Talk:2006 Bangkok bombings/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, listed below. I will check back in seven days. If these issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far.

• The main problem with this article is that it has not been kept up to date with developments since about April 2007, and thus now does not meet GA criterion 3a. Do the authorities still not know who was responsible for this bombing?

• I think the political background in Thailand at the time of the bombings needs to be at least briefly explained, otherwise mention of various governments, ruling juntas, and the military is rather opaque.

• There are at least six dead links.[1]

Conflicts within the Junta

• "Conflict between junta assistant secretary General Saprang Kalayamitr and First Army Region commander and Lt General Prayuth Chan-ocha were cited as a possible causes of the bombings and the coup rumors. Both men are potential heirs to the leadership of the junta after Sonthi Boonyaratglin retires in September 2007." Obviously we're now two years on.

Coup rumours

• "Rumors that the junta would use the bombings as a pretext to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont abounded." Well, did they or didn't they?

Economic impact

• "... Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula claimed that the bombings "would not have an impact on this year's GDP." Was he right? Did it have an impact?

• "What about the effect of these bombings on tourism?

Jemaah Islamiyah or southern insurgents

• "There is a 1,000,000 baht ($35,700 USD) bounty for the arrest of Lohmueli Yusoh (alias Rusdi Pohseng), thought to be the leader of the attack." Has he still not been caught? As of when?

--Malleus Fatuorum 18:21, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

• As these issues have not been addressed, this article has now been delisted. --Malleus Fatuorum 21:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

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