Talk:Jin Yong

message: I've taken the liberty of re-categorising the previous talk page, as a lot of very interesting discussions are difficult to find because of the lack of headings.--Alexio 09:24, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cat

message: His books are translated into a lot of different languages, I see no reason why his name in vietnamese is of any particular significance. Only his English and Chinese name belong here.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.168.216.246 (talk) 10:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro section minor edit

message: There are two bits of information that I like to add but need confirmation from people who studied his work.
1. Almost all of his wuxia novels were written for the daily column in Ming Pao initially.  i.e. daily segments were published while in progress.  The book form of his novels are re-edited from these daily writings into more cohesive epics later.  Only the true fans of his know how the story changed from the newspaper daily installments version to the book version.
2. He only used his pen name for his novels.  He used his real name for his role as the chief editor of Ming Pao and when involved in Hong Kong politics.  i.e. He used different names for his serious roles vs. his literature work.
Kowloonese
:Although I cannot find independent source. I know that both of them are true.
:SYSS Mouse 16:48, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: For #1, I read about that in his own words in some appendix of one of his novel.  The only uncertain part is how many of his novels were written that way.  For #2, anyone who lives in Hong Kong can confirm how he present himself in the polical circle.  Kowloonese 20:52, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Addressing Jinyong in different contexts

message: I like the list of characters and martial art schools.  Since his work was heavily based on history, it would be nice to include a list of all the dynasties covered in his novels.  Many minority groups and geography were covered by the stories.  The latter list is not easy to build because of the difference in transliteration and some names were based on ancient usage.  It would be a project on its own to link those information to other wikipedia articles.  For example even the queen of Russia was mentioned in his last novel.  Kowloonese 00:27, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll try to add something like that... -- ran (talk) 22:03, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC) (loving wuxia and loving everything by Jinyong)
It makes no sense why certain characters are included here and not others. Minor characters like 剑神卓不凡 (sword deity zhuo byfan) is a minor character in one novel yet has a lengthy (relatively) section devoted to him. This article is about the author, his life, and his works. I think we should think about move/delete them.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.168.216.246 (talk) 10:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: List of characters/martial art schools

message: As a non-chinese-speaking person, I found difficult to read the whole page (including the detail of his work). One of the factor is there are many version of the character names. For example, Guo Jing is more known as Kwee Ceng (Hokkien) in my country (Indonesia) or Yang Guo is more popular as Yo Ko, etc. Would somebody write all version of the names? Thanks Kunderemp 16:53, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yang Guo got two different moms (before and after the major revision)... anyone wanna mention that? I don't have the name of the old mom in mandarin (before revision).Suredeath 05:56, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Character names in different languages

message: This page is in desperate need of a photo.  I'm sure a photo would be fair use? 165.21.154.111 19:09, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We need photos here.  Maybe one on the author, another on characters portrayed on TV, and a couple on HK, Taiwanese or SE Asian editions of his books.  Any input will be vastly appreciated. Mandel 11:42, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: Timeline: I disagree with DGSD being listed in the 12th century. This novel occursÕ in the 10th or 11th century (I can't remember which one). I've seen a detailed thread on the novel timelines in the Jinyong Teahouse board. If someone knows specifically whether it's in the 10th or 11th century, please change the article.
EDIT: I doublechecked. DGSD occurs in the late 11th century.
http://jinyong.ylib.com/snowtalk/show.asp?ch=genuine&no=25621
I have changed the DGSD timeline, and added the timeline for BiXieJian. Please don't wipe out my changes unless you have sources to back you up.
Anyway, the timeline is missing some novels. I don't have time to doublecheck and change the table now. I'll leave it to someone more capable.
--LWC
: The story can't happen in 10th or 11th century (note 10th century was years 901 to 1000). — Yaohua2000 00:33, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Timeline

message: I read in the South China Morning Post that Cha is currently a doctoral student at Cambridge. I confirmed it with these links - http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/johnian/events/regional/
http://www.newsgd.com/culture/art/200506230034.htm
Unfortunately the SCMP story is not online and the St. John's events page is not stable - so I didnt include these refs in the main article Bwithh 16:42, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cambridge

message: I hope the authors won't mind, but I've changed the "supporting characters" category to the "Top five martial artists" (五绝). Whilst there's no doubt those five are just supporting characters, it seems strange to only include them into the "supporting characters" category - there must be hundreds of such characters in Jinyong's novels, and obviously it's impractical to incorporate them all. Any suggestions feel free to discuss.--Alexio 05:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "supporting characters" 

message: Can I get some consensus here: should we regard Pinyin or English-translated names as "official" in Jinyong-related articles?
For example, should it be Jiangnan Qi Guai (江南七怪) or The Seven Freaks of Jiangnan? (I've written up the page as the former, but if the consensus favours the latter, I'm happy to change it.)
This should apply to characters, groups, sects/schools, locations and martial arts techniques (eg. is it Xianglong Shi Ba Zhang (降龙十八掌) or 18 Dragon-Subduing Palms?).--Alexio 09:24, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pinyin names for characters

message: I changed the title of the article to "Jinyong in Video-game entertainment", since "gaming" has a connotation to gambling, which is obviously not what the author originally intended. Also it's a big claim to call the game a "forefather" to Chinese RPGs - I've "mildened" the language and asked for a citation. If anyone can add that information or expand that would be appreciated.--Alexio 02:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jinyong in gaming 

message: Could someone who reads/speaks Chinese take a look at the list of fictional (imaginary) books that appear in Jinyong's works, and supply English translations?  Thanks :) --Bookgrrl 02:21, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need English translation of titles 

message: It seems this link has been taken down:
http://www.fmsnp.edu.hk/teaching/novel/jinyong/us.my95.net/b5/book/xia/jinyong/jinyong.html
: There are too many external links to websites which provides nothing much other than the complete text of Louis Cha's works, probably in violation of his copyrights. These links are neither reliable sources or in conformant with WP:LINKS. Time to clean them up. --John Seward 16:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  After some review I think it's safe to remove all the external links on the article, and I've done so already. --John Seward 15:22, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: Can anyone provide a source to support the claim that Jinyong study at "Chunking Central University"? From this Google search, I am doubtful whether this institution exists at all... --John Seward 15:31, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chunking Central University 

message: Hi, I oppose the change in the title of the article from Jinyong to Louis Cha Leung Yung (Jinyong). I feel that the new title is inappropriate because there is no standard language in the title. Louis Cha is English, Jinyong is a hanyu pinyin translation from his Chinese pseudonym, while Leung Yung is cantonese? I suggest a revert back to the old title of Jinyong, which is not only easier to find, but more widely accepted. --mh 17:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title Change 

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message: I believe he actually does appear in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer.  Several adaptations of the book in different drama/series have shown his appearance.  I cannot confirm this in his novels, as I have not actually read them.  But, if someone can, please confirm this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.187.189.205 (talk) 00:11, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dugu Qiu Bai

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message: I suggest that the section of Huang Shang be deleted. He was mentioned in ONE novel, and frankly he's not a famous character at all.Suredeath (talk) 16:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Huang Shang

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Several of the wikilinks to schools attended by Jin Yong point to schools in Taiwan. I don't know anything about Jin Yong's biography, but I suspect he did not attend schools in Taiwan. I know it's tricky because schools that were in mainland China "forked" to Taiwan when the Nationalists ended up in Taiwan... Still it's confusing. Where was the Soochow Law school that Jin Yong attended, for example? Seems worth specifying. --Kai Carver (talk) 03:41, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to schools in Taiwan 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion 

message: Please provide reliable source for his DOB (March 10 or other version), and better use publication before 2017. Moreover, people mix up the Xth month of lunar calender with western calender, thus state the date carefully or quote the full sentence from the source. Matthew hk (talk) 09:25, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In zh-wiki, they use this source from 2014 as citation.  However, the DOB was added to zh-wiki without citation long before 2014. So, it may had issue of circular referencing even the url is a newspaper website. Matthew hk (talk) 10:35, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

text: And before 2010, the date in zh-wiki article was stated as 6 February. Interesting fact, the 6th day of the 2nd month of lunar calender in 1924, is 10 March. Matthew hk (talk) 10:39, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  DOB 

message: Different wiki pages refer to characters in Chinese and Cantonese interchangeably. This seems extremely confusing; see for instance Guo Jing's page. Given that this is the English wikipedia, I think it would be best if characters were named according to the official translation (if there is one), with Chinese/pinyin afterwards. Does anyone else have any opinions on this? If not, I'll make some edits. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 15:38, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language and character names 

message: There are 2 different informations about his birthday. the first paragraph said Feb 6, but Early Life section said March 10. i Want to edit it, but afraid that someone will revert it, so i ask here first :p A tumiwa (talk) 11:13, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Born Date