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Date	Process	Result
October 31, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
February 11, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 5, 2010	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
March 31, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
April 5, 2012	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
November 15, 2016	Good article nominee	Not listed
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The Driving Side

Please note that the driving side must be "right". HMPK AMARAWARDANA (talk) 04:08, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with Indonesia

Sri Lanka also shares a maritime border with Indonesia. It can add it, so. 2001:448A:11A1:1AE4:1119:6332:EBCB:A48B (talk) 06:48, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Socialism in Sri Lanka

CHAPTER I. THE PEOPLE, THE STATE AND SOVEREIGNTY 1. The State Sri Lanka (Ceylon) is a Free, Sovereign, Independent and Democratic Socialist Republic and shall be known as the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

CHAPTER VI. DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY AND FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES 27. Directive Principles of State Policy 2. The State is pledged to establish in Sri Lanka a Democratic Socialist Society, the objectives of which include – the full realization of the fundamental rights and freedoms of all persons; the promotion of the welfare of the People by securing and protecting as effectively as it may, a social order in which justice (social, economic and political) shall guide all the institutions of the national life; the realization by all citizens of an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including adequate food, clothing and housing, the continuous improvement of living conditions and the full enjoyment of leisure and social and cultural opportunities; the rapid development of the whole country by means of public and private economic activity and by laws prescribing such planning and controls as may be expedient for directing and co-ordinating such public and private economic activity towards social objectives and the public weal; the equitable distribution among all citizens of the material resources of the community and the social product, so as best to subserve the common good; the establishment of a just social order in which the means of production, distribution and exchange are not concentrated and centralised in the State, State agencies or in the hands of a privileged few, but are dispersed among and owned by, all the People of Sri Lanka; raising the moral and cultural standards of the People and ensuring the full development of human personality; and the complete eradication of illiteracy and the assurance to all persons of the right to universal and equal access to education at all levels. Gorgonopsi (talk) 12:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

https://constituteproject.org/constitution/Sri_Lanka_2015 Gorgonopsi (talk) 12:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka" is already included and need not be repeated. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On Government it needs to be added Gorgonopsi (talk) 20:37, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Once is enough. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:37, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Except this is officially in the constitution as ideology, not just a title. Gorgonopsi (talk) 22:40, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

About Driving Side

Driving side should be right 2402:4000:B198:5EF5:7D81:619A:6E4A:5FED (talk) 09:01, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Driving side is left - see [1]. Dan arndt (talk) 13:34, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have amended the template which was saying Driving side rather than Drives on. In Sri Lanka, the driving side is the right (driver sits on the right of the car) while the driver drives on the left. SilkTork (talk) 15:18, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Food colapse 2021-2022

Interesting paper (doi:10.1002/moda.18) describing what happened after Sri Lanka has banned chemical fertilisers and pesticides based on misinformation. --Julius Senegal (talk) 09:58, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]