Talk:Nimal Mendis

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians.

Sri Lanka Mid‑importance

	Sri Lanka portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sri Lanka, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sri Lanka on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Sri LankaWikipedia:WikiProject Sri LankaTemplate:WikiProject Sri LankaSri Lanka articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

My edit[edit]

Seeing as SongSign is heavily invested in maintaining and editing the page, it's only fair I point out a couple of issues that still remain.

-Firstly, the "right to life" mentioned- is this a documentary? If so, it should be mentioned separately from Shattered Pearl. Right now, that sentence looks quite weird. I couldn't fix it without knowing what the relationship between the two was about.

-Secondly, there was a lot of "they"s used liberally towards the end of the article, which I assumed were referring to Mediaeye. Please do correct them if I'm wrong, but mention at the outset who the "they" refers to.

-Thirdly, Paulmarie's name. The article sometimes spelt it 'Paulmarie', and at other times 'Paul-Marie'. I changed all of them to one form (the former) for now to maintain the uniformity of the article, but please do change them (all) to the correct form if I'm wrong. I defer to SongSign when it comes to knowing how to spell his own name :P

-Fourth, I removed certain non-related material, such as the assassination of the political figures interviewed for the documentary. As sad as that is, it is not directly related to the good Mr. Mendis, and belongs more in an article about the Eelam War than here (if you do have the names of these individuals, please feel free to find the appropriate Eelam War page and put in a line or two about how they were interviewed for this documentary, and on their deaths :) ). Jesuschristonacamel (talk) 21:38, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple issues[edit]

There are multiple issues in this article. First, and most obviously, it's replete with WP:PEACOCK issues. An obvious first example is the use of adjectives like "distinguished", but there are plenty more throughout the article.

The article is primarily edited by User:Songsign, who self-identifies on his user page as Mendis's son and agent, Paul-Marie Mendis. In addition to the obvious WP:COI issues, he is reverting edits ([1], [2]) made by other editors trying to bring the page within Wikipedia guidelines, and exhibiting issues with WP:OWN (presumably, he's new to Wikipedia and not familiar with its operation). I've given him a heads-up on his talk page, but this is one to watch. TJRC (talk) 16:42, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have been notified about the issues and have read through all the guidelines, and will comply.

songsignSongsign (talk) 17:26, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Songsign, and welcome to Wikipedia! TJRC (talk) 19:32, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the Multiple Issues note as the article was corrected by you SongsignSongsign (talk) 18:06, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Nimal Mendis. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080119195824/http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/18/new32.html to http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/18/new32.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 14:10, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]