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Thanks for your note -- I need to log off now, and I'm away all tomorrow, but I'll try to look at it as soon as I can on Monday. Cheers, Espresso Addict 00:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting article, which I think meets the DYK requirements. The main problem I can see is that the hook you've suggested isn't referenced; given the way you've phrased the hook, just a reference stating he was the first Tamil professor at each would be fine. The hook could also be shortened to omit the 'twice nominated' part. I've given the article a very light copy edit, but it would also be useful to include his surname more often through the text instead of 'he'; I haven't done this as I'm not sure what the conventions are in this case. Hope this is of assistance, Espresso Addict 18:28, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am just busy outside of Wikipedia, but I will reply shortly to your messages. Please keep my talk page on your watchlist. — Sebastian 04:45, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think there is a lot more to be written on about Sri Lankan Tamils. The Sangam Era connection to Sri Lanka is also missing. I will join in a couple of days and try and contribute. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Weldingveerasamy (talk • contribs) 13:52, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You created Category:North and Eastern Province(Sri Lanka) to house eight district subcategories and several articles. I noticed, however, that the eight districts fall within North Eastern Province; given that, I think the category should be renamed to the more specific Category:North Eastern Province, Sri Lanka and most of its contents transferred (some articles, such as Eastern Province, Sri Lanka and Northern Province, Sri Lanka, would need to be removed). I was about to start a WP:CFD nomination, but decided to post here instead when I saw that you had created the category. Since the category contains only 13 items, I can easily make the change (that is, if you don't object). Please let me know what you think. Cheers, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 03:20, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Done! Black Falcon ^(Talk) 17:14, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On 16 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Swami Vipulananda, 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.

My pleasure entirely - it's reminded me just how beautiful the Tamil names for some places in the Northeast are. I'm afraid Mylanthanai has beaten me though - I have no idea what Tamil name that spelling attempts to represent. -- Arvind 22:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you a founder of this-Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation? A definite worthy goal. I stumbled upon it because I noticed the ANI and SSP case going on. How have things been going? No offense intended, but it seems to me that several of our Sri Lankan editors use en.wiki to fight the real Sri Lankan civil war in the virtual realm. Rlevse 02:28, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Let's just use your talk page. I have a watch set. You were obviously referring to Lahiru_k. It's too bad there are so many sockpuppets connected to that account if he/she was trying to reconcile, but that also is violation of wiki policy. The SSP clearly shows collusion and vote stacking. I also thought it odd that Snowolf4 claimed you were called a sock; whereas Sumoeagle179 did initially tag you, he also quickly reverted it once he discovered the error. I'm sure it was an honest mistake. Moving on to the future, I have to agree that many of the SL editors are headed to a community ban. But, it has to get reported because the admins can't watch every single article and few, if any, of them are experts on SL issues. Let me know if you need anything. Rlevse 10:38, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Taprobanus, for the special barnstar! It was a very pleasant surprise and it will greatly push me to take care of some of the unfinished stuff in the Toda people article! I am delighted that someone noticed! Regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:17, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On 17 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Negombo Tamils , 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.

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I am having problem generating notes to link per Template:cref and Template:cnote in the article Arumuka Navalar. Thanks Taprobanus 19:21, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Taprobanus! Could you please explain a bit more exactly what you're having trouble with? I looked through the history, but didn't see your issue. No need to place another helpme, just reply here and I'll see it. Ariel♥Gold 20:20, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay I see your problem, let me look through that a bit, I personally dislike cnote and cref specifically for this reason, and prefer to use WP:CIT. Ariel♥Gold 20:31, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I used it here Sarathambal, no problems. But thanks Taprobanus 20:50, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, there is something in this article that is throwing the code off, and for the life of me I can't find what it is. I'm doing some other WP:MOS tweaks while I'm here, and then going to take another look at it. Or not... lol, I just did about half hour worth of work and got an edit conflict, and you've made significant changes, lol. There's something in that page that is interfering with the code, you might want to go ask at WP:VPT. Ariel♥Gold 20:56, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Taprobanus!
Sorry for the delay in working on Madhu Church article. I have started the entry and may expand it in the comming week. I am still working on expanding it, but will appreciate some comments and feed backs from yourside, especially proof reading. Cheers Wiki San Roze ^†αLҝ 13:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Modern Hindu School does not make any sense. How do you differentiate the term Modern Hindu school to say a Not-so-modern Hindu school. The article is so big that you can may be find a better DYK. The DYK hook that you have written in the Template talk page has mistakes, please correct it. Anyway, if you are going to retain your new DYK hook as it exists currently, I will be challenging it -- ¿Amar៛^{Talk to me/My edits} 15:13, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please change it to something that is easily verifiable. First prose writer? If it is verifiable, so be it. -- ¿Amar៛^{Talk to me/My edits} 15:18, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Taprobanus. I happened to see this exchange while leaving my last message on this page. Tamil prose writing is over a thousand years old - the oldest prose text is Nakkiranar's commentary on Iraiyanar Akapporul (c. 7th century A.D.), and there's a long tradition of prose texts thereafter, so I'm not sure it's right to call Arumuka Navalar the "father" of Tamil prose writing. What is the exact thought you're trying to convey? -- Arvind 21:26, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aravind, all what I am looking for is a DYK, hook and I was going by what Dennis Hudson has written about him quoting others. Probably what is better is father is modern Tamil prose ? I dont know if you have a better hook, let me know. Thanks Taprobanus 21:55, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Father of the modern Tamil prose style", perhaps, if it's not too unwieldy? That is certainly quite true - he influenced Indian Tamil both directly and through Thamodaran Pillai. Another hook - independent of this one - might be to mention his role in translating the Bible to Tamil. That a Hindu revivalist helped translate the Bible is certainly interesting, and it might even give two DYKs to this article. -- Arvind 22:08, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Even better Taprobanus 22:10, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Taprobanus. The easiest way to move pictures is to use Magnus Manske's "move to commons helper", which is accessible here: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commonshelper.php. The language code for Tamil is ta. Once the file's been moved to commons, you can use it on the English wikipedia, and on all other wikimedia projects. -- Arvind 21:14, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you look into Haroon Siddiqui article it seems to be coming under BLP violations based on non reputable sources. Thanks Taprobanus 13:14, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is not systematic and you have already reverted. If that persists try to mention WP:BLP at the talk page. If that goes further, please refer to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard for a prompt response. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 13:20, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On 22 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arumuga Navalar , 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.

You may want to check this out WP:AN#Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration.2FDigwuren. This is an option you may want to consider for Sri Lankan articles. Rlevse 14:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well thank you very much, this is something I feared we will eventually come to and wanted to avoid at any cost because after all this wikipedia conflict has produced a lot of high quality articles that were not there before and made at least the Human Rights violations by the government side articles that much better because a lot of creative attempts were made to make them disappear or not tell the facts. But I think Wikipedia community has come to the conclusion that this has to stop because of the disruption it causes along the way. I will wait for the final salvo, where there is an attempt to malign me by spuriously claiming that I have another sock called User:Wikramadithya and that I may have shared my passwords with another user although the user said that statement was made not by him. But nevertheless this should be given the Wikiprocess to be taken care of. Once that is done with and the disruption still continues then Arb comm will be the solution and everything that has been done so far to disrupt, attack, malign, stalk and harass will be of conclusive evidence to ban some users. Thanks again Taprobanus 14:43, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If asked he should easily be able to produce the diff of the alleged admission of pwd sharing, if it was true. Rlevse 14:48, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The accuser goes on to say later that somebody else hacked into his account and posted all those comments such as that he shared the pwd with me and User:Bakasuprman. I don’t understand the circumstances of those comments. Later on the accuser apologized to me and moved on. As I am not a computer expert, I will leave it up to Wiki admins to figure it all out. It is just more example of disruptions and making work for Volunteers (i.e Admins) where there is none. Further I did not create the Wikramadithya and Checkuser will clear me up. Once it is all done, we can move on to the RFC stage and then Arbcomm. Taprobanus 14:57, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Barnstar. Its really you who brought Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu to my attention. .Thanks for that too. Cheers Wiki San Roze ^†αLҝ 16:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that your messages to me asking for help are going to end up unanswered, as I have very little time to edit Wikipedia (read: no time at all) now that I have finally obtained an articling position at a law firm. I hope you will be able to find help elsewhere. Lexicon (talk) 16:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you keep referring to me as a Pro-LTTE editor. I have to take very very very strong objection to that labeling. I am a founding member of Sri Lanka reconciliation project and never ever have I edited in any way other than neutral way. I DO NOT SUPPORT, NOT EVEN .001% of the terrorist methods used by the LTTE in its quest for an independent country called Tamil Eelam. I am a proud citizen of Canada where LTTE is a proscribed terrorist organization. To support knowingly a terrorist organization is a criminal offence and I have no intentions of EVER BREAKING criminal laws of my country that too for sake of a hobby called Wikipedia. I urge you to back up your accusations and characterizations with evidence where I am supporting the LTTE or take that characterization back. My interest in Sri Lanka is many fold, some are people, history, geography, politics and the other is Human Rights. I have written about people killed by both the LTTE and the Government. It just happens most of the massacres have been done allegedly by the government. If you don’t have any evidence for such characterization where you associate an editor with a known terrorist group, I urge you to take it back. I will even give you an anolgy, you as editor of Basque related issues let me ask you a question, does a Basque Nationalist or a Basque origin American editor interested in Human Rights issues of Basques in Spain automatically become an ETA supporter ? Thanks. Taprobanus 18:05, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When i label someone pro-x i refer to the way they contribute with in wikipedia. I don't have to know if you are X or Y. I always AGF and i believe we are not dealing w/ editors supporting any terrorist activities. In fact, i've never witnessed any pro-LTTE editor defending acts of LTTE. At the opposite, they most of the time, defend their casing by trying to prove that some violent acts were committed by the Sri Lankan govt. I don't see any "terrorist" or "terrorist sympatizer" editing wikipedia. We speak wikipedia lingo. There is a dispute going on here for years now and i see no other way to describe and define the parties involded. I just don't go further. As an admin i do not care about the content but the behavior of the editors. I suppose you've read the ruling re the Digwuren case. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 18:16, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]