Talk:Michelle Yeoh

message: The intro currently says the show Star Trek: Discovery is a CBS All Access/Netflix show. Although it's probably the case that Paramount+ (new name of CBS All Access) is where it can be seen in the USA but Netflix elsewhere in the world, it seems misleading to imply that it's partially a Netflix show. The show's intellectual property and production derives from CBS and Paramount, with Netflix having no involvement other than streaming rights (as far as I know).
:Valid point; is there any indication if Netflix paid at all for the production of the show? Balon Greyjoy (talk) 17:03, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled section 

message: There is a 'Chinese name' note "This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yeoh."
However, the article title is 'Michelle Yeoh'. This is not a Chinese name, and it is not ambiguous (to an English speaker) which name is the family name. I suggest the note is redundant.
2A00:23C6:A18C:3501:76:6CAA:4BF8:5BC (talk) 12:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It's addressing the full name "Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng" in which the Chinese given name is in front of the Chinese family name. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:16, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name note 

message: Michelle Yeoh has been awarded several honors that carry with them styles and titles. Often in wikipedia pages, the full styling and titling of a person is listed in the first two sentences of the article as part of their full name. Other pages about knights and officers of the French legion d'honour don't list their tiles, so that's fine, but styles awarded by Malaysian states are applied to the full name, as seen in the articles for Yuen Yuet Leng, Burhanuddin al-Helmy or Hamzah Zainudin. 
So, I propose that her full name at the top of the page should read
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, PSM 98.217.96.71 (talk) 16:58, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Styles and Titles 

message: Surely Yeoh should be more acurately descirbed as a Chinese Malaysian? She has no Malaysian ethnicity and thus is ethnically Chinese and just happened to be born in Malaysia through the randomness of birth and thus at birth at least was Malaysian in terms of nationality and citizenship. Culturally it seems quite clear however, that she is Chinese (according to this very artical she doesn't even speak Malay). She doesn't even appear to have ever acted in any Malaysian productions of any kind, only playing parts in either Chinese (Hong Kong) or Western films, so it's quite clear that she see's herself as more Chinese than Malaysian.  94.175.102.211 (talk) 11:37, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: She's a Malaysian citizen and national. That's what goes in the lead. Her ethnic Chineae background is appropriately mentioned in the "Early Life" section. Tad Lincoln (talk) 04:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  definition of citizenship/ethnicity 

message: I think Michelle Yeoh's awards and nominations section should be split into an article of its own, List of awards and nominations received by Michelle Yeoh, as her successes these past years have been significant, especially if you count her Honors and styles as well. Samuelloveslennonstella (talk) 07:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Article too short for a split to make sense. Also don't do a split until you allow enough time for a reasonable discussion. Geraldo Perez (talk) 05:30, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Probably borderline on length for a separate "awards" article (but arguable). But if it is split, it should not keep the current (table) format – which is awful (horrible use of rowspan!). If it is split, it should be organized like List of awards and nominations received by Zendaya or List of awards and nominations received by Jennifer Lawrence (which is a WP:FL) with separate sections/tables for each award-giving institution, and proper/responsible use of rowspan in each separate table. I would definitely oppose just moving the current two tables over to a newly split article with no changes. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 03:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination to split 

message: Text that I deleted read that she is the first Malaysian to give a speech at the UN General Assembly.  As thus stated, that is incorrect.  Many Malaysians have given speeches at the General Assembly, including the PM in 2020.  https://www.kln.gov.my/web/usa_un-new-york/news-from-mission/-/blogs/statement-general-debate-of-the-75th-session-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly-26-september-2020?_33_redirect=%2Fweb%2Fusa_un-new-york%2Fspeeches%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_uxy9iPxMFhvk%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_pos%3D1%26p_p_col_count%3D2%26_101_INSTANCE_uxy9iPxMFhvk_delta%3D20%26_101_INSTANCE_uxy9iPxMFhvk_keywords%3D%26_101_INSTANCE_uxy9iPxMFhvk_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_101_INSTANCE_uxy9iPxMFhvk_andOperator%3Dtrue%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_101_INSTANCE_uxy9iPxMFhvk_cur%3D3
If she is the first Malaysian of Chinese descent to give a speech there, there needs to be a source for that. Pechmerle (talk) 11:08, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speech at UN General Assembly 

message: Any information on which 'private girl's boarding school' she attended in the UK?
None of the following schools list her as alumnus.
Badminton.
Roedean.
Benenden.
Godolphin & Latymer.
Information appears to be non-existent. 109.154.200.111 (talk) 20:11, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: From the looks of it, perhaps it's the Royal Ballet School, but it's a bit unclear, I agree. Continuing to look into it. "she trained from the age of four to be a dancer, until, aged 18, studying at the Royal Ballet School in London, a crippling fall ended her dance career" Cerebral726 (talk) 20:47, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which School? 

message: It says in this article that Yeoh both attended and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Arts and a Minor in Drama, however Manchester Metropolitan University considers her an alumni and says she graduated in 1983 with that same degree? Manchester Metropolitan University didn't exist in 1983, however there's photographic evidence to suggest she attended Crewe and Alsager College in the 1982-1983 academic year, which was one of the colleges that later formed Manchester Metropolitan. 
The author of that article claims she did a Creative Arts and specialised in Dance in her final year (aligning with the degree she's claimed to have gotten from the Royal Academy of Dance - but also suggesting she was there multiple years?) and received a 2:1, however if she did complete a degree at Crewe and Alsager then would completely contradict the idea that she went to and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance in London? 
Michelle however does mention in an interview that she began studying Ballet at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, but had to stop because she suffered a back/spinal injury. She then mentions "Another door opened where I was still very much in the world that I wanted to be" (suggesting she she definitely transferred to do something different like this article claims), and another interview claims that she 'stayed on at the Royal Academy, studying choreography instead, and graduated in 1982 with a BA in creative arts with a minor in drama.', but that would again contradict the idea that she graduated in 1983 from Crewe and Alsager College?
TL;DR, I'm finding it hard to create an actual accurate timeline of Yeoh's education. I'm speculating that she did begin her higher education at the Royal Academy of Dance in London in 1980 studying ballet, but then at some point moved to Crewe and Alsager College (possibly in 1982, as the photographic evidence only suggests she was at Crewe from 1982-1983), where she transferred her Ballet degree to a degree in Creative Arts, completing her final year and graduating from there in 1983 at 21 (which is the expected age to graduate if she started higher educated at 18, which is typical for the UK). 
This would mean that she left the Royal Academy of Dance in 1982 (which aligns with the idea that she "graduated" in 1982 that some claim), and still would have been able to get her Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Arts and Drama degree in 1983 from Crewe and Alsager College. As this college later became Manchester Metropolitan University, it would then also support the (admittedly slightly far-fetched) claim that she graduated from Manchester Met.
Any thoughts? Am I missing some key information here? Frogsarehere (talk) 14:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which University/Higher Education did Yeoh actually attend and when? 

message: You just re-added sources to "first Malaysian to win an Academy Award" in the lead. This is already well sourced in the "Award success (2021–present)", or if you feel it's not, the sources belong there, not in the lead. GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:39, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. I missed that. Geraldo Perez (talk) 00:15, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Malaysian to win an Academy Award