User talk:VMorris

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Please read WP:SELFCITE specifically "adding numerous references to work published by yourself and none by other researchers is considered to be a form of spamming." which appears to apply to all of your additions here on Wikipedia. Mztourist (talk) 05:26, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

REPLY VMorris (talk) 11:17, 24 August 2020 (UTC) It states under the guild lines - 'Citation spamming is a subtle form of spam and should not be confused with legitimate good-faith additions intended to verify article content and help build the encyclopedia'.

You deleted my changes on Vo Nguyen Giap.

POINT 1 - The article as it stands is wrong so I did 'legitimate good-faith additions intended to verify article content and help build the encyclopedia'. The article states 'Giáp had two sisters and one brother', however, according to Vo Nguyen Giap, he was one of seven children. - I therefore added, 'They had seven children. Their first child died of cholera, their next child a girl was swept away in floods and never seen again. The following two children were girls, named Võ Thị Điểm and Võ Thị Liên. Giáp was the fifth child, followed by his brother, Võ Thuần Nho, and finally his sister, Võ Thị Lài'.

POINT 2 - The article as it stands in very unclear so I did 'legitimate good-faith additions intended to verify article content and help build the encyclopedia'. The article states 'Võ Nguyên Giáp first saw real fighting at Nha Trang, when he traveled to south-central Vietnam in January–February 1946, to convey the determination of leaders in Hanoi to resist the French...' - I added 'On 18 January 1946, Hồ called a meeting with Giáp, and after discussions he ordered Giáp to go to the south of the country to evaluate the situation. On his return one of the points Giáp raised with Hồ was his “war without boundaries” (a term he used only after 1975, when describing his military methodology to others). Giáp told Hồ that his war without boundaries would spread the French Army so thinly against his units that the French would fail in Vietnam.' I added this because this confirms the original post but adds that this is where the war without boundaries came from, a strategy used throughout both the French and Vietnam wars. From this Giáp designed his independent companies concentrated battalions, which was again adopted after the 1968 Tet Offensive.

You deleted my post on the Tet Offensive.

- It appears that the Tet Offensive page is protected and therefore is not open for editing. This is disappointing because some of it is not correct/has points missing. For example, under Party politics - I could add why the Tet Offensive was launched, why in some areas it started a day early and what was the original plan by Giáp. It would be important to get this right because this is linked to 1965 and the X Plan, which was canceled because US forces came on mass to Vietnam, and that Giáp did not design Tet for total victory because of the strength of US forces; this latter point has just been published in Vietnam Magazine.