This is the project page for Big Brother, in hope to improve and standardise Wikipedia articles about Big Brother

The idea behind this WikiProject is to bring all the worldwide Big Brother articles together, in an attempt to improve and standardise their Wikipedia articles.

• WikiProject Television
• WikiProject British TV shows

• 9cds
• The JPS (officially joined 20 May 2006, but have been following the project since incarnation)
• Ellisjm
• Sfacets
• Sweetie Petie
• Rob
• Chanlord
• FireSpike
• Geoking66 00:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• LostInParadise

• All non-stub series (season) articles should include the {{Big Brother housemates}} template to list the contestants (houseguests). However, for {{Big Brother housemates}} to work, there must be a section for each contestant.
• All Big Brother UK articles should include {{Big Brother UK}}.
• All Big Brother Australia articles should include {{Big Brother Aus}}.
• All Big Brother USA season articles should include {{Big Brother USA}}.

The first occurrence of the title of the show should be emboldened and italicised, and later occurrences should be italicised. Likewise, all references to other shows should be italicised and the first occurrence linked.

• The name of the page for a series page should be "Big Brother (country series number)", eg. "Big Brother (Germany series 8)".
• The name for a country's edition should be "Big Brother (country)".
• The name for nominations tables should be "Big Brother (country series number) nominations table".

• Day numbers and eviction percentages should be in numbers, not words, and the word 'Day" should have an uppercase D.
• Note: the term "series" is used in the UK to mean what Americans call a "season". Use the term appropriate to the particular country.
• Chronology should be in past tense. For example, "Jim spent three hours in the diary room moaning about Bob". However, things outside of the series should be present tense (for example, "Bob and Mary are married and have a child")

The following sections should be used in series/season pages:

• Housemates

  Each housemate should have their own sub-heading, which are linked to from the housemate template. Tables should not be used in this heading, as some articles have (since they look fansite-ish). It's important that all of the housemate sections already exist when you add {{Big Brother housemates}}, or the links from the template will not work properly when clicked on.

• Chronology

  This ought to be short (not a diary), and subheadings for weeks can be used.

• Criticism

  Sourced.

Categories that could be used include:

• Category:Big Brother (US TV series)
• Category:Big Brother (UK TV series)
• Category:Big Brother (Australia)
• Category:Big Brother contestants

• Big Brother UK series 7
• Big Brother Australia series 6
• Big Brother USA season 7

• Big Brother (Australia)

1. Insert the {{Big Brother housemates}} template into all series (season) pages after there is a section for every housemate (houseguest)
2. Insert country-specific templates where applicable
3. Make sure all pages are categorised.
4. Add logos to all pages.
5. Ensure any images conform to Wikipedia's fair use policy. See also Wikipedia:Publicity photos.
6. Ensure pages are neutral and cite their sources.
7. Fix references on articles that are formatted incorrectly

The Wikipedia community has agreed by consensus to the following:

• In the past, most articles about individual housemates (particularly for the non-American shows) have been merged/redirected to the main article (or occasionaly deleted). British examples of this are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. However, there are cases where the housemate has become more notable because of other activities before or after BB, for example Derek being kept because of extra, political activities, and housemates who went to get presenting jobs. In the American case, contestants ranging from the first evicted and up have been kept as a stand alone article. All US winners have stand-alone articles (the only one nominated was kept). See Wikipedia:Notability (people) for a consensus supported guideline on inclusion. While there's great debate about when to merge/redirect, rarely do contestants articles actually get deleted without a merge (in other words the content is retained). By policy, if the content of an article is merged, it can not be deleted, due to restrictions of GFDL.
• We do not accept images taken from websites. This includes the thumbnails found on Channel 4's website, or other photoshoots. The only publicity images permitted on Wikipedia are those from a section of a website clearly labelled as a press or media kit. It is vital that the legality of the project is not compromised. Any of these images found on pages should be removed from the page and tagged for speedy delete on sight.
• There has been no real consensus whether to split chronology from the main article, but split chronology pages have been deleted in the past. These pages should be made with care and after lenghty discusion.
• There are two kinds of nominations tables in use, the one used on Big Brother (UK series 1) (which should be included in the article), and the one used at Big Brother 7 nominations table (which should be in a seperate article).
• Chronology should be in past tense. For example, "Jim spent three hours in the diary room moaning about Bob". However, things outside of the series should be present tense (for example, "Bob and Mary are married and have a child")

• 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 Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, any such negative unsourced (or poorly sourced) claims can be removed immediately from any article.
• See Wikipedia:Footnotes for details on using footnotes to cite sources. See Big Brother (UK series 7) for an example of their extensive useage.

• Template:Big Brother housemates.

If this infobox is used, there is no need to have the housemates in the TOC. An HTML hack can be written to write a new TOC. Be careful not to use this template if there are no housemate sections, it will make dead links. Plesae note the legend colours should only be used during the length of the series: once finished, they should be stripped.

Any stubs should have the {{tv-bigbrother-stub}} template.

Talk pages for articles related to the project should be have this template added

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This can be added with the text: {{Big Brother project}}

If there are details of any incidents yet to be broadcast on the page, then the spoiler warning {{BbSpoiler}} can be used, or {{BbSpoiler|article}} if the entire article is one gigantic spoiler.

The following are seen as good examples of articles that follow the guidelines :

• Big Brother (UK series 7)
• Big Brother (UK series 6)

Please feel free to list your new Big Brother-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

• My Big Brother

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• Votes for undelete:
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