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An interesting CFD

Why do you think that this CFD generated so much interest so many new users ? Watchdogb (talk) 17:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Because newbies are taking us back to pre WP:SLR days. We had spared Wikipedia of these silly arguments for the last 2 years. Taprobanus (talk) 18:35, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Madhu church shelling

Thanks. I noticed this article when you added the link to Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu which is on my watchlist. :D Wiki San Roze ^†αLҝ 17:46, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Tamil language

You're right, this article definitely needs some more work. Sundar and I discussed that a while ago, but we didn't get anywhere. Do you have any ideas as to where to start? -- Arvind (talk) 18:33, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Please help us celebrate our anniversary!

Please check out Anniversary - let's celebrate! Your suggestions are very welcome. — Sebastian 22:24, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

email still the same

I have your old e-mail, is it still the same ? Taprobanus (talk) 14:06, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeppers. Good to hear from you. Ikip (talk) 14:18, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Locations

Saw your note on list of attacks, go for it. Unrelated - Thought you might be interested in [this]. See the drop down menu down the bottom of the page.-Iross1000 (talk) 22:10, 23 January 2009 (UTC).

Re: Christianity in Tamil Nadu

Yes, will work on that sometime soon. Thanks for pointing that out. Cheers Wiki San Roze ^†αLҝ 21:48, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Sri Lanka Reconciliation Award

		The Sri Lanka Reconciliation Award
		For your cool head, civility, NPOV, and overall exemplary adherence to the principles of an encyclopedia, the members of WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation decided, at Kerr avon's suggestion, to present you the Sri Lanka Reconciliation Award on the occasion of our second anniversary. — Sebastian 23:12, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Madhu church shelling

On January 25, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Madhu church shelling, 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.

Dravecky (talk) 00:01, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

About the request for the image

With regard to the request you made here, I'm afraid I won't be able to do this in the near future. I'm a bit busy with studies these days, so I don't think I'd be able to manage it. Sorry about this :( Chamal ^talk 12:19, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for the award.-Iross1000 (talk) 06:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC).

Hi

Hey, what's up? Can i contact you through chat, buddy:-)-Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 13:19, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Award

Thanks for your appreciation for my nomination of you.You are a good editor and deserve the award :-) Please feel free to drop me a e mailKerr avon (talk) 16:01, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Your views

Talk:Battle of Mullaitivu (2009): Here's a discussion on how the international reaction should be included. Thankfully wikipedia is not just a consensus building exercise between two friends, and I'm of the view that the German and Norwegian reactions are far more relevant than the others. Your thoughts on the talk page would be greatly appreciated. Wubbabubba (talk) 19:30, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Notable Vs Non Notable

I really dont understand the comment you had left in my talk page or why you left that message .. 07:01, 30 January 2009 (UTC)~

Few more

Should we add Akkaraipattu massacre back to list of military attacks again ? We should also write an article on 1987 indian army massacre/killings in one article, see this, most of the civilians who died during the IPKF time, died during Operation Pawan.-Iross1000 (talk) 01:47, 31 January 2009 (UTC).

replied in ur talk pageTaprobanus (talk) 06:59, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

WikiThanks

Tap, good to see you again, thanks for taking the time to comment on Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(fiction)#Final_adoption_as_a_guideline. I am glad you see how important this guideline will be, since it will determine the inclusion or exclusion of television character and television episodes. Thank you. Ikip (talk) 10:42, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Chola mediation

Hi, why did you not leave a message either on the Chola talk page or on my talk page regarding what changes I seek to the page. Well of course I am working on them. Sadly two books I purchased at Tiruchy (one was Ancient India by K.A.N.Sastry) were left at my mom's house at Srirangam.

Of course, I found that around 2-3 Jan. it seems Yellow Monkey entered the Chola article and made changes to the list of great kings by removing the names of Aditya I, Parantaka I, Vira Rajendra, Kulothunga III etc. among others. Just now I left a message on the Talk: Chola Dynasty for Sebastian and on his talk page also, requesting him to examine the same.

Is the kind of intrusion by YellowMonkey allowed? that too into a blocked article that is under neutral mediation by Sebastian.

Anyways, can you and Sebastian examine the change I sought on that talk page? Thanks. It seems Sebastian did not like my formatting of the same request made earlier. I wanted to type plain words, but somehow they got entangled into a table typed above them. Well, being a new editor these problems I will face for some more time, I guess. But kindly help out if possible.

Srirangam99 (talk) 06:47, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Taps. One point regarding inclusion of Kulothunga III among notable rulers was amicably resolved. Dinesh chipped in too. It was nice of him. Dinesh quoted and I did not disagree or dispute (rather that material is quite helpful in zeroing on the period of the actual) Decline of the Cholas. As per 4-5 incidents quoted by Dinesh the Decline of Cholas was between 1213 (definitely after 1210 AD to 1279/81 AD when they ceased to exist).

So I have sought two changes (presently I am insisting on the first part) that the decline of the Cholas started (not in the beginning of the 12th century but) in the beginning of the 13th century (AD 1212 onwards) and their rule came to an end (in 1279/81 AD) in the 3rd quarter of the 13th century.

Can you help with this. Dinesh quoted extensively about attack of Pandiyans, help to the Cholas by Hoysalas, restoration of rule of the Cholas with Hoysala help, all after AD 1210 -- which actually reinforce the above contention of their decline starting from beginning of 13th century.

(My second point will be of course, about Hoysalas NOT being the cause of their decline - mainly because they fought alongside the Cholas and because they were (1) friendly and non-adversarial to the Cholas and (most important) (2) the demise of the Cholas was not followed (automatically and never indeed) by the establishment of rule of at least the Chola areas by the Hoysalas, but it was the Pandiyans who had been rising like a phoenix right from 1170 AD in the Tamil country, who eventually replaced the Cholas in Tanjore/Uraiyur(Tiruchy), Kanchi, and of course their own areas Madurai/Tirunelveli/Kanniyakumari/Ilam. But all of this will be later. But for the present can you help in placing the appropriate citation (as requested by me on the [Talk: Chola Dynasty] page)?

Your guidance will be invaluable. Thanks.

Srirangam99 (talk) 05:37, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Taps,

Long time no hear from you. But even I have been busy. I have this book by Prof. K.A.N.Sastri 'A history of South India : from Prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar' in which the description even in contemporaneous terms are about the Cholas being an empire and not a dynasty (which is of course how the nay-sayers on Wikipedia might like it to be). The Cholas as an empire are described on scores of pages including Chapter IX page 156 which is titled 'Balance of Two Empires' (it is mainly about Chalukyas and Cholas).

The Cholas are described as an empire from as early as the times of King Parantaka I who lost Kanchi and Thanjai to Rashtrakuta Krishna III and this is described as 'Tondaimandalam having been recovered from the Rashtrakutas for the Chola empire - page 163. also scores of instances including this one:

(Krishna III): 'He assumed the title ' Conqueror of Kacci and Thanjai' and thus caused the Chola empire a rude shock at the close of Parankata's reign' (p. 162). then also please see this:

p.163.. "The real greatness of the Chola empire dates, however, from the accession of Arumolivarman, who crowned himself Rajaraja ...................

I do not want to raise any controversy but consider this that in contrast: in the same book: there is a chapter called : The age of four kingdoms (which is about the Hoysala, Seuna, Kakatiya and the Pandiya kingdoms which rose on the fall of the Chola empire) page 192.

In view of these and scores of other examples (I think you too said that there are more descriptions and internet hits on the Cholas describing them as an empire rather than as a dynasty), would it be justified and hence, possible to change the title of this wikipedia topic as Chola Empire (instead of the rotten Chola Dynasty)? My email i.d. is srirangam99@gmail.com. Do reply quickly and help me in this cause (along with other genuine contributors).

Srirangam99 (talk) 11:41, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Tamil people

Hi Tap. Shall we wait for another revert before soft-protection? -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 08:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC) P.S. See also User_talk:68.147.8.65.

Re: Sri Lankan Tamil people

Thank you for your kind words and the barnstar. (I apologize for the late reply; I was essentially on 'wiki-vacation' for the past four months.)

I re-read the article and, in my opinion, it deserves to be featured. After reading the 2nd FA nomination, it seems to me that the primary objections to promoting the article are related to prose—primarily a need to more fully explain concepts that are unique to Sri Lankan Tamil society.

I hope to re-join discussions at SLR, and I'd also like to edit articles about Sri Lankan journalists assassinated in the past few years (at least nine, according to BBC), but I will also work on Sri Lankan Tamil people. The article has come too far not to be featured.

Hope you are well, –Black Falcon ^(Talk) 08:38, 5 February 2009 (UTC) P.S. I'm happy to see that Eelam was featured on DYK. Sorry I wasn't here at the time...

New Tamil people picture

Please review it. Thanks, --Ultramegasuperstar (talk) 14:02, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Eelam War IV

Hey. Sorry I don't know whether you know, but Mexico and others are trying to get this issue into the UN Security Council but it's being blocked by Russia and the UK. That, as well as the worldwide protests, recent atrocities, and international calls for ceasefire etc I think could go on the Eelam War IV page. Would you be willing to help out? Also, I wondered whether you found any more sources on these Declarations and Resolutions like the US Massachusetts House of Representatives et. al. recognising Eelam Tamils and the Tamil nation, and the restoration of their separate state? [1] For the Tamil Eelam page. Thanks. Wubbabubba (talk) 17:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

View

Is there a way to check how many times an article has been viewed by anyone ? -Iross1000 (talk) 08:43, 10 February 2009 (UTC).

Yes. User:Henrik's brand new en.wikipedia.org article traffic statistics program I hope this helps. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Peace
		For your admirable calmness in solving Sri Lanka related problems in spite of being personally affected, I award you the Barnstar of Peace Jasy jatere (talk) 10:36, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Chola mediation

Hi Taprobanus. I am trying to help out with the mediation with whatever time I have, but I am seriously lacking in time now-a-days. If you can join us it would help to put things to sleep more quickly. Regards, Dineshkannambadi (talk) 02:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Help needed..

Hello Taprobanus,

thanks for polishing the [Chola_navy] article and moving it into article space. but, its been nearly 9 months since I asked some help over at people from Project Tamil to help me write some name and details in Tamil script, and Still no action...

If you know how to add tamil script you can make this article richer. I use A transliteration software which incidentally uses another codepage and just leaves some junk if copied.

Unfortunately, My tamil tying skills are not good o allow me to type in tamil ina US QWERTY Keyboard... Any help in this regard is highly welcome...

Swraj (talk) 18:56, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! How are you? It has been a long time, hasn't it! I'm sorry I barely login to my Yahoo account once a month or once every two months or so.-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 06:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Semi-retired?

Hi Taprobanus. I hope your "semi-retirement" is a temporary response to real-life commitments, and not something permanent. You write excellent articles on a niche area about which Wikipedia (and the world in general) definitely needs more information, so I really do hope you'll be back in action before long. -- Arvind (talk) 17:15, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

That does sound hard. Let me know if there're any articles you'd like me to keep an eye on while you're away. -- Arvind (talk) 21:44, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Good luck with your endeavour. I'm planning to pare my watchlist down to a manageable limit. Will add some of the articles from your list to it. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 07:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I've picked about 10 articles from the first two categories. Will add more. Didn't know Balu Mahendran and Chandrababu came from Sri Lanka. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 04:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Tamil protests

Hello, are you Sri Lankan? Are you familiar with any of the Tamil protests that happened in the other countries? It would be great if you could create an article on one of the links that have not been made yet on the 2009 Tamil protests page. Thanks! Eelam StyleZ ^(talk) 11:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Well I have been doing that for quite some time since I created all the articles. But it would be helpful to get a few people to add some valuable information to them. I am usually paying more attention to the Canadian Tamil protests article. Eelam StyleZ ^(talk) 13:04, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Tamil protests articles

They are trying to delete the 2009 Tamil protests articles from Wkkipedia. Please help save them! [2] Eelam StyleZ ^(talk) 13:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)