Talk:Silicon Island

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 20:45, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

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Silicon Island as of December 2024

• ... that a multidisciplinary team comprising Bjarke Ingels Group, Hijjas Architects and Ramboll won a design contest for the Silicon Island, which is currently under construction?

• Source: "BIG, Hijjas, and Ramboll were selected as winners of Penang State Government’s international competition to design a master plan for Penang South Islands in Malaysia." - [1]

"He said 70 acres (28 hectares) of the planned 2,300-acre island have been reclaimed to date." - [2]

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  • Comment: This is my first DYK nomination. Appreciate your feedback on this. Thanks.

Created by HundenvonPenang (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

hundenvonPG (talk) 02:45, 15 December 2024 (UTC).

Article is long enough and new enough; no sourcing or content issues were found. Hook has good source and meets length and format criterion. QPQ is not required because nominator has less than 5 previous nominations. Image is original work of editor, released to Creative Commons under Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license; rollover tag is good.Orygun (talk) 03:35, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

@Orygun and HundenvonPenang: I personally don't find this hook very interesting; there's nothing very unusual about architects winning a design contest for buildings. Could another hook please be suggested? Thanks, ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:46, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

• @AirshipJungleman29 and HundenvonPenang:: I validated article was new enough, sources were good, and hook met basic DYK criterion, but I am not an expert on this subject so I will let you two figure out what’s interesting.--Orygun (talk) 21:12, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback!

@AirshipJungleman29: I'm not imaginative by any stretch, but sure, I'm giving another try.

1. Did you know that the Silicon Island in Penang was originally proposed to fund the upcoming Mutiara LRT?

2. Did you know that a plan to reclaim three islets in Penang was scaled down to just one—Silicon Island—after an intervention by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim?

hundenvonPG (talk) 05:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

The second hook (the one that mentions Anwar) is probably the better option here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Laying it out formally:

ALT1 ... that a plan to reclaim three islets in Penang was scaled down to just one—Silicon Island—after an intervention by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim?

HundenvonPenang, could you tweak the article sentence on this? "Following the allocation of federal funds, the state government, under Chief Minister Chow, decided to scale down the PSI from three to one islet" does not make it clear (as the source does) that the prime minister requested the project's scope reduction. CMD (talk) 09:32, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks CMD Rewritten sentence:

Following Anwar's request to reevaluate the PSI, the state government, under Chief Minister Chow, decided to scale down the project from three to one islet. hundenvonPG (talk) 12:43, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

ALT1 is present and sourced in the article. More interesting than the first hook per above discussion. Ceding to original review for other issues. CMD (talk) 13:21, 19 January 2025 (UTC)