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About Wikipedia This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use Simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone, such as children and adults who are learning English. There are 277,648 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use. They have all been published under both the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 4.0 International License and the GNU Free Documentation License. You can help here! You may change these pages and make new pages. Read the help pages and other good pages to learn how to write pages here. If you need help, you may ask questions at Simple talk. When writing articles here: Use Basic English words and shorter sentences. This allows people to understand complex terms or phrases. Write good pages. The best encyclopedia pages have useful, well-written information. Use the pages to learn and teach. These pages can help people learn English. You can also use them to make a new Wikipedia to help other people. Simple does not mean short. Writing in Simple English means that simple words are used. It does not mean readers want basic information. Articles do not have to be short to be simple; expand articles, add details, but use basic vocabulary. Be bold! Your article does not have to be perfect, because other editors will fix it and make it better. And most importantly, do not be afraid to start and make articles better yourself.
Selected Very Good Article The City of Manchester Stadium, the home of Manchester City F.C. The City of Manchester Stadium is a football stadium in Manchester, England. It is also often called "COMS" or "Eastlands". The stadium was designed by Arup and built by John Laing. The stadium was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games at a cost of £110 million. After the Games, it was turned into a football stadium. It became the home of Manchester City F.C. who moved there from Maine Road in 2003 after signing a 250-year lease. The stadium is the centerpiece of Sportcity in the east of Manchester. As of 1 July 2009, it is the fourth-largest stadium in the FA Premier League and the twelfth-largest in the United Kingdom, with 47,726 seats. The highest attendance for a football game at the stadium was on 5 December 2009 when 47,348 fans watched Manchester City play Chelsea. Manchester City F.C. signed an agreement with Manchester City Council in March 2010 to allow redevelopment of land around the stadium. This may include adding more seats to make 60,000 in the stadium. Outside the football season, the stadium hosts concerts. It is one of the UK's largest music venues. It has a maximum capacity of 60,000 for performances. more... Other very good articles – Proposals – Requirements	Selected Good Article The flag of Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign country as well as a city-state. It is nicknamed as 'The Lion City', 'The Garden City' or 'The Little Red Dot'. It is an island state at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, between the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea. About 5.70 million people live in Singapore. Singapore has one of the highest standards of living in the world, with very good education, healthcare, housing, and very low corruption. more... Other good articles – Proposals – Requirements
Did you know... From a collection of Wikipedia's articles: ... that the Pesse canoe (pictured), a dugout dating back to between 7500 and 8000 BCE, may be one of the world's oldest boats? ... that when Charles Michel became the prime minister of Belgium in 2014, he was the youngest Belgian prime minister in 173 years? ... that in the 1950s, Leroy Anderson composed a piece of music for the typewriter and orchestra? ... that Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the son of Saudi King Salman, is the first member of a royal family to fly in space as well as the first Arab and the first Muslim to do so? ... that the taxi driver in the Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing was called a hero for locking the terrorist inside of his taxi? ... that Nobel Prize winning physicist William Shockley ran for the U.S. Senate in 1982 because of the "dysgenic threat" he believed African-Americans created? Archives – Start a new article – Nominate an article

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