Talk:Hoda Kotb

message: This article should be updated with some relevant information. She is not the co-host of the 4th hour of the Today Show on NBC with Kathy Lee Gifford. Also it was revealed on today's episode (April 9th, 2008) that she was recently divorced on Feb 14th, 2008. Not sure how to reference it or if it is relevant.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.91.48.14 (talk) 17:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: Hoda spoke today at Virginia Tech's commencement, and mentioned that she is a breast cancer survivor. I haven't looked for sources to cite here for this information, but I think it's worth mentioning. horsedreamer 06:36, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breast Cancer 

message: I always thought that she was haf white and half African.  I am still correct on that, but why call her an arab woman?  Just because Egypt considers itself an arab country does not mean that she is an arab as opposed to an African.  You don't call other African states that are in the arab league arabs like Somali, Sudanese etc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.88.6 (talk) 15:27, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Here family is from Egypt, which is indeed an Arab nation. Her grandparents and parents spoke Arabic, the language of Egypt. That makes her an Arab. Egypt is also in Africa so that would make her an African, I guess. Furthermore about half of all Sudanese consider themselves Arabs. One can be African and Arab.
72.89.212.216 (talk) 22:46, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Arabic is a language. English is a language too! Hoda speaks English. So she is English? No, sxhe isn't. Queen Elizabeth is English. Hoda Ktob is of negro origin as anybody can clearly see on TV. 93.219.185.67 (talk) 18:31, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arab Woman? 

message: I have just updated the page with a source that talks about her being born in Norman before moving to West Virginia for her childhood, as well as combined the Breast Cancer section with the Biography, as an additional section seemed unneeded and superflous for the amount of information that was there. Jutm543 (talk) 15:43, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates 

message: What about the book she wrote called  Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee.
I feel that needs to be included.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.66.60.190 (talk) 03:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the book she wrote? 

message: She is American.  She was born in America, she has been categorized as American people of Egyptian descent, American television reporters and correspondents, American television news anchors.  She has not been categorized as Egyptian people of American descent, Egyptian television reporters and correspondents, Egyptian television news anchors.  If you can show that she is an Egyptian, and not an American than do it.  But all sources state that she is born in America, lives in America, not one source indicates that she anything other than American Citizenship, and therefor she is American.Racingstripes (talk) 02:05, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather than arguing back and forth like this, it would be better to examine similar articles (Wendie Malick seems to be an exact parallel, but it's only one case) and match the treatment here with the prevailing treatment elsewhere. When I looked over the relevant category, American people of Egyptian descent, my impression was that while infoboxes occasionally included a "Nationality" field, none that I saw included an "Ethnicity" field. I think that identifying her ethnicity simply as "American" is plainly inconsistent with the way Wikipedia treats other persons; I don't believe I've seen another article where an American-born person whose parents were both nationals of the same foreign state was identified as having "American" ethnicity. This isn'y a new question or one that calls for going back to square one, but a situation where the relevant Wikipedia practice should be followed. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 16:59, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So we agree that the "American ethnicity" thing is a non sense, right?  Norum 03:34, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Saying American Ethnicity is nonsense is highly offensive.  I don't believe that calling people's ethnicity nonsense is at all civil.  Not to mention that there is a wikipedia article about american ethnicity.  If you really believe that, why have not nominated that article for deletion?Fodient (talk) 20:42, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  unless the person is an Indian or an Eskimo (or of that heritaget), then nobody can be said to have emrican ethnicity.  If you parents of grandparents came from, lets say, Italy, then your ethnicity is Italian.  Hoda's parents are Egyptians, therefore making her ethnicity Egyptian. Norum 23:43, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Who are you to decide someone's ethnicity?  If someone's parents were born in Italy, then say their child, who was born in America and only speaks an American dilect Eglish, went to Italy, the people Italy would laugh at him if he claimed that he was Italian.  Especially when that person orders a Cappucino after his dinner.  Have you never heard of American Cuisine, I'm sure Indian's weren't eating hot dogs and hamburgers before Christopher Colombus showed up.  With your logic Indians and the Eskimos can't call themselves American either, they're actually Asian.206.212.146.206 (talk) 00:24, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

text: If American is not an ethnicity, then wikipedia wouldnt have pre-set info boxes for amercican ancestry or american descent but they do exist.  See Wikipedia:userboxes/Location/United StatesRacingstripes (talk) 03:36, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Userboxes are intended to allow users to make various statements about themselves, and do not indicate that those statements are encyclopedic or factually valid.   Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 13:29, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnicity

message: Muslim, Copt or other Christian, Spiritual but not religious, what? 76.180.168.166 (talk) 22:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: In 2006, 70.173.213.110 was the first to add that weird pronunciation: (pronounced KOT-bee). Ever since, it was edited many times, till it became , which I suspect. I need something citing that pronunciation, maybe a video clip. It is most likely pronounced as . Anyway, I tagged the -bee pronunciation and added the Egyptian Arabic pronunciation, as well as removed the Arabic transliteration which was very misleading about how it is pronounced by native Egyptians. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 05:00, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  English pronunciation 

message: I noticed User:Coupdeforce redirected the page Hoda to this article on June 6, 2013, stating in the edit summary, "There was no page here, so I made a redirect to Hoda Kotb who seems to be the only notable Hoda." Upon doing a simple Wikipedia search, however, several other Hodas turned up, such as Hoda Abdel-Hamid, Hoda Ablan, Hoda Barakat, Hoda Lattaf, and Hoda Saber. While it is true that most people searching for Hoda on the English Wikipedia would be searching for Hoda Kotb, we must at least create a disambiguation page for all the other Hodas. MB298 (talk) 18:34, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out, and for mentioning those other Hodas.  I was able to create a disambiguation page for "Hoda", and added them along with the other Hodas I found. Coupdeforce (talk) 02:42, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoda 

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