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Kathy Xiaosi Gong[edit]

China's youngest national chess champ at age 10 in 1996 and at 12 in 1998. She should be somewhere at Wikipedia. Odd. Can anyone help? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:56, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Even more oddly she is not listed as winner in our article Chinese Chess Championship. Maybe she just participated and the translation stretched that a bit? Best find some very solid, reliable sources first, before claiming the relevance with an new article. --Kharon (talk) 11:44, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Kharon. Actually, I am not thinking of a new article. I was fact-checking this CNBC bit on her about her meeting with Buffett. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:07, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It could be a youth chess title, but I can't find anything reliable even connecting her to chess (in English anyway), so it could be the old "pants on fire" / pad the resume syndrome. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:07, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Written about Xiaosi Gong in 2009 [1]: (translation) "At the age of 10, she became the runner-up of the National Youth Chess Competition and the champion of the Sichuan Adult Championship. After being selected as a national youth team, she became the youngest master chess player in China at the age of 13." This suggests the link Anna is providing may be exaggerating a bit but there is still an unusual talent here. Dragons flight (talk) 12:01, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What does Wikipedia call it when two romantic partners are in a car[edit]

There is the article Making out but it doesn't mention cars. I mention this because a newspaper article I saw about the death of a prominent person says the person found an old newspaper article where cops will be cracking down on "parking". — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:31, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Parking is an old-fashioned term for it - that's what Lorraine calls it in Back to the Future (I think that's also what they say in Pleasantville?). Another term is "necking" but I suppose that doesn't have to be in a car either. I don't think there is anything specific on Wikipedia...maybe Lover's lane. Adam Bishop (talk) 18:18, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lover's Lane sure takes the memory back to simpler times Adam Bishop. The term "going to the submarines races" also springs to mind though i have no idea where it comes from or how widespread its use was. 18:24, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Parking" is also used in an episode of Buffy (2001): "You were parking? With a vampire?!" —Tamfang (talk) 23:55, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Making out" applies wherever it occurs. If the car setting is used for a exhibitionism, it gets called "dogging", though, again, that doesn't necessarily require a car. Matt Deres (talk) 03:21, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So can any of these be used on the Parking (disambiguation) page?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 14:54, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Matt Deres (talk) 01:02, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Matt Deres per WP:DABRELATED you'll need to include [properly cited] information about that term at Making out before including it in the disambig. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:39, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also done. Matt Deres (talk) 15:51, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fairy tale type 480[edit]

Wikipedia has articles on tales of type 480, the "kind and unkind girls". Are there any tales of this kind where the girls switch positions within the story?? Georgia guy (talk) 21:40, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Type 480? Blueboar (talk) 20:33, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Look at The Old Witch; there are links to other articles of this type in the article as well. Georgia guy (talk) 20:51, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Less enigmatically, see Aarne–Thompson classification systems. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.211.131.202 (talk) 21:31, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If they switched, it wouldn't be a tale of that kind. The kind girl has to win in the end, not turn unkind. But there are certainly other tales of double-turns, for girls and boys. The story of Anna and Nina Williams in Tekken 5 is a sisterly one. InedibleHulk (talk) 23:36, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]