Talk:Devaka Fernando

Poor referencing
This article needs proper referencing so the facts can be verified.-- CrossTempleJay     talk 10:59, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

High School sports
Participation in school sports in Sri Lanka is seen as a notable achievement in the country and sporting events between 'big schools' is reported in National broadsheets. Fattutor (talk) 03:31, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

High school achievements are given a lot of importance in Sri Lanka with spectator  attendances especially at those events exceeding those at international sporting fixtures and schoolboy cricketers athletes and rugby players being given prominence in later life especially if they are from elite schools but in the rest of the world school sports do not carry the same importance and they do not necessarily contribute to why someone is notable. However your comment appears to support the argument that in a notable person the amount of detail to be included should contain high school sports. In a Sri Lankan setting I would say yes but in an international worldwide database such as Wikipedia such detail may not be relevant. The other issue would be whether the content refers to a single career or multiple careers. if the subject had multiple careers the limitations of notability in an academic to scholarly activities may not be applicable. Vishwakoshaya (talk) 07:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Academics are notable for their scholarly work. High school sports do not contribute to their notability. If he is notable in more than one field (and there is evidence of notability supported by secondary sources) it should be possible to make a case for notability as a sports person and in the second career outside academia in Health policy and health care management or health administration field. This issue needs wider discussion instead of keeping to the narrow assumption that he is an academic. You need to find a reliable secondary source like a citation for fellowship etc that should be there in a medical journal ha is peer reviewed or in accounts in Sri Lankan newspapers which have interviewed him and written biographies. Liannalianna (talk) 15:01, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

The man was a well known schoolboy, university and national level sportsman plating for CH and FC in premier division rugger and running for CT and FC in Sri Lanka nationals and abroad. He featured regularly in newspapers as a player. Why not reference those articles as he was notable for those things before he became a famous professor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.135.181.223 (talk) 15:40, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

i have limited knowledge about WIkipedia rules or etiquette about professors. It seems that a single American opinion has resulted in the details of a persons sports career have been removed just because he is an academic. I have taken the liberty of replacing the relevat paragraph to depict achievements outside academia but in sport. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.170.89.1 (talk) 08:18, 6 May 2015 (UTC) There are many references by name in the sports pages of Sri Lankan newspapers in the 1974-79 period to Rugby matches and another in 1985. Are these the same person? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.12.107.140 (talk) 15:52, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

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