Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sri Lanka/Archive 5

Anton Sebastianpillai
I would be grateful if someone could kindly check the ethnicity-related text and categories on Anton Sebastianpillai, and perhaps translate the article into a suitable language(s). Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:18, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Tissamaharama Tamil Brahmi inscription
I suggest to change the aforesaid article name to Tissamaharama alleged Tamil Brahmi Inscription. Tissamaharama Tamil Brahmi inscription- see the details. Some scholars have successfully showed that the initial reading of this inscription by Mahadevan was not logical. Mahadevan's reading was also partially accepted by Ragupathy but completely rejected by Somadeva and Falk. Therefore it is incorrect to identify this potsherd completely as a Tamil Brahmi inscription. Please comment on its talk page--L Manju (talk) 16:33, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week
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AFD in progress, notable topic
Please consider participating at Articles for deletion/Kanadikavu Shree Vishnumaya Kuttichathan Swamy temple, and/or providing some sources for, some development of the article. Seems like a notable topic to me. --Doncram (talk) 21:08, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

questions about medias in Sri Lanka
Could someone tell me the newspapers, TV channels, and magazines in Sri Lanka with high credibility? I am now working on Colombo Financial City in Chinese version, but I don't know how to find the trustworthy newspapers in Sri Lanka.Johnson.Xia (talk) 20:25, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi John,

Notable, credible English newspapers in Sri Lanka are: Daily FT, Daily Mirror, Sunday Times, Daily News, Sunday Observer, The Morning, Ceylon Today, The Island, Sunday Island,

Hope this helps!

(IantheYR (talk) 19:03, 7 May 2020 (UTC))

Colombo Art Gallery
Where was the "Colombo Art Gallery", referred to in Charles Freegrove Winzer in the context of a 1941 exhibition held there? Is it the same as the National Art Gallery, Sri Lanka? The later article does not mention a date of foundation. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:47, 16 August 2020 (UTC)


 * It's very likely that they are one and the same. This article suggests that the gallery which is currently known as the National Art Gallery was completed in 1932 and wasn't taken oven by the government (nationalised) until 1971.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:46, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

25,000 Articles
Just an announcement that WikiProject Sri Lanka has reached 25,000 articles as of 5 September 2020.--Blackknight12 (talk) 02:19, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red Asian women contest
From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of women from Sri Lanka.--Ipigott (talk) 19:10, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Indian subcontinent
A complex RfC is going on, after a long bout of edit war. Uninvolved editors needed at the discussion. Aditya (talk • contribs) 06:39, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government recent change needs verification
A non-logged-in editor updated Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government.

Part of the update attempted to change the name of the topic to State Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government Affairs.

This needs attention from someone familiar with the topic. If the name change is accurate, the page may need to be moved. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  12:23, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Indian subcontinent
There is a discussion on the talk page about a disputed sentence. Is it possible for members of this project to make a comment there? Aditya (✉ • ⚒) 03:05, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Naming of Sri Lankan years articles
There is a discussion here regarding the naming of Sri Lankan years articles prior to 1972 when the country was officially and commonly known as Ceylon. Your comments are welcome.--Obi2canibe (talk) 15:49, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Sri Lankan cricket lists
Hi everyone. Hope you all are well. If anyone you have some time then please give your input at Articles for deletion/List of international cricket five-wicket hauls on Irish cricket grounds. Thanks. Störm  (talk)  17:31, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Tamil language
I have nominated Tamil language for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  17:37, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

 * New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
 * New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Sri Lanka related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
 * Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines ; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
 * If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 14:34, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Need help with Central Province stub articles
Hi folks! I'm a member of the Stub sorting WP and I'm trying to sort into their respective districts. (There are over 1,200 articles without any district category assigned; I'm having to go to each article, check the coordinates on a map, and sort accordingly.) There are several articles where the title includes "Eastern Province" but the stub type assigned is that for Central Province, and there are no coordinates to check. tl;dr If you know what province any of the following settlements are in, would you please indicate it here or assign the appropriate province category to the article?
 * Wadiya, Eastern Province
 * Wadiyagoda, Eastern Province
 * Radagoda, Eastern Province
 * Radawela, Eastern Province
 * Udagama, Eastern Province
 * Rozella, Eastern Province
 * Pangala, Eastern Province
 * Pelena, Eastern Province
 * Pinnawala, Eastern Province
 * Palawa, Eastern Province
 * Madakumbura, Eastern Province
 * Madampitiya, Eastern Province
 * Madawala, Eastern Province
 * Mahara, Eastern Province
 * Mahiyangana, Eastern Province
 * Thanks in advance for any help! Her Pegship (?) 21:12, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Although it's common for several settlements to have the same name, they all look like they're in Central Province and whoever created the articles used the wrong province in the title.


 * This list of villages in Central Province from 1992 might help with your work as it's sorted by district. You can then use Cat-a-lot to categorise the settlements by district. Still a lot of work to categorise 1,200 articles but easier than checking co-ordinates.--Obi2canibe (talk) 15:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you SO VERY MUCH. My search skills are well-honed but I have been unable to find anything like this list online. I've never heard of Cat-a-Lot but will go find it as soon as convenient. Thank you for broadening my horizons. Her Pegship (?) 18:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

@OP it is a project something - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot. it is javascrit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.135.3.225 (talk) 15:16, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Dinesh Kanagaratnam
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dinesh Kanagaratnam that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:53, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

maps
has been on a tear insisting that the wrong maps are being used on articles. A member of this WikiProject might try sorting this issue out before they end up blocked for disruptive editing. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 21:21, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi there I’m Lanka is the best and I am correct the maps being shown are incorrect to historic standards as I placed the original maps back, people kept removing it also sorry for being seem to be disruptive I’m just not good on the Wikipedia sites do to the HTML and it’s hard to use the talk area on mobile so I can’t add the summery and reason properly to why I keep changing the maps back to the original without explaining why sorry for creating a disturbance I just didn’t know how to communicate the changes to the Wikipedia site but I also suggest that the wiki project look into the page history to see what Had happened. Also sorry if this post is attached for some reason when I replied it posted with the original comment

Requesting for members of the wiki group to fix up the wikis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuradhapura_Kingdom

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Dambadeniya

Before starting to read this you may want to bring up a map of Sri Lanka with its districts marked out to help you understand what is happening and see why I tried to fix the problem

And other sites of significants to Sri Lankan culture had got fake maps of Sri Lankan kingdoms with clearly depicted mordern day democratic socialist republic of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 districts but have been coloured in to sort of match the ancient maps and not clearly marking historical territory of kingdoms that were based of rivers and water bodies in Sri Lanka one key example is the Anuradhapura kingdom wiki which has a map shaded in with the Anuradhapura, polonnwaru, Jaffna and other northern Sri Lankan districts instead of the Area between Deduru oya and the Mahaweli river which historically separated the kingdom from the Malaya and Ruhuna. I did attempted to reverse this error but users reverted it back asking for more information then this

Me and some people did fix some of the wikis but though when I was updating Anuradhapura polonwaru ect it was keep being reverted by the same users which I did send messages to explain but were ignored

Also sorry to post this really late I’m on mobile and it’s really glitchy and was hard to do a whole report on what happenedLanka is the best (talk) 10:40, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Request for Comments in Sri Lanka Armed Forces
A Request for Comments on statements about human rights violations by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces has been posted at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sri_Lanka_Armed_Forces#RFC_on_Human_Rights_Violation

Your participation is invited. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Inconsistency in Anuradhapura period
I thought I'd flag up for you that the above article contradicts itself on whether the people who introduced Buddhism to Sri Lanka were or weren't the children of Asoka/Ashoka. I was looking for information about the island in the 1st century CE and the information seems hard to come by. Itsmejudith (talk) 20:08, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present)
This article about the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka requires cleanup. Plpm2021 (talk) 08:37, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Needs proper article introduction
 * Most sections of the article needs to be written in neutral point of view
 * Needs better headings and sections
 * It will be better to break down Development section in to subsections by year (Before 2019 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022)

Proposed deletion of CTB Flying Squad
So, not entirely sure how the proposed deletion process works, but I guess I'm supposed to stick this particular template in here to notify you about it, so here it is:

Proposed deletion of CTB Flying Squad


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- 🔥 HOT m̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃ 🔥  (talk) 21:04, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

List of presidents of Sri Lanka
Hello Wikiproject members, redirected the above page to List of heads of state of Sri Lanka without providing an explanation, So I reverted him. I believe such redirections should be done only after a discussion. I think List of presidents of Sri Lanka is a perfectly alright article to have. In 1972 Sri Lanka became a republic and the salient feature of a republic is having a president as the head of state instead of a monarch. Therefore the list of presidents is really important culturally and politically for a republic. Furthermore, Articles such as List of presidents of India exist and a featured list. Therefore I strongly believe it should not be redirected, if it needs to be redirected it needs consensus obtained through a discussion. Regards-- Chanaka L ( talk ) 10:46, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Agree - controversial changes should always be debated/discussed on the article's talkpage, so that a consensus is reached before any changes are implemented. Dan arndt (talk) 12:42, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Sri Lankans
Hello everyone, I could possibly need some help with this article im creating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sri_Lankans Im making this because there needs to be a wikipedia article about the Sri Lankan people just like how there is one for Filipinos and Bangladeshis. So it would be great if you guys could help as this would be quite long.

Thanks TheCeylon24 (talk) 20:08, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
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Parliament is counting from 1978?
During the live telecast today, I heard Wickremesinghe being referred as the "newly elected 8th president of Sri Lanka." Similarly other day I heard the phrase the "10th parliament" referring the current legislature. Contrarily, here in enwiki they are referred as the 9th president and the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka. It is clear that parliament is keeping record and counting from the 1978 constitution. I think these disparities should be reconciled. Otherwise it would be Original research on our part. Cheers. Chanaka L ( talk ) 14:40, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

The Parliament news article. They seem to not bother about Gopallawa's non-executive presidency. I believe adhering to the parliament's numbering scheme in List of presidents of Sri Lanka is advisable not to confuse the nonchalant readers.-- Chanaka L ( talk ) 05:01, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

I propose this solution from List of heads of state of Yugoslavia, based on this. Regards-- Chanaka L ( talk ) 05:23, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Lion capital in Anuradhapura
Help is requested in finding a copyright-free image of the lion capital, or Asokan pillar, in Anuradhapura (shown here in a copyrighted image. I'd like to include it in the legacy section of the WP article, Lion capital of Ashoka. The Anuradhapura capital is a great example of a stylized tribute to the original. Thanks.  Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  13:37, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 07:17, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:The Buddha
The page which had been Gautama Buddha was unsuccessfully proposed for a change to Siddhartha Gautama, then successfully changed to The Buddha, and is now being proposed for a change to Buddha. Your input and expertise would be most welcome at: Talk:The_Buddha Best,  Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  04:04, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Contributions request
I have created a short article on Sri Lanka and the Non-Aligned Movement. I wanted to ask anyone more familiar with the topic and who may be interested to consider contributing to the article. There are probably some good sources in other languages you may be fluent in.--MirkoS18 (talk) 15:51, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 : Singapore, 16-19 August
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Kottu or Kothu
There is currently a 'heated' ongoing debate as to whether the article should be described as Kottu roti or Kothu roti or even just Kottu. If you have a particular view I invite you to participate at Talk:Kothu roti before this turns ugly. ,, , , , , , , , . Dan arndt (talk) 08:18, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Or Koththu - LionCountry25 (talk) 07:14, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * As far as pronunciation goes, writing as "koththu" is correct. This pronunciation is similar to "thothuthu".  And we will not write that as "tottu" in English.
 * Koththu is just koththu.
 * "Roti" (godamba roti) has become just a variation among "rice koththu", "noodles koththu" and "dolphin koththu" (which is made out of parata robbons). Thush 007 (talk) 07:17, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Theres no such thing as kottu roti. Cause its parāta that's cut into small pieces to make kottu. And since "ත්තු" written in english is "ttu", the accurate name should be "kottu". Some will say "ttu" sounds like "ට්ටු", but when written in english, "ට්ටු = ṭṭu". So කොත්තු=kottu. Again its not kottu roti. Kottu roti is basically parāta. MihirNak007 (talk) 02:11, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:AN § Procedural quirk in WP:GS/CASTE
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:AN § Procedural quirk in WP:GS/CASTE. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 20:32, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Articles we need
Hello project members, I think it would be great if we could have the following list of articles IMO.

Organizations;


 * Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka


 * Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka
 * Sri Lanka Tea Board

Businesses found by 19th century and 20th century Indian mercantile migrants


 * Abans. Founder Aban Pestonjee


 * Akbar Brothers. Already have an article Akbar Tea
 * Hirdaramani Group. Is this the third largest apparel company after MAS Holdings and Brandix?

and unlisted companies but popular brands;


 * Spa Ceylon
 * Glomark
 * AIA Insurance
 * Continental Insurance

Regards Chanaka L ( talk ) 14:44, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

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Discussion at Content assessment
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R. M. Gunasekera
Hello. I am reaching out to see if someone could find information about R. M. Gunasekera, specifically at least his year of death with relevant citation. Regards, -- Thinker78  (talk) 04:10, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Sri Lanka:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 13:46, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

B-checklist in project template
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Deiyannewela
Hi there. I don't know if anybody here is fluent in Sinhalese or/and lives in Kandy, but this article is up for deletion, and there are hits for දෙයියන්නේවෙල in a google search. Can somebody find some information and expand it? Thanks. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:37, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Check contribution and review his page moving ~AntanO4task (talk) 17:15, 21 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I don't moved this page @Liz Moved this Deiyannewela page Vithushikan (talk) 14:21, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Colombo International Airport, Ratmalana
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Colombo International Airport, Ratmalana that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Ilukpelessa (7°1'N 80°54'E)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ilukpelessa (7°1'N 80°54'E) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.  ❯❯❯  Raydann  (Talk)   19:54, 10 January 2024 (UTC)