# Talk:Battle of Ban Me Thuot

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Reviewer: CreationofGod (talk) 12:32, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose):  b (MoS): 
Overall the article was good, but I would put forward the following suggestions:
Firstly, you could use {{cite book}} to format your referencese, and it should be organised alphabetically with the author's surname appearing first (eg. Thach, Pham N).
Secondly, your background is a bit short IMO and seems to focus slightly more on the North Vietnamese. You could provide some information on the South Vietnamese side; what was their situation politically and militarily before the battle??
Thirdly, after a person's full name had been mentioned once, you only need to use their surname thereafter when referring to them again, without mentioning their rank.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references):  b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR): 
Your article is well-referenced.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects):  b (focused): 
The coverage is good, with a good view from both sides of the battle.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
a (fair representation):  b (all significant views): 
Consider that most of the sources were taken from the Vietnamese communists, the article seem to cover the South Vietnamese side very well, in line with the rule of neutrality.
It is stable.
No edit wars etc.: 
This part is fine
It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
a (tagged and captioned):  b (Is illustrated with appropriate images):  c (non-free images have fair use rationales):  d public domain pictures appropriately demonstrate why they are public domain': 
The images  were used appropriately to highlight the event in question, with correct licensing.
Overall:
a Pass/Fail: 
Generally this article was very well-written, it covered the event very well. I will let it pass as GA Class.CreationofGod (talk) 12:32, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing the article, highly appreciate it.Canpark (talk) 14:08, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

This article has been renamed from Battle of Buon Me Thuot to Battle of Ban Me Thuot as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 09:18, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, good work so far. I have undertaken a light copy edit of the article. There were a number of tense issues (for instance switching between past and present tense). I believe I have found most of them, but may have missed some. As such, I would suggest before taking it further, that you might try to get someone from the Guild of Copy Editors to go through the article. I have a couple of other suggestions for improvement:

is there any way that the infobox can be tweaked so that is divided evenly down the middle? Currently, the South Vietnamese side is wider than the North Vietnamese and looks a little lopsided;
the References should be presented as surname, first name, e.g. Dawson, Alan;
is there a year/date of publication for the Dawson source?
ISBN or OCLC numbers could be added for the References. These can be found at www.worldcat.org or Google books;
in the Notes, the style is a little inconsistent, for instance sometimes you have "pp." for multiple pages (e.g. "Duong Hao, pp. 149–151), but then later you use "pp." for single pages (e.g. "Nguyen Van Bieu, pp.292"). I'd suggest just using "p." for single pages and "pp." for multiple page ranges. This seems to be the standard at A or FA.
Anyway, keep up the good work. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 12:08, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks mate, I am working on your suggestions now.Canpark (talk) 03:38, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

That looks more like T-62 than T-54. Note the shape of the turret.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.187.241.4 (talk) 20:08, 10 March 2014 (UTC)