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About Orchard Road article. This is somehow a common name. It should not be used for specific informations. The article except of mentioning it is a shopping street in Singapore has non notable information. This article is linked by many others, a good few of them are empty ( one month after creation) or give non notable information.
About shoal of articles around Singapore and Malaysia. There is a problem there I feel. And I don't know how to address it. Many (for example here) articles are ultra local information, or non notable, or plainly empty. They could be merged, condensed, deleted. I vfd'ed previously some articles. Many comments arrived on vfd confirming that indeed there could/should be an other way. But there are just too many articles now ! I can't vfd ten's of articles. I talked to a given user and it took quite a deal to have just a cool down. But I won't be able to talk the same patient way to 3 of 4 users. In my opinion there is a flooding of misplaced articles. There is a misunderstanding of what is interesting or general interest. It costs an important time to the community to build interesting bits upon this noise. What should I/we do ? Should I/we do anything ?
-- Gtabary 10:58, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I really disagree with the fact that Wikipedia should focus mainly on English speaking countries and cultures! I am a Norwegian, and I focus mainly on the English language Wikipedia, not the Norwegian one, because everyone in Norway speaks English (fact) and because the English one is so far ahead... For some of the bigger languages, like German, French etc, it is probable that they might slowly become very comprehensive as well, but if you think about smaller languages (Norwegian), African languages, etc - this is just not going to happen anytime soon (I myself am very sceptical to English being used everywhere, but I am also realistic - and so are many Norwegians - many significant articles about Norwegian people are longer in the English wikipedia than in the Norwegian one)... And finally; why should people in the anglophone countries be more interested in finding out about Oxford street than about Orchard road? I'd hope it would be the other way around. At least that is an ideal. Sorry for this rather long rant at perhaps the wrong location, but I really felt the need to express my belief that Wikipedia en., and hopefully all of the language versions, will be truly global and universal works of reference. THanks. Houshuang 18:05, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Gtabary 12:52, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
end moved discussion
I'm just shocked at the ignorance there...:/ -- Natalinasmpf 17:30, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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It seems that the vicinity of Orchard Road is also an urban planning division specified by the Urban Redevelopment Authority - should we create a separate article for such a division, or information on it (as it also contains several other roads) in the article itself? -- Natalinasmpf 04:13, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)and don't forget to visit it.
@ MageLam: I thought this was pretty clear cut. The shopping district is known as "Orchard Road" in multiple sources. Is the other article a Planning Area article? -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 08:05, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
I will look for sources. From what I have looked up, the Orchard area is a loosely defined area around the Orchard Road - it includes areas such as Emerald Hill. The URA Orchard Planning area excludes Emerald Hill on the other hand. Also weirdly, the URA planning area contains a subzone called Tanglin. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 08:43, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
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About Orchard Road article. This is somehow a common name. It should not be used for specific informations. The article except of mentioning it is a shopping street in Singapore has non notable information. This article is linked by many others, a good few of them are empty ( one month after creation) or give non notable information.
About shoal of articles around Singapore and Malaysia. There is a problem there I feel. And I don't know how to address it. Many (for example here) articles are ultra local information, or non notable, or plainly empty. They could be merged, condensed, deleted. I vfd'ed previously some articles. Many comments arrived on vfd confirming that indeed there could/should be an other way. But there are just too many articles now ! I can't vfd ten's of articles. I talked to a given user and it took quite a deal to have just a cool down. But I won't be able to talk the same patient way to 3 of 4 users. In my opinion there is a flooding of misplaced articles. There is a misunderstanding of what is interesting or general interest. It costs an important time to the community to build interesting bits upon this noise. What should I/we do ? Should I/we do anything ?
-- Gtabary 10:58, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I really disagree with the fact that Wikipedia should focus mainly on English speaking countries and cultures! I am a Norwegian, and I focus mainly on the English language Wikipedia, not the Norwegian one, because everyone in Norway speaks English (fact) and because the English one is so far ahead... For some of the bigger languages, like German, French etc, it is probable that they might slowly become very comprehensive as well, but if you think about smaller languages (Norwegian), African languages, etc - this is just not going to happen anytime soon (I myself am very sceptical to English being used everywhere, but I am also realistic - and so are many Norwegians - many significant articles about Norwegian people are longer in the English wikipedia than in the Norwegian one)... And finally; why should people in the anglophone countries be more interested in finding out about Oxford street than about Orchard road? I'd hope it would be the other way around. At least that is an ideal. Sorry for this rather long rant at perhaps the wrong location, but I really felt the need to express my belief that Wikipedia en., and hopefully all of the language versions, will be truly global and universal works of reference. THanks. Houshuang 18:05, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Gtabary 12:52, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
end moved discussion
I'm just shocked at the ignorance there...:/ -- Natalinasmpf 17:30, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Suggestion:
It seems that the vicinity of Orchard Road is also an urban planning division specified by the Urban Redevelopment Authority - should we create a separate article for such a division, or information on it (as it also contains several other roads) in the article itself? -- Natalinasmpf 04:13, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)and don't forget to visit it.
@ MageLam: I thought this was pretty clear cut. The shopping district is known as "Orchard Road" in multiple sources. Is the other article a Planning Area article? -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 08:05, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
I will look for sources. From what I have looked up, the Orchard area is a loosely defined area around the Orchard Road - it includes areas such as Emerald Hill. The URA Orchard Planning area excludes Emerald Hill on the other hand. Also weirdly, the URA planning area contains a subzone called Tanglin. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 08:43, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
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