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Happy editing! Kleuske (talk) 18:36, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

History of Vietnam
The English language Wikipedia uses the common English name for the country. Going tit-for-tat (which I won't) I would change Hà Lan into Nederland on the Vietnamese Wikipedia and would probably get banned for that. And justly so. Kleuske (talk) 18:40, 2 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * Thank you for the message. I will disagree with on the Nederland for Holland (even though it is correct) or even Deutschland for Germany. Viet Nam is not spelled Vietnam with several global entities using the correct format of spelling: UN, WHO, ADB (ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK and the Vietnamese government still has it as two words because the country is not one word due to the structure of the language being monosyllabic. It is not necessary to use the diacritic markings; however, it is important to spell it as Viet Nam and not Vietnam. So theoretically, the banning of usage would not apply as it is not being substituted for the way the country spells it. I can understand not using the country's name the way a country would spell due to language issues. This is not about that. This correction is in the the intrinsic language of Viet Nam. As stated in the other site I edited, the author states that the language is monosyllabic; ergo, Viet Nam and not polysyllabic, Vietnam. If the UN, WHO and ADB uses and recognizes Viet Nam spelled in this format, your site should also use that format and enforce it.
 * The author has used the correct spelling of Viet Nam in several areas of the "published" piece and even has Ha Noi and Sai Gon spelled correctly in some areas but not consistently. As writers, we must choose which style we will write in and which styles not to write in. Just because wikipedia uses Vietnam, albeit incorrectly, the authors, who are writing about the history of Viet Nam and about the culture of Viet Nam, should be consistent ad write it as two words. The combining of the two words came about due to the laziness on reporters and due to typesetting during the American War in Viet Nam aka Viet Nam War. It is not how it is spelled: Viet Nam and not Vietnam.
 * I hope this better explains it.
 * Dao Tran
 * (but if you spell my name correctly it is Trần Đào) Justdao (talk) 19:53, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The country's name is spelled Vietnam in English, whether you like it or not. If you have serious problems with that, I suggest you bring it up at the village pump or another venue of discussion. For now, I politely ask you to stick to the WP:COMMONNAME policy instead. Moreover, calling the Netherlands (plural) Holland is regarded as insulting by those who do not live in that part of the country. So if you insist on your preferred spelling, please be consistent and apply the same logic to the Vietnamese Wikipedia. Thank you. Kleuske (talk) 07:42, 3 September 2022 (UTC)