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Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Wasantha Karannagoda, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on May 18 where you can improve it if you see fit. MeegsC | Talk 01:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding a Republic date to the Sri Lanka article under Independence. Becoming a Republic is certainly an important part of Independence, and adding it has brought it into line with other country articles. My previous attempt in February to do so proved to be in vain, as it was removed almost immediately by a user without any justification or consensus whatsoever. Hopefully it will stick this time! Biofoundationsoflanguage 16:10, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Have a look on Mount Lavinia Hotel article which created by your self. I added some photos and details. I hope we can work together to improve this article.-thanks --Canberaguy 20:49, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Don't remove the name of Malaka Dewapriya from the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jetskere (talk • contribs) 23:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you have time pls see this category "Category:Hotels in Sri Lanka". I add some hotel pages, better if you can edit something.-Thanks --Canberaguy 21:36, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nitraven. See the chart in this page. It shows your edit summary usage. Green denotes edits with an edit summary (even an automatic one), red denotes edits without an edit summary) Check that and decide yourself about your edit summary usage --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 16:53, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When you moving the pages, don't forget to move the associated talk page too ;-) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 15:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Natraven. The article still needs a detailed fair use rationale, saying what that particular image is needed for that specific page. Basically, it needs an explanation (the template {{Non-free use rationale}} helps) for why it should be allowed given all the criteria. Overall, the question is why would it be so difficult for someone to take a free (copyright-wise) picture of the Sri Lankan Navy that Wikipedia needs to use a copyrighted image? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:16, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I fixed the fairuse rationale but try to add the exact source URL. Chrees --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 10:11, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats for what machan? For the my new barnstar? --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 15:45, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome..welcome :-) Since you are working on Navy related pages these days, you will need this blog to have some more ideas http://www.lankanavy.blogspot.com/ Good luck! --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 16:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

		The Military Barnstar
		For your efforts in creating and expanding Sri Lankan military related articles. Good luck and keep it up!! --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ walkie-talkie | tool box 14:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I know that you will keep up your work :) Btw machan can you send me an email? Just click here. Cheers --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 18:19, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Nitraven! I noticed your contributions to SLNS Sagara, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Ships, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of ships of all kinds. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! Maralia 03:30, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to have you. Let me know if you have any questions about the edits I've made to your recent ship articles - I'd be happy to explain where the conventions etc. come from. Thanks! Maralia 13:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see: Discussion move and Specific proposal Your participation and acceptance would be appreciated. — Rlevse • Talk • 23:20, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I see that you added two new articles as Ultra fast attack boat and Super Dvora class fast patrol boat. But I see that you copied those articles entirely from http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/naval/super_dvora2/SuperDvora2.html and from the http://www.naval-technology.com/contractors/patrol/colombo/. If any admin notice those articles they will delete asap. So try write new articles with your own words ;-) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 18:03, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure I'll send it to you. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 18:14, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I blanked the Category:Wars involving Sri Lanka since it's duplicating with the Category:Battles involving Sri Lanka. But now I feels that I did the wrong thing because it's too conflicting with Category:Military operations involving Sri Lanka --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 19:15, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well Battles and wars comes under the military operations isn't it ;-) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 19:25, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, then lets go to the Category:Wars involving Sri Lanka by moving Military operations and Battles to the Wars. We should keep these cats tidy. Btw did you get my mail? --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie | tool box} 19:34, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On November 7, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ultra Fast Attack Craft, 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.

Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 02:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As a signatory of this agreement, you may be interested that we're currently discussing the WT:SLR#Continuation of SLR agreement. This is just a courtesy notice. — Sebastian 05:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is a discussion at WT:SLR involving an edit you made to the article Militia (direct link). You may wish to have a look at the discussion and, perhaps, to voice your thoughts on the matter. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 20:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Some one trying to vandalise the article Anura Bandaranaike also removed the citations from RS. --Vimukthi (talk) 21:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the perspective of categorisation guidelines, I think that the Terrorist attacks and Terrorist incidents categories should not appear on these two biographical articles. Note #9 of Wikipedia:Categorization#Guidelines:

Generally, the relationship between an article and its categories should be definable as "(Article) is (category)".

So, while Algama may be a terrorism victim, he can't really be classified as a terrorist incident or attack.

The above was a comment made by an admin on WT:SLR Watchdogb (talk) 15:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Nitraven! Probably, we will really have to do something about that Fitz Mackins ... we'll get him with 3RR as a start if he goes on like this ... Talk to you soon, cheers, Krankman (talk) 14:22, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

While I certainly think Fitz Mackins actions are out of line, be very careful about violating the three revert rule yourself Nitraven. Meanwhile, I am investigating the matter myself per a request for admin intervention.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 16:57, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In light of your recent edits to Alfred Duraiappah ([1][2]), 2007 Sri Lankan bus bombs ([3][4]), and C.V. Gunaratne ([5][6]), I would like to remind you to please remain mindful of the 1RR restriction that applies to all articles within the scope of WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation. Although revert restrictions are generally waived across Wikipedia if reverting is uncontroversial, restores a consensus version, or improves an article (see e.g. Wikipedia:Three-revert rule#Exceptions), they do apply in the case of good-faith content disputes. For details, please see Sebastian's clarification of what 1RR means to us. Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 19:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, regarding your edits to the Colombo article, I only restored my edits which you reverted with a very childish style of writing without providing a any proper reason. And most of your claims do not have sources and all most all of the points you highlight are POV pushing and Original Research. For example your claim of Royal College to be the oldest school in Sri Lanka is an Original research. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and it most of the time adheres to academic style of writing as opposed to your newspaper reporting style. You sure dont need to get my permission to edit anything in wikipedia and nor do I to revert false claims and original research that do not have a place in wikipedia. NëŧΜǒńğer^{Peace Talks} 16:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: User talk:Black Falcon#Need help

I'd be happy to try to help if you'd still like me to (and assuming that the dispute has not been resolved). Could you specify which section of the talk page you were referring to? Thanks, –Black Falcon ^(Talk) 03:26, 27 July 2008 (UTC) (Sorry for the late response, by the way. I stopped editing for about two months and didn't check my talk page until today.)[reply]

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Hi. You deleted a lot of the debate in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Imperial Family of Lanka. No matter how boring and pointless it is you're not supposed to do that. I've reverted your edits and added your vote at the end. andy (talk) 08:47, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hello, i have done some searching regarding above category. i found that Category:Indian terrorists, Category:Iraqi terrorists also nominated for deletion. but Category:Fugitives wanted by Sri Lanka, Category:Fugitives wanted on terrorism charges exists. so one can use last two categories instead of Category:Sri Lankan terrorists. let me know what you think. I appreciate your tireless efforts to improve Sri Lankan articles.keep up the good works.--Chanakal (talk) 04:28, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

without being too familiar with the incident, a suicide bomber killing a head of state other than that where the rebellion is, therewith killing unrelated civilians seems to be employing terrorist techniques. There is no military target, no state of war, civilians are harmed, and there is a political message connected to it. As for now, I see no reason to oppose the inclusion of this article in the category (That is, if that category survives deletion) Jasy jatere (talk) 13:23, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nitraven,

Mr.T.D.S.A. Dissanayake ( Ex Sri Lankan Ambassador to Indonesia & Egypt ) not a member of Sri Lanka Foreign Service.

Masako Kawasaki —Preceding unsigned comment added by Masako Kawasaki (talk • contribs) 04:35, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nitraven,

Thanks

Masako Kawasaki —Preceding unsigned comment added by Masako Kawasaki (talk • contribs) 07:02, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping out on the page. I'm having trouble with finding books on him, so if you know any more reliable sources documenting his life, that would be much appreciated.Pectore^talk 23:48, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Should we continue to keep the identification of people's castes confined to lists? Categories might be a bad idea, IMO.Pectore^talk 18:58, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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