Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thailand/Archives/2018

Dearth of coverage of Thai units in Vietnam War?
For year now I've had "Queen's Cobras" on my list of redlinks to create stubs for, so today I made stubs for the Royal Thai Volunteer Regiment (Queen's Cobras) that arrived in Vietnam in 1967, and the Royal Thai Army Expeditionary Division (Black Panthers) who replaced them and remained until 1971. I'd invite anyone to help expand these stubs, and to help expand coverage of Thailand's role. I have also created the draft Draft:Thailand in the Vietnam War, by analog to New Zealand in the Vietnam War and South Korea in the Vietnam War and welcome any expansion help there.

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history for ongoing discussion of the topic and developing draft. Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:44, 31 January 2018 (UTC)


 * I've left a few comments on the article talk page. --Paul_012 (talk) 16:08, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

sorting question, written Thai mixed in with UNICODE roman letters
I know exactly nothing about written Thai (Sanskrit?)... but have a sorting question. In Wat Phra Dhammakaya the   reference to "สองศิษย์เอกธัมมชโยโต้ขอกล่าวหาวัดพระธรรมกาย" appears between Mackenzie, Rory (2007) and McCargo, Duncan (1999). What is the logic behind placing it there? Is that the correct placement? Tks in advance Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 13:21, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It's published by Matichon, which falls alphabetically between the two mentioned names.&minus;Woodstone (talk) 13:56, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * does it not have an author? I don't think it's reasonable to switch between "sorted by author" and "sorted by pubisher", tho "sorted by author" and "sorted by title" is common... Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 14:13, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It looks like the sorting uses the publisher's name if the author is unknown. Not an unreasonable procedure. Not really switching between ways of sorting. In the same list there is also and article by "dhammakaya foundation" in the same pattern.&minus;Woodstone (talk) 17:12, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I just checked it again, and the Matichon article has been written by an anonymous journalist. In Thai newspapers, it is not uncommon for journalists to write in anonymity due to the strict censure laws and fear of political revenge. Let me know if the sources need to be listed in another way. The article in question has now been sorted by its publisher's name, the newspaper Matichon, but due to the template, the title has been moved forward to the front of the line.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 20:05, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, my goal for coming here wasn't to suggest that something should or shouldn't be changed, though that's a reasonable question. My goal was to figure out how I should be approaching this question, and what approach the article uses. Thank you Woodstone & Farang Rak Tham for your replies/information. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 20:42, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Bot work on sorting of biographies
Hi. This is a heads-up that I've requested bot assistance for correcting and maintaining sort keys for Thai biographical articles. This will bring articles in line with the guidance at WP:NAMESORT and WP:MOSTHAI. The specific discussions are at Bot requests and Bot requests. --Paul_012 (talk) 10:51, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Request for input on biographical article sorting
As a follow-up to the above issue, it's been questioned whether the current guidelines, which instructs editors to override the default surname sorting for biographical articles about Thai people articles in Thai people categories, should be modified. Your input would be appreciated at Wikipedia talk:Categorization of people. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:09, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Request for help with Big Bike Tours
I found this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bike_Tours and see it needs some improving. I believe the problem is most of the material written about them is in Thai. So if anyone could add some extra references from Thai sources that would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TreeDancer3 (talk • contribs) 09:07, 10 May 2018 (UTC)


 * The English-language sources are few, but Thai-language ones are virtually nonexistent (save for directory listings). This appears to be an operation solely catering to foreigners. --Paul_012 (talk) 13:31, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

New article 2017–18 Thai temple fraud investigations
If anyone has been following the news in Thailand, this new article might be interesting for you. Comments are welcome.-- Farang Rak Tham   (Talk) 11:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Could anyone assess the article? It is still unassessed. Thank you.-- Farang Rak Tham   (Talk) 12:36, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

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The discussion about this can be found here.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:58, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Coordinates need fixing
An IP put in coordinates and changed them in Tham Luang cave rescue article. Could someone who knows the correct coordinates fix it?(Mobile mundo (talk) 18:55, 5 July 2018 (UTC)) Mobile mundo (talk) 18:55, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:41, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Request for input at Thai royal funeral
Hi. There's discussion on whether the Thai royal prefixes phra and phra boromma should be used in article text, and how to spell merumat/merumas, at Talk:Thai royal funeral. Further input is appreciated. Thanks. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:17, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Suggest deprecating needs-infobox parameter in project template
Hi. I'd like to suggest that we deprecate the use of the needs-infobox parameter in Template:WikiProject Thailand. Since the project covers a wide range of subjects which aren't served by a single infobox, having Category:Thailand articles needing infoboxes doesn't really facilitate editing. Articles can be tagged via other more projects where the parameter is more relevant. If there are no objections, I'll make an edit request on the template and tag the category for deletion. (Note: I made the additions back in 2012.) --Paul_012 (talk) 07:41, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Go for it.-- Farang Rak Tham   (Talk) 08:12, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Thai name question
Hi, I'm not familiar with naming in Thailand. There a current discussion at Talk: Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha about whether he should be referred to by his first or last name. The Manual of Style seems to suggest that often Thai people are referred to by first name, but we're unsure if this is applicable to him. Please feel free to join the discussion there. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:46, 29 October 2018 (UTC)