Talk:Ricki Lake

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Contents 1 Gay Icon Project 2 Lake is of Jewish Heritage? 3 Popularity amongst African-Americans 4 Complaint 5 Funniest Videos - Unsourced 6 Sexual Abuse Survivor 7 Arrest

[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 21:37, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lake is of Jewish Heritage?

Is she of Jewish Hertiage? Anyone knows? Seriously. 71.247.239.64 18:37, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

-She was on the Howard Stern show today (06 December 2007) and said she was Jewish

[edit] Popularity amongst African-Americans

Is the article suggesting that Ricki Lake herself is racist because the thought of her popularity amongst the African-American community made her physically sick? Can anyone answer this?

[edit] Complaint

The Wikimedia Foundation has received complaints (on m:OTRS) about untrue statements (without source) that claim that Ms Lake would host such or such TV show. We wish to remind all contributors that under WP:BLP rules, they should not report unsourced biographical claims. Instead of flagging dubious claims as "citation needed", feel free to remove them. David.Monniaux 21:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Funniest Videos - Unsourced

The claim that Ms. Lake will be hosting America's Funniest Home Videos has been added to that article as well, but neither it nor the additions here have sources. I've searched Google News in vain for verification, does anyone here have a link showing this? If not, it might be worth removing until validation can be found. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 03:26, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

An IP editor tried to re-add the claim here and at the AFHV article again. I've rolled it back as vandalism as it appears to be a concerted attempt to inject false information into the project. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 00:49, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sexual Abuse Survivor

Saw on television this evening that Ricki Lake was the victim of sexual abuse beginning at the age of 6, but no info in this article. Is this news new? 216.15.49.125 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:45, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I am the mother of an 8 month old egg-assisted in vitro baby that I am so very thankful for and I think you are a hero and an icon and a message from our god that babies are a blessing and we should be thankful for any soul that is born heathly to a welcoming family and I have had a couple of glasses of wine and I would love to talk to you when you have some down time! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.47.163 (talk) 06:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arrest

Wasn't Ricki arrested some years back with PETA for vandalizing an office? I thought she was... If I can find good sourced information, should that be inculded? SirChuckB (talk) 05:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)