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[edit] Chinese, Jawi, Tamil scripts

We need a proper consensus on what to include in the lead and infobox. Previous discussions on this matter in this talk archive seem to be hanging. Personally i think there should be no other scripts in the lead section cos it will look MESSY, with 3 different scripts probably using up one paragraph of the lead. In the infobox i might be open towards including Chinese, Jawi, Tamil, etc. But i still prefer having no alternative scripts. kawaputratorque 04:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

It has already been discussed. The discussion could be read at Talk:Malaysia/Archive_2#Official_languages.3F __earth (Talk) 10:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Ah sorry for my edit. I didn't check the talk page - just saw "(Chinese: chinese characters)" <--- that's a mess and so I thought something's wrong with that hence the wikification. — Yurei-eggtart 10:25, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HINDRAF link

To user Earth: I am sorry; I am new to wikipedia. Why should we not link to the HINDRAF article when we mention it in the history section? I thought this was a minor correction when I made it yesterday, but I see you have reverted it back without any comment. Can you help me understand why you did it? Thank you very much! Kltiger (talk) 02:01, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

There was a flurry of edit on the GDP which doesn't match citation as well as an useless sentence on language. When I saw the edit history, I just reverted back to the user which I most trusted just to save time. I apologize for reverting your edit if it is legitimate. __earth (Talk) 04:55, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, I made the edit again. We'll see how it goes this time haha Kltiger (talk) 17:48, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Summary cleanup

There was a "clarify" tag on part of the summary at the top. I tried to clear it up to make it easier to read while maintaining the same level of information. As this is a summary it's tough to judge how much information should be here; the area certainly has a long history and we don't want to leave out a critical detail, but the summary should be clear and logical enough that a reader knowing nothing about the area or previous colonies/federations can understand how the parts of the modern country came together. This still needs a copy edit and a bit of cleanup, but please try to keep it short and readable. There is an entire history section below, and details can and should go there. RabidDeity (talk) 01:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Demographics

The demographics section doesn't agree with the subarticle. Specifically, the other article gives 50.4% Malay, this one gives 62%. Also indigenous is 11% there 7% here. The 11% sounds more plausible to me since according to this article the non-Malay indigenous population in Sarawak is over 50% and 66% in Sabah and the population of Malaysia in Sabah and Sarawak is 5.5 million so some simply maths (yes I know this is OR) tells you 11% is much more likely. Also the figures given on this page add up to 101% (rounding error I guess) but makes no mention of 'others' meaning that there are no others or it's a very tiny percentage. It sounds to me like someone may have confused Bumiputera (which includes non-Malay indigeneous people in Sabah and Sarawak) and Malay since if you add 50.4+11=~62%. If you do this the figures here agree with the other article except that indigenous here is actually others not indigenous (and the percentage is right). The figures in the other articles is sourced to the CIA world fact book, this one isn't sourced at all Nil Einne (talk) 09:57, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Descrepency now solved using data from Census of Population and Housing Malaysia 2000[1], Department of Statistics Malaysia. --Anggerik (talk) 09:30, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arabs Arrival

as i know and according to what i read in the Islamic universty of Malaysia that there is an arab people in Yemen called Hadrami, broght the Islam to malaysia, and i can't see here something about that. just wondring !!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Egyption 4eva (talk • contribs) 01:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Those of Arab (mostly Yemeni) origin identify themselves almost exclusively as Malays now due to long history of inter-marriages with Muslim Malays. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anggerik (talk • contribs) 15:50, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Education

Just a passing comment, there is no such thing as British Curriculum or British A levels. The 2 primary education systems within Britain are the Scottish and English systems which have numerous differences right down to exam types, end qualifications and teaching requirements. This means that there is no such thing as a "British" Curriculum and the Malaysian references will probably mean either English or Scottish systems. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.8.248.2 (talk) 13:02, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Demographics

Shouldn't the article mention the Dutch community in Malaysia? Source on the Dutch Malay community: dutchmalaysia.net/malacca_and_ceylon_dutch.html--69.234.188.144 (talk) 19:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I think it should be okay to add on, not Dutch though, but Eurasians in general might be more suitable.Mhching (talk) 10:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cuisine

At the cuisine section, I found out they put 62% of the population is Malay. It shouldn't be 62%. From what I know, Malay accounts for less than 60%. If Bumiputeras = 62%, it's logical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinangjawa (talk • contribs) 22:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I think the 'Malaysia' pronounciation is wrong!!!

there is two way to pronounce 'sia' Malayan style, that is:

1.as 'sya/sha', like 'sha' in 'shaman';

2.as 'siya', like 'see yaa' ;

NOT 'zja'.Azar2804 (talk) 14:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peninsula vs. Peninsular

I've skim through the article and I've noticed some confusion over the usage of Peninsula versus Peninsular. Peninsula without the 'r' is a noun and Peninsular with the 'r' is an adjective. It is the Malay Peninsula, not the Malay Peninsular. It is Peninsular Malaysia, not Peninsula Malaysia. Also, capitalization is inconsistent whenever the Peninsula (not Peninsular) is mentioned. Please be mindful of capitalization. Keep Peninsula capitalized even on its own, i.e. without "Malay" in front of the "Peninsula". Peninsular standing on its own should be spelled with lower case. __earth (Talk) 01:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)