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[edit] Simplified

I can't see any simplified charaters of the Leslie's names, why? Does anyone have the same problem? User:kt2

These are just different ways to represent his name. If you're in PRC, Malaysia or Singapore, you would use Simplified Chinese (I'm sure you know this). So, it's just a different way. The reason why more traditional chinese renditions of his names are used is because he comes from Hong Kong, which uses Traditional Chinese. 3 Apr 2003 02:03 UTC whkoh
That's not my question. I was wondering why my browser show his names ONLY in traditional characters, not in simplified. User:kt2
Sorry to have misinterpreted your question. My browser shows: 张国荣 simplified and
張國榮 traditional. Is the encoding of your browser set to Unicode? whkoh 3 Apr 03, 04:37 UTC
Do I have to set the encoding to unicode to read both characters? I often use NJstar communicator for reading asian characters. Thanx User:kt2]]''''''''' == == ==


I think Unicode would be fine, though I'm not so sure because I'm using built-in support for Asian languages. whkoh 3 Apr 03, 05:36 UTC
If you use Microsoft IE 5.5 or above, you will see multi-lingual display in the same window without setting the encoding. These characters are entered as HTML entities, i.e. they are independent of the browser's encoding setting. See Unicode and HTML for instructions. I am running on a English OS, I was able to see all language text on that page simultaneously except the Ethiopic example. Hope this help.

[edit] "Yellow-culture"?

his role in that film was one associated with yellow-culture,

I'm not familiar with this term; I can guess at what it might mean, but if it's an established term, it might be a subject for an article. -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:29, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] suicide note

  • can we prove that the note is indeed his suicide note instead of just the alleged one? I mean, yes, I'm inclined to believe it, but I don't see how we can have absolute proof unless we're the police themselves. --little Alex 10:25, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

I think it should be an "alleged" note instead of the "the" note since there's no concrete proof that he wrote it. Suicide notes are not difficult to fake. Just my two cents. --speedoflight 08:23, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

This suicide note was published by many medias and did not be denied by Cheung's family member or close friends. In addition, I remember that I read from somewhere during the time that Florence Chan, Cheung's music agent and close friend, tried to deny a picure of this suicide note's hard copy by pointing out that Cheung's suicide note had no punctuations. However, she also mentioned that the content was basically correct at the same time. That's the most possible proof I can consider, if you mean that. Though it never be strictly proved, it never be disproved either. I guess the only way to really prove it is to check with Cheung's family member years later if it is possible. --Augest 03:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

When something can't be verified that it is 100% written by someone, then the term "alleged" should precede it, i.e. alleged suicide note found by...
Chinese media is NOTORIOUS for being poor at investigative reportage. Gossip, hearsay, facts are all mixed in to sensationalize for the publication's circulation numbers. I know I sound extremely harsh but seriously, the term "credibility" is like a new concept to many of such publications. TIME and Newsweek wrote about Cheung and these are reputable sources that you should quote. --speedoflight | talk to me 20:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
enn, nothing is absolute true :). But I tried to present people the one closest to the truth as I can. Of course, you can call it "alleged" or I would more like to call it "to be proved" in the sense of 100%. BTW, TIME and Newsweek are good (partially may be because they are not gossip magzine). But as Cheung mainly spent his time in Hong Kong, many of their material about Cheung is second handed and may be wrong. They also made mistakes. As for the Gossip staff, I believe it's not just Chinese media. Western media also made gossip staff about their celebrities, such as the hollywood stars. But of course, I admit that Chinese media may be worse. Just a little thoughts.
As for the references, of course I would like to include Time and Newsweek report if possible. Thank you for the advice. --Augest 20:18, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I completely disagree with you. There is such a thing called investigative reporting, citing actual sources. And there is such a thing called libel and slander. TIME and Newsweek cannot afford to indulge in libel as it is too costly to their reputation. It doesn't mean they don't make mistakes, they do. They make less mistakes because they take steps to prevent libel by investigating thoroughly before something gets printed. As for "alleged" it isn't a point of view issue. "Alleged" is the way things are written in English when something isn't proven. --speedoflight | talk to me 21:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

The "alleged" terminology should be left preceding the suicide note for there is no verifiable source, i.e. handwriting expert that certified that the note was written by Cheung. Until there is evidence to show otherwise, it needs to be shown that it is an alleged note. --speedoflight | talk to me 05:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

This seems a little odd to me. If you look at other Wikipedia articles about famous suicides, like Virginia_Woolf or J._Clifford_Baxter, the word "alleged" is not attached to the description of their suicide notes. The only note treated in this fashion is that of Kurt Cobain, and lots of people actually think that the dude was murdered.Katsam 09:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
The standard practice in journalistic reportage is to affix the term "alleged" to something until confirmed by evidence, particularly forensic evidence for an instrument like a suicide note. All reports on Cheung's note mentioned that it was his note but never showed any hard evidence in any way to say it was his, i.e. verification by hand-writing expert, comparisons of his hand-writing with that of the note's. I realize that I am using investigative reporting and crime scene investigation terminologies and techniques used in the United States. In Hong Kong, they might not perform forensic tests to ascertain that the note is indeed Cheung's and that no foul play was at hand. The police there might have just treated the note as authentic and deemed it as such in their reports. From the reports that I'd read at the time of his death, I remember one stating that there wasn't even an autopsy conducted. You'd be hard pressed to find such a situation in the U.S. when someone dies from some other cause other than a 'natural' cause like prolonged illness. Virginia Wolf in particular had died at a time when crime scene investigation was not performed as a norm. Had she perished today, it would be a norm for the police to investigate to rule out foul play by doing tests. If you read the news accounts of Cheung's last hours and moments before his leap from the hotel, there are many variations, not one version and this strikes most thinking people as rather odd. There were accounts of his arguments ensuing prior to the jump, there were also accounts of him relaxing prior to his jump, there were also accounts of his having made an appointment with his manager to meet him and not to mention that he had with him a fat wad of cash and was decked out in nice clothes prior to his leap. --speedoflight | talk to me 10:15, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about Leslie Cheung's life or death. Is it widely believed that he might have been pushed out the window (as it is, say, with Kurt Cobain [whose suicide note certainly contains the caveat "alleged"])? Because that seems worth mentioning in the article if so.
If not, may I propose "A suicide note was found in the hotel room"? It seems like a decent compromise.Katsam 13:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Images of Leslie Cheung

Augest, you have uploaded images of Leslie Cheung that may or may not be legal as their copyright status is in question. Most of the images, except for the CD album cannot be used as fair use images as their copyright belongs to the original news agency or photographer. Please update the copyright status for the images, justify why they constitute fair use or remove them altogether. Thanks. --speedoflight 20:39, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

corrected. --Augest 03:49, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Suicide Note Posting

The actual suicide note in Chinese should be posted and its English translation listed alongside. As with any translation, it's always better to have the original listed so that those who can read the language, can appreciate its original intent. --speedoflight | talk to me 10:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

In my view, that can be put in Cheung's Chinese wiki page to prevent redundancy. I may do it later. --Augest 03:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article needs to be referenced and cited

This article needs to be referenced and cited. The edition that is currently published right now may have some information removed. This is because the information is either not neutral or the contributing writer has failed to cite a source for the information. I have asked Augest to cite references several times on the article itself but he/she has not done this. Information that isn't cited or referenced to a reputable source should not be included in the article or at least be posted with a warning that it may be a POV or rumor.

The article is in need for a copy edit to meet up to Wikipedia standards. The grammar on previous editions was very bad. I have done a quick copy edit on it but would appreciate any one who has some time and wants to help copy edit so that the article flows better. --speedoflight | talk to me 20:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Work in progress --Augest 02:57, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] HIV Status?

I've heard that there are some highly probably rumours that Leslie was HIV+ and perhaps had developed AIDS before he committed suicide. I think that these rumours, and some of the evidence surrounding them should at least be mentoned in the article. CaveatLector 07:59, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia shouldn't publish rumors that may not be true. Wikipedia needs to be fact based and leave the rumors to supermarket tabloids. What someone can do is find out if such rumors have any truth to them by researching. And if indeed it's true, then it should be published and referenced to the material. Whether someone is dead or alive, it's important that no libel against them is committed. --speedoflight | talk to me 01:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
This rumor can not be true as Cheung's body was cremated at the Hong Kong Crematorium. According to the law of Hong Kong, the body of a HIV patient can NOT be cremented at the Hong Kong Crematorium but can only be processed in hospital. The fact that Cheung's body was cremated at the Hong Kong Crematorium disproves the rumor. --Augest 18:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Such a rumor. Maybe like his manager said, this artist was killed by yellow press and rumors.

[edit] About Claim of POV and grammar errors for this article

To: speedoflight (originally in his talk page but deleted by him for some reason)

Your claim of POV and grammar error are not clear and not helpful. For instance, I cannot see what's wrong with the sentence: "As a versatile actor, Cheung also acted in many comedies." With all the different types of roles and movies he acted, it is proper to call him a versatile actor. In addition, all the movies talked in the same paragraph are comedies. As the names of movies are already given, people can easily check out by either checking the movie itself or going to imdb or any other movie related website. Neither is there any grammar error in this short sentence. Without this sentence, the whole paragraph became confusing and ridiculous. In addition, I keep telling you that Cheung's niece never explicitly said in his funeral that Cheung was suffered from depression. This can be verified by the video record of his funeral published by Cheung's family. However, you stick on introducing this mistake again and again. In addition, Ouyang Feng's job in the movie Ashes of Time is killer agent instead of assassin, this is easy to verify as the movie's name is given in the article. I don't know why you change it to the wrong one. You also remove the movie link of Happy together. I can't see any of these revisions made by you have anything to do with POV or Grammar error.

As for the subtitle "Golden Age in Film", it is just to address the blooming period of Cheung's Film career. Changing to "Height in career" did not show anything about Film. If you want to change it to something else, at least you should not ruin the meaning. I can see that you are very anti-Chinese media. However, You should not bring personal feeling in editing. I can understand and am tolerant with Chinese media doesn't mean I would trust them. In fact, I am trying to dig out references not just from news media, but also books and original interviews, which make the job time consuming.

Again, it's no problem and you are definitely welcome to do editing. However, you need to be careful not introduce new mistakes in the article. In addition, please explain you point clear for others to understand and check out--Augest 05:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I keep telling you to be patient as I am still in my process to finger out a better way to put references and resources staff. However, you keep removing things in all kinds of excuses, introducing tons of mistakes, and making the article ambiguous. If you want to put whatever references you want, go ahead and do it. Or if anything you consider as needed a reference, EXPLICITLY POINTED OUT. Don't just rudely remove things with ridiculous reasons. Not "EVERY" piece of sentence needs a reference, otherwise ALL articles in wiki should be removed. I spent THREE months to verify the information, correct errors and finish the current article. To dig out all the original resources may need another 3 months. I also need break during the Christmas season. Please be patient!!! --Augest 18:21, 14 December 2005 (UTC)


Please don't remove background or useful information when you do "gramma" corrections. --Augest 05:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I think it's better to put Chinese version of Cheung's suicide note in his Chinese version wiki page to reduce redundancy. However, I don't have time to do it yet.

As for the references, I am still trying to think a better way to include them, as there are too much about him, please be patient. Thank you for the suggestions though! --Augest 17:47, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grammatical errors

Contributor Augest insists on reverting back to editions that have major grammatical errors and poorly sourcing of information. There are way TOO MANY issues to be highlighted in this discussion page.

[edit] Examples of no citation

"He left a suicide note* saying he had been suffering from depression."

I have told Augest that there is no hard evidence supporting that the suicide note is indeed written by the author. Therefore, a more suitable terminology would be "alleged suicide note". I also mentioned that if there is hard evidence, that it should be cited.

The content is not proven. However, there was a suicide note left by Cheung according to the police report. "Alleged" is inclined to mean something fake. Plus, I didn't see there is anything wrong by put to be proven instead "alleged". After all, it is in no sense to simply list an alleged note.

--Augest 05:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

"From 1986 to 1989, Cheung acted in a number of movies that are considered as Hong Kong classics by film critics and Asian movie fans. In 1986, Cheung co-starred with Chow Yun Fat in A Better Tomorrow (directed by John Woo), which was widely considered as a trend starter for Hong Kong triad movies in the 1980s."

Whose are the critics? Cite them. If magazines, cite the magazines. Otherwise, it is a POV and it needs to be removed.

"The film is widely regarded as a classic, but to ......" --http://www.iofilm.co.uk/fm/b/better_tomorrow_1986.shtml

In 2005, Hong Kong Film Awards released a list of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, where A Better Tomorrow was ranked as No.2.

Do you think NY Times or hollywood movie reviewers would pay attention to a Hong Kong movie in 1986? In fact, in person I don't like this movie. But it is in no doubt it is considered at least by many as a Hong Kong movie classic. --Augest 05:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

"In 1995, Cheung signed a contract with Rock Records and claimed his return to the music as a singer."

Again, unsubstantiated. Cite your sources on this claim.

Corrected. --Augest 05:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


"In 1995 a Hong Kong tabloid published a photo of Cheung with another man, Daffy Tong Hok-Tak (唐鶴德)."

What HK Tabloid. Cite the name.

If you are careful enough, you would find I am not the one who put this here. This has nothing to do with me. Again, I revert your revision due to other mistakes you introduced in.--Augest 05:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Examples of bad grammar and language structure

"In 1999, Cheung constructed his own music company, Apex Music, and signed a distribution contract with Universal Music Group(UMG)."

I had edited it to "In 1999, Cheung launched his own music company, Apex Music, and signed a distribution contract with Universal Music Group(UMG)." A doesn't 'construct' their own company, not unless he/she is constructing a building. You start, you launch a company. Augest again reverted the changes back.
I have to revert your revision to the original one due to other many mistakes you introduced and keep sticking on. I have already included the examples in your discussion page.

--Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

"Like his music, Cheung introduced a new image to his audience. The most daring part possibly was the closing dance "Red" where Cheung did a tango duet in a pair of red high-heels with a macho dancer."

This statement is filled with POV and is poorly written.

???what word is POV and how do you mean by poorly written, in what sense?--Augest 05:01, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

The entire article is written in what is considered broken English.

"In 1997's gay movie Happy Together (although Wong insists that it isn't essentially a "gay" film), he acted bitchy boy Ho Po-wing, who came to Argentina with his boyfriend Lai Yiu-fai (acted by Tony Leung Chiu-wai)."

Show us where Wong insists that it isn't a gay film. Show us the exact quote, publication and date. CITE IT!

Question: You mentioned at the New York Film Festival that one of the reasons you chose homosexuality as the topic for this film is because you felt other recent depictions of homosexuals in HK films were inadequate. Are you happy with the depiction of homosexuality in this film?

Wong Kar-wai: I would like to put it this way. I'm not satisfied with most of the HK films about this topic because they treat it specially; there must be something different. And to me I'm happy with "Happy Together" because there is nothing different. It is the story about two persons living together, and it so happens that the two persons, they are both men. The story can apply to a man and a woman, or two women, even a man and a tree. And I'm very curious because I've made six films so far, and the first five are stories about men and women, and people never ask why you make a film about a man and woman? But after "Happy Together", people kept asking me about 'why you make a film about two men?', and I think, maybe when people stop asking these questions, then there won't be any difference in making a gay film or a film about a man and a woman. --Conducted October 27, 1997 for WBAI, 99.5, New York, conducted by Khoi Lebinh and David Eng --Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

So then why do you have such a big problem with citing Wong's exact quote in Wikipedia? I have asked you numerous times to cite your source in writing. If you do not know how to do this, please refer to Wikipedia's guide on this.

"In 1992's historical masterpiece Farewell My Concubine (directed by Kaige Chen), Cheung acted as the peking opera star Dieyi Chen, turning drag farce to grand opera"

What do you mean "drag farce to grand opera". I have read many reviews of Farewell My Concubine and have never seen any movie critic describe it as that. Cite your sources.

--http://www.pseudopodium.org/search.cgi?Leslie+Cheung

In addition, your revision removed "historical masterpiece" too,

"An epic spanning a half century of modern Chinese history" By Roger Ebert (Chicago Suntimes)

" Farewell My Concubine spans fifty-three years .... is one of the year's true masterpieces" by James Berardinelli, http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/f/farewell_conc.html

Both Ebert and Berardinelli did not say "historical masterpiece" because that term is not entirely accurate in the context that you wrote. Either paraphrase their quotes and then reference the quote(s) to them or don't include this fact. If you do not cite, you are plagiarizing.

"It is an outspoken picture, and has run into all sorts of trouble with the Chinese authorities. Alas, persecution does not, any more than the Cannes prize, confer automatic masterpiece status on its object." National Review, Nov 15, 1993 by John Simon --Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

"Cheung was also a box office attraction in Hong Kong: from 1990 to 1998, 13 out of 39 movies starred by him were listed as yearly top ten box office movies."

This is a claim that absolutely needs citations to show the actual statistics. Otherwise, it's a claim that should not be in Wikipedia.

http://www.dvdspring.com/Article_Show.asp?ArticleID=12673 "1990-99年历年华语片票房排名" --Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Given that the site is in Chinese and the edition you are editing is in English, you need to give a translation of the sentence, statistic that states this. In any case, how do we know that the statistics given by them is accurate?
Wikipedia states this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources_in_languages_other_than_English
Because this is the English Wikipedia, English-language sources should be given whenever possible, and should always be used in preference to foreign-language sources. For example, do not use a foreign-language newspaper as a source unless there is no equivalent article in an English-language newspaper.
In cases where the original source material is not in English, and there is no English-language equivalent, there is a tension between accessibility and verifiability. Readers may not be able to read source materials in other languages, and therefore require translations into English so that they can read them. Editors need this too, so they can check that the source has been used correctly.
However, translations are subject to error, whether performed by a Wikipedia editor or a professional, published translator. Readers have to be able to verify for themselves what the original material actually said, that it was published by a credible source, and that it was translated correctly.


"In 1996, Cheung released possibly his most highly acclaimed album, Red. Red merged the music such as smooth jazz, R&B, trip hop, etc., into cantopop and formed a consistent unique style, which marked Cheung's return as the "point of no return"."

POV statement and poorly written. No return from where? Sentence structure is completely out of whack. If Augest is trying to claim something, cite the source as to who proclaimed that he went to a 'point of no return'. In any case, the sentence absolutely doesn't make sense. If author is trying to say Cheung's style has risen to a level never seen before, then say it in similar terminology.
"trip hop" is a style of music that is quite different from what Cheung indulged in. Look up "trip hop" on Wikipedia for clarification.

"This was Leslie's return to Canto-Pop album. He's heard the works I did in 1995 for Faye Wong and so on. I wrote two songs on this album and also arranged this song which was his own composition. It's basically trip-hop beats with strings..." by C.Y.Kong, the music arrangement of RED, http://www.cykong.com/Projects/selected9104.htm#1996 --Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Who is CY Kong? State his role and his position in the music business.


"In 1992's All's Well, Ends Well, he acted an effeminate brother."

What "effeminate brother"?? Brother to whom????

"Meanwhile, Foon’s brother (Leslie Cheung) is an effeminate floral arranger who engages in a gender-bending battle of the sexes with his cousin, the butch Teresa Mo."--www.lovehkfilm.com --Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

You need to rephrase your entire sentence for it is incomplete and broken. Either cite the entire original quote from hkfilm.com or paraphrase the quote properly and cite that quote to that site. If you do not cite your source, technically, that is considered plagiarizing.

"In 1996, he worked again with Kaige Chen, acting the misty gigolo."

"Misty gigolo"??? What do you mean by misty gigolo. Sentence needs reconstructing.

Zhongliang is a gigolo in the movie. See the movie. --Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't have to watch the movie to know that the sentence is broken. You need to rephrase your sentence to include the exact role he played. In other words, something like, "In 1996, he worked with Kaige Chen's movie <name of movie>, in which he played Zhongliang, a gigolo."


"Cheung worked since then on the cutting edge music as well as cantopop and made a music style totally different from that before his 1989's retirement."

Poor grammatical structure.

--You can change the grammar but you should not ruin the meaning. --Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Work in progress to find other references. --Augest 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

As I've mentioned to you many times before, if you cannot cite your sources at the time of writing, then don't include the information until you have the citations up. There is nothing to say that you must include everything even for stuff you do not have reference on. If you are unsure as to how to cite, then look at other Wikipedia articles that have citations. Please review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks to see how thoroughly cited these articles are with footnotes and references.

[edit] Citation, Copyedit, Clean Up Tags

Note to all editors. I have repeated asked Augest to not remove the citation, copyedit, clean up tags on the article but he/she removes them without making any substantial changes to the article to upgrade its quality. Augest refuses to comply with listening to suggestions on how to improve the article and insists on treating this article as his/her own domain instead of a quality Wikipedia reference. Augest consistently reverts any copyedits to the article to better the grammatical structure. He/she does not understand that the copyedit process does edit out information that is redundant, erroneous or a sentence will be restructured to better it. --speedoflight | talk to me 18:36, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Are you kidding? This is Wiki, even without these tags, editors/readers will come to correct the errors of the article. I remove the tag since I disagree with you. --Augest 19:03, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Note to all, I have alerted a Wikipedia Administrator of Augest's reluctance to cooperate in a clean up drive for the article. He/she insists on removing the copyedit, citation and clean up tags on the article without showing any evidence of a clean up. I will escalate this issue higher up the Wikipedia chain of command on Augest's behavior. I have repeatedly asked him/her to not remove the said tags until the article has been cleaned up either by him/her or someone else. By tagging the article, it appears on a list of articles that are flagged for clean up and others who may have time will come by to help in the cleaning effort. --speedoflight | talk to me 20:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

First off, there is no such thing as a Wikipedia "chain of command". However, iff the article is in dire need of cleanup and lacks sources, there is no excuse at all for removing the appropriate tags from the article. Of course the article will be cleaned up eventually, but the presence of these tags will attract more editors, and by placing the article in categories like "articles lacking sources", other editors will be drawn to this article to clean it up. That is all. Johnleemk | Talk 05:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Verification resources have been added except those only concerned in the English usage.Augest 22:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I have added the verification resoureces after considering for a long time of the best format to add them. Together with Deville's early efforts on copyediting and three months in the clean-up list, it is time to remove the clean-up tag. As cleanup tags may give the impression to the user that the articles are not worth to read, a clean-up tag in an article for very long time is bad for wikipedia. It would be better to put a more specific tag instead of cleannp tag if one still want to call notice of others to improve this article. Augest 01:03, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] spam and normal external link

For an artist, well-known web-site, including fan site is not spam. Same cases inlude Cary Grant, Beatles, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Augest (talk • contribs)

That's not policy. Please see WP:EL and WP:SPAM. --Nlu (talk) 07:29, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Modify the external link upon wiki's standards on your suggestion:

Articles about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to the official site if there is one. An article about a book, a musical score, or some other media should link to a site hosting a copy if none of the "Links normally to be avoided" criteria apply.

Sites that contain neutral and accurate material not already in the article. Ideally this content should be integrated into the Wikipedia article, then the link would remain as a reference, but in some cases this is not possible for copyright reasons or because the site has a level of detail which is inappropriate for the Wikipedia article.

Links that are added to promote a site, that primarily exist to 'sell' products or services, with objectionable amounts of advertising, or that require payment to view the relevant content, colloquially known as 'external link spamming'.

None of the current external links "exist to sell products or services,"Augest 01:27, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes they do. Most of them derive advertising revenue from visits. That's selling a product, in my book. They should also be considered to be blogs and/or social networking sites, which are not to be linked pursuant to WP:EL. --Nlu (talk) 05:30, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Nlu, WP:EL says "Except where noted, the below do not override the list of what should be linked to" which means that you shouldn't remove something simply for being a blog or a social networking site or for having advertising if it qualifies under one a the criteria of "what should be linked to".
Also WP:EL states that sites "with objectionable amounts of advertising" are "What should not be linked to". Nowhere are sites with any amount of advertising prohibited. Even your own editing leaves links to IMDB and Rottentomatos, which are advertising heavy sites. - Arsian120 11:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
If you want to, remove the IMDB and Rottentomatoes links as well. --Nlu (talk) 17:32, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Nlu, none of the sites I added exists primarily to "sell" any product. They all have valuable information and contain no advertisements, not even banners to promote any commercial product. I do not see the sites you kept any different from the sites I added. I just don't understand why you believe the sites I updated are NOT okay. They do not violate any policy. It seems you have your "own" interpretation of the rules about external links.

They're effectively blogging sites, and in any case, a proliferation of external sites goes against the principle that Wikipedia is not a directory of links. --Nlu (talk) 18:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TV Drama

Does anyone know whether Leslie had acted in RTV's TV drama "青春三重奏" and "愛情跑道"? -- DD Ting 05:03, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

No. He had not. Augest 03:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA status?

Since it doesn't appear that this article has been through the GA process, I'm downgrading the WPBio rating to "B". If I'm incorrect, please change the rating for all project banners. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 19:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Why don't propose it to go through the GA process instead of downgrading directly. Please vote and list your reason of downgrading if you still want this article to be in "B". Otherwise, I will reverse it to "GA" after 7 days. Thanks!Augest 03:12, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] His fame and popularity

Sorry if I mistake, but I don't know what is wrong with the sentence "From his fame to his death, he's cited as one of most influential Cantopop singers and one of most popular Chinese actors of all-time." Why isn't it accepted ?

The statement looks too subjective. On second thought, isn't most Chinese artists on wikipedia deserve the same comment? wshun 16:40, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

You can do it by citing the reference (The published reviews on Leslie Cheung). However, this sentence itself is not very significant, as the goal of wiki is to deliver the facts to readers instead of opinions. As a matter of fact, articles of most Chinese artists are far more subjective than this one, and with no back up of reference at all. So don't follow the way of their edition. Augest 01:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Promo tone?"

In the same year, Cheung had been assigned as the "Music Ambassador" of Composors And Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH) until his demise.

Hbdragon88 kept modifying the sentence to remove the phase of "until his demise". His reason is that this phrase has a "promo tone". However, the phrase only states the fact that Cheung was selected and worked as the "Music Ambassador" until his death. The sentence has been there for a while and surviving many editor's copy editing for this article. If anyone still considers this phrase is something "promo tone", please rephrase the sentence but keep the information of how long Cheung being in the position of "Music Ambassador". Augest 00:24, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

First, I only undid it once...second I think "until his demise" is a bit melodramatic, really. Yes, he died. Do we need to make it dramatic? "Until his death" sounds just fine, in my opinion, but I'll respect the wording if someone else agrees with you. Until then, see you around on articles that link to suicide note. hbdragon88 01:46, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nick name of Leslie Cheung

When I search "Leslie Cheung" together with "Gor Gor", I can get 271000 results. When I search "Leslie Cheung" together with "Goh Goh", there is 0 result with comes with "Goh Goh", the only one is this web site and some just Cheung with others whose last name is "Goh". Plus as long as I know, Gor Gor is pretty commonly used in English based articles talking about Cheung. In this situation, we should use Gor Gor as it is a formed and most commonly used term here. --Augest (talk) 02:57, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I agree. It's the wrong romanization, no two ways about it. Yunfeng (talk) 00:58, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I take that back - only about 500 of the 'gor gor' hits are for Cheung. The rest of them are unrelated. That's not enough to constitute common usage. It's wrong, full stop, and I'm changing it back. Yunfeng (talk) 00:59, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Just because it doesn't show up on Google doesn't mean it's wrong. Augest has pretty clearly cited his sources - a number of them, in fact - and for that reason I don't think the nickname is disputed at all. Pandacomics (talk) 01:30, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

To Benjwong: The infobox of this article is already of a large length. I think it's better to leave the description of the simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Pinyin, etc. form of Cheung's name in the abstract part. Due to his popularity, his name has many forms for different language/dialect, it is hard to include even the most general ones in the Infobox. To keep the information, it's better just leave them in the abstract. --Augest (talk) 02:57, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I disagree that it's too long. Why do you think it's too long? I think we should definitely have his name in traditional and simplified. But I am OK with leaving out the Pinyin and Jyutping romanisations of his name. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 05:15, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't know about your browser Augest. But what I see is that the first 5 lines of this article is all pronounciation related. Benjwong (talk) 22:58, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

The prose of the intro would flow so much better if we took all that translation stuff out of the first sentence. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 23:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
I am taking it out. If the pronounciations are that important, please add a template of some sort. For a person this famous, surely there are better things to say in the intro than to pronounce his name 5 different ways. Benjwong (talk) 07:57, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

surely there are better things to say in the intro -- what did you put for the "better things" in the intro? All I can see is that your guys disregard the original staff with nothing new put there... I know the original Introduction part is not good, however, you need to figure out a better part before remove them. Plus, Wiki is an encyclopydia. I did not see anything wrong by introduce his name in the different language here.

If you stick on your Infobox, I am fine. But I still think we should use Gor Gor at least for his nickname instead of goh goh, I don't know where did you get it. I search Gor Gor with Leslie Cheung using google with IE7.0, and get the result I mentioned before--Augest 19:45, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

I was going for Cantonese romanisation, but it seems both Jyutping and Yale romanisations spells it as go. So what reliable source spells his nickname as gor gor? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 03:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree that there was too much language clutter in the lead section, which I think severely gets in the way of reading it. I have ejected it all into a {{Chinese}} infobox. There's plenty of potential there for all the language or dialectic variations and notations. Ohconfucius (talk) 04:36, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

That's really unnecessary because the existing infobox already accomodates both written Chinese and two romanisations. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 06:31, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Here are some references that use Gor Gor:

http://china.org.cn/english/NM-e/91868.htm (this is the English version of one of the biggest Internet news resource of Mainland China)
Here is IMDB introduction. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002000/bio
Here is the 2004 news report from ChinaDaily, the biggest oversea offical newspaper (English version for China)

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-04/01/content_319707.htm

There is the album named "To Gor Gor - Songs for Leslie " published by Joey Lo on September 20, 2005. http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/code-c/section-music/pid-1004068105/ Augest (talk) 22:12, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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