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A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi thanks for creating Liam Kelley (historian) which I’ve just reviewed. Thanks very much for creating this new article and happy editing! Mccapra (talk) 19:52, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
@Mccapra:, thanks for the digital strawberries, ironically if you didn't move the original to draftspace I probably wouldn't have expanded it so you are equally to thank for how much is added to the article. I just found it a shame that user "Laska666" added so little information, likely because this person is "an ideological enemy" of them as most of Kelley's work is actually against the Vietnamese nationalist historiography that the original creator loves to push. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:12, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Translate Liam Kelley into Vietnamese

Liam Kelley (historian) is an impressive work. Have you thought of translating it into Vietnamese? Currently, as far as I know, there is no article about this historian in viwp. Ltn12345 (talk) 10:08, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

@Ltn12345:, for now I limit myself to Enwiki, I used to translate a lot of articles into Dutch in the past but stopped as I felt like I wasn't really adding anything and was catering only to a limited audience. The thing is that a lot of people read the English-language Wikipedia while fewer people read other language editions unless it's from cultures where English literacy is low (Vietnam included). I remember asking Dutch people about Wikipedia and almost all of them exclusively read the English-language edition claiming that the Belgophone one often just lacks information (partially due to a culture of "trimming"). The only reason I wrote the article about Liam Kelley was because user "Laska666" had done so, but was unwilling to actually do more than a single sentence stub that got draftified by another user. I still have a lot of projects that I want to complete and honestly found the current Liam Kelley article to be an unwelcome strain on my time. --Donald Trung (talk) 10:15, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
If possible, I hope you can also expand Keith Taylor (historian). Taylor is probably one of the most famous Vietnamese studies scholars. Ltn12345 (talk) 10:19, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
@Ltn12345:, a lot has been written about Taylor... Unfortunately nobody with an interest in him has added it to "his" Wikipedia page. I would be willing to do so in the future, but just today I found this really interesting article that I want to add to Wikipedia, so the goal posts are ever moving further for me... --Donald Trung (talk) 11:08, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

15:31, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

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18:29, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

This article has potential. I think you should nominate it to DYK so that it can appear on the Main Page.  Băng Tỏa  16:54, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

@Băng Tỏa:, I am not allowed to do that (I had an emoji in my signature which got me blocked and as a part of my unblock conditions I'm only allowed to edit article, user, and category pages, the unblocking admin implied that he would never let me edit more as he ignores all my messages asking to have any (part of the) restrictions lifted). You are free to nominate it for DYK yourself but I'm not allowed to. Thank you for your improvements to it. --Donald Trung (talk) 17:31, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

@Băng Tỏa:, but if you were to nominate it you could write something like this:

Liam C. Kelley operates an academic blog about the history of, and scholarship on, Southeast Asia using the name "Lê Minh Khải".

"Liam C. Kelley is an American historian that operates an academic blog under his pseudonym "Lê Minh Khải" where he criticises the way how nationalism influences Vietnamese historiography."

Maybe it's a bit too verbose, but you get the point. --Donald Trung (talk) 18:22, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

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