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)

The Chicago Manual of Style prefers February __, ____. Also, in the amazingly well-written article "Theodore Roosevelt", which looks to be mostly written by Richard Jensen, we find: "October 27, 1880"; "September 2, 1901"; "September 6, 1901"; "October 14, 1912"; "December 9, 1913"; "February 27, 1914"; "January 6, 1919"; "June 26, 2006".Jeffrey Scott Bernstein 11:02, 10 March 2008 (CDT)

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)