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Non-NTM Franchise Shows

Considering that this is a list of NTM shows only, Get Gorgeous (India), The Model Agent (Ireland) and Malaysian Dreamgirl (Malaysia) should be removed. As far as I know, the rest of the shows are part of the NTM franchise. However, should the three shows I listed be removed? Sireafi (talk) 06:10, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

SUPERMODELME.tv is not part of the franchise either. Sireafi (talk) 04:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Get Gorgeous is a reality made by Channel V in India and Southeast Asia, totally different from ANTM. 113.22.189.205 (talk) 13:27, 11 October 2009 (UTC).

Serbian version?

Can anyone prove that Top Model by NJ Models (the Serbian version) is part of the franchise? It looked extremely low-budget to be quite frank, although that's not grounds for not being a part of the franchise. Sireafi (talk) 04:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

it is not the serbian version. this show is set in Republika Srpska which is in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Shameless (talk) 03:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Call-out table colors

We should recommend to use colors in the table below to make all Top Model franchises be in common. Please be unanimous in using colors.

More information Color, Call-out description ...

Color	Call-out description	Franchise(s)
LimeGreen	The contestant won the competition	All
Crimson	The contestant quit the competition	All
DarkRed	The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel	ANTM

LightSteelBlue	The contestant won the reward challenge	All
RoyalBlue	The contestant won two reward challenges	ANTM, BNTM
Purple	The contestant won the reward challenge and was eliminated	All

Violet	The contestant was eliminated (including double/multiple elimination/s)	All
DeepPink	The contestant was the original eliminee but was saved
MediumVioletRed	The contestant was the original eliminee but was saved, and won the reward challenge	ANTM
PaleVioletRed	The contestant was the original eliminee but quit the competition

Yellow	The contestant was CoverGirl of the Week	ANTM
Orange	The contestant was CoverGirl of the Week and won the reward challenge	ANTM
Olive	The contestant was CoverGirl of the Week and was eliminated	ANTM

DarkBlue	The contestant did not participate in the photo shoot	ANTM, CNTM
Magenta	The contestant won the reward challenge, but did not participate in the photoshoot and was immune from elimination	HNTM
Teal	The contestant did not participate in the photo shoot and was eliminated	ANTM

LightPink	The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two	ANTM, AusNTM, BNTM, CNTM
Cyan	The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two and won the reward challenge	BNTM

DarkGreen	The contestant added into the cast Scouted at a separate audition/Due to a number opening	ANTM, BNLNTM
Chocolate	The contestant was entered as replacement into the competition, but was eliminated	ANTM

LightGreen	The contestant was immune from elimination The contestant was immune from elimination and was invited to be on the judging panel	ANTM, BNTM

DarkViolet	The contestant temporarily withdrew from the competition	AusNTM

Pink	The contestant was called but it doesn't represent their position that week	CNTM
SteelBlue	The contestant won the reward challenge and was called but it doesn't represent their position that week	CNTM
Bisque	The contestant wasn't called but and is still running in the competition	HNTM
Burlywood	The contestant won the 'reward challenge but wasn't called but and is still running in the competition	HNTM

Coral	The contestant was nominated for elimination this week	Spain

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Conflict colors

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Color	Call-out description	Franchise(s)
Gold	The contestant entered the competition, replacing a contestant who quit.	AusNTM
Salmon	The contestant was declared as one of the four finalists in the finale	Spain
Tan	The contestant was re-entered into the competition	AusNTM, HNTM, Israel
SpringGreen	The contestant was immune from elimination and won the reward challenge	AusNTM
DeepPink

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Franchise(s)	Call-out description	Suggestion
	The contestant was immune from elimination	#d0f0c0	springgreen
AusNTM	The contestant entered the competition, replacing a contestant who quit.	Gold
Spain	The contestant was declared as one of the four finalists in the finale	Gold
Many	The contestant was re-entered into the competition	Tan	Salmon	Gold
Netherlands	The contestant was called first and only, but was also elimineted

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Please go to Talk:America's Next Top Model to discuss these colors. ApprenticeFan ^{talk contribs} 02:43, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Top Model around the world new table?

Region/Country	Show name	Network	Winners	Presenter(s)
Afghanistan	Afghanistan's Next Top Model^[1]	Mazar-i-Sharif	Season 1, 2007: Sayahamah Said
Australia	Australia's Next Top Model	FOX8	Season 1, 2005: Gemma Sanderson Season 2, 2006: Eboni Stocks Season 3, 2007: Alice Burdeu Season 4, 2008: Demelza Reveley Season 5, 2009: Tahnee Atkinson Season 6, 2010: Upcoming Season	Erika Heynatz (Season 1-2) Jodhi Meares (Season 3-4) Sarah Murdoch (Season 5-present)
Austria	Austria's Next Topmodel	Puls4	Season 1, 2009: Larissa Marolt Season 2, 2009-2010: Aylin Kösetürk	Lena Gercke (Season 1-present)
Belgium	Topmodel	2BE	Season 1, 2007: Hanne Baekelandt Season 2, 2008: Virginie Bleyaert	Ingrid Seynhaeve (Season 1) An Lemmens (Season 2)
Benelux	Benelux' Next Top Model	2BE, RTL5	Season 1, 2009: Daphne Deckers Season 2, 2010: Upcoming Season	Ingrid Seynhaeve (Season 1)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	OBN Star Model	OBN	Season 1, 2009: Jelena Jugović Season 2, 2010: Vedran Pajo	Dejana Rosuljaš (Season 1-present)
Brazil	Brazil's Next Top Model	SET	Season 1, 2007: Mariana Velho Season 2, 2008: Maíra Vieira Season 3, 2009: Camila Trindade Season 4, 2010-2011: Upcoming Season	Fernanda Motta (Season 1-present)
Canada	Canada's Next Top Model	Citytv(Season 1) CTV(Season 2-present)^[2]	Season 1, 2006: Andrea Muizelaar Season 2, 2007: Rebecca Hardy Season 3, 2009: Meaghan Waller	Tricia Helfer (Season 1) Jay Manuel (Season 2-present)
Caribbean	Caribbean's Next Top Model	CaribVision^[3]	Season 1, 2008: ???	Carla Campbell (Season 1)
Central America	Super Model Centroamérica	BCCA	Season 1, 2007: Lisseth Cáceres	Leonora Jimenez(Season 1)^[4]
China	China's Next Top Model	Dragon TV	Season 1, 2008: Yin Ge Season 2, 2009: Crystal-Meng Yao Season 3, 2010: Current Season	Li Ai (Season 1-present)
Croatia	Hrvatski Top Model	RTL	Season 1, 2008: Sabina Behlić Season 2, 2010: Upcoming Season	Tatjana Jurić (Season 1) Vanja Rupena (Season 2-present)
Denmark	Denmark's Next Top Model	TV3(Season 1-3) Kanal 4(Season 4-present)	Season 1, 2005: Nanna S. Christensen Season 2, 2005: Anna Nørgaard Season 3, 2006: Anna Brændstrup	Anne P (Season 1-3) Caroline Fleming (Season 4-present)
Finland	Suomen huippumalli haussa	Nelonen	Season 1, 2008: Ani Alitalo Season 2, 2009: Nanna Grundfeldt Season 3, 2010: Jenna Kuokkanen	Anne Kukkohovi (Season 1-present)

Proposal to unify the colors

More information Color, Call-out description ...

Color	Call-out description	Franchise(s)
LimeGreen	The contestant won the competition	All
Crimson	The contestant quit the competition	All
DarkRed	The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel	ANTM

LightSteelBlue	The contestant won the reward challenge	All
RoyalBlue	The contestant won two reward challenges	ANTM, BNTM, Greece
Blue	The contestant won four reward challenges	Greece
Purple	The contestant won the reward challenge and was eliminated	All

Violet	The contestant was eliminated (including double/multiple elimination/s and finalists)	All
DeepPink	The contestant was the original eliminee but was saved	BNTM
MediumVioletRed	The contestant was the original eliminee but was saved, and won thereward challenge	ANTM
PaleVioletRed	The contestant was the original eliminee but quit the competition

Yellow	The contestant was CoverGirl of the Week The contestant was voted by the audience as the fan favourite	ANTM, AusNTM
Orange	The contestant was CoverGirl of the Week and won the reward challenge	ANTM
Olive	The contestant was CoverGirl of the Week and was eliminated	ANTM

DarkBlue	The contestant did not participate in the photo shoot	ANTM, CNTM
Magenta	The contestant won the reward challenge, but did not participate in the photoshoot	HNTM
Teal	The contestant did not participate in the photo shoot and was eliminated	ANTM

LightPink	The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two	ANTM, AusNTM, BNTM, CNTM
Cyan	The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two and won the reward challenge	BNTM

DarkGreen	The contestant added into the cast Scouted at a separate audition/Due to a number opening	ANTM, BNLNTM
Chocolate	The contestant was entered as a replacement for another contestant who quit and was eliminated	ANTM
Gold	The contestant entered the competition/entered as a replacement for another contestant who quit	AusNTM, GNTM
Tan	The contestant was re-entered into the competition	AusNTM, GNTM, HNTM, Israel

LightGreen	The contestant was immune from elimination The contestant was immune from elimination and was invited to be on the judging panel	ANTM, BNTM
SpringGreen	The contestant was immune from elimination and won the reward challenge	AusNTM

DarkViolet	The contestant temporarily withdrew from the competition	AusNTM

Pink	The contestant was called but it doesn't represent their position that week	CNTM
SteelBlue	The contestant won the reward challenge and was called but it doesn't represent their position that week	CNTM

Coral	The contestant was nominated for elimination this week	Spain

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Please don't use underlines or bolding in the callout tables. See MOS:BOLD and MOS:BADEMPHASIS.-gadfium 00:04, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Versions

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move, the more concise title already redirects here. Cúchullain ^t/c 19:19, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Top Model series → Top Model – As that title already redirects here. Unreal7 (talk) 15:37, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Oppose Top Model series is more descriptive of the contents of the article. Top Model is quite ambiguous. I see no reason to tie-up the spot (address) Top Model with the series article, even if there is currently no competition for the spot. Articles linked to Top Model series should stay that way. --Bejnar (talk) 21:00, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Not ambiguous. This is the only thing called "top model". Unreal7 (talk) 22:38, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Oppose, too many TV articles on en.wp are titled with the assumption that everyone watches TV, without "series" I could guess it was a TV series, but having "series" makes it a lot easier, "Top Model TV series" or "Top Model franchise" would be even better since, if we go by print sources, this is a category:Media franchises in TV format not a TV series. There is also apparently an unrelated and older Top Model (magazine) that gets 28x GB hits, but that's by the by. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:45, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
If that was the case then Got Talent, Popstars and The Office would all have "series" at the end of their title. Unreal7 (talk) 19:21, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Oppose per above. Not as descriptive, echo the comments of Bejnar. Theo polisme 23:48, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Support The proposed title is concise, unambiguous, and consistent with usage in reliable sources, perfect per WP:AT. It's hard to read IIO's argument as anything but a call for unnecessary disambiguation or forced qualifiers for TV series. --BDD (talk) 19:21, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Revised color table update, 2015

More information Color, Description ...

Color	Description	Franchise(s)
Lime green	The contestant won the competition	All
Tomato	The contestant was eliminated	All
Light green	The contestant won photo of the week	Denmark & Peru
Olive	The contestant won photo of the week and was eliminated	Denmark
Dark red	The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel	All
Brown	The contestant was disqualified	All
Crimson	The contestant quit the competition	All
Light pink	The contestant was originally eliminated, but was saved	All
Light blue	The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two/three/etc	All
Gold	The contestant was immune from elimination	All
N/a	Not available tag used to denote empty slots for episodes with no call-out where an elimination took place. Examples of its use here, here and here.	All

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2601:241:0:EA46:DA5:5E25:D2B4:16D8 (talk) 01:36, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

More information Order, Episodes ...

Order	Episodes
Order	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	Example	Example	N/a	Example	Example	Example	Example Example	Example
2	Example	Example	N/a	Example	Example	Example	Example Example	Example
3	Example	Example	N/a	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
4	Example	Example	N/a	Example	Example	Example	Example
5	Example	Example	N/a	Example	Example	Example
6	Example	Example	N/a	Example	Example
7	Example	Example	N/a	Example	Example
8	Example	Example	N/a	Example	Example
9	Example	Example	Example
10	Example	Example
11	Example
12	Example

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The contestant quit the competition

The contestant won photo of the week

The contestant was eliminated

The contestant was disqualified

The contestant was immune from elimination

The contestant was originally eliminated, but was saved

The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom three

The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel

The contestant won photo of the week and was eliminated

The contestant won the competition

As a side note, I'd like to point out that 'photo of the week' is a problematic color, because it can merge with any other, causing users to come up with countless different and unnecessary combinations.

Revised color table update, 2018

More information Color, Description ...

Color	Description	Franchise(s)
Lime green	The contestant won the competition	All
Tomato	The contestant was eliminated	All
Light green	The contestant won photo of the week	Denmark & Peru
Olive	The contestant won photo of the week and was eliminated	Denmark
Dark red	The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel	All
Black	The contestant was disqualified	All
Crimson	The contestant quit the competition	All
Light pink	The contestant was originally eliminated, but was saved	All
Light blue	The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two/three/etc	All
Gold	The contestant was immune from elimination	All
N/a	Not available tag used to denote empty slots for episodes with no call-out where an elimination took place. Examples of its use here, here and here.	All

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J4lambert (talk) 14:59, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Flags

In this table, some editors add flags for winners of nationality or heritage foreign to the countries of the competitions they won. However, according to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, not all of these are appropriate for Wikipedia articles.

There are a number of guidelines in the Wikipedia Manual of Style that talk about flags, such as WP:MOSFLAG and WP:WORDPRECEDENCE. As it says in the latter of these, Flag icons may be relevant in some subject areas, where the subject actually represents that country, government, or nationality. So these flags are appropriate for use for winners of competitions such as Africa's Next Top Model, where contestants represent their countries. For competitions in which contestants do not represent their countries—it's simply where they came from, or they are descended from that country—it is not appropriate to use the flags. Linguist111 (talk) 14:37, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Actually, in no way does an individual participating in a reality show pass the criteria where the subject actually represents that country, government, or nationality, this would only apply to officially sanctioned representation, so use of flags would fail MOS:FLAG even in the case mentioned above. There are many other reasons at the guideline not to use flags in these cases. --Rob Sinden (talk) 13:01, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

You don't appear to be familiar with Asia's Next Top Model. As I said before, it is not a televison show per se. It is a real modelling competition where contestants represent their countries. I don't see how, in these articles, the use of these flags fails MOS:FLAG. Linguist ^Moi? Moi. 19:05, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

They're not representing their countries in any official capacity. They're representing themselves. --Rob Sinden (talk) 09:01, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

In tennis championships, contestants don't compete in teams based on their countries, they compete individually. Essentially they represent themselves. And still flags are used there. Nothing gained, information lost through removal of flags here. Linguist ^Moi? Moi. 11:39, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

We're not discussing whether it is appropriate for tennis articles to use flags, we're discussing whether it's appropriate to use them for contestants in a TV reality show. There's a massive difference between the two. --Rob Sinden (talk) 12:23, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

In tennis, a player is registered with a national federation, itself a member of the International Tennis Federation, which is what the flags represent, even though they play individually. This tennis nationality determines which country they represent in international competition, such as the Davis Cup and Fed Cup. It's not the same as this show at all. oknazevad (talk) 17:18, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Non-NTM Franchise Shows

Serbian version?

Call-out table colors

Conflict colors

Need colors

Top Model around the world new table?

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Proposal to unify the colors

Versions

Requested move

Revised color table update, 2015

Revised color table update, 2018

Flags

List of international versions

Exclusion of names in top model tables

Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2017

Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2017

Semi-protected edit request on 21 December 2017

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