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BGT have their own Subreddit on Reddit, I myself use it especially for Masked Singer, AGT (as I do for FANDOM Anyways) and soon BGT when auditions start taping.
The Link To The BGT Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BritainsGotTalent/
You can sign up for completely free of you don't already have one. I have one my self. My user is Train-Wreck-60 which I'll post an image of it down below and of course I'll be posting every similar stuff like I do on here
My profile is here so you know it's me
Not sure how many of you have heard but last month Molly released a dance track alongside DJ Alex Kirsch (Admittedly I myself only found this out via the Official Chart Websites news section before becoming intrigued). Obviously, not much of her older work did too well but I'm sure that since then after her singing on children's TV show Nova Jones she likely improved much more on how her singing voice sounded in her old singles. Obviously, she also reached the Strictly final by the skin of her teeth last year and also recently joined EastEnders last month (The same month the song was released), I wouldn't normally make a post like this (As Calum Scott never really needs much of our help to do well in the charts, even if Whistle didn't even perform half as well as Where Are You Now) however I believe that this song deserves to be her first chart entry! As such, I implore you to listen to the below video and share it with your friends and family as YouTube views DO count towards a singles entry to the official chart - happy listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njMbrMRyaJI
Feel free to share your opinions below and if you want to, to go back and listen to her old BGT performances, independent singles & EP and compare it to either any or all of the three, or find new clips from her singing on CBBC children's show Nova Jones and compare it to them!
Sidenote: If only the OCC released their article and made this song enter a wider scope sooner, then we could have used Love Island effect to our advantage here as by next years seasons it'll be far too late to do that (As the show finishes in the next couple of weeks, it'll be almost impossible to do that now)!
I just want to make a quick post to state that every past series now has an audition page for every single episode (Some More Talent acts are missing, but in most cases we just don't know in what order they were shown). I'd like to thank Meowkins63 (Who made some but would rather not be tagged), @Mrdoctorwho61 & @Coasterking2020 the old episode pages team who made a few older episodes pages, alongside some for S14, and our current episode pages guy @Jerry1111111111 (You can go back to make live shows episode pages for past series now if you wish to do so, as I've sorted out the creation of E207 for you last night right before E1605 aired).
I would also thank myself for making a couple (See E207, E905 & E906) but I won't do that as I don't want to come off as egotistical) and moving some More Talent acts over to main episodes pages and recently doing so with More Talent E205 & 206 before deleting those pages once they became needless to keep.
Obviously though, the next avenue for episodes page which Jerry has started on are those for past series live show episodes with Series 2's and Series 4's - Series 10's needing doing (S11 - S15 have episodes pages for every episode and the same goes for S1 & S3 as of recently when Jerry finished up their live shows pages just a couple of weeks ago).
Another avenue for these would have been Champions episode pages, but earlier in the week that E1601 aired, Jerry made the pages for every Champions episode, thus eliminating a second of the three avenues that this Wiki's episode pages should realistically be covering (Who knows, maybe every past series will have their episode pages finished by the years end, but whilst this could be nice to see, there is obviously no rush to reach this as it's not a communal goal of any kind)!
Just a quick update to state that we have lately migrated from MediaWiki 1.37 to MediaWiki 1.39. This update was first discussed over on Community Central bi-weekly (Holidays excluded), blog posts last November, before later being discussed there between November and February. I will link the corresponding CC Blog Posts at the bottom of this post in case anyone here is interested in reading up on them. During the update, the Wiki will have been locked from editing for half an hour, before becoming unlocked afterwards. Whilst this isn't as big of a leap as the last update to Fandom Desktop and doesn't include any new features, it's still an update which should and will have an impact on this Wiki and its community going forwards.
The only differences that I can see since the update is pages seem to be loading slower on all Wikis that I edit on after they've migrated yet it'll probably take time to get to the new loading system, the edit summary gives a drop down menu of previous edits / reverts across Fandom which is a bit annoying, but your not forced to select anything and can instead just write the edit summary that you want to write, the 'Your edit has been saved' bit has been removed from the top of the screen upon a page being saved and is now in the top right corner with a small green tick in front of it, something that I wasn't a fan of when I edited another Wiki that had previously migrated yesterday, yet when I edited a page here not too long ago, I will admit it began to grow on me and I began to like it, and the History button on pages / blog posts has been changed to state 'View History' rather than just 'History'.
I will also admit, that I'd actually forgotten about the MediaWiki update until yesterday as the last CC technical update that discussed it was back in February, and in that Fandom stated that they hoped to migrate every Wiki by this May, with us being updated in early April (For more info on the update timeline, see the bottom one of the linked blog posts).
Further reading in case anyone is interested:
https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Jpearson/Technical_Updates:_November_4,_2022
https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Jpearson/Technical_Updates:_December_16,_2022
https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Brandon_Rhea/Technical_Updates:_January_13,_2023
Hi all!
As I'm away from the site a lot of the year, it has been suggested to me that I should make an active user a bureaucrat.
I'm proposing here that @Grandpa Lo70 is to be made a bureaucrat, as I believe he is the most active administrator. However before I do this I'm making sure that there are no issues/concerns with this decision in the existing community. If there are, please raise them, as the decision to make a user a bureaucrat is irreversible. Equally, if you have messages in support of this decision, please leave them here.
If no significant concerns have been raised within a week, I will promote 'Lo to the position of bureaucrat.
Many thanks,
Pete
@PeteFromLeeds looks as if I have yet another announcement to make, but this one is not strictly BGT related! This Wiki now uses the new Fandom 'Highlight To Search' with this coming into affect following the introduction of Fandom Auth (Fandom's New Secure LogIn System), now I'm not sure if its been rolled out to all Fandom Wikis yet, but I am well aware that a couple of weeks back someone noted this on the Community Central Discussions Board and nobody actually knew what it was, until someone else found a Blog Post by Fandom Staff surrounding it and at that time it was only being rolled out to a select few Wikis that I believe were chosen by Fandom Staff themselves. So, what this thing is, is when you highlight your mouse over text on PC or highlight page text on Mobile or Tablet (Probably in the latter case), there is a small bar above it which says 'Search This Wiki' and 'Search All Wikis'.
For example on Harmony's page if we were to highlight 'Megan McKenna' across this Wiki, we would most probably be shown the Fandom Search Bar List of every page that mentions her name which can be exclusively found here on this Wiki, yet if we were to click Search All Wikis, we could be shown pages on this Wiki and pages on 'Big Brother Wiki' & 'X Factor Wiki' which mention her name! I'm unsure if my explanation has done the trick here, so all I can do is recommend you highlight some text on a page and try out the feature for yourselves in order to get a good feel for this brand new feature!
I'll see if I can find the Fandom Staff's Blog Post surrounding this over on Community Central, and if I can I'll post it below for anyone interested to have a read of the Blog Post:
Interestingly after skimming through the Blog Post, I couldn't find anything that mentions highlight to search, yet those on this Community Central Thread (Linked below) were directed there for insight on it by a Community Central admin who stated 'Quoting Heytots from F/G:
"Highlight to search is going out to 25% of site traffic as part of a test right now. Definitely send us your thoughts on it".':
https://community.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003359877/r/4400000000011669355
Sidenote: On our end the Series 14 Auditions page also comes up, but that's because it picks up Megan Coxall in the Untelevised Acts section. On Fandom as a whole's end a big list of results comes up, but its probably notating pages on Fandom as a whole that just mention the name Megan sometimes to, and ignoring the McKenna part of the highlight to search on Megan's name on Harmony's page on this wiki (I did want to try and get an exact number, but there is a lot more than I expected, I've hit 28 pages worth, but I expect that there are a lot more than that)!
So I'm sure by now you've all heard the news. BGT Legend David J Watson has passed away at 62. I mean when this information was written on his page this morning I was initially shocked and thought it was false, so I google searched if he had died (As you do when a legend dies). I was amazed at what I found, David had died and it was all over the papers on the front page of Google even Amanda has paid tribute to him. I hope that tonight the BGT YT Channel releases a video of a compilation of ALL of David's performances in order, much like their old website uploaded Martin Morgan's audition following his death.
Now obviously David will be sorely missed by everyone here, as we all knew him as that guy who almost always auditioned for BGT, wanting to get far despite not really having any kind of talent to write home about. With his passing will open up a spot for another act to audition, maybe another act who has auditioned for multiple seasons such as 4G, Vladimir Kozevnikov, Jim Fitzpatrick, or his friends Gatis Kandis or Ivor Dehaney (David worked with Gatis & Ivor on Ivor's film entitled Oh No! Ivor the Dance King and some of his friends try to save the world!, playing a fictionalised version of himself) will take his place which many thought was a gimmick, but to all of us here David was more than a gimmick! To us he was an impressionist, a Hulk, a magician, a variety act, and a ventriloquist who managed to reach 11 auditions before his passing, yet first and foremost he was a recurring contestant and the person to have auditioned for a Got Talent show the most times within the brands history! It seems he will sadly never accomplish his dream of performing for the Queen with the closest he ever got being the 2nd round. I have a suspicion that this may be on the news tonight.
But this isn't just my tribute to David. It will be our entire communities tribute to David, and perhaps even other Got Talent communities such as the AGT Wikis tribute to David. Of course, so far this has just been my tribute but you can all pay tribute and say as little or as much about David as you would like in the comments below. I only ask that you remain both polite & civil, not just because the wikis rules tell you to, because I personally think that David would have wanted that from us all!
RIP David J Watson, absolute legend from everyone at the BGT Wiki's community! Hopefully the talents that you have shown us, and the joy that you have brought us all will entertain someone else now.
Okay granted usually @PeteFromLeeds is responsible for these updates but we migrated to Fandom Desktop last night. I personally don't like the way the edit button looks anymore however the rest (bar having outdated tablets that I haven't been able to edit using since last October) is fine as in all fairness a lot of these changes seem to have occurred due to UCP. Nothing has changed for those who aren't admins other than that really, but for those who are admins we have the option to change the lighting mode from dark to light (Admittedly I briefly did that as I thought it'd open up a lighting settings but it never, yet don't worry I changed the lighting back to light after I realised that it changed once you clicked upon it). Additionally admins also have access to analytics however I don't believe that these are meant to be shared and can but be checked upon by admins (I will admit that as an admin I did click on the analytics and look into them as it's a thing that admins such as myself, Pete, Meow, & @Liamholton1 are allowed to do as admins).
A new button known as Purge also exists and is located between the Move & Protect buttons, what this button does once clicked is at allows you to clear the cache of the page therefore causing the most current revision of the page to appear, and both admins & editors alike have been given access to this button. So basically if your reading a page and someone else is editing if you click the purge button and click ok when just as they complete their edit the page will have their edit added to what you were previously reading, and it refreshes the server by causing dynamic stuff to update behind the scenes such as if the page uses something known as {{CURRENTHOUR}} to display the current hour of the day but it is cached for some time, purging the page will update it (Thank you to @HumansCanWinElves for the second part of this explanation). Okay just to finalise the bit that I stated about Purging a page refreshing it I have been assured by HumansCanWinElves that yes, whilst the button does do this it's not a part of it's primary function as you can just easily reload or refresh the page on your browser, so all it really does is refreshes things on the servers side.
So all I can say to anyone new to wrap up this announcement post of sorts is happy editing and I hope you enjoy your time here and ensure to read the rules prior to editing (I won't be chasing you up on whether you have or not, yet they will be linked down below for anyone interested in reading them) and for our current editors, I would like to thank you all for your time and effort in editing pages, adding the necessary categories to pages and making pages such as episode pages alongside adding missing information and correcting mistakes. Additionally when looking into any auditions pages you will find them all in what was the Series 8-14 box format as a few weeks ago I sorted out putting every Series that wasn't in that from 1-7 in that format, yet I am aware that I could have made some mistakes with act outcomes so if you notice any feel free to fix them, but put an edit summary so that I know that is what was done (I'd prefer if everyone wrote an edit summary for their edits so that way I don't have to check what the edit was, I mean granted I probably would still check in order to fix any kind of spelling mistakes but at least I wouldn't be looking at every edit and wondering what it were, if you don't have the time to write one just write 'Didn't have time to write description' and message me or any other admin on our Fandom Message walls stating what the edit was whenever you have the time do to so if at all possible).
Here is the link to the rules post in case anyone is interested (The page is protected so only admins may edit it):
https://bgt.fandom.com/wiki/BGT_Wiki_Rules
Okay so I recently decided to do some research in regards to Birds of Paradise in order to find his name and where he were from after seeing this clip on the Tu Si Que Vales official YouTube channel wherein a man named Alex Ostrovskiy performed the Birds of Paradise routine.
Naturally this led me down a rabbit hole of where he were from and I discovered him to be Ukrainian. This hole however kept getting deeper as the next thing I remember is that a man with the exact same name auditioned for AGT Season 16 and on his personal YouTube channel 2 copies of his AGT audition are uploaded (For some reason AGT misspell his surname as Ostrovski and forget about the y at the end of his name). It was then that I found out he auditioned for Ukraine's Got Talent as 4 copies of that audition are on his personal YouTube channel. To conclude our story I also discovered he had been on Romania's Got Talent in 2019.
There is one interesting change however, for the majority of his performances (Bar TSQV & BGT, the only thing he did different here was he performed Birds of Paradise under the name Alex Ostrovskiy on TSQV and performed the act on BGT and named it Birds of Paradise), which is the fact that he always changes it as he has a variety of talents. On UGT he performed an act similar to Steve Cousins on BGT, on Romania's Got Talent he performed a foot puppet show, similar to Anne Klinge on BGT, and on AGT he played trumpets to 'The Greatest Love Of All' by Whitney Houston and had 4 on stage and played two and threw them into the air as they seemed to fly and be winged, before he played 2 trumpets at once at the end of his performance which I must admit is his most original and unique act yet IMO. I also recently found some copies of his BGT audition (I think he has 3 copies of it), some backstage images and images outside of the theatre wherein BGT i filmed, and some images of the puppets from Romania's Got Talent on his FaceBook page. I will link my sources to all of this information below, and I hope to one day see his 'Latin Kids band' which seem similar to Birds of Paradise to me on a Got Talent show with Ostrovskiy (Also known as Mr Fun on some videos on his YouTube channel as when he does an intro he sometimes refers to himself as this) at the helm of them.
Sources:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BA_s%C3%AD_que_vales_(Italia,_sesta_edizione)
https://sba.world/en/user/1753
https://www.facebook.com/Alex-Ostrovskiy-An-Entertainer-in-the-Original-Genre-258034904768481/posts (His FaceBook page)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2DakBxfbI (Alex on Romania's Got Talent)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3hURdiphpt0HaLZaD_dTUA/videos
(Alex's personal YouTube Channel)
You may all be wondering as to why I have been opening up so many polls recently. With no BGT this year I thought why not open up some polls for 2 weeks and make the BGT Awards for the rarest talents who have auditioned for the show! In 2 weeks time on Monday if I remember to do so I will be adding a comment on this post surrounding who won each award! It's your chance to see your favourite act win in their category, but you can only do so by voting for them!:
Basically what this is, is whichever act of each of the many polls that I have recently been creating (even the ones from last week starting from knife throwing duos), will be collated into who won the gong by being provided with most votes. In the case of Dunking Devils VS Face Team the opposition will be the Runner-Up. I shall collate the votes from each poll in a couple of weeks time and once I have collated them all I may lock these poll posts before then making a BGT Awards post surrounding who won each gong. In reality however nobody wins anything, this is all just for a bit of fun and to liven up the discussions board, which I hope it will do. If any other act with 6 or less contestants having performed it is discovered and you tell me I will create them a BGT Awards Poll. However I won't create a rola bola performer gong as Sascha Williams is our only ever rola bola performer.
@PeteFromLeeds , @Liamholton1 , @Mrdoctorwho61 , @Coasterking2020 , @Saf95 , @Zamolo , @PessimistFrog , @Artistically Autistically Artimated , @Dexandizzywhizzy10 , & @Madmeggymoo now is your chance to vote for your favourite acts in every category that the polls cover. Happy voting and may the best acts win (I've tagged you all in this post in order to grab your attention, however in order to vote you need to scroll down to each poll and vote for 1 act per award)!
Edit: Scroll Up to vote for the latest final 2 awards!
So usually I have a lot more to say here, however this time I don't have as much to say, other than the fact that overnight we have hit 2,000 Pages. Obviously there are still some acts missing as it's an incredibly hard task finding some of these, however that doesn't really matter as at least we tried our best, and some of us may still be trying our best in order to find some of them. I believed that we wouldn't hit 2k this year as we have been tailing it for a while, so I thought that either late this year or next year we would hit 2k. I realise that the AGT Wiki is not up to date, either however they have some more resources then we do as they are approaching a rounded up number of 2,800 pages, and I expect them to reach 3k by the end of the year, so we may never catch up to them, however at least we have hit this milestone 2k, and perhaps we will always be either a thousand or just over a thousand pages behind them which I for one can accept.
As of April 1st Fandom has stated that each wiki must have a set of rules for its users to comply with. These rules may differ from wiki to wiki however the wiki rules for this wiki are most probably complete bar small segments of modification. This rules page displays every rule that you are to follow, an additional guidance section to help your editing and a block policy wherein the majority of rules blocks are covered within (some rules have their punishments outlined besides them as their block timeframes differ from the standard ones). Both myself & @PeteFromLeeds have written up this page so we have therefore both already looked over the page, however alongside new users reading this when they first discover the site before editing as of April 1st (or earlier if you wish to get this task out of the way), please could our usual users of @Liamholton1 , @Mrdoctorwho61 , @Coasterking2020 , @Meowkins63 , @Saf95 , @Zamolo , @PessimistFrog , @Artistically Autistically Artimated & @Madmeggymoo read the rules before making further pages or further edits (A couple of you haven't been around for a while, however since you have been on the discussions boards or edited in terms of helpful contributions a while back its important that I ask you. Either if or once you return however it is vital that you read over the rules.). However if a user comes to the site on April 1st and is yet to read the rules, however wants to make an episode page for example, please give the rules page a read over, then start creating the page. Alongside this before any former contestant with an account makes an edit it is preferable that they read these rules as of April 1st (If they wish to do so earlier in order to save them having to do so at a later time then that is fine). The former contestants who are a part of this community include @Write2msmswift , @Dennisdemille , @Pbwake , @Tariqmuman , & @Crimsoncomet99 . I will post the rules below for you all:
https://bgt.fandom.com/wiki/BGT_Wiki_Rules
Once you have read the rules page please comment on this post the fact that you have read it and if you have any suggestions for new rules of additional guidance feel free to place them alongside your comment. Any suggestions that you give will be taken into consideration and could be added to either segment of the page, however if this is done and the rules have already been read by users then unless the rules have a major update due to suggestions then there will be no need for you to re-read them due to minor tweaks.
Edit: If a user who visited briefly on the discussions boards or on message walls such as @Shadow VS light , @Smackdownisblue , @Pennies , @PhoenixMaster49 , @Xboy971 , @Chrisburr , @Raynard2 , @Brooklyn survivor or @MikeyIsBae (With the latter actually being from Meow's message wall) return to this site as editors then they must also read the rules of this wikis page upon their return.
The home page looks awful oops.
Comment any bugs you run into here!
With the Fandom site service swapping the forum for discussions I believe I may have found a version of what the discussions board may look like. My Singers+Musicians wiki never did have any activity occur upon its forum, so it was therefore instantly transitioned into a discussions board. I believe all discussions board will look the same or similar, so below will be an image of what the Singers+Musicians wiki discussions board looks like, and what I believe all discussions boards may look fairly similar to:
A new discussions board and what all wiki discussions boards may look similar to.
What's a favicon you ask? Take a look at the page in the tab bar and spot the difference ;)
For the last few years we've jsut been chucking general BGT chat in 'The Waiting Room' board, which I'm sure you'll agree is a bit weird as the description itself states that that board is for off-topic discussion.
So, I've created a new board - BGT Discussion - and re-homed all the BGT threads there. It takes a while to move everything over but it should all be making it's way there through the magic of the internet. Any interactive BGT-related discussion should be started in that forum :D
Thanks all!
I've been wanting to say this for the last few months but I was going to wait until the pages for Series 12 had been completed - but that's still a long way off so I'll say it now. I'm sure whoever's reading this is aware that this site contains 500+ pages with nothing but a name, a picture and a VERY basic one-sentence description (and some don't even have that).
So, as part of a massive site clearup, I'm giving everyone until the end of August to add content with some usefulness to these pages (I will be doing this as well with as much time as I can). After then, any pages which still consist of a single sentence and an image will be DELETED. Of course they can be re-added again but if they continue to have no substance they will once again be removed.
I'm sorry that I have to say this and I know people have put work into these pages but the amount of blank pages we have makes the site look messy, and if you really care about these pages then I'm giving you plenty of time to add stuff to them.
Hey guys, over on the AGT wikia some of us decided to make our own AGT Fantasy seasons where we are the judge and make the choices. If you want to help out and be apart of it then go over to the AGT wikia and go on the chat and talk to us! Hope to see you show up!
I'm not expecting this to be active atm as both regular editors on here are admins but I'm creating it for reference in the future.
If you think you deserve to be an admin, please post here! Obviously you'll need to be a regular editor on here, there are plenty of finalist/semi-finalist pages that don't exist or only consist of a few sentences for you to get your hands dirty with!
The BGT wiki is all about the TV show Britain's Got Talent. It contains the majority of contestants, series and judges of the show, and is hoping to soon have a database of all of the information about Britain's Got Talent. Help us edit the database, and join in with the interactive polls and blog posts.
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