Talk:Taraji P. Henson

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message: 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)
replies: text: What does this have to do about improving the article? Wikipedia is not a forum. --CutOffTies (talk) 03:06, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: I removed this after it was brought up at BLP/N, albeit briefly, by . 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 , 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: *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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