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December 2013 edit

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ella Ridge View Holiday Inn (September 23) edit

 
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ella Ridge View Holiday Inn (September 23) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work. -- Sam Sailor Talk! 17:49, 23 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Ella Ridge View Holiday Inn edit

 

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Reply to your Articles for Creation Help Desk question edit

  Hello, Rkvisit! I'm Timtrent. I have replied to your question about a submission at the WikiProject Articles for Creation Help Desk. Fiddle Faddle 21:00, 23 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Fiddle Faddle 06:21, 24 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

I'm responding here to your message on my talkpage about the deletion of Draft:Ella Ridge View Holiday Inn. The first thing you need to understand is that it is not your article. Anything posted here belongs to the community and they can alter it, extend it, or delete it altogether as they see fit. How to deal with the copyright issue is explained in the notification above, so I won't go through that again. You being the owner of the domain makes no difference, you must still provide evidence of permission. Copying from a promotional site is not really suitable for an encyclopaedia in any case, which is why a second reason for deletion was given as "unambiguous advertising or promotion". Any new article needs to be written from a factual and neutral point of view.

Even if you overcome the two reasons for immediate speedy deletion, ultimately, the article would still have been deleted for lack of notability. This is the central criterion for inclusion on Wikipedia. See WP:42 for a quick summary.

You should also be aware of our guideline on conflict of interest. This almost certainly applies to you. People with a conflict of interest are discouraged from writing articles where they are conflicted. It will be almost impossible for you to write neutrally. If your Holiday Inn is truly notable, then eventually an independent editor will write the article. SpinningSpark 15:47, 24 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Mrs. Dhara Wijayatilake edit

 

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March 2016 edit

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Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka edit

 
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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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Dhanushka Kumarathunga edit

 

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A tag has been placed on Dhanushka Kumarathunga requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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