User talk:Peterlepham

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Lord Spongefrog,

I am General Dong's son and I'd like to state that in 1975 my father was no longer the military governor of Saigon. The last time he was in that position was 1965 (please check sources that either I or "ARVN Kid" listed in the Reference section. He was at the time trying to get back into politics after being jailed by President Thieu a few months earlier. He passed his time by mentoring senior army officers and keeping in contact with his civilian allies opposing to Thieu. Peterlepham (talk) 01:12, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. Well, a few weeks ago I expanded the article from this to this. I was, however, using only a single source ([http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pham-van-dong-south-vietnamese-general-who-could-not-defend-saigon-against-the-communists-1645847.html this) which had already been provided. It probably wasn't as reliable as the ones you and ARVN Kid are adding, but I don't have acces to them, so if you see anything that contradicts your better sources, fix it. Remember, I don't own the article, neither does anybody on Wikipedia. So feel free to do whatever you like, within reason, Lord Spongefrog (review) (I am Czar of all Russias!) 07:37, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. If the references you add only covers specific point(s) of information, it would really help if you added inline citations. This is simply adding <ref>REFERENCE GOES HERE</ref> after the piece of information you want to reference. You don't have to, but it really does help. If you have to reuse the same one twice, I can fix that for you, Lord Spongefrog (review) (I am Czar of all Russias!) 07:37, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]