Talk:Huế Phật Đản shootings

GA Nomination
Very well written article and congratulations to the contributors. It was a very interesting and informative read and seemed to pass the GA criteria, leading me to logically pass it as a GA. Most the article barring the prelude was written to an informative level and was fairly neutral. There are some issues with the prelude section of the article: In general, it seems that the article is heavily sympathetic towards the Buddhists who were persecuted and, while this is natural and perhaps impossible not to have as an undertone in the article, it would perhaps be better to present the point of view of some of the Catholic minority and how they saw the Buddhist crisis etc. Maybe that's not within the scope of the article but it's just an idea the main contributors could dwell on. It's not too major and doesn't stop the article from being GA.
 * 1) 1st paragraph in prelude is rather heavy on its allegations of pro-Catholic bias in the government. These are all very well cited, but the prose overloads these facts on the reader. It would be perhaps send info about it Religious persecution in Vietnam and cut down on the details here.
 * 2) "A 1958 rarely enforced law known as Decree Number 10 was invoked on May 7 to prohibit the display of religious flags." Confusing prose there.
 * 3) Would it be possible to find any information on why Decree Number 10 was invoked. It doesn't really present the PoV of the government, implying that the only reasoning was blatant dislike of Buddhists displaying their religion.

Also, maybe it would be better to attribute your opinions to the sources. As sometimes whole paragraphs of opinions remained unattributed, even with one reference at the end, original research may seep into the article. AbA 06:10, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * GA review (see here for criteria)


 * 1) It is reasonably well written.
 * a (prose): b (MoS):
 * 1) It is factually accurate and verifiable.
 * a (references): b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR):
 * 1) It is broad in its coverage.
 * a (major aspects): b (focused):
 * 1) It follows the neutral point of view policy.
 * a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
 * 1) It is stable.
 * 2) It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
 * a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA):  c (non-free images have fair use rationales):
 * 1) Overall:
 * a Pass/Fail:
 * a Pass/Fail:

"Vesak"
"Vesak" is the Sinhalese word for the holiday. It is not a universal term for the holiday, and it is not used in Vietnam. There is no reason it should be used in this article - the article has nothing to do with Sri Lanka.Sylvain1972 (talk) 19:18, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Vesak
This incident is widely referred to (in more than 25 other articles) as Hue Vesak shootings. But the article doesn't mention Vesak at all. It should at least recognize and explain the alternative name. Colonies Chris (talk) 21:59, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

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