Talk:National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam
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This article has been split from the article Viet Cong for reasons discussed at Talk:Viet Cong. --Michael Snow 21:35, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
the US-backed Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War - weren't they also fighting the French before DienBien Phu? RickK 00:18, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
Nope. That was the Viet Minh, a different organization. john 00:23, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
OK, thanks. RickK 02:19, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
Title
Now is it National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam as in the text, or National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, as in the title? Currently this article and Viet Cong partly duplicate each other, which should be handled. Get-back-world-respect 16:19, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
- I'm sorry I can't give you a definitive answer, since I can't translate the Vietnamese, but I highly doubt the word "South" is in the name of the organization, since the NLF and People's Republic didn't rhetorically acknowledge a separate country of "South Vietnam." -- Cecropia | Talk 16:39, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
separate entries?
according to who? and who benefits from the redundancy? Sam [Spade (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Sam_Spade&action=edit§ion=new)] 04:01, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
After lengthy discussions, the community consensus was that the NLF article should deal with the organization, as the organization referred to itself as the NLF (and never as the "Viet Cong," which was a pejorative term), while the VC article deal with the origins and use of the term "VC" among the South Vietnamese and Americans. 172 04:09, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- really, 'cuz i see a lot of duplicate info in these articles. personally, i think it should redirect. and "Viet Cong" isn't perjorative any moreso than "Khmer Rouge" is instead of "Communist Party of Cambodia" J. Parker Stone 22:45, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- ah, ok. Sam [Spade (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Sam_Spade&action=edit§ion=new)] 04:25, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The title should be "National Front for the Liberation of Southern Vietnam" as translated word by word from "Mặt Trận Giải Phóng Miền Nam Việt Nam".