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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
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 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.
@Gandalfett:, could you provide a reasonable explanation as to why you are reverting my edits, especially considering you fail to see the need on numerous occasions to use the edit summary? Getting onto the content, could you also explain as to why you find "New Naratiff" (sic), which I assume refers to New Naratif, as a more authoritative source over The Straits Times and Today and why the content is more appropriate being placed as a hidden note in the infobox instead of being laid out and expanded in the demographics section? MordukhovichAleakin (talk) 09:48, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I do not think that any explanation of the CMIO framework is necessary in this article. Every jurisdiction defines race differently, and debates of the correspondence of ethnicity and race occur in countries like the US and the UK. Stating that the framework does not correspond with ethnicity is WP:UNDUE in a general article on Singapore. Dawkin Verbier (talk) 15:49, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Multi-racialism is enshrined in the constitution and continues to shape national policies in education, housing, and politics." Is a personal opinion with no sources
Various aspects of this are covered, with sourced, in the body. CMD (talk) 09:51, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Proportions of ethnic groups are calculated based only on the resident population, which comprises Singapore Citizens (SC) and Permanent Residents (PR).[edit]
This is listed against the ethnic groups by percentage. Does any other Wikipedia article of a country allow this? It is placing arbitrary conditions on counting ethnicity of the residents to push a narrative. 30% of the population is being excluded because of their classification as second-class citizens who may never be granted citizenship or permanent-residency visas despite living and working in the country for decades. 103.30.92.64 (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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This article states that Singapore is ranked 6th by the WHO for healthcare, but the source is 24 years old. I think that should be made clear, or a more modern source found. Fredfsr (talk) 08:46, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Lead mention of human rights / freedom of speech[edit]
Have rewritten last portion of the lead. I would argue the lead needs to summarise Singapore's political framework and its illiberal democratic system. This article's lead at current leaves that out. Saying the PAP "wields dominance" without explaining to some extent why or what that means isnt useful. It's also necessary to explain how Singapore differs from othwr developed Western countries in its framework ("Asian values" versus democracy, etc). Here is what i propose the lead be changed to.
singapore is a unitary parliamentary republic with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government, and its legal system is based on common law. It retains both corporal punishment for minor offences and capital punishment for serious ones. While the country is de jure a multi-party democracy, the government under the People's Action Party (PAP) wields widespread control over politics and society without serious electoral competition. In 2023, Singapore was ranked 129th out of 180 nations on the global Press Freedom Index due to government restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of the press. For these reasons, Singapore has been described by scholars as a soft authoritarian state or an illiberal democracy. The PAP has governed the country continuously since full internal self-government was achieved in 1959, and currently holds a supermajority with 79 out of 93 elected seats in Parliament. One of the five founding members of ASEAN, Singapore is also the headquarters of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat, the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council Secretariat, and is the host city of many international conferences and events. Singapore is also a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the East Asia Summit, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the Commonwealth of Nations.Dhantegge (talk) 14:58, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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