Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Big Brother/Archive 6

Big Brother Sweden and Big Brother (Sweden)
I want to move Big Brother Sweden to Big Brother (Sweden), right now it's a redirect to Big Brother (Sweden and Norway). Can someone help me? --Larvig (talk) 23:28, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I've deleted Big Brother (Sweden) for you. – anemone projectors – 00:20, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Guests in UK nomination tables
I've noticed the inclusion of "Guest" in the nominations table (the newest example being Jasmine re-entering CBB10 for a task) - are guests needed here? With one or two exceptions, the guests are usually not even present for nominations anyway, making the tables a bit more cluttered than they need to be. A quick look through shows Jon from BB4 to be the only 'guest' present for nominations, versus Chanelle BB8, Ben BB11, Nathan BB11, Rachael BB11, Rebeckah BB12, Tashie BB12 and Jasmine CBB10 who each returned for for perhaps a few hours max for a task, each unrelated to nominations. Is their inclusion in the series summary enough? 198.144.105.218 (talk) 22:50, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for consideration by all BB project members
Guest visitors such as Jedward and Vanessa Phelps, who have no involvement in the nomination and eviction process, should not be included in the table which, as can be seen from the Project page, is solely for the purpose of recording the nomination and eviction of resident housemates. Former housemates from a current or previous series, who return to the house purely for the purpose of participating in tasks and with no involvement in the nomination and eviction process, should not have an existing table entry modified (or new entry created in the case of a previous series contestant).

Nominations made by friends and family (whether on behalf of their housemate or based on their own opinion) does not require the listing of their names. A simple footnote can explain the circumstances in which non-standard, "in lieu" nominations were made.

Cases for a guest to be included or re-included in the nominations & evictions table would be, for example:


 * where their involvement creates a direct impact on the process of nomination and eviction
 * where a stay is clearly longer than for a purpose of a temporary stay for the duration of a specific task.

I would be grateful for the proposal to be considered by the wider BB community of editors and for agreement to modify the project page accordingly when the correct wording has been agreed. Leaky Caldron  11:19, 29 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment - as Leaky knows, there has been a heated and inconclusive discussion on the topic at Talk:Celebrity_Big_Brother_10. I'm not listed as a member of the BB Project, though I find myself regularly monitoring and editing articles. I initially came down in favour of maintaining the status quo (listing Jasmine as a guest), because the small and fairly insignificant change did not warrant the tremendous animosity it was generating. However, Leaky makes a very reasonable proposal in point one, which allows the inclusion of 'guests' in the noms/eviction table in limited circumstances. I think this is a very sensible compromise, which would free the table from distracting clutter in most instances.
 * However, point two seems to exclude almost every instance of 'guests'. Jasmine and her mum had a direct impact on the nomination process because they had the opportunity to give immunity to two hoosemates. They made a lengthy appearance in the hoose, but it was effectively only for one task. Point two seems overly restrictive and seems to be creating the situation where no 'guests' will appear under any circumstances. I would suggest point two is either relaxed, so a genuine compromise can be reached. Sionk (talk) 13:01, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * IF their presence HAD made an impact I would certainly agree. In fact though, it didn't. The task was failed and no HMs were given immunity. Leaky  Caldron  13:20, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * So you're suggesting/agreeing that, if a guest makes an impact on nominations/evictions, they could be included as a 'guest' on the nominations/evictions table? And if, like in Jasmine-gate, no impact was ultimately made, their visit is simply described somewhere else? That would seem genuinely straightforward, reasonable and sensible to me. No doubt you'll want to wait and see what others think. Sionk (talk) 13:48, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * As in bullet 1, yes. However, per WP:CRYSTALish, I would prefer not to include them until the outcome is known. If Jasmine had passed the task and influenced nominations by providing HM immunity it would be entirely sensible to include them in the table of nominations and evictions. Leaky  Caldron  14:01, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Sponsorship
Why is the sponsorship mentioned in the lead summary of Big Brother articles? Is this normal for television shows? Seems a bit WP:Tabloidy GimliDotNet ( Speak to me,  Stuff I've done )  17:24, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Naming Articles
Following a conversation with another user, it has brought up the question... what should the housemate pages be titled? The U.S. edition pages are named List of Big Brother xx (U.S.) HouseGuests, with HouseGuests being capitalized, whereas the UK editions are List of Big Brother xx housemates (UK). I have been going through and expanding the pages of the UK seasons, including the Housemate pages. Personally, I feel that the pages of the UK seasons should match that of the US, being listed as List of Big Brother xx (UK) Housemates, with Housemates being capitalized as HouseGuests are in the US. What is everyone else's thoughts on this? :) -- Sethjohnson95 - 9:40 23 February, 2013
 * There was a requested move for the UK housemate pages but it closed as "not moved". However, I'm wondering about the naming of the actual main series (season) articles. I know the UK articles have been moved many times over the years, and we were using the year to identify the series until they decided to have two Celebrity Big Brothers every year. But I don't think the current series is called Big Brother 14, but it's the 14th series of Big Brother and ought to have a title more like Big Brother (UK series 14). Then the list of housemates would be List of Big Brother housemates (UK series 14) – anemone projectors – 09:43, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Big Brother 1 housemates (UK)
Participants here may be interested in Articles for deletion/List of Big Brother 1 housemates (UK), which also applies to the other 'List of Big Brother housemates' articles. Sionk (talk) 18:27, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Series overview tables
Please come to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Television to discuss the implementation of these tables in television articles, from main articles to List of Episode pages.  BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  19:26, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Llibllib
Webhosting or useful table for the article? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:04, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

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Including eviction votes in UK nomination tables
Hi, should eviction votes be included in a nomination table for the UK series (regular and celebrity) because they are not nominations? --MSalmon (talk) 20:19, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Same color for 'Banned' housemates and 'Nominated' housemates?
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but what is the reason for this? Shouldn't banned housemates be grey instead, unless they have been nominated for eviction by Big Brother? — RachelRice (talk, contribs) — 04:27, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * OMG. Thank you for this. I think the Indian Big Brother articles' nominations tables are more accurate in this sense.
 * Check this out guys and let me what you think.

--LulzWhateven (talk) 11:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC) Struck comment by sockpuppet of indefinitely blocked User:Imtitanium —Psychonaut (talk) 08:53, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Cast tables
Hi all, I just went through all of the Big Brother UK season articles and boldly converted the Housemate lists to bulleted lists, for example in these edits. Although bold, the justification for these changes are several:
 * 1) Community consensus already exists at MOS:TV for the formatting of casts lists as bulleted lists, not in tabular format.
 * 2) There's really no reason for the content to be presented in tabular format when we are talking about three pieces of information: name, age and hometown that are easily communicated in a bulleted list.
 * 3) The Big Brother articles are very table-laden already, which presents numerous WP:ACCESSIBILITY issues.
 * 4) I interpret WikiProject Big Brother as an encouragement to reduce the number of tables in these articles. 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. Most of the articles I changed already have the one or two acceptable tables and surely don't need more.
 * 5) Good Article criterion 1b requires that articles follow MOS guidelines, including those for list incorporation. Tables are for more complex types of lists, with some of these as examples: Tables might be used for presenting mathematical data such as multiplication tables, comparative figures, or sporting results. They might also be used for presenting equivalent words in two or more languages; for awards by type and year; complex discographies; etc. There's nothing inherently complex about the cast lists that necessitates the grid.

I do want to also mention that most of the Housemate lists I saw were not consistent with the guidelines at WikiProject Big Brother, since the lists I saw included ages, not birthdates, for instance. I know that many of the Housemate sections had been split off into their own articles, which is fine, but then really, for consistency with other TV articles on Wikipedia, what should remain is probably just a bulleted list of names, and nothing else. Just a thought. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:12, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you've started this section. Good job. Until more editors take part in this discussion and a legitimate consensus is reached the existing system of tables will be in place. Cheers. --LulzWhateven (talk) 19:22, 8 October 2015 (UTC) Struck comment by sockpuppet of indefinitely blocked User:Imtitanium —Psychonaut (talk) 08:53, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Warning: serial hoaxer and copyright violator
Members of this WikiProject should be vigilant for edits by sockpuppets of User:Imtitanium, who for several years has been adding fictitious gossip and copyright violations to Big Brother–related articles (particularly Indian shows such as Bigg Boss). The hoaxes can be difficult to spot because they are usually accompanied by legitimate-looking references; if you actually click through and read the cited sources, however, you'll find that they don't support the claims being made. (For further details please see Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive814 and Sockpuppet investigations/Imtitanium.)

If you notice an IP or relatively new user adding salacious or sensational information to Big Brother-related articles, and the references don't check out or seem suspicious, please report the matter at Sockpuppet investigations/Imtitanium. Established editors in good standing are also invited to help clean up the existing suspected hoaxes and copyright violations, which are listed at Contributor copyright investigations/Imtitanium. —Psychonaut (talk) 08:53, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition
Template:Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.  ♪♫Al ucard   16♫♪  11:55, 18 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Related to this, I set up article alerts for this project, so I suggest those interested in deletion discussions etc add WikiProject Big Brother/Article alerts to their watchlists. anemone  projectors  08:50, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Bigg Boss 10
Do we really need nominations and voting history table on Bigg Boss 10? The tables were not there on Bigg Boss 9 where user TheRedPenOfDoom said When we have articles about fiction, we care about what third parties have said about the plot/meaning/impact, not trivial recreations of the work. I removed these tables few times and starts a discussion on talk page but some SPA users and IPs are keep adding it back without any discussion. Thank you – GSS (talk) 12:04, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

BLPSOURCES
There's a problem with some pages related to this project in that they rely on poor sourcing from tabloids like the Express, the Mail, the Mirror and so on. I am gradually removing these but it's a big job. Can anyone reading this help? --John (talk) 11:16, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Celebrity Big Brother Rating
Hi I just created the page Celebrity Big Brother 1 (U.S.) and it needs rating.TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:59, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Celebrity Big Brother (UK) and Celebrity Big Brother (U.S.) Move Discussions
For anyone that wants to join in there are move discussions at two Big Brother related articles. I feel like any member of this wiki project would have their opinions greatly valued at one or both of these discussions.

Celebrity Big Brother (UK)
Talk:Celebrity_Big_Brother is being requested that Celebrity Big Brother be moved to Celebrity Big Brother (UK).

Celebrity Big Brother (U.S.)
There is also a move discussion at Talk:Celebrity_Big_Brother_(U.S.) where it is currently being discussed whether or not Celebrity Big Brother (U.S.) should stay or if it should be moved to Celebrity Big Brother (U.S. TV series).

Thanks! TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:52, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Request for change
In the first sentence for the Structure of Series articles state: 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.

I think it would be better change to until there are enough reliable sources or promos on television. An example of a recent case is that promos for Celebrity Big Brother (U.S. TV series) did not release promos until December 2017 and did not start airing them on CBS until January 2018. however there were enough reliable sources to create this article the day the series was announced while Big Brother 19 (U.S.) was still airing in September 2017. Another reason for this is that CBS has double renewed Big Brother for BB 17&18 and BB 19&20 and I believe there would be enough information to create the article now even though the series will most likely not be airing until summer 2018. Anyone else have any comments/preferences on this? The Doctor Who (talk) 03:28, 17 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Of course we should wait until sufficient reliable sources exist before creating articles pertaining to Big Brother. It doesn't matter whether they come a few weeks or a few months before the season premieres.  Another thing to point out is rumors should NEVER be included as they may not necessarily come true. OfficerAPC (talk) 04:30, 17 January 2018 (UTC)


 * That's exactly what I'm saying. Many times especially with U.S. and UK series there is enough information to create an article before promos air on television. That's exactly why I'm making this request for change because depending on the network series could begin airing promos a few weeks or a few months. I agree with the rumors we could include that too if we find it necessary. The Doctor Who  (talk) 04:36, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Any last objections before I change this??? The Doctor Who (talk) 19:08, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ The article has been updated to reflect the changes mentioned above. The Doctor Who  (talk) 20:18, 25 January 2018 (UTC)