Talk:List of Drag Race contestants

Problem with notes (2014)

I've done this before in other articles and it always works, so I don't understand what I'm doing wrong this time; but I added two new notes to the graphs to explain Carmen Carrera's name change and one to the RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race|All-Stars graph to explain why even though Jujubee and Shannel were not on the same team, how they placed both 3rd & 4th as one.

The problem is that I changed the note numbers of preexisting notes to keep the numbers of notes as they appear in the article in order, but now, even though I've changed the numbers in both places to match, when you click the note in the article it directs you to the wrong note in the notes section.

• Age¹ ---links to---> ^1 Contestants' ages

• Jaycen Edwards² ---links to---> ^2 Sonique entered-

• Christopher Roman³ ---links to---> ^2 Sonique entered-

• 6th, 5th⁴ ---links to---> ^4 Carmen was origin

• 9th, 5th⁵ ---links to---> ^4 Carmen was origin

• 11th/10th⁶ ---links to---> <nowhere>

• 4th/3rd⁷ ---links to---> <nowhere>

I can tell from the lack of comments on this talk page people must not read this page very often, but if you read this, or just notice the problem yourself, and know how to fix it without removing the needed notes I added all together, please do.

Thank You, --LurganShmith (talk) 01:39, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Biographies of living persons violations

We absolutely cannot make personal-life claims about contestants' private lives, including their purported civilian names, without authoritative reliable-source citations. It's a violation of one of Wikipedia's most stringent policies, WP:BLP. That means a credible, published citation for footnoting, and not your or my claim of personal knowledge. Making personal claims about living people without RS citing is a bright-line violation. Note that fan sites, wikia (including IMdb), personal blogs, Reddit pages, etc., are not allowed as reference citations. --Tenebrae (talk) 01:37, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Kelly Mantle is genderfluid

there should probably be mention of their gender-fluid identity in the top section which lists transgender contestants. Beetlejuicex3 (talk) 15:38, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

References

Real name collumn

Should we just get rid of the real name column? It is a constant BLP violation area and the queens real names are almost never referenced on the show. What does it add to this list?--Found5dollar (talk) 19:44, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

All for eliminating it. It's an extraneous detail as regards the show, and anyone can find out such offscreen biographical details on the drag queens' own Wikipedia pages. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:44, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

If there are no other comments or objections on this by the new year I will delete the column. This is where we find consensus and the few people watching this article seem to agree.--Found5dollar (talk) 17:52, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Hometowns

There is presently no reference for anyone's hometown, and they diverge from the city listed during confessionals during their seasons. They also quite often differ from the Wikipedia pages for the individual seasons. I think for simplicity's sake they should all follow whichever city was listed on their confessional. For example, Morgan McMichael's hometown is listed as "Mira Loma, CA" in S2 and as "Los Angeles, CA" in AS3. I'm not sure where "Loch Lomond, Scotland, UK" came from. Is there consensus to use the city listed during their confessionals? Umimmak (talk) 03:54, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

• I would be fine with cities listed in the confessionals, but there must me a series of newspaper articles for each season listing each contestant and their hometown. I just haven't been able to find that.--Found5dollar (talk) 21:06, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

he or she for Drag Queens that identify as male.

In this article there are at least two cases where a female pronoun is used for a Drag Queen where the Actor identifies as male: Raja (Sutan Amrull) and Mayhem Miller (Dequan Johnson). I think the male pronoun should be used here. Note, I am *not* including Eureka O'Hara who identifies as gender fluid and it is unclear which pronoun David Huggard prefers. If you think this should be moved to the WikiProject, I will do so.Naraht (talk) 18:32, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

2 major issues

hi All, there are 2 major issues with this article that need addressing. I can make the changes my self but want to make sure the is consensus before I do. they are:

1. The colors used to denote "returned to the competition" and "Miss Congeniality" do not conform to accessibility guidelines for colorblind users. Green and Red should never be used to show information as they are indistinguishable to some users. per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Color and Help:Using colours#Schemes for color-blind readers I suggest switching the green for "returned to the competition" to a shade of blue.
2. the horizontal rows stating the season breaks the usage of the table. When sorting any column it is now impossible to tell what season any contestant was on. This change was instituted in 2018 with this edit. I suggest going back to how it was before where each contestant has listed the season they were on. This follows the format of multiple featured lists of tv show contestants including List of Survivor (American TV series) contestants, List of American Idol finalists, List of The Apprentice (American TV series) candidates, List of Big Brother (American TV series) houseguests, and List of Project Runway contestants.

--Found5dollar (talk) 15:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Dagger? Key?

I see a dagger is being used for Chi Chi, presumably to note she is deceased. Do we need a key to note the dagger's meaning? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:26, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

"referred to as" notes

This list has so many "referred to as" notes. Are these really necessary?

Can this not just be a list of contestants as they are known on the show? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:16, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Contestants on the most seasons

The Holislay episode was not a season; therefore, it should not count as one as the article suggests. It was one episode to promote Ru's Christmas album and wasn't even a competitive episode since every queen was crowned a winner. 2600:8800:4680:1380:6983:CB81:A35:5677 (talk) 20:43, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

i agree with this assessment and since no one has expressed disagreement here, i’m editing that paragraph Griffindaly (talk) 19:11, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 17 August 2022

List of RuPaul's Drag Race contestants → List of Drag Race contestants – This list currently covers all of Drag Race (franchise), not just the American series RuPaul's Drag Race. --Another Believer _(Talk) 00:21, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

• Support for reasons given.Naraht (talk) 01:03, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
• Support as well. Griffindaly (talk) 20:25, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
• Agree with the nomination, supporting. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 19:31, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
• Support proposed move Tajaditas^(talk) 04:41, 21 August 2022 (UTC)