Talk:Yao Defen

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 05:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Someone vandalized this page. I would edit it, but I don't know if anyone else reads pages about tall women. Ilike1954rcamodels 06:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * You should fix vandalism even if it's not of a "popular page." Plus it's hard to predict what will be popular here, at least it is hard for me to predict. The article on Jerome Bixby is three years old, but doesn't have many more edits than this one. Yet Bixby wrote for Star Trek and had a story adapted on The Twilight Zone, both of which I thought had high Net-appeal. You just never know.--T. Anthony 09:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

biographical error?
This article states that this woman's parents sold her into slavery to a circus owner. Following one of the links provided I found a quite different story. It seems that after she was grown her father helped her get a paid contract to work as an entertainer in a circus, and he accompanied her. When he died somehow she wound up at another circus where she was abused and held prisoner. That is quite a bit different than saying her parents sold her into slavery. I haven't read enough of the links to know which is the more reliable version, but obviously if there is no good reason to state that her parents sold her into slavery then that really urgently needs to be changed! Amity150 11:05, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Any relation to Yao Ming?
Should this article mention that she is not related to the more famous giant Chinese person Yao Ming? It might clear up some confusion for people - PheonixUK

Weight
How can she be 440 pounds? WWE's Great Khali is only 420 pounds and he is absolutely huge. The only way she could be heavier is if she is extremely obese. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.228.245.45 (talk) 21:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It's based on misconversion: you can see in some articles her weight given at "396 lb (200 kg)", yet 396 lb ≈ 180 kg. Apparently someone noticed this, and "corrected" the wrong value, further adding the misinformation. Previously Yao's weight has been given at 160 and 177 kg (353 and 390 lb).


 * Another factor is WWE's well-known exaggeration of their wrestlers' measurements, especially the big ones. Dalip Singh's a.k.a. The Great Khali's weight ranged between 125 and 165 kg (276 and 364 lb) during his bodybuilding years, and outside wrestling statistics his height has been reported at 6 ft 11½ in (212 cm) by Muscle Magazine, 7 ft (213 cm) by Tara's Health Club and 7 ft 1 in (216 cm) on this Indian Bodybuilding Federation page.


 * So based on Singh's highest bodybuilding weight and the most reliable (i.e. lowest) reported height, with Yao measured at 233.3 cm (7 ft 7.85 in), reportedly par Guinness standards, Yao is some 21 cm (8¼ in) taller and 15 kg (33 lb) heavier. But proportionally Singh is heavier of the two by c22 %: scaled down to a height of 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) Yao would weigh c83 kg (183 lb) and Singh c101 kg (223 lb). So Yao indeed has the weight advantage – even with the correctly converted and unexaggerated figures – but owes this to an even greater height advantage.


 * --Anshelm &#39;77 (talk) 20:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Lighter alternative: This video has her weight at 348 lb (158 kg). --Anshelm &#39;77 (talk) 16:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Tumor Removed When?
'Six years ago, a hospital in Guangzhou Province removed the tumor, and she stopped growing.'

Shouldn't that have a Gregorian date? 2 years from now, this article will still say six years ago, but then it should say eight. --Mrholcomb (talk) 22:35, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Acromegaly
In the article, acromegaly is used as a synonym for gigantism. Acromegaly is excessive growth hormone production after epiphyseal plate fusion (ie. after the bones have stopped growing, or in an adult) and it just gives large features such as hands, feet and facial features, NOT increased height. Gigantism is excess before this fusion (ie. from birth) and it causes the bones to continue growing and therefore height to continually increase. Clearly she had the latter, so that paragraph should be changed. -- Lauri195 (talk) 22:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Picture on flickr
there is a picture of her here http://static.flickr.com/37/120058850_b85bfd11e7.jpg - but I'm not too familiar about the legality, but if memory serves me right that pictures of public accessible flicker-pages are CreativeCommons ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atlana (talk • contribs) 14:39, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Guinness video
Many facts and details on this GWR video clip. It appears they recognize her as the tallest woman in China, but not the world as of yet. Some information here as well. Yao has been claimed taller than Sandy Allen at least since 2000; perhaps now, after Allen's death one might expect Guinness to finally evaluate her case. --Anshelm &#39;77 (talk) 23:52, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Shoe size
First of all, 26 US ≠ 78 EU. Much more reasonable figures can be found here, where it is said that Yao's shoes were size 57 EU (cirka 22 US women) in 2006. Matthew McGrory's shoe size is given at 69 EU, which is consistent enough with the 29½ US men usually attributed to him, when using the formula [3 × (EU − 31 1/3)]/4 + 1 = US men – and remember to add 1½ for US women (hopefully you can make sense of that, as I didn't have the patience to do better). --Anshelm &#39;77 (talk) 01:56, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

More precisely, Paris Point size 57 equates to last length 38 cm (15 in), so that would be 22½ in US women's size or UK size 20. This should mean foot length of 36.0–36.5 cm (14¼ in), in case you need Mondopoint. I see the nonsense shoe sizes and imperial misconversions are still there... --Anshelm &#39;77 (talk) 16:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

that's wrong!
Height 2.64 m (8 ft 8 in)[1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.247.130.144 (talk) 12:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

She Is dead You Know
She Is dead You Know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.0.120.35 (talk) 20:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Source? -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 21:17, 3 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Not sure on reliability but this suggests she died on November 13, 2012. Gran2 13:49, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Recent death template for a non-recent death
News of her death appears just to have hit the Western media; look at the way that this article (MSNBC, published around noon UTC on 5 December) treats the incident. Between that and the spate of editing since yesterday, I think it wise to use this template as if she had just died this week. Nyttend (talk) 21:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

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