Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam

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A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about Vietnam. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Contents 1 Scope 2 List of articles in WikiProject Vietnam 3 Related WikiProjects 3.1 Parentage 3.2 Descendant Wikiprojects 3.3 Taskforces 3.4 Similar Wikiprojects 4 Categories 5 Participants 6 Assessment 7 Recognized content 7.1 Featured articles 7.2 A-class articles 7.3 Good articles 7.4 Did you knows (DYKs) 8 Current nominations for FA and GA status 9 Formerly recognized content 9.1 Former featured articles 9.2 Former good articles 10 Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections 11 Article suggestions and translations 11.1 Requested articles 11.1.1 Vietnam 11.1.2 Regional 12 New articles 13 Article Style 14 Collaboration of the Month 15 Infobox and Templates 15.1 Tasks 15.2 Merges, renames, administrative cleanup 15.3 Pending deletions 16 External links 16.1 Media 16.1.1 State-run 16.1.2 Non state-run 16.2 Overviews 17 Sources of information

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Vietnam, its political subdivisions, geography, transportation, culture, history, people, and so on. It aims at expanding Wikipedia's resources on Vietnam in a fair, neutral, and accurate manner. Articles currently covered by this project can be found here.

The original WikiProject Vietnamese provinces' scope was:

“

This is an attempt to create a WikiProject for Provinces of Vietnam. At the point of the project's creation, there is only one page on a Vietnamese province, which served as a prototype. It would be nice if the remainder of the pages could be created along similar lines. Hence, this project. If you'd like to participate, don't hesitate to join in — there are plenty of provinces to do.

”

Our intent is to expand and build upon that.

[edit] List of articles in WikiProject Vietnam

We currently have 4,507 articles tagged as part of WikiProject Vietnam. If you find a Vietnam-related article whose talk page is not tagged please add "{{WPVN}}" there.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Countries.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

[edit] Taskforces

• The CJKV taskforce has been created to assist in disambiguation of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese when using Kyūjitai, Hanja, Hán tự, Simplified Chinese, and Shinjitai (Kanji). If you wish to participate, please come and help out.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Southeast Asian cinema task force

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

Similar WikiProjects include Wikipedia:WikiProject Cambodia, Wikipedia:WikiProject Myanmar (Burma), Wikipedia:WikiProject Southeast Asia, and equivalent WikiProjects for many other countries.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Participants

Please add your time-stamp signature, or just your user name, to this list.

1. Vardion
2. Minh Nguyễn  – wikfying province pages on occasion; adding interwiki links
3. Chris  – Scouting, colonial French and Japanese period history, and Madame Nhu, for whom I admit a bit of a crush :)
4. Psdubow 13:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
5. Badagnani - Music and cuisine.
6. Enlil Ninlil 06:02, 30 June 2007 (UTC) maybe Laos and Cambodia.
7. enderminh 11:01, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
8. Carl Kenner 11:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
9. Doing work on the Ngo Dinh Diem era at the moment mostly -User:Blnguyen/Contributions#History -Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
10. LordAmeth 09:55, 3 July 2007 (UTC) - Pre-modern history, primarily the Trinh/Nguyen period.
11. Yellowtailshark 16:36, 4 July 2007 (UTC) - Graphic designer who loves to clean things up visually.
12. @pple 08:34, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
13. An Apple of Newton ^talk 19:05, 10 July 2007 (UTC), geography, history, sport
14. Itsmejudith 19:53, 14 July 2007 (UTC)Wikifying, spelling, grammar, other bits and pieces
15. Vinhtantran 01:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC)try to build a template for Vietnamese city and county.
16. Genghiskhanviet 01:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)Places, culture, history, Vietnamese people.
17. Neweco
18. David Straub 11:25, 27 July 2007 (UTC) Fauna, especially turtles
19. Timeshifter 15:23, 5 August 2007 (UTC).
20. Nguyen Thanh Quang 03:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC) - adding wikilinks, participating on occasions.
21. Nguyen Binh Giang 06:20, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
22. Rarelibra 18:46, 8 November 2007 (UTC) - adding maps and updating district info, primarily at the province level (districts) and below.
23. Magnifier (talk) 07:10, 17 November 2007 (UTC) add free picture(s) to article(s), transwiki until my English is better.
24. Orrmaster
25. Mr Vinx anything 20:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
26. Andypham3000 (talk) 22:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC) History, culture, religon
27. Rungbachduong (talk) 20:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC), culture and historic figures
28. Angelo De La Paz (talk) I was born and raised in Sai Gon, Vietnam but now I am living in Burbank, California.
29. Jonathanmoyer (talk) 20:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC) Modern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, Education, Economics, Politics
30. Darth Twit (talk) 07:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC) Northern Vietnam, especially Hanoi. Grammar and wikilinks.
31. Newone
32. amiaheroyet Vietnamese presence in America
33. Eistube (talk) 00:07, 20 July 2008 (UTC) I was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, but I am now living in America.
34. Kauffner (talk) 17:22, 28 July 2008 (UTC) American living in Saigon.
35. dragfyre (talk 13:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC) wikiformatting, general QA.
36. djwilms French colonial Vietnam
37. Ng2minh I was born in Vietnam but now I am studying in Australia as an oversea student. I want to write about football in Vietnam.
38. adsoucy I am going to have students in my Vietnamese Religions course do research and write entries on the subject.
39. Pharaoh of the Wizards
40. Mr Accountable (talk) 14:55, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
41. --Magicknight94 (talk) 10:00, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
42. --Quywompka (talk) 12:37, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
43. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:31, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
44. Ngkimvy (talk) 02:43, 28 March 2009 (UTC)Kimberly Nguyen
45. --Amore Mio ^(talk) 05:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
46. Mekongforest (talk) 13:19, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
47. Sunnyrain90

[edit] Assessment

Vietnam articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		4	6		20	30
	A			14		11	25
	GA			2		13	15
	B	7	7	16	6	136	172
	C	2	1	8	3	11	25
	Start	4	62	63	34	976	1139
	Stub		33	77	41	2598	2749
	List		2		4	31	37
	Assessed	13	109	186	88	3796	4192
	Unassessed		1		1	1435	1437
	Total	13	110	186	89	5231	5629

• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc
• Vietnam articles by quality log

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

1. 1955 State of Vietnam referendum
2. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
3. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
4. 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing
5. 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines
6. Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
7. Battle of Dien Bien Phu
8. Double Seven Day scuffle
9. Durian
10. Early life and military career of John McCain
11. Economy of the Han Dynasty
12. Government of the Han Dynasty
13. Han Dynasty
14. Hue chemical attacks
15. Javan Rhinoceros
16. John McCain
17. Krulak Mendenhall mission
18. Le Quang Tung
19. Ngo Dinh Can
20. Ngo Dinh Diem presidential visit to Australia
21. Nguyen Ngoc Tho
22. Operation Camargue
23. Operation Passage to Freedom
24. Phan Dinh Phung
25. Phan Xich Long
26. Pham Ngoc Thao
27. Tang Dynasty
28. Thich Quang Duc
29. USS New Jersey (BB-62)
30. Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang

[edit] A-class articles

The following Vietnamese military history articles passed an A-class review from WP:MILHIST

1. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (United States)
2. Ba Cut
3. Battle of Khe Sanh
4. Cambodian Campaign
5. Cambodian Civil War
6. Citadel of Saigon
7. Easter Offensive
8. Gia Long
9. Ho Chi Minh Campaign
10. Ho Chi Minh trail
11. John S. McCain, Jr.
12. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group
13. Operation Barrel Roll
14. Operation Commando Hunt
15. Operation Igloo White
16. Operation Lam Son 719
17. Operation Linebacker
18. Operation Linebacker II
19. Operation Rolling Thunder
20. Sihanouk Trail
21. Tet Offensive
22. Ton That Dinh
23. Truong Dinh
24. Xa Loi Pagoda raids
25. Yen Bai mutiny

The following Vietnamese biography articles passed an A-class review from WP:WPBIO

1. Nhat Hanh

[edit] Good articles

1. 15th Sustainment Brigade (United States)
2. 18th Engineer Brigade (United States)
3. 20th Engineer Brigade (United States)
4. 2nd Battalion 9th Marines
5. Aodai
6. George Thomas Coker
7. History of the Han Dynasty
8. Hue Vesak shootings
9. Humbert Roque Versace
10. Nguyen Van Nhung
11. Operation Shed Light
12. Society and culture of the Han Dynasty
13. Science and technology of the Han Dynasty
14. Typhoon Xangsane
15. Typhoon Wayne (1986)

[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)

The following items all appeared in the Wikipedia:Main page's Did You Know section:

• ...that the 1993 film Heaven & Earth, directed by Oliver Stone, was based on the life of the Global Village Foundation initiator Le Ly Hayslip, who had a cameo appearance in the film?... Appeared in DYK on 17-th of July, 2007.
• ...that a symbolic April 1995 boat trip—celebrating the foundation of the Mekong River Commission—was unable to cross the Mekong River because China was filling the reservoir of its Manwan Dam? - 15 December 2007.
• ...that in addition to being a government aide during the Vietnam Conflict, Michael Forrestal was also a mediator in international disputes between the USSR and the US? - October 6, 2008
• ...that William Trueheart was the acting U.S. ambassador to Saigon during the Vietnam Conflict, because his superior, Frederick Nolting, wanted a break from duties? October 15, 2008

[edit] Current nominations for FA and GA status

• Early life and military career of John McCain

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections

The following articles within the scope of this project have been selected by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team for inclusion in one or more release versions.

• Hanoi
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ho Chi Minh City
• Vietnam

[edit] Article suggestions and translations

List suggestions for new articles, or articles to be translated from another Wiki, below:

[edit] Requested articles

[edit] Vietnam

1. The Old Quarter, historic centre of Hanoi
2. Tạ Văn Rục
3. 27 missing articles for administrative divisions of Huế#Administrative divisions
4. 28 blank articles in the List of non-governmental organizations in Vietnam
5. 22 blank articles in the List of hospitals in Vietnam.
6. Central Vietnam - redirects to Tây Nguyên
7. Vietnamese poetry
8. Bà Huyện Thanh Quan (poet)
9. Vietnamese Confucianism (equivalent to Korean Confucianism article)
10. Ông đồ (specialist in writing Chinese characters)
11. Kiều Công Tiễn - see vi:Kiều Công Tiễn
12. Nam tiến - southward migration of Vietnamese into southern Vietnam over the past several hundred years
13. Citadel of Hue
14. Quảng Yên - mentioned at Viet Bac
15. Hải Ninh - mentioned at Viet Bac
16. Hồng Gai Special Zone — mentioned at Viet Bac
17. Mai Đà - District of Hòa Bình; mentioned at Viet Bac
18. Tien River
19. Giao Châu
20. Vạn Kiếp - located at the intersection of the Cầu, Thương, Đuống, Kinh Thày, and Thái Bình Rivers, now located in Chi Linh District, Hai Duong Province
21. Chà bông or thịt chà bông - a type of meat product -- oh, looks like it's the same as Rousong (is that correct?)
22. Dương Đông - district seat of Phú Quốc
23. Cassia javanica (hoa đào, a flower used for Tet in northern Vietnam) -- or is it Prunus persica, the peach? It seems that Vietnamese use the term hoa đào for the flower of both plants; which is the species of the one used as a symbol of the north?

vi:WP says the flower is Prunus persica (i.e., peach).[[1]] Badagnani (talk) 21:52, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Regional

[edit] New articles

• Nguyen Phuc Luan
• Thien Tho Tomb‎
• Phú Xuân rewrite, it's a stub now
• Cao Van Lau
• Lê Chiêu Thống
• Northern and Southern Courts period (Vietnam) redirected to Southern and Northern Dynasties of Vietnam
• Do Thanh Nhon
• Nguyen Phuc Duong
• Cham islands (stub)
• Lê Hiển Tông (stub)
• Chau Van Tiep another general of Gia Long
• Vo Tanh the last hero of Gia Long
• Hoàng
• Đăng Đàn Cung
• Imperial Academy of Hue
• Port of Thi Nai
• Vietnamese encyclopedias
• Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam

[edit] Article Style

For suggestions and discussion about how to format and arrange articles on Vietnam-related topics, see our style guidelines.

[edit] Collaboration of the Month

This month's (September 2007) collaboration is Thua Thien-Hue Province. Please help expand and improve this article in any way you can.

[edit] Infobox and Templates

• see the WikiProject Vietnam Templates page.

[edit] Tasks

1. Finish converting Vardion's HTML infoboxes into templatized infoboxes, using {{Infobox province of Vietnam}}.

2. Standardize and improve the articles on Vietnam's provinces (some are just one sentence).

3. Try to arrive at a consistent manner of rendering article titles (i.e. should we use diacritics or not).

Comment - For articles about Vietnamese Americans who don't use diacritics when spelling their name, that's easy--we do the article titles without diacritics (though we can include them in the first paragraph). But for province names, for example, we have some with and some without. It might be best for these if we arrive at a consensus regarding one way of doing it. Badagnani 07:36, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Working on putting together Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Vietnamese). Yellowtailshark 03:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

4. Tag the talk pages of all Vietnam-related articles that are not already tagged with {{WPVN}}.

5. Take care of requests at Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Vietnam.

6. Take care of requests at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Vietnam.

7. Determine Hán tự for place names at Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam/Han tu requests, in order to assist Chinese Wikipedians in correctly titling their articles about these places in the Wikipedias in the various Chinese dialects.

8. Thanks largely to User:Neweco, there are now articles on all 54 officially recognized ethnic groups in Vietnam. Many of these need expansion.

9. Determine and add etymologies of the district names for each district listed at Category:Districts of Vietnam.

10. Wikilink all district names at Districts of Vietnam.

[edit] Merges, renames, administrative cleanup

Vote!

• New entry: Proposal to rename Nanyue back to Nam Viet; urgent attention needed if debate is to proceed meaningfully 122.105.146.204 (talk) 11:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC) David873 (talk) 11:58, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
• Quang Trung Software Park, Ho Chi Minh City into Ho Chi Minh City ^{need check, It look like a inactive Proposal?} 01:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
• move Talk:Vietnam in the Time of the Second World War → Vietnam in the Time of the Second World War, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 October 6, the article text is actually in the talkpage of the article, there is no text in the article space itself Chris 02:15, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
• All the chinese pinyin should be deleted from the Vietnamese history page. It does not belong there.--KBenjamins45 (talk) 08:12, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Pending deletions

Give your opinion.

*History of Vietnamese Youth Organizations 13:10, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

• Vietnam-related articles up for deletion.

[edit] External links

• Portal of the Government of Vietnam
• Communist Party of Vietnam
• National Assembly: the Vietnamese legislative body
• General Statistics Office
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Lao Cai Provincial Government (in Vietnamese)

[edit] Media

[edit] State-run

• Voice of Vietnam: State radio broadcaster
• Vietnam Television: State television broadcaster
• Vietnam News Agency: Official state news agency
  • Vietnam News - daily newspaper from the state-run Vietnam News Agency (English)
• Nhân Dân (The People): Official Communist Party newspaper
• Quân đội Nhân Dân: Newspaper of the People's Army
• Vietnam Net: Largest Vietnamese portal, run by the government-owned Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Corporation
• Hà Nội Mới (New Hanoi): run by the Hanoi Communist Party (Vietnamese)
• Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Saigon): run by the Ho Chi Minh City Communist Party

[edit] Non state-run

While all media in Vietnam must be sponsored by a Communist Party organization and be registered with the government, the following media sources have less government control than others.

• VnExpress: Popular online newspaper (Vietnamese)
• Tuổi Trẻ (Youth): Daily newspaper with highest circulation, affiliated with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Organization of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese)
• Thanh Niên (Youth): Major daily newspaper, affiliated with the Vietnam National Youth Federation
• Lao Động (Labour): Major daily newspaper, affiliated with the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (the sole labour union in Vietnam) (Vietnamese)
• Tiền Phong (Vanguard): Major daily newspaper, affiliated with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth organization (Vietnamese)
• Vietnam Economic Times - for foreign investors
• Báo trực tuyến - Vietnam Online News (Vietnamese)
• Saigon Times Weekly - business newspaper (English)

[edit] Overviews

• VietNam Map
• BBC - Country profile: Vietnam
• CIA World Factbook - Vietnam
• Freedom House "Countries at the Crossroads" report - Vietnam: information on government accountability, civil liberties, rule of law, and anticorruption efforts
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Vietnam
• Open Directory Project - Vietnam directory category
• US State Department - Vietnam includes Background Notes, Country Study and major reports
• US Library of Congress - Country Study: Vietnam
• Information about Vietnam: from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affair
• Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui: News concerning Vietnam (English & French)
• Business Anti-Corruption Portal Vietnam Country Profile
• Vietnam Photos The Travel Photos Gallery in all part of Vietnam
• Vietnamese Art Traditions,History,Pioneers and Contemporary Artists

[edit] Sources of information

• The Vietnam Tourism province pages and Vietnamese Wikipedia are good sources of basic information. The maps that should be found on each page are "made to order" for Wikipedia, rather than sourced from another site, but they're not all finished yet. They don't need to be placed on each page right away — they can be added when they're ready.
• Nom Foundation Nom Lookup Tool Helps you find the Hán Tự (Chinese characters) to match Quốc ngữ words.
• Chinese character to Han Tu dictionary
• Vietnamese English Dictionary
• Bathrobe's Chinese, Japanese & Vietnamese Language Site - A good source for names of bird species in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and English.

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