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Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon[edit]

Hello WikiProject Malaysia:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 13:20, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This came out of the Indonesian wikiproject but affects the Malaysian side too. The problem was that the Ejaan yang Disempurnakan topic kept getting moved back and forth repeatedly. See my suggested move here. Dan Carkner (talk) 17:46, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading free photographs of all DAP elected representatives supplied by DAP NHQ to Wikipedia[edit]

I wrote to the DAP National Headquarters to request for photographs of the elected representatives under the allowed free licences by Wikimedia Commons, and the Head of Social Media got back to me. She is asking for my association with Wikipedia and how to proceed with uploading photos of the representatives. How should I get back to her? HejTuWou (talk) 09:22, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi HejTuWou, we have a page Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials which has some text you might be able to adapt! The easiest way for this to proceed is for the copyright holders (presumably the party?) to upload the photos themselves. It is crucial that they understand the terms of the free licence. As for your association, many people do not understand Wikipedia is built by volunteers, perhaps some of the examples at Wikipedia:Example requests for permission may be what you are looking for to help with that. CMD (talk) 12:17, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have followed up with her and told her she can either do batch uploading to Commons directly or to Flickr with the allowed licences! Hope this works out. HejTuWou (talk) 12:31, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Is it OK if you request further for the DAP press office to issue photographs of their former party leaders (such as Lim Kit Siang, Devan Nair, and Chen Han Min)? That would greatly contribute to Malaysian political articles. Thanks, best regards, gavre (al. PenangLion) (talk) 04:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On the subject of honorific suffixes[edit]

I am requesting a discussion on the usage of honorific suffixes for Malaysian biographical articles. The abundance of state titles issued to numerous personnel have inflated their titles to a (sometimes) ridiculous extent, especially when demonstrated in the subject article's infobox. An example would be those of Muhyiddin Yassin, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and Mahathir Mohamad, where their state titles have essentially covered a significant portion of the upper section of the infobox. This is made worse when if we equate state titles as those worthy of inclusion, then it will present the article's number of honours as unrealistic compared those of other national leaders where their honours are equal, or if not more than the Malaysian subject articles themselves.

I propose that:

  • The removal of all state titles in the infobox; retaining federal titles only (eg. PSM, KMN, SMN, MP, etc.);
  • Inclusion of a new section, namely Awards and honours, to list all their titles comprehensively.

gavre (al. PenangLion) (talk) 04:28, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@PenangLion: Agree with you that those situations are a mess. Elizabeth II has just one position in that infobox field. Lee Kuan Yew has a slightly more expansive four. CMD (talk) 12:56, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I really need to re-open this discussion since there remains sternful editors that insisted on adding as much titles as possible. gavre (al. PenangLion) (talk) 12:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rampant addition of transliterations apart from Malay in various topics[edit]

Calling to attention on the apparently rampant addition of Tamil (and to a lesser extent, Chinese) transliterations in articles apart from geographic places by certain editors, such as [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].

For geographic places, scripts in Jawi, Chinese and Tamil are understandably added due to cultural diversity. But in the above examples, Tamil transliterations are added for articles on local governments and transport infrastructure, when according to MOS:PLACE, "names in languages with no particular present-day or historical ties to the place in question (English excepted, of course) should not be listed as alternatives". That is not even going into the fact that the rest of the articles on Malaysia's government structure (state and local governments) have no such transliterations that clutter the infobox and making readability that much harder (MOS:LEADLANG has another example of lengthy names in foreign languages that impair readability).

Hope to find clarification here on the MOS for Malaysian articles, if transliterations in languages other than Malay (the official language) is permitted outside the scopes of certain geographic locations and biographies. hundenvonPG (talk) 10:39, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As noted we don't include the translations/transliterations for state and local governments (including Chinese, Tamil, and Jawi scripts), because they lack any official status. This should generally apply as a default to articles relating to Malaysia, unless there is a specific reason to add a particular translation/transliteration(s) on a case-by-case basis due to particular relevance. CMD (talk) 12:49, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Noted on this, Chipmunkdavis. The editor in question not only refused to engage in the discussion that I started on his talk page, but also restored said edits.
Visnu92, please justify your persistent addition of languages other than Malay (without consensus) in articles about local governments and transport infrastructure. hundenvonPG (talk) 12:15, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard#Questionable claim in Johor Bahru , which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Slothades (talk) 08:45, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Peranakans#Requested move 6 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 13:00, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Yang di-Pertuan Agong#Requested move 4 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 21:28, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]