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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!

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[edit] Divisions Scope

See also: Portal:Vietnam

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 1,424 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

[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

[–] Vietnam
[+] Buildings and structures in Vietnam
[+] Charities based in Vietnam
[+] Communications in Vietnam
[+] Vietnamese culture
[+] Economy of Vietnam
[+] Education in Vietnam
[+] Environment of Vietnam
[+] Geography of Vietnam
[+] Government of Vietnam
[+] History of Vietnam
[+] Vietnamese law
[+] Vietnam-related lists
[+] Military of Vietnam
[+] Vietnamese people
[+] Politics of Vietnam
[+] Science and technology in Vietnam
[+] Vietnamese society
[+] Sport in Vietnam
[+] Transportation in Vietnam
[+] Images of Vietnam
[+] Vietnam stubs


[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. Ans-mo 13:09, 10 July 2007 (UTC), geography, modern history, christianity.
  14. An Apple of Newton talk 19:05, 10 July 2007 (UTC), geography, history, sport
  15. Itsmejudith 19:53, 14 July 2007 (UTC)Wikifying, spelling, grammar, other bits and pieces
  16. Vinhtantran 01:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC)try to build a template for Vietnamese city and county.
  17. Genghiskhanviet 01:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)Places, culture, history, Vietnamese people.
  18. Neweco
  19. David Straub 11:25, 27 July 2007 (UTC) Fauna, especially turtles
  20. Timeshifter 15:23, 5 August 2007 (UTC).
  21. Nguyen Thanh Quang 03:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC) - adding wikilinks, participating on occasions.
  22. Nguyen Binh Giang 06:20, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  23. Rarelibra 18:46, 8 November 2007 (UTC) - adding maps and updating district info, primarily at the province level (districts) and below.
  24. Magnifier (talk) 07:10, 17 November 2007 (UTC) add free picture(s) to article(s), transwiki until my English is better.
  25. Orrmaster
  26. Mr Vinx anything 20:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
  27. Andypham3000 (talk) 22:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC) History, culture, religon
  28. Rungbachduong (talk) 20:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC), culture and historic figures
  29. Angelo De La Paz (talk) I was born and raised in Sai Gon, Vietnam but now I am living in Burbank, California.
  30. Jonathanmoyer (talk) 20:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC) Modern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, Education, Economics, Politics
  31. Darth Twit (talk) 07:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC) Northern Vietnam, especially Hanoi. Grammar and wikilinks.
  32. Newone
  33. amiaheroyet Vietnamese presence in America

[edit] Assessment

Vietnam
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 5 11 18
A 13 8 21
Good article GA 9 9
B 6 6 10 3 118 143
Start 7 58 55 14 888 1022
Stub 32 64 27 2002 2125
List 1 28 29
Assessed 13 99 147 44 3064 3367
Unassessed 1 833 834
Total 13 99 147 45 3897 4201

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] FA Featured articles

  1. Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
  2. Battle of Dien Bien Phu
  3. Double Seven Day scuffle
  4. Durian
  5. Javan Rhinoceros
  6. Operation Camargue
  7. Pham Ngoc Thao
  8. Thich Quang Duc
  9. USS New Jersey (BB-62)

[edit] A-class articles

The following Vietnamese military history articles passed an A-class review from WP:MILHIST
  1. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
  2. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
  3. Battle of Khe Sanh
  4. Cambodian Campaign
  5. Cambodian Civil War
  6. Easter Offensive
  7. Ho Chi Minh Campaign
  8. Ho Chi Minh trail
  9. Krulak Mendenhall mission
  10. Le Quang Tung
  11. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group
  12. Operation Barrel Roll
  13. Operation Commando Hunt
  14. Operation Igloo White
  15. Operation Lam Son 719
  16. Operation Linebacker
  17. Operation Linebacker II
  18. Operation Passage to Freedom
  19. Operation Rolling Thunder
  20. Phan Dinh Phung
  21. Sihanouk Trail
  22. Tet Offensive
  23. Truong Dinh
  24. Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang
  25. Yen Bai mutiny
The following Vietnamese biography articles passed an A-class review from WP:WPBIO
  1. Nhat Hanh

[edit] GA Good articles

  1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
  2. 1955 State of Vietnam referendum
  3. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (United States)
  4. 20th Engineer Brigade (United States)
  5. 2nd Battalion 9th Marines
  6. Hue Vesak shootings
  7. Humbert Roque Versace
  8. Ngo Dinh Can
  9. Operation Shed Light
  10. Typhoon Xangsane

[edit] DYK 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.

[edit] Current nominations for FA and GA status

[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.

[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. 66 blank articles in the List of non-governmental organizations in Vietnam
  4. 35 blank articles in the List of hospitals in Vietnam.
  5. Central Vietnam - redirects to Tây Nguyên
  6. Vietnamese poetry
  7. Bà Huyện Thanh Quan (poet)
  8. Vietnamese Confucianism (equivalent to Korean Confucianism article)
  9. Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
  10. Hanoi Medical University, former Indochina Medical College (1902), the first modern university in Indochina.
  11. Lý Vạn Hạnh or Vạn Hạnh Buddhist monk from the Middle Ages
  12. Âu Việt (甌越)
  13. Lạc Việt (雒越/駱越/貉越) - currently redirects to Kam-Tai
  14. Dai Viet - currently redirects to Vietnam
  15. Ông đồ (specialist in writing Chinese characters)
  16. Âu Lạc {甌雒/甌駱)
  17. Tien River
  18. Trường An - ward of Hue
  19. Van Hanh - famous ancient Vietnamese Buddhist monk (not sure of diacritics) -- is it Lý Vạn Hạnh?
  20. Nam tiến - southward migration of Vietnamese into southern Vietnam over the past several hundred years
  21. Citadel of Hue
  22. Chanh muối
  23. Chà bông or thịt chà bông - a type of meat product -- oh, looks like it's the same as Rousong (is that correct?)
  24. 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:VP says the flower is Prunus persica (i.e., peach).[[1]] Badagnani (talk) 21:52, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Regional

  1. Fédération Indochinoise des Associations du Scoutisme

[edit] New articles

[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

[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!

Magnifier (talk) 22:35, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pending deletions

Give your opinion.

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

[edit] External links

[edit] Media

[edit] State-run


[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)

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