Talk:Stephen Chow

message: Is his surname "Chiau" instead? A report on SCMP, the best selling English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, on Page C1 on November 24 used "Stephen Chiau". — Instantnood 16:21, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He uses Chow in movie credit.  But it is very possible that his official name on his ID card spells Chiau.  It is also possible that it was a misprint on SCMP though very unlikely.  Hong Kong took in millions of refugees from various parts of China when China opened its gate right after the civil war. The spelling of their names depends on the dialect of these refugee's origins.  Many younger generation inherited the spelling of their father's names which were done without a standardized transliteration back in the refugee rush during 1940 and 1950.  Chiau is a very uncommon spelling for his name. Note that when the Chinese refugees rushed to the British colony half a century ago, the majority of these refugees (except those who were exposed to Western influence in Shanghai) didn't know any English. i.e. the spelling of their own names was at the mercy of the workers/interpreters who handled their registration for the British government.  There might or might not be a consistent transliteration system in use back then. Another factor is the origin of these refugees. The system in use might not work well with how the refugees pronounced their names in their own arcane Chinese dialect.  Given the wide diversity of spellings of the same name, I would bet the transliteration back then was an arbituary thing.Kowloonese 01:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Google found 39K entries for Stephen Chiau and 1.9M entries for Stephen Chow.  The former may be his lesser-known official name and the latter his stage name.  Kowloonese 23:55, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The news report was about a man who's convicted for keeping the lost identity card of Chiau. A possible way would be looking it up in the court proceedings. — Instantnood 19:14, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It shouldn't matter too much which is his real name, as printed on ID. Many Chinese artists do not use their original name but adopt a screen name. What matters is how he is addressed by his fans. It truly makes no sense that the title of the page is Stephen Chow but he is constantly referred to within the article as Stephen Chiau.--Andi kan 04:27, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to belabor the point, but his "real" name is 周星馳. Everything else is an approximation of this name. "Chow", "Chiow" "Chiau", "Tshao", "Txiau" would all be attempts to toss together western sounds to approximate his name. Its kind of like reading street signs in Bangkok- you'll see a nearly infinite number of ways to approximate a single thai word using roman characters. Dxco 20:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

text: It really should be Chow uniformly, per all these comments. Chow is his trade name, whether or not it's "correct" (whatever that means). It is clearly the spelling which is most frequently used in English, and so we must go with it per WP:NC(CN). Barring any new ideas in this discussion, I will change it in a few days. Staecker 12:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: His surname

message: There's a few examples of poor English in this article that really need to be cleaned up. In some cases, I really have no idea what the author was intending to say. For instance, "In Stephen Chow's performance, mo lei tau scripts was once fashionable in Hong Kong." What does that mean?
Well, I guess it means "mo lei tau type of films were once more popular in Hong Kong" or something, (can't decipher Engrish...argh.) also, remember to sign your posts using four tildes. --Ericlaw02 16:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Poor English

message: "...continuing Chow's infamous tradition of introducing young female actresses ..."
Why is "infamous" used here? Does scandal frequently result from this, or is this simply a matter of the wrong word being used here? ("infamous"=bad, "famous"=good).Dxco 00:46, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Professional career

message: Someone should find a better picture of Chow that can be legally used. Half of his face is covered in this one! ask123 (talk) 20:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better Picture Please! 

message: Sony Pictures in collaboration with China Film Group [CFG] have given the go ahead to Stephen Chow to start work on Journey To The West with a budget of 100 million US.
With Stephen Chow, Kitty Zhang Yuqi. An epic retelling of a 16th century Chinese literary classic.
Mr Chow is currently in discussion with Will Smith star of I Am Legend to collaborate. 
Blimey! Twobells (talk) 22:57, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Journey To The West

message: There are serious problems with citation/sourcing, and I have marked as many spots that need footnotes as possible, as well as putting  templates up prominently.  I have already removed the quotes section because it's not notable and is does not meet WP:NPV.  The trivia section, as well as needing sources, also needs to be whittled down.  Some entries there can be integrated into the Professional Career section (such as entries on directors with whom he has collaborated, and how most of his characters are named Sing), while others should be put into a new Biography or Early Life section that still needs to be written by someone.  If the trivia section is not cleaned up soon in this way, I will probably start commenting out large chunks of it.  --Politizer (talk) 14:20, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Overhauling the article

message: 我第一次用，只是打酱油的。  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.236.174.168 (talk) 15:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  亲爱的周先生 

message: To the Chinese IP, Credits for director and producer should be combined into one table like I have done, why do you continue to revert? Why did you remove his credit from Dragon Ball film? I put a column in there for notes. It makes it easier to understand instead of splitting the information and repeating it. Govvy (talk) 14:54, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  why split into two tables? 

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message: Per WP:SIMILAR "Mention other topics and articles only if there is a reasonable possibility of a reader arriving at the article either by mistake or with another topic in mind."  I've been trying to keep a hatnote to distinguish this person from Stephen Chao, American television producer. Chow and Chao have been pronounced the same in English. There's even links to each other in the Chow (disambiguation) and Chao (disambiguation) pages.  AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 15:25, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hatnote