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Please review what you wrote: "Ceylon can mean many different times in the history of Sri Lanka." Aside from the fact that you seem to be stating that "Ceylon" refers to "Sri Lanka", there is also an extensive history section in the
Sri Lanka article with an extra link to
History of Sri Lanka. And there is a link at the top of the Sri Lanka article referring editors to the
Ceylon (disambiguation) page if it isn't the article they want. Last month, there were about ten times as many hits to the
Ceylon redirect than to the disambiguation page, implying that at least 90% of the people who look up "Ceylon" are happy with the article
Sri Lanka. Can you point out any links to "Ceylon" that are incorrect if they point to
Sri Lanka instead of another article?
Dekimasuよ!14:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)reply
Agree with Dekimasu. Without some better evidence, common sense indicates
Sri Lanka as offering the best context for understanding the historical terms.
older ≠
wiser15:51, 18 July 2009 (UTC)reply
I agree that
Sri Lanka is the primary usage of "Ceylon". Many countries have had varying boundaries over the centuries, but we don't let that stop us from using the common name of the country to point to the article about the current country, either as the name of the article or as a redirect from another term for which the country is the primary usage, as here.
PamD (
talk)
16:31, 18 July 2009 (UTC)reply
Those numbers are closer together than the ones I remember seeing, too. It seems like I must have been looking at the March or April statistics (which were 10:1) rather than the June ones.
Dekimasuよ!01:25, 19 July 2009 (UTC)reply
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Please review what you wrote: "Ceylon can mean many different times in the history of Sri Lanka." Aside from the fact that you seem to be stating that "Ceylon" refers to "Sri Lanka", there is also an extensive history section in the
Sri Lanka article with an extra link to
History of Sri Lanka. And there is a link at the top of the Sri Lanka article referring editors to the
Ceylon (disambiguation) page if it isn't the article they want. Last month, there were about ten times as many hits to the
Ceylon redirect than to the disambiguation page, implying that at least 90% of the people who look up "Ceylon" are happy with the article
Sri Lanka. Can you point out any links to "Ceylon" that are incorrect if they point to
Sri Lanka instead of another article?
Dekimasuよ!14:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)reply
Agree with Dekimasu. Without some better evidence, common sense indicates
Sri Lanka as offering the best context for understanding the historical terms.
older ≠
wiser15:51, 18 July 2009 (UTC)reply
I agree that
Sri Lanka is the primary usage of "Ceylon". Many countries have had varying boundaries over the centuries, but we don't let that stop us from using the common name of the country to point to the article about the current country, either as the name of the article or as a redirect from another term for which the country is the primary usage, as here.
PamD (
talk)
16:31, 18 July 2009 (UTC)reply
Those numbers are closer together than the ones I remember seeing, too. It seems like I must have been looking at the March or April statistics (which were 10:1) rather than the June ones.
Dekimasuよ!01:25, 19 July 2009 (UTC)reply