Talk:Anglo-Vietnamese conflict

@Andrew Gray, Kanguole, Acroterion, Nthep, Hawkeye7, Vladimir.copic, Suasufzeb, Iazyges, Dumelow, Slatersteven, Laska666, and Mztourist:

You participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anglo-Vietnamese conflict (1808). The result of that discussion reduced this page to a dab of one, which has now been PROD'd by Shhhnotsoloud. In checking how the phrase "Anglo-Vietnamese conflict" is used, I came across this dissertation from last year, which says, in a footnote on p. 4:

The conflict mentioned by Lin Zexu is likely to be the Anglo-Vietnamese conflict in 1808. Lin later showed the drawings to Wang Zhongyang (汪仲洋), a county magistrate in Yuyao, Zhejiang, during the Opium War. See Wei Yuan 魏源, Haiguo tuzhi (海國圖志 Illustrated gazetteers on maritime states) (Shaoyang: Gu wei tang, 1852), juan 84, 27a, 28a–b.

I do not know if Sau-yi Fong was influenced by Wikipedia in drawing her conclusion, but it an independent reference to an Anglo-Vietnamese conflict involving ships from prior to 1852. Srnec (talk) 00:08, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See wp:n, a one-line mention (especially in a doctrinal dissertation) would not be enough for anything other than a mention in another article. Even then it might fail wp:undue (who is Sau-yi Fong, even they do not seem all that sure). Slatersteven (talk) 10:57, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't one line. It is one line on top of the other sources already mentioned in the deleted article and AFD. This is Sau-yi Fong. Srnec (talk) 00:41, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting, thanks for finding it! I think this is still consistent with the earlier conclusion - this isn't something that actually happened, it's got confused with something else in the histories - but it does make me wonder if we're getting close to finding the original source for it. Andrew Gray (talk)