Talk:Roxanne Shante

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Date of Birth[edit]

The text says "Lolita Shanté Gooden (born March 8, 1970)" and the box says "Born November 9, 1969" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810D:1500:AC8:4810:8A76:4007:ED6E (talk) 20:50, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The 1970 date is correct -- will fix. Clevelander96 (talk) 21:45, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vegan Ice Cream[edit]

"She is a vegan and owns Hip-Hop Ices ice cream parlor in Queens." That seems a bit contradictory, particularly since those two statements comprise one sentence. Does her parlor only sell dairy-free ice cream? 169.233.8.199 (talk) 03:58, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not contradictory at all - she SELLS ice cream, who's saying that she EATS it?. She could own a butcher shop and still be a strict veggie, as long as she doesn't sample her own merchandise. Vonbontee (talk) 08:29, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Her Career[edit]

According to the Beef II DVD, when interviewed about the UTFO battle, it never involved the actual group. According to her and Marly Marl, it was entirely their idea. In other words, I don't think UTFO had any idea, or were involved, in her career. Richard Corey 16:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Real Roxanne[edit]

The Real Roxanne is a different artist than Dr. Shanté. Peace. (MuzikJunky 22:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Apparently Shante has a myspace page Ishmael Rufus 20:20, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I really doubt Roxanne's myspace page is actually *her* myspace page. I think it exists to provide a place to stuff spam messages; just look at the comments. Not an actively-maintained site, not a Doctor's site. 207.81.99.59 —Preceding comment was added at 04:03, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Doctor?[edit]

what is up with that? even if she is a doctor, it has no reason to be in the article title. Es-won 15:27, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anyways, I changed it, and cleaned up and added to the article. Much better. Shante you rule. Es-won 17:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Someone moved the article back to "Dr. ...", but I've changed it again. There are Wikipedia standards about article naming, and the relevant one here is WP:NAMEPEOPLE. There's simply no good reason to make an exception here. We don't name articles about presidents, kings, or most clergy with their titles, with a very few exceptions. Almost all doctors, such as Michael E. DeBakey are listed under their name only, without honorific; really famous physicians also have a redirect (Dr. Michael E. DeBakey is a redirect to the main article), but famous PhDs do not (Albert Einstein but no Dr. Albert Einstein). Studerby 21:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PhD?[edit]

Their seems to be no record of a Roxanne Shanté OR Lolita Shanté Gooden on http://www.op.nysed.gov/opsearches.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.45.76 (talk) 01:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a Doctor?[edit]

It looks like she actually never went to any of this schooling, and the link to cornell didn't show her, so I don't know why it's there or how this started. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.136.6.20 (talk) 19:00, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What a bizarre story; what originally was a feel-good story about how Shanté got her doctorate turns out to be at best, a misunderstanding, and at worst, an elaborate hoax. I hope this all gets sorted out.--The lorax (talk) 04:21, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Her name is Lolita, not Latasha.[edit]

I’ve known her longer than ANYONE besides her mother……. 174.215.150.107 (talk) 20:47, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't matter what you think you know. We rely on reliable, published sources here and all biographical content must be verifiable. Your appearing out of nowhere and proposing this change does not make it verifiable. Provide a citation of a published, reliable source and we'll talk then. General Ization ^Talk 20:51, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The change to "Latasha" was unsourced and appears to be vandalism. It has been undone. General Ization ^Talk 20:55, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]