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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 Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on June 12, 2018.
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia'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

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Section sizes

Section size for Singapore (42 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	15,301	15,301
Name and etymology	10,500	10,500
History	45	56,434
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	13,111	13,111
Government and politics	30,821	77,947
Foreign relations	15,631	15,631
Military	18,653	18,653
Human rights	12,842	12,842
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	14,131
Land	7,394	7,394
Air	5,264	5,264
Sea	1,424	1,424
Industry sectors	9,600	16,225
Tourism	6,625	6,625
Demographics	10,812	26,838
Religion	3,692	3,692
Languages	12,334	12,334
Education	14,398	14,398
Healthcare	5,378	5,378
Culture	7,651	40,672
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	3,272	3,272
Total	333,485	333,485

This article is written in Singaporean English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, centre, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

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)[reply]

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

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/wiki/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/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy) is high, perhaps not significantly different. Lowest infant mortality rates (under-fives), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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, Wikipedia). Percieved perceptions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]