Talk:Gregory Wong

Alternative name transcriptions
I agree with the IP editor's view here - those aliases attested only by HKMDB are unlikely to be official names and therefore don't belong on the headline of a Wikipedia article. HKMDB is a crowd-sourced movie review site (inspired by IMDB, I guess) and biographies there list every plausible alias of each actor for search-indexing purposes, without much consideration over whether the alises are correct. With that in mind I've removed both the HKMDB source and all the otherwise uncorroborated aliases. Deryck C. 22:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)


 * It's not really the IP editor's view that's the problem, but his behaviour. He has edit-warred against four different users on the redirect page (see ) until protected it. He also edit-warred against numerous other users on many different pages. See WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Instantnood.  -Zanhe (talk) 04:41, 18 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Deryck would you add the notice : This person is a Hongkonger. His family name is Wong. ? 203.145.93.70 (talk) 20:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Deryck, there's no consensus on Wikipedia whether IMDB or similar sites are reliable sources, but I respect your opinion that HKMDB may not be a reliable enough source. However, the pinyin transcription is not simply an "alias", but an ISO standard for romanizing Chinese names in general, be it modern Hongkongers or ancient emperors, and it's widely used by scholars. If you read Paul Fonoroff's A Brief History of Hong Kong Cinema, for example, he spells all Hong Kong names in pinyin. Now, we still use the most common names for article titles, but mentioning the standard transcription is helpful to readers. -Zanhe (talk) 20:57, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * In general, where the subject of an article has a preferred English name, we don't bold any alternative transcriptions in the lede. Templates like Chinese and zh are used instead to list other relevant standard transcriptions. Deryck C. 08:19, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * That sounds fine. I've added the alternative names to the infobox. -Zanhe (talk) 04:29, 28 May 2015 (UTC)