Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Sri Lanka/archive1

Portal:Sri Lanka
Within a short period of time I could be able improve this portal from portals needs attention to a portal as good as its peer portals like Portal:India, Portal:Pakistan, Portal:Bangladesh. I hope that it could be nominated for a featured portal.regards --chanakal (talk) 12:23, 23 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I am not too familiar with the Featured Portal Criteria, still here are my 2cents:
 * The layout looks fine to me, nice and clear. It would be nice to have a map indicating the location of Sri Lanka


 * ✅ inserted a location map.thanks for bring it to consideration.


 * Possibly, the colour layout could be changed to match the colours of the Sri Lankan flag, but this might actually be POV and antagonize Tamil citizens, so it needs careful consideration


 * Here I emulated the colouring of Portal:Australia. they have used heraldic Green & Gold colours. By using colours of Sri Lankan Cricket team I think I've done a fair job to all the ethnic groups, which I think best example of our unity.


 * Jasy jatere (talk) 10:50, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * very nice idea


 * The introductory text mentions history as being a British colony, but Sri Lanka's history is much older, and the older parts are more relevant than teh 150 years under the British


 * ✅ enlarged the introduction. mind you that this text is taken from the main article of Sri Lanka and it should be a concise text too.


 * Some info about religion would be nice, and about the Buddhists idea that the Buddha gave them Sri Lanka as a homeland to take care of. This is again a very difficult topic and demands a lot of sensitivity, but I think it is one of the major features of Sri Lanka, which distinguishes it from neighboring India.


 * Reply relevant to above point.


 * It might be a coincidence, but the three featured items are all Sinhalese/Buddhist. It would be nice to throw in the occasional Hindu, Christian, Moor or Malay (I acknowledge that the botanical gardens are neutral in this regard, but they are still in Kandy, the Sinhalese heartland).


 * I ensure you that I have thought long before you mentioning it. That's why I saved archival selected article on Trincomalee here. please scan my edit history and you can find that I've never edited disputed items sensitive to most Sri Lankans other than if it's a style edit.


 * OK, just wanted to point that out as an issue


 * The selected items could maybe undergo proofreading before being published on the portal page. While I am not in the WP:LOCE, feel free to contact me if you want to rotate the items, and I'll have a look over them and adapt the English to international standards.


 * you are welcome to help me with grammar. --chanakal (talk) 03:34, 24 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I leave the more technical comments to other reviewers Jasy jatere (talk) 15:08, 23 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd like to see the columns being of approximately equal length. The current situation appears to be due to a mistake in layout rather than deliberate design. The ITN box contains an extra  which terminates the column. If you remove it, DYK and categories become part of the second column.- gadfium  17:43, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


 * ✅balanced the columns. it seems that length of the columns gave the trouble.
 * It looks much better now. However, the fix you made worked because you moved the "Sri Lanka News" pane to the end of the first column, but you have not removed the extraneous  from near the end of Portal:Sri Lanka/Sri Lanka news. This "div" means that the Sri Lanka News pane (which I incorrectly called the ITN box above) terminates whichever column it is in, but the control of layout should be in the main portal page rather than in one of its subpages.- gadfium  04:44, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ found the troublesome  tag and removed. i didn't find it earlier.