Talk:Diahann Carroll

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Contents 1 Gay Icon Project 2 Also, she (Diahann Carroll) was a guest on the Judy Garland show. 3 Nominations 4 When Is a Favor Not Really a Favor?

[edit] Gay Icon Project

In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:16, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Also, she (Diahann Carroll) was a guest on the Judy Garland show.

Also, she (Diahann Carroll) was a guest on the Judy Garland show.

[edit] Nominations

i really don't see the point in highlighting all the awards she did not receive. i don't think it's very complementary at to a have page full of losses for obscure rolls few have heard of. with all due respect to the efforts of editor, i'd like to see them gone. --emerson7 | Talk 03:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] When Is a Favor Not Really a Favor?

I have provided truthful and accurate information about Miss Caroll's personal life, going back to the 70s, and unfortunately, I was a grown man even then, and so remembered it. The four citations I have now provided are: the very tame and neutral answers.com; a very tame but pro-Diahann unofficial fan page; the unassailably neutral hollywood.com site, and finally, an article from the New York Times, not exactly the National Gossip-Tattler. All I have written is true and backed up. I did, however, remove the part about Diahann having met Freddie Glusman when she went to his store to purchase a bathing suit, because I couldn't find anything to back it up, but you bet it's true, I was in Vegas at the time and remembered it, and it was all over the papers and on TV. Still, I removed it, and everything that is left is backed up. Still, I think it will be removed because somebody thinks a black woman can't have an exciting, complicated life. And by making her story more bland, this is somehow doing her a favor. This is the impression I get, and I disagree. But whether my instincts are on or off the mark, what I have written is truthful, accurate, neutral, and cited, all firmly within the parameters of Wiki rules. When someone removes it and puts the old sanitized version back, can that person say the same regarding abiding by the rules? User talk:Professor Von Pie 02:49, 7 March 2008