Talk:Michael Lee-Chin

message: The page has contained a large amount of material apparently copied from AIC's webpage, added in an unwikified chunk by an anon in August.  I have removed the material.  Part of the original material:
* caribvoice. org/Business/chinchang.html Two fund managers 
was blocked by the spamfilter.  Guettarda 21:05, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio

message: It seems that there is a bit of an edit war going on with this page, especially over the image. I have now put the standard Biography template in there. Please please please - if anybody wants to change this back to how it was before, can they explain why on here first. I have also reverted the image back to the hires image as shown here - same applies to this. Blowski 17:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now thoroughly rewritten this article, and can those users attempting to use weasel words to express their point of view please discuss the matter on this page first. The most interesting and relevant thing about Lee-Chin are his career background, his current investments, and his philanthropic activities. If you want to make a proper contribution to the article, please focus on expanding these areas, instead of wasting time in an edit war about whether he is black, blasian, Chinese, Jamaican, etc. Also, I need more (reliable) sources, as there does not seem to be much on the internet. If anybody could provide these, I would be grateful. Blowski 18:19, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He is of mixed Afro-Caribbean Jamaican and Chinese ancestry.
*Whatdoyou and I, the two main contributors to this article before your (extremely useful and helpful) contributions, both agreed to the term Chinese Jamaican.  I believe that by removing it, you are upsetting an agreed-upon balance -- and, more importantly, removing something that is verifiably true.  I'll wait 48 hours, but I think there is a presumption for its inclusion, and that it should be included unless you can prove it false. --M@rēino 19:58, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

text: OK, I've rewritten that to make that point clearer. Blowski 17:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit war

message: What does that really mean?  If two of his grandparents were Jamaicans, then why call him "third-generation immigrant"?  Guettarda 04:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As above, there was a disagreement over how Jamaican (and specifically black) and how Chinese he is. This was the compromise that I managed to get through. I thought it was a fairly standard term, but obviously not. Am stuck for what else to write on there at the moment... Blowski 05:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually that's a separate issue - "Jamaican" is not synonymous with "black" (see Eddie Seaga, for instance).  The current wording isn't accurate - he doesn't have "Chinese and Jamaican" parents - he has Chinese and Afro-Jamaican grandparents.  His parents are Jamaican, regardless of race.  Guettarda 18:19, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, good point well made. Is that better? Blowski 18:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third generation immigrant 

message: Michael Lee-Chin is the new Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University
[]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.100.3.67 (talk) 15:43, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions 

message: Ref 5 (Michael Lee-Chin: Encyclopedia (in English). About.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-23) comes from a WP mirror, and is an old version of this page (which was a copyvio of his bio from the AIC site, e.g. http://www.aic.com/en/PDFs/AIC5007ENG.pdf).  However, neither the About.com mirror nor the AIC version actually supports the statement "His mother sold Avon products, and worked as a book-keeper for various local firms, while his step-father ran a local grocery store".  Guettarda 18:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK thanks for that, I didn't realise. I'll check the reference, but I've definitely seen it in a few places. I'm trying to work out how to cite the same reference multiple times. Blowski 18:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

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