Category talk:British colonies

Does Sri Lanka belong here? The colony was Ceylon—and it seems to inappropriate to list a currently existing independence nation-state as under "British colonies". "Former British colonies", maybe—but that's a whole other category that would not include things like "Basutoland". And non of the others are listed anyway. I am thinking we need a Category:Commonwealth Countries. Haven't found an existing one.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 20:35, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Well, the problem as you can see is that Ceylon is in fact a redirect to Sri Lanka; were the colonial and pre- and post-colonial histories to be split onto different pages, it would make sense to only have the Category tag for the colonial one, but as things are...

James F. (talk) 17:08, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)