Talk:Batticaloa

Clean up suggestions
Way too much information for one page, we need to create seperate sup pages for

etc. Right now it is way too much Taprobanus 12:36, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * History of the Batticlao district
 * Demography of the Batticlao district

2008-07-09: Hello, I placed the average temperatures into a table. The line below that says "The average annual rainfall is 14m (551in.); the average temperature 26.9°C or 80.4°F. The MKS system as well as Celsius degrees are used in Sri Lanka." Is that the average annual temperature. If so it cannot be considering the actual temperatures shown the average doesn't come to that, unless it's done in some other way other than taking the mean average. Oh and another thing, I think someone should mention that lovely dish Kottu Rotti originated from Batticaloa!! :) (p.s: how the hell do you sign one of these posts? Shit bruv, you can see my IP as well. There goes me privacy. LOL) --Raga-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.71.10.169 (talk) 04:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Bodhi Dhana's comments
The concerns of Taprob- have, I think, been largly addressed, and his comments were in the right direction.

I have been editing this page and trying to put in validated, acdemically accepted references to primary sources, history, etymology etc. Here I have followed the content in established journal literature. However, I note that SooriyaK has been reverting my edits and writing "Mattakallappu Manmiyam (மட்டக்களப்பு மான்மியம்) is the only resource having the valid resourses of the events recorded in the ancient Batticaloa". Unfortunately, IT IS NOT ENOUGH to just SAY that Mattakallappu Manmiyam is the only source..."etc. You need auhoritative references to support your claim. In fact, it is just his opinion, not supported by either writers like Casie-Chetti, Fr Gnanaprakasar, Sir Paul E Peries and T Devendra, Dr. Medhananda and other writers. All these scholars have an outstanding academic reputation while the material of "Mattakallappu Manmiyam" remains at the level of local folk legend. Such stuff have a place, but CANNOT be used to displace current academic opinion. Current academic opinion is what goes into an encyclopedia. If SooriaK thinks that  "Mattakallappu Manmiyam" can be made the dominant point of view, he should begin by a learned article in, for example, a JSTOR peer-reviewd publication, get the concurrence or at least the notice of the scholars, and THEN come to the encyclopedia. SooryaK can also take the trouble to establish the basic validity of what I say by contacting some one like Prof. Sivathamby who has a good knowledge of the sociology and history of Batti. So I think continued removal of the etymology etc., that I have given in this article begins to appear like vandalism. Also, in the geography, SooryaK has attempted to define the city by naming temples. Usually, we state that the Temples are in the city, and NOT the wrong way round. So I have included his Temple Info in a separate subsection Bodhi dhana 01:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I have reported that this article is in the early stages of getting into an edit war, where SooryaK and his friends simply revert to old, unsubstantiated incomplete versions which contain no RS references. I have tried to include material from Soorykumar's [] edits so that his views are also included. However, I do not get any feed back to discuss the issues. Instead, just reverting to a bad version is unproductive. I have also brough this to the attention of an administrator.Bodhi dhana 15:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Reverting valid ref'd NPOV entries is a violation of both wiki and the peace resolution's rules. Report to the SLR project talk page if it continues. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 10:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

situation after my report suggesting vandalism
I find that Sooryakumar has simply reveted my edit, with NO ANSWER OR DISCUSSION here. THis is even after my suggestion that the process has beome vandalism. So I am butting back the artcile which HAS references to RS etc. I am hlad that Hemeo has introduced the new protocol regarding SL articles on this. Bodhi dhana 05:53, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Dravidian civilizations
Wiki Raja 20:09, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to reconciliation
Since this is a Sri Lanka article that is undergoing an edit war, I have boldly expanded the scope of our dispute resolution to include it. Please read the terms, etc. --Haemo 19:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * When you get down from you self made pedestal, you may realize you have no discretion to add this template to any article you want, so I'm been bold] and removing it. --[[User:Snowolfd4| snowolf D4  (  talk  /  @   ) 22:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Why? This is clearly yet another Sri Lanka related article with the same problem as all the other ones.  I don't see your objection here, other than making a totally unwarranted personal attack on myself.  --Haemo 22:33, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, disrupters should be blocked not conversed with. Thanks Taprobanus 13:24, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm assuming good faith here, but if I don't get a meaningful response, I'm going to re-add the templates. --Haemo 19:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Reverted the article back to the earlier version/correct of bodhi-dana. The present article was a total mess and totally neglected the real history of this city. Not a single inscription found in or out this city was written in tamil prior to 13 th century,　but there are hundreds of inscriptions written in Sinhalese can be found in the surrounding areas.Any changes to the article should be discussed here and I would hope people would bring solid evidence to back up what ever claims　they made. Thanking you Iwazaki  会話. 討論 05:49, 7 November 2007 (UTC)


 * My second edit is actually not a revert, I merely add restriction tag to the article Iwazaki  会話. 討論 06:10, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Use talk page
Everyone use the talk page rather than edit warring. Final warning to User:Sooryakumar. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 19:08, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The Etymalogy is interesting! No mention that Mada Kalapuwa means exactly Muddy Lagoon (Which is what it is) in Sinhala (without any corruption or mispronounciations). Instead, we see contorted, tenuous references to some Tamil meanings that stretch the imagination. Of course Ealamist supremacists need to hide at all costs the Sihalese roots of almost all place names up and down the East Coast of Sri Lanka and obliterate wherever possible the 300 plus Sinhalese archaelogical sites in order to proclaim the Northern and Eastern provinces exclusive Tamil homeland from "time immemorial". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.230.100.102 (talk) 17:09, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Most up to date history of Batticaloa found in this book
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MTh4pixlifYC&dq=crucibles+of+conflict+tamil+east&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=k6sgXvQxth&sig=9bQKbknYrZgeRLxGJ_ceypGT0Q8&hl=en&ei=JqhxSoO_INeMjAe0k9mQDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.34.218 (talk) 14:04, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Place in the civil war
Is all the information about infighting within the rival Tamil groups really relevant to an article on Batticaloa? Surely, this level of detail would be more appropriate at Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal.
 * The article is a mess. After we are done with Jaffna, I intend to work on this. Kanatonian (talk) 19:31, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Photo gallery
Photo gallery is named as Kalladi Beach, but the pictures are not relevant for Kalldai Beach.

In addition, I do agree with file deletion notification. Some of my pictures, which I uploaded for Wiki common, are digitally edited and uploaded by a user. Ex: Original file that I uploaded http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Batticaloa_Lagoon.jpg Digitally edited and uploaded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Batticaloa_Lagoon_in_Korai_Adi.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anton017 (talk • contribs) 01:26, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

The gallery is recoverd from fault pictures. --Anton017 (talk) 13:46, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Educational institutions
There are Educational institutions, which contributed/contributes a lot to Batticaloan and others. Therefore, please consider names of educational institutions before you add in the main paragraph. I would suggest to improve the section by elaborating contributions of the educational institutions rather than placing list of names. --Anton017 (talk) 03:41, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

POV
Pikolas, Could you express your idea on using POV in this article? Just placing POV template without mention in the talk page will not help to improve the article. Thanks. -- Anton Talk  17:12, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

China
Removed this section based on following observations, This section has been filled with POV and factual errors. Zheng He was not Kublai Khan's General and he had a skirmish with Kingdom of Kotte, which was on west coast. It has no relevance to the East coast or Batticola. Tamils never fought with Arabs or mongols but with Khilji's who are Turks/Afghans. Also no minor European power could claim Indian ports/kingdoms. It was the Portuguese, Dutch, French and English, all were major naval powers at that time. The Portuguese also landed in India for trade and then started their land grabbing policies. The Europeans did not bring in science and philosophy to India, it actually went the other way through the Arab traders. 192.8.229.10 (talk) 12:12, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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The place where I live batticaloa 223.224.6.33 (talk) 14:32, 30 August 2022 (UTC)