Talk:Yue Yiqin

A fact from Yue Yiqin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 March 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the family of Yue Yi-chin, a Chinese flying ace of the Second Sino-Japanese War, claim to be descended from the Song dynasty general and folk hero Yue Fei?

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Hi, Uriel1022! I wanted to thank you for your recent additions. As we disagreed on some changes (i.e. the photo and the alternate name), I just wanted to make sure you know that, overall, I highly appreciate your efforts at expanding the article. Applodion (talk) 09:32, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Applodion, it's right to be careful in choosing sources as you were. Back to the question, this newspaper clipping or part of a poster? reads: "Loh I-Chen, our flying ace, having shot down five enemy's planes [two illegible words] already." If this is authentic which appears to be, then it makes me curious about the "transition" of his surname from Loh to Yue. Take into account that "樂" has two pronounciations, le and yue, the former is pronounced lo(h) in Sichuanese language. Hopefully I'll be able to find some useful information. Uriel1022 (talk) 11:14, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Uriel1022: I'm not doubting that the scan of the newspaper is real; most likely, it is real. I'm not even doubting that Yue's name was translated as "Loh" (though we do need a proper source for this, not just Wikimedia screenshots). My main issue are his relatives and names changes. As he changed his name and identity at least once, and perhaps other members of his family joined the military as well, this could have easily resulted in confusion in the media as well (Just imagine if his older brother, whose identity he used during his military career, had also later joined the military). For instance, this photo and this photo do indeed look very much like this photo (which Cheung identified as Yue). However, in my opinion, this photo and this photo look like quite different from the others - either this is an issue of photo quality and the passage of time, or they may represent another Yue Yiqin. Applodion (talk) 12:42, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]