Talk:Long Ya Men

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Long Ya Men has been listed as one of the Geography and places good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.

An entry from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on May 1, 2007.

December 2, 2007

Good article nominee

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Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

I think that this gate do affect Singapore history by quite a bit, so it should rated as Mid-importance(Rating changed by me).Secondly, it was one gate saw by General Zheng Ho and many other famous travelers and is mentioned in various sources --Quek157 10:05, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

As mentioned on the article itself, 3 govt bodies funded & erected the replica as a testimony of its importance in the martime history of S'pore & those of the neighboring countries too. Thks for yr reassessment -- Aldwinteo 10:32, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you--Quek157 12:55, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

This is a nice short article, that fulfills all of the Ga requirements save for having a few readability issues that must be fixed. Firstly, punctuation in references must always be within quotes.

Sim, Glenys. "Dragon's tooth replica to mark anniversary of Chinese explorer", The Straits Times, March 23, 2005. This is wrong. Sim, Glenys. "Dragon's tooth replica to mark anniversary of Chinese explorer," The Straits Times, March 23, 2005. This is right.

This also goes for the references with commas and quotes. Everything must be inside the quotes. Be consistent in writing centuries as numbers or words. Use either 14th century or fourteenth century, but not both.

I thank u for your time & review on this GA nomination. Fyi, the citation format I used for all my references to date is based on the citation template, e.g. Template:Cite news. As such, all its punctuation are auto generated as per template format. u may want to read a previous discussion and examples shown here-- Aldwinteo 03:50, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you are correct in saying that wikipedia says the punctuation should be outside of the quotes. I will say that MLA and Chicago styles do not do this, so I think wikipedia is wrong. However, I can't fault you for following the guidelines, so you don't have to change anything. Zeus1234 09:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

There are also a few awkward sentences. "She was transformed into a pillar of salt when she disobeyed divine orders not to look back at the destruction of Sodom, which she was allowed to flee from." This sentence is awkward with the 'flee from' part. "The passageway was however abandoned and forgotten in the seventeenth century, when modern European sailors preferred the wider and more open Main Straits south of Pulau Satamu where Raffles Lighthouse stands today" This sentence is a run-on. "It was William Farquhar, the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore, wrote to Raffles then in Bencoolen on 2 September 1819, that he founded a new harbour west of the settlement" I don't understand what you are trying to say in this sentence. I fixed the rest of the problem sentences myself. Please fix these problems and then the article will be promoted. Zeus1234 22:42, 1 December 2007 (UTC)