Talk:S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

Controversy
There goes Hornplease again, with his "controversy" jargon. Seems he's got something against Hinduism. I don't see the controversy, I don't see differences between Indian religions. Seems like a bit of POVBakaman%% 22:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You might not, but most people do. WP reflects that view, as you will observe if you read the Buddhism article. Please don't disrupt the encyclopaedia repeatedly like this. Hornplease 01:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I have details of a book about the assassination and the subsequest court case. I am prepared to list details, which may present a different slant if anyone is interested TonyDodson (talk) 17:08, 19 November 2007 (UTC).

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BetacommandBot (talk) 08:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Was he named
after West Ridgeway, who was, I think, governor of Ceylon at the time of his birth? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 01:15, 17 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Good question. I don't know the answer but suspect he was. The Sri Lankan elite (Senanayake, Bandaranaike-Ratwatte, Wijewardena-Jayewardene, Rajapaksa) liked to ape their colonial masters so that they would be rewarded with money and power. They dressed like Europeans, had their education in Europe, converted to Christianity and spoke only in English. It wouldn't be surprising if they also took on their masters' names.-- obi2canibe talk contr 13:04, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps I will just add it, though it would be nice to find an external source. Still, time to be BOLD. Carptrash (talk) 17:28, 18 November 2012 (UTC)


 * So I just came on here after doing a couple edits and wondering why an article as important as this is so appallingly badly written and neglected, only to find this conversation. I know I'm about six years too late to the party, but I'd like to say something for future editors to see just how unprofessional "experienced" editors can be.


 * You can be as "experienced" and as overbearing and toxic (something older editors, particularly on WikiProject Sri Lanka tend to be, if my experiences are any indication) as you want, but this right here is why novice editors absolutely hate you people- edit count doesn't make any of us infallible or right by default. You decide which rules you get to stick to and which ones you don't. apparently decided the BLP rules aren't for him- perhaps we should start encouraging new editors to type in "time to be BOLD" in the Talk page of any article they want to shoehorn uncited statements in- after all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, is it not? Seriously, this is bizarre- a non-Sri Lankan editor just swooping in to include material that (albeit later cited) was put in simply on a personal hunch, and no one has a problem with this behaviour. Then there's, who I can see hasn't even tried to hide the fact that his objectivity here has gone out of the window. God forbid if anyone else took that "fuck it, who cares, go for it" attitude on any article whose topic we feel strongly negative about. I can understand if you don't like the old colonial families, hell there's plenty of reasons to hate SWRD and the havoc he wrecked on this country, but christ, what does any of that have to do with just allowing random edits on the page? You're supposed to represent the WikiProj on here, and you've basically gone "lol whatevs". I can understand how this view of yours may have changed over the past six years, but man, given my other interactions with you on here, I'd say we're still far from normalcy.


 * There's been no oversight here, none. Disappointing and unprofessional as all hell.- ක - (talk) 07:12, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It is difficult for me to understand exactly what your objection to my edit is. Is it that I was correct? That I made an assumption about where the West Ridgeway came from and it was so obvious and so right?  And while it is true that I am not a Sri-Lankan, my interest in the country arrises from the fact that I lived there for 13 years. Carptrash (talk) 17:43, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what's brought about this meltdown but it is not my job to bring every Sri Lankan article up to standard nor is it my job to police them all. I have nearly 20,000 articles on my watchlist and it's hell of a task just making sure they aren't vandalised. Bringing them all up to decent standard is an impossible task for any editor.


 * If you are so upset that is article is in a bad state why not spend some time and bring it up to WP:GA standard, like I did with S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. It's hard work but there's plenty of sources around for you to do it. But don't expect me or others to do it.--Obi2canibe (talk) 18:04, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Also,, saying "unprofessional as all hell" is probably not the slam you had hoped for since none of us here is a professional. Unless you are getting paid, of course. Carptrash (talk) 20:37, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

I am looking
at the picture labeled "The first Cabinet of Ministers of Ceylon" and am wondering if SWRDB can be identified in it? If "yes" then he should be, if "no", then why is the picture there? Carptrash (talk) 16:33, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

first row-second from the left MediaJet (talk) 16:48, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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