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Although she has over 5000 webpages, I found only one two-paragraph bio of her in Chinese ( Simplified) (page now gone, I used cache) and one good data list in English.
Birthyear: According to the data list, she was born in 1964/ 1956/ 1959. Nobody knows for sure. I guess I could fan-mail her, but I had bad experiences with fan mails before, with they deflected back at me with court restraining orders. No, they just didn't get reply, at all. Still like them anyway, with a fine touch of hate! *joke* -- Menchi 14:48 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Rosalind Chao graduated from Pomona College in 1978. She was therefore probably born in 1956, as were all the other members of that graduating class. (of which I was a member) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.241.174.129 ( talk • contribs) 19:46, 7 October 2005
California birth records list a Rosalind C. Chao born in Los Angeles County 23 Sep 1957. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Questors ( talk • contribs) 06:59, 29 December 2005
Clearly she could not have graduated from college at age 14 so clearly the 1964 date (and indeed any date from the 1960s) is not possible. And if she was a genius who could graduate from college as a child the fan publications would have made a big deal about it. Thus the main article is factually incorrect. It seems likely it is in the mid-1950s with 1956 or 1957 being the most likely assuming four years of college immediately after an on-schedule high school graduation. MichaelSH 01:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Did she actually graduate from Pomona College? In an interview she said she transferred to USC from Pomona. I don't think she graduated from either college. The 1957 birth year cited by California Birth Records is by far the most accurate source. How about ahigh school yearbook? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Annavronsky ( talk • contribs) 02:12, 8 November 2006
Removed and changed "Chao plays one of the eight main characters in The Joy Luck Club. However, her favourite role is a minor one in What Dreams May Come, where she played flight attendant Leona, the physical manifestation of the protagonist's dead daughter." It has no source and should noe be there till something is added —Preceding unsigned comment added by Omglazers ( talk • contribs) 16:12, 23 July 2006
As a WP:BLP, I culled the article of all unverified information. I struck everything unreferenced and rebuilt it with 100% referencing. The prior version is here for anybody interested in going back to try and reference any of the information that had been there. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 05:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
68.20.203.140 ( talk · contribs) added an unsourced claim of notoriety for Chao's portrayal of Keiko O'Brien on Star Trek. While this was a frequently recurring role for Chao, none of the pre-existing reliable sources makes these claims, and the ip user provided none. As such, for the time being, I have removed it. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 00:37, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
On 2008-02-12, DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC ( talk · contribs) added to the lede specific Chinese ancestry and specification of children, neither of which were supported by the references standing. I've reverted that section as unsupported. I further removed the specification of her marriage as I don't wish to debate the noteworthiness of other people in this article, nor does it provide any more information than the infobox currently does.
Same user also added a separate specific section to detail Chao's Star Trek acting in more detail, talking about the character and her appearances. I tried to re-write this several times to make it significant, and not just a prosed restating of her following filmography section, but couldn't manage. Without delving into plot material (which isn't particular to the actress, and unnecessary) this section would be effectively: "played on Star Trek for 27 appearances through 1999". I tried with: "Chao regularly portrayed the Japanese exo-botanist Keiko O'Brien (née Ishikawa) on both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) with eight appearances in the former and 19 in the latter before DS9's end in 1999." and will leave it at this until I can do more research into Star Trek materials for something other than plot to add.
A question to anyone who may read this, I de-linked Here's Lucy, Anna and the King, M*A*S*H, and AfterMASH in the filmography because they were already linked in the prosed sections above. When I did the same with the Star Trek series, the filmography really started to look pocked. I know we're discouraged from superfluously double-linking in an article, but for consistency's sake should the entirety of the filmography be wiki-linked? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 06:20, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
If her parents ran a "Chinese-American" restaurant, then it logically follows that she's of Chinese descent. I've replaced a modified version of the Simon line, removing the "noted" term. I agree with your editing down of the ST section; looking back, I did go a tad overboard. Also, there is no article for "newswriting", so linking it accomplishes nothing but red text. DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC ( talk) 16:10, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I didn't disagree with the change from newswriter to newswriting, because the verb will be the ultimate article as opposed to the noun; however Wikipedia:Red links says: "Good red links help Wikipedia — they encourage new contributors in useful directions, and remind us that Wikipedia is far from finished." and that "Removal of red links for nonexistent topics should not be done without careful consideration of their importance or relevance." I'm sure that newswriting is a relevant topic for an encyclopedic article, so I would rather replace the wikilink than have it removed. Your thoughts?
And lastly, we don't have any reliable sources for Ms. Chao having two children; her Yahoo! biography states her husband and that after "having a child" she "de-emphasized her own performing career", but nothing about a second child. So we can either state what we can cite, the marriage and one child, or we can eschew it altogether for now (perhaps commenting it?) until we have a cite for both children?
I'm sure that in amongst all the "Nitpicker's Guide to Star Trek", and "Behind the show" books, and especially the "companion guides to Star Trek" we can find more heady Star Trek-specific information to add to her bio here. Unfortunately, I stopped reading those a long time ago, so maybe this weekend I'll look again at my local libraries and see what I can scrounge up. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 03:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I may in fact have a lead on a reliable sourcing for this, but either need US$3.95, or my local library. Stay tuned. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 17:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
What year was Chao really born? I noticed that when I dug all the way back into the oldest versions of this article, it stated she was born in 1956 or 1957. Now it says 1959. I Googled her and most sites say 1957, only a few said 1959. But this article says 1959. What year was she really born? Anybody know for sure? Something just seems off here... Lady Galaxy 02:04, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Why does it say "B.J." under her name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.94.98.192 ( talk) 04:02, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
The section regarding the filmography needs to organized better. Winterysteppe ( talk) 23:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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A recent edit added this source for Chao's age: [4]. The source quotes her as saying most sources online have her age as 10 years too high (e.g. born in 1957), and specifically that Wikipedia does as well. The source supports the 1967 date. However, that would make her only 10 in this photo from a 1977 episode of Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew: [5]. She is definitely not 10 in that photo. I don't think a source that claims the 1967 date can be trusted, in light of that evidence, so I've reverted to the previous version. -- Fru1tbat ( talk) 17:11, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
I was hoping this would just go away, but her birth year is still being switched back and forth. Her college lists her graduation year as 1978, and photos from multiple roles in the 70s and early 80s make it clear she could not have been born in 1967 - whatever reliable sources have that year are pretty obviously wrong. I'm familiar with all the relevant policies and guidelines - surely there is a solution that satisfies all the relevant aims here. This is getting absurd. -- Fru1tbat ( talk) 13:02, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
And once more, since this is still ongoing, and the party/parties trying to push a younger age/later birthdate have refused to engage in any real dialog, there is fairly ample evidence online against a 1967 birthdate. Not all of it qualifies as reliable sources for article content, but it should absolutely be reliable enough to aid conscientious editors wishing to make an informed decision about this dispute. Which, it needs to be said, looks an awful lot like a concerted PR effort by multiple single-purpose accounts. -- Fru1tbat ( talk) 18:40, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
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The Link that shows Rosalind Chao's graduation date from Pomona College is linked to a Blaisdell article that does NOT reference Rosalind Chao in it. Therefore that link should be removed. Why would you refer to an article that does not mention that person?? Mthompsonwiki ( talk) 17:50, 18 November 2020 (UTC)