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	Singapore was one of the Geography and places good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result July 26, 2005 Peer review Reviewed March 21, 2006 Good article nominee Listed July 16, 2007 Good article reassessment Delisted August 28, 2007 Peer review Reviewed Current status: Delisted good article

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To-do: E · H · W · R Updated 2019-02-20 Improvement of Singapore article Demographics: Fix typing error in the link to "2009 global financial criss[sic]." History: include more events from 1965 to 1990 Economy: mention labor relations, employment conditions, unemployment statistics, class or gender distinctions, CPF as retirement pension Education: include information on tertiary education, MOE policies(broad-based education, MTL policy), rankings on PISA(Programme for International Student Assessment) and TIMSS(Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) Expand section on health and medicine Incomplete / needed citations, especially in History sections (in post-war to independence). Mention urban planning and its significance and how land use and density is distributed and tie in with rest of content To include a section on Singapore Science & Technology Development of Singapore's sub-pages More detail on to South Indian Hindu empires (e.g. the Majpahit) that preceded the Malay Sultanates and influenced the course of history and culture for Malaya and Singapore. Expand and improve Government of Singapore (moving less prominent material from Politics of Singapore)which tends to come across as personal and subjective, and create a section to be integrated into the Singapore article and tied in with rest of content More balanced "treatment" (or coverage) of all races and religions rather than a centrism which focuses on one more than the others. More insight into colonial era British defence forces, including the Singapore Volunteer Corps, the Scottish regiment, the British Navy presence, the various batteries posted all over the island. Review & Revision, FAC Process Bring over references from subpages. Cutting down irrelevant information, especially if a material is repeated in a subsequent section. Aim to cut Singapore article to below 200kB. Others as appropriate.

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This article does not address the four things that make Singapore most famous, i.e. the banning of chewing gum, its liberal use of hanging and MANDATORY death penalty, its hatred of gays, and the caning of Michael Fay. They should be mentioned!

The use of PPP-adjusted per capita GDP gives an erroneous picture. Singapore ranks 5, ahead of the US and Switzerland, and many other obviously wealthier countries in Western Europe. It should be stated in non PPP-adjusted per capita GDP, which represents real wealth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.33.106.117 (talk) 14:33, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"The fledgling nation had to be self-sufficient" No country in the world is self sufficient. All depend on trade with other countries - even North Korea. Singapore has become even more dependent on other countries than it was in the 1960s as its economic growth was built on foreign trade and foreign investment. This has created an economy that is remarkably underdeveloped domestically. So I think "self sufficient" is a very misleading term here.

I'm working on a website that brings visitors on a Virtual Reality Tour of Singapore.

www.singaporevr.com [1]

There is not much VRs right now but I'm growing the collection weekly. Website was launched 20th Feb 2008

If the moderators of the Singapore Wiki find it useful, I hope that it can be added as an external link

According to CIA world factbook, Singapore is currently holds the 4th position in the world with a life expectancy of 81.89 years.(Beating HK etc). That is one achievement we should be proud of.

I suggest that we include this under the 'demographics' section. Even HK, Andorra, Japan has mentioned about their long life expectancy in their webpage.

Yes. According to is, Singapore is 4th, and I guess I'll put it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zheliel (talk • contribs) 07:04, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article states this in the introduction paragraph: Singapore is the 5th wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) per capita.[6] However, the notation seems to provide no real evidence to this that I could discern, and this Wikipedia page on GDP (PPP) per capita lists Singapore somewhere in the 40s, not fifth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) Am I missing something here?

I guess so. Vandalism is highly likely. And by the way, there already is a comment about this.

This shows the ranking of Singapore in terms of GDP per PPP. zh^eliel_{Sign here} 06:56, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Singapore is 44^th wealthiest country in terms of GDP (PPP) per capita, according to the IMF and the CIA World Factbook, and 42^nd acoording to the World Bank. zh^eliel_{Sign here} 07:01, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]