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This Month in GLAM: May 2023



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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-24

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Cassinga Day is a national public holiday in Namibia remembering the Cassinga Massacre. Commemorated annually on 4 May, the date "remembers those (approximately 600) killed in 1978 when the South African Defence Force attacked a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola".

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Wikidata weekly summary #580

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
    • Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers
  • Tool of the week
    • narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.

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Work on an anti-page blanking proposal

User "Koavf" was indefinitely blocked from 09:28, 2 December 2020 until 15:46, 10 September 2022, yet throughout that entire time their userpage remained untouched. When they were unblocked they weren't given a single sanction, this is extremely rare. Both the unblock without a sanction and a user who was indefinitely blocked that didn't have their user page blanked, this makes me wonder if this might be related.

What if it might be standard practice to blank user pages to make it seem like the user was never "a real Wikimedian" to begin with and that the block notices + blanking is done to reduce their entire presence to that of a persona non grata?

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 17:16, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1]
  • The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [2]
  • The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [3]
  • The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [4]

Problems

  • For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [5]
  • Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [6]
  • Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [7]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
  • VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [8]

Future changes

  • From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #581

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
      • We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
    • EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
    • mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T329655, phab:T316767)
    • Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510)


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Tech News: 2023-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [9][10]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [11][12]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-26

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Rawon (Javanese: ꦫꦮꦺꦴꦤ꧀) is an Indonesian beef soup. Originating from East Java, rawon utilizes the black keluak nut as the main seasoning, which gives a dark color and nutty flavor to the soup.

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Tech News: 2023-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [13]

Problems

  • Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [14][15]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
  • The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [16][17]
  • Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [18]
  • All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [19]
  • The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [20]

Future changes

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Wikidata weekly summary #582

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383)
    • EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
    • Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
    • mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T339103, phab:T329655, phab:T329655)
    • Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510)

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Announcing the new Elections Committee members


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We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.

Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-27

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A hook echo is a pendant or hook-shaped weather radar signature as part of some supercell thunderstorms. It is found in the lower portions of a storm as air and precipitation flow into a mesocyclone, resulting in a curved feature of reflectivity. The echo is produced by rain, hail, or even debris being wrapped around the supercell

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #583

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
  • Tool of the week
    • m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
    • Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
    • Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
      • We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
    • Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
    • mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.


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Tech News: 2023-27

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Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).

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This Month in Education: June 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 5 • June 2023

In This Issue

This Month in GLAM: June 2023



Headlines
  • Albania report: CEE Spring Campaign 2023, Albania and Kosovo
  • Asia report: Donation of images from the National Centre for Biological Sciences
  • Brazil report: Native Brazilian photographer wins Wiki Loves Folklore Brazil 2023
  • Croatia report: Half done in 2023
  • Germany report: Museum tour, WLM, handouts and image donation
  • India report: Wiki Exploration Programme GLAM activities
  • Indonesia report: Conclusion of Mini Grants; Second #1Lib1Ref Campaign; Wikisource Workshop in Bali
  • Italy report: TCI and Turin Academy of Science
  • Kosovo report: CEE Spring Campaign 2023, Albania and Kosovo
  • Netherlands report: A new book, new Wikipedia articles, videos and further images on Africa
  • New Zealand report: Report on the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Conference 2023 and Auckland suburb updates
  • Philippines report: GLAM outreach activity at University of Nueva Caceres: Digitization, workshops and proofread-a-thons as future collaboration
  • Poland report: GLAM-Wiki workshops for the Czartoryski Library; Work on the GLAM-Wiki Project Page Continues; End of Internship within the "Praktykuj w Kulturze" Program
  • Sweden report: Knowledge overview; Almedalen week
  • Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm
  • UK report: Cultural diversity
  • USA report: WikiWednesday returns to Manhattan; Wikimedia NYC and Art+Feminism; WikiConference North America 2023; GLAM Wiki 2023
  • Special story: Flickr Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation partner to build Flickypedia
  • GLAM Wiki conference report: The call for proposals is now open for the GLAM Wiki Conference
  • Calendar: July's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #584

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)
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1955 referendum

Hey Donald!

May I please ask for your help for this?

Recently in the page “1955 State of Vietnam Referendum,” I discovered this:

In the section called, “Organization of the referendum,” there is this particular paragraph:

Lansdale cautioned Diệm against electoral fraud, confident that Diệm would win a free election: "While I'm away I don't want to suddenly read that you have won by 99.99%. I would know that it's rigged then." U.S. officials thought that a fair election would have seen Diệm poll between 60% and 70% of the vote.[1]

I discovered that the part above is completely fabricated. And it’s been sitting there for 15 years. I investigated the source, and I present to you below the two pages that are were cited.

It references the exact same topic, but completely contradicts what was originally written on Wikipedia. The quote is completely fabricated, too.

I have highlighted the parts that is directly about the subject at hand to provide evidence.


(Page 223)

“…French government in Paris meanwhile denounced Diem, and Bao Dai entered the fray from his château on the Côte d'Azur, attempting to manipulate factions in Saigon. Diem seemed to be finished by late April. Reporting from Saigon, the influential newspaper columnist Joseph Alsop wrote him off as "virtually impotent." As was often the case, Alsop erred. On April 27, Diem ordered the Binh Xuyen to cease its deployments in the city. The Binh Xuyen disobeyed and Diem's army attacked its strongholds the next day. The Binh Xuyen riposted by firing shells into the park around the presidential palace, and soon Saigon was a battle- ground as the rival forces fought street by street. Artillery and mortars obliterated the city's poor districts, killing five hundred civilians and rendering some twenty thousand homeless. As the fighting raged, Bao Dai summoned Diem to France, hoping to neutralize him. Diem refused to budge. When Bao Dai's officers tried to oust him, Diem turned his generals against them. By the end of May, the Binh Xuyen had been routed and its boss, Bay Vien, flew to asylum in Paris. Diem had prevailed but at a cost that he would have to pay later. Nearly two thousandvdefeated Binh Xuyen, Hoa Hao, and Cao Dai fighters joined the underground Communist forces concealed in the recesses of the Mekong delta, and they would emerge afterward among the Vietcong guerrillas. The United States rewarded Diem for his stubborn courage. A new American ambassador, G. Frederick Reinhardt, landed in Saigon to express unequivocal U.S. confidence in the regime. Five months later, Diem consolidated his power. With Lansdale and other Americans helping, he deposed Bao Dai in a referendum, and promoted himself to the rank of chief of state.'''''''The election, like others to follow, was a test of authority rather than an exercise in democracy. With Bao Dai far away, Diem's activists could easily exert pressure on the voters. Lansdale, with his talent for advertising, showed them how to design the ballots in order to sway the electorate. Those for Diem were red, which signified good luck, and those for Bao Dao green, the color of misfortune. Diem's agents were present at the polling stations. One voter recalled the scene in a village near Hué:'They told us to put the red ballot into envelopes and throw the green ones into the wastebasket. A few people, faithful to Bao Dai, disobeyed. As soon as they left, the agents w e n tafter them, and roughed them up. The agents poured pepper sauce down their nostrils, or forced water down their throats. They beat one of my relatives to a pulp.' In several places, including Saigon, the tally of votes for Diem exceed-


(Page 224)

ed the number of registered voters. He claimed to have won 98.2 percent of the vote having spurned American advice to aim for amore plausible 60 or 70 percent. What the Americans failed to understand was that his mandarin mentality could not accept the idea of even minority resistance to his rule. With no compunctions whatsoever, Diem again renounced the nationwide elections prescribed by the Geneva agreement because, he said, theycould not be "absolutely free."'

If the Communist takeover of the north alarmed Washington and worried Diem, it only partially satisfied Ho Chi Minh and his comrades, who had been denied complete victory at the Geneva conference table. Within a year of the accord, moreover, they could sense that the elections scheduled to unify Vietnam would never take place. Diem refused to discuss election preparations, and the United States indirectly backed him, saying that the matter "should be left up to the Vietnamese themselves." The Soviet Union and China did nothing to press for a political settlement. So the deadline, July 1956, passed without any action to fulfill the most important clause in the Geneva agreement, and ti looked as if Vietnam would become another truncated nation, like Germany and Korea. Indeed, the Soviet Union even suggested a perma- nent partition by proposing in early 1957 that both North and South Vietnam be admitted to the United Nations as "two separate states. which differ from one another in political and economic structure." The United States, unwilling to recognize a Communist regime, rebuffed the initiativea grievous mistake. For international endorsement of "two Vietnams" might have averted the later confrontation. When Ho Chi Minh returned to Hanoi in October 1954, after eight years in the jungle, his problems differed from those that faced Diem. There were no fractious sects and gangsters to challenge his authority. The French army was leaving the north in orderly fashion, and the massive flight ofthe Catholics to the south made his control easier, since their fanatical anti-Communism would not nag him. He could also count on the fidelity of his soldiers and civilian cadres, whose loyalty had been tested during the struggle against France. But he was beset by severe economic difficulties. The war against the French had devastated the north. Railways had been disrupted, bridges blown up, buildings destroyed. On Diem's orders, departing anti-Communist Vietnamese had dismantled harbor installations, post offices, libraries, and hospitals, and stripped factories…:

(End of Page 224)


I scrolled through the history of the article, and found out the individual who originally wrote the original paragraph:

User:YellowMonkey

Note that he calls himself “Yellow Monkey.”

As of now, my account is not automated yet, so I can’t edit anything. Could you please remove the fabricated information, and replace it with this?

“US officials advised Diem to claim 60-70% of the votes to make the election look plausible.”

Thank you so much! :) Tumblereeg (talk) 23:09, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Tumblereeg, Good points, I will go to the article later to integrate the changes you want. but I haven't seen the source personally so I'm not sure if I could implement the changes as you need to be able to see the source personally. You could also file an edit request on the talk page and someone will do it, but I think that I could probably do it when I get home tonight and I'll look for a PDF of the source online. -- — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 07:49, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Also, yellow monkey could be a reference to the Vietnamese year of the monkey and this person's first name could be "yellow" (which is a common Vietnamese name because of its association with the Yellow King / Yellow Emperor from Chinese mythology). It doesn't necessarily have to be a racial slur. -- — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 07:51, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
I will assume that the reference is "Karnow, p. 223-224." I will find it online and implement some changes based on the book. Great find! 😁😁😁 — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 07:55, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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Refererendum

@Tumblereeg: , I found a PDF online. I'll see what changes I can make. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 08:10, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Comparing "U.S. officials thought that a fair election would have seen Diệm poll between 60% and 70% of the vote." with "He claimed to have won 98.2 percent of the vote having spurned American advice to aim for amore plausible 60 or 70 percent. " Yeah, this indeed very much a misreading of the source text. -- — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 08:19, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Note: the relevant quote is "He claimed to have won 98.2 percent of the vote having spurned American advice to aim for amore plausible 60 or 70 percent." with the explanation for Diem's actions being later expressed at "What the Americans failed to understand was that his mandarin mentality could not accept the idea of even minority resistance to his rule." I wonder 🤔 why is was misworded like that in the article. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 13:10, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

I replied at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:1955_State_of_Vietnam_referendum#/editor/6 :

== Correcting vandalism. ==

Dear Editors,

Dear Editors,

I discovered a severely neglected case of vandalism/fabrication in this wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_State_of_Vietnam_referendum

In the section titled, "Organisation of the Referendum," in the end of the third paragraph, there's this part:

"Lansdale cautioned Diệm against electoral fraud, confident that Diệm would win a free election: "While I'm away I don't want to suddenly read that you have won by 99.99%. I would know that it's rigged then." U.S. officials thought that a fair election would have seen Diệm poll between 60% and 70% of the vote."

I discovered that this part is completely fabricated by a user - and it's been sitting there for 15 years. What was written was found nowhere in the source it cited (Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History, First Edition, Page 223-224). In fact, the source completely contradicts what was written.

Upon investigating the source, it is revealed that the quote from Lansdale is non-existent, and Lansdale never cautioned Diem against electoral fraud; he was complicit in the rigging of it. And the US only advised Diem to claim 60-70% of the votes to make the election look plausible - they never said that they think Diem would poll 60-70% in a fair election.


Here, from the source that it cited (Page 223-224):

"Five months later, Diem consolidated his power. With Lansdale and other Americans helping, he deposed Bao Dai in a referendum, and promoted himself to the rank of chief of state.

In several places, including Saigon, the tally of votes for Diem exceeded the number of registered voters. He claimed to have won 98.2 percent of the vote having spurned American advice to aim for amore plausible 60 or 70 percent. What the Americans failed to understand was that his mandarin mentality could not accept the idea of even minority resistance to his rule. With no compunctions whatsoever, Diem again renounced the nationwide elections prescribed by the Geneva agreement because, he said, they could not be "absolutely free."'

I also attached a screen grab of those two pages it cited from, as additional evidence:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/198755574@N05/53059262176/in/dateposted-public/

The vandalism/fabrication dated 15 years ago, on April 5th 2007, from a user called “YellowMonkey." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YellowMonkey

Originally, the vandalism did not include a source. Here is a log of when he/she first wrote it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1955_State_of_Vietnam_referendum&diff=prev&oldid=120407682

An hour later, he or she made a new edit that also included a reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1955_State_of_Vietnam_referendum&diff=prev&oldid=120416354

He/she cited a Penguin edition of the book, so it's a different page (239) - but still the exact same words and information as the screen-grab I showed.

Here's page 239 of the edition that was originally cited:

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YdG00yrWUFcC&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=%22Five+months+later,+Diem+consolidated+his+power.+With+Lansdale+and+other+Americans+helping,+he+deposed+Bao+Dai+in+a+referendum,+and+promoted+himself+to+the+rank+of+chief+of+state.The+election,+like+others+to+follow,+was+a+test+of+authority+rather+than+an+exercise+in+democracy.+With+Bao+Dai+far+away,+Diem%27s+activists+could+easily+exert+pressure+on+the+voters.+Lansdale,+with+his+talent+for+advertising,+showed+them+how+to+design+the+ballots+in+order+to+sway+the+electorate.+Those+for+Diem+were+red,+which+signified+good+luck,+and+those+for+Bao+Dao+green,+the+colour+of+misfortune.+Diem%27s+agents+were+present+at+the+polling+stations.+One+voter+recalled+the+scene+in+a+village+near+Hu%C3%A9:+%27They+told+us+to+put+the+red+ballot+into+envelopes+and+throw+the+green+ones+into+the+wastebasket.+A+few+people,+faithful+to+Bao+Dai,+disobeyed.+As+soon+as+they+left,+the+agents+went+after+them,+and+roughed+them+up.+The+agents+poured+pepper+sauce+down+their+nostrils,+or+forced+water+down+their+throats.+They+beat+one+of+my+relatives+to+a+pulp.%27In+several+places,+including+Saigon,+the+tally+of+votes+for+Diem+exceeded+the+number+of+registered+voters.+He+claimed+to+have+won+98.2+percent+of+the+vote+having+spurned+American+advice+to+aim+for+amore+plausible+60+or+70+percent.+What+the+Americans+failed+to+understand+was+that+his+mandarin+mentality+could+not+accept+the+idea+of+even+minority+resistance+to+his+rule.+With+no+compunctions+whatsoever,+Diem+again+renounced+the+nationwide+elections+prescribed+by+the+Geneva+agreement+because,+he+said,+they+could+not+be+%22absolutely+free.%22%27&source=bl&ots=UB6KC4Egf8&sig=ACfU3U1ADVwM1euzigOhMOLXazqux70sdA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbtInf0Z2AAxVICIgKHaGHAmcQ6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false

It was until August 20th 2016 did another unknown user changed it to pages 223-224 of the book’s first edition - which is the current one being cited now.

The article’s August 20th 2016 edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1955_State_of_Vietnam_referendum&diff=prev&oldid=735357881


CONCLUSION

Could an editor please delete the original fabricated paragraph I pointed out, and change it to: Diem later claimed 98.2% of the votes, against US advice to claim a more plausible number of 60-70%. Thank you all very much :) D3trmd (talk) 03:52, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

D3trmd, Ah, this is the information that I was referencing below, apparently they have already come here. — Donald Trung (talk) 09:43, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

In case it wasn't clear, the above user means the following sentence:

  • "He claimed to have won 98.2 percent of the vote having spurned American advice to aim for amore plausible 60 or 70 percent. What the Americans failed to understand was that his mandarin mentality could not accept the idea of even minority resistance to his rule."

I am not sure if we should remove hoaxes if the requesting party is blocked / banned as I've often seen misinformation reinstated to enforce "WP:EVADE", so I'm not willing to correct the hoax, but anyone else is free to do so at the risk of having the same sanctions applied to them. --Donald Trung (talk) 09:51, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm not going to risk a block to remove a hoax. I know that content comes second (2nd) to sanctions. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 09:59, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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