Talk:International Vietnamese Youth Conference
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[edit] US-centric
You may not enforce US spelling on articles. Believe it or not there are official international standards for things, while the USA goes off and does its own thing. That is fine within the USA, but it doesn't give US citizens the right to "correct" everyone who spells things the proper English way, especially on articles that are about Vietnamese organisations founded in Australia. Also Wikipedia says you can't.
And, have you ever noticed how every other city in the world has its country listed? Even when it is a world famous city it is "Paris, France" not "Paris". Yet even lesser-known US cities like San Diego do not have their country listed. This is not deliberate, but it is a product of a US-centric mindset. It is necessary to state which country the third conference was in, as was done for every "foreign" country.
So try to allow a little bit of balance in the article.
And by the way, it is considered poor form to write glowing articles about yourself, or things you organised, in Wikipedia since you can't possibly be impartial. CarlKenner
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- Good point on being US-centric. Wikipedia's rules say that articles about topics of UK-based nature should be written in British English, and US-related topics should be written in US english, so in this case, I should be British English, given the conference's root and creation in Australia. I am making the changes ... enderminh 05:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Terrorist Organization?!!
Far more important however is that the entire article is written from the point of view of your US-centric extremist ideology, which is totally opposed by the vast majority of the world. And any attempts to balance it by including the views of the rest of the world are deleted. It is like Osama Bin Laden writing the article on Al Qaeda and deleting all references to the fact that it is a banned terrorist organisation with evil fanatical beliefs, that blew up many US citizens and a couple of US buildings. Don't get me wrong, an article on Al Qaeda should also point out that Al Qaeda also does a lot of charity work, defends Kosovo Albanians from being slaughtered by Serbia's campaigns of genocide, kills far less people than the USA, and that half of the buildings they blew up were legitimate military targets. But one can't leave out the fact that they are a banned terrorist organisation of crazy evil sectarian religious nuts who kill lots of people.
Lenduong is also a banned terrorist organisation in Vietnam, like all the many Al Qaeda backed groups around the world are banned terrorist groups in the USA. Obviously it is not a fair comparison, since Al Qaeda, who these groups claim to follow, killed about 3000 people and destroyed two buildings in the USA (in retaliation), while the French/Japanese/US regime, who Lenduong claim to follow, killed far more than 3 million people in Indochina and destroyed about 3 million people's homes (in an unprovoked attack). CarlKenner
- Lenduong is a non-profit organization that was founded, as you mentioned, in Australia. It has offices in Europe, Australia and the United States complete with address, non-for-profit tax code, etc. Where do you get the idea that it is a terrorist organization, and what does this organization has anything to do with Axis and World War II? In order to not violate WP:3RR we probably need other persons to chime in here, before we are just reverting ourselves. This is in regards to this change enderminh 05:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)