Talk:American Ceylon Mission

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Former good article nomineeAmerican Ceylon Mission was a Philosophy and religion good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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January 21, 2008Good article nomineeNot listed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 5, 2007.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the American Ceylon Mission founded Asia's first all girls boarding school in 1824, in Sri Lanka?

In line citation request[edit]

Will be updating per request Taprobanus (talk) 14:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA review[edit]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

  1. Is it reasonably well written?
    A. Prose quality:
    see below
    B. MoS compliance:
  • What is American Ceylon Mission (ACM) is not clear from first sentence. Is it an organisation or a sequence of events? see Wikipedia:LAYOUT#First_paragraph. Need a dictionary type definition "ACM is..."
  1. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
    A. References to sources:
    Ref 1: "Hudson, Dennis (January 1992). Religious Controversy in British India: Dialogues in South Asian Languages. State University of New York. ISBN 0791408272." Page nos. needed.
    B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
  • ref needed for "At the dawn of the 19th century the American Missionaries came to Jaffna to preach Christan Gospel, but in actual fact they propagated the ideals of a new nation, pulsating with life" in Social impact.
  • "seminary brought about a tremendous upsurge the like of which has never been seen in the country before or after."
  • {{Fact}} tags added
  1. C. No original research:
  • "The popular Nallur Kandaswamy temple was rebuilt during the 1750s. This was also a period of revival of local literary activity." OR????
  • "For geopolitical reasons, the British saw fit to restrict the American missionaries to the Jaffna Peninsula." maybe OR
  • As it was just after the Anglo-American war of 1812, the suspicious British authorities in Calcutta asked them to leave.
  • "He founded what is considered to be the first Western Medical Mission in Asia at Panditeripo in Jaffna District"
  • "Their intrusion into Jaffna also had other unintended consequences. The concentration of efficient Protestant mission schools in Jaffna produced a revival movement among local Hindus led by Arumuga Navalar, who responded by building many more schools within the Jaffna peninsula. Local Catholics too started their own schools as a countermeasure. The state also had its share of primary and secondary schools. Thus saturated with educational opportunities, many Tamils became literate. This was used by the British colonial government to hire Tamils as government servants in British-held Ceylon, India, Malaysia and Singapore."what were intended
  1. Is it broad in its coverage?
    A. Major aspects:
    See below. yr of founding and founders missing.
    B. Focused:
    "By the time Sri Lanka became independent in 1948, about 60% of government jobs were held by Tamils, who formed hardly 15% of the population. The popularly elected leaders of the country saw it as an outcome of a strategy by the British to control the majority Sinhalese that needed to be redressed. These measures deteriorated the already frail political relationship between the communities and many experts believe it as one of the main caused of the Sri Lankan Civil War" How is ACM related???
  2. Is it neutral?
    Fair representation without bias:
    Says how "Hindu temples where razed" and "Controversy" section: NEutral. But "Batticotta Seminary was founded as a seminary for the best students from all other seminaries across the peninsula." is not neutral
  3. Is it stable?
    No edit wars, etc:
  4. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
    A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
    B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
    Image:Jaffna district.svg needs a better img caption saying how related to ACM.
  5. Overall:
    Pass or Fail:
  • "Although the British did not officially espouse any policy regarding religious conversions, they encouraged missionary activities in the Maritime Provinces except in the interior erstwhile Kandyan kingdom, where they had agreed to maintain the local Buddhist religion as part of the 1815 takeover of the kingdom" Too long. split
  • "Even when this restriction was removed, the initial divisions between North Ceylon and South Ceylon missions were maintained." which restriction??
  • "Samuel Newell lost his only child and wife in Mauritius." lost to death????
  • "His most important service was the establishment of a large hospital, of which he was physician in chief." Name of hospital needed.
  • "The primary responsibility of the missionaries was to convert as many people as possible." tis sentence needs to be in the lead.
  • Ref 5 is link to "Miron, Winslow (1862). A comprehensive Tamil and English dictionary of high and low Tamil. Madras: P.R. Hunt." Why is it needed?? REf needed for it being the first.
  • I found this: [1] described the "American Mission" which says it formed in 1816 by 3 persons, who are not named in the article.

--Redtigerxyz (talk) 14:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, will be updating as we go along Taprobanus (talk) 15:48, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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