Talk:Sasheer Zamata

A fact from Sasheer Zamata appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 February 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Sasheer Zamata is the first female black Saturday Night Live cast member hired since the addition of Maya Rudolph?

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More controversy

According to my sources, the controversy was brewing before the Kerry Washington episode.

your "sources"? this is a self-evident fact, given that the kerry washington ep was RESPONDING to it. how could it possibly be otherwise? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.172.25.98 (talk) 13:51, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday Night Live begins harvesting annual crop of new female cast members Mar 29, 2012: "Other performers who have not been considered: Black women."
Kenan Thompson thinks Saturday Night Live just hasn't seen any black women who are ready for the cast. Oct 15, 2013
Kerry Washington will host Saturday Night Live, fixing another scandal Oct 16, 2013
Saturday Night Live held an audition just for black females Dec 12, 2013
Saturday Night Live says it will add a black female cast member in January, so that very quickly solves that. Dec 13, 2013
Saturday Night Live has officially added its first black female cast member in years Jan 6, 2014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vossman (talk • contribs) 3:23, 7 January 2014

Talk AFTER the Template Boxes, People.

FTFY. 75.141.15.56 (talk) 05:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sasheer Moore name

Do we have a reliable source that Sasheer Moore and Sasheer Zamata are the same person? The "Sasheer Moore" name was added by this set of edits on 2014-01-08 by Wikipedical (talk · contribs), using a 2009 article in Time Out New York, which uses the name "Sasheer Moore" but doesn't say anything about the name "Zamata" at all. I've found a few other sources that connect the two names but they're all from January 2014, meaning that it could be that they got the information from this Wikipedia article instead. Although it seems quite reasonable that two black women with the first name "Sasheer" and associated with the Upright Citizens Brigade could actually be the same person despite different surnames, it's such a basic piece of biographical information that it ought to have direct WP:RS explaining that (and how) she has used different surnames. Also, I've removed the MyLife link as a source; it doesn't say anything except that a "Sasheer Moore" is a certain age and from Brooklyn, NY, and MyLife is that infamous site that blew ads all over the Internet claiming that "Someone is looking for you" then charging you to find out who (which was probably nobody). --Closeapple (talk) 19:56, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hmmm. no one was ever looking for ME. i feel left out!

Ya. -- Wikipedical (talk) 01:03, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

UVA massacre

this is the first prominent alum/celeb i know of to have been at UVA in 2007. i am curious if she was present for the shooting, and whether any interviewers have ever asked her about it.

so far finding none, but. 209.172.25.98 (talk) 13:57, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SNL Women of Color

It is listed that Sasheer is the first woman of color since Maya Rudolph, but Nasim Pedrad was also on SNL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1c0:5500:8cac:9cf3:a3d5:8911:a882 (talk) 2015-11-07

I've removed the following unsourced, unclear, and partially-redundant sentence:

She was promoted to repertory status for Season 41, the first woman of color credited as such since the departure of Maya Rudolph.

First, it was unsourced, which is the root of most problems on Wikipedia: If someone used a Wikipedia:Reliable source, these problems usually wouldn't happen because someone would have had to think about what the source said. Second, it used the phrase "of color", which is more about politically correctness than about precision, and, like WP:EUPHEMISM warned about, lead to the third problem, which is that some editors consider Nasim Pedrad to be "of color", and yet the person who added it was reverted as "nonsense". Also, the sentence seemed to be designed to bang on the same point as the paragraph above it, which already talks about exactly the same two people in the context of Zamata's hiring in the first place. So, I've removed the sentence causing the problem. Per WP:PROVEIT, it's the job of the person adding the claim to prove the claim entirely with citations that verify the entire claim. --Closeapple (talk) 00:13, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Star Trek reference not found

The crystal mentioned on Star Trek was spelled Sahsheer with an extra 'h'.

To add to article

Basic information to add to this article: 1) the origin of her middle name, "Zamata," and 2) when and why she dropped her last name and began using her middle name as her last name. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 23:19, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Restored photo

I generally make it a policy never to restore a photo I took if it's removed. In this case, I missed that it happened by a couple years and it seems like a pretty clear case, so I went ahead and did it. If controversial, go ahead and undo. The angle/expression is IMO better in the current infobox image, but most importantly it seems like we'd want to have an image of a comedian while they're on stage being a comedian whenever possible, right? YMMV. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 02:41, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]