User talk:Lahiru k/Archive 4

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My RfA

Hi Lahiru. I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA. It was closed at surprising 75/0/0, so I'm an admin now. MaxSem 22:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another Barnstar:)

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Flood East SL 2003 1.jpg)

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Eelam War IV article edits

Hi friend,

Please have a look on these edits of Eelam War IV article.

02:33, 20 May 2007 82.152.218.37 (Major air strikes of SLAF)
02:36, 20 May 2007 82.152.218.37 (Beginning of the war)
15:13, 29 May 2007 12345ka (LTTE air strikes)

Thank you,

--Lanka07 08:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar Lahiru

I really appreciate it. Thanks again. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 11:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA ...

Hi. Whether moral, immoral, or amoral, I thank you for your support of my request for adminship. It was successful and I am now an admin. If I can ever be of help, please let me know. Cheers, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 06:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

K S Raja

What is a wikimedia image and what kind surces do I use ? Thanks 20:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:MT-55A.jpg

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MT-55

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Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/AMG Chemmani

Hello Lahiru k,

Firstly, my apologies for the delay in progress on this case, as explained at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/AMG Chemmani.

I am writing to you because, as a party to this case, your input is required before mediation can begin, to do with an offer by an experienced non-Committee member to mediate. Please see the Parties' agreement to Tariqabjotu's offer section and provide your input, so that this case can progress. Voting will remain open for seven days, and further elaboration is provided at that link.

For the Mediation Committee, Daniel 04:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The mediation process, starting with opening statements, has begun on Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/AMG Chemmani. If you do not have the page watchlisted, I would recommend you add it to your watchlist when you get the chance. I probably won't be notifying each involved editor at every step, and the talk page should be quite active over the course of the mediation. Thanks again for waiting. -- tariqabjotu 22:49, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done, Thanks --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 06:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're not done quite yet (I presume you meant done with adding the page to your watchlist); you haven't added your opening statement to Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/AMG Chemmani. I wonder if other parties thought this message was just about adding the page to their watchlists... I'll wait a few days and see what happens. -- tariqabjotu 20:11, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thats what exactly I meant. Don't worry I'll make my statement within few hours :) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 09:08, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA :)

Thank you, ♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ_Ҝ ♫♪, for commenting on my RfA, which closed successfully with a tally of 76/0/1! I hope I will meet your expectations, and be sure I will continue trying to be a good editor as well as a good administrator :) If I may be of any assistance to you in the future (or if you see me commit some grievous error :), please drop me a line on my Talk page.

Again, thank you, and happy editing! Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weird message you sent me.

Hi,

you left a message for my IP, saying I changed something in "Gay disambiguation". I never visited that page, nor does my IP even appear in the recent change log for that page. So I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Cheers, 220.245.150.196 (at the moment!)

According to the www.dnsstuff.com[1] your IP is allocated as portable, means it can be assign for different people. So there's no need to worry about that :) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 14:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers

Good job, but why not do the same favor at Massacre at Thandikulam ? instead of leaving it with a tag when it had nothing to begin with with little interest by anyone ? 12:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I will look into it. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 06:44, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Look into it now . Thanks Taprobanus 14:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check it out now, I have wasted even more time ont :((Taprobanus 19:05, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your opinion

Hello, an article in which you took part in the AFD discussion has undergone more than 20 reverts. We are trying to get truely neutral opinion about removal of some information. [here Your esteemed opinion will be welcome. Thanks Taprobanus 14:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

my RFA

Thank you for supporting my RFA. I hope I will live up to your expectation. Let me know if you need any help, or I make any mistake. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 00:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for mediation

I'm just here issuing another reminder that the mediation has begun on Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/AMG Chemmani. Please add your opening statement when you get the chance. -- tariqabjotu 17:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

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		For the beautiful neutral write up of Massacre at Thandikulam and resolving an edit warring sitaution Taprobanus 13:02, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I kept a CSD G7 note there. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 15:19, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Done --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 15:18, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Ethiopia

Why did you revert the edits on the Ethiopia history page? Which are hardly the result of careful NPOV work? Why did you delete sourced material? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeragito (talk • contribs)

If you having a dispute with the content of that page please select an appropriate tag from this page and save it. Do not forget to justify it by adding a note to the relevant talkpage. Thanks --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 08:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you revert it back instead? I do not how to do it and I did not save what I wrote this time, so all my sources are now deleted too. That is why I am so *&^%$#....

Theres no point of modifying the article as like this. If you think Ethiopia article is not goes with WP:NPOV then place the {{POV}} on top of the article and save it. After that make a note on the Talk:Ethiopia to describe your {{POV}} tag addition. And I like to suggest you to read WP:CALM before make your next edit. Thanks --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 09:06, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will look at it tomorrow. I don't know what time it is in Sri Lanka but it is too late in California. Have a good night. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeragito (talk • contribs)

:-) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 09:40, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you reverting my edits?

In the Liverpool F.C. article.

vandalize? I wasn't doing anything of the sort! Theose edits where per FAC feedback. 82.6.160.6 08:28, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OMG sorry :( I'll fix it --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 08:33, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edits

Hey... I'm not experimenting and don't need to... I'm already a registered user, I just can't be bothered logging in. May I ask which article I removed stuff from, and if so, what info was it?? Thanks. 210.50.189.19 08:40, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seems I have misunderstood some of your edits in Love Like Winter as blanking. Anyway I will revert it back to your version now. Ah one thing more, log on before your next edit right ;-) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 08:58, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits appear to be vandalism

Well sorry if updating my own userpage looks like vandalism to you. I mean, I bet vandals go round all the time updating links, fixing things and making other peoples userpages better all the time...

Seems not only me took your edits on your userpage as vandalism. To avoid such misunderstandings please login and do the changes. Thanks --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 19:41, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Repeat reverst in Ilayathambi Tharsini

Can we work it out like Thandikulam massacre :)), why dont you join the talk page ?Taprobanus 20:09, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Look at it now Taprobanus 15:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I will look into it now. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 16:59, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

cause celebre is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning and/or heated public debate. LTTE made her death a a controversy. I dont know lets keep talking about it Taprobanus 12:51, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SLAF ensign

Machan shouldn't this have the green and orange stripes on the flag as well?

Image:Ensign_of_the_Sri_Lanka_Air_Force.svg

The June 18th version has the stripes but the editor has now removed them. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 20:15, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Machan I think the current version is the correct one but I will look into it tonight. As I know in 2001 the air force ensign and the crest were changed. I mean from the crest the Dharmacakra was replaced by the Coat of arms of Sri Lanka and the green and orange stripes were removed from the flag hence it's already contained in the Roundel. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 04:08, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfM for AMG Chemmani

I'm doing another update for those currently involved in the request for mediation. There are currently three compromises on the table at the moment; your comments on them would be appreciated. You are also welcome to add a compromise of your own and/or continue commenting on the starting points. -- tariqabjotu 05:17, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm providing yet another update on the mediation. A few of the editors recently involved on the mediation page appear to have come to an agreement on one of the compromises. Thus, especially as the pace of the mediation has slowed, I have posted a possible resolution that echoes the sentiment of the quick agreement. Please post a statement of agreement or disagreement to the resolution as soon as you are able, preferably within the next five (or seven) days. If after a reasonable period of time there is a general consensus on the resolution, the request for mediation may be closed (even if a few of the parties have not posted their statements). -- tariqabjotu 17:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm ... cake

All that cake for me? Well, you should certainly have some yourself; or maybe something slightly larger? Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 00:01, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On June 29, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Terry Gabreski, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Well done Lahiru! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MiszaBot

Hello Lahiru, it seems you removed the MiszaBot link from WT:SLR in May[2]. What was the reason, and is there anything against reactivating it now? — Sebastian 21:10, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I had to remove temporary that link to resolve this editwar. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Since there no much more activities in the WT:SLR, we can do the archiving jobs our selfs. Isn't it? --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 04:40, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We always can (and could) do the archiving ourselves. The problem was that nobody actually did it, except for me, and I got tired of being the only one. That doesn't seem to have changed - or would you be willing to do it? — Sebastian 07:38, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My Account is Hijacked

Lahiru, I didn't change the LTTE intro today. Somebody has cracked my account and using it to do malicious changes. I very well know it's a result of a mediation. Light Years 11:02, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Edit

Can you please mention which sentence is not in a neutral tone on the LTTE article ? All of what I added are undisputed are facts. What is this mediation, how is it relevant to whats there now ? Surely anyone can edit the article. Tell me which neutral policy rule I have broken and we can discuss from there. Sinhala freedom 13:41, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tourism in Sri Lanka

Hi Machan,

I created the article Tourism in Sri Lanka under Economy, better if you can add some fantastic photos relating to the topic.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 18:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Culture and arts

Hi Machan,

I have add some details under this topic into Sri Lanka article, could you please have a look on that. Please correct it if it is any error or any suitable way.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 15:15, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

LTTE and Norway

Hey man, why are you deleting the discussion about the Norway's support on LTTE? What makes you think we are meatpuppets? Light Years 02:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I read that you are accused of being a coward. I don't see you as a coward though, more as a person that strives to build a reliable encyclopedia, based on well researched material. If a statement can be supported by good sources it can be added to an article, if not it should be kept out. I salute that effort and hope you keep up the good work! Best regards - Ulflarsen 17:54, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lahiru, it is unacceptable to think people who don't agree with your opinion are meatpuppets and you call yourself a Sri Lankan nationalists! You have deleted stuff from the LTTE page without any discussion. Multiple users believe that stuff should be in the article. If you don't agree with Asian Tribune as source, then add a fact tag or something. It is a shame some of us don't seem to accept difference of opinions and are intent on shutting out the contribution of others. This isn't LTTEs Vanni here! You need to know the meaning of democratic pluralism... Sinhala freedom 23:17, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sinhala freedom, could I suggest you establish a consensus on the article talk page before reintrodicing the content? Addhoc 23:55, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We were trying to reach consensus on this subject and I got the discussion started on the talk page, but Lahiru keeps deleting Light Years and my comments on this subject. Deleting other people's comment I feel is unacceptable and something should be done about it. Sinhala freedom 01:12, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may call me a coward or a jackass or anything coz of all these low level idiots threatening and looking down on other people. All these have become a part of my wiki life now and I don't give a FUCK!!! since I don't want to feed the TROLLS. If the Mr. Sinhala Freedom thinks he's a clean suit please go ahead and explain this before you take any actions against me without being a DICK!!! Anyway, thanks Ulf for your encouragement, sure I'm going to keep up with all this. As you said I don't mind the real coward(s) adding such statements on the article based on well researched material. Due to the unacceptable behavior of the owner of the User:Sinhala freedom account, User:Light Years seems to be a troll for me. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 10:47, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't wish to answer any questions you may have till you use clean language and treat other wikipedians with respect. Anyone is free to edit these page and put in reliable info. Nevertheless, I will put this incident behind and kindly ask you to provide your views for the arguments presented on the LTTE talk page regarding Norway support of the LTTE as I have mentioned to all others. If you do not wish to be involved in the discussion or wish to abstain, then please don't obstruct the work of others. I would kindly encourage you to participate and actively seek a consensus with those you don't agree with. Sinhala freedom 11:50, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's pretty sad to see how you guys take such things so personally regardless of your high level of expertise. I was trying to build a consensus in the talk page regarding this controversial matter. But suddenly some people came and wiped out everything without any clear explanation whatsoever. "Unreliable Source" seems to be the best and easiest explanation in their arsenal. If you think I'm trolling regarding this subject and the evidence is total bullshit, may the triple gem bless you brother!!! Light Years 09:18, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Sri Lankan Civil War

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Sri Lankan Civil War

I was holding off further discussion in this mediation until the outcome of the deletion debate on Commons. Given that the image that was the subject of the dispute has now been deleted due to copyright issues, is there any reason to keep this mediation open? If none of the parties express a wish to continue with the process, I will close the mediation in a few days. WjBscribe 01:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In reply to your comment on the mediation page, we need to have something to discuss - the fact that someone might upload the image in future seems rather remote to have the discussion now rather than later. If you or someone else are in a position to reupload this image we'd have something to talk about, but at the moment it seems that a lot of time would be spent on a discussion that would be academic. In particular, when the image was ultimately uploaded - what if the particants were different (people come and go from Wikipedia). Those who hadn't taken part in this mediation would understandably not wish to be bound by it and would probably want to revive the discussion. Which is why I wanted to know if people thought it was worth continuing in the circumstances. WjBscribe 18:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SLR award

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		For your etireless effort in Sri lanka reconciliation related tasks Taprobanus 17:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thanks --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 12:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Haha

Yo check out this article The Future Global Educational Center. Lassanata hadala ;) I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted yet. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 18:33, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there is any use Wikifing it machan cos it's probably not notable enough to have its own article. Someone will probably come across it eventually and speedy delete it. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 13:37, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Kaaba images

Do you have any idea of the origin of information of these images which you had uploaded? [10], [11] thanks --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 11:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Haha he think you're Mystiq's sock :) --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 13:41, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks! It was not seven hours straight, though, I did take long breaks... I just noticed, that the article count for WikiProject Sri Lanka appeared to be a bit neglected, and not even Murali is "officially" covered by the WP Sri Lanka. On paper, even WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants (of all things, good heavens!) is four times bigger than WP Sri Lanka. There are plenty of articles and plenty of activity, but it's not really connected to the project at the moment. I'm going to keep tagging articles, and I think the categories are not applied systematically and consistently to towns - I rather suspect there are relatively many articles still uncategorized (that's how I found myself messing around Sri Lanka, by following uncategorized articles). I'll have to poke around a bit! – Sadalmelik 19:47, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plainlinks

Hi. I didn't know this could be done. It'll be useful whenever I'm linking to diffs or old versions of a page. Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 17:15, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Vandalism

I received a message from you claiming that edits I made were "unproductive" and appeared to be vandalism. Can you please elaborate? The only edits I made during the time period in question were some minor corrections to an article about evil henchmen in James Bond films. For instance, I changed the word "cologne" to the word "aftershave" -- which is, I believe, the term used in the script. If making such minor corrections constitutes vandalism in your mind, I suppose we must have pretty different ideas of what that term means. 68.49.37.138 05:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)Matt[reply]

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Eelam War IV

Please be kind enough to edit the section of "War in east" in Eelam War IV article.

Also see this edit

"17:36, 19 July 2007 124.43.107.23 (Talk) (28,712 bytes) (rebels not terrorists)"

Thanks,

--Lanka07 17:51, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Attack to the article

Dear Friend,

Please see these edits. It is replacing LTTE terrorists as rebles. The LTTE is nominated by 33 countries as torrorist group. This is not allowed to use rebels.

21:20, 21 July 2007 Watchdogb (readded proscribed part)
21:19, 21 July 2007 Watchdogb (Revert to revision 146177466 dated 2007-07-21 19:36:40 by Lanka07 using popups)

We need to create Gotabaya Rajapaksa new article.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 21:37, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prof Raveendranath

He was an innocent Sri Lankan patriot who has been dissapeared but if yoou think that TMVP did not do it, why not add those sources ? Taprobanus 14:22, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tomorrow definitely I will reply on the article talkpage. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 17:45, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Theater of Eelam War IV

Hi Machan,

I created a new article Eastern Theater of Eelam War IV for the purpose of summarising the main article Eelaw War IV.

What about the article Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 15:47, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Argument about 33 countries

Hi Machan,

I am criticizing the following statement of "Watchdogb" user.

"the world" Last I check there was over 100 countries. So 33/100 is only 1/3 of world. Thus they are not "terrorists".

The 33 countries designated the LTTE as a terrorist group, most of them which has diplomatic relations with government of Sri Lanka. Other countries do not have diplomatic ties, and then they are not bothering about LTTE. So, his argument is baseless.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 19:35, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Language requests

Machang,
I have received this request, but I think you are in a better position to help this user :

Could you please add Sinhalese text to the articles Sri Lanka Scout Association and The Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association. Thank you! Chris 21:15, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Jasy jatere 21:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Sri Lankan Civil War

Hi Machan,

I have a suggestion about the re-organising the article Sri Lankan Civil War into 2 parts.

(i) Socio and economic. 1.Origin. 2.Involvement of Internatin community (India/Norway). 3.Peace effort. 4.Impact on social activities. 5.Impact on economy. (ii) Military activities.

Please reply me on this.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 13:09, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Hi Machan,

I have created the article Gotabaya Rajapaksa and please see this and do some edits on it. Also see the 2 images uploaded has the correct licensing.

Thank you,

--Lanka07 18:27, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Hi Machan,

Could you please see article Gotabaya Rajapaksa someone has put NPOV tag.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 15:22, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rajini Thiranagama

Could you see this edit at article Sri Lankan Civil War

20:37, 4 August 2007 Harlowraman (Rajini Thiranagama has a separate article her killing is not notable in the context of Sri Lankan Civil War.Hence Removing it)

Thanks,

--Lanka07 20:48, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vadamarachchi Operation

Hi Machan,

We need your contribution to new article Vadamarachchi Operation.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 17:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Two DYKs

Yep, two hooks in a nom is fine, provided both articles meet the criteria and you can come up with a good way to link them. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 20:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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DYK

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Sinhala Slangs

Hi Lahiru, thanks for the welcome message and offering to help. I am new in here not sure if this is what you mean by writing to you in your talk page if I need help. If I am doing the wrong thing, please delete this entry after you help me. :)

{{helpme}} Being rather new to Wikipedia, I do know have rights (or I do not know how) to move the article Sinala Slangs.I want to move it to Sinhala Slang since it is the proper title gramatically. I would also like to have a redirect from original title. Ritigala Jayasena 10:23, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} I also need help regarding protecting the Sinhala Slangs article from vandalism. This article is being constantly vandalised. Especially due to the nature of the article, there are so many people who oppose the contents and there are so many who want to jump in the bandwagon and unload their thoughts. Article is being vandalized by both parties. Ritigala Jayasena 10:25, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:RFPP. --Sopoforic 10:29, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} How do I get the Sinhala fonts which appear in articles such as Sinhalese language and Sinhala Slang? The words appear to as just squares, which indicates that I do not have fonts. I am a Windows XP professional user Ritigala Jayasena 03:10, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Try looking at WP:INDIC#Unicode OpenType fonts. —Kurykh 03:48, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Help to save the Sinhala Slang article. Please give our thoughts at Delete Talk Page. I beleive referances can be found and will be included in the article. Scholarly articles on Sinhala language is anyway rare on the net, and I do not agree on making it an excuse to delete the article. The native speakers of Sinhala knows that this is an accurate list of Sinhala slang. The only reason that I can think of that a native speaker of Sinhala opposes this article, is the awakwardness of seeing Sinhala profanity in print (which they are not used to), If the offending section is only the profanity, perhaps we should get rid of only that section. I also have doubts why Sri Lankan Tamil slang has only recived an warning and not recomended for deletion. The article Sri Lankan Tamil slang does not have any more referances than Sinhala Slang, and only differance is that it is not being honest about it in "Referances" section like Sinhala Slang. Ritigala Jayasena 14:49, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Lahiru, thank you for your support on Sinhala Slang. It is now deleted and I am not going to campaign for undeletion as I also agree that there are two major issues with it. (WP is not a dictionary, and WP is not for OR). However, I want to publish this work in few Sri Lanka sites. Ritigala Jayasena 05:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK - W.N.T. Beckett

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Sinhalese Scouting

Hello, and thank you for your contributions! Can you help render Sudhanamva, "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Sinhalese script? Thanks once again! Chris 03:47, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! Chris 17:27, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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3RR

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Articles Tagged (Rukmani Devi / Geetha Kumarasinghe)

Machan,

Could you please do something to remove the tags of articles,

Thanks,

--Lanka07 20:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent

Machan,

The user:Watchdogb is attacking the articles like,

Could you please have a look into this matter.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 20:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Why History of Batticaloa is not meaningful?

I don't know what kind of meanig you want.This article is about the history of Batticaloa. And this artilce is being tranlated from Mattakkallppu Manmium.Well —Preceding unsigned comment added by SunderKV (talk • contribs) 04:29, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sri Lankan Army

Good work on the compromise at the article. How do you feel about adding some stuff to the See also ? Some link to some massacres ? Watchdogb 15:38, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a BIG thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talkpage. How about adding Human rights in Sri Lanka to the see also of army article? --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 16:26, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anytime! I was thinking the exact same thing. Watchdogb 16:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion - Tourism in Sri Lanka

Please come to the discussion on Tourism in Sri Lanka artcile's Vandalism by the users like "Sinhala freedom" and "Watchdogb". They are trying add more details about LTTE terrorism and indirectly spoilling the name of LTTE among the international community. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lanka07 (talk • contribs) 20:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you 64.22.116.138 20:44, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Re:Manchan how is this new template :)

Ela machan. Just what we needed. What's the text to use to generate the template? We need to link it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka/Outreach --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 19:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK

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----ST47Talk·Desk 18:32, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

25th Airborne (Ukraine)

Found that information on military forums, posted by former or current officers and serviceman. I'll try to find as many official sources as I can.Ceriy 16:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All of the history comes from units official webpage, a page called History of the Brigade and unofficial webpage of the brigade. All the links are in a section External links. How should I put references in the History section? I though that providing 3 links was enough. And there is no information available in English only Ukrainian. Ceriy 07:54, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New guy

Hi,

I send a message to Snowfld4 to build my user page, could you help me on this.

Good day,

--Canberaguy 22:02, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What are you talking about?

I'm using a school computer, and I DID give a edit summary, so I deserve more than just a default message. 82.148.70.2 10:56, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and furthermore, you didn't revert me, you're REALLY confusing me, please give a reason to instead of a default message, you're really confusing me. 82.148.70.2 11:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's ok dude, I'm a member of Wikipedia myself and have done mistakes like that. And of course I won't tell what my Wikipedia username is because I want to keep my IP (and the school IP I use) a privacy. 82.148.70.2 11:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism comment you made

What vandalism have I done? You mean the whole Sugababes thing, well I wasn't vandalising, I was just trying to create a better template, but obviously you didn't like it. Why do you allow people to edit this website when evidently you abhor the contribution people make? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.207.85 (talk) 12:18, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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--Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 21:12, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lexicon RfC

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Sure. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 14:38, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

America's Next Top Model, Cycle 9

Why did you delete the callout table from America's Next Top Model, Cycle 9? Are you familiar with WP:SPOILER? —dgies^t_c 15:57, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

		My RFA
		Thanks for your support in my request for adminship, which ended with 58 supports, 1 opposes, and 1 neutral. I hope your confidence in me proves to be justified. Addhoc 18:54, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Add Weblinks

I noticed one article relating to Sri Lankan civil war Eastern_Theater_of_Eelam_War_IV has many tags with "Citations needed". So, I add some Weblinks to it.--Canberaguy 18:45, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Code for E-mail Option in user page

Could you pls send me the code show the E-mail and talk option on my user page. I have e-mail account configurred in my wiki user account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Canberaguy (talk • contribs) 18:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A better edit summary?

Hi, may I suggest a clearer edit summary in cases where you are removing delete tags after AfD discussions close. The comment "bye bye!" in the ES for Kattankudi mosque massacre made it appear like potential vandalism, which of course it was not. The time I spent verifying the article's status could have been used elsewhere if your edit summary had been properly descriptive. Thanks. --- Taroaldo 03:33, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Done :) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 16:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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--Carabinieri 14:14, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Need your help

Hi Lahiru,

I need your regarding the article Mount Lavinia Hotel's images copyright status, could you please see this and inform me.-thanks --Canberaguy 20:22, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent

Hi,

Why my user page nominated for deletion ? --Canberaguy 20:36, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :D

Ask for help

Would you mind add some references of the Inter-service decorations of the United States military?

Thank you.--东北虎(Manchurian Tiger) 08:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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SR Insignia

It's in your sandbox as you requested. Commons images are showing through right now, but don't rely on them, as they will be nominated for deletion shortly. I hated to delete that nice looking article, by the way, but even if the insignia themselves are not copyrighted (and I'm not saying they're not, but even if), the images made by that website are. Good luck with the article! -- But|seriously|folks 07:14, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking about that before. One problem with using somebody else's image as fair use (actually, Wikipedia's non-free content policy) is going to be the argument that it could be replaced with an image created by the uploader and released under a free license. (WP:NFCC#1) Another problem could be WP:NFCC#8, but I would argue that there's no way to convey an understanding of the insignia without showing it. Someone will probably argue that non-free images are rarely permitted in galleries and lists, but I think this might be one of the rare cases where it should be allowed. You can always ask the folks that hang out at Wikipedia:Fair use review for an opinion. -- But|seriously|folks 08:02, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Policy

This. Take care Taprobanus 01:19, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

Thanks for the tip will try to keep that i mind. Nitraven 05:40, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use Image:Lieutenant_general_SLA.gif

Replaceable fair use

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Replaceable fair use Image:Warrant_officer_class_i_SLA.gif

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Replaceable fair use Image:Warrant_officer_class_ii_SLA.gif

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Replaceable fair use Image:Staff_Sergeant_SLA.gif

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Replaceable fair use Image:Sergeant_SLA.gif

Replaceable fair use

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Replaceable fair use Image:Corporal_SLA.gif

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