Talk:Rosalind Chao

message: Although she has over 5000 webpages, I found only one two-paragraph bio of  her in Chinese (Simplified) (page now gone, I used cache) and one good data list in English.
Birthyear: According to the data list, she was born in 1964/1956/1959. Nobody knows for sure. I guess I could fan-mail her, but I had bad experiences with fan mails before, with they deflected back at me with court restraining orders. No, they just didn't get reply, at all. Still like them anyway, with a fine touch of hate! *joke* --Menchi 14:48 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Rosalind Chao graduated from Pomona College in 1978.  She was therefore probably born in 1956, as were all the other members of that graduating class. (of which I was a member)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.241.174.129 (talk • contribs) 19:46, 7 October 2005
California birth records list a Rosalind C. Chao born in Los Angeles County 23 Sep 1957.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Questors (talk • contribs) 06:59, 29 December 2005
:Are these available online anywhere, so the information can be verified? Angr (talk • contribs) 22:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References consulted 

message: As a WP:BLP, I culled the article of all unverified information.  I struck everything unreferenced and rebuilt it with 100% referencing.  The prior version is here for anybody interested in going back to try and reference any of the information that had been there.  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 05:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reconstitution

message: On 2008-02-12,  added to the lede specific Chinese ancestry and specification of children, neither of which were supported by the references standing.  I've reverted that section as unsupported.  I further removed the specification of her marriage as I don't wish to debate the noteworthiness of other people in this article, nor does it provide any more information than the infobox currently does.Same user also added a separate specific section to detail Chao's Star Trek acting in more detail, talking about the character and her appearances.  I tried to re-write this several times to make it significant, and not just a prosed restating of her following filmography section, but couldn't manage.  Without delving into plot material (which isn't particular to the actress, and unnecessary) this section would be effectively: "played on Star Trek for 27 appearances through 1999".  I tried with: "Chao regularly portrayed the Japanese exo-botanist Keiko O'Brien (née Ishikawa) on both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) with eight appearances in the former and 19 in the latter before DS9's end in 1999." and will leave it at this until I can do more research into Star Trek materials for something other than plot to add.A question to anyone who may read this, I de-linked Here's Lucy, Anna and the King, M*A*S*H, and AfterMASH in the filmography because they were already linked in the prosed sections above.  When I did the same with the Star Trek series, the filmography really started to look pocked.  I know we're discouraged from superfluously double-linking in an article, but for consistency's sake should the entirety of the filmography be wiki-linked?  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 06:20, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Star Trek

message: What year was Chao really born? I noticed that when I dug all the way back into the oldest versions of this article, it stated she was born in 1956 or 1957. Now it says 1959. I Googled her and most sites say 1957, only a few said 1959. But this article says 1959. What year was she really born? Anybody know for sure? Something just seems off here... Lady Galaxy 02:04, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The issue here is reliable sourcing for her birth year.  You're right: a lot of places on the interwebs have differing dates for Ms. Chao's DOB (including an IP address claiming to be her son,  ).  However, the sites I came across when working on this article were generally unreliable (with respects to "Wikipedia-reliability") with the exception of Yahoo! Movies and The New York Times—both of which listed the DOB currently in the article.  I have now cited her DOB specifically in the article to address these concerns ().  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 03:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth year 

message: *   —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 04:23, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  sources  

message: Why does it say "B.J." under her name?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.94.98.192 (talk) 04:02, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under her name 

message: The section regarding the filmography needs to organized better. Winterysteppe (talk) 23:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section rewrite 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: A recent edit added this source for Chao's age: . The source quotes her as saying most sources online have her age as 10 years too high (e.g. born in 1957), and specifically that Wikipedia does as well. The source supports the 1967 date. However, that would make her only 10 in this photo from a 1977 episode of Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew: . She is definitely not 10 in that photo. I don't think a source that claims the 1967 date can be trusted, in light of that evidence, so I've reverted to the previous version. --Fru1tbat (talk) 17:11, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth year again 

message: The Link that shows Rosalind Chao's graduation date from Pomona College is linked to a Blaisdell article that does NOT reference Rosalind Chao in it. Therefore that link should be removed. Why would you refer to an article that does not mention that person?? Mthompsonwiki (talk) 17:50, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I pulled the Aug 7 2020 snapshot of that page from the archive, as it has the information about Ms. Chao attending Pomona and graduating USC. It looks like Chao's section was removed from the 2018 award page between that snapshot and the next snapshot on Oct 1 2020. Coincidentally, that timeframe was the same as a concerted effort to change Ms. Chao's birthdate in this article to the dubious 1967 date. I wonder if Pomona took back her award as well, or if they let her keep it... --Fru1tbat (talk) 18:30, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 18 November 2020