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RfC: Should we change the titles of those election articles from "Republic of China xxx elections" to "Taiwanese xxx elections"?

Related RFC here. Talk:Republic_of_China_general_election,_2016#Should_we_change_the_titles_of_those_election_articles_from_.22Republic_of_China_xxx_elections.22_to_.22Taiwanese_xxx_elections.22.3F --Lemongirl942 (talk) 00:42, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

RM notification 21 November 2024

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Malaysia national under-23 football team#Requested move 3 September 2016, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, — Sam Sailor 23:53, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

10,000 article challenge

Hi, if anybody would be interested in doing a 10,000 article improvement challenge for Malaysia and Southeast Asia and national contests for Malaysia, Philippines etc please comment at my proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Southeast Asia.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:08, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Red's special November activities


November 2016

Announcing two exiting online editathons
Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers
as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with
Wikipedia Asian Month
Faciliated by Women in Red

--Ipigott (talk) 11:08, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

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Notification of RFC at Talk:Singapore

Please see Talk:Singapore#RfC - Inclusion of sentence about Gallup poll for a current RFC about the lead of Singapore. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 20:15, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Pictures taken at the FRIM

Hey fellow Malaysians! What do you think about these pictures I took from the FRIM today morning?

∞ Target360YT ∞ (talk · contribs) 11:56, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Cannabis in Malaysia needs improvement

We have a new article Cannabis in Malaysia, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Malaysian sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Malaysian Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Don't know how much we can get under that title. However I was looking for a general title, something like Drug policy in Malaysia, and there doesn't seem to be one. CMD (talk) 05:42, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

What is this sign?

"No peddlers allowed"?

I took this photo in Taiping in March 1997 and just scanned it in. I have no idea what this sign is supposed to mean. Any ideas? Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 19:16, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Media upload of historical photographs of Malaysia

Dear editors,

I would like to draw your attention to a media upload that may be of relevance to this page:

The Temminck Groll Collection consists of 2,641 historical photographs taken by the Dutch architect and architectural historian Coen Temminck Groll (1925-2015). The photos were taken in regions with which the Dutch have had historical relations, including countries in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia (see the category description for a full listing). The photos were taken during Temminck Groll's travels and study of 'shared cultural heritage' (heritage of the Netherlands located outside the country’s borders) and mainly date to the 1960s and 1970s. The photographs were digitised by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and made available to Wikimedia Commons in the context of the project The Netherlands and the world. If you have any questions about this upload, or have other media requests regarding Dutch shared cultural heritage, don't hesitate to leave a message at the project page!

Kind regards, --AWossink (talk) 14:51, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Sudden increase in PRODs

Am I only one who noticed that there has been a sudden increase in the number of PRODs to Malaysia related articles (during the last 2-3 days)? I DEPRODed a bunch of them today. May of these might well be notable and it would help to have a discussion on these. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:28, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Image of Adnan Saidi

Please take part in the discussion at Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2017_February_14#File:Leftenan_Adnan_bin_Saidi.jpg about an image of Adnan Saidi. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 19:38, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

User:Bugmenot123123123 said in reddit that an article for deletion (AfD) result on a page which was about a MH17 related hacking was affected by a geographic bias. Malaysians, any "pendapat" on this? 185.89.219.227 (talk) 15:38, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Requested move about 1962 referendum in Singapore

There a proposal to rename Singaporean integration referendum, 1962 to Singapore national referendum, 1962. Inviting inputs from interested editors at Talk:Singaporean_integration_referendum,_1962#Requested_move_10_March_2017. Thank you. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 13:04, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Daikon split discussion

Please come participate in the split discussion regarding the Daikon article. Thank you. --Epulum (talk) 06:41, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming

"420 collaboration",

which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!

The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion.

WikiProject Malaysia participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Malaysia.

For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer (Talk) 22:02, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Promoting Sarawak to featured article status

Sarawak, located on the northwest Borneo, was a former British crown colony from 1946 to 1963. This article is just a few steps away from becoming the featured article status. Please help to do a source review and image review for this article so that it can achieve the featured article status as soon as possible. Thank you very much for your help. 00:55, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Heads up on Guangming Daily (China) RM

There is an RM started at Talk:Guangming Daily (China), proposing to make that the primary topic for both Guang Ming Daily and Guangming Daily, with Guang Ming Daily (Malaysia) as the secondary topic. Currently there is no PTOPIC. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 08:53, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Category:Malaysian nobility stubs

Dawynn (talk) 16:01, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Malaysia

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 16:57, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Eain Yow Ng pronunciation

Hi, could we please have IPA pronunciation for Eain Yow Ng? Thanks! DrVogel (talk) 01:29, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Wen Li Lai

Hi, could somebody please clarify which bits of Wen Li Lai's name are her given name and her surname? Thanks Dr. Vogel (talk) 17:37, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:47, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Votes required for 2017 Wikimedia Commons picture of the year Round 1

Dear Wikiproject Malaysia members, there is the Wikimedia Commons featured picture of the year competition for 2017. The New Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building is one of the featured pictures. Your vote will help to improve the visibility of Sarawak and Malaysia as a whole. Every vote is very much appreciated, thank you. Cerevisae (talk) 12:11, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Malaka vs Malacca

There are many articles and categories using 'Malaka'; there are also many articles and categories using 'Malacca'. Articles' text is the same way. I do not find any text saying there was a name change. What is the correct name? Are there any references that discuss a name change or the difference? Also is Malaka simply the name in Malay and Malacca the name in English and as an English encyclopedia should we therefore be using Malacca? Hmains (talk) 16:48, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Should Template:Chinese always display both Traditional or Simplified Chinese, or should it only display the relevant written forms based on territory

Please see Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/China_and_Chinese-related_articles#Should_the_Chinese_infobox_display_both_Simplified_and_Traditional_Chinese_for_all_Greater_China_and/or_Sinosphere-related_subjects,_or_should_it_only_display_the_relevant_ones_per_territory/area? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:05, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:37, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Kampung Pelawan

The article on Kampung Pelawan says that it is in Perak, but the coordinates provided place it in Pahang. Can someone with the relevant knowledge take a look please? Thanks Mccapra (talk) 20:59, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta

Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:49, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Mahathir Mohamad

Can someone peer review Mahathir Mohamad? Thanks. Векочел (talk) 02:07, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Discussion on Maxit (maxit.my) on the reliable sources noticeboard

There is a discussion on the reliability of Maxit (maxit.my) on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Maxit for WeChat. — Newslinger talk 22:48, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer

Many new pages are being created around Malaysian topics. Members of this project with experience around notability, deletion, and nurturing new users are encouraged to consider applying for New Page Reviewer. The New Page Patrol community is a friendly one and we're always looking for more talented editors. If you are interested but think you might not be ready consider enrolling in New Page Patrol School. If you have any questions, I serve as coordinator and would be happy to answer them - please ping me here or drop by my talk page. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 21:53, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Asas '50

I'm doing template maintenance and I just completed some cleanup on this article. It seems to describe an important organization in Malaysian history, but the article is in very poor shape, even after my edits. I think it could benefit from a thorough overhaul by someone who is bilingual in Malaysian and English, especially if they have some familiarity with the topic. I've added an expert needed template, but thought I should add a note here as well. Thanks! Skeletor3000 (talk) 22:47, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

RFC on whether Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters count as the same name

Please see Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/China_and_Chinese-related_articles#Request_for_comment:_Do_the_traditional_and_simplified_forms_of_Chinese_count_as_the_same_name_or_different_names_in_regards_to_eligibility_of_displaying_characters? WhisperToMe (talk) 07:23, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

2020 political crisis

Hi, I started the 2020 Malaysian constitutional crisis article, feel free to contribute to it. Lulusword (talk) 09:26, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Museum AFDs

Related ongoing AFDs include: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kite Museum (Melaka), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melaka Transportation Museum, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Petaling Jaya Museum. --Doncram (talk) 05:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Including native scripts of author names in citation templates?

In Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#Citing_native_scripts_of_the_author's_name_and/or_title_of_a_work_in_Citation_Style_1 I inquired about the ability to include native scripts of titles of works and of authors. It turns out the citation template does allow input of native scripts of titles, but it does not have this capability for authors yet. In Chinese studies it is useful to know the hanzi of an author for a Chinese language works, so I suggested allowing the ability for native scripts of authors too. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:46, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week

Hello there. This is an invitation to join the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week. £250 (c. $310) is being given away in May, June and July with £20 worth of prizes to give away every week for most articles destubbed. Each week there is a different region of focus, including one week dedicated to South-South East Asia, which includes Malaysia, though half the prize will still be rewarded for articles on any subject. There's a potential £120 to be won in total for destubbing on any subject or region of your choice. Sign up if you want to contribute at least one of the weeks or support the idea! † Encyclopædius 11:52, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Hazwani Helmi

Hi I’m a new page reviewer and I’d appreciate the views of members of this project on Hazwani Helmi. Are the sources for this article reliable and independent? Thanks Mccapra (talk) 05:41, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Mccapra, looking at the sources, both Astro Awani and Harian Metro are mainstream newspapers and generally reliable. Gempak is an independent magazine that reports on celebrity news. However salam.my looks more like a blog, although I'm sure the info cited to it can be find elsewhere. ebunda is a primary source, since it links directly to the product website. I hope this helps. Lulusword (talk) 07:35, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
Thank you that’s very helpful. All the best Mccapra (talk) 08:01, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Taman Len Seng

Please add a source.Xx236 (talk) 10:35, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Places name in Tamil

Hi, does anyone know the place name in Tamil for Sungai Lembing and Janda Baik? Need this detail to complete the infobox if avaiable. Thanks. WPSamson (talk) 01:43, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Do they have significant Tamil populations? If you can't find it, I don't think the infobox is less complete without it. CMD (talk) 01:57, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
@Chipmunkdavis: Sungai Lembing has significant Tamil populations, but I still can't find it's name. Tried search on Google Maps, Google Street View and Makkal Osai but with no luck. Same goes with Janda Baik, but without significant Tamil population. WPSamson (talk) 01:05, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
If the names aren't on Gmaps they probably aren't that prominent. As an aside, Janda Baik is lacking a Geography section. CMD (talk) 05:21, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
@Chipmunkdavis: All the contents inside Janda Baik are the most appropriate sourced content I can found so far from both English and Malay language articles. User generated contents especially from Facebook, Blogspot are definitely prohibited to be used as source per WP:Perennial sources. I am preparing both Sungai Lembing and Janda Baik for GA status. For Sungai Lembing I go ahead straight to GA nomination as the work is mostly done and ready, while Janda Baik I on hold the GA nomination until I uploaded several useful photos for this article. Tried find photos from Flickr and YouTube, didn't found any images that are good and useful for this article, so I had to visit that place on my own to shoot several photos to be upload to Commons / Wikipedia for the Janda Baik article. WPSamson (talk) 01:25, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red Asian women contest

From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of women from Malaysia.--Ipigott (talk) 18:54, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Noticeboard discussion on reliability of newsarawaktribune.com.my

There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of newsarawaktribune.com.my, a website hosted on a domain formerly belonging to the New Sarawak Tribune. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § newsarawaktribune.com.my. — Newslinger talk 08:18, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Move request at Fortress of Malacca

For interested editors, there is an ongoing move request at Talk:Fortress of Malacca#Requested move 15 December 2020. CMD (talk) 01:27, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Languages of Malaysia

Ha all! The page Languages of Malaysia needs some improvement with regards to the sourcing of speaker numbers. The tables with autochtonous languages are completely unsourced, but the data appears to be ripped from an older version of the Ethnologue. The speaker numbers for historical migrant communuties (Insular SE Asian, Chinese, South Asian) are based on "Joshua Project". While both are missionary-based sources, Ethnologue generally counts as reliable, using census data, academic sources and data from own surveys, which they usually conduct in a professional manner that equals academic research, and often in cooperation with academical institutions. OTOH Joshua Project contains lots of dubious data which is not clearly sourced.

Can this data be remedied with explicit/better/recent sources? The current Ethnologue page Malaysia – Languages is hidden behind a monstrous paywall. Older versions are accessible on Wayback Machine, but some languages of Indian origin are lacking (e.g. Telugu, Malayalam). –Austronesier (talk) 13:37, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Closed CCI Case

Hi! CCI just wrapped up a case with some articles relating to Malaysia and its international politics being changed and modified. You can see what was removed if you go to this page and check the history for the second-most recent edit. Off the top of my head:

Others were mostly adding attribution or actually innocuous. Thanks in advance and I hope your project is doing okay, Sennecaster (What now?) 04:34, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Features articles under review

The majority of Featured Articles that are currently tagged as WikiProject Malaysia articles were promoted prior to 2016, and quite a few prior to 2010. All old FA articles are being re-checked through the Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/2020 process. Members of this Wikiproject may be interested in reviewing these articles, and taking relevant following steps (marking as satisfactory, fixing, or bringing to WP:FAR) as necessary. The articles in question are:

Best, CMD (talk) 06:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Another case...

Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Rizuan has just wrapped up. You may want to take a look. Most articles affected are on military/police. Sennecaster (What now?) 02:41, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

The Jawi alphabet

Calling someone familiar with the Jawi alphabet! A coin inscribed with text in the Jawi alphabet is due to be Picture of the Day on 19 April 2021, see here. It was suggested at the featured picture nomination that the image of the reverse of the coin, on the right, may have the text upside down. Is that in fact the case? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:46, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Definitely almost but not quite upside down, as noted on the commons talk page. Note the long line on both faces has a hook on what would be the left side, and the '9' above the "3" in "1803" is the same as the letters currently at the top on the right that look like 6's. CMD (talk) 12:39, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 GAR

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. CMD (talk) 16:31, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
  • New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Malaysia related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
  • Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
  • If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 14:43, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Help evaluate article on Bornean Ferret Badger

Hi I'm a university student editing an article on the Bornean Ferret Badger and I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could give me any feedback. It's a work in progress and your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced Ghost1590 (talk) 23:23, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

TV6 (Malaysia)

TV6 (Malaysia) is a TV channel launching next week. The articl about it has been the subject of a discussion at WP:ANI#TV6 (Malaysia). Main problem is that notability is not established as the article is unreferenced. Any members of this WP willing to try to save it from deletion? Mjroots (talk) 17:18, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

That article has been redirected (at this moment) to Radio Televisyen Malaysia already. Perhaps the author needs to write the article until it has reached a start-class article already (with standard way of Manual of Styles of Wikipedia) and with significant number of 3rd party references. An article without reference will be easily get deleted or redirected. Chongkian (talk) 04:02, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Ummi Hafilda up for deletion

Hi all, Ummi Hafilda Ali is up for deletion. We aren't really sure how to evaluate her notability, so perspective from someone familiar with Malaysian politics would be useful. Suriname0 (talk) 14:50, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

The last (?) Hindu King

I will be glad to have your opinion over here. The article is very poor and in need of sources for improvement. TrangaBellam (talk) 21:44, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

New micro-stub on a possibly important topic

A user began a two-sentence stub on the 1994 Malaysian football scandal. While there are enough sources to justify a standalone article, I urge you to expand the article with context and other details. Should it be moved to draftspace? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:46, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

I agree it could serve as a stand-alone. Other potential sources: [1][2][3][4]. If the current state is insufficient, I would suggest merging to History of Malaysian football rather than drafting it. CMD (talk) 11:10, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:1948 in Malaya#Requested move 3 August 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:1948 in Malaya#Requested move 3 August 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:54, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Please see SM Nasarudin SM Nasimuddin

I would like to improve my understanding of names. Please would you explain whether "SM" are initials or are an honorific. Please ling me in any reply FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 09:38, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

@Timtrent: Pretty sure they are initials and stand for Sheikh Muhammad, although the spelling might be different. Lulusword (talk) 14:53, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
@Lulusword thank you. We learn as we go! FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 14:56, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Help evaluate article on Abdul Rahim Kajai

I recently wrote an article of Abdul Rahim Kajai. Photos were added, but I can only find 7 reliable citations directly related to his name.

Extra: I'm planning to create a lot of Malaysian skyscraper articles. There are at least 2-3 dozen completed skyscrapers that haven't had a page of their own and even more for proposals, and those that are under construction. Peace out. (PenangLion (talk) 06:38, 30 December 2021 (UTC))

@PenangLion: You can find more sources about Abdul Rahim Kajai at the eresources.nlb.gov.sg website. I hope it helps you.–Fandi89 (talk) 13:11, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Ketuanan Melayu

I have nominated Ketuanan Melayu for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 16:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Article importance needs reassessing

The importance ranking of some articles are very strange, and need to be re-assessed. for example fish cracker was ranked a high-importance Malaysia article, which cannot be right given that Nasi lemak which is usually regarded as the national dish is ranked mid-importance. Chew Mei Fun, a Secretary-General of MCA and a deputy minister cannot be ranked more important than her superior, the president of MCA and a minister Ong Ka Ting. These are just two I see on a casual glance at the list, and I've adjusted them. If anyone has the time to go through the ranking, pleased do, because some of the ranking just don't make sense. Ranking needs to have some kind reasoning in their hierarchy, not random assignment. Hzh (talk) 16:52, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

There needs to be a consistent system of ranking, for example, many of the towns and cities are ranked as far too important. Ranau or Tamparuli cannot be ranked the same importance as Kota Kinabalu or Sabah (capital of a state or the state itself must have higher ranking than the capital of a district or a small town). Same for other things in the importance ranking. Hzh (talk) 10:59, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
I've made some adjustments to mid or low, if anyone disagree and want to rank them higher please discuss first. There need to be some rationale for giving these places high importance.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hzh (talk • contribs) 12:05, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
For a fully consistent importance criteria, we'd need to establish a criteria. Taking cue from Template:Importance scheme, top would be for "crucial" articles, high for "extremely notable" within a Malaysian context, mid for notable within a more specific context, and low for everything else. (Bottom seems deprecated in practice.) Over a decade ago I had a stab at what might effectively be a top list in creating a Wikibook, now here. I wouldn't make the same list now, but it has the contours. Inclusion criteria for high articles could include specific topics, eg. state capitals, prime ministers, prominent historical events.
This does however raise the question of what the goal of ranking articles would be. Unless there is some concerted effort to eg. Raise the quality of top articles, I don't know if it would be worth the effort. There are other goals that could be worked on without needing ranking. For example, we have four states and one federal territory at GA, this provides an interesting starting point for a project to get all states to GA. CMD (talk) 01:17, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Well, the importance ranking may be useful in other context, for example in helping to select articles for offline releases - Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria#Priority of topic. Even for a casual reader it is disconcerting or extremely misleading to see something minor ranked to be of high importance in WikiProject Malaysia. We shouldn't really make something more important than they are (or indeed make something to be of lesser importance than they are). The importance shouldn't be left to individual editors who are interested in promoting certain articles, for example, all the articles on Sabah that were given high ranking beyond their actual importance. There is the ranking criteria here WP:WikiProject Malaysia/Assessment#Importance scale which is a bit vague, since it's an "attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic". Still, that should still tell us that some of the articles in the high importance category shouldn't be there, for example, who cares about Malaysia–Solomon Islands relations? Not even those in Solomon Islands I'd guess. Probably only the top-importance and high-importance articles need going over for now, which shouldn't be something too onerous. I can probably do that whenever I have some free time, and that shouldn't take a lot of time. Still, it might be be useful to establish some better criteria, for example, I would rate all the states to be of top importance, which would contradict the example of Kelantan ranked as high-importance, but that can be discussed another time. Hzh (talk) 19:55, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Well if that aim is to trim down top/high, that is more achievable. I would agree states would get top priority, and relations articles would get mid (for those notable within the context of Malaysian relations) and low. CMD (talk) 00:09, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Durian

I have nominated Durian for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 17:34, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

  • John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Malaysian language#Requested move 17 May 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Malaysian language#Requested move 17 May 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. CMD (talk) 02:50, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Please do share your opinion on this request to move Malaysian language to Bahasa Malaysia. Pakbelang (talk) 08:14, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

JB-SG RTS

Hello, greetings from across the border.

Would any Malaysians living in Johor be able to obtain a photo of the Bukit Chagar RTS station construction site? This would be greatly appreciated as we document the history of the RTS as it approaches competition. Seloloving (talk) 10:39, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

The article has a photo already. Chongkian (talk) 06:12, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Nationalist editing dispute?

Some kind of multi-article nationalist editing dispute caused a bunch of back and forth on my talk page recently, see permalink. Eyes that are familiar with this topic area would be very much appreciated. Some of the edits (for example this one about 'illegal occupation' seem very POV pushing to me. MrOllie (talk) 12:01, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia ESEAP Conference 2022 on November 18-20 in Sydney, Australia

The Wikimedia East, South East Asia and the Pacific also known as ESEAP will be having an in-person conference in Sydney, Australia on November 18-20. ESEAP is a regional collaborative composed of nationalities & Wikimedia affiliates of Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Membership also include nationalities and informal communities of Brunei, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, and Timor Leste.

The goals for the conference are:

  • Strategic discussions: ESEAP Hub governance, process of moving from an informal group to more formal structure aligned with the Hubs/Minimum Criteria for Pilots
  • Partnership, Tools & Skills: Outreach and community collaboration support networks; building a network of skill sets so that communities in the region can provide extra outreach support and collaboration across the region; and
  • Leadership development through building networks that encourage new and wider diversity of participants to enable future growth

For more information, please visit the conference page.

Scholarship application (subsidized air fare, accommodation, and relevant fees) is ongoing. You may go to the scholarship page to know more. Deadline for scholarship application is on 24 July (Sunday) at 12:00 UTC (see your local time) .

We also call for volunteers to the following committees:

  • Scholarship committee
  • Program submissions review committee
  • Communications committee
  • Onsite & technical volunteers

For inquiries, please reach us at eseap.conf@wikimedia.org.au.

Thank you! --Exec8 (talk) 04:47, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Malaysia Revitalisation Project: Pushing FAR/B for Reformasi

Original article: Reformasi (Malaysia)

Current article: User:PenangLion/sandbox (lead section)

Greetings. I've recently started works on re-hauling the entire article for Reformasi (Malaysia). It has triggered my inner senses for its immature writing and blatant copying of paragraphs from scholarly articles without formal citations. I would like to request to upgrade the article's importance to "High", similar to my request for the article of the 13 May incident, which was agreed to be re-evaluated from "Mid" to "High". I also have the desire to rewrite the article so it can achieve FA standards (unlikely given my amateur-ish experiences).

I'm currently able to rewrite the article from scratch using several dozen (so far, for the sections covered, mostly just one, I have expended at least 15-20 scholar articles). However, I do need help on other aspects for this article.

  1. The articles require more images. These include: 
- Images of the protest itself, preferably in 3:4 landscape format, and mostly, free;  

- Images of political leaders denoted, preferably in 3:4 portrait format, and mostly, free;
 
- These political leaders include: Anwar Ibrahim (during the 1970s and 1980s), Mahathir Mohamad (during the 1960s and 1970s), Ahmad Boestamam, Ishak Haji Muhammad, Kassim Ahmad, Syed Husin Ali, Mohamed Hanifah Abdul Ghani (Dep-President of PAS during the 1960s), Lim Guan Eng (during the 1980s and 1990s, I suggest posting a cropped portrait of the leaders that appeared in an issue of the 1987 copy of The Star when Operation Lalang occured, since it's not free there might be some issues), Lim Kit Siang (during the 1980s and 1990s, same situation can be done, refer Guan Eng's entry);  

- Images of several notable events; preferably in 3:4 landscape format, and mostly, free; 

- These events include: the 1998–1999 Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak, Arrest and trial of Lim Guan Eng and Lim Kit Siang, 1974 Baling protests;
  1. I require lookups whether my writing style has reached acceptable standards for FA, and if not, what corrections can be done?
  2. I need some suggestions, what should I do to make it significantly improved?

These are the things I have made so far:

  1. Re-sectioned the parts within the article, removing repeated paragraphs.
  2. Creating a "Backgrounds" section to describe the events leading up to Reformasi, as well as adding new information. Titles in bold note new content that were created by me after reviewing scholarly articles. These contents include: 
- Domestic political and bureaucratic Islamization (work-in-progress, possibly 50-60 percent complete); 

- UMNO factionalism since the Razak era (complete, but require further touches); 

- 1997 Asian financial crisis (complete, but require further touches); 

- Accusations of corruption within Mahathir's government (not done); 

- Arrest and trial of Lim Guan Eng and Lim Kit Siang / alternatively "Arrests and trials of political dissidents" (planned); 

- 1998 Nipah pandemic (planned);
  1. Creating drafts for a "History" section, "Response" section, "Reactions" section, and "Aftermath" section.

Let's improve them, shall we? I have similar plans for other articles, notably the 13 May incident. It was written in an outdated style.

Cheers, PenangLion (talk) 18:01, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi PenangLion, thanks for initiating this revitalization movement and wrote the notification here in WikiProject Malaysia talk page to notify the members of this WikiProject. But maybe from now onwards, it's better to continue the discussion on the talk page of that Reformasi (Malaysia) article at Talk:Reformasi (Malaysia) to be more focused. Chongkian (talk) 03:15, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Alfred Russel Wallace

I have nominated Alfred Russel Wallace for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 20:52, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for Alfred Russel Wallace

There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Alfred Russel Wallace/archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:50, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

United Malays National Organisation controversy section

Hi all, I like to ask members of this project to discuss the controversy section of UMNO (see talkpage Talk:United Malays National Organisation). Please feel free to input your opinions there. Thanks! Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 03:36, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Explanation about @

i'm looking for explanation about @ in Malaysian names, like Shamsul Iskandar Md. Akin. At sign says "In Malaysia, it is called alias when it is used in names", but no references are cited. can you please add a section?--RZuo (talk) 07:56, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:The Buddha

The page which had been Gautama Buddha was unsuccessfully proposed for a change to Siddhartha Gautama, then successfully changed to The Buddha, and is now being proposed for a change to Buddha. Your input and expertise would be most welcome at: Talk:The_Buddha#Requested_move_25_November_2022 Best, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 04:17, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Category:Malaysian people of Chinese descent

There are two contradictory hatnotes on this category; one requests that all Malaysian people of Chinese descent be included in the parent category, and one requests exactly the opposite. Which of the two is correct? At the very least, this requires clarification. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 00:58, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

The two hatnotes read the same to me, both suggest the category should be very inclusive. CMD (talk) 01:56, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
@Chipmunkdavis: In my experience, the first one suggests that the category should be nearly empty. See, for instance, Category:American writers, specifically the sentence, "It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories." (Emphasis mine.) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:22, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
Ah, I didn't understand it was a subcategory issue. Is there a usual practice? I've always worked under the assumption an article shouldn't be in a category and a subcategory. CMD (talk) 02:28, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
@Chipmunkdavis: Ordinarily, the category would be emptied by placing articles in the subcategories. (I have a tool that can do a lot of this fairly quickly, if that's what you'd decide, and if you'd like me to.) However, there is the possibility that a category could be non-diffusing. I don't see a reason why that would be the case here, but I thought I'd ask, as there might be a reason of which I wasn't aware. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:54, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
The reason might be that in general usage the 'category' is not divided in the way it is here (although caveats exist, eg. Category:Peranakan people in Malaysia‎). I don't have a firm opinion, but I note Category:Malaysian people of Indian descent is set up similarly. (Category:Malaysian people of Malay descent currently has no subcategories.) CMD (talk) 03:31, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
Posting to keep this from being archived, as it hasn't yet been resolved. To the previous point: see the setup of Category:Kenyan people of Indian descent and the like, for instance. I don't see that all articles need to be in the parent category. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:25, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Tanjong Dawai (state constituency)#Requested move 19 December 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tanjong Dawai (state constituency)#Requested move 19 December 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. echidnaLives - talk - edits 23:48, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

GAR notice

Kuala Lumpur has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 23:52, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

GAR notice

Kota Kinabalu has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:17, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

GAR Notice

Sandakan has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:40, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 : Singapore, 16-19 August

Wikimedians! You are highly encouraged to apply for travel scholarship for Wikimedia Movement's largest gathering, Wikimania 2023. Wikimania 2023 will happen in Singapore and online from 16-19 August, 2023. There is a pre-conference on the 15th and a post-conference on the 20th. It is back on our region since Hong Kong in 2013. Application deadline is on 5 February 2023 at 23:59 AoE. Regular registration will happen around May 2023. --Exec8 (talk) Exec8 (talk) 07:39, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Japanese government-issued Philippine peso#Requested move 29 January 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Japanese government-issued Philippine peso#Requested move 29 January 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 01:01, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:09, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Request to redesign interchange style on metro rail route diagrams

Legend
 current
integrated paid area
single fare trip
non-integrated paid area
multiple fare trips
rapid transit
commuter rail
 new
integrated paid area
single fare trip
non-integrated paid area
multiple fare trips
rapid transit
commuter rail

I am planning to improve the metro rail route diagrams for all lines in Kuala Lumpur. In the current design, the integrated paid area is shown as a white oblong shape, but it seems like it can only be in a straight line, and cannot be curved, which is inconvenient for stations with interchange between three or more lines. And I have looked at other metro rail route diagrams in other countries, many are shown as a gray circle around the stations. So I wanted to ask for opinion whether or not to redesign the interchange style. The diagram on the right side is my proposal. Zh9567 14:16, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Here is a route diagram edited with improved interchange styles: User:Zh9567/rail (edited from Template:Ampang Line) Zh9567 15:58, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Regarding Golden Screen Cinemas, Lotus Five Star, MBO Cinemas, TGV Cinemas & the List of cinemas in Malaysia.

I apologise if this is not the right place to post this.

Correct me if I am wrong. Aren't these articles violating policies such as WP:CRYSTALBALL, WP:DIRECTORY, WP:NOTADVERT & WP:NOTDATABASE? I have, in the past, attempted to improve them by removing content that are in violation with Wikipedia's policies and by adding relevant maintenance templates. However, I am unsure as to how much more content I should remove in order to ensure the aforementioned articles comply with Wikipedia's policies. Can an experienced editor help me determine what is worth keeping and what is worth removing? Or am I just overreacting and being a deletionist? --Lousysofa (talk) 17:35, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I think all of these are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles, same like the cinema chains in other countries listed in Category:Cinema and movie theatre chains by country. Just make sure these cinema articles have proper information to make them an encyclopedia articles, e.g. date of establishments, where they are located, history, changes in branding/logo etc. Chongkian (talk) 04:11, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
The problem isn't whether the subjects are notable enough or not, the problem is the content of the articles. I believe the articles have a slight promotional tone, contain predictions (e.g. predicting the year a cinema will open), and contain excessive information that aren't supposed to be included in Wikipedia articles (e.g. number of seats in each cinema). — Lousysofa (talk) 17:08, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
Of course those promotional tone sentences or trivial information (e.g. number of seats) can be removed per WP:CITENEED. Chongkian (talk) 14:49, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Naming convention for federal and state constituencies

Please correct me if I am wrong but I think there had previously been an unwritten convention (or tradition) of naming constituencies in Malaysia with the (state/federal constituency) suffix. However, this was challenged in good faith around December last year by a few editors citing WP:PRECISE. I think that all constituencies should have the (federal/state constituency) suffix as most constituency boundaries in Malaysia usually have quite a significant discrepancy between the actual boundary of the place and constituency named after the place. For example, P123. Cheras is a federal constituency located solely in Kuala Lumpur, but the actual boundary of the place known as Cheras actually stretches into Selangor and is noticeably much bigger than the boundary of the constituency named after it. However, I am not sure if this is enough of a reason to propose an exception to WP:PRECISE in the naming convention. Should federal and state constituencies in Malaysia have a naming convention similar to those of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (UK Parliament constituencies) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indian constituencies)? --Traxezz (talk) 09:30, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Can you provide a link to an instance where editors challenge the naming convention/tradition? Did they simply omit the suffix (e.g.: changing "Cheras (federal constituency)" to "Cheras") or did they remove the suffix in favour of the constituency's code (e.g.: "Cheras (federal constituency)" → "P123 Cheras")? Personally, I believe we could be more precise if we use "(Dewan Rakyat constituency)" instead of "(federal constituency)" and "(<insert state name> legislative assembly constituency)" instead of "(state constituency)" as Malaysia is not the only country in the world with federal and state constituencies. — Lousysofa (talk) 17:43, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
A few examples would be Pengkalan Berangan, Bukit Lada and Kuala Krau where the suffix was removed entirely. You can find a more comprehensive list of constituencies with their suffix removed by browsing Category:Constituencies in Malaysia. I had requested the Bukit Lada move to be reverted in Wikipedia:Requested moves before but it was overwhelmingly turned down. --Traxezz (talk) 14:20, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
I agree with your approach. Name without suffix will be treated as geographical place first (e.g. towns, cities etc). For constituencies, they need to have that 'constituency; suffix. And to further avoid ambiguity, we need to further breakdown on those constituencies, either to have it as 'state constituency' or 'federal constituency'. Because I think some of the constituencies do share the same name between the state-level or federal-level constituencies. Chongkian (talk) 14:52, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Malaysia:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 13:20, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Enhanced_Spelling_of_the_Indonesian_Language#Requested_move_1_October_2023

This came out of the Indonesian wikiproject but affects the Malaysian side too. The problem was that the Ejaan yang Disempurnakan topic kept getting moved back and forth repeatedly. See my suggested move here. Dan Carkner (talk) 17:46, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Uploading free photographs of all DAP elected representatives supplied by DAP NHQ to Wikipedia

I wrote to the DAP National Headquarters to request for photographs of the elected representatives under the allowed free licences by Wikimedia Commons, and the Head of Social Media got back to me. She is asking for my association with Wikipedia and how to proceed with uploading photos of the representatives. How should I get back to her? HejTuWou (talk) 09:22, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi HejTuWou, we have a page Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials which has some text you might be able to adapt! The easiest way for this to proceed is for the copyright holders (presumably the party?) to upload the photos themselves. It is crucial that they understand the terms of the free licence. As for your association, many people do not understand Wikipedia is built by volunteers, perhaps some of the examples at Wikipedia:Example requests for permission may be what you are looking for to help with that. CMD (talk) 12:17, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
I have followed up with her and told her she can either do batch uploading to Commons directly or to Flickr with the allowed licences! Hope this works out. HejTuWou (talk) 12:31, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Is it OK if you request further for the DAP press office to issue photographs of their former party leaders (such as Lim Kit Siang, Devan Nair, and Chen Han Min)? That would greatly contribute to Malaysian political articles. Thanks, best regards, gavre (al. PenangLion) (talk) 04:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard#Questionable claim in Johor Bahru , which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Slothades (talk) 08:45, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Peranakans#Requested move 6 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Peranakans#Requested move 6 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 13:00, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Yang di-Pertuan Agong#Requested move 4 February 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Yang di-Pertuan Agong#Requested move 4 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 21:28, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

On the subject of honorific suffixes

I am requesting a discussion on the usage of honorific suffixes for Malaysian biographical articles. The abundance of state titles issued to numerous personnel have inflated their titles to a (sometimes) ridiculous extent, especially when demonstrated in the subject article's infobox. An example would be those of Muhyiddin Yassin, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and Mahathir Mohamad, where their state titles have essentially covered a significant portion of the upper section of the infobox. This is made worse when if we equate state titles as those worthy of inclusion, then it will present the article's number of honours as unrealistic compared those of other national leaders where their honours are equal, or if not more than the Malaysian subject articles themselves.

I propose that:

  • The removal of all state titles in the infobox; retaining federal titles only (eg. PSM, KMN, SMN, MP, etc.);
  • Inclusion of a new section, namely Awards and honours, to list all their titles comprehensively.

gavre (al. PenangLion) (talk) 04:28, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@PenangLion: Agree with you that those situations are a mess. Elizabeth II has just one position in that infobox field. Lee Kuan Yew has a slightly more expansive four. CMD (talk) 12:56, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
I really need to re-open this discussion since there remains sternful editors that insisted on adding as much titles as possible. gavre (al. PenangLion) (talk) 12:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Malacca page

Hi,

I need guidance on Malacca talk page requested move (Talk:Malacca), if I have done it correctly. I have presented my findings accordingly.

I also want to inform that user @Hzh has been vocal in opposing, which is acceptable; but calling my rational as a lie makes me feel that this is no longer a healthy discussion and it's a borderline personal harassment. Instead of guiding and discussing, he barked around and citing WP pages and repeating things again and again, and there is no civility here. He as an experienced and wiser editor should approach this matter in more civilised manner.

Kindly assist. Thank you. nMyghet (talk) 13:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Rampant addition of transliterations apart from Malay in various topics

Calling to attention on the apparently rampant addition of Tamil (and to a lesser extent, Chinese) transliterations in articles apart from geographic places by certain editors, such as [5], [6], [7], [8], [9] and [10].

For geographic places, scripts in Jawi, Chinese and Tamil are understandably added due to cultural diversity. But in the above examples, Tamil transliterations are added for articles on local governments and transport infrastructure, when according to MOS:PLACE, "names in languages with no particular present-day or historical ties to the place in question (English excepted, of course) should not be listed as alternatives". That is not even going into the fact that the rest of the articles on Malaysia's government structure (state and local governments) have no such transliterations that clutter the infobox and making readability that much harder (MOS:LEADLANG has another example of lengthy names in foreign languages that impair readability).

Hope to find clarification here on the MOS for Malaysian articles, if transliterations in languages other than Malay (the official language) is permitted outside the scopes of certain geographic locations and biographies. hundenvonPG (talk) 10:39, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

As noted we don't include the translations/transliterations for state and local governments (including Chinese, Tamil, and Jawi scripts), because they lack any official status. This should generally apply as a default to articles relating to Malaysia, unless there is a specific reason to add a particular translation/transliteration(s) on a case-by-case basis due to particular relevance. CMD (talk) 12:49, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Noted on this, Chipmunkdavis. The editor in question not only refused to engage in the discussion that I started on his talk page, but also restored said edits.
Visnu92, please justify your persistent addition of languages other than Malay (without consensus) in articles about local governments and transport infrastructure. hundenvonPG (talk) 12:15, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
It appears that Visnu92 ignores to explain the persistent addition of Tamil in articles about transport and/or industrial infrastructure, as can be seen in this edit on the Mutiara line & Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone.
Reviving dormant discussion & tagging said user to explain why is Tamil relevant in articles about infrastructure, and why other similar infrastructure articles for the rest of Malaysia don't include Tamil? Are some industrial zones, seaports or train lines only used by the Tamils (and/or Chinese) that they gain special relevance, as per above?
Courtesy ping for CMD. To other active editors, feel free to weigh in as well. hundenvonPG (talk) 06:56, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
For additional context:
Visnu92, care to justify why Tamil should be added for Mutiara line only, its relevance to the railway and why not others?
Ditto for industrial zones: why Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone should have Tamil transliteration, but Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone and Port Klang Free Zone shouldn't?
To CMD, the reason for the courtesy ping is because this isn't the first time this issue has cropped up, involving the very same editor, no less. hundenvonPG (talk) 07:57, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Since Visnu92 has persistently refused to seek consensus on the addition of Tamil scripts for industrial zones (as can be seen in this latest edit), I have opened (yet another) ANI case about said user. hundenvonPG (talk) 04:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Invitation for the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest

Hello, everyone! I'd like to invite you all to sign up for the upcoming 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest. The event runs from July 1 to September 30 and signups close on July 15. The WikiContest focuses on developing countries. The intention is to improve the English Wikipedia's coverage and comprehension of articles related to developing countries. For this reason, you may also expect that articles related to Malaysia may be heavily edited during the contest. More information on how points will be awarded can be found at Wikipedia:2024 Developing Countries WikiContest/Scoring. For comments or suggestions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Wikipedia talk:2024 Developing Countries WikiContest. Thank you! (Copied with permission of Chlod) CMD (talk) 12:28, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Help for citing The Malay Dilemma

I edited the article for kampong, which has a sentence regarding Mahathir Mohamad on the kampong in his book The Malay Dilemma. I need help in citing parts of the book and fixing citation format (e.g. publisher, edition, year of publication).

Can someone have a physical or digital copy to fix the citation? RFNirmala (talk) 13:46, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

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