User talk:Ananda D. Jayasinha

July 2015
Hello, I'm Obi2canibe. I noticed that you made a change to an article, List of the oldest schools in Sri Lanka, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.  obi2canibe talk contr 15:04, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

List of the oldest schools in Sri Lanka
[Copied from e-mail] I believe it is you wh update the beginning year of Rippon girls' School to 1871.Can I have the relevant citation to claim the year as 1871 which is incorrect. - Ananda D. Jayasinha Aug 20 at 4:34 AM


 * The source, which is the only verifiable source on this matter, is given in the article - The Island says that the girls' section of the Galle School (Richmond College, Galle) was established as a separate school named "Whitfield Road Girl’s School" in 1871. The source you have provided (Extracts from Quarterly Letters &c April 1818 pp 54-55 of Methodist Missionary Notices) to show that the girls' school was established in 1817 is unverifiable. In addition Wikipedia is not a reliable source. I will give you a few days to provide verifiable reliable sources to show that the school was established in 1817. If you don't I will revert you.--Obi2canibe (talk) 19:25, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


 * [Copied from e-mail] You are quoting from an article submitted by me to the Island newspaper but what wrote was "When Rev. Baugh was pursuing the idea of establishing a superior boy’s school he separated the girls section in 1871 and named it the "Whitfield Road Girl’s School"


 * I said separated from the boy's school and renamed and not started as a new school. For you to understand 'separated' as 'new' is no fault of mine. The boy's school was established in 1814 and the female section was added in 1817. It is not practical to explain all in a reply of this nature. if you can read the literary award-winning "Forgotten history of Richmond college' there it is explained in detail.


 * You will find the letter sent by the rev Mckenny who started the female section in 1817 in "Extracts from Quarterly Letters &c April 1818 pp 54-55 of Methodist Missionary Notices" It can be downloaded from the Oxford University Archives. - Ananda D. Jayasinha Aug 22 at 3:19 AM


 * Please keep the discussion to this page rather than sending me e-mails.


 * Your article in The Island states "When Rev. Baugh was pursuing the idea of establishing a superior boy’s school he separated the girls section in 1871 and named it the Whitfield Road Girl’s School". The meaning of this very clear: girls were taught at the Galle School (Richmond College, Galle) but in 1871 the girls section became a school in its own right (Whitfield Road Girl’s School). Therefore there was no separate school for girls prior to 1871.


 * A separate section, if it existed prior to 1871 (you have not provided any verifiable evidence to support your claim), does not constitute a separate school. BTW, your Island article makes no mention of a separate section being created in 1817. Why not?


 * If you don't provide verifiable sources to show that a separate school (not section) was established in 1817 I will revert your addition.--Obi2canibe (talk) 11:56, 22 August 2018 (UTC)