Talk:Yo-Yo Ma
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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)