Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt 2

September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt 2

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 13, 2024 by Wehwalt (talk) 16:09, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An attempted coup took place on September 13, 1964, in South Vietnam against the ruling military junta, led by Nguyễn Khánh (pictured). In the proceeding month, Khánh tried to improve his leadership by declaring a state of emergency, provoking protests and riots. He made concessions to the protesters and removed military officials linked to former President Ngo Dinh Diem, including Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức. They responded with a coup, broadcasting their promise to revive Diem's policies. Khánh evaded capture and rallied allies while the U.S. continued their support for his rule. Khánh forced Phát and Đức to capitulate the next morning and various coup leaders appeared at a media conference where they denied that a coup had taken place. To maintain power, Khánh tried to court support from Buddhist activists, who supported negotiations to end the Vietnam War. As the Americans were strongly opposed to such policies, relations with Khánh became strained. (Full article...)

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Main editors: YellowMonkey
Promoted: November 24, 2010
Reasons for nomination: 60th anniversary of event. This would be a TFA rerun.
Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 21:44, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Prose looks great, though I'm personally not a fan of the reference formatting, as they don't actually link to the sources themselves. Lean support, but would definitely like some cleanup on the references. joeyquism (talk) 04:46, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinator comment It's 14 years old and the principal editor has been gone almost as long. What shape is it in? Wehwalt (talk) 22:15, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wehwalt: Sorry for the lack or response. This historical topic is not my area of expertise (I mostly deal with late-19th century Canadian history) so my skills here are limited. The sources fall into three categories: academic sources from the Cambridge University Press (extremely high quality), books published by mainstream publishers written by journalists and experts of the area (very high quality) and newspaper or journal articles from NY Times and Time Magazine written during or shortly after the event was taking place (high quality publications, but news articles written while an event is taking place can have errors when there hasn't been enough time to investigate all the information). Since its promotion, no new text has been added and most changes are cosmetic so that the links point to the correct article after a page has been moved. I tried looking for additional sources using WP:LIBRARY and Google Scholar, but there were no major sources to add: there isn't an official name for the coup (so nothing specific to search for in databases) and there was a coup attempt every few weeks in South Vietnam at this time. Everything is cited in the article, and I think it is in good shape to run. Z1720 (talk) 23:13, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]