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Featured articleNgo Dinh Diem presidential visit to Australia is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 29, 2008.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to Australia saw him receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, one of the highest British imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 2, 2010, September 2, 2011, September 2, 2014, September 2, 2017, September 2, 2020, September 2, 2022, September 2, 2023, and September 2, 2024.
Current status: Featured article

semi-protect

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Semi-protect this page to bomb the war. —Preceding unsigned comment added by David Beals (talkcontribs) 03:41, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

bias aplenty

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"the ALP began to sympathise with North Vietnam"- bollocks!

OK who let the Sydney Institute start writing wikipedia articles ? 163.189.7.40 (talk) 00:58, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again

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¿Today's featured article? It seems to me that this is an extreme example of "Anglospherical favoritism". --79.146.44.205 (talk) 09:32, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, its the featured article of the ENGLISH wikipedia page, so "anglospherical favoritism" is normal. In the other languages' wikipedia there also is a noticeable favoritism towards their history. I'm French, so its not like I'm defending the english wikipedia by personal interest or bias. To be honest, I feel the English wikipedia is very open to other parts of the world's history, including in the "did you know", "in the media" and "on this day" parts.Munin75 (talk) 15:01, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

anti-Labor bias

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I have removed a number of obvious anti-Labor slanders, and will be closely monitoring this article to ensure they are not put back. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 11:44, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why does this article not use quốc ngữ while all the other Diệm-related articles do? I was about to go through and replace all instances of "Diem" with "Diệm", etc., but then I noticed that many other words in the article are also not in quốc ngữ, so I would be introducing internal inconsistency. Is there any reason not to make everything in quốc ngữ? rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 22:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Convenience, more or less. If someone changes an article to all quoc ngu, I never object. But then it causes other issues as words like Saigon, Hanoi and Vietnam are left diacrticless and in one word in line with English and the common spelling guideline and all that YellowMonkey (bananabucket) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 23:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First visit

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The article says this was the first visit by a foreign head of state to Australia. That fact is quoted on the wikipedia main page today. But it appears incorrect. A quick internet search shows, for example, that queen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga visited Australia in 1935. There are probably other examples. I suggest that assertion be deleted.--Urg writer (talk) 22:12, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In fact a further quick search shows king George Tupou I of Tonga visited Australia in 1853 (albeit before Australian federation).--Urg writer (talk) 22:15, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]