User talk:Sgconlaw/2015–2020 archive

Hello Brother
Hello Brother, thank you for grammar edit in Jessica Mila i need your help, please see this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Untitledjessicamila.PNG and delete this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/9/9e/20150202171246%21Untitledjessicamila.PNG and delete this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/9/9e/20150202161055%21Untitledjessicamila.PNG thank you very much Brother. Jagoganteng 18:04, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I have removed it from the article and nominated it for deletion. — SMUconlaw (talk) 18:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

2015 GA drive
Happy Chinese New Year! The 2015 Singapore GA drive will start soon and I am currently selecting articles. To recognise the excellent contributions from your students, I intend to include ten articles from your project.

If I remember correctly, you previously approved the selection of four articles, namely Doctrine of bias in Singapore law, Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act, Relevant and irrelevant considerations in Singapore administrative law and Vandalism Act (Singapore).

What do you think about adding Judicial independence in Singapore, Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor, Re Fong Thin Choo and Shadrake v Attorney-General to the list? For Separation of powers in Singapore, the unregistered editor (who started the spurious neutrality dispute) is unlikely to return and a thorough review may even improve neutrality.

I look forward to seeing the drafts for By-elections in Singapore, Judicial system of Singapore, Procedural impropriety in Singapore administrative law, Re Shankar Alan s/o Anant Kulkarni,Threshold issues in Singapore constitutional law and Sedition Act (Singapore) in mainspace.

Rest assured that as with last year, I will do my best to handle issues that do not require specialist legal knowledge.

--Hildanknight (talk) 15:54, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Talkback
Neil N  talk to me 15:32, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Sedition Act (Singapore)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 18:47, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Some questions with the Penal Code
Hello, I am not sure if you are very familiar with Singapore's law, but I have a question with regard to the Penal Code of Singapore, specifically the Sexual Offences part. If you do not mind entertaining the question, I will post the question here. If you do not wish to answer, then it's all right. HYH.124 (talk) 05:00, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not an expert on criminal law, but go ahead and ask and I'll see if I can answer your question. — SMUconlaw (talk) 09:52, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I shall ask without logging in. In Section 376(2)(b) of the Penal Code, does another person (C) include the person (A) himself/herself? If not, would it be a crime if the another person (C) was the person (A) himself/herself? This is because even Section 376A(1)(c) stated that that "another person" can also include the person himself/herself? 175.156.243.222 (talk) 23:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * First off, I should say that this should not be construed as legal advice. If you require legal advice, you should consult a practising lawyer. As for the question, I think it is more appropriate if I e-mail you using the "Email this user" link. — SMUconlaw (talk) 10:17, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I replied to your email. 175.156.243.222 (talk) 12:52, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

A Walk Across America
Hello,

Your review of the above is most welcome. Please note that I have posted answers to your concerns on the DYK nomination. Your attention to the nomination will be appreciated.

Georgejdorner (talk) 14:53, 8 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Since posting a reply to your response to the nomination's review, I have decided to supply cites throughout the entire article. Please give me a couple of days to do so before taking any further action. The result may surprise and please you.Georgejdorner (talk) 16:01, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Take your time. The backlog at DYK is quite long, so it'll take a while for the DYK volunteer to get to your nomination. — SMUconlaw (talk) 21:44, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Pardon my sloth, but I have been indisposed for a few days. I have now made changes that I believe will lead you to approve this DYK nomination. Thank you for your review.Georgejdorner (talk) 17:48, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Legitimate expectation
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:04, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for R. v. North and East Devon Health Authority, ex parte Coughlan
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:04, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for By-elections in Singapore
Materialscientist (talk) 01:23, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Vellama d/o Marie Muthu v. Attorney-General
Materialscientist (talk) 01:23, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Re Shankar Alan s/o Anant Kulkarni
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:27, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Procedural impropriety in Singapore administrative law
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:28, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Question on recent reverts
Hi there, regarding to your question on your recent revert of my contributions, please note that I did not change the date manually (for example if you was thinking that I'm typing the date). It was actually automatically updated when the tools I'm using trying to detect any American spelling or date formats in the article. Thank you. ~ Muffin Wizard;) 12:00, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for clarifying that. — SMUconlaw (talk) 14:08, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Some points about Singapore politics-related articles
Thanks for your previous help which results in my translation of Non-constituency Member of Parliament promoted as a GA in Chinese Wikipedia. May we continue this mutual-assistance in my upcoming translations on other similarly-themed articles (but no interest on law articles). But my purpose to write there is I've brought an urgent question. One of the local users in zhwp keep deleting the section "law of large numbers" in the local version of the article "Group Representation Constituency", claiming this is bullsh!t when arguing it is a norm when GRC seats more than SMC seats (before he gets to know that technically the GRC seats can be reduced to around 1/3-1/4 of total seats in the Parliament) and the GRC system have nothing to do with such type of the law of large numbers. When I and recover the section, he keep up revert. What do you think on this issue? Do you think that it is important to have it retain or it can just be axed? (Previously I've also talk with other users on the topic of trimming sections, in some cases they don't tell me why should having it retained, but to go ahead; in some cases editors did tell me why it should be there.) I would like to hear from you. Regards, -- Spring Roll Conan ( Talk · Contributions ) 13:59, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I think it's not a crucial section and can be left out. In the English Wikipedia article, the section was included by my students who prepared the article for an assignment. — SMUconlaw (talk) 15:30, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Orphaned non-free image File:Serangoon Junior College crest.png
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Judicial review
helo Nawabzadakalam (talk) 02:17, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

hope you will be fine.i wanted to know something about judicial review plz reply me at Nawabzadakalam_dera@yahoo.com thankx Nawabzadakalam (talk) 02:18, 26 March 2016 (UTC)


 * No, I'm afraid I can't give legal advice. — SMUconlaw (talk) 07:50, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Image of Murali Pillai
Hi, thanks for cropping the profile picture of Murali Pillai. But I can't help but feel the other landscape picture shows his face clearer. Because of the lighting. starship.paint ~  KO   13:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure which article you are referring to. The cropped image is for "Bukit Batok by-election, 2016", and it doesn't appear in "Murali Pillai". — SMUconlaw (talk) 15:10, 5 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry SMUconlaw. I wasn't clear. Yeah, I meant the cropped image for the by-election. I was referring to the other image on Murali Pillai being better. starship.paint ~  KO   03:13, 6 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I didn't use that one as he's frowning a lot in it. It might look strange if we had one person smiling broadly and one person frowning. — SMUconlaw (talk) 03:53, 6 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Ahhh okay. Got it! starship.paint ~  KO   04:14, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Special:Diff/724580340
Why did you reintroduce the 'multiple editors' error into that article, and placed back into Category:CS1 maint: Multiple names: editors list? --Dcirovic (talk) 10:52, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I didn't know the use of brackets causes that error (and why does it do so?). The author's name was not set out in full in the work but only as "J. L. Lambrick", so the brackets indicate that. — SMUconlaw (talk) 16:39, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The names written that way are not supported in standardized fields, which map author's information to the template's COinS metadata. A possible work around is to use 'authors' field, that is intended for free formatted names. --Dcirovic (talk) 22:11, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Henry Elsynge
I've started a new article on Henry Elsynge (Clerk of the Parliaments) and I see that you made some changes to the article on his son Henry Elsynge a couple of years back. My sources indicate that there is confusion about the authorship of The Manner of Holding Parliaments in England published in 1660. I am far from an expert in this area and would appreciate any help you might be able to provide sorting this out in both articles. Thanks! - PKM (talk) 01:42, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Singapore University of Technology and Design logo.jpg
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Unblock request

 * when I was in the office earlier (I'm home now), I was being affected by a block imposed on Singapore Academy of Law. I'm not sure what was the specific IP address involved as it was not shown in the error message. — SGconlaw (talk) 15:05, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I am back in the office. This is the error message:

"You are currently unable to edit pages on Wikipedia due to an autoblock affecting your IP address.

This is because someone using this internet address or shared proxy server was blocked. The ability of all users on this IP address to edit pages has been automatically suspended to prevent abuse by the blocked party. Innocent users are sometimes caught in an autoblock. It may be the case that you have done nothing wrong.

A user of this IP address was blocked by Orangemike for the following reason (see our blocking policy):

Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Singapore Academy of Law". The reason given for Singapore Academy of Law's block is:

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. [...]"

Using Whatismyip.com, the IP address is 203.92.74.134. Hope you can help. — SGconlaw (talk) 02:00, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * That autoblock has (and should have) expired in the last hour or so. MER-C 03:59, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it's working again. Hope this doesn't happen often (I have no idea who is behind "User:Singapore Academy of Law"). — SGconlaw (talk) 06:13, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Richard Thomson (antiquarian)
With this edit Revision as of 18:00, 25 February 2015 to Richard Thomson (antiquarian), you changed: to The latter has caused a broken link.

The code changed is There are many templates that use  to create links to Wikisource and changing the content usually breaks the link (one can think of it as a readable url).

In the case of the there is an alternative. One can change the display without changing the

-- PBS (talk) 05:55, 12 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Can't really recall making this edit, but I've amended the template as you suggested. — SGconlaw (talk) 06:54, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing
Hello,

There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how infobox ship is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Impromptu Meetup on 22 August (Hari Raya Haji, Wednesday)
Hello Wikipedian! Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) of Wikimedia US Consortium is in town next week and he is asking if anyone of you can come at Han's Cafe, #01-01 National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street (S)188064 on 22 August 2018 (Wednesday, Hari Raya Haji). Should you wish to reach me directly in real time, please contact me using the Telegram mobile app @Exec8 --Exec8 (talk) 01:27, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Oggie oggie etc
Blimey! Thanks for this - I had no idea. So did you have to rename it on Commons or wherever it really is? And oga is more standard than ogg, and I should have called it that in the first place?? I honestly didn't know. (And I'm still a bit embarrassed about the actual recording, ahem, yes. But I hang on – no, cling on – to the knowledge that what I did, however bad, is a million times better than its predecessor!) Cheers DBaK (talk) 09:02, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I renamed it at the Commons. The standard naming format for pronunciation files is "En-[uk, us, or some other two-digit code indicating the English variety]-[word].oga" (or .ogg). When files are named in that format, they can be picked up automatically by templates used at the English Wikipedia, for example, for displaying the Word of the Day on the Main Page. Otherwise, we have to specify the filename manually, which is less convenient. So please do use the standard naming format. Thanks! — SGconlaw (talk) 09:19, 5 July 2019 (UTC)]
 * Well, I learnt something today! That's great – thank you so much for the lovely helpful reply. With all good wishes DBaK (talk) 12:43, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

About Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act
Finally gotten around scratching an itch to write something about POFMA. If it is possible, please help to take a look? Comments or even edits are appreciated. robertsky (talk) 22:40, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * will have a look in a few days' time. By the way, I noticed that you updated Template:Singapore legislation/index which is great, but statutes with citations in the form "1 of 2017" need to be added to the end of the template in the format under, otherwise they appear malformed in the template. The citations should appear as "No. 1 of 2017" and not "Cap. 1 of 2017" because these statutes do not have chapter numbers. — SGconlaw (talk) 15:25, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah. yes. That. I will get around to fix them. Thanks! robertsky (talk) 15:38, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Category:Academics of the University of Malaya has been nominated for merging to
Category:Academics of the University of Malaya has been nominated for merging to. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy (talk) 15:54, 4 June 2020 (UTC)