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	Singapore is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.
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Article milestones Date Process Result January 18, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted February 12, 2005 Peer review Reviewed February 26, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted March 25, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted July 26, 2005 Peer review Reviewed March 21, 2006 Good article nominee Listed April 24, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted May 19, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted July 16, 2007 Good article reassessment Delisted August 28, 2007 Peer review Reviewed March 2, 2011 Peer review Reviewed August 10, 2012 Good article nominee Not listed April 19, 2014 Guild of Copy Editors Copyedited April 21, 2018 Good article nominee Not listed November 4, 2019 Good article nominee Not listed February 9, 2020 Good article nominee Listed A news item involving this article was featured on Misplaced Pages's Main Page in the "In the news" column on June 12, 2018. Facts from this article were featured on Misplaced Pages's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on August 9, 2004, August 9, 2011, August 9, 2012, August 9, 2014, August 9, 2015, August 9, 2016, and August 9, 2022. Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

This  level-3 vital article is rated GA-class on Misplaced Pages's content assessment scale. It is of interest to multiple WikiProjects.

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This article has been viewed enough times to make it onto the all-time Top 100 list. It has had 74 million views since December 2007. Section sizes Section size for Singapore (42 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 15,094 15,094 Name and etymology 10,500 10,500 History 45 56,636 Ancient Singapore 5,560 5,560 British colonisation 13,728 13,728 Japanese occupation 4,957 4,957 Post-war period 6,050 6,050 Within Malaysia 12,983 12,983 Republic of Singapore 13,313 13,313 Government and politics 31,197 79,208 Foreign relations 15,631 15,631 Military 19,352 19,352 Human rights 13,028 13,028 Economy 24,045 24,045 Geography 5,497 21,847 Nature 3,571 3,571 Climate 6,421 6,421 Water supply 5,732 5,732 Virtual Singapore 626 626 Transport 49 14,323 Land 7,554 7,554 Air 5,264 5,264 Sea 1,456 1,456 Industry sectors 9,600 16,225 Tourism 6,625 6,625 Demographics 10,340 26,366 Religion 3,692 3,692 Languages 12,334 12,334 Education 14,398 14,398 Healthcare 5,378 5,378 Culture 7,598 40,619 Arts 6,918 6,918 Cuisine 6,868 6,868 Sport and recreation 9,525 9,525 Media 9,710 9,710 See also 179 179 Notes 49 49 References 17 402 Citations 385 385 Works cited 1,536 1,536 Further reading 4,331 4,331 External links 2,673 2,673 Total 333,809 333,809

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Government system

It says on this article that Singapore is a Parliamentary Republic but how so? Ever since the amendment that allowed for the direct election of the President, I thought that Singapore should be considered as a Semi-Presidential System. 161.142.11.225 (talk) 05:10, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

The president has little to none de facto power despite being directly elected. Everything the president does with its perceived powers are ceremonial and almost always done while "acting on the advice of the prime minister". A similar example would be the British monarch. MordukhovichAleakin (talk) 19:56, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2024

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Archivecard0 (talk) 13:03, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

• Map of Singapore Town in 1951

 Question: Where would you like this added? ''']''' (talk • contribs) 13:17, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

I've added this map for you in the "Post-war period" section, considering it is from 1951. MordukhovichAleakin (talk) 19:45, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Removal of modified version of Singapore State Crest

Under Singapore's National Symbols Act with effect on 1 August 2023, distortion or modification of the design of the State Crest and Presidential Crest will not be allowed. If there's no contest to this in 3 days, I will remove it to comply with local regulations. SecretSquirrel78 (talk) 16:41, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is not bound by Singapore's laws. The image complies with copyright considerations. EvergreenFir (talk) 21:52, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Quality and Tone of Statistics

"Singaporeans enjoy one of the longest life expectancies, fastest Internet connection speeds, lowest infant mortality rates, and lowest levels of corruption in the world."

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/List_of_sovereign_states_by_Internet_connection_speeds it would be more accurate to use the M-Lab data. Top band being around 200 MBit/s, next around 150 MBit/s, next around 125 MBit/s, then 100 MBit/s. Singapore is in the 100 MBit/s category. It would be incorrect to suggest the internet here is one of the fastest internet speeds.

The other metrics, longest life expectancies (https://en.wikipedia.org/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy) is high, perhaps not significantly different. Lowest infant mortality rates (under-fives), https://en.wikipedia.org/List_of_countries_by_infant_and_under-five_mortality_rates, is a difficult metric and may not be super accurate or a reasonable comparison ("Note that due to differences in reporting, these numbers may not be comparable across countries." - List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates, Misplaced Pages). Percieved perceptions, https://en.wikipedia.org/Corruption_Perceptions_Index, could stem from cultural and political practice. For example, "Singapore frequently uses overly broad and restrictive laws to silence criticism of the government and restrict the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly." Human Rights Watch, https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/singapore. Culturally, the adoption of a hierarchical obiedience and the need for harmony will influence the perceptions metric.

Although many of the metrics of this highly developed nation are impressive, it seems the tone of the delivery of this information may be incorrect and misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.179.39.50 (talk) 23:42, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 November 2024

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"Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia".

Singapore very much is in Maritime Southeast Asia, but if you click on the article Maritime Southeast Asia and check each country individually you'll see that Singapore is the only one that begins with "a country in Maritime Southeast Asia" and not just "a country in Southeast Asia" (with the exception of Indonesia, which is in Southeast Asia and Oceania). So I suggest to either 1. change all of the articles for the countries in Maritime Southeast Asia to include "maritime" or 2. (the more reasonable one, my actual edit request):

- Please change "city-state in maritime Southeast Asia" to "city-state in Southeast Asia".

If there's some politics to this I'm not aware of, my bad! But as far as I can tell this is just a case of being overly specific and not being consistent with other articles.

FAILING THE ABOVE - please only regard this if my suggested edit above is not done. Please change "city-state in maritime Southeast Asia" to "city-state in Maritime Southeast Asia", because it's supposed to be capitalised (check the MSA article itself, where it always is capitalised).

Thank you! 2A02:C7E:2F68:AC00:B043:273:5060:1AC0 (talk) 01:34, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done Consistency seems ideal, but I, too, wanted to make sure there wasn't "some politics to this" so I searched through talk page archives as well as the good and featured article reviews but found no mention of the inclusion of "maritime" in the lead. It looks like it got added during a pretty significant overhaul of the article in 2020 by a no longer active editor, with the helpful edit summary of "maritime Southeast Asia". That edit also included "located within the Malay Archipelago" which has since been removed from the lead. Per your request and for the sake of consistency with other articles I've removed "maritime" and changed the link to Southeast Asia. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 20:04, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

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