Talk:Ng Ser Miang

Updating this article

Hello, I'm currently working on behalf of Mr. Ng to update his article here on Wikipedia. Because of my financial COI, I won't make any edits directly; instead, I'm posting here in the hopes that editors can take a look at changes I'm proposing and, if they seem acceptable, move the changes into the article.

As you can see, the current article suffers from a number of issues—most notably, a near-complete lack of references, an unformatted list of awards and honors, and unencyclopedic information. Because of these extensive issues, rather than proposing piecemeal fixes to the article, I've started from scratch and prepared a new draft, which I've uploaded to my userspace. By way of summary, my proposed draft includes the following sections:

• An introductory paragraph providing an overview of Mr. Ng's business career and Olympics work.
• A section entitled "Early life", which documents Mr. Ng's birth, early move to Singapore, and education.
• A "Career" section, which details Mr. Ng's business work.
• A section on Mr. Ng's work in the sporting world, including with the International Olympic Committee, called "Sports and Olympics roles".
• A "Public service" section which discusses Mr. Ng's volunteer and diplomatic roles.
• Finally, an "Awards and recognition" section, which describes the accolades that Mr. Ng has received for his work.

If editors have feedback on anything here, I'm certainly open to constructive criticism, but if everything looks okay, could someone move the article over into the mainspace, re-enabling categories when they do? Thanks! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 12:35, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

I didn't dig through every source to verify but at a glance it looks fine to me. Since there isn't any other discussion I've WP:BOLDly moved the text from user to mainspace, with two minor changes: I added the image already in the article to the infobox, and I removed a "accessdate=" parameter from a ref that was causing an error. It's definitely an improvement on the old text, good work. — Reatlas (talk) 13:25, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Hey Reatlas, thanks so much, I really appreciate you moving this over! I'm actually working with Mr. Ng to get a more updated photo, so I might reach out again when I have that in hand. Thanks again! Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 13:35, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Hey again Reatlas, as I mentioned before, I've uploaded a new photo of Ng Ser Miang to Wikimedia Commons.

The photo permission email should be in the system, but the photo hasn't been marked as permission confirmed yet, and the approval process seems to be taking much longer than normal (as you can see, I uploaded the photo on Sept 5th, and reached out to Mr. Ng's people the same day about sending the email).

I'm fairly sure I already know the answer to this, but wanted to ask, as it's not something I've come across before. Would you be willing to add the photo to the article while the process is underway? No problem at all if the answer is no, just wanted to try and get this moving along. Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 13:36, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

The OTRS backlog is approximately 20 days, so this doesn't seem to be that much longer than usual. You can query the status of your email at Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard. Now to be honest I have never dealt with the OTRS system before and don't really know the rules for this situation but in the spirit of WP:BOLD and WP:IAR I've just added the image to the page anyway. — Reatlas (talk) 14:18, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for placing the photo, Reatlas! I guess if the backlog is that long, permissions wouldn't be there yet anyway—good to know! Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 14:25, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

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