Talk:Colombo

message: two more images to be incorporated
Image:Formerparliamentlanka.JPG
Image:Hindutempelcolombo.JPG
Matthewmayer 01:28, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: I think we need some information about Colombo's past and present status as the national capital.  Reading the articles on Sri Lanka, Colombo, and Kotte, I'm confused about what parts of the government are situated in which cities, and when they moved. Epl 06:46, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political capital? 

message: I reverted the population to the official census count. If someone can find a source for the 1 million+ number that was there as a "2006 estimate", feel free to put it back up. Bodhitha 02:40, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: This articles structure is pathetic.. I have checked a featured article structure that would suit Colombo, we have to make certain modifications to it, just have a look at it.. 
  
    1 History
     
  
  
     
    1.1 Site chosen by De Anza 
1.2 Early Spanish pueblo 
1.3 Early statehood 
1.4 Notable events 
1.5 Earthquakes 
1.6 Transition from agriculture to technology 
1.7 Major growth 
  
  
    2 Law and government 
     
  
  
     
    2.1 Sister/twin cities 
  
  
    3 Geography 
     
  
  
    4 Climate 
     
  
  
    5 Economy 
     
  
  
     6 Demographics 
     
  
  
     7 Arts and architecture 
     
  
  
     8 Sports 
     
  
  
     9 Transportation 
     
  
  
    10 Utilities
     
  
  
     
    10.1 Telephone history 
10.1.1 Manual service 
10.1.2 Dial service and numbering plan 
10.1.3 Mobile service
  
  
    11 Education
     
  
  
     
    11.1 Colleges and universities 
11.2 Primary and secondary education 
11.3 San Jose library system 
  
  
    12 Neighborhoods
     
  
  
     
    12.1 Nearby cities 
  
  
     13 Attractions
     
  
  
     
    13.1 Parks, gardens, and other outdoor recreational sites 
13.2 Museums, libraries, and other cultural collections 
13.3 Sports and event venues 
13.4 Other structures 
  
  
     14 Media 
     
  
  
     
    
14.1 Print media 
14.2 Television 
14.3 Radio
  
  
     15 See also 
     
  
  
     16 Footnotes 
     
  
  
     17 References 
     
  
  
     18 External links 
     
  
  
    19 Further reading
     
  
 «₪Mÿš†íc₪»  (T) 06:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Artical Structure

message: I have just changed the Colombo article and the look and feel of it, the article really needed some attention, it was in pathetic condition. My aim is to make it to the featured article list, so have carefully followed the guidelines of wikipedia and inculded only the required sections and there are some sections of the article that I am still working on. If you need to add anything please add it on the article or at My Scratchpad (I have included some more nice images from Colombo here!!!). It would be helpful if you discuss the changes to be made on the article talk page or in my personal talk page.  «₪Mÿš†íc₪»  (T) 06:03, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New Upto-date Colombo Article

message: ==Infrastructure==
===Transportation===
====Public Transportation====
====Major Highways====
====Airports====
===Medical centers and hospitals===
need to include details on these sections..  «₪Mÿš†íc₪»  (T) 20:15, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: later

message: "Buildings from all three regimes stand in their glory as reminders. The city and its people show an interesting mix of European clothing and lifestyles together with local customs. The city is by far more modern than most others in neighbouring countries and continues to be a blossoming metropolis of the East." Is this a travel ad for Colombo?
How we may change the sentence? If doesn't sound good.  «₪Mÿš†íc₪»  (T) 11:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  woah, non-objective point of view here 

message: Quote from article, "Colombo’s climate is fairly temperate all throughout the year. During the month of April the temperature averages around 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). The only major change in the Colombo weather occurs during the monsoons from May to August and October to January, this is the time of year where heavy rains can be expected. Even though during the day time no severe drop in temperature takes place the nights could be very chilly closer to the coast."
Is this correct?  The 35C (95F) temperature given for April seems too high.  Also, the periods for the monsoons seems to be a bit off.4.235.81.137 05:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate 

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##Infobox City lacks a skyline picture.
##Red links to Wiki articles that do not exist.
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##Brief subsections should be written as paragraphs under one larger section.  (Shorter TOC)
##Copyright questions regarding :image:CMCLogo.jpg.  Please find a free license image, pref png.
##Section headings are not in proper alpha case.
##Article needs to be expanded to touch on a wider range of information.  See Athens.
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thread_title:  WikiProject Cities Rating 

message: There seems to be a disagreement regarding the Department of Census statistics as to whether the population of the city is 377,000 or 640,000. Two different places of the DoS website give two different numbers. As explained by an anon user above, the Colombo Municipal Council area covers the Colombo DS (Population 377,000) and the Thibirigasyaya DS (Population 264,000) giving a total of around 640,000, which explains the conflicting figures.
As to which figure is considered the official "population of Colombo", it is the second one, per the CMC website which states the "city" has a population of 640,000, so I am changing the figure to that throughout the article. --snowolfD4 (  talk /  @  ) 02:03, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  City population 

message: Odd syntax makes it difficult to understand the contributor’s intent with the piece on light rail transport, however by following the link provided it is clear that Colombo does not yet have the light rail system. The link states that the Sri Lankan government has given a private consortium of Indian and Singaporean firms the authorization to develop a proposal and financing plan.  If it doesn’t exist yet, then how has it “begun to control the excessive traffic in the city?” 
I suggest rewording to something a little more plausible, such as:
A proposed light rail system, the Colombo Metro Rail, is under study by NEB Rapid an Indian and Singaporean collaboration.[30] [31]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.79.62.19 (talk) 06:58, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted that section, under the Crystal ball clause, this issue was raised in 2007, theirs still no light rail system in 2017. --Eng. M.Bandara-Talk 19:02, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Light Rail 

message: Moved this section to talk page looks like an advert NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 09:30, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved section to talk

message: “The lake is one of the most unique landmarks of Colombo…”  Uniquness has degrees? Can we therefore ascertain that some landmarks in Colombo are uniquer than others? Which one is the uniquest? Are some somewhat unique and others margainally unique? This ameturish pidgin is one of the uniquest highlights of this page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.79.62.19 (talk) 08:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mostest Uniquest 

message: Nitraven, I think this is a good article on the history of University of Colombo, We should extract some info from this and include it in the article. Do you have any images of University of Colombo? I think it deserves an image in the education section, as it is one of the most important educational institutions for all Sri Lankans than Royal College :-) do you agree?. NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 06:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That is exactly my point, we dont have to put within brackets which faith each school belongs to this only shows how divisive the stupid Sri Lankans we are, and as you say the reader can always go to through the schools articles to find out more about it. NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 07:26, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: University of Colombo

message: In order to improve the quality of this article I believe photos of the following list of places should be added. These could be added as a photo gallery. Please feel free to change or comment on the list. Nitraven (talk) 07:01, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Photos need of the article

message: Hi, I have removed all unreferenced claims from the education section as disputes are arising out of this. Please do not remove anything from the section if you are going to add unreferenced claims to the article. NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 12:35, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Education Section

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replies: text: The image is taken from this article. Blatant copyright violation.--obi2canibetalk contr 10:23, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: A highly dubious population figure of 4,575,000 has been given but when I tried to remove I was reverted by another user who believes that the given source is correct. I have seen this behaviour before where editors with no local knowledge use a single source to back up dubious facts.
According to the official 2011 census the population of the entire Colombo District was 2,309,809 in 2012. Gampaha District's population was 2,294,641. So the combined Colombo-Gampaha districts had a population of 4,604,550. If the assertion that the Colombo metropolitan area population of 4,575,000 is correct this would mean that only 29,450 people in the Colombo-Gampaha district area didn't live in the Colombo metropolitan area. This would mean towns such as Gampaha, Negombo, Mirigama and Ja-Ela would all have to be a part of Colombo. Anyone with local knowledge would know that this isn't the case.--obi2canibetalk contr 19:33, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Definition of A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or metro, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions,municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, cities, exurbs, counties, districts, and even states. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions. Metropolitan areas include one or more urban areas, as well as satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas that are socio-economically tied to the urban core, typically measured by commuting patterns.  A another definition of a metropolitan area is a major city together with its suburbs and nearby cities, towns, and environs over which the major city exercises a commanding economic and social influence. Literally construed, metropolis from the Greek means "mother city," and by implication there are progeny or dependents scattered about the core area. Sometimes there may be two or more major cities. This definition from Princeton University: "A metropolitan area is a region consisting of a populous urban core with a high density of employment plus surrounding territory that is socio-economically linked to the urban core by commuting. A metropolitan area is also sometimes known as a commuter belt or a labor market area". Another General definition "A metropolitan area usually combines an agglomeration (the contiguous built-up area) with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character, but closely bound to the center by employment or commerce. These zones are also sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban periphery depending on the definition used". I would say that, the inter-connectivity and socioeconomic reliance of all major towns and cities in these heavily built up districts, also not forgetting the Northern part of Kalutra district including Panadura all in very close proximity to Colombo fit the above criterion's--Navops47 (talk) 05:04, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: By that definition we can include the entire population of Sri Lanka within Metropolitan Colombo. And the entire Home counties region can become Greater London.--obi2canibetalk contr 14:11, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

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message: There's something with given phonetic pronunciation. I am not the phonetic expert myself but I copy-pasted the given pronunciation in a phonetic synthesizer and that was definitely out. I think someone should correct this!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by INKA000 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation correct? 

message: There are many (almost a 100) result for the search: "the capital colombo". Is it legitimate to call Colombo the capital despite it not officially being the capital? Will it not mislead the reader?
If it is, then I think we should delete the "the capital" from all these results. Orielno (talk) 11:02, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Colombo is the de-facto capital. President's office, PM's office, government ministries, supreme court and foreign embassies are in Colombo. Only Parliament is in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.--Obi2canibe (talk) 21:28, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
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message: Hey folks. I'm not at all a pro at this kind of thing, but I made what I thought would be a good replacement for the current infobox image. Please do have a look see and let me know if you think any changes need to be made, and what you think about this replacing the one we have on right now. - ක - (talk) 18:00, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The new pic is nice. The tried it on the infobox but observed little blurred/cloudy appearance than the current picture. I think that can be corrected. Also the details of the left side of the last picture (beneath one) have been slightly disturbed by the sunlight. --L Manju (talk) 19:40, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the reply! Yes, the blurriness issue seems to come from a size/resolution issue when resizing to fit the infobox. Will look into it. I also just noticed the Cargills building is a bit too dark and the Gangaramaya picture is too dull. The sunlight is a good point too. - ක - (talk) 04:42, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

text: *Made some tweaks on the brightness/contrast issues, but the clarity problem seems to be something on Wikipedia's end. I've tried reducing the glare of the sunlight on the panorama, but nothing I did makes it look natural after reducing brightness in that corner :( - ක - (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
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message: ḻ is very misleading and leads to incorrect pronunciation of the letter ழ. The name should be pronounced "Kozhumpu" and not "Kolumpu" in Tamil. 182.79.4.250 (talk) 11:37, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using zh instead of ḻ to represent Tamil letter ழ in the name கொழும்பு. 

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The page for the new name Company Roads has been approved. Due to common name policy in Wikipedia, this page will remain under a compromise and transition phase for now. Despite it being under the wishes of the government, the community itself and local diplomatic missions to overcome painful colonial historic legacy and stigma. It is also for social justice and reconciliation. It relates to post-colonial identity. It also implies a shift in urban transformation and modernisation. Further sources and data will be awaited. Entryothrr (talk) 21:33, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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