Talk:Sri Lanka/Archive 3

message: I was redirected to Sri Lanka when looking for the U.S. Navy ship type "LKA." I don't see any LKA in the article, so I am wondering why this redirect exists. Lou Sander 13:33, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  LKA redirect 

message: 0.751 is not "medium". Which is correct, the number or the word? Drdr1989 17:36, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[HDI] 

message: Hi when you read this you will learn that India use to rule sri lanka.
Have you ever look into Srilanka and india and see that both contries are very alike. Like there gods, the colthes they use, there food, ect.Well that is because India use to rule sri lanka. Wondering why india ruled sri lanka back then.... Well I think India use to rule sri lanka because sri lanka is in the indian ocean.
P.S. If you know more about this PLEASE add to it by clicking edit this page, THANK YOU! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.43.234.213 (talk • contribs) 22:28, 8 May 2006.
you are compleately out of your mind!!!!!hahahaha...
I guess the writer is referring to the fact that " India & Company" which was the British Colonial management office which was run by British to rule both India and Sri Lanka for managerial purposes. So if the writer think British managing Sri Lanka through an entity established in India is same as India Ruling Sri Lanka, You are DEAD WRONG!!!!
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Sri Lanka has never been ruled by India in the written history of more than 2000 years. Some kings from states of India have captured nothern parts of Sri Lanka time to time, but limited to very small areas and to a little time frame, befor being defeated by Sinhala kings from other parts of Sri Lanka. Remains of such 'partial ruling' is prooved by majority Tamils in nothern Sri Lanka, and they've come from Southern India and settled in Sri Lanka.
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Please don't post your fantacies on this board.
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::Well rulled it might be, but in a time that elephants came from india to Sri Lanka, or do we believe that elephants can swim oceans ?
:: Elephants can swim long distances, and in this case, I'm guessing that they didn't have to, as there is a difference between Sri Lankan and Indian Elephants, genetically, so there was never the need to swim. --Nirmalsuki 08:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ruled by india long ago 

message: There seems to be some doubt about Sri Lanka's time zone. I have changed it back to +5:30. I quote from wwp.greenwichmeantime.com:
A Sri Lankan government directive to reverse the clocks soon after Sri Lankan ended the April 13-14 2006 annual celebrations of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year came following a request by parents that the daylight savings time was affecting their children’s wellbeing. The new Sri Lanka time is 5 1/2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) compared to 6 hours + GMT in the past decade.
I hope this clarifies it. Krankman 09:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Time Zone

message: I added some details and removed a few unobjective wordings and false statements. I'd like to add that I have done a lot of reading in this field. (I feel compelled to state this here because by looking at the previous discussions I'm afraid there may be protest coming up.) Let's try and keep this objective. Krankman 11:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Early History

message: Supermod has cut a lot of text out of this section. The reason he gives is that he removed a "biased POV". In my view, that is not true. The text wasn't perfect, but I don't see what was biased there. One might even argue that mentioning that Tamils are members of the government while leaving out a lot of other stuff is POV now.
Anyway, I support the changes because all the details should be only in the actual article on the ethnic conflict. To me, what's left after this edit is just the right small amount of introductory info that should be in this place. Krankman 08:30, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Shortening of "Ethnic conflict" section

message: LTTE is the largest child soldier employer in the world!Its a foolish thing to do to wash dirty clothes in font of the whole international audienc.Dont put yourself,my self and the Sri lankans down this low!!Stick to the topic!
:Actually I think that this information is significant because it tells a lot about the current status of the Sri Lankan economy and about the grave influence the ethnic conflict has. I think the information, if it is accurate, is relevant und should be put back up. Krankman 12:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The army is also the largest employer of Sri Lankans according to the army's website. 

message: I got this message from IP address 66.234.227.24.
"Current revision
Stop Vandalising wikipedia pages this is your 1st warning.-Admin//"
BTW why do you not have a username if you are "management" why an unknown IP address??
Hence it seems no one has the right to ASK for a section about the alleged atrocities by BOTH the SL
government AND LTTE against Tamil,Sinhala and Muslim people.
If this is the incorrect place for such debates then also delete points 13 though 16 on this page which 
talk about such things too and relocate them to do the appropriate section or totally remove them.
If you do not do this means that your NPOV should be questioned as it gives the discussion a very one side tilt.Definitely NOT NPOV!
gjghgBandaraUK 16:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia management(??) seemed to NOT have a neutral point of view

message: The population estimate of the 2001 census is incorrect, so I'm correcting it according to the official government statistics . Note that due to the terrorism problems in the North and East this is the best estimate of the Department of Census and Statistics and not an exact figure.
Also note that the 2005 figure would mean a population growth of approx. 3% which i don't believe is correct. I think it is around 1 - 1.5%. Anyone have any better information??--Snowolfd4 20:28, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population Estimates 

message: I'm reverting the edit by user 62.6.139.11 . It is clearly POV. 
Please stick to the facts and keep the article unbiased. --snowolfd4 14:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV Edit 

message: I'm sorry, but does anyone in their right mind think that we should keep adding links to every BBC report about Sri Lanka on this page? I'm removing the link to the BBC article on sex tourism.
In any case I think there are way too many links on this page. If you look at articles on United states, Australia, India etc. all external links are to governmnet pages and wikipedia pages (such as wikimapia) only. I suggest we stick to this on this page as well. --snowolfd4 15:01, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  bbc news report 

message: Since the early 1980s, there has been an ongoing ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka between the Sri Lankan government and members of the Tamil ethnic group in the northeast of the island. A cease fire was declared in 2002, but there have recently been an increasing amount of violence.
Sri Lanka then known as Ceylon, gained its independence from Britain in 1948. On Feb. 4, 1948, after pressure from Ceylonese nationalist leaders (which briefly unified the Tamil and Sinhalese), Ceylon became a self-governing dominion of the Commonwealth of Nations. Theres no place that its stated that there's going to be a "post - independence". This is your POV. Unfortunately Wikipedia is based on facts. Please stick to facts and to the topic. 
If anyone wants to incorporate the Ethnic conflict in here this is not the place to do so. Please go to the relevent page and offer your contributions there. By including inappropriate additions here you are confusing the reader and dropping the quality of the aricle also jeopardising the immage of Sri Lanka. I have deleted this and I request you to please stick to the topic.---TCWales 01:29, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not entirely sure who you're talking to when you say "your POV"; that paragraph appears to have been present for some time. At any rate, however, the recent conflict is certainly an important encyclopedic topic relating to Sri Lanka; it seems appropriate to have a small paragraph linking to the article on that conflict. I've reworked it, and hopefully improved it, although if you still don't think it's appropriate, then please say so. --Emufarmers(T/C) 02:12, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When I said "your POV" I meant who ever is adding it, because it was a anon. user who keeps on adding it. I don’t think its a wise idea to add it here because this page will also end up in an edit war just like the LTTE (mentioned as members of the Tamil ethnic group here). Besides there’s a page for this topic and any contributions related to this should be there. If anyone is looking for an article of Sri Lanka what they are mainly looking for is about the country and not its conflicts. Like USA is not focusing on the threat we have on the country article. Likewise, it should not be the main focused in here.--TCWales 05:00, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was originally added by a registered user, and I, a registered user, re-added it when you removed it. This is an encyclopedia: Not a brochure, and one paragraph on a country's conflits is rather minor in comparison to the dozens in, say, Israel or Sudan. --Emufarmers(T/C) 13:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-Independence 

message: The number of external links on this page was getting a little silly so I removed those that weren't directly associated with Sri Lanka. I believe there is a Wikipedia policy somewhere that goes something like "Wikipedia is not a web portal". So stick to government or other very important links only (eg: CIA factbook, Wikitravel etc.). Also links to various government departments are not required since they're all linked to on the government portal. --snowolfD4(  talk /  @ ) 20:46, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up of Links 

message: Sadly, there is no section on acts of terrorism perpetrated by successive governments of Sri Lanka.
Would it be possible for someone to start a section to include bombing of St Peters Church, bombing of Nagarkoil School, Kumuthini Boat Massacre, I think I can go on with the list for ever.
--Lankaupdate 14:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can contribute to this on the LTTE page. If you’re not satisfied there do it on State terrorism page for Sri lanka. If your still not satisfied make up a new page or several pages and create an artical yourself and link it to where ever you think is appropriate.Melee Clark 05:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn’t it be appropriate to cover Sri Lankan State Terrorism, within the article on Sri Lanka, rather than in one on the LTTE or some other group? As far as I am aware, LTTE did not start up until 1976, and Sri Lankan State Terrorism has a history staring from 1956.--Lankaupdate 18:45, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about Sri Lankan State Terrorism? 

message: Is the country a "Democratic Socialist" Republic, or a Democratic "Socialist Republic"? --the Dannycas 00:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Democratic Socialist 

message: The Nordic Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) has accused the Sri Lankan Military of having ‘executed’ seventeen workers of Action Against Hunger, a French charity.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5298470.stm
The information should be incorporated into main article, as it would be useful for any humanitarian worker intending to travel to Sri Lanka. 
--Lankaupdate 14:44, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sri Lankan military kills aid workers 

message: *Oldest country in the World within its present borders (the island of Sri Lanka existed as an independent sovereign country as far back as the 4th century BC)
::Anyone who knows any history about Sri Lanka smells a problem with this statement. The island only remained united within its present borders for about 130 years(without being under foreign control) over the last 3000 years or so . Most of the time, island was divided into two or more kingdom and/or invaded/occupied by foreign forces.  I have left a citation tag to this statement hoping somebody will qualify this statement. Also country or state only began in 1648 with the "Westphelian System of States." Hence calling Sri Lanka the oldest country in the world is highly dubious. The notion of countries only started in 1648. Elalan 13:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations Needed for Sri Lanka firsts 

message: Julien Foster added the following section about Sir Horace Hector Hearne. 
:In 1936/1937, Sir Horace Hector Hearne, who had been a Puisne Judge in Tanganyika Territory, was appointed a Puisne Judge in Ceylon, and sat in the Supreme Court in Colombo. He stayed there for most of the Second World War. He went on to become Chief Justice and Keeper of the Records in Jamaica, British West Indies in 1945.
To be honest I don't think he's important enough to be included on this page so I removing that text. --snowolfD4(  talk /  @ ) 02:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sir Horace Hector Hearne]]