Category talk:Contestants on other game shows

At the moment, the general content of this category is regular Countdown contestants who have also been on other game shows as regular contestants. Of course, anyone whose presence on the wiki is due to being involved in the Countdown online community and has been on some other game show can be listed as well.

The category may have been my idea, but I'd like a consensus on this before committing to anything: Should we also include panellists/contestants on celebrity game shows, which would include many of the hosts and DC guests?

But I guess it's only right to include Stephen Fry - after all, he was a regular contestant on regular University Challenge before he became famous for other things. -- smjg 13:10, 11 October 2010 (BST)

Of course, I think it goes without saying that Calendar Countdown, Countdown Masters and Celebrity Countdown don't count as "other" game shows. But do you think foreign versions of Countdown (which may have different names) should count? Or should these have another category again? -- smjg 00:12, 15 October 2010 (BST)

I think there is only one example of this so far - Andrew Fisher, who I added to the category today. So, it doesn't really justify another category, unless of course you are going to start including every contestant who appears on those shows in this wiki. I was thinking a while ago, it would be cool if there was a wiki of all game show contestants (British at least), for all sorts of cross-referencing fun, but I don't know who would want to take this kind of task on. Also, the slightly irritating practice of not including surnames on some shows, such as Pointless would make this a bit tricky. Anyway, went off on a tangent a bit there, so enough for now.

ps One other one I added today had appeared on a radio quiz show, but that's a whole new ball game. --Vande 00:32, 15 October 2010 (BST)

By a quick search, we have two who have been on Des chiffres et des lettres. But you're right, we don't have many listed at the moment. I don't know whether this is because there's actually hardly anyone who has appeared on more than one country's Countdown, or because in many cases the fact hasn't been spotted by anybody who edits this wiki. So maybe we don't need a separate category for them right now, but if one day there's an influx then we could start one. -- smjg 02:21, 15 October 2010 (BST)

In my opinion, we should include contestents on other countries' versions of Countdown, e.g. DCDL, and anyone who has been a contestant on another game show, including radio game shows. We should not include DC guests who have appeared as panel members on other shows, otherwise probably around half of the DC guests would be included.--Drawoh 09:18, 15 October 2010 (BST)

Richard Pascoe was on Goldenballs once. Kladdyman 21:13, 6 June 2011 (BST)

Lots

A few, such as Trevor Montague and Amy Godel, are down as having been on "many other game shows" rather than listing them explicitly. In these cases it would be overkill to try and list them all, but it does mean we ought to have guidelines on how many to list and how to decide which ones (which could be down to some combination of chronological sequence and level of success/fame/notoriety achieved). And to rewrite "Every page in this category should state on which other game show(s) the contestant has appeared" to get around these cases. — Stewart (talk) 13:41, 3 January 2012 (UTC)