Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Provinces of Sri Lanka/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted by Karanacs 21:47, 19 January 2010.

Provinces of Sri Lanka

 * Nominator(s): Blackknight12 (talk) 06:55, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because it seems to fit the criteria and would be a good addition to WikiProject Sri Lanka. Blackknight12 (talk) 06:55, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Transcluded by Dabomb87 (talk) on 17:11, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments More to come. --an odd name 22:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Add accessdates and bibliographic info (publisher, author, date, ...) for refs 1, 2, and 12. Format all the refs consistently—do you want to link dates and publishers to the source URL, or not?


 * Comment. Please add alt text to images; see WP:ALT. In particular, please see WP:ALT for guidance on alt text for maps, and please see the article Counties of New Jersey for an example of a similar article that has alt text with each map. Eubulides (talk) 05:50, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * This looks like a list article to me. Why is this at FAC and not FLC? ≈ Chamal talk ¤ 01:52, 16 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I think it looks more like a list as well, but some comments either way:
 * Are there really no dates for when the latter four provinces were created, only years?
 * Sorting is broken for inland water area, total area, and population density.
 * It looks like the provinces contain multiple districts, and not too many of each; perhaps a list of them can go in the table?
 * The historical table is clearly way too undeveloped for this to even be considered for FLC or FAC. --Golbez (talk) 08:08, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest withdrawing this, because this is a major list of problems. Good luck. Mitch 32(Live from the Bob Barker Studio at CBS in Hollywood. Its Mitch!) 00:29, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - There is a number of problems, outside of the fact that this belongs for FLC.
 * 1) "In 1845 the North Western Province was created from northern Western Province (districts of Chilaw, Puttalam and Seven Korales)." - Citation?
 * 2) "In 1873 the North Central Province was created from southern Northern Province (district of Nuwara Kalawiya) and north-western Eastern Province (district of Tamankaduwa)." - Citation?
 * 3) "In 1886 the Uva Province was created from parts of Central Province, Eastern Province (district of Bintenna) and Southern Province (district of Wellassa)." - Citation?
 * 4) "In 1889 the Sabaragamuwa Province was created." - Vague as hell - What did it get formed from? Land doesn't just appear (unless it comes from molten rock, but that takes years. Also citation?
 * 5) "Central Province - composed of the central Kandyan provinces." - Vague again. What central provinces?
 * 6) "The North-East Province was formally demerged into the Northern and Eastern provinces on 1 January 2007." - Citation?
 * 7) The history section is very underdeveloped. There should be a lot more into why these merges were proposed and such. That's the major problem.
 * 8) "the JVP filed three separate petitions" - Spell out please and add (JVP) to the end.
 * 9) "Sri Lanka currently has nine provinces, seven of which have had provincial councils from the start." - This needs its own paragraph? This also could use expanding on.
 * 10) The charts lack good citations for everything.
 * 11) Echoing Golbez, the Historical one is underdeveloped, which is not a good thing for a Featured Article.
 * 12) Why are provincial councils below the list? They'd be better off atop.
 * 13) "Elections for a provincial council for the demerged Eastern Province were held on 10 May 2008. The Northern Province continues to be governed from Colombo." - Citation?
 * 14) "President Premadasa reacted to Permual's UDI by dissolving the provincial council and imposing direct rule on the province. The province was ruled directly from Colombo until it was dissolved on 31 December 2006." - Citation?
 * 15) "The North Eastern Province was formally demerged into the Eastern and Northern provinces on 1 January 2007." - Citation again? Also why does it exist twice in here?
 * 16) Provinces of Sri Lanka". statoids.com. http://www.statoids.com/ulk.html. Retrieved 16 January 2010. - This is poorly formatted.
 * This bit is done by me. I'm afraid that's all I could extract from that page. So grateful I you could provide a better citation. Regards-- Chanaka L  ( talk ) 10:44, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Check the site, I saw a law office at the bottom of the page :| - add the name of that law office & a year (2010). Mitch 32(Live from the Bob Barker Studio at CBS in Hollywood. Its Mitch!) 14:15, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks-- Chanaka L  ( talk ) 02:27, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) 4.^ Mills, Lenox A.. Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932. p. 68. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YyHG9ZKl3bwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ceylon+Under+British+Rule#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Retrieved 16 August 2009. - Publisher?
 * 2) 5.^ Mendis, G. C.. Ceylon under the British. p. 58. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ppHNLqowf1cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ceylon+under+the+British#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Retrieved 16 August 2009. - Publisher?
 * 3) Sri Lanka's North-East to remain united for another year, The Hindu 14 November 2003 - Really poorly cited.
 * 4) North-East merger illegal: SC, LankaNewspapers.com 17 October 2006 - And again.
 * 5) Section 7 (Maps) ain't necessary, merge it with 8 (External links).
 * 6) Overall, the lead is too short and doesn't fully summarize the article.
 * Comment: I agree, the article is more like a list. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 04:29, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Object firstly it is a list. In addition to this, if it were an article, it needs legal information to explain what power/autonomy the states have from the central government, when Colombo can overrule them, things about the population wanting to break up states into others (if possible) and so forth.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket )  01:15, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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