User:Alucard 16/WPBB/Structure/Structure of Big Brother articles

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These templates should be used at the bottom of an article, and should be updated accordingly.
 * All Big Brother articles should include Big Brother.
 * All Big Brother UK articles should include Big Brother UK.
 * All Big Brother Australia articles should include Big Brother AU.
 * All Big Brother USA articles should include Big Brother US.
 * All Pinoy Big Brother articles should include Pinoy Big Brother.
 * All Big Brother Africa articles should include Big Brother Africa.
 * All Big Brother Germany articles should include Big Brother Germany.

Structure of Big Brother articles
Articles about a country's Big Brother series should use the official name of the series, or  if it isn't known.

Structure of series articles
A note: Articles for a series of Big Brother should not be created until there are promos on television. This, and only this, should be taken as a sign that Big Brother will be happening, and is good enough a reason to create an article. Anything else, unless it can be confirmed by some high up-there television executive guy, is not enough reason to create a series' article, and is most likely speculation. Another reason not to create an article so early is that there will most likely be no information in it. Lack of information, or information that's already in other articles, is pointless. Any articles about a Big Brother series that has not been confirmed should be nominated for deletion via WP:AFD.

Infobox

 * Articles that are about a Big Brother series should include Big Brother housemates. This template creates a table where quick housemate information can be read.  The table, when housemates' names are added, automatically creates links to each housemate's section; so the names of the sections should match the names used on the template.
 * After a series has ended, the template should be replaced with Big Brother endgame; this can be done by changing the third word in the template from "housemates" to "endgame", so that the first line of the template reads "Big Brother endgame". At the moment, this template requires that sections are linked to manually.

All usage instructions are on individual template pages.

Naming articles

 * Articles about a Big Brother series are named
 * Big Brother America articles, which should be named
 * Big Brother UK articles, which should be named.
 * Big Brother Australia articles, which should be named.
 * Pinoy Big Brother (Big Brother Philippines) articles, which should be named  (for regular seasons) and   (for special editions), e.g. Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2.

Formatting of Big Brother-sensitive words

 * The word Day, when referring to a specific day by its number, should always be capitalised.
 * Any Day numbers or eviction figures should be written in numeric form.
 * On Big Brother Australia and Big Brother UK articles, the word House, when referring to a Big Brother House, should always be capitalised.

For Big Brother Australia articles

 * Any references to the three-point twist should be written as, and should be italicised at all times.  Whenever it's seen to be appropriate, it should also link to Big Brother Australia.
 * The word Intruder should always be written as a proper noun, and should be written as  or  .  It should link to Big Brother Australia whenever deemed appropriate.
 * The word Insider should be written as a proper noun, and should be written as  or.
 * UpLate should be spelt like this, as a single word with the U and the L capitalised. It should always be italicised, and should almost always link to Big Brother Australia.
 * Any references to Network Ten should be written as ; not ,  , or.

For Big Brother America articles

 * Head of Household, when written in abbreviated form, should be written as HoH, and be italicized when not used in a normal sentence.
 * Power of Veto, when written in abbreviated form, should be written as PoV.

For Big Brother Africa articles

 * Head of House, when written in abbreviated form, should be written as HOH, and be italicized when not used in a normal sentence.

For Pinoy Big Brother articles

 * Two-in-One Housemate, when written in abbreviated form, should be written as 2-in-1, and written as  in the HM infobox where the letter indicates the pair considered (see Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2 for an example).
 * Head of Household, when written in abbreviated form, should be written as HOH, and be italicized when not used in a normal sentence.

Section headings
This section includes the sections that should be included in a Big Brother series article if possible and necessary.

Housemates
Each series article should have a level two section named  or , and every housemate that did, or was meant to, participate in the game, should be listed afterwards in their own level three section.

Information to include in the section includes:
 * Full name
 * Any nicknames or aliases
 * Date of birth, but not the person's age
 * Where they're from. Sections in Big Brother Australia and Big Brother America articles should not use abbreviated state codes, but should instead use full state names.  Where they're from should be written as  ; or when necessary,.
 * The day they entered the house
 * How and when they left
 * Any birthdays the housemate had while in the House, including the real date, how old the housemate was on the day, the party theme, and any major events that occurred as a result of the birthday.
 * Any major events that occurred in the house; that were due to, or involved, the said housemate.

Any information relating to housemates that hasn't or doesn't change because of their presence in the Big Brother House should be written in present tense.

Weekly summary and highlights
Weekly summary and highlights sections should be written in past tense. They should be short; not a detailed description of every event that occurred during the season. It is recommended that a Weekly summary section be split into one-week sections using level 3 or level 4 headings, with regular housemate evictions the last thing in each section. There is no agreement upon what should be included in a Chronology section, but the following seems to be acceptable:
 * Who is up for eviction, before and after any twists, and what that twist is.
 * Who is evicted; the day number; real date; and the percentage of votes, or merged votes, that they received.
 * Tasks, but not too much information. How much of the budget is wagered on the task, what the task involved, any major events that occurred as a result of the task, and whether or not the housemates passed or failed the task is enough information.
 * Birthdays: The person whose birthday it is, real date, how old they were on that birthday, the party theme, and any major events that occurred as a result of the birthday is enough information.
 * Strikes and warnings.

For Big Brother Australia articles

 * The theme of any Friday Night Live events, who won, who they took to the Rewards Room, which box they chose, and what was in each of the boxes.
 * For Nominations: the eviction line-up before the Three Point Twist is used, who the Three Point Twist is used on, and the final eviction line-up.

For Big Brother America articles

 * The term HouseGuests is used instead of the term Housemates.
 * Who gets the Power of Veto.
 * Who wins Head of Household.

For Pinoy Big Brother articles

 * The table for weekly tasks shall include number, day given, description, and result in a table.
 * The following colors shall likewise be used for the result:
 * "Pending":
 * "Passed":
 * "Failed":

Use of tables
The need for a large amount of tables has been eliminated with the integration of colours in the infobox, but the use of one or two as a way to clearly and easily provide information is not a bad thing.

Housemates summary table
A small table can be made that needs only have two rows, and if implemented effectively, can provide information easily. These tables should be put on the article in their own level two section, and should look something like this:

Bree was evicted on Day 63 (Week 9), and re-entered the house the next day after votes were deemed incorrectly calculated. Wesley, the housemate that should have originally been evicted, was evicted on the following Thursday.

Nominations table and Voting history table
Nominations tables and Voting history tables, should be included either on a separate page or as part of the main article page These tables should be adapted to the country and series that they will be used for. Housemates should be listed in order of leaving, with the first housemate to leave at the bottom of the table. For current series, the housemates that are still in the House should be listed above the evicted housemates in alphabetical order.

Each cell of the table should contain the names of the people nominated by each housemate each week. This should be in the order that they nominated them or, if this is unavailable, in alphabetical order. At the bottom of the table, a row is added for the housemates who are up for eviction and for the housemates who were evicted that week. If housemates ever leave the show for other reasons, a row can be added to list their names. Some of the cells used should be shaded in colour - these colours can be obtained from looking at the examples listed below and from other tables. In the event of a nominations twist, extra colours may need to be used to clarify what happens, as shown in the table below.

Articles that have been created for the sole purpose of having a nomination history table in it should be named ; except for Big Brother America tables, which should be named.

Examples of nominations tables and voting history tables for specific countries can be found at Big Brother Australia 2006 nominations table, Big Brother 2006 (UK), and Big Brother 7 (US).

Image usage
No more than three fair use images should be used on any Big Brother article. Images from websites, especially random ones, should not be used. They will most likely be removed from an article and will be tagged as orphaned fair use images or deleted immediately. Users that repeatedly upload nonfree images that can not be used under fair use risk being blocked from editing Wikipedia. See Example requests for permission to see how you may ask a copyright holder to release their image (s) under a free license, which is useable on Wikipedia. While a TV network would never release such a photo (don't even try), a private person with a candid photo of a contestant (outside the show), may opt to.

Criticism
Any criticism should be in its own section, and every claim needs to be backed up with references from a reputable source.

Categories

 * Big Brother Australia articles, and other articles relating to it, should be put in Category:Big Brother Australia.
 * Big Brother America articles, and other articles relating to it, should be put in Category:Big Brother (U.S.).
 * Big Brother UK articles, and other articles relating to it, should be put in Category:Big Brother (British TV series).
 * Pinoy Big Brother articles, and other articles relating to it, should be put in Category:Pinoy Big Brother.

Stub tag
Stubs should have a tv-prog-stub template at the bottom of the article.

Structure of Housemates' articles
Housemates should only have their own articles if they are notable for having done something outside the House before or after their involvement in Big Brother. They should not have their own article if their "notability" is their involvement in Big Brother. Information about their time in the Big Brother House, unless it was controversial or received media attention, should not be in such articles. Articles about former Big Brother housemates have been merged and redirected to relevant season articles or deleted in the past through WP:AFD because of non-notability outside of Big Brother. An incomplete list of Big Brother-related AfDs are here.

Categories

 * Housemates' articles should be put in Category:Big Brother contestants. They should also be added to a category relevant to the country that the series of Big Brother they were in is produced in/for, see this section.

Sourcing

 * Articles should be based on independent reliable sources. That means, an article should not merely recap a show, but should cover what's independently written about it.  It should cite the sources it uses.  This means, it should be possible for anybody to verify every statement in an article, without actually watching the program.  If you see something on the show that's never been written about anywhere else, it probably doesn't warrant inclusion.  Each person's recollection of a show, may be slightly different, so we need to use sources that anybody can review.
 * When including information that is negative to the character of a contestant (or show producers), an extra high standard of sourcing is required. It is never acceptable to include such negative claims based on message board postings, blogs, personally watching the show (or internet feed), or other weak sources.  Per Biographies of living persons, any such negative unsourced (or poorly sourced) claims can be removed immediately from any article.
 * See Footnotes for details on using footnotes to cite sources.