# Talk:Ngo Dinh Diem

A search of Google Books and Scholar seem to show that Ngo Dinh Diem is overwhelmingly more common than Ngô Đình Diệm (BOOKS  1259 on Ngo-Dinh-Diem -Ngô-Đình-Diệm, 70 on Ngô-Đình-Diệm -Ngo-Dinh-Diem. SCHOLAR 3,170 for Ngo-Dinh-Diem -Ngô-Đình-Diệm,  3 for -Ngo-Dinh-Diem Ngô-Đình-Diệm). On that evidence unless someone can show that it is faulty  the article Ngô Đình Diệm should be moved to Ngo Dinh Diem following the WP:NC policy and the WP:UE guideline. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 08:33, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I have moved the article back to the name it had before the move on the 8 June. I have altered the name used in the article to Diem in line with WP:MOS#Foreign terms "Within an article, spell a name that appears in the article title". In some cases where I have evidence that Diem was used in references I have altered those as well but where I could not find any evidence I left the name as it was.
Someone needs to go through the references and check which version of the name is used in the titles given because it looks to me if the third party article names have been systematically altered from Ngo Dinh Diem to Ngô Đình Diệm just because some Wikipedia editor thinks it looks correct.  --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 09:16, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
And other alterations to modified letters have been made, unsystematically. We should follow the usage of English sources. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:51, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Note I just ran into this and have moved the article back again since it was moved to other title.  If this continues without discussions, then we probably need to move protect the article.  If that is necessary, drop a note on my talk page.  Vegaswikian (talk) 19:24, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps we change the article name to Ngô Đình Điệm to correspond with other articles. 2601:182:501:6780:EC84:9D17:AC33:1452 (talk) 16:12, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

In this article, it's said that His Excellency President Ngo-dinh-Diem was enrolled at the prestigious School of Public Administration and Law in Hanoi (which is called as "Hau Bo School, Hanoi" in the infobox).

First, the school which Mr Diem was enrolled should be Hau-bo School of Hue. Please refer to this Vietnamese article introducing the school: http://tapchisonghuong.com.vn/tin-tuc/p2/c15/n22190/Truong-Hau-Bo-o-Co-do-Hue.html. The Hau-bo School in Hanoi was renamed before Mr Diem enrolled, and a school of the same name was established in the Imperial capital Hue.
Here is a biography of Mr Diem published in a Vietnamese newspaper in 1933 (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4543884g/f1), in which it's written that he entered the "Hau-bo school"in 1918. I think it is a reliable source for revising and refining his biography of his early years as an official.
源義信 (talk) 13:01, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Should the photo in the infobox be changed? TansoShoshen (talk) 05:33, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

TansoShoshen (talk) 05:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)


### Discussion
Personally, I like H  because the others, including A aren't the best when in terms of MOS:IMAGEQUALITY. TansoShoshen (talk) 05:56, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
This RFC is neither well-formed, nor, apparently, necessary. I suggest simply talking it over with other editors on the talk page; giving compelling reasons the status quo must change; and eschewing the many pictures you yourself do not think are good enough. Regulov (talk) 09:15, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
I agree, this fails WP:RFCBEFORE and there's far too many options. However, since I'm here... the status quo is perfectly fine and none of the myriad of choices is good enough to warrant a change. Nemov (talk) 15:40, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
I personally don't like the status quo because it feels like a digital scan of a physical photo that wasn't completely flat. I like H because the photo has minimal grain compared to the status quo and the contrast is better while the people in the background don't take away from the main subject in said photo. TansoShoshen (talk) 06:23, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
I agree with Regulov and Nemov. The last discussion on this page is from May last year and it was about another topic. Like Nemov, since I'm here I would go with the status quo. If the status quo didn't exist I'd probably judge I to be the best of the rest, however I don't really like the level of contrast in that photo. TarnishedPathtalk 08:08, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
Yeah, and the compression on image I generated the vertical stripes. — Neonorange (talk to Phil) (he, they) 02:48, 4 February 2025 (UTC) —