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Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Wildlife of Sri Lanka

Kindly contribute to this article when you get time, and request others too.

Thanks

Atulsnischal 13:12, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Nyaniponika Mahathera

Does anyone know where the temple of Nyaniponika Mahathera is? It is mentioned in the article Georg Schafer. — Sebastian 07:59, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Mahathera means the great thero or the great monk. Here's some info about him.[1][2] --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 08:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I see. I had thought it was a place name! I just found that we already have an article on him: Nyanaponika Thera. Maybe that was his earlier name? Or maybe he was just modest and that's what he called himself? Anyway, I'll make a redirect and add "Mahathera" to the existing article. — Sebastian 18:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Rajapaksha College

A newbie has created an article for Rajapaksha College, but it's written entirely in Sinhala (at least I think it's Sinhala). I'm hoping someone here can help out with the translation. Wl219 23:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for bringing it to our notice Wl219. I also copied the Sinhalese text to the Sinhalese Wikipedia here. --snowolfD4^{( talk / @ )} 01:28, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion

I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 18:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

South Asian countries as a Wikipedia:Featured topic

The South Asian WikiProjects have been tremendously productive, which I congratulate you for, and I just wanted to let you know that we're very close to meeting the criteria for a Featured topic covering the countries of the region. Please see Wikipedia talk:Featured topics#Great potential for South Asian countries featured topic. Thanks.--Pharos 03:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Infobox for Towns and villages of Sri Lanka

I think it is a good time for us to come up with a infobox specialized for Sri Lankan towns and vilages.Template in Tamil Wikipedia, an example in Ratnapura page. I don't know weather we have a infobox in English wiki.--Terrance 13:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

We can shrink this one and turn it into the Sri Lankan version, isn't it. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 16:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah good idea. We can get rid of all the fields we don't need, and add stuff like district and province. Do we have a good (big and clear) map of Sri Lanka to display the location on? --snowolfD4^{( talk / @ )} 17:59, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Gislanka locator.svg is in the commons and and it is very clear. it has the coordinates needed fpr the locator. I have written/modified the code needed for the locator.

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--Terrance 00:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Please see this discussion on my talk page for reinforcement that the idea of an infobox would be useful, especially to link together the towns and/or villages in each province or district, keeping them off the orphan page, and allowing interested readers to navigate more easily between articles. I have no idea how to make such an infobox, but you seem to be on the right track here. Keep up the good work.  :) ≈≈Carolfrog≈≈♦тос♦ 04:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Kandy මහ නුවර கண்டி
Kandy Location of Kandy in Sri Lanka
Coordinates: 7°18′N 80°38′E
Country	Sri Lanka
Province	Central Province
District	Mahanuvara District
Established	14th century
Government
• Mayor	Somebody
• Vice-mayor	Somebody
Area
• Total	1,234.0 km2 (476.5 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	1,234
• Density	1,234.0/km2 (3,196/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (SLT)
Userfield	abcde fghij
Userfield2	12345
Website	www.somesite.com

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Caption

No localised infobox is necessarily needed. This example on the left is a completely normal Infobox City. The only thing I did was to create a location map for Sri Lanka (you can found it here). Of course the location map can also (relatively) cleanly be used directly, an example is on the left. There are few more possible parameters, the documentation for the location maps is here. Whether the map used in the location map is the best possible to use is another matter... or whether it is even correctly used in the examples (I think it's ok, but I'm often wrong :D). In any case it can very easily be replaced by any equirectangular map, and such change is completely invisible in wikicode at article level. Cheers, – Sadalmelik 21:30, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Original version

Looks great. Nice stuff Sadalmelik. And the location of Kandy looks to be okay. I wouldn't mind a slightly better map though. This one is a little too green in my opinion. Just came across this map Image:Karnataka locator map.svg which looks a lot better. Anyone who could edit svg files want to try improving the one we have now? --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 17:56, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I could do some experimenting during the weekend to see whether I could improve it – I have not use Inkscape much, though. I would also like to make the districts more visible, either by thickening the lines, or using colours. Perhaps using different bluish colours for districts in one province and greenish colours in another province might make the districts more visible and still keep the provinces easily identifiable. – Sadalmelik 09:25, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

How's this modified version? Colours are a lot lighter, so the text should be visible, and districts are more prominent. District capitals, roads and rivers are too difficult to add to the svg file... the original creator of the file could do it quite easily, though. I could do it myself, but I don't have district borders in the format the map making software I have used would be able to read. – Sadalmelik 19:59, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Old Sinhala Place Names of Sri Lankan cities

In regard to the info box project: "Infobox for Towns and villages of Sri Lanka" I suggest that you may find it interesting to take a look at the wepages http://www.geocities.com/place.names/barelist.htm http://www.geocities.com/place.names/index.html and the maps given by them. They have been researched by a number of distinguished Sri lankan academics; much of the work is in relation to the Tamil place named in the East and the North. I have used info from that website and included them in many of the articles, including in Killinochchi, in the article on place names Bodhi dhana 04:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)bodhi_dhana

Language requests

Please add Sinhalese text to the articles below

• Sri Lanka Scout Association
• The Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association

Done. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 04:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Sinhala Slangs

Please, help to save the Sinhala Slang article. Please give our thoughts at Delete Talk Page. I beleive referances can be found and will be included in the article. Scholarly articles on Sinhala language is anyway rare on the net, and I do not agree on making it an excuse to delete the article. The native speakers of Sinhala knows that this is an accurate list of Sinhala slang. The only reason that I can think of that a native speaker of Sinhala opposes this article, is the awakwardness of seeing Sinhala profanity in print (which they are not used to), If the offending section is only the profanity, perhaps we should get rid of only that section. I also have doubts why Sri Lankan Tamil slang has only recived an warning and not recomended for deletion. The article Sri Lankan Tamil slang does not have any more referances than Sinhala Slang, and only differance is that it is not being honest about it in "Referances" section like Sinhala Slang. Ritigala Jayasena 15:14, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Citations and ISBNs

The article Sri Lanka Army and some 20 other pages cite a book with a bad ISBN 995-8089-02-8. The correct one should be ISBN 955-8089-02-8. I could go through them and correct the ISBN, but perhaps something else needs to be checked as well? Is this a good book and edition to cite? Should "Sri Lanka Army" really be specified as the author? How do you typically handle errors of this kind in this WikiProject? Do you maintain a list of standard literature, and would this book be on that list? After all, it's cited in 20 articles. --LA2 10:53, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

As the editor who cited this book in Wikipedia, here I am to answer to your questions :-) For my ease I will answer to your questions by splitting your query into parts.

1. What you are talking is not clear to me. The ISBN is ok and there is no problem (even you too are repeating the same number). If you have any doubt about the ISBN pls check this page.
2. Yes it's a good reputated book which was used by many number of researchers and scholars to cite the history and other stuff of the Sri Lanka Army.
3. This book is a result of a team work of number of retired and some senior army officers. This team interviewed each army commander to cover each era of the army. If you want I can give all the names of these team members as well.
4. I do not see any problem there.
5. No we don't maintain any list. Cheers --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 14:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah both ISBN numbers you gave appear to be the same. Can you please clarify that? --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 14:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

LA2, The book is on top of my lap right now and I can confirm that the ISBN is 955-8089-02-8. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 14:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

The prefix 995- should be corrected to 955-. There is just one digit wrong, and that's easy to overlook. But if you click the bad ISBN and then "Find this book at Worldcat", you will find nothing. With the good ISBN, you will find information about this book. --LA2 21:16, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Haha yeah, I can't believe I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out LA. We don't have much participation in this project, just two or three regular editors, do you have any suggestions how to create such a listing or handle such errors? --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 21:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Welimada

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Royal College Astronomical Society

Royal College Astronomical Society needs cleanup. -- Writtenonsand (talk) 23:54, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

K. S. Balachandran

(This question has been originally posted at WT:SLR. Sebastian (talk) 03:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)):

Is this person notable among Sri Lankan Tamils?Quior (talk) 01:07, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merger with WikiProject NCSLC

The above named project, Wikipedia:WikiProject NCSLC, is basically inactive. Considering that the content it deals with is also addressed by this project, I propose that it be merged into this project, and I would Support such a merger. John Carter (talk) 18:59, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I think the merger should be with WP:SLR Jasy jatere (talk) 15:43, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I think that project might just as easily merge into this one as well. Right now, there are three extant projects dealing with Sri Lanka, and only one of them provides assessments, Sri Lanka. Having said that, I wouldn't mind seeing SLR become a subproject/taskforce/work group of the main Sri Lanka project and NCSLC merging into SLR. John Carter (talk) 15:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

The project should not be merged with the others since it was intended to be a non-Sri Lankan, non-Tamil perspective of the war. To merge it with a namesake is not right. It is inactive and I am working on bringing together fair minded editors, thanks. Sudharsansn (talk · contribs) 06:20, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Activity of [Mackins]

I would like to bring to the attention of an admin the activity of user:Fitz Mackins in the following articles;

• Edwin Wijeyeratne
• Nissanka Wijeyeratne
• Radala
• Sri Lanka Matha
• Diyawadana Nilame
• Junius Richard Jayewardene

Nitraven (talk) 08:07, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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An Image in Colombo

Request assistance in arbitration and finding out if a particular image is violating any wikiguidlines by being in the article Colombo. [refer talk page dissolution]. Nitraven (talk) 19:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Activity of User:Pvjdes

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Articles flagged for cleanup

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The Sri Lankan Barnstar of National Merit

Hello,
I have a question regarding this Barnstar: Who would receive it, and how do you show your national merit on Wikipedia? Jasy jatere (talk) 17:13, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

better you should read this first.Wikipedia:Barnstars/Barnstar of National Merit--chanakal (talk) 10:33, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Inactive Wikiproject?

This Wikiproject is almost inactive now. Out of the 46 recorded members, very few seem to be active on Wikipedia. How about the rest of us who are still here get it organized and running again? I have never been active on this myself, but I think if we get it running again and do something noticeable we can get some attention to the Wikiproject, which will encourage more users to join. Chamal ^Talk ± 11:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

how about creating a list of inactive members first? like this.Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Members/Inactive.--chanakal (talk) 12:21, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

That's a good idea. We can send a message to each of the members asking for their feedback, and we can know who are still interested in the project. Then we can get them together and maybe under the guidance of some experienced editors (I hope some are still here) we can get it rolling again. Let's wait and see how the responses here from others will be. BTW, nice job with the National merit award. Chamal ^Talk ± 12:28, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for praising my humble effort. In Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket they prepare list manually. i think criteria is at least one edit in last three months. but sending a message is also a good idea. i support it.--chanakal (talk) 13:12, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Image needs replacement

Hello all...

An image used in the Anil Moonesinghe article, specifically Image:Anil 2.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this and can upload it, it would be best.

• And also Image:Anura Bandaranaike May Day 1990.jpg on Anura Bandaranaike

You have your mission.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 22:06, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Reviving WikiProject Sri Lanka

It's now almost two weeks since I sent out the first message seeking help to revive the Wikiproject, after the discussion here. Six editors have added themselves to the currently active members list so far, and I guess that's all for now. So what do you guys think about this? Do you think we can get it up and running again? Any suggestions etc? Our scope is, naturally, everything to do with Portal:Sri Lanka (which has a lot of work to be done). Can anyone tell us about how it went in the days when the project was active, so that we can know how it functioned and maybe do likewise ourselves? I was never an active member, and the project seems to have become inactive in the time I joined Wikipedia, so I don't know. Chamal ^Talk ± 13:49, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

I have relatively less experience working with articles related to Sri Lanka. I strongly feel that we need to activate this wikiproject. By experienece of other South Asian wikiprojects, I think we need to create stub articles about most of the basic entities in Sri Lanka such as districts, zones, rivers, airports, universities and so on and then work on selected articles to improve their quality. On articles with a lot of resources, we can elaborate the article and propose it for good article and finally featured article. I think we have a lot of stubs, now we need to work on selected articles to uplift it to good article. --Eukesh (talk) 14:49, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

I work according to a plan. My aim is to create and make all articles in the {{|:Sri Lankan Tamil people}}Template in the near future. (1 year) and make them either Featured or good articles.Taprobanus (talk) 01:36, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

hello all, i think starting point is Sri Lanka topics somewhat similar to Taprobanus doing with Tamil people topics. Look at these red links, you can have an idea of how much poor sri lankan articles are. Haputale, Horana, Ja Ela, Kadugannawa, Kesbawa, Kinniya, Kolonnawa,Kuliyapitiya, Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda, Talawakele, Lindula, Wattegama, Weligama. as Taprobanus , i too work according to a plan. write most important articles first. like Highways, waterfalls, cities etc. but do not worry. i got the feeling this wikiproject worked or not, we all will do well to improve Sri Lankan articles. wishes!--chanakal (talk) 03:26, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

But if we work together, we will be more effective and efficient. I also agree that GA and FA articles are the best way to draw attention to the Wikiproject. Maybe we can work together on improving such articles, and focus on getting them to GA/FA. The article List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka is currently a featured list candidate. I think we can get List of A-Grade Highways in Sri Lanka to FL as well, if we work on it a bit. Chamal ^Talk ± 11:42, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

i hope List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka make it to FL. since getting there for a Sri lankan is very rare occurrence. List of A-Grade Highways in Sri Lanka, its bit difficult to find info on each road. but we'll try.wishes!--chanakal (talk) 14:37, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

There is a point in working together, what I have found in my few years in Wikipedia is that people are motivated by few subject matters and tend to contribute in those overwhelmingly. Then they tire out and burn out and just fade away. Even when people work together such as WP:Karnataka, there is always one guy who keeps it going. Having said that it is so difficult to find people to copy edit and improve an article to make it encyclopedic. So may be we need to figure out a way to get help from each other to improve articles Taprobanus (talk) 21:29, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I list out inactive members. It seems to be some editors are active but either have not responded or have add their names to wrong list. may be some of them just added name to list without any intention of involving in a collaboration. need to clarify it though. --chanakal (talk) 09:09, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

FLC

List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka is currently a Featured List Candidate. All editors are invited to participate here. Any comments and suggestions will be welcome. Chamal ^Talk ± 03:48, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

New article announcements

Hello all, i created a new article announcements page. please add your new article to this page. It's then helpful to update Sri Lanakan portal's DYK section. wishes! --chanakal (talk) 13:50, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello fellow Sri Lankan editors, It's pleasing to see after creating new article announcements page rate of creating new articles has accelerated. I updated Portal:Sri Lanka's DYK section based on this page. however i found it extremely difficult to identify hooks for the DYKs. Therefore I'll be so grateful if you could suggest hooks for new DYKs in Portal:Sri Lanka/Did you know/Suggest page. Regards! --Chanaka L (talk) 03:55, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Sri Lanka

I have placed a peer review request for Portal:Sri Lanka. here is the current request list. Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Requests‎ hope every Sri Lankan editor help me to improve it. Regards! --chanakal (talk) 12:47, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest

A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Naming policy for Sri Lankan monarchs

Currently, our articles for Sri Lankan monarchs follow two naming schemes. Some include only the name of the monarch, while others have the name and "of Sri Lanka" (e.g: Dutthagamani of Sri Lanka). I don't see a reason for the latter naming policy. WP:NCNT is specifically for European monarchs, where certain names are have been used my rulers of multiple times. We don't have such overlaps, so I propose all the article be moved to the name of the monarch only. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 19:23, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Instead of moving all articles to their name only, when I have time, I will change it to there names and include their respective kingdoms they are from, eg. Parākramabāhu I of Polonnaruwa, because there are names that overlaps between the kingdoms plus a name and a place in the title of the article looks of better quality as well. --Blackknight12 (talk) 02:12, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

No I don't think that's a good idea. Parākramabāhu I wasn't just "King of Polonnaruwa". He was King of Sri Lanka.

What names overlap? --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 14:00, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

The ruler of the main kingdom (Anuradhapura/Polonnaruwa etc) was accepted as the rightful ruler of the whole country, whether they had control of the whole country or not. Therefore they should be kings of 'Sri Lanka' regardless of the kingdom. Provincial rulers can be named the way Blackknight12 suggested though (eg:rulers of Ruhuna). Otherwise we should drop the king of part entirely as Snowolf suggests. Any thoughts? ≈ Chamal ^talk 03:03, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Politicians

PLease expand the following new articles:

Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

PLEASE HELP REWRITE Kumarathunga Munidasa

Kumarathunga Munidasa was deleted please sm1 help rewrite it.--Svm1 63 (talk) 10:26, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

FLC for List of districts of Sri Lanka

The List of districts of Sri Lanka is now a featured list candidate. Reviews are needed to help determine whether the article meets the criteria for featured lists; any input there would be welcome! Thanks! ≈ Chamal ^talk 14:47, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Checked the list. Very interesting reading. How about adding Kalkudah and Pasikudah to Baticaloa district as they are the most notable visitor attraction there. Regards!--Chanaka L (talk) 13:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

I was going to add only the most notable things that make it important to the whole country. Otherwise the column would get too crowded. Also there is the problem of lack of sources. ≈ Chamal ^talk 01:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

PLEASE HELP Complete Hela metal

I have entered the page Hela metal but it needs more info and i don't have enought info and references to complete if anybody has any additional info on this page edit it.

WP:LK just got a new FL

Just a note that List of districts of Sri Lanka (FLC) was promoted to featured list on 10 October 2009. That brings our total featured content to an amazing 3 with 2 FLs and 1 FA! ≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 01:17, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, Well Done there!--Chanaka L (talk) 02:34, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Good start, hope we can get the momentum moving. Thank you to Chamal--Blackknight12 (talk) 09:45, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

With the promotion of List of districts of Sri Lanka maybe we can set a target on promoting Provinces of Sri Lanka to a featured article, its already have way there and we can defiantly get it done.--Blackknight12 (talk) 11:08, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Why don't you have a go? I have something else on my mind right now, and there's also the Temple of the Tooth article I promised Chanaka :) ≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 12:16, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

I thought the thing in your mind is your exam? LOL. After I saw List of National Parks of Canada, a FL I thought List of national parks of Sri Lanka has the same potential. Lets see what we can do here.--Chanaka L (talk) 03:17, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I was thinking of another list (I'm working on it offline now). And yes, I thought List of national parks of Sri Lanka could be taken to FL someday when I saw you making national park articles some time ago :) Apparently we three are the only ones active here now, so we might as well do something useful like that. ≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 03:40, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Well actually I was going to fix up List of monarchs of Sri Lanka and put it for promotion but I also have exams coming up so I'm trying to keep my activity down, but during the holidays I will defiantly try to for both articles.--Blackknight12 (talk) 07:30, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

And we now have a third :) List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Muttiah Muralitharan is now a featured list as well. ≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 09:58, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Nice work Chamal! :)--Blackknight12 (talk) 10:24, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Kamboja colonists of Sri Lanka with History of Sri Lanka

This is to notify you that I have proposed the above merge, which may be of interest to you. I believe that this whole area needs expert attention. Itsmejudith (talk) 09:43, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

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Translation and interwikis

It could be useful of always giving the cinghalase and tamil names (in original writing and transcription), and/or relevant interwikis, for entries on adminsitrative or geographical topics like Divisional Secretariats of Sri Lanka. Apokrif (talk) 11:22, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Featured article candidates

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Independence Day

I've just started a section in the special occasions holding area of "Did You Know" for February 4 (Independence Day of Sri Lanka). Please feel free to nominate eligible and relevant articles here. ≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 09:56, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Joseph or JOSFH camp in Vavuniya

Somebody told me that the Joseph camp in Vavuniya actually had nothing to do with somebody or something called "Joseph", but that it referred to "joint operation" something. I could not find any reliable confirmation on the web, but here is a reference to "the Joseph camp (Note: the reference is to the former JOSFH or Joint Operations Security Forces Headquarters) in Vavuniya". However, this 2008 report from the French asylum agency uses the name "camp Joseph" and says that nobody knows its meaning, but that there is a "Joseph Lane" in the vicinity of the camp. There are also references to a JOSSOP (Joint Services special operation) camp [3] [4]. Is there any reliable source on the correct name of this camp and its origin ? Apokrif (talk) 16:29, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

I would say the Sunday Times link you found is a reliable source on the name of the camp. Iqbal Athas knows what he's talking about, and is/was regarded as the premier defense corresponded. Joint Operations refer to the combined ops of the Army, Navy and Air Force, along the lines of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 17:37, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Photo request

If Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake is convenient for any Sri Lankan posters, would someone mind photographing Airline Centre, the head office of SriLankan Airlines? I have been trying to get photos of many airline headquarters (such as American Airlines, British Airways, etc) - Would anyone mind getting a photo of the SriLankan HQ? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 17:17, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

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Welikada and/or Magazine prisons

Welikada Prison says that this prison is "also known as the Magazine Prison" but this page mentions "the Commissioner in charge of Welikade and Magazine prisons" (emphasis added). Apokrif (talk) 13:59, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Tamilnet as a source

Since this kind of pertains to Sri Lanka, I might as well post this here.

A disagreement has popped up between me and Obi2canibe regarding the use of Tamilnet as a citation on Wikipedia. Since we couldn't come to an agreement, I took it over to the reliable sources noticeboard. Comments are welcome. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 14:56, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject South Asia

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