Talk:The X Factor (British TV series) series 7

Auditions table

Is the table necessary now as it is only repeating information given in prose? It might be a neat way to arrange it but repetition is quite bad and prose is generally preferred. AnemoneProjectors 23:27, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Don't call Cheryl "Tweedy".

I feel that both on the X Factor articles and on Cheryl's wikipedia page people are going to start saying Cheryl Tweedy instead of CHERYL COLE. Just because Simon Cowell introduced her as Cheryl Tweedy doesn't change a thing, plus he was joking when he said it. I see that people have sense to call her Cole on this article, so until she confirms that she's changed her name or not LEAVE IT AS IT IS. I'm posting this before this all starts. On the live shows if she is announced as Tweedy, her name will still be CHERYL COLE so leave it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.176.71.61 (talk) 21:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

There is no need to ask people to stop doing something that they haven't started doing, and especially no need to shout about something that hasn't happened, you seem pretty annoyed for no reason. Nobody has been changing the X Factor pages, but there is a long discussion at Talk:Cheryl Cole. AnemoneProjectors 21:56, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I just wanted to get the message across so that people wouldn't keep alternating and changing Cole to Tweedy to Cole back and forth, and glad to know nobody has changed it, I just wanted to say in advance. My sincere apologies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.176.71.61 (talk) 15:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Change to Format

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/3068559/Simon-Cowell-shakes-up-X-Factor-format-as-theres-so-much-talent.html

Not the most reliable source—granted. However:

• Change to category age boundaries
• That there's rumoured to be 16 acts that make it to the live shows (I've heard of this before – from what I understand – to avoid there being categories overly stronger than the others, there's likely to be one act from each category assigned to each judge... meaning, each judge will get a Boy, a Girl, an Over, and a Group. Thus, this avoids the age-old problem of getting lumped with the Groups, or whichever category proves to be the weakest that year.
• That Cole and Minogue will get 8 acts to choose from at their judges' houses stage... as they weren't present for the boot camp round (and in Minogue's case, the auditions as well). Cowell and Walsh will get the standard 6 acts to choose from as they were present throughout.

Thanks – Wiki edit Jonny (talk) 08:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

It's been confirmed by Digital Spy as well. But all we know for sure is the age boundaries have changed and there will be 8 acts for each judge in judge's homes. Your second and third points are not mentioned in either source (even though some are rumours that have been going around for months and months). AnemoneProjectors 11:02, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Autotune?

Do you think we should add some information that X Factor is now using AutoTune? Slrkn54 (talk) 22:39, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

If there's a reliabe source for it. I imagine there will be complaints. AnemoneProjectors 22:40, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

I have at least 3 sources! Go on the Dubs! (credits to ANEMONEPROJECTORS for the idea!)