User talk:Chamal N/Archive 6

Red-hot chili peppers!
Someone's a 'holic... :) &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 16:45, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * lol... Well I did leave to eat, at least :D  C h a m a l  talk 00:00, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * And breathe. Don't forget to breathe. :) &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 00:34, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in my RfA
I just wanted to take a moment to say "thank you" for taking the time and effort to participate in my recent RfA. As you may know, the discussion closed 66/0/1 and I'm now a holder of the mop. I will keep working to improve the encyclopedia and appreciate the trust which you have placed in me. - Dravecky (talk) 00:12, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

battle of metz
So when are you working on that article? I pinky promise that I will edit that article a little more. Last on the briollete of India, only 28% of that article was helped by me (lol) -- Spittle  spat  02:37, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry Spittle, that article is already done. You can improve it if you want though. I'm currently dong another one, Battle of Luzon. The article is already there, and I'm just expanding it. I'll put in the initial draft thingy tomorrow, and you can get working on it.  C h a m a l  talk 10:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Or you can get working on it now, if you can find a few references and get an idea about it. If you can, go ahead with it.  C h a m a l  talk 10:56, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Yu Oc
Hi there, Thanks for your comments on this article. I've now fixed the inline references problem by adding detailed references from Lecomte, and will shortly be adding references from Huguet to complement Lecomte's. I don't expect these additional references to affect the basic footnote structure I now have in place. Djwilms (talk) 04:55, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Looks good enough now. All 5 criteria seem to have been met. I've promoted it.  C h a m a l  talk 10:54, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

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PING!
You've got mail. :) &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 21:54, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I've replied to it.  C h a m a l  talk 02:42, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your careful consideration at my successful RfA. "Has every qualification to work in the areas he has mentioned" was generous and appreciated. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me. I'm going to be starting a copyediting subpage or two at WP:GOCE soon; I hope you'll join us. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 22:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'd be glad to join.  C h a m a l  talk 10:43, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Birthday
Thanks. I'm supposed to be designing some crappy template for people who sent me birthday wishes, but I keep on forgetting :( &mdash; neuro(talk) 13:03, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

If you're interested....
...would you like to help me expand 14"/50 caliber gun for a DYK? Pianista, if you see this, I asked Chamal 'cos he's actually interested in military history. :) — Ed   17  (Talk /  Contribs)  01:10, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure. Not much more needed for the DYK, just about another 725 characters. Or are you thinking of expanding it further than that? Anyway, I can help; tomorrow's a holiday here so I have the whole day to do it. I'll go ref hunting now, then.  C h a m a l  talk 12:06, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Let's just expand it as much as we can in a short time; that'll be good enough. :D Something like 14"/45 caliber gun. — Ed   17  (Talk /  Contribs)  02:00, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Right. I was thinking of trying it this morning (morning to me, night to you I think) but something else came up. I'll see what I can do in the next few hours.  C h a m a l  talk 06:26, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * See T:TDYK for the nom. :) — Ed   17  (Talk /  Contribs)  05:33, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * You sneaky little kid....:D Thanks! — Ed   17  (Talk /  Contribs)  23:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh... how did you find out? Oh, yeah. Dumb question. You just got crowned..  C h a m a l  talk 00:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Punk. :P Thanks!!! — Ed   17  (Talk /  Contribs)  01:08, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

The snow story (p.s. I made this story up)
It was the winter; Alex and Jayden loved to have snowball fights. Some of the other neighborhood kids, Nathan and Joseph, also loved to play with the two. It was always an equal team and everybody was good sports. The adults would walk by laughing as Nathan creamed Alex on the face with a big snowball or when Jayden would throw snowballs at Joseph and Nathan’s fort until it fell down. Every week the four would play and laugh as the snowballs whizzed here and there. Every week the adults would walk by chortling, and every week a kid called Tom would sit on a bench watching and enjoy the snowball fight, as if he was watching TV. Then one week Alex got very sick. He could not come to the big snowball fight. The group was very sad and began walking home, when Nathan spotted Tom. Nathan asked eagerly if he wanted to play, maybe if he did they could continue there snowball fun. Tom looked at Nathan and shyly said, “Yes!” The group cheered and as Tom joined Jayden’s team they had one of the best snowball fights ever. Boy, if only Alex was there, but wait when Alex recovers from his sickness and the teams are unequal, and then what will they do? The next week the group of five sat down and talked about the teams. Then a young teenager walked by, hearing there conversation, and then answering, “I’d love to play, may I join?!” Without another word the group said, “Yes!”-- Spittle spat  01:15, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Huh? What's this about?  C h a m a l  talk 06:23, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK/GA Main Page proposal
Hi. Just a note that you're being accused of campaigning here, in case you aren't already aware. Best, Olaf Davis | Talk 17:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That is so ludicrous. Take a look - you'll laugh. Thanks for posting this here Olaf, because I missed it on my watchlist. =/ — Ed   17  (Talk /  Contribs)  18:13, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks guys. I've been out for a while, and don't have much time now either. I'll reply there sometime tomorrow.  C h a m a l  talk 11:46, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Battle of Luzon

 * Chamal - just saw it, looks great! Congratulations. Icy  // ♫ 23:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Wonderful work, Chamal! :) &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 00:28, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * What are you two talking about? The "Battle" section is a mess. In fact, I was going to improve it, but got bored halfway through and left it at that ;D  C h a m a l  talk 11:48, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK request
I replied to your request at Miracle of the roses. -- Suntag  ☼  18:02, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Suntag. I've been out for a while and couldn't respond. But it's already been up on the main page :)  C h a m a l  talk 11:52, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Sigiriya images.
Hey, Chamal! You asked me a while ago if I wanted to enhance of the photos there. Are you done with the article, or do some of the images still need enhancing? &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 19:59, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah!! I had forgotten about it :P No, I haven't done anything much with it yet. We'll see... maybe during the holidays.  C h a m a l  talk 11:54, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

hi...
Lost...-- Spittle spat  22:35, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * lol... yeah, I've been lost for a while. Anyway, I'll be back editing now (hopefully).  C h a m a l  talk 12:08, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

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 * Wow, thanks! I should do that sometime...  C h a m a l  talk 12:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

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 * Hmmm... nice. Some are weird though. Crème fraîche, Cybersex and Controversies surrounding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Really weird :/ Thanks SuggestBot OK, I'm thanking a bot, how dumb is that?  C h a m a l  talk 12:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks!
, now signed! – ukexpat (talk) 02:12, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem :) I keep forgetting too, sometimes.  C h a m a l  talk 01:46, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

RE: DYK Lebanese Commando Regiment
Thank you, I have replied. -- Zaher1988 ·< Talk 13:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I've replied there. It's already gone up on the main page now. Nice article btw.  C h a m a l  talk 02:00, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

My friend
Your on my friends list on my user page could you go sign your name that would be a whole lot better, when you have a chance that is. Hairy Perry  16:39, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Hairy Perry  14:58, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Done :)  C h a m a l  talk 01:57, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. Chubb enna  itor  17:38, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Valery Kobelev???
Hi! after you marked that Valery Kobelev passed DYK somebody just removed it. I dont understand anything about this. Do you? The Rolling Camel (talk) 14:53, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm... it's still there. Nothing to worry about, DYK hooks don't just disappear, they make it to the front page somehow once verified :) I think it'll probably go up sometime later today, or early tomorrow.  C h a m a l  talk 01:54, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Updated DYK template
Hi, I'd just like to let you know what the template  was just updated with a new feature: now, for all DYK nominations that include only one article, it auto-generates the credit templates (  and  ), which the person moving the hook to Next may simply cut and past from T:TDYK directly into next. This only happens with single-article nominations; if the nomination has more than one article, there will be a message in the template saying "Credits must be done manually by the person moving this nomination to Next" or something like that. It will probably be a few days before you start seeing the auto-generated credit templates, since the template was only just updated and only the new nominations will reflect it; the first several times you see auto-generated credit templates, you may want to double-check the nom as you are promoting it, just to make sure the credits are correct.

There have been some other minor changes&mdash;mainly, now if a DYK nominator lists himself as both "creator/expander" and "nominator," the "nominator" field ends up blank (so that what gets displayed is "Created by User, self nom" rather than "Created by User, nominated by User." Also, the fields, collaborator, collaborator2, and collaborator3 have been replaced with the more intuitive creator2, creator3, and creator4.

Please let me know if you experience any problems with the new template. &mdash;Politizer talk / contribs 15:31, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure. Nice idea.  C h a m a l  talk 01:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

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Wowz.
Someone is inundated with Christmas cards. ;)

Merry Christmas, buddy, minus template. I'll give you something to listen to, though - how's that? &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 20:39, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

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Un-retired
I've decided to un-retire, and just thought I'd let you know. I can't adopt you again, but I'm always open to help if you need it. Cheers. -- LAA Fan sign review 02:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow, cool! Great to see you back.  C h a m a l  talk 02:43, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, glad to be back. ;)-- LAA Fan sign review 02:45, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * YAY!  Allanon  ♠The Dark Druid♠ 03:05, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed. MOTD is an absolute hodgepodge without you. :) &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 03:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Removal of possible OR and biased info in the article 2008 SLA Northern offensive
There is nothing biased or OR about the statements given, the government policy has been implemented, if you don't belive me here is a reference that backs up the claim. I will cite the statement that confirms it so you could find it in the ref Sri Lanka’s defence ministry had decided in October to stop revealing daily casualty figures, saying they would affect military operations. If you would check I belive you could find on other sites something similar said. I will reinsert the paragraph you removed with this reference. I don't know about Sri Lankan media, and I have not heard anything about government websites giving the numbers. All of the numbers given by Reuters, BBC, CNN, AP and AFP in the alst two months have been based on reports by tamilnet. The military has just only started again to give sporadic reports of their casualties in the last 10 days since the LTTE started claiming massive SLA casualties about a week ago. Again the reports are only sporadic so they could counter the LTTE's claims of massive casualties (such is the propaganda war), but in November there was almost not even one report by the government itself in the international media on the number of dead, the only numbers were given by the LTTE. I am willing for a compromise, let's put this reference now that confirms the stop to revealing military dead, and you give me the URL of the website you say is giving the number of killed and will insert it too and I'll check out what those numbers are that are claimed by the government website and put them in the article, but I would prefer that the website is in English because I don't speak Sri Lankan, as I also belive that most of the other readers of Wikipedia don't speak Sri Lankan too, after all this is the english-speaking Wikipedia, no offense I hope. In any case, will wait for your reply. Cheers!89.216.235.147 (talk) 07:12, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Will reply sometime tomorrow. I just logged in, but no time to make a decent reply.  C h a m a l  talk 13:52, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I have replied at Talk:2008 SLA Northern offensive (diff).  C h a m a l  talk 13:42, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

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Ok
I'm not the only one having a fake new messages bar.  SANTA IS HERE   14:09, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, and people have got into trouble about it before (even more experienced editors). I asked you to remove it before someone else comes along and removes it himself. It'd be embarrassing to get a warning about a fake message bar won't it? Nothing personal :) I see you've removed it now.  C h a m a l  talk 14:17, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the idea. Have a cookie.



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Re: Thanks
Entertaining it was. The joys of reverting vandalism ;) and you have a happy holidays as well. Inferno,   Lord of   Penguins  01:45, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It sure was. Thanks again, and happy holidays.  C h a m a l  talk 01:49, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

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Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (Sri Lanka)
Beautifully done, good job very balanced and neutral & to the point. Taprobanus (talk) 06:04, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Taprobanus! I did put some effort in to it, more than most of my earlier articles since it was a kind of sensitive subject.  C h a m a l  talk 07:05, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * :O Dude, no offense, but I am glad that I don't live in Sri Lanka...the government did nothing as the LRRP members were assassinated? Scary...but it is a very nice article. :)  Allanon  ♠The Dark Druid♠ 07:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, things are different here than in the US. This exposure was a major reason the government was toppled soon after.  C h a m a l  talk 07:40, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * A wee bit different...you know, if something really bad happens, try to find your way over here (if possible); there will be a home for you, though it may be slightly colder here. :D But seriously, be careful, and if the "s*** hits the fan" and you have a chance to avoid it by coming here, don't worry about housing. :)  Allanon  ♠The Dark Druid♠ 07:48, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Lol... it is hitting the fan right now all right, but hopefully the last bit. Most people here are confident that the war is going to end soon. Our military is good, though not very technologically advanced. Only our SF and commandos are given somewhat decent weapons, but they all manage with what they have. The only real good weapon we have are the RM-70s, they made a big change in the war. If you are interested, check this map to see how it's going.  C h a m a l  talk 07:59, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * My POV on it though. Don't tag me with POV-check or anything like that ;D  C h a m a l  talk 08:02, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes
Yes!! Chubb enna  itor  19:06, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think Chubby meant this for me. :D &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 19:07, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * On second thought, no he might be referring to your slot on the WikiCup. Sorry - he's placed messages on wrong pages before, haven't you, Chubby? :) &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C•S) 19:23, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Let's wait and see what IMatthew says. There could be others in the queue of course, in which case the first person is likely to get the chance.  C h a m a l  talk 01:26, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

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