Talk:Matale

Merger discussion

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to merge Amina Girls' National School Matale into Matale. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:49, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amina Girls' National School Matale, I am proposing that we merge Amina Girls' National School Matale into this article. The sources do no more than verify the school's existence, so there is no basis for a standalone article. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Notable individuals

Why isn't Kumar Sangakkara included? He was born in Matale; the Sangakkara family are from Matale. Deoxy tri (talk) 00:45, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Inconsistent British and American spellings

This includes the |engvar= parameter of {{langx}}. 2600 etc (talk) 17:06, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Resolved. {{Use British English}} is in the article header and has been consistently applied throughout; |engvar=en-gb added to {{langx}} calls. {{British English}} banner added to talk page. Somethingwithproof (talk) 30 March 2026 (UTC)

March 2026 MOS cleanup and expansion

Significant cleanup and expansion carried out March 2026. Summary of changes:

• Infobox: Removed commas from numeric area fields (broke population_density_km2=auto); converted bare URL refs to {{cite web}}; corrected dead citypopulation.info URL to citypopulation.de; removed provincial flag (not district-specific); removed redundant seat1; lowercased "Official languages" and "Large towns" per MOS:CAPS.
• Lead: Expanded from two sentences to three paragraphs per WP:LEAD; updated UNESCO WHS count to three (Sigiriya, Dambulla, Knuckles); removed evaluative language per WP:PEACOCK.
• History: Corrected Ibbankatuwa date from unsourced "3,000 years" to "750–400 BCE" per archaeological record; added inline citations for Aluvihare/Pali Canon (Lonely Planet), Sigiriya/Kashyapa (National Geographic), and Matale Rebellion (Ceylon History Stories); removed {{Unreferenced section}}.
• Geography: Closed {{Unreferenced section}} with Central Environmental Authority source.
• New sections: Flora and fauna (IUCN, UNDP); Administration (DCS 2020 GND data); Economy and agriculture (fully cited — DEA, World Bank ASMP P156019, JGSSL Vol.13, Global InCH); Transport (Sri Lanka Railways); Education (Central Province DoE).
• Economy: Removed {{Unreferenced section}}; replaced mysrilankaholidays.com (commercial tour operator, fails WP:RS) with srilanka.travel (SLTDA official portal).
• Heritage sites: Added Knuckles Conservation Forest (UNESCO #1203, 2010) consistently across lead, Flora section, and Heritage sites list.
• Cities/Towns: Moved Dambulla (Municipal Council) from Towns to Cities per Sri Lanka administrative structure.
• UNESCO URLs: Added trailing slash to all three whc.unesco.org refs (403 without slash).
• Categories: Added ; fixed {{Commons category}} missing argument.
• WikiProjects: Added WikiProject South Asia, WikiProject Asia, WikiProject Buddhism; added {{British English}} banner; upgraded class Start→C; fixed banner order per Wikipedia:Talk page layout.
• Talk page: Removed stale 2018 IABot "External links modified" section per Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#Archiving; corrected banner order (bot config → language banner → WikiProject shell → attribution template); added {{To do}} with path-to-B checklist.

Somethingwithproof (talk) 30 March 2026 (UTC)