Talk:Roland Tay

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Disclaimer: I am not financially/ personally linked to Roland Tay. He helped my family when we were in need and I was surprised that someone who appears on the newspapers in Singapore as frequently as him has never had a wikipedia page. All information about Roland Tay is gathered from newspaper articles. Please feel free to contribute. It is my first article and I may need help in making the tone more encyclopedia like. Thank youThegreenspade (talk) 17:27, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orphan status & tone[edit]

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Hi every one, i warmly welcome on how I can make the tone of the article more encyclopedia like. Much of my content is from reading the news articles about Roland Tay. I would also like help on the orphan status. Thanks! Thegreenspade (talk) 11:23, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the tone, you may want to check out Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch. That page, a part of Wikipedia's Manual of Style, explains some of the article's issues regarding the tone. The article is full of euphemisms ("passed away", "helped to send off") and nice-sounding phrases that convey more opinion than fact. Worse, I rather doubt significant parts of the article are relevant to Tay in the first place (for example, the 4,000 guests at the orang-utan's funeral didn't come to see Tay's work - so why mention that number here?) and yet others don't cite any references.

The article is tagged as an "orphan" because there are no other Wikipedia articles that link to this one. That could be resolved by finding other pages that mention Tay (or that don't mention him but should) and by adding links - it appears, though, that there are no other articles mentioning him, so that probably cannot be fixed at the moment. Huon (talk) 14:50, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback, gladly welcomed. I have made changes to the article, was wondering if it is better. Most of the information I have on Roland Tay is from scanned articles from his website. I mention the number for the Orang utan funeral because it was the headline for the funeral. I have removed it. I am not sure if it is considered verifiable material, so I am currently looking through the Singapore Press Holdings archives to retrieve their URLs. I noticed that this article was tagged for articles with access date but no URL. I had no idea that access dates were for URLs only and I thought scanned articles were valid. I have thus removed them. Thegreenspade (talk) 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some singaporean attention would be nice[edit]

Thank you! Thegreenspade (talk) 11:36, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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