Talk:Li Ka-shing

message: Two Quotes: Li founded Hutchison Whampoa and... and That company would eventually acquire Hutchison Whampoa Limited in... . Founded or acquired, which one is it? 213.235.195.136 06:20, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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message: Major cleanup: tried to bring the whole article together stylistically; removed all the (extensive) poor grammar that I could find; rewrote the last section; added links to Li's two major companies. --Shannonr 05:41, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Major cleanup

message: Was this written by his PR staff? The man has accomplished a lot but maybe it could be stated in a more objective manner. I won't chang it myself, as I am not well aquainted with the man, but I felt it was worth bringing up. Shouta 05:05, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: yup this article has some serious POV issues.  What's with all that stuff on Jardines?  TastyCakes (talk) 16:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subjectivity 

message: The statement of the discussion heading is presently made in the article. However, the Forbes Magazine article which in the next sentence is refered to as recognizing Shing as the tenth wealthiest man in the world has two other Asians higher on the list: Lakshmi Mittal of India in fifth place (living in the UK though) and Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia in spot number eight. I will thus remove the statement. /Dcastor 20:45, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The wealthiest man in Asia 

message: I tried to align the spelling of Li Ka-shing with the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (chinese)#Names, in particular when to use Wade-Giles, and how. Merabus 23:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: This article is heavily biased toward Li Ka-shing. Evidence: language like, "By 1950, his hard work, prudence and his pursuit of excellence had enabled him to start his own company, Cheung Kong Industries." So I declared it NPOV.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.64.169.72 (talk) 03:23, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tried to fix some of these issues.  TastyCakes (talk) 16:15, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: I have notice that the date of birth of Li Ka-Shing on the text is 13 June 1928 and the boxed table on the right is 29 July 1928. Can someone help to confirm the exact date of birth. Thank you.  --Josephine (talk) 21:51, 26 July 2009 </span></small> 
:Encyclopædia Britannica writes 13 June. The other link is dead.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.97.183.185 (talk) 20:17, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the biography of Li Ka-shing (李嘉誠傳) his birthday June 13 in Lunar calendar, which is July 29 in Gregorian. Vicary (talk) 17:53, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Something has become really confused about his date of birth, as sources for the article claim as above mentioned 13 June, and also some places claim July 29. Yet, the date posted in the article is now 30 January! And that without any sources. It seems this article is not enough guarded. I have no idea were 30 January came from and which date is actually the right one. Regarding this kind of person, it's not so uncommon with this kind of confusion of dates, as it may be hard to get it really confirmed from the person himself. Sometimes one can get a clue, if there is a official birthday celebration or articles about it at some special years. There may be something in some Hong-Kong news paper from 2008 i.e.--Bemland (talk) 01:09, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

text: Please note, this date is simply the date he uses in his HK papers. In fact it was a Chinese custom just to make up a DoB when they arrive from mainland China to HK. 2A00:23C5:C101:5800:9038:A7CE:AA47:8774 (talk) 21:58, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

text: I'll list the evidence below. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth 

message: While not wanting to politicize this, I was just curious if we should add the Mandarin pronunciation and simplified character version of his name? --71.111.194.50 (talk) 08:40, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mandarin pronunciation 

message: Like a shing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.220.162.177 (talk) 12:19, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Richest Asian

message: This mentions his citizenship as "Canadian" but I didn't see any reference as to why he is Canadian, how he became Canadian, why chose to become Canadian, etc. He lives in Hong Kong and was born in China. I'm curious how Canada factors in to this at all. It seems worthwhile to mention, I came here to find out his Canadian status specifically after noticing here:  that he was a Canadian who was listed as one of the wealthiest people in the world. Celynn (talk) 02:43, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't able to find any credible sources online that state Li Ka-shing as also being Canadian. Should we remove this from the page? Tiffdmo14 (talk) 22:27, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian? 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: On 22 January 2015, a Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud scam operation cited this article to try to lend legitimacy to their scam, using the name of this person as a reply target.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:500:A801:A41B:5C4D:B633:DE99 (talk) 16:43, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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message: Currently being used to support a spammer's scam, probably a 419. Also possible the article has been vandalized to make the bait more tempting. (I still think there should be a mechanism to temporarily add such a warning to the article itself.) Shanen (talk) 10:11, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: How is this being used to support a spammer's scam? What vandalism has taken place? The mechanism to add warnings is Wikipedia:Editnotice. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:23, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure how to reply to you directly, but the spammers' send out spam with links to Wikipedia. Most of the scams are obviously 419s, but some of the details in the scam email depend on the articles. In a couple of cases, the details have seemed suspect, but it could be going in either direction. Or the entire article could be a fake. The only thing the spammers are interested in is abusing Wikipedia's credibility to make their own spam look more realistic. I don't know about the Editnotice mechanism, but over the years I have sometimes attempted to warn potential suckers, but was told not to. Shanen (talk) 11:01, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  What details in scam emails depend on the article though? Are you suggesting that the entire of this article is fake? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:55, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the spam's email: https://pastebin.com/dHEPs7hz . I don't know if that's actually allowed or possible, but I think it would be nice to add a temporary warning to the page (IMVHO).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.62.103.58 (talk) 21:16, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how to assess the authenticity, but I am sure that a spammer would certainly vandalize Wikipedia if he saw a buck in doing so. My deeper suggestion would be a mechanism to pass those judgments to experts. I'd like to just paste the entire email (including headers) into a webform, and it would come back with a confirmation webform. At that point I'd just be saying something like "I'm quite sure that this is a link to Wikipedia being used to support a spam" and "Because it appears to be a 419 scam, the temporary warning message at the top of the linked article should include a link to the Wikipedia article about 419 scams." (However mostly I'm just fed up with Wikipedia's close-mindedness. Much as I hate spammers, I certainly don't like Wikipedia much. For example, I thought up another way to justify donating money to Wikipedia, but near as I can tell most of my prior suggestions have simply been disliked and deleted.) Shanen (talk) 02:01, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have requested advice at Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests#"Spam abuse warning" .Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:15, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

text: Again being used to support scam by spammer. Shanen (talk) 10:16, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
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message: Someone added info about kidnapping but when I checked the reference, it links to an article (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53055497) about different person, He Xiangjian.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mad hardy (talk • contribs) 06:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong info about kidnapping