, he qualified as the second seed in the next Tournament of Champions until Amy Schneider surpassed him on December 1, 2021. Fisher was the first contestant to have a winning streak of at least ten games after defeating another champion who also won at least ten games. He became the 11th contestant to achieve ten wins. His winning streak ended on October 26, 2021, when he lost to Nancy Donehower.

Inclusion criteria
An objection to this list is that its inclusion criteria are seemingly random and unclear. Another is that it includes people not notable for their own articles. (That is currently resolved by moving them to this talk page pending further action.) We need to fix these problems. Here are some proposed criteria we can discuss and refine:


 * 1) Criteria is related to performance in the game, not other, outside, notability. For example, a politician like McCain should not be included just because he played once.
 * 2) Total winnings in regular-season play (Rutter)
 * 3) Daily winnings (Holzhauer)
 * 4) Size of bets (Holzhauer)
 * 5) Length of winning streak (Jennings)
 * 6) Correct Final Jeopardy! answers (percentage)
 * 7) Overall daily scores/right answers (percentage)

Basically, it should be comparable numbers that can be placed into a sortable table, and then we actually do create a table for the top twenty (max). Notability should be readily accessible and quickly comparable. A sortable table does that.

We could then have a section for prose mention of some other contestants who did reach notable milestones and one-time events, such as "the first to win a million dollars". We could also have a section for celebrity contestants like McCain, but we already have an article for that, don't we? (Maybe I'm wrong.) -- Valjean (talk) 18:58, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Table for contestants
We could use this basic format (sample to tweak taken from List of presidents of the United States). We would not use images. -- Valjean (talk) 19:06, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Ryan Long
The current champ has won 16 in a row as of June 3, 2022, and $299,400. That puts him in 11th place among the all-time money-winners of regular play. He's in 9th place for consecutive games won. There's already a Ryan Long entry on Wikipedia, so this one is a redirect from Ryan Long (Jeopardy!). --←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:18, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Cris Pannullo
Cris Pannullo is the current champ, climbing in the historical standings, with over half a million in winnings. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:29, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * $748,286 in 21 days, through December 5; 5th in winnings for regular-season play; 6th for consecutive wins; 7th in overall winnings on the show including tournaments. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:01, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The streak ended on December 6. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:31, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

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