Talk:Middle Road, Singapore

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Good article Middle Road, Singapore was a nominee for Geography and places good article, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
An entry from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 22, 2007.
October 20, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed
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[edit] Shaw Tower

Just a "pedantic" comment, the company is registered as Shaw Towers, but the building itself is known as Shaw Tower, without the s. See link. The name Shaw Tower is also indicated on the building. However, it's ok with me. Thanks. —Sengkang 05:45, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, u 'corrected' on good faith. Thanks for wikifying and defending my works all these while 8) -- Aldwinteo 09:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Your articles are of high quality. Keep up the good work. —Sengkang 10:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Semi automatic peer review

A Semi automatic peer review has been completed of this article to help it achieve GA status. To keep improving article

  • make notes and references of one style of citation only
  • reduce red links by creating some of the red link articles

Good luck with your endeavours. Kind regards, SriMesh | talk 02:45, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I've made the necessary edits for consistency & style. Thank you for your earlier review and suggestions. -- Aldwinteo 04:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello again. It is awesome to see improvements done on the article. The infobox which is handy for roads is located at Infobox Road. Why is there a section named notes and a section named references? The article as is stands today is 1,442 words in length or 7,567 characters with no spaces and 8,964 with spaces. The lead paragraph could contain such concepts as WP Lead:
  • Context - Road designates major roads intended for travel by the public between important destinations, such as cities, or communities. Country main roadways are located in the locaaion geographical land area.
  • Characterization - Notable unique characteristics and characteristics commonly associated with it. Paved, gravel, divided, truck route, bridges, south-north, west-east, freeway, road, highway, Length, Formed, Direction; From-To, major cities/communities, Etymology and history .
  • Explanation - briefly introduce the contents which may utilize the main subsections.
  • Compare and contrast - Comparison (similarites) and Contrast (diffferences) to other current or defunct transportation methods.
  • Criticism - road construction and soil type and highway - road repair, upgrades, future expansions or divisions, animal crossings, police patrol and highway markings, speed limits, ditch construction or railings, environmental or weather hazards.

Good luck with your article! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SriMesh (talk • contribs) 15:02, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

??? The "Notes" section is used to display the specific details of the in-line citation that were derived from the books mentioned in the "References" section. This is common literary practice. I've already expanded the lead paragraph according to the context of the article in my previous edits. u are most welcomed to expand or rewrite the lead paragraph if you think it can be improved further. Thanks! -- Aldwinteo 17:24, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

The article does not currently meet the Good Article criteria, and will not be listed at the present time. Specific issues with the article follow:

GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

The biggest issue with the article is primarily lack of completeness. The 'landmarks' section has the most obvious problems, with a short paragraph under 'past' and just a list with three red links under 'present'. It really doesn't say anything about these landmarks, and how they are important to the development & history of the middle road area of singapore. A reorganization would be better. Start off by removing 'history' from 'etymology' -- the etymology section should really just contain information on the development of the word and how it is pronounced. Consider moving the pronunciation box near the top into this etymology section, and discuss in more details local names, rather than just the anglicized names.

Just have one section called history, and integrate the two major communities (hainanese & japanese) into the history section. The article talks about both communities separately, and says nothing about how the communities might have integrated and interacted through the years. Lacking this information is the major reason for failing the article on account of WP:NPOV.

A good copyedit, looking for some major grammatical flaws and sentence structure issues, would also be a good idea as well.

Hope this helps improve the article! Cheers! Dr. Cash 18:07, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for review & suggestions. Rgds -- Aldwinteo —Preceding comment was added at 04:36, 21 October 2007 (UTC)