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WikiProject Cricket

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welcome!

Hello Blackknight12, I came cross some your edits and those edits convinced me you are an enthusiastic editor. But enthusiasm alone won't make you a good editor. some of your edits certainly looks bit lousy such as this. You can't leave articles half created. so read Wikipedia:Writing better articles. I hope it'll make you a better edotor. Happy New Year! and With Regards,--chanakal (talk) 04:01, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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File:Sri Lankan Civil War Header.PNG

What are the sources for the five different images in this montage? --Hammersoft (talk) 14:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

• Taking images from multiple websites and creating a montage with them as you did with this image does not transfer copyright rights from them to you. I note in particular that this image has a copyright notice stamped on it, and further that we do not know the copyright status of the other four images in this montage. I have tagged the image for speedy deletion as a blatant copyright violation. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:15, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation

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Happy editing! Particularly, your input on this discussion would be helpful, since it concerns a template you have created. Chamal ^talk 11:42, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your application, which has been unanimously accepted. I am happy to add you to our member list, and am looking forward to seeing you in our project area more often. — Sebastian 02:44, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problems with File:Sarath Fonseka.jpg

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screen capture free use rationale

Please read the rationale for screen-captures, it clearly doesn't allow these images, as it is to be used exclusively for commentary of the TV station itself. Images from news items are specifically excluded. In general, images from photos or videos from reliable sources are not available for fair use and are generally not free. I know that Al-Jazeera has released some images as CC http://cc.aljazeera.net/ but I do not see any for this incident.--Cerejota (talk) 13:33, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

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Lists

pLease can you add something to Towns in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem, Central Province, Sri Lanka

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Comment

Hi,

Thank you for your support but don't know if you have already noticed but 'Sri Lankan Tamil'section, has some sort of restriction for editing. Apparently its for the moment. Its unfortunate, because I was about to put in a important reference concerning the 'Eastern Tamils'. Basically the reference of the book by K D DeSilva. That has the letters by Emerson Tennat.

I am sure, you know how important it is to have the truth on the Wikipedia website and all sides be represented and not just allow the narrow minded terror supporters side.

G. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guyan46 (talk • contribs) 16:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Cont...

Hi again lol,

I have re-added the deleted text and have also put in a lot more references.

I know who deleted it plus put the editing restriction, he is a Tamil guy called 'Obi2canibe'. It is really silly, that he can talk about rights but that right involves restricting my right to put the true facts out their. U know??

Guyan46 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guyan46 (talk • contribs) 17:55, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

That is an outrageous allegation. I have not reverted any of your edits since 10 May. I always edit whilst logged on. I am not 78.105.34.218. Nor am I using any sockpuppets. Why do you want to make this personal? Obi2canibe (talk) 19:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Sri Lanka

This edit of yours is unacceptable

• you have described my edit as vandalism, even though I have discussed my edit on talk, while I fail to see any justification on your part on the article talkpage
• the article is under special restrictions. There is a giant template asking you "Do not insert unreferenced text." You have restored text that was removed on grounds of being unreferenced.

Combining these two points, your revert was clearly disruptive. If you continue to abuse your editing privileges in this way, the sanctions detailed under WP:DISRUPT will apply. --dab (𒁳) 11:34, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

if you continue to restore unreferenced material without as much as the pretense of discussion or presenting a source, I will take it upon myself to block you. --dab (𒁳) 12:07, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

I already gave you a source which verifies my restoration of the page, and a reason justifying it. If you want to discuss it then we shall discuss it but don't go around threatening to personally block someone for something as small and as stupid as a couple of words that may not have been directly referenced. As I already gave in the Talk:Sri Lanka page here is a reference from a website of an organization for the Mahavamsa [1] which clearly states "the people who forged our nation, from the coming of Vijaya in 543 BCE". Thanks

Blackknight12 (talk) 13:44, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Major favor

Hello I wanted to ask you something. I saw that you update the Sri Lankan civil war articles preaty much so could you do me a favor. I made major edits last night to 2008–2009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive given the latest developments, but an administrator I have a serious beef with reverted all of my edits and will block me if I come near the article again. Could you please see what edits I made and he reverted and if you could write in your own words some of the material that you think needs to be mentioned. I think that the four things that need to be done are:
1. Infobox - add in LTTE casualties part 2,515 killed in 2009 (SLA claim) and add this reference [2] beside the existing two.
2. Casualties section - Add a sentance Another 2,515 LTTE militants were reported to have been killed between January and May 2009., the ref I already gave you can be used, and I think the place for the sentance is in the paragraph about the LTTE's casualties, right before the sentance on the SLA's casualties by the end of October last year.
3.LTTE's last stand section - I think this paragraph should be put at the end of the section The Tigers managed to hold out against the SLA for another month, but by mid-May the end was near for the LTTE. In the first two weeks of May tens of thousands of refugees poured out of rebel territory after the military made wholes in the LTTE's defences. In these final stages of the war, between May 7 and May 14, around 1,000 civilians were killed in the fighting, mostly by SLA artillery fire into the no-fire zone. By May 15, all civilians had been evacuated from the no-fire zone and the military stated the war will be over in 48 hours. In those last 48 hours of fighting the LTTE conducted massive suicide bomb attacks on advancing troops and were in general not surrendering but dying in battle. Early on May 16, the SLA forces coming in from the north linked up with the forces coming in from the south on the coastline, effectively cutting off the Tigers from the sea. Now they were boxed in and surrounded by the SLA on a territory only 1.2 square mile in size, with their back against the Mullaittivu lagoone., you can use this ref [3]
4.Final defeat section - I think this section should be made as a sub-section of LTTE's last stand. It should look something like this:

The same day that the coastline fell, on May 16, 2009, President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared military victory over the Tigers after 26 years of conflict. Also during the day, for the first time in their long struggle against the Sri Lankan government, the rebels were offering to lay down their weapons in return for a guarantee of safety. Sri Lanka's disaster relief and human-rights minister Mahinda Samarasinghe stated 'The military phase is over. The LTTE has been militarily defeated. Now the biggest hostage rescue operation in the world has come to a conclusion. The figure I have here is since 20th of April, 179,000 hostages have been rescued.'

On May 17, a group of about 70 Tigers tried to cross the lagoone to the other side in six boats and escape, but they were all killed by the SLA. Also, SLA special forces rescued seven POW's (three soldiers and four sailors). The four sailors had been in captivity since November 2006. During the day, rebel official Selvarasa Pathmanathan conceded defeat saying in an email statement "This battle has reached its bitter end". However the rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had yet to be captured or confirmed killed so the threat of a new guerrilla offensive was still a possibility. Several rebel fighters committed suicide when they became surrounded and it was unknown if Prabhakaran was among them. Late in the evening, SLA special forces conducted a raid in which they killed: Charles Anthony, the eldest son of the LTTE leader, Balasingham Nadesan, the leader of the political wing of the LTTE, Seevaratnam Puleedevan, head of the LTTE's peace secretariat, and Ramesh, a top military leader.

5.LTTE's last stand sectio - Final defeat sub-section - And finaly I think you should write about the LTTE's leader, how he was killed this morning, driving in an armored van (ambulance) straight into the SLA's lines along with a bus full of his fighters. And how he and the others died, mention the Naval and Intelligence wing commanders that were also killed.

If you agree with any of these sugestions please make the edits, as it is now the article doesn't have too much of an informated ending. Cheers!188.2.194.99 (talk) 13:19, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

I saw what you put in the article and it looks realy, realy great and I thank you, a lot, but you left out the number of Tigers that's claimed by the SLA to have died in 2009 and the paragraph on the end of LTTE's last stand section about the fall of the coastline on May 16, the government realy celebrated the linking of the two SLA forces from the north and south. Also, here are the references for the POW's [4], the raid that killed the son of the leader [5] and the killing of the 70 rebels in the boats [6], I forgot to give them to you earlier. Bye!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.2.194.99 (talk) 13:54, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Please note that this IP editor is User:Top Gun who has been indefinetly blocked. Nick-D (talk) 08:06, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Sarath Fonseka page

Someone (Cjesus) who seems to have newly signed up undid my changes to the Sarath Fonseka page in order to paint him with a biased and slanderous image. Can you revert those edits? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johansosa (talk • contribs) 21:42, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

They seem to be ok so I have added it back --Blackknight12 (talk) 03:26, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

List of ions at Ion

Hi, I noticed that you added a new table listing many ions to Ion. Is there a reason this is not merged with the existing table? Also, per the talk page, it seems that making a large list of ions is not really very useful. The existing tables were trimmed down from the original long list based on this discussion; I'm not sure if it should have more or less entries. At any rate, we do have a category for ions, so I'm inclined to just delete these long lists; but I thought we should discuss this first. Thanks!—Tetracube (talk) 16:49, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

June 2009

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for copyright infringement. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:32, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

You have been previously advised of our copyright policies, but on May 31 added to Mahinda Rajapaksa from [7], which source bears a clear copyright notice (© Copyright 2007 www.presidentsl.org). You also pasted content from [8], which is not licensed compatibly with Wikipedia. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

The articles Sinhalese people and Dharmapala of Sri Lanka also contained duplicated text. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:07, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

As do Battle of Vidattaltivu, Battle of Chalai, DeLon and Battle of Paranthan. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:31, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Operation Sath Jaya also pasted material from previously published sources. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:44, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

I have again removed copyrighted text you pasted into Central Province, Sri Lanka from [9]. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:49, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

And from Battle of Puthukkudiyirippu. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Due to the seriousness of these issues, which have continued after your previous warning and which you seem to have willfully ignored here, I have converted your block to indefinite. I am requesting feedback from other administrators on this indefinite block at the Administrator's noticeboard. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:38, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

You have said that I have pasted content from this site but that is untrue. I have never seen or been on to that page of the site and I do not regard it as credible. Tamilnet is a completely racist and biased source which I do not use.

I do admit that have pasted content from sites without following the proper Wikipedia guidelines, I will rewrite my contributions correctly and I will make sure this does not happen again.--Blackknight12 (talk) 15:30, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Whether you used that specific source or another with the same material, the preexistence of that source proves you did not author the text. Pasting content from other sites violates Wikipedia's policies and United States copyright law and represents a serious legal threat to the project. Cleanup of your contributions is ongoing and will likely take some time. Can you explain why you persisted in pasting material from other sources after being advised that you must stop in March? At heart here, of course, is whether or not the project can rely on you to abide by this policy, since you did not before and seem to have instead tried deliberately to avoid detection. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

I pasted material after the warning because I just didn't happen to read the warning properly, it was a mistake and not because I was trying to avoid detection. All my contributions are of good faith and not vandalism. I will make sure I will follow Wikipedia's policies in the future.

I'm not sure how one can mistakenly remove a tag that says, "Please do not remove or change this Copyvio message until the issue is settled" and "Do not edit this page until an administrator has resolved this issue." In the absence of any communication with the other editor or explanation in edit summary, it is difficult to interpret that in good faith. Another administrator and I have been going through your text contributions, and it seems that you have pasted text into several dozen articles. We need to be very clear that you cannot place text on Wikipedia that you find anywhere else, in book or on website, unless you are able to prove that the material is public domain or licensed compatibly with GFDL. It's not enough to think that it may be; it must be demonstrable.

As Wikipedia's copyright policy says:

Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt Wikipedia. If in doubt, write the content yourself, thereby creating a new copyrighted work which can be included in Wikipedia without trouble.

If you are unsure if the material is usable, you can't use it. You also need to understand the requirements of Wikipedia's license, so that you don't inadvertently violate the copyright policy by placing material here from sites that have similar, but incompatible licensing. We do not accept material licensed for non-commercial use only. We do not accept material that requires notification on reuse or that forbids modification.

While you may use limited, brief quotations from copyrighted text in accordance with the policy and guideline at non-free content, you must mark the text that you have copied with quotation marks and properly source it. Otherwise, you need to put it completely in your own words, which means changing language and structure. There is a user essay at Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing which gives a little information on how much reformulation is necessary. Very occasionally, small amounts of text will be so straightforward and uncreative that no revision is necessary. For example, "On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland." The danger of relying on this too greatly is that if you take multiple such runs of text from the same source, you are likely to be infringing on other elements, such as creative structure. Also, the threshold for "creative language", as utilized by the US courts that govern Wikipedia, is much lower than many people realize. It is not wise to rely on this exception except in the most obvious of cases.

Given your stated intention to follow policy henceforth, I will lift your block. If you have any questions about these policies or guidelines, or if you aren't sure about your use of text, please seek feedback from contributors who are experienced in that area. For instance, you're welcome to come by my talk page at any time. I would not wish you to inadvertently infringe, since it's possible that any future infringements will lead to a permanent block of your account. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:29, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Towns in North Western Province, Sri Lanka

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Proposed deletion of Australia – Sri Lanka relations

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Paraphrasing/rewriting

Hi. Further revision is necessary at Talk:Battle of Chalai/Temp. Compare this section of the source:

Sri Lanka Army sources said that the LTTE had sent a child suicide bomber to attack the Army 55 Division frontline yesterday (Feb 4). According to the sources, the child suicide bomber possibly between 13-16 years of age had exploded himself around 8.30 PM after reaching the soldiers in guise of a civilian seeking refuge with them. The sources said that explosion could harm only one soldier as the others had managed to move into safer distance after identifying the suspicious behaviour of the suicide bomber. The sources added citing eyewitness account that child soldier had behaved in a manner as he had been drugged or severely harassed before the mission.

With the article:

Sri Lanka Army sources stated that during the battle the LTTE had sent a child suicide bomber to attack the Army 55 Division on February 4. The child suicide bomber is thought to be between 13–16 years of age [and] exploded himself around 8.30 PM after reaching the soldiers [as if a] civilian seeking refuge. The child soldier...in a manner as [if] he had been drugged or severely harassed before the mission exploded the bomb wounded one soldier.

(I've added the bolding to help demonstrate the problem.) We can utilize brief segments of quotation, but otherwise have to put it completely in our own words. Cutting out a few here and there or altering "in guide of" to "as if a" is not sufficient. (There's a helpful user essay about this, at WP:Close paraphrasing.)

Material such as this could be revised completely in a style like so:

On February 4th, at about 8:30 p.m., a 13-16 year-old child approached the Army 55 Division frontline as if he were seeking refuge. The boy, whom witnesses described as behaving as if previously "drugged or severely harassed", was not a civilian, but a suicide bomber who wounded one soldier when he triggered his bomb.

(If you like that rephrasing, feel free to use it. Of course, you are welcome to rewrite it differently if you'd prefer, so long as you put everything except brief direct quotations into your own words.)

Please look over this temporary page again to see if other material draws too heavily on those sources. I'll be happy to reevaluate when you believe it has been sufficiently revised. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Battle of Paranthan/Temp needs to be modified again also. For a single example, the source says, "Unable to withstand the fury of the combined Army and Air force onslaught, LTTE terrorists withdrew from the town in total disarray. Having inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy, troops are now consolidating defences and advancing further east of the Paranthan junction, security sources added." The article says, "Unable to withstand the fury of the combined Army and Air force onslaught, LTTE terrorists withdrew from the town in total disarray. Having inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy, troops are now consolidating defences and advancing further east of the Paranthan junction, security sources added." Since the source is not licensed compatibly with Wikipedia, we are not able to use this text. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

There is also still some close paraphrasing in Talk:Battle of Vidattaltivu/Temp. For example, the article says:

The loss of Vidattaltivu continued that army's advance to end the war and proofed to be a fatal blow on LTTE as they had lost their most important Sea base. The Tigers were forced to shift their Sea-Tiger assets to a makeshift camp further Northwards with the loss of its well-established sea-borne operation base.

The source says:

Defence observers are in the view that the loss of Vidattaltivu would cast a fatal blow on LTTE as it has lost the most important Sea-Tiger base in the present context. According to them the terrorists has no other option than to shift their Sea-Tiger assets to a makeshift camp further Northwards with the loss of its well-established sea borne operation base.

This is a start, but as you can see there are stretches of verbatim language. You might consider revising passages like this:

Vidattaltivu was a well-established, strategically important base for the LTTE Sea-Tiger assets, the loss of which forced the sea-borne operations of the LTTE northwards to an improvised location.

I myself often find it useful to rearrange material in this way. Trying to maintain the same structure of the original source while not infringing is very difficult. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:51, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Sri Lankan people

I see in your recent edits you have been adding Category:Sri Lankan people to articles, I don't wish to discourage your editing but given the wide scope of such a category adding it is unnecessary. A category like this should only be used to store subcategories and articles within it should be placed in the appropriate subcategory, for example Farveez Maharoof already has Category:Sri Lankan cricketers so there was no need to add Category:Sri Lankan people. I have therefore placed the CatDiffuse template at the top of the category page to advise all users not to use it. Thank you. --Jpeeling (talk) 21:07, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

List of St Peter's College, Colombo alumni

Thank you very much in taking this topic from the school article, St Peter's College, Colombo and adding it on to another new page. Actually I tried twice and failed. Since I am a new member and only contributed just on few pages it is a great help to me.Thank you,Godfrey Walawage (talk) 00:39, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Merge

Is there any particular reason to create Template:Sri Lankan Civil War while we already have Template:Sri Lankan Conflict. The two templates are the same. Why don't you expand the T:Sri Lankan Civil War instead of creating a new one, or merge them together, or rename the T:Sri Lankan Conflict as T:Sri Lankan Civil War. Cheer. 75.31.73.27 (talk) 00:00, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of St Peter's College, Colombo alumni

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Hey

Machan, do you have email, or any other way I can contact you off-wiki? --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 14:31, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Machan, ill email you my email through wikipedia and you tell me if you got.--Blackknight12 (talk) 21:22, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Genetic relationship edit war

Hey Blackknight12, Can you please get involved on the "Genetic relationships" discussion of the sinhalese article. It's turned into a edit war and it would be good to get the consensus on what people think the entry should be.

Many thanks, Wikinpg (talk) 19:25, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Re:Operation Unceasing Waves III

Hi Blackknight, I am sorry for the late response, editing after exactly one week here. I checked the articles. I think best thing to do is tag them with {{mergefrom}} and {{mergeto}} templates. Then initiate a discussion in the destination page's talkpage. Hope this would help. Regards!--Chanaka L (talk) 09:27, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Redirect of Ceylon

When your change to the redirect was reverted, you should have initiated a discussion of the issue instead of repeating the same edit -- please see WP:BRD. Among other things, changing this redirect requires reviewing and possibly changing over one thousand links to Ceylon in other articles, so it is disruptive if the redirect is changed frequently. Please don't engage in edit warring. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:33, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I need your help blacknight12

Some one keeps deleting sections of the section titled GENECTIC STUDIES in the Sinhalese people page. I see even you have undid vandalism in this section and I thank you

I included a university of Stanford study conducted in 2003/2004 on South Asian ethnic groups including the Sinhalese. The study has used the methods of MX1 Locus, mtDNA analyses, Y-chromosome analyses, sequencing and data analysis to carry out the study of all the major South Asian ethnic groups.

Some one keeps deleting sections of it claiming that the word "India" is mentioned in the Stanford source. But the study in Stanford clearly states multiple times that it has included Sinhalese and Sri Lanka as well on the studies. So I think it a valid source must be included in the Sinhalese people section.

Can you or someone please curtail the editing on this page or stop people of removing chunks of info and sources.

Best

Edwards Scholar (talk) 02:51, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

File:Sinhalese people.PNG

Dear user, can you please update File:Sinhalese people.PNG with the sources for the images you have used in this montage ? It is not possible to determine if this image adheres to our copyright, attribution and sourcing policies atm. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:49, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Northern Province

Dear user, I donot want to dispute with you on editing the Northern Province Srilanka. I welocme the constructive edits bur donot edit the constructive materials and donot say vandalism. donot remove the bunch of information from that page. hope you will understand. thank you

Proposed deletion of List of Dharmapala Vidyalaya alumni

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Two-person list

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Hello, Blackknight12. You have new messages at Moonriddengirl's talk page.
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Re:Vandalism

Hi BK, I noted that you have already got 2 answers regarding this matter. So my simple advise is let's wait and see whether the editor would follow the instructions left by Moonriddengirl. I hope communication will ease up this issue. Regards!--Chanaka L (talk) 13:23, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Irrelevant

I have deleted the following passages from article regarding Mannar. It seems irrelevant and seems fake story. if want to revert please give proper citation. story of muslims here given is irrelevant and mostly user's own story if it is true give citation also muslims never wear thali which is holy thread only hindus and Tamil chrstians wear, also you never mention where you got this story also if u want to publish historical facts or stories create separate article or section. [[There are few muslim mosques in mannar they are very old about centuries the famous old mosque is called KAPPAM "PALLIVASAL" which is situated in thalaimannar and there is some very old traditional points also for muslim being one of the famous point is called "MINARA" which is situated in "PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU" village and there is a famous pond which called THALIARUTHTHAKULAM that ha s very big old story which is at the colonius time in srilanka thre were some muslims living with cultivation but they are said to leave their religion and they dont want to live without their relegion of islam there for the colonious killed all muslim youngs at that time the wives of that muslims are suicided them selves by jumping to the very deap pond thats why the pond calls "Thaliaruttha kulam"]] —Preceding unsigned comment added by BlueLankan (talk • contribs) 03:52, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello

I am fine friend. How are you? also I am sorry for many mistakes i did here. As i am new . I dint read the policy well. but now am okay with this policy. Now most of the edits am doing are after a long research and i am doing carefully, Thanks for your talk. Also I am not a racist either or arrogant. I am Srilankan as well but as for I am concerned. Tamil is also a national language of Srilanka. It has its due place every where even in Wiki articles. Also few places i found wrong historical facts. So I am editing. Now I am guided by my senior friends in Wiki. So any how i want to present Srilankan related articles in well mannered , so it will be more accurate and also Tamil as a national language in Srilanka wants to get its equal imporatance here. Any how keep in touch. If u have any disagreements with me. please feel free to message here or email me. Thank you. god bless u friend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BlueLankan (talk • contribs) 17:23, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Help

I found this article Badulla District is stub. I know very little about Badulla. Can you please add some categories and build it. Thank you. BlueLankan (talk • contribs) 17:53, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for adding logo to Northern Province, Sri Lanka. thanks man. We are Lankans, no hard feeling, okay. Thanks again.--BlueLankan 15:07, 7 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by BlueLankan (talk • contribs)

Hi friend

thanks a lot for your comments and talk. I am also happy to work together with all Sri Lankans here. Also I am happy to work with you. eventhough we had a lot of diffrent point of view, we are all lankans. I am so happy man. Yea ofcourse once i done with or almost completed every edits in Northern province. I start with Eastern province and other non-tamil provinces as well. I will do my best in Sri lankan related articles. --BlueLankan 01:20, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your valuable comments and ideas you gave. thanks a lot friend. I feel happy and willing to work with all Sri Lankan here. Also as you said , i also do more revisions and improve a lot in Eastern province and other non-tamil provinces of sri lanka. Take it easy. cheers!--BlueLankan 01:24, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

The vandalism guy

I think it's best to ignore him (he's not an admin so he can't block anyone) and get a source for Elara's status as invader. I'll try to get some up there maybe.

The whole article is pretty bad though. I wish there were some Sinhalese around to fix our articles on here. :( HumanFrailty (talk) 05:09, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Help

I am agree with you when you're saying Elara is an invading South Indian King. But to have a reference is always better. Don't use internal articles as a reference. I saw his edit summary which I think some what a strong accusation. I don't think ignore him is a good idea as advocated by HF. Because you might get into an editwar if you do so. I advise you to resolve this in diplomatic way as much as you can. Try WP:DISPUTE perhaps. Best!--Chanaka L (talk) 05:39, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Blackknight12/List of historical Sri Lankan overseas military operations

A tag has been placed on User:Blackknight12/List of historical Sri Lankan overseas military operations, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. BlueLankan 21:08, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

BlueLankan

Hi buddy! Thanks for your edits and adding so many things in regard Northern Province, Sri Lanka. As I am currently working in improving the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka articles, whenever you get spare times have a look on it and improve what ever u can do . also i am planning to improve the Central Province, Sri Lanka I need your help in lot of things am know very little about Central province, as it is one of the most beautiful place in sri lanka and it should be well presented especially on Tourism sector. So contribute what all you can do for that. thank you man. --BlueLankan 19:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks man and no problems, I will defiantly help you when I have time. --Blackknight12 (talk) 07:40, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Jaffna Kingdome

Jaffna Kingdom relative small. LOL. Hye man first cite reasonable source before you edit. Also Jaffna Kingdom also held most powers and cahnged boundaries at any time. Better browse some Historical books or some websites you ll find adequate details or consult with someone man. dont make Sri Lankan History so funny here. Its really a sensitive issues and need lot of home works and analysis to change a single thing. Take it easy . Cheers!--Arunantamil (talk) 22:28, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Towns of Northern Province

Okay dude! --Arunantamil (talk) 15:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

List of sri lanka rest records

Please stop the editing at this moment. i also doing the editing on that page.

List of sri lanka rest records

Please dont give 100% width to the tables. it needs a lot of eye movement when someone uses higher resolution monitor like 1920x1080.

Jaffna Nagas

hello there - i don't quite understand what you did here. Edits such as that should have an explanatory edit summary. cheers --Merbabu (talk) 08:59, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, yeah sorry I forgot to add a summary. I removed all those references because none of them seemed to work.--Blackknight12 (talk) 09:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Your edits to Radala

Hello, I am curious as to why you removed certain categories from the article Radala. The article is poorly done and also there is lot of POV comments. However, I thought the article belongs to those categories. Is there a larger reason behind your edits that I am missing? Ritigala Jayasena (talk) 04:35, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, yes I added Sinhalese castes because it is a Sinhalese caste then I removed Sri Lankan caste system because the Category Sinhalese castes is already in the Category Sri Lankan caste system. I removed the Category Sri Lankan society because it is too broad and that the Categories Sinhalese castes and Sri Lankan caste system are both in the Category Sri Lankan society. Its a bit confusing but I hope you understand.--Blackknight12 (talk) 07:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Sure I do understand. Thanks! I missed to see that you have added the article to the category 'Sinhalese castes'. Only saw the removals. Sorry, my bad Ritigala Jayasena (talk) 13:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

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Vandalism- Sri Lankan Airlines

Hi
Since I'm fairly new around this place I'm wondering about what constitutes vandalism?

I'm referring to the following edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SriLankan_Airlines&diff=315617841&oldid=315605783 where my edit was tagged as 'vandalism'.

I couldn't care less if my edits are reverted, but I dislike being called or accused of vandalism for no apparent reason, especially as I was editing the article out of good faith, to make it easier for all to read (and corrected the name and fleet sections of the article).

Hoping for some help from an experienced user so that I don't offend anyone else in the future.

Take care Regards
zzzz2

Hi I'm sure your edits were of good faith, but you seemed to remove information from the article without an explantion in the edit summary or the talk page [10] and did not refer to a source when doing so. Take care in your edits in future and good luck. --Blackknight12 (talk) 03:08, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Hai friend

Its long since I talked with u .. How u do? I have seen the articles on other provinces of Sri Lanka is still not wrote well or nothing seem developed. I am quite sad on it. I can do that but I am need some body to help me. As i hailed from North i did easily for Northern Province, as i lived away from Sri Lanka for many years i cannot able to contribute on other provinces regardless its Tamil Province or not. Any how hope to Develop the articles on Other provinces well soon. See u yaa.. --BlueLankan 16:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, yes it has been a long time and I am fine. You are very right the articles of the other provinces are very underdeveloped and I will help you to develop them. Take care--Blackknight12 (talk) 02:27, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks dude! see friend.. Take care of urself. --BlueLankan 01:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)