Template talk:Big Brother in the United States

message: I suggest a rename of this template to  to follow the naming convention of the other templates like this. -- 9cds(talk) 08:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm fine with a rename, if the articles using it, are all updated, to be consistant (e.g. bypass the redirect).  --Rob 05:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, done. Can't see any double-redirects, or any problems? -- 9cds(talk) 03:10, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename 

message: The old version was better:
*The year is useful to people who aren't serious fans.  After the show is over, "Season 4" will mean nothing, but "2003" will mean something to people.  
*Winners names should appear next to which season they won.  The old format conveyed more info, without really using more space.
*We repeat the words "Big Brother" seven times, even for "Big Brother 7" (aka Big Brother All Stars).  Unless you need to show a different title for at least one season, there's need to repeat the show name.
Finally, if the template must be changed so much, it should be done with at least an edit summary explaining it. --Rob 04:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the last change? 

message: I revamped the Template based on the Template:Big_Brother_UK template. This template provides small useful links at the top for easy viewing, discussing, and editing the template. Also it adds valuable information with a small space. I think this is a lot better looking than the previous one. Alucard 16 06:42, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revamp 

message: I had a thought of adding the names of the runners-up, even though they don't have articles, into this template. We could link it to their paragraph in the article of their season. I just wanted to run it by you guys to see if you think it is noteworthy information. - 99.243.247.227 03:50, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say no.  Doing that, might get people to want to create individual pages for all the 2nd place people, and that would just be a mess. - Rjd0060 15:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I say no, good idea but my reason is the same as Rjd0060 plus it could make the Template too bulky then people would want to do the same to the Template:Big Brother UK and Template:Big Brother AU which are pretty big now (with the UK being the largest.) ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 21:52, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Runners Up 

message: Should we add Dick to the presenters seen as hes doing Hoise Calls now?--Hiltonhampton (talk) 00:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so. Reason being, Marcellas was a presenter like Gretchen he hosted the show during every episode. Ever since Big Brother 7 (U.S.) the show as featured regular guest presenters. Dick hosts a certain day then Daniele (BB8), then Kaysar (BB6/BB7), then Bunky (BB2) are regular guest hosts. The show has also featured Robyn Kass (casting director) and Lynette Rice (EW reporter). They could be mentioned on the House Calls section of the BB US page. But if we include Dick (who has been a guest host for one season) under the same logic we would have to include Kaysar, Bunky and Daniele. So I think it would be best not to have them on the table. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 00:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dick 

message: Umm...who is Ian O'Malley exactly?  I've tried to look at the entire article and never found any mention of him.  If he did help Julie Chen cohost Big Brother on the first season...maybe someone should mention him or something?  Small5th (talk) 04:25, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: He did, during Big Brother 1 help Julie with the show after that I have no clue what happened to him or what he did before. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 04:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ian O'Malley 

message: Removed the links to the individual season pages listing the Houseguests for the navibox the link to the master list (Houseguests) is sufficient. The master list will then take the user to the season pages for the Houseguest they want there is also a Houseguest navibox at the bottom of that page that has those links plus links to the individual wiki pages if a Houseguest has one. 02:52, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The 18 lists of houseguests should be connected by a navbox.  only links the main article about each season and not the lists of houseguests. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:09, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Houseguests in the Navibox 

message: Just made an edit and removed all the celebrity HouseGuests from the template. Although the HouseGuests being included violates WP:PERFNAV it does say at that top of this page that  I feel this may be a place for an exception. TheDoctorWho (talk) 14:01, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I returned the article to the status quo as they had only recently been added.  There was a big discussion about this some time ago - I'll see if I can find it.  --woodensuperman 14:03, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

text: See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 August 11#Template:Celebrity Big Brother (among various other discussions on the subject).  WP:PERFNAV was written after this, to codify exactly this situation.  --woodensuperman 14:05, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with woodensuperman pertaining to the celebrities being performers. They were hired for the role due to their already existing cultural status, whereas the other contestants in the "regular" show are non-notable individuals who made it through all the hoops needed to become a contestant. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:12, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

text: Personally I'm against this, but have added in the "winners" section.  I've restructured a little bit so that Over the Top and Celebrity follow the chronology.  We could have a rethink if more celebrity seasons are produced.  --woodensuperman 15:32, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Celebrity HouseGuests 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Template talk:Big Brother Africa which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 06:16, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress