Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black women in comedy


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  18:51, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Black women in comedy

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The information about and achievements of these women are best presented in their own articles. Too broad of a scope to merit its own article. pinktoebeans (talk) 11:27, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete There may be a notable topic that can be covered in an encyclopedic way, but this is not the way to do it, so for a start we need to apply TNT. I also wonder if this might be better titled Category:African-American women in comedy. As the title stands we need to consider this on a worldwide scale, keeping in mind that more "black" women live in Africa than the US, and that there are huge numbers in Brazil, the Caribbean, and noticeable numbers in various other parts of Latin America, the UK, and other places. Plus this would get into the race/ethnicity divide. If people feel American black women in comedey, black women in American Comedy, American Black women in Comedy or any ofr even American Black women in American comedy is a better title so be it, but in this encyclopedia we cannot have the title as is and not undertake to consider this on a global scope. Also we nee to be clear on weather we are covering black women as poeple appearing in comedy, or the concept of the black woman in comedy, the later would have to cover portrayals of black women done by people who were not black (in the US, in China and probably elsewhere) and people who were not women (Tyler Perry is clearly a figure in comedy, and one of his roles in the woman Medea (he also does at least 2 male roles in many of his productions). I am sure if I tried hard enough I could find the counter example of a black woman by her own self definition who was light skinned enough that she was cast in comedic roles that were clearly meant to not be those of a black woman (I believe there was a woman of mixed black/white parentage who was once cast in a role that was explicitly Armenian-American but it was not a comedy role, but I am sure we could find something along those lines somewhere at some point).John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:39, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. We have Category:African-American female comedians, if this is intended to match the same scope then it should be retitled and edited to conform. Otherwise I agree with JPL that an implied global scope makes it too broad or vague. postdlf (talk) 15:42, 19 March 2021 (UTC)


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