Talk:Ye Htoon

Facts

That the fellow is "pioneers in bringing digital switching" is not encyclopedic unless it can be sourced from an independent resource, and at any rate is not encyclopedic, it makes the article read like a fansite. Source it or remove it. Okkar 14:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

That is a retaliatory edit for what I placed at Tin Oo. Knock it off, I did source it.

Uncle Monty?

"Chan Htoon, former Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and the architect of the first constitution of Burma (Myanmar) in 1947." Uncle Monty???????PiCo (talk) 03:29, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Pardon? Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 12:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

U Myint Thein, known as Uncle Monty. Sounds like his career. I knew him back in 1988. He was writing a secret history of his life, but I don't think he ever finished it. PiCo (talk) 02:41, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Death additions

This keeps being added, but unsourced. This article has been the target of vandalism, can someone provide a source? --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 12:09, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

I need to find if someone has died, and this is tricky...

The subject is Ye Htoon. The problem is, he's Burmese. Burma has been a notoriously closed society for nearly 50 years, with low Internet accessibility, and any source material would be in Burmese, which we don't have for this article. This article has been vandalized multiple times since I started it, as the man is basically an enemy of the state. He's even edited this article and provided the photo, but attempts to contact him via his Wiki account have been fruitless. However, two different IPs have posted him as dead of late. I reverted as they were unsourced. It could be just vandalism, it could be for real. Google is bag-o'-nothin', any ideas where else I can look? --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

• It looks like there's good documentation of Mr. Htoon being alive as of the end of 2009, both from the sources in your Wiki article, and also from elsewhere on the web. After that, silence. That means that the applicable principle is Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Deceased, and I quote: "...anything questionable should be removed promptly. Any individual born less than 123 years ago is covered by this policy unless a reliable source has confirmed their death." So Wikipedia should continue to assume Mr. Htoon is alive until a reliable source states otherwise. --M@rēino 15:01, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

That was my feeling as well, but this has been nagging at me. --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 20:22, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

It's likely a hoax. Exile publications like the Irrawaddy, Mizzima, etc. would definitely have reported the death of someone of his stature. (I also looked through a couple of Burmese language weeklies published in May (that's what the purported death was). Nothing. Couldn't search the daily papers though; the archives of daily papers on the government site only go back a couple of weeks.) Hybernator (talk) 02:31, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Good, thank you so much! Is there an article on him on the Burmese Wikipedia? Can we get his name in Burmese script? --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 03:38, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Just added in Burmese script. No, there isn't an article on the Burmese Wiki. Hybernator (talk) 23:57, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

• I wish they would hurry up and make Burmese font standard on computers. Thank you! --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:47, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

• I have the obituary- Roland Obituary

-Smartie 207 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smartie207 (talk • contribs) 14:37, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

It is locked, can you copy-and-paste it here?--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 14:08, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

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