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Michelle

How do I make the title "michelle" go to the disamg page?

I can't log in to rename Michelle since I don't have a registered title, and can't get one until my mother approves my registration. 68.169.113.246 Talk to me, 68.169.113.246 My contributions 10:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Breasts

Source for cup size. Flyingmammal (talk) 13:58, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No confirmation that she will be the next Doctor Who companion

Please note that as of January 2009 Ryan has only been confirmed as the guest star in Planet of the Dead. All other media reports that she's been cast, or is about to be cast, as Matt Smith's companion (she'd presumably play the same character) should be taken as speculation until the BBC issues an official announcement. There is precedent, as I note in the article, as Catherine Tate had a trial run in a special, too, a year before she joined the series. The same might be happening here. But let's not post rumor unless the BBC says so (the Mirror is a major media outlet so I used it to cite the fact the speculation is circulating). 23skidoo (talk) 14:46, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We should always go to every length to avoid reproducing speculation in tabloid newspapers. These speculations are places for one reason only: to sell the newspaper. --TS 14:58, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's fair enough, but when there has been multiple sourcing -- and the Mirror is considered a major media outlet in the UK; it violates WP:NPOV to state an opinion about its veracity -- then it should be noted. Plus I'd rather we include one single source that is a print source rather than have someone cite a bunch of blogs (which under Wikipedia's outdated RS rules aren't allowed anyway). For examples of other sources, go here. I'd be OK with replacing the Mirror with the Digital Spy link, if it satisfies the RS rules. 23skidoo (talk) 15:00, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted the removal because consensus should be reached first. Also the reference to Donna Noble is not in any conceiveable way OR as OR involves new information and I could cite virtually every biographical article on Catherine Tate if you'd like. 23skidoo (talk) 15:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The reference to Catherine Tate as a precedent is original research. The use of a rumor in a tabloid newspaper as a source is very poor sourcing. We don't help the reader to sort the wheat from the chaff if we give credence to rubbish. --TS 15:05, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's not our job. And if you want I'll change the wording to "it's happened before". I could also go in and mentioned it happened with Colin Baker as well, and Peter Purves, and Ian Marter ... however this isn't supposed to be a story on the history of Doctor Who. Anyway I added a source to the BBC on the statement anyway. 23skidoo (talk) 15:06, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're saying that adequate sourcing, verifiability, and avoiding original research are not our job? I'm not going to argue over this further, but you have put nonsense and rubbish into the article, and I hope you'll realise this and remove the nonsense.

To summarise:

You have used a poor source to use Wikipedia to spread a rumor.
You have introduced an original argument to support the rumor.

--TS 15:09, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Only the fact that she has been cast as Christina in the Easter special belongs on the page, all other speculation is OR or rumour-mongering until there is a BBC (or other reliable source) that states for a fact that she will be in further episodes. magnius (talk) 16:05, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Overlinking

I see the overlinking has come back yet again. There are three mentions of her relatively minor character in Doctor Who. All three are wikilinked, as are Doctor Who itself and the episode she appears in. I have taken out the second set of links to make the article look a lot better and it's been changed again. I had no communication from the editor who took issue with my changes the last time around and now I'm throwing it out here for discussion, because this is a huge lot of linking for such a short article. Anybody have any ideas for improvements? Because my proposal was to take out the links from the body of the article and just leave the ones in the table and in the lead. I think we need to use some common sense here, the article is not big enough to need this kind of repetition. Sky83 (talk) 07:39, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tommy Williams

I did a quick bit of googling and found an article in the Telegraph that reveals that she was never engaged to Tommy Williams [1]. magnius (talk) 18:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, although it helps us if these things are made known rather than just deleting sourced content. Rodhull andemu 18:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Love's Kitchen

Michelle ryan was in the box office record breaking film for WORST takings £121.00 on opening weekend, Loves Kitchen - Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani.... 194.176.105.147 (talk) 11:33, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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