Talk:Big Brother (British TV series

Transwiki merge

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I have merged into this article the material transwikied from Big Brother (UK) Quotes through Transwiki:Big Brother (UK) quotes by Coredesat, per w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Brother (UK) Quotes. Here is the edit history of the WP article according to Coredesat. (I have added WP links to the usernames for convenience and tweaked the formatting.)

(cur) (last) 13:55, 7 August 2007 w:User:194.46.232.70 (Talk | block) (5,986 bytes) (→Big Brother 5) (rollback | undo)
(cur) (last) 18:09, 5 August 2007 w:User:Dalejenkins (Talk | contribs | block) (5,957 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 20:15, 4 August 2007 w:User:90.201.13.214 (Talk | block) (5,737 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 19:56, 4 August 2007 w:User:90.201.13.214 (Talk | block) (6,103 bytes) (→Big Brother 8) (undo)
(cur) (last) 18:48, 4 August 2007 w:User:90.201.13.214 (Talk | block) (6,043 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 18:44, 4 August 2007 w:User:90.201.13.214 (Talk | block) (6,089 bytes) (→Big Brother 7) (undo)
(cur) (last) 09:21, 4 August 2007 w:User:Marasmusine (Talk | contribs | block) (6,070 bytes) (prod) (undo)
(cur) (last) 08:59, 4 August 2007 w:User:Aido07 (Talk | contribs | block) (5,597 bytes) (→Big Brother 8) (undo)
(cur) (last) 15:54, 3 August 2007 w:User:81.151.252.129 (Talk | block) (5,520 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 15:50, 3 August 2007 w:User:81.151.252.129 (Talk | block) (5,311 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 13:32, 3 August 2007 w:User:86.43.89.186 (Talk | block) (5,213 bytes) (→=Big Brother 7) (undo)
(cur) (last) 13:03, 3 August 2007 w:User:86.43.89.186 (Talk | block) (4,124 bytes) (→=Big Brother 7) (undo)
(cur) (last) 12:52, 3 August 2007 w:User:86.43.89.186 (Talk | block) (4,072 bytes) (→=Big Brother 7) (undo)
(cur) (last) 12:47, 3 August 2007 w:User:86.43.89.186 (Talk | block) (4,067 bytes) (→Big Brother 7) (undo)
(cur) (last) 17:53, 2 August 2007 w:User:In23065 (Talk | contribs | block) (3,810 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 17:52, 2 August 2007 w:User:In23065 (Talk | contribs | block) (3,796 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 17:52, 2 August 2007 w:User:In23065 (Talk | contribs | block) (3,814 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 17:50, 2 August 2007 w:User:In23065 (Talk | contribs | block) (3,812 bytes) (undo)
(cur) (last) 17:48, 2 August 2007 w:User:In23065 (Talk | contribs | block) (3,756 bytes) (→External Links) (undo)
(cur) (last) 17:48, 2 August 2007 w:User:In23065 (Talk | contribs | block) (3,753 bytes) (←Created page with '==Big Brother 1== ==Celebrity Big Brother 1== ==Big Brother 2== ===Helen=== *"God!! There are 9 of us in here.....!!! It does not seem to be as many as at the sta...')

Note that the timezone of the dates is not identified, so the times may be off by as much as a day from expectations.

I would note that the material from WP was almost exactly the same as that already existing in the Wikiquote article. The only differences were:

One added line from "Big Brother 5".
All added lines from "Big Brother 7".
Seven of the first 8 lines added from "Big Brother 8".

The timing, the closely matched content, and the identical non-Wikiquote styles suggest that the same editors were involved in creating and editing both articles. Very little (if any) of this material strikes me as worth keeping, but I wanted to produce a current example of a fully transwikied article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:11, 10 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

That's sort of my fault, the relevant AfD involved quite a few arguments for transwikiing the contents here. I don't handle transwikis very often, so I'll have to check and make sure content isn't already here before carrying out the next transwiki, whatever that might be. --Coredesat 19:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

I'm sorry, Coredesat. I didn't mean to criticize your effort. You did exactly what I would have done — executed the decision according to policy. In fact, the reason I completed this so quickly is because I appreciated the textbook example of a transwiki. It's not our fault the material itself probably isn't worth saving, but at least it's here now so that Wikiquotians can make that determination. Now, if we can only get other Wikipedians to do these transwikis correctly… ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:43, 10 August 2007 (UTC)Reply