Talk:Putrajaya

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Just clean up the page, hope you guys are ok...

--Bukhrin 15:25, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

It would be great if someone could post the flags for the federal territories. It would be much appreciated.

[edit] Removed sentence

I've removed this:

  • The city is simillar than Washington DC in the United States,Brasilia in Brazil and Canberra in Australia.

Similar in what way? __earth 13:37, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

That's enough already. I already edited it before to say it was analogous to those place, which it patently is. It now states how it is analogous to those cities. If that isn't enough and you want to revert it again, I will request arbitration/review. Alex.tan 09:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Putrajaya monorail

Doesn't anyone find it odd that we have an article for the suspension bridge but not the monorail? I appreciate it has been temporarily paused (I believe it's been restarted now though?) but I think we should have an article Nil Einne 15:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Analogies

As a city created to be an administrative centre of a country, Putrajaya is analogous to Washington DC in the United States, Canberra in Australia, Brasilia in Brazil, Astana in Kazakhstan, and Pretoria in South Africa.

I have removed the above containing analogies primarily because IMHO, none of them are particularly good. While Putrajaya shares some similarities with these, there are many differences. Washington DC, Canberra, Brasilia and Astana are all planned administrative capitals AFAIK however they are also the judicial, legislative and capital cities of their respective countries while Putrajaya is not. Washington DC and Canberra (dunno about the rest) shares the similarity that they are relatively small cities and economically not as important as other larger cities e.g. Sydney in Australia however this feature is not that uncommon, e.g. Wellington is the same in NZ. If you can find a good analogy then you're welcome to include it. However if not, I suggest just improve the article if necessary to clarify what Putrajaya is (although IMHO it's good enough) and leave it as is. Analogies should generally be avoided in encylopedias IMHO because they are often misleading or selective. For example, some people like to compare sizes of countries to states of America but while useful for Americans, it's not particularly useful for anyone else. Instead, it is far better if we just precisely explain what something is. Nil Einne 18:44, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

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