Talk:Sri Lanka/Archive 1

message: Does somebody know how to write the short native names of Sri Lanka in Sinhala and Tamil in the orginal character, using charset=iso-8859-1. -- Gangulf 10:55, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If you mean in the native writing system, that's not possible. ISO-8859-1 only contains latin characters.  — Gwalla | Talk 20:25, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  I meant the same way as we do with arabic countries, so it might be ISO-8859 without -1 --Gangulf 20:55, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean using Unicode character entities?  — Gwalla | Talk 23:19, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text:  Sri Lanka is referred to as இலங்கை (ilaṅkai) (as in the article) in Tamil. Or did you want a literal transliteration of "Sri Lanka"? Ambarish | Talk 23:56, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names of Sri Lanka in Sinhala and Tamil 

message: Not sure why the English name of the republic was removed from the infobox (this is, after all, an English-language encyclopedia), so I put it back. Tom Radulovich 20:41, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: English name in infobox

message: I added a note here, same opinions apply for this edit I did to this article. Greenleaf 06:23, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverting back the reverts by Share Bear 

message: I deleted a whole lot of links from External Links section. Reason was that most of those links were not notable enough to represent a country. Greeting cards sites, blog collections, advertisising and directory pages. We don't have to include every link just for the reason they are about Sri Lanka. This is an encyclepedia, not a web directory.
See also: Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files, which specifically says:
"Wikipedia articles are not:
1. Mere collections of external links or Internet directories. There is nothing wrong with adding a list of content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia."
Search engines are there for such purposes. We don't have to include a link to Sri Lanka phone directory, Sri Lanka yahoo category and sites like this in an encyclopedia article. (I'm an expat myself, but we must understand that all countries have their share fo expats.)
I might have missed some of the links that must be deleted, or accidently deleted links that must be kept. Please have a look if there are any remaining nn links. Greenleaf 01:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links - cleanup 

message: I replace a picture of a clock tower being renovated with a pic of temple of tooth. I guess that is a better way to represent SL than a non-notable clock tower going under mason work. I hope no one would claim that article is being biased; ToT is also a tourist destination as well as a religious place; besides, the article already has pictures of a mosque and a kovil. Greenleaf 05:57, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing Matale image 

message: who is this "nimal of bbc", i have never heard of him in sri lanka so how can be in "Famous Sri Lankans". btw just because someone is famous in another country does not make them "Famous Sri Lankans" they must first be famous in sri lanka.
:: I agree - I was mostly a deletionist, but left him because I couldn't verify. But I guess "famous Sri Lankans" must be people who are both *very* famous **and** Sri Lankan - rather than people famous inside Sri Lanka, or people who are famous only in some other country but not in Sri Lanka. If we are to include all people who are famous in Sri Lanka, we'll run out of space.
::So,  Arthur C. Clarke and some others in the list may qualify. I do not vouch for Nimal Mendis. Having said that, I don't think B&S and Gypsies must be in. We cannot mention every singer who are currently popular in a Country page. What about leading businessmen, gifted painters, talented athletes? Why only popular singers? There has to be some limit where to stop including information - to avoid clutter: Read Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. - Greenleaf 07:10, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  unknown people 

message: I have this page on my watch list and people are constantly changing official and proper links. The recent of which User:Greenleaf fixed. I dont know who he is, but it saves him and others time if people would stoop doing it. Only add links if information has been obtained from them.
Thanks
CooldogCongo 08:08, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks for joining the link police ;-). in an earlier occasion, I had to delete about half of the links that were there. Really hope that people would stop spamming links for commercial reasons. Greenleaf 08:50, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can people stop adding pointless links 

message: I deleted a whole bunch of propagandist edits from the page. Any country has it's own share of attacks on media, and they don't go in country page. True, SL is not very good in it's media freedom, but so is it in health facilities, transport etc. If someone who is interested about health comes and adds stuff on how bad health is there, and someone on transport sector comes and added stuff about how bad transport in SL is, this page would eventually lack *usefulness* for someone who want's to get an idea about country. It's great to be enthusiastic activists, but that does not mean anyone who opens an encyclepedia to look about Sri Lanka is necessarily looking for presss freedom. Please stop adding peripheral matters, for the sake of quality. It's clear whoever edited that part was biased from his removing much of the existing links. Greenleaf 02:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  propagandist edits 

message: In 1978 under the new constitution of JR Jayawardene, the country's title was changed from 'Free Sovereign and Independent Republic' to 'Democratic Socialist Republic'.
Kotte was not made the capital in 1978 but in 1982.
220.247.226.110 13:44, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy 

message: We should move the geography section to the top of the page, nearer history, actually before history. And include the longitude and latitude (No, I don't know what they are)
I'm rambling, ok here is the proposal. We reorder the existing sections as Geograhpy, Provinces, Ecology, Demographics, History, Politics and Economy. Rest of the sections stay as is.
Also propose moving the P-TOMS from History to Politics. I'm not really sure about this usage of the Politics section, tho. Seems to me that we should not be putting current affair like the current events, but rather a description of how it's supposed to work, like the 1st 2 paragraphs in the section. --Preveen 09:55, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reordering 

message: A section on religion in Sri Lanka, particularly with respect to the Sinhalese and Tamil, would be very fitting. --Epl 06:57, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion in Sri Lanka 

message: Substituted at 22:05, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment