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two more images to be incorporated
Matthewmayer 01:28, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I think we need some information about Colombo's past and present status as the national capital. Reading the articles on Sri Lanka, Colombo, and Kotte, I'm confused about what parts of the government are situated in which cities, and when they moved. Epl 06:46, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I reverted the population to the official census count. If someone can find a source for the 1 million+ number that was there as a "2006 estimate", feel free to put it back up. Bodhitha 02:40, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
By the way, the last time Colombo city's population was about 350,000 was back in the 1960's. Please don't write down incorrect data unless you can state your source! Sri Lanka Statistics states Colombo with 647,100.
377,396 according to 2001 census: Colombo Population. Bodhitha 13:47, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand those figures. If you add the DS Divisional Sectors up, it comes to about 1,969,522. That's short by 264,767, when looking at the total population for Colombo District. Colombo is split into Colombo North and Colombo South, and the statistics website does not include one of the divisions. So adding 377,396 to 264,767, it comes to 642,163 for the Colombo Municipal area (Zones 1-15), which is the more accepted figure.
Can people please STOP changing the population of Colombo down to 377,000!!! The census quotes 642,020!!! I have provided sources, and I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. STOP it whoever it is from changing to a lower figure. If you can't understand, I've given my reasons above, and here they are: COLOMBO MUNICIPAL COUNCIL includes THIMBIRIGASYAYA AND COLOMBO Divisional Secretariats!!!!!!!
This articles structure is pathetic.. I have checked a featured article structure that would suit Colombo, we have to make certain modifications to it, just have a look at it..
1 History | |
1.1 Site chosen by De Anza 1.2 Early Spanish pueblo |
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2 Law and government | |
2.1 Sister/twin cities | |
3 Geography | |
4 Climate | |
5 Economy | |
6 Demographics | |
7 Arts and architecture | |
8 Sports | |
9 Transportation | |
10 Utilities | |
10.1 Telephone history 10.1.1 Manual service |
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11 Education | |
11.1 Colleges and universities 11.2 Primary and secondary education |
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12 Neighborhoods | |
12.1 Nearby cities | |
13 Attractions | |
13.1 Parks, gardens, and other outdoor recreational sites 13.2 Museums, libraries, and other cultural collections |
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14 Media | |
14.1 Print media |
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15 See also | |
16 Footnotes | |
17 References | |
18 External links |
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19 Further reading |
«₪Mÿš†íc₪» (T) 06:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I have just changed the Colombo article and the look and feel of it, the article really needed some attention, it was in pathetic condition. My aim is to make it to the featured article list, so have carefully followed the guidelines of wikipedia and inculded only the required sections and there are some sections of the article that I am still working on. If you need to add anything please add it on the article or at My Scratchpad (I have included some more nice images from Colombo here!!!). It would be helpful if you discuss the changes to be made on the article talk page or in my personal talk page. «₪Mÿš†íc₪» (T) 06:03, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Great update. Looks good now.
==Infrastructure== ===Transportation=== ====Public Transportation==== ====Major Highways==== ====Airports==== ===Medical centers and hospitals=== need to include details on these sections.. «₪Mÿš†íc₪» (T) 20:15, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
"Buildings from all three regimes stand in their glory as reminders. The city and its people show an interesting mix of European clothing and lifestyles together with local customs. The city is by far more modern than most others in neighbouring countries and continues to be a blossoming metropolis of the East." Is this a travel ad for Colombo?
How we may change the sentence? If doesn't sound good. «₪Mÿš†íc₪» (T) 11:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Quote from article, "Colombo’s climate is fairly temperate all throughout the year. During the month of April the temperature averages around 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). The only major change in the Colombo weather occurs during the monsoons from May to August and October to January, this is the time of year where heavy rains can be expected. Even though during the day time no severe drop in temperature takes place the nights could be very chilly closer to the coast."
Is this correct? The 35C (95F) temperature given for April seems too high. Also, the periods for the monsoons seems to be a bit off.4.235.81.137 05:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)Tim G
yea you are correct:
--Terrance 05:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Alan.ca 05:58, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Copied comments by Alan.ca from Talk:Colombo/Comments ŇëŧΜǒńğëŗTalk 18:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be a disagreement regarding the Department of Census statistics as to whether the population of the city is 377,000 or 640,000. Two different places of the DoS website give two different numbers. As explained by an anon user above, the Colombo Municipal Council area covers the Colombo DS (Population 377,000) and the Thibirigasyaya DS (Population 264,000) giving a total of around 640,000, which explains the conflicting figures.
As to which figure is considered the official "population of Colombo", it is the second one, per the CMC website which states the "city" has a population of 640,000[2], so I am changing the figure to that throughout the article. --snowolfD4 ( talk / @ ) 02:03, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Odd syntax makes it difficult to understand the contributor’s intent with the piece on light rail transport, however by following the link provided it is clear that Colombo does not yet have the light rail system. The link states that the Sri Lankan government has given a private consortium of Indian and Singaporean firms the authorization to develop a proposal and financing plan. If it doesn’t exist yet, then how has it “begun to control the excessive traffic in the city?”
I suggest rewording to something a little more plausible, such as:
A proposed light rail system, the Colombo Metro Rail, is under study by NEB Rapid an Indian and Singaporean collaboration.[30] [31] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.79.62.19 (talk) 06:58, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Moved this section to talk page looks like an advert NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 09:30, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Along, with the city's ample sources of fashion, Colombo has a number of tourist sights and other places of interest, which span quite a few centuries and three sets of foreign rulers- the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. Some of these, like the Fort area are not really monuments.
Others are the monuments, buildings and gardens – sights that are a part of the city. These include:
“The lake is one of the most unique landmarks of Colombo…” Uniquness has degrees? Can we therefore ascertain that some landmarks in Colombo are uniquer than others? Which one is the uniquest? Are some somewhat unique and others margainally unique? This ameturish pidgin is one of the uniquest highlights of this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.79.62.19 (talk) 08:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
The Royal College image is added,removed,re-added over & over, this is really childish. The image does not add any value to the content in the article and does not improve the readers knowledge. The article already has so many images most of them are of important landmarks of Colombo which are generally popular even amongst tourists to the city. Including pictures of Oldest School, oldest hotel, oldest park etc..in the article is very amateurish. Please build proper consensus before you do so again. NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 10:43, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
My reasons are very clear,'famous' is not a reason to include an image in the article.
With all due respect for the editor I am afraid your reasons are far from clear. If you were to inclined to read the article on the school then you could understand that it is 'famous'. "how do we quantify 'famous'" what childish nonsenses is this. If you have a Victoria Memorial Building (are you referring to the Victoria Memorial Eye Hospital Building) by all means add it not just delete pictures you don't like. In the respect of featured articles are we to stop adding any picture of Universities coz there are NO "universities which are of international importance" in Colombo ? The adding of the Image in question doesn't violate any wiki guild lines and in your explanations have not proven any to this date. Your removal of the image has be arbitrary and based on your personal opinion. I gave you a chance to prove any violations of addition of the image to the article. Since I thought that I may have violated wikiguide lines by adding it, therefore gave you the opportunity show me the violation I have made, You have not done so. Hence I am re-adding the image to the article. This time please before removing build a "proper consensus". Nitraven (talk) 11:34, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
A Royal Charter is granted by the Queen/King on advice of the privy council, it is not granted by the queens council, this is in regard to your editing in article Royal College.Nitraven (talk) 11:34, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Therefor I am re-adding it since no one else other than Netmonger seems to have a problem with it. All constructive comments welcomed.Nitraven (talk) 13:07, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
PS: Netmonger, again in regard to the your editing in the article Royal College, it states that "A Royal College in some Commonwealth countries is technically a college which has received permission to use the prefix Royal. Permission is usually granted through a Royal Charter. " all Royal College's don't need or have a Royal Charter, however they do need royal permission to use the prefix.Nitraven (talk) 13:07, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
The sundaytimes article claims that Royal College was founded in 1855 whereas it was actually founded in 1835, this proves how reliable your source is, the guy who wrote the article simply couldn't get the year the college was founded let alone decide whether it is the best school in the country. The college website is a primary source so not a valid reliable source as per wikipedia guidelines, I may say (I may) in my opinion Trinity College is the best school in the country (which may not be), with most desiciplined students (which may not be), I can come up with equal number of articles from the same newspapers you provided as references but wikipedia is not the place to do such a stupid thing. Because these cheap government controlled news papers are not reliable, as for the Sunday Times the chief editor is a old boy of Royal college. I am qouting what Jimbo said here,
If you read the wikipedia guidelines you would've already come across the above qoute. you said
please read WP:PROVEIT the burden of proving your source is reliable lies with you and not me. Before including the image once more please consider reading the above policy guidelines. NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 19:55, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Still this is beating around the bush. It only effects the wording.Please cite wiki rule stating why this image cannot be in this page and this sections, beside the wording.Nitraven (talk) 20:07, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Since Netmonger is adamant in keeping this image out of the education section, I will be adding it under the architecture of the city once I finish writing that section. In the mean time I would kindly request Netmonger to be more concern about what is written in the article than the images in it coz I just removed several false information. Also please remember Netmonger the lack of refs in this article is more concerning than that of a single school.Nitraven (talk) 06:09, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
By the way what do you make of this [5]Nitraven (talk) 09:13, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Nitraven, I think this is a good article on the history of University of Colombo, We should extract some info from this and include it in the article. Do you have any images of University of Colombo? I think it deserves an image in the education section, as it is one of the most important educational institutions for all Sri Lankans than Royal College :-) do you agree?. NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 06:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Now please don't start comparing educational institutions! but I do agree that a pic should be added. There is a one but not sure if its a good one. Also I am undoing your resent edit in good faith, since it is only fair to list the major schools of each faith, and if any one wants more details on the school they can always go to the individual article. Nitraven (talk) 06:51, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough, however in the same respect examples are not explain every thing since there is an article on Sri lanksn education. I am also readding the part on the unis since you gave no reason for removing it. Nitraven (talk) 12:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
In order to improve the quality of this article I believe photos of the following list of places should be added. These could be added as a photo gallery. Please feel free to change or comment on the list. Nitraven (talk) 07:01, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have removed all unreferenced claims from the education section as disputes are arising out of this. Please do not remove anything from the section if you are going to add unreferenced claims to the article. NëŧΜǒńğerPeace Talks 12:35, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
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A highly dubious population figure of 4,575,000 has been given but when I tried to remove I was reverted by another user who believes that the given source is correct. I have seen this behaviour before where editors with no local knowledge use a single source to back up dubious facts.
According to the official 2011 census the population of the entire Colombo District was 2,309,809 in 2012. Gampaha District's population was 2,294,641. So the combined Colombo-Gampaha districts had a population of 4,604,550. If the assertion that the Colombo metropolitan area population of 4,575,000 is correct this would mean that only 29,450 people in the Colombo-Gampaha district area didn't live in the Colombo metropolitan area. This would mean towns such as Gampaha, Negombo, Mirigama and Ja-Ela would all have to be a part of Colombo. Anyone with local knowledge would know that this isn't the case.--obi2canibetalk contr 19:33, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
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There's something with given phonetic pronunciation. I am not the phonetic expert myself but I copy-pasted the given pronunciation in a phonetic synthesizer and that was definitely out. I think someone should correct this! — Preceding unsigned comment added by INKA000 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
There are many (almost a 100) result for the search: "the capital colombo". Is it legitimate to call Colombo the capital despite it not officially being the capital? Will it not mislead the reader?
If it is, then I think we should delete the "the capital" from all these results. Orielno (talk) 11:02, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
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ḻ is very misleading and leads to incorrect pronunciation of the letter ழ. The name should be pronounced "Kozhumpu" and not "Kolumpu" in Tamil. 182.79.4.250 (talk) 11:37, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
This page is in the process of being renamed to Company Roads, the new official name of the suburb in English, officially renamed by the Sri Lankan government in 2023. Draft proposal approved.
The page for the new name Company Roads has been approved. Due to common name policy in Wikipedia, this page will remain under a compromise and transition phase for now. Despite it being under the wishes of the government, the community itself and local diplomatic missions to overcome painful colonial historic legacy and stigma. It is also for social justice and reconciliation. It relates to post-colonial identity. It also implies a shift in urban transformation and modernisation. Further sources and data will be awaited. Entryothrr (talk) 21:33, 8 October 2023 (UTC)