Talk:List of rivers of Sri Lanka

Latest comment: 2 years ago by NotPedanticReally in topic what am I missing?

Recent reverts

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Hello Godfrey. Please note that brackets describing the native titles are not recommended for blue-linked articles, since description is given withing the liked article itself. And it is also required to use the english title since this is the .en wiki; unless or otherwise it is the most common title. I'd be happy to help if there is any further confusion.   Also do note that it is highly recommended that you prepare an edit summary after every edit; in this case, a revert. Regards. Rehman(+) 09:58, 18 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Deciding on the common names of rivers

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As people familiar with the subject would know, here in Sri Lanka, both languages are used for rivers on complete randomness. In other words, both the English names (i.e. Kelani River) and the Sinhala names (i.e. Kelani Ganga) are very commonly used, and is frequently switched by both English-speakers and Sinhala-speakers alike. So, to decide on fixed names for all rivers articles (both on Wikipedia and Commons), I have prepared the below table, to distinguish which is a more popular term (based on Google.lk). I am not sure what the difference between "Ganga" and "Oya" (in Sinhala) is, so I have added both anyway.

English name Sinhala name (Ganga) Sinhala name (Oya) ∴ Final article title
Mahaweli River (106,000) Mahaweli Ganga (27,400) Mahaweli Oya (195) Mahaweli River
Malvathu River (2,380) Malvathu Ganga (1) Malvathu Oya (2,300) Malvathu River
Kala River (1,580) Kala Ganga (769) Kala Oya (30,500) Kala Oya
Kelani River (84,000) Kelani Ganga (16,600) Kelani Oya (7) Kelani River
Yan River (9,670)* Yan Ganga (590)* Yan Oya (14,300) Yan Oya
Deduru River (647) Deduru Ganga (3) Deduru Oya (29,200) Deduru Oya
Walawe River (22,300) Walawe Ganga (9,390) Walawe Oya (938) Walawe River
Maduru River (19) Maduru Ganga (12) Maduru Oya (46,000) Maduru Oya
Maha River (2,800) Maha Ganga (4,490)* Maha Oya (53,300) Maha Oya
Kalu River (8,840) Kalu Ganga (87,500) Kalu Oya (1,090) Kalu Ganga
Kirindi River (502) Kirindi Ganga (98) Kirindi Oya (18,800) Kirindi Oya
Kumbukkan River (637) Kumbukkan Ganga (0) Kumbukkan Oya (7,170) Kumbukkan Oya
Menik River (2,380) Menik Ganga (11,800) Menik Oya (359) Menik Ganga
Gin River (9,110) Gin Ganga (10,700) Gin Oya (2,680) Gin Ganga
Mi River (?) Mi Ganga (44,700)* Mi Oya (40,100) Mi Oya
Gal River (5,980)* Gal Ganga (1,490)* Gal Oya (121,000) Gal Oya

Hence based on the above, I will be starting to align article names, categories, Commons pages, and other related pages to reflect the above, per WP:COMMONNAME. Asterisk (*) denotes results that are mostly not related to the intended subject (river). Bold results denoted the most common name used for the respective river. --Rehman 03:30, 10 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

Other rivers

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As above, I will be randomly listing the names of other rivers/tributaries below, simply for future reference. Feel free to add as you review the respective article(s).

English name Sinhala name (Ganga) Sinhala name (Oya) ∴ Final article title
Kotmale River (1,620) Kotmale Ganga (108) Kotmale Oya (6,400) Kotmale Oya
Kukule River (1,050) Kukule Ganga (3,940) Kukule Oya (5) Kukule Ganga

--Rehman 02:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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what am I missing?

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where's the bentota ganga? how many others are missing? if you look at the map, you can see a bunch of things that look like rivers but are missing the red dot and name. but the bentota thing is driving me nuts right now. someone enlighten me please NotPedanticReally (talk) 20:08, 30 April 2022 (UTC)Reply