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abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Style" title="Template:Style"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Style" title="Template talk:Style"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Style" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Style"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Wikipedia:Manual of Style</a></div> <p>The following guidelines apply to all <a href="/wiki/List_of_Singapore-related_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Singapore-related topics">Singapore-related topics</a> under the purview of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SGpedians%27_notice_board" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SGpedians' notice board">SGpedians' notice board</a>. While contributors are encouraged to implement them for consistent presentation, they are also free to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">ignore all rules</a> so long that it is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Use_common_sense" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Use common sense">reasonable to do so</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Naming_conventions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Naming_conventions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Naming_conventions"></span>Naming conventions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Naming_conventions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Naming conventions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="People" data-mw-thread-id="h-People-Naming_conventions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-People-Naming_conventions"></span>People<span data-mw-comment-end="h-People-Naming_conventions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: People"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In general, a biographical article should be named in the way the name of the person who is the article's subject usually appears in English-language publications in Singapore. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Singaporeans_with_Chinese_names" data-mw-thread-id="h-Singaporeans_with_Chinese_names-People"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Singaporeans_with_Chinese_names-People"></span>Singaporeans with Chinese names<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Singaporeans_with_Chinese_names-People"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Singaporeans with Chinese names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Article titles should follow <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Chinese)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese)</a>. In particular, this means that names more familiar to most English readers, and which are normally used in English-language publications in Singapore, should be used with no specific preference for any <a href="/wiki/Spoken_Chinese" class="mw-redirect" title="Spoken Chinese">Chinese dialect</a> or <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language_romanisation_in_Singapore" title="Chinese language romanisation in Singapore">romanisation system</a>. Thus, <a href="/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew" title="Lee Kuan Yew">Lee Kuan Yew</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hakka_Chinese" title="Hakka Chinese">Hakka</a>; local romanisation) and <a href="/wiki/Huang_Wenyong" title="Huang Wenyong">Huang Wenyong</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin</a>; <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a>) are both acceptable for being commonly used in English. </p><p>Where a specific romanisation system is used, conventions used by that system should be adhered to. Hence, Pinyin names should have no spaces in the first name (Huang Wenyong, and not Huang Wen Yong), and <a href="/wiki/Diacritic" title="Diacritic">diacritics</a> should not be used in the article name. </p><p>Where a Chinese person usually indicates their surname at the beginning of the name, the use of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hatnote" title="Wikipedia:Hatnote">hatnote</a> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Family_name_hatnote" title="Template:Family name hatnote">family name hatnote</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> is recommended. </p><p>The names of Singaporeans with both Chinese and Western names are set out in a variety of ways: </p> <ul><li><b>Western name + surname only, Chinese name omitted</b>, <i>e.g.</i>, "Janine Tan".</li> <li><b>Surname + Chinese name + Western name</b>, <i>e.g.</i>, "Tan Mei Yi Janine".</li> <li><b>Western name + surname + Chinese name</b>, <i>e.g.</i>, "Janine Tan Mei Yi".</li> <li><b>Western name + Chinese name + surname</b>, <i>e.g.</i>, "Janine Mei Yi Tan".</li></ul> <p>In most cases, the first option is the most commonly used. However, the use of this short form increases the likelihood of similarly named articles. Where it is necessary to disambiguate the article as a result, either the full name (<i>e.g.</i>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Tan_Keng_Yam" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Tan Keng Yam">Tony Tan Keng Yam</a>) or a disambiguating term in parentheses (<i>e.g.</i>, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lee_(Singapore_actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher Lee (Singapore actor)">Christopher Lee (Singapore actor)</a>) should be used: see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Wikipedia:Disambiguation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(people)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Singaporeans_with_Indian_names" data-mw-thread-id="h-Singaporeans_with_Indian_names-People"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Singaporeans_with_Indian_names-People"></span>Singaporeans with Indian names<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Singaporeans_with_Indian_names-People"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Singaporeans with Indian names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Article titles should follow the manner in which the subjects of the articles normally appear in English-language publications in Singapore, <i>e.g.</i>, "<a href="/wiki/Balaji_Sadasivan" title="Balaji Sadasivan">Balaji Sadasivan</a>", not "Sadasivan Balaji". When persons do not usually use the abbreviations <i>s/o</i> ("son of") or <i>d/o</i> ("daughter of") in their names, these words should not be added (<i>e.g.</i>, "<a href="/wiki/Balaji_Sadasivan" title="Balaji Sadasivan">Balaji Sadasivan</a>", not "Balaji s/o Sadasivan"). Likewise, where persons usually have these words in their names, the words should not be omitted. Use of the hatnote <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Indian_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Indian name">Indian name</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> is recommended. Where the name of an Indian person contains a <a href="/wiki/Patronymic" title="Patronymic">patronymic</a> and lacks a surname, to avoid the article being incorrectly sorted by the patronymic, add a <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:DEFAULTSORT" title="Template:DEFAULTSORT">DEFAULTSORT</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> tag and a comment as shown in the example below: </p> <pre>{{DEFAULTSORT:Balaji Sadasivan}}  </pre> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Singaporeans_with_Malay_names" data-mw-thread-id="h-Singaporeans_with_Malay_names-People"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Singaporeans_with_Malay_names-People"></span>Singaporeans with Malay names<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Singaporeans_with_Malay_names-People"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Singaporeans with Malay names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Article titles should follow the manner in which the subjects of the articles normally appear in English-language publications in Singapore. When persons do not usually use the words <i>bin</i> (<a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a> for "son of") or <i>binte</i> ("daughter of") in their names, these words should not be added (<i>e.g.</i>, "<a href="/wiki/Zubir_Said" title="Zubir Said">Zubir Said</a>", not "Zubir bin Said"). Likewise, where persons usually have these words in their names, the words should not be omitted. Use of the hatnote <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Malay_name" title="Template:Malay name">Malay name</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> is recommended. Where the name of a Malay person contains a patronymic and lacks a surname, to avoid the article being incorrectly sorted by the patronymic, add a <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:DEFAULTSORT" title="Template:DEFAULTSORT">DEFAULTSORT</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> tag and a comment as shown in the example below: </p> <pre>{{DEFAULTSORT:Zubir Said}}  </pre> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Places" data-mw-thread-id="h-Places-Naming_conventions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Places-Naming_conventions"></span>Places<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Places-Naming_conventions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Places"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The official English name for places should be used. For example, "<a href="/wiki/Hougang" title="Hougang">Hougang</a>", which is used officially in English, should be used in preference to "Aukang" even though the latter is often used locally. Also, "<a href="/wiki/Punggol" title="Punggol">P<u>u</u>nggol</a>" should be spelt as indicated when referring to the town, but as "P<u>o</u>nggol" in the road name "Ponggol Seventeenth Avenue" as that is the official name of the road in English. </p><p>If a name refers to the Singapore place much more than to any other place (that is, the Singapore place is significantly more commonly searched for than other places), the article can be named after the Singapore place without any qualifications (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Is_there_a_primary_topic?" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Is there a primary topic?</a>), for example: "<a href="/wiki/Orchard_Road" title="Orchard Road">Orchard Road</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Yishun" title="Yishun">Yishun</a>". Where it is necessary to disambiguate place or structure names, place the disambiguating term after a comma instead of enclosing it in parentheses (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Naming_the_specific_topic_articles" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Naming the specific topic articles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(settlements)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements)</a>), for example, "<a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Singapore" title="Chinatown, Singapore">Chinatown, Singapore</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Woodlands,_Singapore" title="Woodlands, Singapore">Woodlands, Singapore</a>". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Content" data-mw-thread-id="h-Content"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Content"></span>Content<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Content"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Currency" data-mw-thread-id="h-Currency-Content"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Currency-Content"></span>Currency<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Currency-Content"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Currency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In accordance with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Currencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)">Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Currencies</a>, the first time a Singapore-dollar amount appears in an article, indicate it like this: "<tt>[[Singapore dollar|S$]]100</tt>" (result: "<a href="/wiki/Singapore_dollar" title="Singapore dollar">S$</a>100"). Subsequently, the "S" may be omitted (for example, "<tt>$100</tt>") unless this would be unclear (for instance, if two or more currencies are referred to in the article). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Dates-Content"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Dates-Content"></span>Dates<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Dates-Content"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Dates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228" /><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:MOSDATESGP"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:MOSDATESGP&redirect=no">WP:MOSDATESGP</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Dates are usually indicated with the day before the month, that is, "9 August" and "9 August 1965". Therefore, in accordance with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Strong_national_ties_to_a_topic" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)">Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Strong national ties to a topic</a>, in articles: </p> <ul><li>dates should be set out with the day before the month; and</li> <li>the parameter "df=yes" ("df" standing for "day first") should be used with the templates <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Birth_date_and_age" title="Template:Birth date and age">Birth date and age</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Birth_year_and_age" title="Template:Birth year and age">Birth year and age</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Death_date_and_age" title="Template:Death date and age">Death date and age</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Death_year_and_age" title="Template:Death year and age">Death year and age</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, and related templates.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Infoboxes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Infoboxes-Content"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Infoboxes-Content"></span>Infoboxes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Infoboxes-Content"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Infoboxes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In general, see <a href="/wiki/Category:Singapore_infobox_templates" title="Category:Singapore infobox templates">Category:Singapore infobox templates</a> for infoboxes designed for Singapore-related articles. </p> <ul><li><b>Places</b>. To state the name of a place in Singapore in the four official languages of Singapore (English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil), use the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:SG_neighbourhood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:SG neighbourhood (page does not exist)">SG neighbourhood</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> infobox.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lead_section" data-mw-thread-id="h-Lead_section-Content"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Lead_section-Content"></span>Lead section<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Lead_section-Content"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Lead section"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Where appropriate, in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lead_section" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Lead section">lead section</a> of Singapore-related articles (such as articles about Singaporean festivals), the article title in English in boldface should be followed by translations of the title in parentheses in the three other official languages, ordered alphabetically as follows: Malay, Mandarin and Tamil.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>For place names, use of the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:SG_neighbourhood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:SG neighbourhood (page does not exist)">SG neighbourhood</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> infobox is recommended.</li> <li>For Chinese names, use <a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">simplified Chinese characters</a> and provide a <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a> transcription. Use the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Zh" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Zh">zh</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template as follows:</li></ul></li></ul> <pre>{{zh|s=NAME IN SIMPLIFIED CHINESE CHARACTERS|p=NAME IN PINYIN}} </pre> <ul><li>Alternative, non-English names should usually be listed <i>once</i>. If the article has an infobox, the names should be listed there. If not, the names should go in the first sentence of the lead.</li> <li>If the names have a complex history or vary considerably from language to language (<i>e.g.</i>, <a href="/wiki/Tekka_Centre" title="Tekka Centre">Tekka Centre</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pedra_Branca,_Singapore" title="Pedra Branca, Singapore">Pedra Branca, Singapore</a>), this should be discussed in a separate section and not in the lead.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Measurements" data-mw-thread-id="h-Measurements-Content"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Measurements-Content"></span>Measurements<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Measurements-Content"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Measurements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Measurements should be set out using the <a href="/wiki/Metric_system" title="Metric system">metric system</a>, with measurements in the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_units" title="Imperial units">Imperial system</a> in parentheses after the metric measurement. This can be done conveniently using the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Convert" title="Template:Convert">Convert</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spelling_and_grammar" data-mw-thread-id="h-Spelling_and_grammar-Content"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Spelling_and_grammar-Content"></span>Spelling and grammar<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Spelling_and_grammar-Content"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Singapore-related_articles&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Spelling and grammar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth</a> country, Singapore has inherited many elements of British culture. 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