Talk:Anderson Cooper

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This page has been mentioned by a media organization. The mention is in: Kevin Naff (2 February 2007). "Editing Anderson Cooper's sexuality". Washington Blade. Emily Gould (16 February 2007). "Is Anderson Cooper's Wikipedia Entry Being "Straightwashed?"". Gawker. Kevin Naff (2 February 2007). "Anderson Cooper's Hypocrisy". Washington Blade.

Sesame street

Parodies himself.[1] Banjeboi 21:20, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Just so it's clear here - Cooper has also parodied himself on the popular children's show Sesame Street. could be a helpful addition to the article.Banjeboi 18:31, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Source

• Elle article[2]. -- Banjeboi 14:48, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Interview has moved to here. -- Banjeboi 08:46, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

• Yale Daily News "Cooper '89 brings intensity to news: No-holds barred reporting draws attention". -- Banjeboi 09:12, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

• Best Life "A Traveler's Tales. -- Banjeboi 00:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Expand lede

The lede is messy and needs expanding. It should be a stand alone summary article of the subject. -- Banjeboi 21:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

External links

• August 16, 2005: "My brother's suicide" from CNN
• September 29, 2005: "CNN programs Cooper boost" from Variety
• October 12, 2005: "Anderson Cooper Memoir Goes to HarperCollins in $1 Million Deal" from The Book Standard
• May 31, 2006: "Anderson Cooper Almost Comes Out On Top" with sales information for his book, from The Book Standard
• April 2008: Ranked second on The Power 50: The Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America by Out.com

Profiles

• Anderson Cooper on About.com
• Anderson Cooper at IMDb
• Anderson Cooper on the Notable Names Database
• Q&A with Anderson Cooper on CNN's Planet in Peril
• Cspan "Students and Leaders"

I've removed the above external links as not conforming to our WP:EL policy which, in essence, is that we include links to the subject itself - their links, within reason - and appropriate links that would add to our reader's understanding if the article was written at an featured article status. For instance, an article about major baseball league may have a link to a reliable site that fully compares team statistics whereas the article may only touch on that subject. Having stated that many of these might be helpful for background info or even sourcing. -- Banjeboi 19:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

kudos

he mentioned the oath fumble first. 69.141.11.242 (talk) 17:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Gay

Is he or isn't he? The article waffles on this point without giving a definitive answer! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.29.155.152 (talk) 17:30, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I find it somewhat hypocritical for Wikipedia to include speculation about his private lifestyle choice. There is absolutely no proof that Anderson Cooper is a homosexual, yet you include several allegations by "independent press". What is the difference between that and gossip? Where are your standards? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.65.48 (talk) 18:46, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

The comment above is out of sequence and the anonymous author evidently did not read the earlier comments below (or WP:RS), but I will reply here. You can find Wikipedia's sourcing standards in WP:RS. There are many differences between independent news media and gossip, including especially fact-checking. Notably, The Washington Blade is an award-winning newspaper in continuous print since 1969, with online affiliates nationwide.TVC 15 (talk) 03:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, first you should sign your post by using the "four tides" (i.e.~~~~). And Cooper has never talked about wether or not he is gay so we really do not know. --Miagirljmw14 Miagirljmw~talk 17:33, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

"Anderson Cooper...has in the past publicly acknowledged that he is gay."[3] The article is written cautiously because he has avoided commenting on that part of his personal life in interviews. The fact would not be included at all if it were not reliably sourced, but the sources report it without quoting him on it, so the article says simply that they report it.TVC 15 (talk) 23:29, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

While I neither know nor care whether the man is gay or not, I find it remarkable that 14 lines of text are devoted to a "note" sourcing the issue - and that doesn't take into account the lines in the References. Hell, the entire "Personal" section the piece is only 15 lines (of which 1/3 is devoted to the same issue.) Does this strike anyone besides me as a bit overdone?Frankly, one can only wonder how much space would be devoted to the topic were he to unequivocally announce that he is or is not gay. The attention to this makes the piece read more like a tabloid than an encyclopedia. Irish Melkite (talk) 12:25, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

With regard to the length of the note, I agree it might add up to undue weight. It got that way because, no matter how many reliable sources were found, some editors insisted more were needed. (In some instances, objections seemed motivated by disapproval of the fact itself, and a related desire to suppress it, regardless of sources.) Eventually this one fact had many more sources than any other fact in the article. The issue is, paring down the sources might invite a return to the edit war that necessitated them. Deleting "group=note" from the source code might convert the note into a standard reference, which would resolve the emphasis issue without creating a sourcing issue.TVC 15 (talk) 20:31, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

I converted the note to an ordinary reference, without making any other changes, and it seemed to work.TVC 15 (talk) 01:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I think that listing any LGBT categories may be premature until he has confirmed his sexual orientation. There have been myriad reports that Tom Cruise is gay, but editors have refrained from applying the categories to him. If there are no objections in the next couple of days, I'll remove them. C1k3 (talk) 02:00, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Okay, now I see that they were added by a new user unfamiliar with verifiability. I'm taking them out. C1k3 (talk) 02:05, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

And why the fuck is there a picture of him with another guy titled "Anderson Cooper with his boyfriend, Julio Cesar Recio, at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York City in 2006."? I'm deleting that shit.

Cooper identified himself as gay. Since then, he has never taken it back, and is still homosexual. He now refuses to talk about his personal life. Many mainstream media sources have mentioned his sexual orientation. Why then, does this article not have any LGBT categories, and this talk page not have an LGBT Project banner on it? Lambda 3 (talk) 18:34, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

With regard to the category tags, the issue was discussed, and the discussion has since been archived. At that time, there were two conflicting policies; one favored including the category tag, the other favored omitting it. Unaware of the second policy, I added the tag, and others removed it. Both policy pages now seem to favor omitting the tag (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Categories, Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality). The article continues to be festooned with category tags related to ethnicity, despite a complete absence of references to support them, but the issue of different policies for different categories is a topic for another page.

With regard to note vs. reference, I saw today that Benjiboi had converted the reference back to a note, without discussion. As Irish Melkite observed above, the note was overdone. It stood out from everything else in the article, in a way that amounted to undue weight. So, I have converted the note back to a reference like all the others.TVC 15 (talk) 00:18, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I have a feeling that the folks at CNN may have something to do with AC not being labeled "gay". Dreammaker182 (talk) 01:17, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

If you think WP's policy on category labels for living persons should be changed, please start a topic on the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Categories talk page. As long as this article follows that policy, which has nothing to do with CNN, it can't really be attributed to CNN.TVC 15 (talk) 02:35, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

"He has, however, discussed his desire to have a family and children." Just for everyone out there, that statement does not automatically mean he's straight. Freddie Mercury also had a deep desire to have a family and children of his own, that did not change what he was. Also, Anderson didn't specifically state that he wanted a wife, by "family and children", he could just as well mean a same-sex partner and kids, since children with same-sex parents are not too entirely uncommon anymore. However, I am not definitively saying he is gay, the point is he has never set the record straight, so to speak, on his sexual orientation/preference. There no reliable photographs of him with any significant other, man or woman. Hell, he could be asexual for all we know. So until he reveals that aspect of his life to the public, everything at this point is just hearsay, nothing more. Draw your own personal conclusions about Anderson Cooper if you like, but don't think that your suspicions or "gaydar" will pass as reliable information regarding AC's personal life.

The interviewer made the same point about the family and children quote, but "Anderson Cooper...has in the past publicly acknowledged that he is gay."[4] (The Washington Blade link isn't working right now, while they sort out who will own the archive, but it was working when retrieved above.) People really should read more before commenting.TVC 15 (talk) 02:08, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

He's only 41, why is his hair gray?

If he's only 41 why does his hair look like he's 71? Does he have a medical condition that explains this? If so I think it should be mentioned, with a reliable source.TomCat4680 (talk) 08:49, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

It could be stress or genetics. When I first saw him on TV I thought he was, like, 51. There is no medical condition that explains this that I am aware of. --Miagirljmw14 Miagirljmw~talk 20:14, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Plenty of healthy people in their 30s and 40s have gray hair. The age when one's hair starts to turn gray probably graphs as a bell curve. Most people are in the middle, but there are also outliers. Grundle2600 (talk) 02:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

It's not just his hair. It's his face, his skin. He looks at least 55. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.220.110.98 (talk) 17:51, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes his whole demeanor and physicality is grey and bland! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.159.111.98 (talk) 11:40, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

This isn't even an issue. I am 43, completely grey, and have been for some years. I started greying as a teenager. Mine is mostly due to heredity. Anderson's may be for a similar reason.--Locutus1966 (talk) 05:12, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

info box "official site" is misdescribed

"info box" has line "official site" styled as a link. that link sends one to http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cooper.anderson.html"

that is not an "official" website; it is merely a bio page on the website of his current employer.

description should be changed (to reflect reality) to read "cooper's biography on cnn.com." because i am not a registered editor and the article is protected(*), i obviously cannot make the adjustment myself. i trust a registered editor will drift along, see this comment, concur and make the change.

(*) which raises the questions: how long has it been padlocked? how many different times? is it vandalized heavily and immediately each time it's unlocked or are some wikipedians being overly proctective? perhaps some regular watcher of the article can answer (i don't have capacity right now to ferret out the answers). --71.183.238.134 (talk) 21:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

It's repeatedly and regularly vandalized. I'll look to sorting out that link in some way. -- Banjeboi 02:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Cooper and Studio 54/Michael Jackson

This was just related on AC360, and appears to be notable enough to report. I just wanted to note that I added it in case there's a dispute. I welcome a discussion of whether it's notable; it fits well with the discussion of his family and childhood and was related by Cooper himself. Wellspring (talk) 02:47, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Reformatted Awards sect

Reformatted Awards sect, with additions of citations. However, was unable to find the year of award for two awards - if anyone can find some more WP:RS sources on those 2, please help. Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 22:36, 13 July 2010 (UTC)