User talk:Ben MacTavish

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Ben MacTavish, good luck, and have fun. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 18:50, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Translation
Hello! Strange request here, but an article about me and my Wikipedia work has been promoted to Good article status at English Wikipedia and nominated for similar status at Spanish Wikipedia. I'm curious if you have any interest in translating the entry for Sinhala Wikipedia or other projects?

Figured I'd ask since your profile suggests you do translation work. Either way, happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:56, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Blasphemy law in Sri Lanka has been accepted
 Blasphemy law in Sri Lanka, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Thanks again, and happy editing! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 10:26, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Operation Yukthiya has been accepted
 Operation Yukthiya, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thanks again, and happy editing! TheBritinator (talk) 16:48, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Expansion for Operation Yukthiya?
Hello @Ben MacTavish. I accepted your draft on Operation Yukthiya and I found it to be quite an interesting short read. This topic seems to be gathering a lot of not only domestic news coverage but also international too, especially around the suspected human rights violations. The article just seems to be scratching the surface, you have done a great job on bringing this topic to the mainspace, thank you!

I think this article has a lot of potential, there is plenty of news sources around to do that too. It would be great if you and other people, maybe even myself, were to expand this article to be more in-depth by covering the events and controversy around it. I also went at the liberty of adding links to the pages for it so it wasn't an orphan, but there is probably still more.

Thanks for the great article, and happy editing!

TheBritinator (talk) 17:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)


 * @TheBritinator Hi, thank you for for the kind words! I'll try to expand the article whenever I have time (which is not often due to studies). Please feel free to improve the article. I am new to editing and also not a native English speaker, so I'd appreciete if you could correct any of my mistakes. Sometimes my sentences are phrased awkwardly or have a poor choice of words, feel free to rephrase them. Thank you!
 * Ben MacTavish (talk) 19:06, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No problem. I have shared it around and I'm sure people will contribute to improving and expanding it in due time. TheBritinator (talk) 22:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC)