Portal talk:Singapore/Archive 1

Archive 1

Something wrong?

There seems to be an error in this portal. The edit section of each box sends the user to a template page. It should be a sub-portal page. Can anyone fix this? --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 06:54, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, on second thoughts, I am planning to re-do the whole portal, living the content intact. If mistakes are being made during the editing process, please do not mistake this for vandalism. I am planning to get this portal to Featured portal status. This may take weeks so I need all the help that I can get. Thank you for your understanding. This is my first attempt in editing a portal page completely. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 07:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, attempting to recreate the portal and it looks ugly right now. But the fundamenrtal contents are still there. Following the instructions of Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions to the letter. Any one can help if they want to. But if major mistakes are being done here, I accept full responsibility for my bold actions. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 07:14, 20 August 2006

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Alright. I gave up improving this page. It is time for me to be totally competent in editing portal pages before attempting to improve the quality of this portal. Reverted all my edits here as well. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 09:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

At last, this problem has been fixed. now let us work together in bringing this portal up to Featured Portal status! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 19:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Ying Fo Fui Kun featured in "Did you know..."

Featured on "Did you know..." October 21:

...that Ying Fo Fui Kun was the first Hakka clan association in Singapore, and its clan house at Telok Ayer (pictured) was gazetted as a national monument in 1998?

Rodan44 02:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Use of other languages other than English

First of all this is English Wikipedia, if they wanted to know what the name of the place is in chinese etc, then they would go to chinese wikipedia. Secondly, chinese is only one of the 4 official languages of Singapore, with only English having the clear distinction as it is the working language of the country. So if you are to put the translations of a place in Singapore or a Singapore topic, either have it in English only, or all 4 languages for uniformity and fairness. Your take? Nicholas.tan (talk) 04:45, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Elections 2015

I'm new to Singapore, but I see that the article: Singaporean general election, 2015 is the most updated article for the last week. Therefore it might be useful to add this line to Portal:Singapore/Selected anniversaries/September:

• 13 September 2015: Singapore's 17th parliamentary general election are held.

Not sure if this is appropriate or in conflict with the rules for portals. Thanks for feedback.

--huggi - never stop exploring (talk) 02:39, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Huggi, just because an article is the most updated article means that it is significant enough to add to the list of anniversaries. It usually has to have lasting and significant notability, ie: a significant event in Singapore history. On a sidenote, edit patterns can vary due to news cycles- the reason why it is the most edited article is because this event has received quite a significant amount of media coverage recently. Cheers!--Lionratz (talk) 08:02, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Yes Lionratz, that's like with McDonalds, just because there are many people it does not mean that there is good food. For me as a foreigner it does not matter anyway because a) I'm not allowed to vote and b) It's like everywhere else in the world a local game. But it's probably "significant" or notable for the locals as it impacts their future, but of course everyone can ignore it as well, that's also a statement --huggi - never stop exploring (talk) 08:16, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Notice from the Portals WikiProject

WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.

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Content selection criteria

To keep this information in a centralized area, the following is content selection criteria from various portal subpages. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:35, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

• Copied from Portal:Singapore/Selected article:

Adding articles
Feel free to add any FA or GA Singapore-related articles to the list below, within these guidelines:

• Articles should be for Singaporean-related articles only. Biographies about Singaporeans should be listed at Selected biography, while images should be added to Selected picture or Selected Panorama.

• Copied from Portal:Singapore/Selected biography:

Adding articles
Feel free to add any FA or GA Singapore-related biographic articles to the list below, within these guidelines:

• Articles should be for Singaporean-related biographic articles only. Other articles should be listed at this list instead.

• The subject of the article is a Singaporean (either by birth or naturalized) or has made a significant contribution to Singapore.

• Biographies about living people must conform strictly to the Biographies of living persons guidelines

Portal updates

The following updates have been performed on the portal. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:57, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

• Updated portal using Template:Transclude random excerpt, providing current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to article content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion. Used GA-class selections from Portal:Singapore/Selected biography and FA-class/GA-class selections from Portal:Singapore/Selected article.
• Added a new General images section, which displays images from various topically-related articles.
• Added more GA-class articles to the Selected biography section (diff)

More updates below. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:28, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Updated the Selected article section using the Transclude random excerpt template, adding FA-class and GA-class articles from Portal:Singapore/Selected article.
• Added more GA-class articles (diff)

Updating of Page's title

Hi there,

i've put up a request for speedy renaming/merging with the function, not sure what's the next step from here. If any form of verification is required in order to make this changes to the page's title, feel free to reach me at my company's email, kenneth.ong@mapletree.com.sg

This is a property owned by my company and since we've changed the building name to mTower as at January 2021, we would like to update this information asap. Would appreciate it if you guys can speed things up for us.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards, Kenneth

Removed template and edit request to mTower had been done. --Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 06:32, 24 February 2021 (UTC)