Talk:Kiana Tom

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Playboy Cover

(cur) (prev) 17:19, 14 January 2010 Nemogbr (talk | contribs) (3,136 bytes) (Playboy cover link added. Hope we don't get into trouble.) (undo)

The information was deleted and I undid the deletion. Have now added a link showing her cover. Hope we don't get into trouble.

Nemogbr 17:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC) --Nemogbr 17:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Kiana in Hawaiian

Kiana does not mean "calm water" in Hawaiian. Which words could that possibly derive from? If the information comes from the name-bearer, the sentence should read: "Kiana Todd claims that her name means calm water in Hawaiian".

Kiana has been used as a Hawaiian form of Diana. It would be interesting to know why it became so popular in the mainland.Makaokalani 13:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Other sources seem to indicate that it means "moon goddess". I have added both. imdb link and official website.

Nemogbr 16:04, 13 January 2010 (UTC) --Nemogbr 16:04, 13 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nemogbr (talk • contribs)

Date of birth

I've noticed a lot of different websites are reporting that her date of birth is March 15, 1965. So which site is reliable? Zonafan39 (talk) 15:21, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Page editing

This page has had a pretty big history of promotional editing to it. To that end, I want to ask that anyone editing the page on behalf of Tom, please stop. It does not make her look more notable, it actually made me seriously question her notability as a whole - and a lot of people would say that I can be pretty lenient with notability. Basically, the more promotional a page seems, the more it throws overall notability into question because if they were notable, it wouldn't be necessary to add marketing prose to the article.

To this end I've edited the article down to remove the promotional prose. I've also removed the content that was unsourced or sourced to IMDb. I've also removed the section on her personal life. In general, an individual's personal life isn't really going to be of interest to Wikipedia. There's also a bit of a question as far as the privacy, I suppose. I did leave the husband's name in the infobox, though.

I'll try to improve this more later, but I do want to again emphasize that it's not a good idea to add marketing and promotional terms to the article. It does not reflect well on Kiana Tom. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 18:09, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also removed the use of a court document for the DOB, I asked at WP:BLP/N and they recommended against it per WP:BLPPRIMARY. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 18:13, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the cleanup.

Castmember of BodyShaping seems DUE, and verified by https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281421/

I'm not finding a usable ref for her history as a Raiderette, but I expect one can be found

Some of her other ESPN work may be DUE. --Hipal (talk) 19:11, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'm still trying to find sourcing for her. So far she does seem to be covered in some academic/scholarly books. The topics there vary. This book has a part about how Tom's body image applies to participation in the capitalist economy, while this one mentions her in relation to society's perception of masculinity and femininity with woman bodybuilders. This one covers her in relation to how certain body parts are sexualized.

Other sourcing is kind of slow going, as a lot of it is tends to be a junk hit, TV listing, trivial mention, or something otherwise unusable. Searching Newspapers.com is almost impossible for her because of the trivial mentions or TV listings. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 21:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]