User talk:Amritsvāraya/Archive 1

January 2021
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Obi2canibe (talk) 16:18, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom, you may be blocked from editing. Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom was changed by YaSiRu11 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.956819 on 2021-01-24T17:37:39+00:00 Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 17:37, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Personal attacks
Please don't use the term "vandalism" as you did here just because you disagree with the edits. That's a misuse of the term and can be considered a personal attack if you continue. Vandalism has a very specific meaning on Wikipedia, WP:VANDAL has some information on that. In particular, good faith edits should NEVER be called vandalism. It's an editorial disagreement, and WP:BRD should be followed. Thank you.  Ravensfire  (talk) 15:24, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

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January 2021
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Jaffna District, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. There was a government source there. Sdrqaz (talk) 14:40, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is YaSiRu11 – POV-pushing and other problems. Thank you. Sdrqaz (talk) 08:40, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

April 2021
Hello, I'm Suneye1. I noticed that you recently removed content from Tamil loanwords in other languages without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. SUN EYE 1 13:50, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Copying with Wikipedia requires attribution
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ridma Weerawardena (August 12)
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DMySon (talk) 07:13, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Draft:Ridma Weerawardena
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Personal attacks
You were warned in January about personal attacks. This is absolutely unacceptable. Sdrqaz (talk) 14:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ridma Weerawardena (August 12)
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Bearcat (talk) 17:25, 12 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Firstly, YouTube is not a reliable source for Wikipedia content, so YouTube videos do not help to establish notability at all. You don't make a person notable by showing video clips of a thing happening, you make a person notable by showing that journalists wrote news stories about the thing.
 * Secondly, the "substantial broadcast segment" is not passed by a performance or by a Q&A interview in which he's talking about himself in the first person — it's passed by being the subject of a documentary, in which other people are speaking about him and his significance in the third person.
 * Thirdly, the touring test is not passed by verifying the existence of one concert, it requires documentation of several concerts comprising an actual tour.
 * Fourthly, even if you can demonstrate that he passes one or more criteria in NMUSIC, you don't do that by clapping back at me on my personal talk page after I've reviewed the draft — you do it by adding the relevant information to the draft to make it better. Bearcat (talk) 22:04, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Reply
 * 1. YouTube videos can be used as sources (WP:VIDEOLINK). Those videos were not self-published. They are published by Sri Lanka's biggest TV networks (TV Derana & Sirasa TV), So I think It's perfectly fine to use them. And. I don't think anyone writes articles about a singer appearing on TV. Well, at least they don't do that in Sri Lanka. So, How else I'm supposed to prove that he appeared on TV.
 * 2. Where is that stated?. If appearing in a well-known tv segment is not 'substantial' I don't know what is. And, who makes documentaries about living singers?. And how does this doesn't count as not being what you just explained?.
 * 3. Artists don't do usually do tours in Sri Lanka. That's the best something close to a tour.
 * 4. All the relevant information is there, isn't it?. You are just refusing to accept them. And, I did not clap back at you in anyway
 * YaSiRu11 (talk) 22:48, 12 August 2021 (UTC)


 * (1) An essay does not trump our actual policies, which are that YouTube content is problematic and needs to be minimized and avoided as much as possible. YouTube content either comes from amateur YouTubers, in which case they aren't reliable sources at all, or it comes from media outlets, in which case the content can virtually always be cited somewhere else besides the YouTube copy anyway, meaning it's absolutely never necessary to cite YouTube unless the YouTube video itself is actually the subject of the article (and even then, there still has to be other sourcing besides just the YouTube video itself.)
 * (2) Our basic rules about notability require a person to be the subject of coverage and analysis by people other than themselves. You do not make a musician notable by referencing the article to clips of the person performing, or to interviews where the person is talking about themselves in the first person: you make a person notable by demonstrating that he or she has been the subject of third party coverage and analysis of their significance. For example, musicians try to get into Wikipedia all the time by lying in their own self-created PR about "hit" singles they never really had — so musicians don't get over our "notable for having had a hit single" criterion just by saying that they've had a hit single, they get over that criterion when the single's hit status can be independently verified in sources the musician didn't control or create themselves. Notability is not a question of what an article says, it's a question of the quality and type and depth of the references that can or can't be shown to support that the things it says are actually true — and the referencing has to be independently verified, and cannot just come from what the musician says about himself in his own press releases or interviews where he's talking about himself. And incidentally, documentaries about living musicians get made all the damn time — I literally just watched a full-length feature documentary film about a living musician barely a week ago, and I didn't even say we required full-length feature films. Documentaries can also be segments of music or news shows, for example — but they still have to feature some external analysis, and can't just be the musician talking about himself in the first person.
 * (3) If tours don't happen in Sri Lanka, then you don't get to reify a single concert into a "tour" for the purposes of passing NMUSIC's touring criterion — if tours aren't a thing there, then the touring criterion just isn't available to be used at all.
 * (4) No, there hasn't been any relevant or notability-building information added to the draft. If you want the draft to be accepted, then the place to add any information that you think helps to make it more acceptable is in the draft — my personal talk page is not the place for any additional information, the draft is the place for any additional information. Again, the path forward does not involve arguing with me: if you want those links to be taken into account as potentially changing the notability equation, then the place to show them is not my talk page, it's in the draft.
 * So your path forward is to work on expanding and adding more references to the draft, not to keep arguing with me about a draft you're not actually making any effort to improve. When you've improved the draft, you're welcome to resubmit it for another review, and another administrator (it doesn't have to be me) will look at it and review whether you've done enough or not — but you are not welcome to keep arguing with me, and if you keep arguing with me instead of making any effort to work on the draft some more I'll be reporting you for uncooperative behaviour. Work on the draft some more, and leave me alone. Bearcat (talk) 23:45, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

August 2021
This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, as you did at Special:Diff/1038414136, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. ''Particularly egregious personal attack at Special:Diff/1038414136. Do not do this again. This is your only warning.'' —valereee (talk) 15:14, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. Thank you. Nardog (talk) 16:27, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 14:35, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Page move
Could you explain why you a page to a clearly inappropriate name? If you want to move a page and you find you can't carry it out, either list it at the technical requests noticeboard or (if you know it will be controversial) use the requested moves process instead of cutting content out and pasting it. Thank you, Sdrqaz (talk) 01:23, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Tamil Eelam, you may be blocked from editing. -  SUN EYE 1  12:54, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you do not violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. -  SUN EYE 1  13:34, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Third opinion request
Hello Amritsvāraya, thankyou for your request for a Third Opinion at Talk:Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka. Given there is a consensus forming discussion in progress through the requested move process, and that more than two editors have contributed, I have declined your request. Please do not hesitate to let me know if there are any queries. Thanks, --Jack Frost (talk) 13:14, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently making disruptive edits. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Floquenbeam (talk) 17:58, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Mihindu Maha Sēya


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