Talk:Val Kilmer

Cherokee roots (sic)

If the community insists on including a reference to Val Kilmer's debatable Cherokee roots, I feel that it should be to mention that while Kilmer claimed such ancestry, there are no reputable sources of such. Right now the only source linked to for this claim in the Wikipedia article is one paywalled article by the Telegraph that doesn't allow readers to verify the claim at all, and any other sources they may find online say his claims of Cherokee ancestry are false.

At the very least, it would make sense to simply say something like "Kilmer believed he had Cherokee ancestry". Tsukikage85 (talk) 14:56, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Can't say what he believed since you can't read his mind. Can't say he claimed to be Cherokee because that implies your skepticism, and is not neutral tone. He said he had Cherokee ancestry. That would be appropriate. If there have been published disputes the authority of the dispute should questioned.

2600:100D:A121:9908:A8CF:352F:DC92:99BB (talk) 10:37, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

The lead nearly contains the filmography

There's a separate section for filmography, it doesn't need to be replicated in the lead. I'm guessing people have been adding their favorites to the lead since that is the most read part of the article, and this is one of the more popular articles since his death. I've shortened the list to a handful for readability.

BluejayBlackburn (talk) 06:07, 25 May 2025 (UTC)