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Contents 1 Things to note 2 Merging 3 Names of Singapore Armed Forces chiefs 4 Edits for Organisation section... 5 Merging of "Singapore Armed Forces" page and "Singapore Army Page"

[edit] Things to note

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--Travisyoung 15:29, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merging

• Agree. Articles on countries armed forces should be named in Wikipedia according to local convention. There's been some debate on this for the UK over the "Military of" and other styles..see the talk page of British Armed Forces. The main objection to this type of styling ( i.e. moving away from the "Military of" format ) is that the "Military of" style has been set up already in Wikipedia. This is rather a weak argument as it seems to be based on the fact that some Americans first imported raw data from the CIA fact book and set up this style, and it so happens that the CIA uses the "Military of" style. There is also some debate over the meaning of the word military re armies or armed forces in general, and this further invalidates any arguments that "Military of" is a universal style - as any universal style should be easily understood, which given the differences in understanding of the word military, it is not.--jrleighton 06:06, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

But if you may read the two articles, I have made some effort to differentiate the contents between the two. I dont think we could talk about the contributions to Singapore's military efforts by non-SAF organisations and bodies, for example, in the SAF page without them being buried under information which are far more relevant to the SAF directly.--Huaiwei 14:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Names of Singapore Armed Forces chiefs

Is it possible that names of Singapore Armed Forces chiefs are put on the page as well? I see that for other countries this is done.

I agree with this. --Ianleow7 13:31, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits for Organisation section...

There are a couple of things I'd want to clarify before I (or someone else) goes ahead with edit the Organisation section:

1. The 5th external link on this page (the only one in this section) links to http://www.mindef.gov.sg/index2.asp?cat=safchart, it now returns a 404 error (i.e. page not found error). I'm not sure what exactly it linked to, but I *think* it links to what now is known as the Organisation Structure at MINDEF's website: http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/about_us/organisation_structure.html. Could someone confirm this? Thanks.
2. The text version of the Structure of the SAF uses abbrevations even without telling the reading what they represent at first! FSA and JOPD means nothing unless the reader visits the Organsation Structure page at MINDEF's website. I think the image of the SAF Structure is copyrighted to the Government of Singapore, so we wouldn't be able to upload it here to Wikipedia. I'd say either we expand on the current text or create an image similar to what is found MINDEF's website. I say go for the former as it would be easier to update should there be any changes. What do you think?

--Ianleow7 13:26, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging of "Singapore Armed Forces" page and "Singapore Army Page"

The SIngapore Armed Forces is divided into three sub departments: Army, Air Force and Navy. As with other armed forces' wiki entries, they have separate pages for the different departments. So I'm going to remove the "merge" tag on both pages.