Talk:Hung Cao

Ready for mainspace again?

This version is looking pretty good; I can see the issues with the summer-of-2023 version of the page that led to its deletion request but now I think the sourcing is clearly broad (and with many secondary sources) and the notability issues have been resolved. Any reason not to move it back to mainspace (and restore the categories) now? /blahedo (t) 22:23, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

​You can move it if you see fit. I resolved the multiple issues by replacing primary with secondary sources. The subject seems to meet WP:GNG guidelines through his major political party nomination in two national elections and the coverage of him in the interim with a decent amount of coverage in foreign media. WP:POLITICIAN reads "being...an unelected candidate for political office...does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline". —  AjaxSmack  17:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Cao’s refugee experience is a bit different from many Vietnamese of the time. His parents lived in Ithaca NY for several years while his former for an advanced degree at Cornell. Their first child, a daughter, was born there. Immigration was probably easier with a US citizen in the family. His father’s connections helped him secure a good position with USAID. Hung went to school in west Africa with diplomats’ children. He led a pretty privileged life. Here is the interview where he tells this story. It’s a little different from what he says on the campaign trail.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1231352/8931263 74.96.204.185 (talk) 13:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Seaman Cao

"Cao entered the U.S. Navy as a seaman recruit in 1989 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1996"

The Academy is four years. Its possible Cao was sent to a one year prep course (which is common for non-typical cadets). That still leaves three years of enlisted status. What was his MOS? Where was he, what did he do? I've looked online and its suspicious that there is no information about his enlisted time.ItsRainingCatsAndDogsAndMen (talk) 14:05, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Also, time at the service academy does not count as “active service” - it does not count towards calculating military retirement pay. ~2026-26591-47 (talk) 02:49, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Date of birth

There have been attempts to reinsert a date of birth into this article. Please note that under WP:BLPDOB, we have fairly constraining requirements on inclusion of a date of birth of a living person. The current source for his birth year and location does not have the full date. A source was added from a newspaper's "AI desk", and AI sources are not reliable. Additionally, because there was a date given in the article for a fair while, there is a very real risk that some potential sources we find will be WP:CIRCULAR, reporting the date of birth as a fact because it was listed in Wikipedia. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 16:57, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Pre-2022 run as libertarian

I think this guy ran for some political office (state or local) prior to 2022 as a libertarian candidate. ~2026-32773-40 (talk) 01:46, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

A newspapers.com search for "Hung Cao" libertarian from 1990 to 2021 finds no such claim. Nat Gertler (talk) 01:56, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

You know what, I thought I saw a poster for Hung Cao as a libertarian candidate in Loudoun County, Virginia in 2020, 2021, or 2022, but the more I look into it, the more I am convinced that I am Mandela-effecting myself. According to every source I checked, he only retired from the Navy in October, 2021 (and he was active duty). I don't think that you can run for office while serving as active duty. Maybe you can do that if you're on terminal leave, but I think that's only two months or so. Assuming he was allowed to do so, I don't think he could have done everything he needed to do to run that quickly. Maybe his signs were just yellow in 2022 and I got confused. ~2026-32773-40 (talk) 23:30, 16 June 2026 (UTC)