Talk:Battle of Ban Me Thuot

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[edit] Requested move

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Battle of Buon Me Thuot → Battle of Ban Me Thuot — In keeping with convention that battles retain their historical names and spellings (e.g., Battle of Iwo Jima, not Iōtō; Siege of Antioch, not Antakya; Siege of Leningrad, not St. Petersburg), this should be moved to Ban Me Thuot. Alternatively, it should be moved to Buon MA Thuot, since that is the current transliteration for this town.

Elaboration: During the Vietnam War, this town was known as Ban Me Thuot (or Banmethuot), and that is how this battle is named in most of the literature. Since the war, a new transliteration for this Montagnard town has taken hold, Buon Ma Thuot, which is where our article on the town is located. It's illogical for Wikipedia to have a name that doesn't match the historical spelling, nor quite match the current spelling.

For evidence, Google Books is probably better than Google Web:

The same comparison on regular Google:

(Despite the effort to exclude Wikipedia, most results from the middle search do in fact derive from Wikipedia.)

If you Gsearch just on the town, the Web's post-1995 bias gives a lopsided advantage to the new spelling:

Verdict: Ban Me Thuot! Fortunately, most incoming links can be changed at one fell swoop by editing the Campaignbox Vietnam War template. —Groggy Dice T | C 07:22, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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This article has been renamed from Battle of Buon Me Thuot to Battle of Ban Me Thuot as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 09:18, 3 July 2007 (UTC)