Talk:Kampung Baru Mosque

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[edit] No/Useless information

I suggest that this article should be deleted using the speedy deletion template as it provides no useful information. It just adds the amount of stub articles in Wikipedia. Please give your suggestion. Acs4b 11:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

This article is showing up in the notability backlog so I've done a Google search and it would appear to be notable, but I don't know enough about the area to really improve the article.

The links I've found fall into a few groups:

  • It's listed in a Lonely Planet travel guide under a "Sights and activities" list for Kuala Lumpur and it appeared as a location in a major US TV program, so I'm assuming it has some importance as a tourist attraction.
  • I've found newspaper articles saying that it's famous for its "bubur lambuk" served at the end of Ramadan: one article seems to claim it's the most famous (a cook at another mosque admits, "I know the Kampung Baru mosque’s bubur lambuk is more famous...", while this one says the mosque made it into the Malaysia Book of Records for cooking 120 large pots simultaneously.
  • Other articles seem to point to its notability as a centre of political protest: [1] [2] [3] [4] are articles naming the mosque as a key location during the 1998 unrest related to Anwar Ibrahim, while this blog posting quotes a newspaper article which seems to show that the main Kuala Lumpur protests over the Danish cartoons were led from the Kampung Baru mosque.

I'm replacing the notability tag with an "expansion" one, since it appears to be notable from what I can see, it just needs someone with more local knowledge to add the required detail. Thomjakobsen 22:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)