Talk:Robin Roberts (newscaster)

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The following URL listed below is an on the record interview with Robin Roberts that has been up for months. Please make note this real content and not spam.

thesportsinterview.com/robinroberts.htm Robin Roberts interview —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.231.128.61 (talk) 00:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, it may well be an interview, but that does not mean links to the site can be spammed across Wikipedia. You have been warned, on several IP talk pages, and this URL has a history of spam (and spam warnings) that seems to have begun with User:SportsInt in early 2007. Please stop adding the links, as you will just end up being blocked. Thank you. --Ckatz^chat_spy 00:31, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Ditched the wig?

Under the section about her health it says- Roberts ditched the wig. I changed it to read Roberts stopped wearing the wig. I'm sorry but ditched sounds like slang.--70.157.42.133 (talk) 02:43, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Religous views?

I remember her talking about her faith a few times... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.165.163.105 (talk) 03:27, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Will there ever be a time when this approach of saying a person is the "first" this or that or the other thing disappears from descriptions? I say this as the first tall openly hetero male with green eyes to post here, so please honor my breakthrough. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.49.27.38 (talk) 16:46, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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Requested move 23 July 2016

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The result of the move request was: Not Moved Mike Cline (talk) 12:10, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

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• Robin Roberts (newscaster) → Robin Roberts
• Robin Roberts → Robin Roberts (disambiguation)

– Robin Roberts the newscaster is WP:PRIMARY, therefore, should be at the dab name. The newscaster receives 1,179 views per day, the baseball player receives 113 views per day, and the signer receives 8 views per day. See the statistics here [[1]]. She is also WP:PRIMARY in Google search. ^Ḉɱ̍ 2nd anniv. 21:44, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

• Neutral Per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, I see the newscaster having the same long-term significance as the baseball player, who is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A Google Books search on "'robin roberts' baseball" (10,500) is on par with "'robin roberts' -baseball" (11,100). However, it's clear the newscaster is the overwhelming primary topic as far as current usage.—Bagumba (talk) 08:30, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose - Both the newscaster and the baseball player are very high-profile. I think current page views and Google hits can be deceptive when comparing an "active" celebrity who is currently in the news with someone whose coverage prime was 50-60 years ago. Robin Roberts the pitcher was a very high-profile athlete in America in the pre-Internet/limited TV 50s and 60s (and has lasting importance as a member of the baseball Hall of Fame). It feels appropriate that both articles have a DAB and that Robin Roberts is a DAB page. Rikster2 (talk) 13:56, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose the Baseball Hall of Famer is probably more prominent in the long-run (although it looks like the newscaster is also in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame), so if a primary is chosen for this name the ballplayer would be it in terms of interest-longevity. Randy Kryn 14:55, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

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