Talk:Cheung Po Tsai

Hong Kong Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hong Kong, a project to coordinate efforts in improving all Hong Kong-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other Hong Kong-related articles, you are invited to join this project.Hong KongWikipedia:WikiProject Hong KongTemplate:WikiProject Hong KongHong Kong articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Hong Kong To-do:

Attention needed (60)

...needing expert attention (4) • ...without infoboxes (25)

Collaboration needed

Recommend topic

Improvement needed

GA-Class articles (58) • B-Class articles (284)

Cleanup needed

C-Class articles (996)

Image needed (344)

Destub needed

Start-Class articles (5,345) • Stub-Class articles (6,667)

Deorphan needed

...orphans

Page creation needed

Requested articles

Miscellaneous tasks

...maintain popularity • ...assess the un-Class (399) • ...assess the un-Importance (1,248)

Biography

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles

Piracy

This article lies in the latitude of WikiProject Piracy, a crew of scurvy editors bound to sharpen up all Wikipedia's piracy-related articles. If you want to ship with us and help improve this and other Piracy-related articles, lay aboard the project page and sign on for a berth.PiracyWikipedia:WikiProject PiracyTemplate:WikiProject PiracyPiracy articles

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Piracy To-do:

Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Piracy:

Requests: John Lopez (pirate), Lords of the Spanish Main, Benjamin Bennett (governor) (see What links here), Thomas Walker (pirate), Richard Bishop (pirate)
Expand: Charles Vane, Edward England, Emanuel Wynn, George Lowther, Pierre Le Grand, Roche Braziliano, Thomas Cocklyn, Woodes Rogers, Piracy in the Indian Ocean
Verify: Daniel Johnson (pirate), Henry Jennings, François l'Olonnais, Olivier Levasseur, Edward Davis (buccaneer)
Copyedit: Golden Age of Piracy
Images: MV Delight, MV Powerful,

This article is written in Hong Kong English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, travelled) and some terms that are used in it (including people) may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Rogozinski, Jan (1999). Dictionary of Pirates. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. p. 70. ISBN 1-85326-384-2.

Biography assessment rating comment[edit]

WikiProject Biography Assessment Drives

Want to help write or improve biographies? Check out WikiProject Biography Tips for writing better articles. -- Yamara ✉ 22:09, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

How could the fort in Hong Kong have been built against Cheung Po Tsai in 1817, if the latter had capitulated and settled into retirement seven years before that? Please investigate which date is wrong. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 13:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

age?[edit]

what was his DOB? anyone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CF-cid (talk • contribs) 08:25, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Novel "Tai Pan" by Clavell[edit]

Any chance this is the model for the main Chinese pirate figure in James Clavell's novel "Tai Pan" ? His name in the book was Wu Kwok or some such. Wrong timeframe, but still...Engr105th (talk) 04:11, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tanka[edit]

Where does the claim Cheung Po Tsai is son of Tanka people come from?ShanghaiWu (talk) 07:59, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This part was added in March 2010 by User:Bloodmerchant, as you can see from here [1]. This user has not been active since 2013. Olivier (talk) 08:04, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]