Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem

Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm

This article covers the final hours of Ngo Dinh Diem at the end of the 1963 South Vietnamese coup; he tries to excape the palace , does so, but later surrenders and is promised safe exile, but is executed (widely believed to be on the orders of Duong Van Minh). I obviously need to fill in the summary in the lead, as per the B class reviewer, but I was looking for other things needed for an A-class. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kirill Lokshin

Quite nice, overall, but a few points (aside from the lead, which you've already noted) need work:

The coup is overlinked; I see no less than three links to it—two pulled out as explicit sub-article references—in the first two paragraphs of the article. There's no need for so many pointers to it, in my opinion.
The first half of the "Surrender and debate" section is uncited.
The quoted dialog snippets ought to be formatted a bit neater. I assume the all-caps names are copied from the source, but there's no reason to retain such formatting unless you're going to put the entire thing as a blockquote.
The "See also" section should be removed; the items are already linked in the text.

Other than that, this looks good to go. Kirill 22:14, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]