Talk:Sri Lanka

Month names

Jeffrey Bernstein suggests there has been a decision to use full month names (February instead of Feb.) I'm of a divided mind & slightly prefer the abbreviation, but I don't recall any discussion or decision ever being made. Richard Jensen 22:12, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Sorry I changed it. I just checked an email and you said, "you dislike all state abbreviations" -- oops. Okay. I'm out of here.Jeffrey Scott Bernstein 22:16, 6 March 2008 (CST)

the US post office 2-letter state abbreviations bug me (I'm never quite sure whether AR is Arizona or Arkansas or what Missouri Mississippi and Montana should be). :) Richard Jensen 22:29, 6 March 2008 (CST)

An email from CZ has returned me to this site. So I can take a moment to say: The Chicago Manual of Style prefers February __, ____. However, what surprises me is that no CZ discussion let alone decision has ever been made on this most elementary point. I think I better give up proofreading altogether on CZ. But would that mean . . . that no one is a pure proofreader on CZ? In almost every article I read, certainly including my own, there is usually at least one inadvertent mishap. In a recent New Draft of the Week, five or more people voted for a certain article (a wonderful article), but not one of those persons fixed the typos I found, include an entire line doubled by accident. It seems to me that I WAS the only "pure" proofreader here. But I don't need the headache or spectre of ambiguous regulations.Jeffrey Scott Bernstein 22:49, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Deletion of one section

I removed a section from the beginning of the culture section as it seemed to be straightforward paraphrasing of the abstract from an article in the Journal of Historical Geography. Maybe the content could be mentioned elsewhere? John Stephenson 02:43, 7 March 2008 (CST)

I restored it. We don't do original research at CZ, instead we summarize scholarship by others (in this case with a full attribution to the author),Richard Jensen 18:07, 7 March 2008 (CST)