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Ehrrr . . . isn't it Dien Bien Phu? Wiwaxia
This looks like a copyvio.Vancouverguy 15:02, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Needs to me merged with Battle of Dien Bien Phu 128.195.100.178 05:43, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
This page was originally about the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and was then made into a redirect page to the Battle article. However, I would suggest that the two should not be considered identical - Dien Bien Phu is a still-existing town, with a population of over a hundred thousand. While the town is not all that important, it should still warrant a mention as a place, and not just be subsumed into the article about the event that happened there. There's more to Dien Bien Phu than the just battle.
As such, I've written a brief article about the town itself - it mentions the battle in introduction, so people will still be able to find it. I'll try to go through the links to this page and point them to the right article, too. Feel free to comment if you disagree with what I'm doing here. -- Vardion 12:35, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Quite right, Vardion. Good work. Tannin
[edit] The "Domino Theory"
Eisenhower wasn't the only one who belived in the Domino Theory. Lyndon B. Johnson rooted it into his "containment" plan.
[edit] WP:UE
Let's have a discussion why this well known town should not be spelt as anglophones usually spell it, following the guideline WP:Use English. The systematic representation with diacritics (and no doubt a source can be found for it) should certainly be preserved (as Athina - or indeed Ἀθῆναι - is mentioned at Athens and for the same reasons; some anglophone will eventually want to know it); but we are not writing in Vietnamese, any more than we write in Greek.
This boldness has gone far enough; I revert; let us, per WP:BRD, discuss. Use of {{move}} (remember to subst it, please), would be perfectly appropriate. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:27, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Note about leadership
"The following year, the important Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought between the Việt Minh (led by Ho Chi Minh), and the United States-backed French Union (led by General Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan)."
Ho was a political leader, Giap was the general in charge of the Việt Minh military forces. It would make more sense to either say that the French were led by Auriol, Coty, or De Gaulle, or say that the Việt Minh were led by Giap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.249.51.26 (talk) 17:40, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
