Talk:Dancing with the Stars

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Draft:List of Dancing with the Stars participants

Please improve and submit Draft:List of Dancing with the Stars participants. The list has been created after this category discussion was closed as listify and delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:31, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Dancing with the stars dance charts

hello I'm not trying to disrupt anything, but I feel that taking out the green and red for highest and lowest scores is unnecessary. It was fine the way it was before Bgsu98 changed it. It felt wrong, I did read the policies. I just wanted to change them back. Thank you Vegawolfdog (talk) 05:39, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Name change

Since Britain invented this programme, this article should be renamed as Strictly Come Dancing. Yes. RyanPLB (talk) 19:54, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 9 November 2025

The following is a closed 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:42, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

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Strictly Come Dancing (franchise) → Dancing with the Stars – Article was moved without discussion in April 2025, using WP:TVFL as justification. This is highly problematic. The franchise is, in many of its iterations (including arguably its two most notable, Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars (American TV series)) English-speaking, so the guidance that we should default to the native title if the show has not been widely released in the English-speaking world is not relevant. Instead we must look to: where different English-speaking countries use different titles, use the most common one and give the native and alternate English title(s) afterwards, which isn't a clear cut matter in this case between the two titles.

There are three key reasons why I believe Dancing with the Stars is the most appropriate name here:

1. The WP:COMMONNAME question: As a franchise, there is one (Chinese) version of the show that adopted the Strictly Come Dancing name (before later switching to Dancing with the Stars); all other adaptations (and all English adaptations of the original format) take either DWTS or an alternative title. There is evidently widespread English-language recognition of the DWTS name, likely above Strictly Come Dancing outside of the UK considering the wider travel of DWTS versions.
2. WP:NATURAL disambiguation: The Dancing with the Stars name removes the need for parenthetical disambiguation, making it a preferential choice in the event a single common name isn't deemed apparent.
3. The history: Strictly Come Dancing has this source, showing that at least initially there was a level of independence in the format's international establishment from the BBC series, as it was sold by producer/creator Richard Hopkins alone. This situates Dancing with the Stars as the international format Hopkins established from Strictly Come Dancing. U-Mos (talk) 13:54, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

• Support per nom, "Strictly Come Dancing" is only used now in the UK. I do not understand the April reasoning at all, as "Dancing with the Stars" is not a foreign-language name/show and is the more common name in the English speaking world except the United Kingdom only. Even the BBC source cited in this article used DWTS when discussing the format, and only Strictly for the UK version. DankJae 21:04, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
• Support The franchise is "Dancing with the Stars" developed separately from Strictly Come Dancing to be internationally marketable, with the latter simply being the progenitor format; itself a 'celebrity' revival of the original Come Dancing. -- Bacon Noodles (talk • contribs • uploads) 11:10, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
• Support per nom's thorough rationale. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 23:09, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

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