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A fact from Nguyễn Văn Thiệu appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky stopped appearing at presidential election rallies during their successfully rigged 1967 campaign after the latter was heavily heckled at their only event?
was this person a US citizen (Vietnamese American) or not (a refugee or expatriate in the US)? Article and categories should show this. Thanks Hmains02:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"This article is within the scope of WikiProject Religion..."
This is the biography of a political figure! How did it wind up in a religion section and how do we fix that? Rasp (talk) 22:28, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Nguyễn Văn Thiệu's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡08:33, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Nguyễn Văn Thiệu's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡07:17, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The article is incorrect. This man had twin daughters who attended Mt. Holyoke College and one son who attended Amherst College (which is how he came to live in Mass.). And immediately following the fall of Saigon, the US govt relocated him (paid about $150,000 - which was a ton of money in 1975 - for a house in Hawaii. I went to college with his daughters so I know a few things about this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.163.60.15 (talk) 13:42, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This article's assertion that Thieu in exile shunned the media is not completely correct. Throughout the 1980s that was the case, but I recall a number of interviews he gave in the 1990s. He also wrote articles for TIME magazine once or twice, calling for a return to democracy in Vietnam, and made some clandestine attempts to bring dissidents together in exile (but found that many of them wanted to keep their distance from him). I will try to find a few sources. David Cannon (talk)
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The result of the move request was: Page not moved. There was not consensus for the move. Consensus among the opposers was that the Vietnamese spelling (with diacritics) is appropriate and follows the English Wikipedia norms for the title. It was also noted that the existing redirects currently handle this situation well. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Danetalk17:05, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
– Move of Vietnamese biographies to their more popular anglicised titles as per WP:UCN and WP:UE: The choice between anglicized and local spellings should follow English-language usage. See the following Google Ngrams for evidence:
Support per nomination and Rreagan007 as well as per WP:COMMONNAME. English-language orthography does not use diacritics and this name appeared in newspapers and magazines around the English-speaking world on a nearly-daily basis. Exceptions should be made for names that have well-established and recognizable English-language forms that continue in common use as of this writing. There have been a number of previous discussions regarding this matter — see Talk:Nguyễn Văn Thiệu#RfC on Vietnamese diacritics (21:31, 22 July 2012, above). —Roman Spinner(talk • contribs)17:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose no need for this change when redirects adequately address any confusion. WP:UCN is irrelevant and all the names are recognizable with diacritics. Mztourist (talk) 05:07, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I mean, WP:UE is pretty clear in exactly when diacritics/non-English characters should be used: when the majority of sources use them, which isn't the case here as already demonstrated. As I've mentioned in your other comment against this policy at Vo Nguyen Giap, you can always go forward and try and form an RfC to change it, but existing exceptions like common sense and ignore all rules don't really apply. In fact, I'd like to think that common sense is to use the most common name... ItsPugle (please use {{ping|ItsPugle}} on reply) 12:22, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Why stop here? There are over 1 million articles with full fonts on en.wp. These correctly spelled articles have been built up over 20 years. @Rreagan007: are you volunteering to go through every article in the corpus and remove diacritics, not just in titles but in texts? If not what are you supporting here? WP:USEENGLISH evidently doesn't say "strip fonts", but leaving that aside. Are you volunteering to clean the accents and diacritics from the entire project? In ictu oculi (talk) 13:37, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I think this is a Reductio ad absurdum argument. But yes, I think that all* articles on the English Wikipedia should be at their most common English name, which includes spelling and diacritics. I highly doubt there are over one million articles not currently at their most common English name, but if there are, then yes they should all be moved to their most common English name (*with certain exceptions, of course) in accordance with Wikipedia policy. Rreagan007 (talk) 14:23, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose As mentioned in the other discussion, most older sources had typographical limitations. See for example this ngram for a generic name with diacritics which clearly shows how pretty much everything before 2010 was still largely constrained by the inability to write such marks. Now, as your ngrams show, this is no longer the case, and publications that can include diacritics, do include them, and Wikipedia should follow suit. Neodop (talk) 22:40, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Linking to another cherry picked source hardly counts as evidence - that source isn't even Vietnamese and has only one diacritic in the non-anglicise term. And all the Google Ngrams I've provided show, as per actual policy, that the significant majority of sources use the anglicised version. Even in recent years when such (alleged) technical limitations wouldn't a problem, Google Ngrams still shows that the anglicised versions are very substantially more prominent than the "native" ones. ItsPugle (please use {{ping|ItsPugle}} on reply) 01:49, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
A lot of bytes above, responding to those arguing for following low-MOS English sources:
1. There is nothing absurd about consistency, that is why we have MOS.
2. The current number of articles in the English Wikipedia is 6,136,347. Of these around 10-20% touch on subjects in Latin America, Europe, so will have accents and other diacritics in article texts and where required in titles. Anyone can test this with Special:Random/Namespace.
3. "in accordance with Wikipedia reality" is article reality : since all articles have full fonts in title and name space and are therefore every article which could have diacritics does have so, then the article corpus en toto cannot be "contrary with Wikipedia policy", simply policy is being misread (as here).
4. The main point I am making here is that to be on a RM lobbying for a change in article corpus reality, status quo is WP:DISRUPTIVE and why several of the anti-diacritic editors 10 years ago ended up with Topic-bans, blocks and even C-bans.
1. Yep, and the MOS in this situtation says to use the non-diacritic version (WP:UE)
3. There's literally nothing saying that just because something can be technically done, it must be. In fact, saying so is a direct divergence from relevant policy
2. and 4. The existing wiki-wide consensus supports using the non-diacritic version, so I think it's actually more disruptive for you to continue to base your attacks against this RM and me on a discussion that occurred ten years ago and for you to continue to protest that this therefore changes up to a million articles - literally just lunacy
Also, please stop bringing up the fact that other editors got blocked or c-banned ten years ago. I've said this over and over: if you think I'm being a serious issue (other than just disagreeing with you), then report me to the ANI - otherwise it's just obvious you're trying to taint my character ItsPugle (please use {{ping|ItsPugle}} on reply) 00:33, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose WP has for a long time embraced the diacritics set contained in any latin script in order to respect native pronunciations. It would be retrograde to move these back to non-diacritics style. -- Ohc ¡digame!20:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as with my comments on the Giáp article. Vietnamese diacritics exist for a reason. It's insulting not to spell peoples' names correctly. Blythwood (talk) 02:12, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really think predicting how someone (many of whom are dead) is going to feel about their Wikipedia page using anglicised characters is a great reason here. Especially when it goes against policy. ItsPugle (please use {{reply|ItsPugle}}) 04:11, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The article is very detailed. Of course, one or the other does not like the article. It does not matter.
In german wikipedia a similar article was edited. But it is more or less an abstract!
Nonetheless, the article shows that Thieu was a through and through anti-communist. Until his death.
Unlike his "comrades-in-arms", e.g. Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (or Nguyen Cao Ky), Trần Thiện Khiêm (or Tran Thien Khiem). They become opportunists over the years.