Talk:Yo-Yo Ma

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Contents 1 Sources 2 Hebrew? 3 Arthur 4 Birth 5 Photo 6 Trivia?

[edit] Sources

OK. Since I've been giving so much grief to people about sources tonight, I've got to ask (out of incredible curiosity), where did the family stuff come from?  :) - Hephaestos 02:55 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Do they look fake? They didn't to me when I read them. They are from Chinese and English Googles. Those pages are either purely in Chinese or purely in English (except some Chinese pages have "Yo-yo Ma" in the tilte) -- which indicates that these sources are independence researches and not mere transl. of each other. But where there are Romanizations, the names do resemble follow one degree or another of the several stablished Romanizations existing at the time. For example, born in China, Ma's father has a Romanization that resembles Wade-Giles. Ma's sister has EFEO-like name (École Fraçaise d'Étudies Orientales, IIRC), as shown by the "eou" part (simply "o").

But no, I cannot tell for certain these sources, or even had I used books, are accurate and have been proofread by the Ma family. Maybe one of the Mas will be a Wikipedian some day?

I mean, Hephaestos, I try always to provide info I deem accurate, even though I can be wrong. But trying to prove my validation process by tracing back my steps takes basically has me repeat my research again. For people's names and dates, especially in late 20th century, shoul we provide footnotes? What looked wrong with those family members' names?

--Menchi 03:44 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

They didn't look wrong or unbelievable to me, I was just kind of asking in "wow that's cool, where did you get it"? mode. Sorry for the confusion; everything I've seen you add here and elsewhere has been valuable. - Hephaestos 15:18 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Just to comment on the two year old discussion (for current editors), things don't have to look wrong. Everything should be cited to prevent others having to go through the research all over again to confirm what is written. --Sketchee 22:39, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hebrew?

I noticed that the link to the corresponding page on the Hebrew Wikipedia actually leads to the page there about the Hebrew language. Just thought I'd bring that to someone's attention. Herzliyya 03:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arthur

Wasn't he in a episode of arthur? I think he was. The one where he battles another composer by making a flute out of a bike pump. Weird. --Homfrog^{Tell me a story!}_{Contribulations} 16:29, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind. --Homfrog^{Tell me a story!}_{Contribulations} 16:29, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Birth

Under early life it says that he is born in Paris. In the information box on the right hand side it says that his place of birth is Berlin. Am I reading this wrong or what? Where was he really born? I believe that this needs to be specified.
--¿Why1991 ^{ESP. | Sign Here} 05:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

He was born in Paris. Someone vandalized the page to change the infobox to Berlin, the info in the article to Berlin, and "French-born" to "German-born". Unfortunately the vandalism didn't get reverted all in one step, so the infobox vandalism remained till just now. —Angr 15:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)#

No that person is NOT from Berlin. I am from Berlin and I can tell you: this bizarre fiddler ist not one of us!! - Janine

[edit] Photo

Sorry, I just think that the current photo of Yo-yo doesn't do him any justice. Could somebody find a better one? Thanks. .onion 04:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Quite so. Even a crop of the second picture in the article would be far far better. -- mattb @ 2007-01-26T02:52Z

I believe there used to be a photo up from the cover of Classic Yo-Yo. I don't know if the text was a probelm but there are plenty of photos on his website. If someone could do that great! I'm too busy practicing cello ironically. Keegan 00:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia?

This is a little irrelevent, but it annoys me SO much. In the trivia, it says he was referenced in JAPANESE rapper Jin's song. Yet afterward, it says Jin is Chinese-american. This part is true. HE IS NOT JAPANESE. He is Chinese. Mooski Magnus 02:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't wait for an invitation to change small details like that. If it's wrong, go ahead and fix it. Djcartwright 15:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)