Talk:Buddhist Library (Singapore)

Buddhist Library (Singapore) was a Art and architecture good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. 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
August 4, 2014	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 11, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the Buddhist Library (pictured), which is located in a shophouse, is Singapore's first dedicated Buddhist library and is unique in that it is neither an association nor a temple?

GA Review

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Reviewer: Wizardman (talk · contribs) 04:58, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this article shortly. Wizardman 04:58, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the issues I found:

Half the article of the library is on the founder rather than the library itself. While the founder deserves a mention, it is rather odd.
It feels like there are some parts missing to this article. It's not easy to put my finger on what, but that main thing is that I'd like to see a bit more detail on what the library has. You note the 16,000 books and end it there without much detail (which is unsourced anyway)
Some parts of the article are written a bit non-encyclopedically (i.e. "Despite its modest resources,"). It's not really bad in and of itself, but see the point below.
The main issue I have with the article is the sourcing. Most of the sources used are primary (either the library's site or newsletter). There are also a few places where the tone is a concern, and the lack of secondary sourcing is what ends up making that more of an issue than it would be otherwise.

Due to that last point, I feel this article would need a good deal of restructuring, and as is I'm going to have to fail the article. Wizardman 02:25, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 8 September 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Consensus not to move, therefore, not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 19:26, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Buddhist Library (Singapore) → Buddhist Library – There is only one 'Buddhist Library' on the wiki which makes it a precise enough title to warrant a move back to the original title. However, the page move is blocked because a previous article was created there. Looking at the history of the pages, Buddhist Library (Singapore) was created before Buddhist Library, but somehow most of the content in the 'Buddhist Library' ended up duplicating content in 'Buddhist Library (Singapore)', so I merged the contents into the page with the older page history.

It seems like almost all of the wikilinking is done with 'Buddhist Library' instead of 'Buddhist Library (Singapore)' so this also justifies the move. -- AquaDTRS (talk) 18:36, 8 September 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 22:23, 17 September 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 21:04, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I'm not sure it is. I found Buddhist Texts Library and with "Buddhist Library" being such a generic name, there might be other libraries that don't have an article, but readers searching for a specific one, are also not interested in this one. Viewing the last year's page views here, it seems that both of these terms are coming closer together and that it doesn't seem that Buddhist Library (Singapore) has a much higher primary lead. --Gonnym (talk) 21:53, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment is this the only one in the world? https://buddhistlibrary.org.au/ 90 Church Street, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia also https://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/australian-buddhist-library --- so Oppose In ictu oculi (talk) 07:42, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Hyperbolick (talk) 16:06, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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