Talk:Ching Shih

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Contents 1 Biography assessment rating comment 2 Discussion 3 CNN article 4 CNN Article - copyright? 5 Borges as a reliable reference 6 Provenance of the illustration

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

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Lowered Biography priority from High to Low; a fascinating woman, but only so important compared to the totality of humankind.

Want to help write or improve biographies? Check out WikiProject Biography Tips for writing better articles. -- Yamara ✉ 22:13, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

[1] - an interesting biography of her in Chinese. Nice source for translation into the article. Kowloonese 02:08, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

Jesus, there are way too many spellings of names in the first paragraph. We don't need two or more for every persons name. Recury 20:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

How do we know that the birth and death dates listed at the bottom are accurate? Is that affirmed in any of the listed sources? ...o0O [GUTH3] O0o... 04:54, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

The AWE reference gets the timeframe of the movie wrong. AWE is set during the reign of one of the Georges, late 1700s at the earliest (and most likely). So only about a century before Ching Shih. 67.135.131.194 08:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CNN article

[2] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Denimadept (talk • contribs) 19:16, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CNN Article - copyright?

Just curious, is it allowed to add the complete text of a copyrighted article on CNN to the entry? I didn't think it was. PMaranci 19:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

No, it for sure isn't allowed. Only text in the public domain or licensed under the GFDL is allowed. Garion96 (talk) 20:13, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Borges as a reliable reference

How can Borges, a man famous for blurring the line between fact and fiction, be trusted as a reliable reference? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kavrod (talk • contribs) 11:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

He's a reliable reference to his own "semi-fictionalized" work. That's all the citation seems to be for. -- Yamara ✉ 22:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. I can see that the Gosse book does exist [3]. I was just worried he made up the provenance. Kavrod (talk) 09:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Provenance of the illustration

I have no fear of copyright violation for the 1836 engraving(?) posted on the article, but does anyone have more information as to where it comes from? That source might have more textual information, too, as it would have been published in her lifetime. -- Yamara ✉ 22:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)