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Hello, We are Falsefactscorrected, we have noticed a lot of users impose their racist views and racially motivated changes to stories and facts changing them for their own political or racist agenda. We aim to correct this racially or biased changes to facts by correcting the false facts with correct accurate facts made by evidence and credible sources and not "users" who promote their racist or biased views by altering facts to support their biased opinions. We hope you join our effort and become part of the solution, and not the problem!

Our references come most commonly from law enforcement or news agencies, we are always happy to give you contact information for our sources and information we share, you need only ask. Our information in the recent posting was given to us by multiple news agencies as well as the authorities involved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Falsefactscorrected (talk • contribs) 07:47, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey, can we go a little easy on this one if they learn to color inside the lines? Reminds me a lot of my younger self. -- Kendrick7talk 08:36, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I find their activism intriguing. As long as they wouldn't change article content purely based on their views, or synthesized material, I guess we should give them a chance. -- ChamithN   (talk)  12:43, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

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Please help me write a article
Hi I m not a good writer nor an expert in writing. I don't have so much of writing skills too. I have wrote my first article of a person biography from my region. He has been doing a lot for the region and trying to promote our culture as it has been negckeglested by other part of our country. Since he did his best to let people know about our culture. A person like him Robert Naorem need to be known by other poeple. There are lots of fans of him from my state. And I wanted to support him by just writing a small article to let the access of his work and profile to his fans. There are also reliable source and he does not do any promotion of his own tahts the best part I like about him. Please do help me to write a art vile about him. Rk1985 (talk) 20:24, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
 * There are couple of things you should know before writing a biography. Most importantly, the subject should at least meet the WP:GNG criteria to have an article. Secondly, I wouldn't recommend you creating an article about him as you personally know him. Finally, when you create article you shouldn't create it merely for his fans, but for all Wikipedia readers in general. Basically, this means that you should maintain a neutral tone, and avoid weasel terms. -- ChamithN   (talk)  04:30, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter


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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
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March 2016
Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made&#32;to Talk:Federal government of the United States: you may already know about them, but you might find Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. - the WOLF  child  08:06, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I usually do issue user warnings after reverting disruptive edits; however, I didn't place a user warning on that specific IP's talk, because I felt like he is only going to keep trolling even if I did. I decided to contain myself per WP:DENY. Cheers! -- ChamithN   (talk)  09:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter


Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by and one by ), four Featured Lists (with three by ), and 53 Good Articles (six by  and five each by, , and ). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by and five by ). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. scored 265 base points, while and  each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, and, broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

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FYI on crosses
Hi, remember this? FYI, I have made an edit filter request at Edit filter/Requested. Meanwhile I have reported another IP instance of this editor: see User talk:119.95.158.50. Blocked now. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 10:03, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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Regarding the Windows 10 Page
I did not see your own revision until after I had finished submitting my final one with the formatting tweaks, and I apologize for my... um, not entirely what the best word is. Mistake? Carelessness/hubris? Impatience? The exact terminology isn't important, but I do hope that somebody can reword my edit to sound a little less speculative.

Thanks for taking the time to read this! Lycanphoenix (talk) 14:13, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I was, in fact, typing on your talk page while I got your message. So, I'll post it here instead: I just wanted to let you know that the "Anniversary Update" is already mentioned under Windows 10; however, "Ubuntu on Windows" is not. You might want to add details regarding upcoming Bash shell update to that specific section instead. -- ChamithN   (talk)  14:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll see what I can do. Still a little new to editing the actual Wikipedia as opposed to smaller Wikia communities.

On a personal note, I can't wait to see what people can do with Ubuntu-on-Windows... Like installing Wine on top of actual Windows to enable sudo* backwards-compatibility with 16-bit Windows 3.1 / Windows 95 executables. That'd be something.

*Yes, that pun was intended. Lycanphoenix (talk) 14:33, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Let me know if I can be of any help. I noticed that you were wondering about the purpose of sandbox. It's actually a page where you can experiment on before literally making the changes to the specific article. Here, this provides a succinct explanation. Sandbox is quite useful like in the case above; you said you were halfway through when I reverted your edit. Well, next time, you can use your sandbox as a precaution. Oh, by the way, I'm pretty excited about "Ubuntu-on-Windows" too. Best, -- ChamithN   (talk)  14:45, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

This day's This Special Day's article for improvement (day 1, month 4, 2016)

 * Seeing people actually improve that article made me think it might not be a joke after all. This could be a way to get others' attention to an article I desperately need help with. Worth giving it a try. It's a shame that I have to wait until next year . -- ChamithN   (talk)  03:00, 1 April 2016 (UTC)


 * He he, great idea! w.carter  -Talk  07:20, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
You are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Mixed message?
Hi Chamith. This is sort of a mixed message, no? Don't commit sockpuppetry, and don't admit to sockpuppetry when you've committed it? Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:54, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, well. It seemed liked he genuinely didn't know that sockpuppetry isn't permitted here. Or, probably he 'observed' it somewhere and doesn't know how to rephrase it clearly, in a way it wouldn't backfire at him. I thought I address both these issues at the same time. Ironically, I feel like I shot myself in the foot in the process. --  ChamithN   (talk)  13:14, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Meh, I'm not gonna harsh good editors. :) FYI, he was CU confirmed as Sockpuppet investigations/Nagendra NJ. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:29, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Batman
Haha, I suppose it was sarcastic. I do appreciate you taking the time to help improve the Batman article. Cheers. DrRNC (talk) 02:46, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

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Untitled
Hi, I'm new to Wikipedia but I hope this is the right place to message you! I made some changes to the Barbara Serra page in English which you erased. The changes I made regard the marital status, as it still says she's married to Mark Austin though they divorced in 2012.Obviously it's hard to 'prove' it short of linking to the divorce papers. As i mentioned i'm new to Wiki, can you suggest what is the best way to handle it? Thank you in advance for your time & help TVPresRep (talk) 23:02, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, I did a Google search on my own but I could find anything on this. Maybe it was never reported (though, I could find sources on her marriage). Anyhow, is there any kind of source you can provide to justify what you just said? It doesn't have to be divorce papers; any reliable magazine, journal, mainstream newspaper article would be sufficient, or even a tweet from her official account would do. -- ChamithN   (talk)  04:39, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

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Editing Prefects' Info on D.S.Senanayake College Article
Hi, I am also a fellow student guide in our school,D.S.Senanayake College Prefects' Guild. I recently found out that Prefects' info has not been updated. So, I was trying to enter our current Head Prefect's name in to it and that's all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonu365 (talk • contribs) 05:00, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey Sony365, you're welcome to add it to the article if you can provide a reliable source as a verification. We can't take everyone's word for granted — then this wouldn't be an encyclopedia. -- ChamithN   (talk)  05:04, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

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