Talk:Ruth Mulan Chu Chao

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Fyi this page is supposed To be details on the Harvard Business School building NOT A REDIRECT TO A PERSON

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hhebert01 (talk • contribs) 16:58, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Shouldn't the first sentence of the article just be a general statement on the person, not just quoting what harvard says?

Sources and article content
I'm concerned that this article doesn't have much in the way of independent sources. Out of eighteen references:
 * 7 are published by Harvard, in relation to a Harvard Business School building paid for by Chao's family years after her death. Four of these are published by the business school itself as thanks.
 * 2 are published by the Foremost Group, a company founded by Chao's husband.
 * 3 are personal obituaries.

Every single citation in the "Personal life" section comes from one of these non-independent sources. No sources, affiliated or independent, were published during Chao's lifetime. In addition, the seven remaining sources consist of:
 * A news story covering the death of Ruth's independently notable daughter, Angela. Ruth is not mentioned once in this article.
 * A news story about Ruth's other daughter, Elaine, commenting on Gov. Charlie Baker's transportation policy. Ruth *is* mentioned here, only once:
 * Another article about the building. This one does talk about Ruth a bit, but as it speaks mostly of her character and love for her family, as opposed to any actions during her life, doesn't really establish notability in my opinion.
 * A press release from 2015 honoring the foundation posthumously named after Ruth Chao, as well as her family, for philanthropic donations. Ruth is never mentioned independently in this press release - every mention of her is either the name of the foundation or as.
 * Yet another article about the building. The only mention of Chao herself reads:


 * Another article about the building. Ruth is mentioned solely in another quote from Elaine's speech at the dedication ceremony:

It seems to me that the building is notable - in fact, it already has its own WP article. However, I don't know if these sources can establish notability for Ruth herself, and considering that the bulk of the article seems to be about people other than Ruth, I wonder if parts of this might be better merged into that article. I'm also open to other suggestions for improvement in this article.

Per WP:Independent sources,. Currently, if we only use those statements that cite reliable, third-party sources (references 2, 4, 15, and 16), the article would read, in its entirety, as follows:



Thesixthstaff (talk) 16:32, 16 April 2024 (UTC)