Talk:Indian Singaporeans

message: This article could do with a few photographs of Indians from different cultural backgrounds – perhaps Singaporean Indians who trace their ancestry to different parts of India, or Indians of different religions – to illustrate it. Does anyone have any that can be used? Cheers, Jacklee 14:50, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photographs of Indians in Singapore 

message: The article currently states -
:::"The Singapore Department of Statistics defines ‘Indians’ as both a ’race’ and ethnic group, comprising “persons of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Sri Lankan origin, such as Tamils, Malayalis, Punjabis, Bengalis, Singhalese, etc.” [1] The term 'Indian' therefore refers broadly to the Indian subcontinent, rather than the Republic of India."
According to the Singstat website, ethnic group and race seem to be interchangeable:
:::"Ethnic/Dialect Group - Ethnic group refers to a person's race as declared by that person. The population is classified into the following four categories:
:::Chinese - This refers to persons of Chinese origin such as Hokkiens, Teochews, Cantonese, Hakkas, Hainanese, Hockchias, Foochows, Henghuas, Shanghainese etc. 
:::Malays - This refers to persons of Malay or Indonesian origin, such as Javanese, Boyanese, Bugis etc. 
:::Indians - This refers to persons of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan origin such as Tamils, Malayalis, Punjabis, Bengalis, Singhalese etc. 
:::Other Ethnic Group - This comprises all persons other than Chinese, Malays and Indians.  They include Eurasians, Caucasians, Arabs, Japanese etc." 
This would confirm the existence of a single concept, where race is the dominant term, being used for all official purposes, and ethnic group a rarely-used synonym. As it stands, the article leads to the interpretation that Singstat make a distinction between the two terms. Rather than simply deleting the statement, I propose to rephrase it such as to underline the absence of distinction. JREL (talk) 15:50, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I'm still not entirely happy with the formulation; maybe you can help? JREL (talk) 21:16, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic group & race 

message: The introductory paragraph of the article currently reads: "While they [Indians] are the smallest of the city-state's three main 'races', among cities, Singapore has the one of the world's largest overseas Indian populations." Can this be right? There must be a larger overseas Indian population in countries like the UK and USA by virtue of the larger overall population in those countries. Or does Singapore have one of the world's largest overseas Indian populations relative to the population of the country as a whole? Some clarification of this would be most welcome. Cheers, Jacklee 01:16, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Singapore has one of world's largest overseas Indian populations?

message: Wiki Raja 11:06, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Dravidian civilizations

message: Although the article is well-referenced, I am concerned that it is not written in summary style. Here is how I think the article should be structured:
:*A short Etymology section, discussing the definition of "Indian" (already present).
:*A long History section, detailing the migration of Indians to Singapore (can be created by merging several existing sections).
:*A short Demographics section, containing various statistics about Indians in Singapore, such as languages, religion, education and income (some information is already included).
:*A long Culture section, detailing Singaporean Indian culture, such as cuisine, music and literature (some information is already included).
:*A short Institutions section, discussing various Singaporean Indian institutions, such as self-help groups (more information is needed).
--J.L.W.S. The Special One (talk) 14:33, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cross-posted from [[Wikipedia talk:SGpedians' notice board]] 

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message: There is a related AFD about an article which apparently copied some content from this article. Inviting more opinions. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 02:50, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Singapore Tamils]] 

message: and  An editor that goes by the name A.R.Nayudu has constantly made disruptive edits that I have had to revert, time and time again. The nature of the edits appears to be chauvinistic, geared towards ethnic and linguistic sentiments. For example, this user removed 'Hindi' from the infobox even though Hindi is listed in the PDF document of the official Singapore government census that has been well-referenced all over this article. This user has also been making other unexplained removals - the latest of which was to remove 'Malayalee' from a sentence with no explanation whatsoever, and remove 'Holi' from the list of minor, non-official Indian festivals celebrated in Singapore. It is getting tiring to constantly revert edits that are pointlessly chauvinistic, and I would appreciate your help in the matter because I am not an admin and do not have the sufficient privileges required to tackle such users. Thanks. Tiger7253 (talk) 14:17, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I reported it to WP:AIV as the editor has received enough warnings. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:25, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

text: Btw, , I understand you are frustrated, but using a section title such as "chauvinism" doesn't really help. In general, section titles need to be neutral on article talk page. I have taken the liberty to change it. Thank you for keeping a watch on this page though. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:27, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Disruptive editing and content removal

message: There were a bunch of edits in Feb 2017. I have reverted to the statusquo. Edits such as this seem to be WP:IDONTLIKEIT, although there might be possible original research. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:49, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Even if it were sourced, it is WP:UNDUE and editorializing. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 19:09, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feb 2017 edits 

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