Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Singapore/2023 archive

Year in review. 2022 edition
I thought I should do a quick review of the work that have been done on Wikipedia for Singapore-related articles.

There were 877 insertions and 318 removals of articles on the Index of Singapore-related articles. This however include possible pagemoves or articles being reinserted for various reasons.

Last scan for the Index for the year (today) shows that there are 12,500 articles on it, a net increase of 576 articles (2021: 11,924 articles).

New Featured Articles for 2022:


 * Nicoll Highway MRT station
 * Toa Payoh MRT station
 * Woodleigh MRT station

New Good Articles for 2022:


 * Chatterbox (restaurant)
 * City Hall MRT station
 * Gul Circle MRT station
 * HarbourFront MRT station
 * Haw Par Villa MRT station
 * North East MRT line
 * Public housing in Singapore
 * Raffles Place MRT station
 * Serangoon MRT station
 * Springleaf MRT station
 * Tuas Link MRT station
 * Woodlands South MRT station

On the Main Page:

The following is a list of articles appearing in In The News or Did You Know sections on the Main Page:


 * 1954 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crash
 * 2020 dengue outbreak in Singapore
 * Badminton in Singapore
 * Bernard Harrison (zoologist)
 * Bridget Tan
 * Chatterbox (restaurant)
 * Dawn Gan
 * Execution of Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam
 * Haw Par Villa MRT station
 * Mak Ho Wai
 * Museum Planning Area
 * North East MRT line
 * Oon Chiew Seng
 * Phua Bah Lee
 * Poh Lip Meng
 * Woodleigh MRT station

2022 is a challenging year, as was 2021. Here's to 2023! May the new year be bountiful for everyone here. – robertsky (talk) 08:57, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * @RobertskyThank you for the review~!
 * To every WikiprojectSG editors, we have a list of potential Singapore related articles here which some of us hoped will eventually be created and hope you can join us in doing it also! A lot of Singapore related articles need updating or expansion. We have around 2,700 stub class articles and 3,700 start class articles which hopefully can be expanded as well. If you are interested in improving the quality of Singapore related articles, you can check out this list to fix the tagged issues and expand them as well.
 * Here to a good 2023 to everyone! Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 07:54, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Better references needed for Loke Yew
we need pre-2008 references for Loke Yew, especially for the name. currently his birth name as "Wong Loke Yew" is based on 2007 news article by "the star" https://web.archive.org/web/20110521065828/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2007%2F6%2F2%2Fcentral%2F17821154&sec=central. books with some authority would be better.

i cannot find any references for the alleged kanji birth name, which was added by User:Marcuslim: special:diff/200450000. RZuo (talk) 18:51, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

GAR Notice
Sengkang 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) 00:44, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 : Singapore, 16-19 August
Wikimedians! You are highly encouraged to invite friends and colleagues to apply for travel scholarship for Wikimedia Movement's largest gathering, Wikimania 2023. Wikimania 2023 will happen here 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) 07:44, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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

Proposed merge at Talk:Founding of modern Singapore and its early colonial period
There is a proposed merge discussion at Talk:Founding of modern Singapore and its early colonial period that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 06:40, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Discussion on disallowing use of the ʻokina in Chinese romanized article titles
There is currently a discussion that may interest you. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style proposes that the ʻokina gennerally be prohibited from article titles derived from Chinese whenever it does not adhere to the English Wikipedia policy to use commonly recognizable names. Plese join the discussion. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 17:12, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Meetup notice
The Wikipedia Singapore meetup 11 will be held on:


 * Date: Saturday, 15 April 2023
 * Time: 12:00-2:00pm
 * Venue: Lifelong Learning Institute (accessible within walking distance from Paya Lebar MRT Station)

This meet up will be held within FOSSASIA Summit 2023 event. This is a ticketed event. Complimentary tickets are available through this link. There will be lunch provided for those who sign up.

Do indicate your attendance on the meetup page as well! – robertsky (talk) 18:01, 12 April 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 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 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) 14:10, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Star Awards 2023 requires some cleanup
Hello there if you reading this,

I came here by far want to as a request to improve the article because what I noticed that the quality of the article does not match some editing standards for some television and award ceremonies. Need attention to this. Thank you. 203.118.14.120 (talk) 11:04, 31 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I writing to the attention for the admins, specifically @Justanothersgwikieditor @Robertsky and its article creator, @Unknown152438. 203.118.14.120 (talk) 09:56, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * May I know what is your standards for the Television Awards? Because Star Awards 2023 has its whole format changed and added some new awards, and also the event has been separated into three different ceremonies. How would you like to improve that if you are the editor? (Unknown152438 (talk) 10:10, 1 April 2023 (UTC))
 * Some of the separation are inappropriate also, with all the Best Programme Awards presented first which is unusual. (Unknown152438 (talk) 10:12, 1 April 2023 (UTC))
 * Please leave any comments on the Star Awards 2023 talk page if you have any improvements. (Unknown152438 (talk) 10:29, 1 April 2023 (UTC))
 * I added some comments on MOS and layout on Talk:Star Awards instead as any MOS and layout should apply evenly to all Star Awards article, not just for one iteration. Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 02:07, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The edits you had done were to add in winners for 2023 awards which were done:
 * without sources
 * ahead of the televised show, which is televised live on 9 April.
 * Either you have the results to the awards and are leaking the results or you are trolling.
 * Diffs of my reverts in question: Star Awards for Best Variety Programme, Star Awards for Best Info-Ed Programme, Star Awards for Best Variety Special, Star Awards for Best Theme Song, Star Awwards for Best Drama Serial
 * – robertsky (talk) 11:24, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Star Awards 2023 Gala Night has been announced prior to the main event with all the Best Programme Awards presented first. (Unknown152438 (talk) 13:23, 1 April 2023 (UTC))
 * Do refer to the sourced Mediacorp Facebook Page, and the image beside as proof. (Unknown152438 (talk) 13:24, 1 April 2023 (UTC))
 * Please read this text:
 * Star Awards Industry Achievement Awards, also known as Star Awards 2023 - Gala Night has held at JW Marriott Hotel Singapore South Beach on 30 March 2023, 8pm with all the Best Programme Awards presented first, via social media. The ceremony is hosted by Hazelle Teo and Dennis Chew. Unknown152438 (talk) 13:25, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I just found other sources. Apologies for assuming that it was a leak or troll. – robertsky (talk) 13:33, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, do note that any unreferenced content can be removed by any editor. It is up to the editor who inserted content to provide the reference at the earliest opportunity. Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 13:35, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Robertsky@DerricktanJCW and any other editors, appreciate if you have any comments or suggestions on some simple guidelines on layout of Star Awards articles over at Talk:Star Awards. Thanks. Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 02:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Discussion on addition of track layouts to station articles
There is a discussion regarding the addition of track layouts to Singapore MRT station articles on Talk:HarbourFront MRT station that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. The discussion is at Talk:HarbourFront MRT station R22-3877 (talk) 02:36, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for History of Singapore
History of Singapore has been nominated for a 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) 21:05, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Upcoming split of Index of Singapore-related articles
This is to give everyone here a heads up that the Index of Singapore-related articles will be split in the near future as its current size is at 370KB. MOS guidelines recommends splitting at 400KB. I intend to arbitrarily split somewhere at the current half-way point of the 12000+ links, adjusting for the start/end of the first alphabet of that article. Do let me know if there's any other suggestions. The new titles would be: Index of Singapore-related articles: (0 ) and Index of Singapore-related articles: Z Unless there is similar explosive growth in new pages we saw between 2019 and 2020, net increase of 50KB, this split will likely last for at least the next five years. – robertsky (talk) 14:04, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * If anyone want to create a mini explosion growth again, here is a possible list of articles to create~! Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 04:17, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * For the Special:RecentChangesLinked patrollers – is there a way to keep it to one tab? Else I guess I'll be bookmarking two links instead. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 04:20, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * At the moment, yes, two links. alternatively, a separate tool based on Event Platform/EventStreams, but will take some time to code it out. – robertsky (talk) 09:32, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah that's beyond me atm... two links it is. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 14:21, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

July 2023 Meetup
Purpose: Get the Wikimedians of Singapore User Group started.

Location: TBD. In person preferrable.

Date and time: I have created a poll for the most suitable date/time for July meetup, starting from 5 July. most of the days are included, 7pm on weekdays 2pm or 5pm on weekends. https://wudele.toolforge.org/ecLuCvq8AFzxyFfw Poll closes on 30 June 2023. – robertsky (talk) 17:10, 22 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Apologies for the delay in updating here. The common time was determined to be 7 July 2023, 7pm. The TG group was informed earlier in the week. It will be held at Aperia Mall (closest MRT: Lavender). – robertsky (talk) 09:54, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Xiaxue
Xiaxue has been nominated for a 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. Vaticidalprophet 15:31, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Article rewrites
For all those who are interested, I have been working on rewrites for certain articles in Marina Centre, namely for Marina Centre, Marina Square, and Millenia Singapore. The rewrites are currently in my sandbox, and feel free to help me expand them. R22-3877 (talk) 09:10, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

S. Iswaran & Ong Beng Seng assisting CPIB
After coming across Ridout Road rentals, I do think an article that goes into detail about the alleged corruption case surrounding S. Iswaran and Ong Beng Seng should also be created. In fact, S. Iswaran actually getting arrested makes it much more noteworthy. MordukhovichAleakin (talk) 17:51, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Credibility bot
As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej (talk) 17:50, 5 August 2023 (UTC)


 * On the assumption that the bot scanned through all the tagged WikiprojectSG articles and reports all the sources used, I think this will be a good tool to clean up articles using dubious / poor sources in articles. Hopefully when cleaning up the sources, editors can find better sources for the articles and subsequently improved on it.
 * I am tentatively giving my support on this. Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 05:08, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

meta:Talk:Wikimedians_of_Singapore_User_Group
The mandate for the ESEAP Hub Interim Committee was not extended. After a discussion during the ESEAP Strategy Summit at Wikimania, the seating arrangement for the Preparatory Council has been extended to include community and individual contributors on top of the original affiliate seatings. The council will determine the operational procedures and processes among other administrative matters for the Hub when it officially launches.

For more information see ESEAP Preparatory Council/Process.

Nominations has to be turned in by 19 August 2023. As this is a short notice, I seek your understanding to participate without delay at meta:Talk:Wikimedians_of_Singapore_User_Group. – robertsky (talk) 08:15, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Singapore:

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) 13:43, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Article for 2023 $2.8 billion money laundering case
Either I can't find it, or Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the S$2.8 billion money laundering case in Singapore uncovered in 2023. Given it's notability (mentioned often in the local media and possibly globally as well), Wikipedia should definitely cover it. Mount2010 (talk) 06:22, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Laurentia Tan
Laurentia Tan has been nominated for a 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. Spinixster  (chat!)  02:52, 30 November 2023 (UTC)