Talk:Melanie Scrofano

Semi-protected edit request on 18 July 2018
Can I add a tv show that Melanie was in because you missed one or can you put it in yourself? The tv show she was in is called "Heartland" season 6 episode 7 and she plays the character Hayley Powers. 71.239.95.214 (talk) 05:55, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ --IJBall (contribs • talk) 06:08, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 July 2018
change number of children from 1 to 2 according to this interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSqkssmqXZA - Melanie was pregnant with her first child while working with Jason Momoa - watch minute 1:37-1:53. The movie she was talking about is called "Wolves" and was released in 2014. And since she pregnancies don't last three years it means that she actually had her second(!) kid in 2017 after wrapping up season 2 of Wynonna Earp :). Thank you! Freierfall (talk) 19:19, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ❌ – That is still insufficient for the purposes of a WP:BLP. We basically need an interview (press interview preferred), or at least a social media post from her (from a verified account), in which she says "I have 2 children..." or "I gave birth to my first child in 2014..." --IJBall (contribs • talk) 19:39, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Do these sources help? In the Firecracker Department podcast, Scrofano mentioned her children (plural) a couple of times: she talks about her youngest son at the beginning of the interview (at 4:10), the interviewer mentioned Scrofano's two children at 27:10, and Scrofano talks about her oldest son, Harry, at 47:50. She also mentioned in this tweet that she has another child besides the one she had in 2017. Davidaharper07 (talk) 16:03, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Where in the Tweet does she say she has two children? I don't think the podcast does it either – we need something easy to find, and unambiguous, to make it verifiable... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:44, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

I guess that tweet is pretty ambiguous and requires some inferences to be made, so that doesn't work. The podcast is unambiguous but not particularly well-known. Davidaharper07 (talk) 20:13, 29 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. Hhkohh (talk) 13:41, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 November 2019
Update Melanie's Bio to reflect that she has TWO children. See this video from the 26minute mark where she mentions the birth of her sons Nsrcda88 (talk) 02:28, 18 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Unfortunately, the audio was poor on the linked video and therefore unintelligible. Also, YouTube videos are generally not considered reliable sources.  I hope this helps.  Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 23:06, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 June 2021
Please update Awards and nominations section to include

Year	        2021 Award	        Canadian Screen Awards Category	    Audience Choice Award Nominated Work	 Herself / Wynonna Earp Result           WON Reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/CPHddpaFBlg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Nsrcda88 (talk) 18:34, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Please provide a better source than Instagram. I assume that at the very least something that at least resembles a news site is covering this? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:08, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Not a great one – the only one I can find is this, and I've never been clear on whether tv-eh.com is considered a WP:RS or not. Other sources that report the winners of the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards do not include this audience award in their write-up. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 21:11, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Scrofano's family situation
As I've just posted to my Talk page, an Instagram picture with a title "my family" is far too vague to establish that Scrofano has had two children. As per WP:BLPPRIVACY, Scrofano is allowed to not broadcast the details of her family life, including how many children she's had. As it is, we can't do anything about this until we get a Reliable source reporting that she has given birth to two children. Editors have been looking for such a source for years now, and so far no one has come up with anything more than vague Instagram posts and WP:YOUTUBE videos which don't qualify as WP:RSs (or IMDb, which definitely isn't a reliable source). Unless and until someone can produce a reliable source that unambiguously reports this, we are stuck at this article. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 13:08, 13 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Can any of these be used as sources to change the number of children she has from one to two?
 * https://wynonnaearp.fandom.com/wiki/Melanie_Scrofano?fbclid=IwAR1i4Xz2XbHchj2UsFYGGW-qqvBa1nj4CC80M8QdlOhOFrXHgaOipqhXGlg#articleComments
 * https://affairpost.com/melanie-scrofano-wiki-bio-age-married-baby-name-weight-net-worth/?fbclid=IwAR15Wat5RYrlIoZ4YkIAhA095YaVwAfS1inPfrfG2-emLNmIpaCYVgBj218
 * https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk-nW3BhQl-/
 * — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nsrcda88 (talk • contribs) 15:25, 24 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately no – the first is a blog post which is unusable as per WP:SELFPUBLISH, the second appears to be a "web scraper" not a news site which means it's WP:NOTRS, and the third one just says "My clan". For a usable WP:ABOUTSELF source, we need Scrofano to actually at least say "My two sons" (or, even better, "My two sons whom I gave birth to"). So we are still stuck in the same situation – there still is no WP:RS reference we can use that verifies that Scrofano has two sons. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:52, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

March 2022 Still on this topic, Melanie mentions being pregnant twice..... https://www.instagram.com/p/B-2gZ_DAii_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Nsrcda88 (talk) 15:21, 24 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Not sure that helps, without her mentioning specific years. Also, technically, pregnant is not the same thing as having given birth. I'd say it's still too weak, though it's closer... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:18, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Also remember that technically giving birth is not the same as having a son. Although I'm sure she did actually give birth to both of her sons, adoption is indeed a thing and you don't have to give birth to have a child.
 * The fact that she has posts on her own Instagram talking about her sons, plural, (https://www.instagram.com/p/CiYLC7KPc7_/) as well as discussions of being pregnant twice, as well as actual pictures of two kids with her husband in a "happy fathers day" post about "our sons" (https://www.instagram.com/p/CBsy3R_gu2d/) - not changing the number of children to "2" just seems a bit pedantic for the sake of it, at this point.
 * In the comments from Nov 2021, it was said that for an Insta post we would need her to say "my two sons". https://www.instagram.com/p/B16ecrpAYdd/
 * In the above linked post she said "Played Hide and Seek with my real life sons today" and there are two kids in the photo.
 * Does she really have to spell it out further for us to change it? K240sxy (talk) 08:08, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * "My two sons" could be used, if she ever says that. But the DOB of one has never been established. So at best you could something like "Scrofano has two sons, one born in April 2017." But, yes, she has to say something like "My two sons" for it to be useable as per WP:ABOUTSELF IMO – an Insta with a picture of two boys, and her saying "my sons" fails to establish "two sons" IMO. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 13:21, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * She has explicitly said "my sons" several times. That means at least two. Therefore the article must not make the inaccurate statement that her number of children is one. It could say "at least two" if anyone wants to nitpick, but it must not say one. To say one would be lying. Do not post a clearly established inaccuracy. Doczilla Ohhhhhh, no! 19:54, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
 * P.S. A user indefinitely blocked for edit warring does not get to tell everyone else what an article "has to" say. Doczilla  Ohhhhhh, no! 20:00, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

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