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== Requested move 11 November 2025 ==

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:”The following is a closed discussion of a [[Wikipedia:Requested moves|requested move]]. <span style=”color: var(–color-error, red);”>”’Please do not modify it.”'</span> Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a [[Wikipedia:move review|move review]] ”’after”’ discussing it on the closer’s talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.”

The result of the move request was: ”’moved.”’ <small>([[Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Closure by a page mover|closed by non-admin page mover]])</small> [[User:Jeffrey34555|Jeffrey34555]] ([[User talk:Jeffrey34555|talk]]) 07:28, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

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[[:Bugis, Singapore]] → {{no redirect|Bugis Street}} – The article focusses solely on Bugis Street and its history. It belongs there. An article about the subzone Bugis can be created later if needed. But this is not it. [[User:Kingsacrificer|Kingsacrificer]] ([[User talk:Kingsacrificer|talk]]) 20:06, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

[[:Bugis, Singapore]] → {{no redirect|Bugis Street}} – The article focusses solely on Bugis Street and its history. It belongs there. An article about the subzone Bugis can be created later if needed. But this is not it. [[User:Kingsacrificer|Kingsacrificer]] ([[User talk:Kingsacrificer|talk]]) 20:06, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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:”’Comment”’: we should be considering a [[WP:SNOW]] closure at this point. Thanks, [[User:Glasspalace|<span style=”color:white; background-color:#2e6f40;”>Glasspalace</span>]] ([[User talk:Glasspalace|talk]] &#124; [[Special:Contributions/Glasspalace|contribs]]) 03:53, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

:”’Comment”’: we should be considering a [[WP:SNOW]] closure at this point. Thanks, [[User:Glasspalace|<span style=”color:white; background-color:#2e6f40;”>Glasspalace</span>]] ([[User talk:Glasspalace|talk]] &#124; [[Special:Contributions/Glasspalace|contribs]]) 03:53, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

::Given that this discussion has only 3 participants, it’s a bit too early for SNOW. The SNOW clause is only applicable “if an issue has a snowball’s chance in hell of being accepted by a certain process”, but a single oppose would mean that this isn’t a SNOW situation. &ndash; [[User:Epicgenius|Epicgenius]] ([[User talk:Epicgenius|talk]]) 05:00, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

::Given that this discussion has only 3 participants, it’s a bit too early for SNOW. The SNOW clause is only applicable “if an issue has a snowball’s chance in hell of being accepted by a certain process”, but a single oppose would mean that this isn’t a SNOW situation. &ndash; [[User:Epicgenius|Epicgenius]] ([[User talk:Epicgenius|talk]]) 05:00, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

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I can’t believe that this article has tons of images, and the quality is very poor. We don’t need so many photos here. I think this needs a cleanup and also this is only talking about the gay stuff of Bugis Street, and does not cover anything else. —Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 03:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I formatted the images to make them smaller, and use <gallery>. Further cleanup is still warranted. —Vsion 05:41, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I happen to like the pictures! –GU-la-G

Give it time… Commenting about calling it “Boogie Street” origins from disco in the 1970s — my Australian and British relatives who knew it in the 1950s called it that as well. Julia Rossi 06:02, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there ANY evidence that Leonard Cohen was referring to Bugis Street in Singapore when he wrote THE SONG? Has he ever visited Lion City? This section seems to be a combination of folk etymology and jingoism.

Regarding the former, see www.worldwidewords.org which definitely places the origin of “bogeyman” or “bogey” in British Isles (bogle, boggart).

Regarding the latter, should we also assume “Land of Plenty” on the same album is about Singapore because it is a well-fed country with zero malnutrition?

I think this entire section should be cut (and similar note on Leonard Cohen page. At the least, indicate it is folk etymology “believed by some residents of Singapore” to qualify that it is NOT factual. Martindo (talk) 00:28, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! There is evidence. see Cohen’s own writing at
http://www.leonardcohen-prologues.com/boogie.htm
Jamesdowallen (talk) 14:29, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

… Looking at the recent edit, I see that the page quoted that interview!!! Yet I see no claim the interview was fake. I’m reverting. Jamesdowallen (talk) 14:46, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted the edit without comment on Talk? Inappropriate. Jamesdowallen (talk) 09:48, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What are you talking about, bro? The interview was real, but what makes you think Cohen was talking about Singapore? No evidence for that in the long quote. See Boogie page of WP if you want to understand what he was referring to, rather than be jingoistic about Singapore. Martindo (talk) 01:06, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t know why people would move Bugis Street to Bugis, Downtown Core or Bugis, Singapore. Bugis Street is/was the famous street, if someone wants to create another article for the subzone, then do it, they should not have taken the article for Bugis Street. They are not the exact same subject, and given that the article is entirely about Bugis Street, it’s wrong to use its content for Bugis, Singapore. I would suggest moving the article back, then create a separate article on Bugs, Singapore. Hzh (talk) 23:25, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]