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Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm[edit]

This article covers the final hours of Ngo Dinh Diem at the end of the 1963 South Vietnamese coup; he tries to excape the palace , does so, but later surrenders and is promised safe exile, but is executed (widely believed to be on the orders of Duong Van Minh). I obviously need to fill in the summary in the lead, as per the B class reviewer, but I was looking for other things needed for an A-class. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kirill Lokshin[edit]

Quite nice, overall, but a few points (aside from the lead, which you've already noted) need work:

  • The coup is overlinked; I see no less than three links to it—two pulled out as explicit sub-article references—in the first two paragraphs of the article. There's no need for so many pointers to it, in my opinion.
  • The first half of the "Surrender and debate" section is uncited.
  • The quoted dialog snippets ought to be formatted a bit neater. I assume the all-caps names are copied from the source, but there's no reason to retain such formatting unless you're going to put the entire thing as a blockquote.
  • The "See also" section should be removed; the items are already linked in the text.

Other than that, this looks good to go. Kirill 22:14, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]