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June 2017[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to British Tamil, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Iryna Harpy (talk) 20:27, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora[edit]

Please note that you have messed up the formatting the article. Do not place TOC to the right (it is in fact unnecessary to add that), also do not add references to the section title, put them within the text of the section. Hzh (talk) 18:46, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of British Sri Lankan Tamil: Humanitarian Issues[edit]

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I removed the tag because I realized that it is not a person, organization, or event. Ups and Downs (↕) 01:58, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I decided to WP:PROD it instead.

Proposed deletion of British Sri Lankan Tamil: Humanitarian Issues[edit]

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Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Lankandude2017, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to British Sri Lankan Tamil: Humanitarian Issues have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:08, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of British Sri Lankan Tamil: Humanitarian Issues for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article British Sri Lankan Tamil: Humanitarian Issues is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British Sri Lankan Tamil: Humanitarian Issues until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:40, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of source[edit]

Hi. I reverted your removal of a reference to a reliable source from British Tamil. I presume this was a mistake on your part? Cordless Larry (talk) 18:08, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

August 2017[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from British Sri Lankan Tamil. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:41, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of No Original Research Noticeboard discussion[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard‎#‎British Sri Lankan Tamil article. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:12, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Accusation of racism[edit]

Hello again. Can you please remove your accusation of racism against me, made here? Making such comments seems intended to influence the merge discussion, but I do not believe that the accusation can be substantiated. Alternatively, please provide evidence that I have "a history of advancing racist viewpoints". Cordless Larry (talk) 17:48, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

August 2017[edit]

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, as you did at British Sri Lankans, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people.
This sort of personal attack against Cordless Larry, or any other editor, is not acceptable. Please see WP:NPA. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 20:14, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Despite the warning, and the responses on the relevant talk page, you have repeated the attack. If you do not retract your aspersions, the next step is the WP:ANI. Such behaviour is not tolerated by the Wikipedia community. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:47, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to British Sri Lankan Tamil. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions.

Please join the discussion on the talk page; the content as it was was in fact original research which is not acceptable, but perhaps some version of it could be restored, if sources are found. bonadea contributions talk 10:53, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You need to respond[edit]

And retract the personal attack. Doug Weller talk 13:11, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for edit warring at British Sri Lankan Tamil. In edit summaries you yourself twice referred to the dispute you were engaged in as an edit war and told other editors not to edit war, so it is clear that you were aware that edit warring is not considered acceptable. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:58, 17 August 2017 (UTC). Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.[reply]

This blocked user is asking that their block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System:

Lankandude2017 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

UTRS appeal #19019 was submitted on Aug 17, 2017 17:21:43. This review is now closed.

--UTRSBot (talk) 17:21, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock[edit]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Lankandude2017 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

please read text below; concerns political bias disruptive edits

Decline reason:

Continuing the personal attacks and accusing users of sockpuppets are not a way to get your account unblocked. RickinBaltimore (talk) 17:43, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Lankandude2017 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

please read text below; concerns political bias disruptive edits; I wish for this to be seen by a more neutral admin (third opinion) before I take it further.

Decline reason:

I have no idea what "taking it further" means, but since you have not addressed your own conduct, you will not be unblocked. Given the repetition of personal attacks here that got you blocked in the first place, on top of edit warring, I'm rather surprised it's just 48 hours and would expect a far longer block if this kind of behaviour recurs. Huon (talk) 18:41, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

A prominent editor on Wikipedia User:Cordless Larry has been engaging in disruptive vandalism of the British Sri Lankan Tamil article, by suggesting that it should be moved to British Sri Lankan and editing out two pieces of text that seem to go against his left-wing and pro-muslim viewpoints. He has previously prevented a piece of text portraying British Indians as right-leaning too, and defended lopsided texts on articles such as British Tamil.

The two "edit war" points are frivolous and far-fetched. The quote which he stated was restricted to "British Indians" was in-fact about "British Asians" and can be backed up with a reference to "British Hindus". While the latter quote which he stated was restricted to "British Muslims" was in fact referring to how second generation immigrants assimilated in western culture.

I also would like to know whether the relating accounts that have respectively reverted my revisions of British Sri Lankan Tamil and blocked me are sockpuppets, since I have come across them before previously on Wikipedia, working together in harmony. I would like to take this further please. Lankandude2017 (talk) 17:33, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

When I declined your appeal at UTRS and redirected you to this talk page to make the request, I warned you very specifically that "if you use your appeal to attack others as opposed to owning up to your own disruption, the appeal will likely be declined". I see you chose not to follow that advice. I guarantee you that no admin will ever accept an appeal such as the one(s) you have made above as they do not address your disruption and your edit warring. --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 18:06, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also, as I had no activity on these pages, I was about as neutral as you can get. As you are using your unblock requests to continue your personal attacks and be disruptive, I'm removing your talk page access. This is only a 48-hour block, however if this continues you could be block for a longer duration in the future. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:33, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am perplexed how my edits to this article could be perceived as politically biased. Here is the full paragraph from the source:

Britain's Indian community has traditionally voted Labour, though there has been a shift over the decades. "The older generations had very strong links with local Labour parties and there was community voting... Now it's a mixture of younger generations being assimilated as Asian British and less likely to follow the lead of their parents…and fewer community bonds," says Dr. Stephen Fisher, professor of political sociology and an expert on political behaviour at Oxford University.

That's clearly about British Indians, right? Why would anyone think it appropriate to extract the Fisher quote from it and put it in the British Sri Lankan Tamil article in a way that suggests that Fisher was talking about Sri Lankans? This is just bizarre. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:28, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

August 2017[edit]

Your addition to Indian diaspora in France has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Cordless Larry (talk) 00:01, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from British Tamil into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:38, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at British Sri Lankan Tamil.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing.

Please stop edit warring. The discussion takes place on the article's talk page, and you have no consensus in favour of your changes - not surprisingly, since they are still adding misleading quotes and original research to the article. bonadea contributions talk 14:54, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notice[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Lankandude2017. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:04, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

August 2017[edit]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Alex Shih ^Talk 15:19, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock[edit]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Lankandude2017 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

disruptive editing on what page? I created British Sri Lankan Tamil and the editors in question want it removed. O am accusing them of disruptive editing, and I haven't even broken a policy yet...

Decline reason:

You have a history of edit-warring (and having been blocked for it), and then resumed edit-warring after the block expired. And forging someone else's signature is a pretty serious problem also. DMacks (talk) 15:27, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.