Talk:Taraji P. Henson

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She had a small recurring role on Sister Sister as one of their friends. 69.209.204.54 (talk) 02:01, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Like, Wow...

What, there aren't more comments of her here? Oh, well. In the main article, her work in "Talk To Me!", opposite Don Cheadle should be mentioned as she gave what most would consider a good "star turn" with her character. Ohterwise, I swear, this woman is the spitting image of Motown Records singer, the late Tami Tarrell(Like, wow! What an idea for a turbulent-themed biopic). But then again, she has an ethnic archetypal look of certain "southern" African-american. Mmmm! I sure do hope her age at this point doesn't work against her. It's so frustrating that Hollywood, until very recently, and with exceptions, have refused to cast many actresses when they hit forty, opting instead to cast these-absolutely-no talent teenagers. Don't these moguls know that the old "casting couch" has long been thrown out by the movie-going crowd in favor of the "cougar-recliner" preference of older, seasoned, and well-rounded actresses? (Yes, it's more fun with a "recliner", whether one is respectfully younger or not!) --69.119.72.223 (talk) 00:51, 24 September 2011 (UTC)Veryverser

What does this have to do about improving the article? Wikipedia is not a forum. --CutOffTies (talk) 03:06, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Uh, I don't you think thearticle has been improved by inquiring why Ms. Henson's singular, "break-out" effort in the movie TALK TO ME was not cited? Now, listen, "cut-Off-Lies", just because one is not as urbane nor logically formal as most self-professed "Wiki" anal-ylists, doesn't mean that one nonetheless has information useful to the main topic. I have yet to hear from you on the assertions I made about the pioneering Hensons(Matt, and Josiah). While you may have objections about the former's accomplishments, first you must be reminded that these African-Americans strove, and succeeded under the crippling government-sanctioned, legal conditions of slavery, "Reconstruction", Jim Crow-Southern Revauchism (breaking the laws of post-war U.s. Constittional Amendments,) and the ubiquitous, brutal Segregation, which did not end effectively until 1968-1970A.D. That being said-for your reminder-Africanos, even under these 'nazi-like' WASP prejuducial conditions have achieved greatness in every field competitive with whites. It is only left for you and I to unearth the lies, eqivocations, defamation, and deliberate theft of dignity of these people. Now, would you puh-lease do Ms. Henson a solid and insert the complete info of her accomplishments. Some quotes from her would only add favorable curiosity to all new comers of this page who are not familiar with her, as I wasn't until the movie TALK TO ME! Thank You. --68.198.216.168 (talk) 04:57, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Veryverser

Maroon5/Coldplay mention

I removed this after it was brought up at BLP/N, albeit briefly, by Biwom. Biwom didn't state exactly what was going on, however I imagine it's over the inclusion of the Maroon5/Coldplay material. Offhand this looks like it has two issues with it.

The first is that it's written in a fairly salacious manner, using the phrasing "Taraji Henson embarrassed herself on Instagram once again". This type of phrasing smacks of tabloid-ism, which is not what Wikipedia is for. The second issue is that I really can't see where this would warrant a mention in Wikipedia. It looks to be a case of mistaken identity, something that's actually pretty common. It looks like it was covered for about two days... and then it pretty much dropped out of the public eye. There was a flurry of coverage, but most of it is just people poking fun at her for doing something silly on social media. Stuff like that happens often and if it's a slow news day or someone is particularly notable, it'll get more short term coverage than most. There's little reason to include this unless it has long term repercussions on her career and I can see nothing to substantiate that this is one of those cases.

I also see nothing to substantiate claims that Biwom is working on behalf of Henson, so Scaraway, please don't make any remarks like that in the future. That can be seen as an WP:ADHOMINEM attack and an assumption of bad faith. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:52, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

• Basically, Wikipedia doesn't cover everything that a person does in the course of their career and life. Minor incidents like this are of little encyclopedic value for Wikipedia's purposes. Getting a ton of coverage in a very short period of time does not always mean that something warrants inclusion. Also to emphasize this, even if the material was to be included it would have to be written in a way that does not play up the content. Even if this was included it'd warrant about 1-2 sentences max, along the lines of "On February 7, 2016 Henson mistakenly identified Coldplay as Maroon 5 on Instagram, while watching the halftime show during Super Bowl 50. Henson later apologized for the mistake, stating that she had been drinking." That's really all that needs saying and honestly, I don't know that it's really all that important. It's not like she said something potentially contentious or important. Drunk people do silly things all the time. Being a celebrity doesn't really make it all that more newsworthy. Now if she'd been making a steady stream of bizarre statements ala Tila Tequila that gained sustained coverage, then that might be worthwhile to add. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:02, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Tokyogirl79 for coming here. Beyond the unencyclopedic tone, my main BLP concern is that "her gaffe was the result of drinking too much" is not backed by any of the provided sources. I might not have a good grasp of American English and culture though, so maybe I don't understand what "drinking too much 'Kool-Aid'" is supposed to mean. From my perspective, if the source says "John Doe admitted he accidentally killed a baby raccoon" and you write in Wikipedia "John Doe admitted he accidentally killed a baby", then you are not exactly truthful. Once again, I might be mistaken. Regards, Biwom (talk) 11:13, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

• Good catch. I didn't even really look at the sources too closely to catch that. Offhand the phrase could be her coyly referring to drinking, but it's vague enough to where saying she was drinking would be original research. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:36, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

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por que omitiram o aut e só citaram o mit ela pode ter mais origem genetica de outros locais mas so citaram a ponta matriarcal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 179.154.71.235 (talk) 08:03, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

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