User talk:Dilshanheimler

January 2021
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 * i talked about this issue on the talk page. please check the discussion

--Dilshanheimler (talk) 18:03, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Oz346 (talk) 18:47, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Partial block from Sri Lankan Civil War
 You have been blocked from editing the Sri Lankan Civil War article (not including the talk page) for a period of one week for violating the 3 revert rule. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. 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:. El_C 18:57, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't think you've fully understood why you were blocked. Wikipedia has a three revert rule: you cannot revert more than three times on the same article within a 24-hour period. You reverted four times, and were otherwise edit warring on the page. As there was clearly a dispute you should have continued to discuss on the talk page without reverting further. (I'm not admin, I'm just clarifying for you). — Czello 20:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Trying to sharpen (Talk:Sri Lankan Civil War refocus)
Hey. I asked a question (basically), which I don't feel you really even touched on with your reply, so I'm quoting an excerpt of it below, hoping that you will attempt to answer it directly this time.


 * I still don't see what that really has to do with the FBI's position (from 2008 or whenever) as meriting inclusion for the WP:LEAD of this article. Since there is no mention of the US there, at all, the position of it, itself, as a country, sounds like is the thing that should be highlighted, instead. And that means, as decreed by the US Department of State, no?

Thanks in advance. Regards, El_C 15:48, 1 February 2021 (UTC)


 * El_C I thought adding FBI's comment was important because FBI did most of the investigations and reporting about LTTE and LTTE's international operations. FBI is a well knows organization across the world.
 * LTTE created a brutal atmosphere which could be expressed by the FBI's statement. FBI made this statement in the beginning 2008, the Government of Sri Lanka faces most of its accusations on human right violations during its final offence in 2009 due to the recklessness of the final offence. And this is mentioned in the lead of the article "The Sri Lankan government forces have also been accused of human rights abuses, systematic impunity for serious human rights violations, lack of respect for habeas corpus in arbitrary detentions, and forced disappearances" so the FBI's statement gives more balanced context to what the situation was like during the final stage of the war.
 * Moreover the line which describes the proscriptions of LTTE "The tactics employed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam against the actions of Government forces resulted in their listing as a terrorist organisation in 32 countries,...." This does not give any context to the nature of these "tactics". These tactics were the reason that made FBI issue such a statement which explains the nature of these tactics. FBI described LTTE as deadlier than Al-Qaeda (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/ltte-deadlier-than-al-qaeda-fbi/articleshow/2693945.cms?from=mdr) because LTTE had influenced the middle eastern extremist organizations (for an example their iconic suicide belt) again, i believe FBI's statement unfolds the nature of these tactics
 * This brutality of LTTE's is widely acknowledged and condemned by moderate Tamil activists. Thus, I don't believe mentioning how LTTE was described by FBI will unbalance the article rather it gives an accurate, realistic context about this historical event.
 * I'm sorry this is the best I could explain. I firmly believe that FBI's statement has an encyclopedic value as it could give a realistic context about the history and fill that void in the article. If my explanation does not meet the standards of wikipedia I'd understand that as well.
 * Thank you for dedicating your time on this matter. Dilshanheimler (talk) 18:17, 1 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Dilshanheimler, while I can appreciate your passion, here on Wikipedia, we try to aim at a more understated presentation of the facts, per WP:IMPARTIAL. Again, the status of the LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization is something which, by law, is/was decreed by the US Secretary of State, not the FBI (or any other entity). Doesn't matter that the FBI investigated them domestically, or that, say, the CIA investigated them in Sri Lanka, or whatever. The WP:LEAD is meant to be a summary of the body. If we only mention the US once in it, it really should be about the foreign policy position of the United States itself, as a sovereign nation, on this matter. Not a law enforcement arm of it, as prominent as it may be. Regards, El_C 22:21, 1 February 2021 (UTC)