User talk:Alex Wiegand

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A belated welcome

I was delighted to see your starting an article on Vietnamese language. Some time ago, I did a major rewrite of articles related to Vietnam, but more in a politicomilitary context. One of the changes was to create a higher-level Wars of Vietnam article, not just the Vietnam War. Yes. it does cover Australian forces, although not some of the wilder stories told me by friends who served there. There are articles on earlier aspects of Vietnam, such as the Nguyen Dynasty and Dai Viet.

If you are interested in Vietnam, I'd appreciate your review/comment/edit the work there. Definitely, the language article should be linked in and extended. Definitely, if you read Vietnamese, I'd appreciate opinions on nuances such as dau tranh and doi moi. I do, however, understand Vietnamese cooking pretty well, and really should write an article on nuoc mam, which I happen to like. Howard C. Berkowitz 20:15, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks much! Howard C. Berkowitz 20:00, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello. I'm writing mainly to acknowledge your greetings. It is encouraging to get a friendly hello. I had a look at the articles you mentioned.

I added the Vietnamese spellings for the page titles (as I'm sure you've noticed) because I like to see Vietnamese spellings, they help me pronounce and thus memorise the information. When stripped of their diacritics, the pronunciation of Vietnamese words becomes ambiguous. As for using Vietnamese spellings deeper in the articles, I don't know how much to use them, lest they interfere with the readability or editability of the articles, especially for those who can't read the language.

I have not seen any content problems in your articles.

Alex Wiegand 20:37, 30 August 2009 (UTC)