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History of Singapore was one of the History good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 14, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
July 21, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
July 26, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
August 9, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
August 8, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 18, 2010	Good article reassessment	Kept
June 7, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 14 January 2019 and 7 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cdalfons.

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A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion[edit]

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Singapore during the formation of Malaysia (16 September 1963).jpg

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Japanese air raid on singapore - February 8 1942.jpg

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GA Reassessment[edit]

History of Singapore[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delisted per consensus. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:52, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA from 2006. The campaign for merger sections has a refimprove tag while numerous other areas are tagged with citation needed tags. Bambots reports "Unsourced passages need footnotes ((citation needed)) (July 2013, October 2015, October 2019, October 2020, October 2021, September 2022), Dead external links ((dead link)) (May 2020), ... (September 2022)". Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:05, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delist per nom. 〜 Festucalex • talk 03:08, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.