User talk:Heptanitrocubane/Archive 1

Valentine Joseph

Hi Anish. First off, my sympathies- didn't realize until I dug up the obit article that you were his grandson :)

I noticed your request on the WP:SL page for someone to have a look through the article. While I'm certainly not a pro at this, I did go through it and made some changes. I don't know if you'll agree with them all, but there was some stuff in there that aren't really encyclopaedic- things like "he was a devout Catholic", for instance, aren't really things you can support even with third party literature, for obvious reasons. Stuff that was borderline I left in with a bit of rewording (I thought it'd be a shame to remove that bit about his interest in teaching after retirement, for instance). I also moved some inline citations around- while some folks on here like their citations directly after each statement, regardless of whether or not it's in the middle of a sentence, there were some places where it was pretty difficult to read the actual text because multiple citations would break up the text. I also added one reference for the family bit at the end, but that anecdote about the riots will definitely need citations from somewhere to stay in, I think, since it's a quote.

All in all, I hope you like the result :) - ක - (talk) 12:49, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Wow. First, I'd like to say thanks - ක -! Just in case you can't find this I have given the link on your talk page.

Yes, I believe that there might be more reliable sources coming out soon, so I can reference that at a later date - thanks very much for pointing out and correcting the errors :). Regards - Heptanitrocubane (talk) 13:27, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

No worries :D - ක - (talk) 15:19, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Tamil translation/transliteration

Hey again Anish. Quick question- can you read and write Tamil to any decent degree? I've been noticing that a lot of Sri Lanka pages have only Sinhala translations of names in the intro/infobox areas, or they have the Tamil translation but not the English pronunciation of the Tamil name. If you can help out, let me know. - ක - (talk) 06:36, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Sorry User:Jesuschristonacamel - I am afraid I can't help as I am only a learner at Tamil. However, I have access to people who are fluent so I could help that way...If there is another way I could help you/get hold of others in WikiProject Sri Lanka/Tamil Civilisation please let me know. Best regards - Heptanitrocubane (talk) 09:20, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

If you do know anyone over at the Tamil wikiproject who can get in touch with me, that'd be great. They'd basically just have to translate/transliterate stuff into - and out of- Sri Lankan Tamil. - ක - (talk) 09:25, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

The Tamil project is inactive - I know a user called User:Rehman(An administrator) who I think judging by his userboxes has a level of proficiency in Tamil so might be able to help. I will introduce you on his talk page. Hope this helps - Heptanitrocubane (talk) 14:04, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi both. Sorry, I can only understand a very basic level of spoken Tamil. :( Rehman 05:37, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

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Anarchyte (work | talk) 01:17, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Sources

You removed inline clean up tags from Valentine Joseph, claiming that they were reliable sources. Before you continue please read WP:RS to see what qualifies as reliable. Blogs and alumni associations are not reliable. You are in violation of WP:V, one of Wikipedia's core content policies. But as you are new I will give you the benefit of doubt and hope that you learn how Wikipedia works.--Obi2canibe (talk) 18:37, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

September 2017

Hello, I'm DVdm. I noticed that you made changes to articles Albert Einstein and Valentine Joseph, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 17:29, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Note: for these edits ([1], [2]) you need an explicit wp:secondary source that states that Einstein influenced Joseph. Also please note that your edit summary "2017 source edit" is inappropriate--see Help:Edit summary. - DVdm (talk) 17:36, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

NoteThis issue has been sorted out on DVdm's talk page and the article.:)

Sources

Please read WP:RS to find out what constitutes a reliable source.--Obi2canibe (talk) 11:30, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

I have Obi, and I do know what constitutes a reliable source. Heptanitrocubane (talk) 10:55, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

October 2017

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Black July. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Please stop your childish games. Obi2canibe (talk) 19:30, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello Obi. I am sorry if you thought I was being "childish", but I did not mean to make "malicious edits". I just thought due to some statements like "Members of underworld criminal gangs then joined in." that are unsourced, there should be a refimprove template, as that statement is not from the Background section (which has a refimprove section template). 18:14, 9 October 2017 (UTC)