Talk:Vo Nguyen Giap
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Has the grade of general I believe. I wonder if really fight guerrilla when he defeated the french in Dien Dien Phu he had a significative heavy artillery.
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[edit] Copyvio
A lot of the material looks like it has been taken from here [1]. GeneralPatton 09:22, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Surname
Giap's surname is Vo, not Giap. This article's name order is correct according to Vietnamese names. Please do not assume that his surname is Giap. DHN 03:44, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- However, Vietnamese people are usually referred to by their given name, not their surname (with a few exceptions). So he should be referred to as Giap and not Vo. DHN 00:28, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Nui Lua
The article says that his pen name is "Nui Lua" (Núi Lửa), roughly meaning "volcano beneath the snow". In fact, núi lửa simply means "volcano". It would have to be núi lửa dưới tuyết to have the translation stated in the article. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 05:35, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Plagarism
"A lot of the material looks like it has been taken from here [1] (http://www.vwam.com/vets/tet/tet.html). GeneralPatton 09:22"
I actually found the link in which the 'Author' got his information from: http://carpenoctem.tv/military/giap.html Fuyutski
Not surprised. The whole "article" is awful from the NPOV standpoint. 100,000 bombs? 5 times the destructive power at Hiroshima? 15,000 tons of bombs were dropped (which alone is 5,000 tons less than the Hiroshima equivalent). That's 30 million pounds. The US used 750-pound bombs (they actually weighed 800+ but use the lesser figure). Dividing, you get 40,000--a sizeable amount, but not anywhere close to the claim. Smacks of agenda, propaganda, whatever--but not an encyclopedia entry. Buckboard 08:31, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tet?
What about his role in Tet offensive and the impact of it on his career?
Veljko Setvanovich
[edit] Topic?
The article is supposed to be about one person. Instead it is about the series of wars and international poltics. His name appears only twice in the entire article. This needs to be cleaned up.
- I seriously thought I was reading the Vietnam war article for a while, this needs a complete rewrite --KingZog 06:38, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
This article seems to have a bias that is in some ways antagonistic toward the Vietminh, and in particular the government of Vietnam that in the time of the Vietnam War was called the Viet Cong. I think that this article needs to be thoroughly vetted for bias. While not an expert about Vietnam from 1940 - 1975 I have studied the period at undergraduate level, and there seems to be a distinct bias in the selection of source material, if not a particuarly overt bias by its authors.
[edit] Is this really a biography of Giap?
I came here to find out about the man, but what I actually found was more of a history of the Vietnamese wars and politics that Giap was a part of — not a specific biography of the man himself. Joe Descartes 19:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
