Bun

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Hi Bun, I liked your edits on Education in Sri Lanka, but you need to clean it up. Remove your uses of I, our and other first person pronouns, as well as making sure you put spaces in between words! Thanks and happy editing! :) xxpor ( Talk | Contribs ) 22:03, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

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Sir Lanka actors

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Reverted your edit of LTTE

Hi, I reverted your edit of LTTE, where you labeled them as "terrorist". Some view the LTTE as a terror organisation, some dont (among them the state of Sri Lanka). Wikipedia as a encyclopedia should present both views, and does - as the article clearly shows that LTTE is banned in the US, India and EU. At the same time LTTE is not banned in Sri Lanka, as it is generally viewed as the organisation the government needs to talk with to achieve peace.

I hope you go on editing on Wikipedia, but please check out articles history and use the discussion page before doing changes to controversial articles. Ulflarsen 09:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

This user ((User:Ulflarsen|Ulflarsenis)) is slightly insane. He keeps reverting everything (which are facts) that is said against LTTE. Watch out!!

Good question about LTTE

Well done!! watch out for this user Ulflarsen he doesnt know what the fuck he is talking about. He is totally biased towards LTTE. when you put up facts on the artical he either deleats them or keep it in the talk page arguing with no facts. So watch out. And great work again :)

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Cricket photos

Hello Bun,

I just noticed the cricket photos you'd uploaded. You labelled them with the {{cc-by-2.5}} licence but on Flickr they're labelled "All Rights Reserved", which means that we can't use them here. They will be deleted in seven days unless you can get permission from the photographer by then.

Thanks,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 00:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

More photos

Also you labelled Image:Lionel ranwala.jpg as {{copyrightedFreeUse}} but there is no evidence on the source site that this is the case. And you labelled Image:Rukmani Devi.jpg as {{Promophoto}} but that can only be used when you got the image from a press kit not a newspaper. So I've listed them both as suspected copyright violations at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2006 July 31/Images. You can dispute the designation there if you wish, but otherwise they will be deleted in seven days or shortly after.

Thanks,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 00:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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WikiProject Sri Lanka

As a contributor to Sri Lankan articles, you may like to connect with other Sri Lankan Wikipedians through WikiProject Sri Lanka, a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Sri Lanka, and take a look at the various activities we are engaged in. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 19:23, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

We would like to have your input over here. Thanks --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 19:44, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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Tuan Nizam Muthaliff

So.. you moved before me eh? :) good good I was looking for facts on net to create that article. Well machan could you send me an email, here's the link. happy editing!! --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 03:42, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Duhulu Malak

Machan,

Could you please try to arrange my latest editing in Duhulu Malak Synopsis section.

Thank you,

--Lanka07 18:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Duhulu Malak

Machan,

Thank you very much for your editing on my work. Also I did some editing today in the same article Duhulu Malak.

• 18:48, 17 August 2007 Lanka07 (→Miscellaneous - Add comments.)
• 18:05, 17 August 2007 Lanka07 (→Synopsis - Add more details)
• 17:54, 17 August 2007 Lanka07 (→Synopsis - Add more details)

Could you please have a look into this.

Thank you,

--Lanka07 18:52, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Anarkalli Aakarsha

Machan,

The article Anarkalli Aakarsha has been taged to remove, could please do something to remove the tag.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 19:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Rukmani Devi

Machan,

Could you please have a look on Rukmani Devi article. Also thank you very much for your greatest contribution on other articles.

Regards,

--Lanka07 20:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Articles Tagged

Machan,

There are very important articles under tagged, could you please pay your attention on this and do something.

• Geetha Kumarasinghe
• Rukmani Devi

Thanks,

--Lanka07 18:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Synopsis - Nidhanaya

Machan,

I did editing in Synopsis section of article Nidhanaya could you please have look into this, if have time.

Thank you,

--Lanka07 21:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

New articles

Machan,

We need your help very badly this time, I created 3 new articles such as,

• Inoka Sathyangani
• Sulang Kirilli
• Damitha Abeyratne

Also I added references to those articles.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 19:36, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

For your attention

Machan,

This is for your attention Wekande Walauwa. We need to improve this one, I already created and add references also.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 17:13, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Important article

Machan,

If you have time, please see this important article Cinema of Sri Lanka. We will try to improve this one.

Thanks,

--Lanka07 21:34, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

New articles

Machan,

We have many new things to do, expecting your support.

• Nidhanaya - Synopsis
• Baddegama - article (Grammer)
• Sulang Kirilli

Thanks,

--Lanka07 20:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Good Job

On "Ganga Addara" and the other articles you created. ۝ ۞ ░ 16:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Sri Lankan fashion

Machan,

We have started a new section Sri Lankan fashion. If you have time could you please see this article.

• Muthu Tharanga

Thanks,

--Lanka07 16:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Kusuma Karunaratne

I've developed a few suggestions for the improvement of an article which you initially created in early-August 2007. From my perspective, two areas which seem to deserve revisiting are:

• Talk:Kusuma Karunaratne#Academic life
• Talk:Kusuma Karunaratne#Japan Foundation

My editing strategy was informed by articles about other academics, like Prof. Karunaratne, whose work has been noticed and honored by the Japanese government:

• John Whitney Hall
• Jean-Jacques Origas
• Edwin O. Reischauer
• Donald Keene

I hope you will construe these comments as both well-meaning and constructive. --Tenmei (talk) 22:15, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of schools in Sri Lanka

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This list a impractical list to maintain, Sri Lanka has more than 10,000 schools.. it would be impossible to maintain such list in wikipedia. I believe this list is against the guidelines of WP:LIST and WP:NOTDIR

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

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Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka

Dear Bun, Thank you for your contributions to the Wikimedia Projects. As an editor from Sri Lanka, you are warmly invited to join the official Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka and to subscribe to its mailing list, Wikimedia-LK. The user group currently includes volunteers from Wikipedia and other projects, from the English, Sinhala, and Tamil speaking communities. It is the Wikimedia-approved platform for editors from Sri Lanka to enable wider collaboration, for both online and offline projects. With your support, we hope to organize cross-project content improvement drives as part of online projects, as well as organize in-person edit-a-thons, training sessions, photowalks, and other such activities, in the near future. The ultimate goal(s) of these initiatives is to improve the overall coverage and quality of topics relating to Sri Lanka, as well as encourage new editors to join the Wikimedia community, while simultaneously empowering and retaining our existing team of editors. There are no mandatory obligations for members who choose join the community, other than the usual editing rules for online projects, and the friendly space policy for in-person projects. You may also (or instead) subscribe to the mailing list, where any member could initiate discussions with volunteers across projects, notify members of events and meetings, stay up to date with competitions, organize your own events, and so on. See you on board, and Happy Editing!

Rehman 01:36, 29 July 2017 (UTC)