Talk:Speak Mandarin Campaign

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The article is copied word for word from. Was permission actually granted to use the text on that page? If not, I'm going to put a copyright violation tag on the page.--Yuje 16:48, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * The article is re-written, and should be alright. I will further expand it later. --Vsion 01:53, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm....is this article actually on the campaign or the SMC?--Huaiwei 05:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm slightly confused. This article should be about the Speak Mandarin Campaign. SMC is an abbrev. for something else? --Vsion 06:26, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * whoops...i made a typo there. :D I was refering to the PMC (Promote Mandarin Council), because the Chinese translation there is for the PMC and not the SMC! :D I belive this is so because the older copyvio version was about the committee and not the campaign. Shall I make the amendment to the Chinese words?--Huaiwei 07:09, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess so. Btw, there is a table in Demographics of Singapore that shows a significant shift from chinese dialect to Mandarin since 1990, for languages spoken at home. But of course, education policy plays a major role in this trend. -- Vsion 07:23, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh I would think its more to do with the educational policy than this campaign. :D Afterall, this campaign seems more targeted towards the older age groups, particularly those who have had English education and hardly know any Chinese?--Huaiwei 07:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Demographics
Wish there was some more demographical information, we need references, also aren't concerns about democide pertinent? How many of those 26% of Mandarin speakers did so at home? I'm trying to gauge the outlook of the population in the early years of the Republic... Elle vécut heureuse à jamais  (Be eudaimonic!) 00:10, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge
Decision of the AfD at Articles for deletion/华语Cool! / hua yu Cool!. nadav 09:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

There may or may not be anything at 华语Cool! / hua yu Cool! worth merging into this article. nadav 18:44, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Ideas for improvement
Some of the yearly campaign descriptions could be shortened a fair bit. On the other hand, it would be nice to see a short description of every year! Francis Bond (talk) 16:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * This article would be alot less POV if it didn't classify all Chinese languages as dialects while establishing, somehow, that Madarin wouldn't be a dialect. I also don't understand why spokesman refers to Mandarin as the mother tongue if it's not the language people spoke at home before active suppression of the actual languages people spoke at home. Reminds me much too well of the rethoric used to supress all native languages in France. Correjon (talk) 16:23, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Bias
Parts of this article show substantial bias in favor of the subject matter, especially below the Evolution headline. Spacemonger (talk) 03:22, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Scope
As far as I have read the Speak Mandarin campaigns are not just carried out in Singapore, but also in China tagering speakers of all regional languages and varieties, from cantonese, and fuzhounese to indigenous languages like Hui, Miao, Zhuang, etc. The scope of this article seems to narrow for the title, or maybe I am confusing the chinese and the singaporean policies of promoting Mandarin. But it seems that they are somehow relatedÅ User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 20:16, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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