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Portuguese Ceylon

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Hello! There is a discussion going on at Talk:Portuguese Ceylon that may interest you. Thank you! The Ogre (talk) 17:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

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We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Portuguese period in Ceylon, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://web.archive.org/web/20021218120822/http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/portu.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20020325102409/www.sridaladamaligawa.lk/english/tooth_relic_in2.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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We need also to address concerns with Kandyan Convention, which seems to be almost entirely pasted from [1], and Kandyan Treaty of 1638. The latter was copied from a 1929 book, and I am checking to verify if this is pubic domain. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:55, 24 September 2009 (UTC)Reply