User talk:Ela112

Sri Lanka pages
Hello and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Two things :


 * 1) Please try and wikify pages as to make it easier for subsequent editors.
 * 2) you have added numerous pages sourced as "This page incorporates content from Dr. Rohan Hettiarachchi's ". Could you please elaborate further on your permission to copy text from that page to Wikipedia ? Travelbird 14:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

REPLY :-

I have contacted the admin of the site and he has granted me permission. I further attach my email :-

Please feel free to use any information on this site, Good luck, Rohan Hettiarachchi

> > Dear Sir/Madam > > I want to know whether the information provided in www.lankalibrary.com > can be freely used, i.e - in an entry in www.wikipedia.org, i would like > to know the copy right status of the information supplied. > Thank You.

Thank you for your reply. Please add something like "used with permisson of website owner" to your source notes, so that other editors may see that your use is legitimate. Travelbird

That's fine, but you are just cutting and pasting. Someone reading that article would have no idea where these statues are (in fact, you call Sri Lanka by the old name Ceyleon) and are not formatted at all. Please read the guide to wiki standards. Czolgolz 15:00, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Ancient Constructions of Sri Lanka
If this is only going to be a collection of links elsewhere, this would be better as a category. Grand master  ka  06:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Blanking
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Your contributions
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia once again. I've been looking through your edits and have a couple of words of advice for you to stop your edits being reverted or having templates such as or  being added.

Firstly, you should make yourself familiar with the Manual of Style (MOS) that describes how pages should be formatted etc.

Secondly, it's always a good idea to act on templates that are added to your articles, rather than just removing them. The articles you are writing are very valuable to the community but in general, to the reader who is not very familiar with Sri Lankan architecture and sculptures and history, they require a certain amount of context.

If you'd like to talk more about any of this then don't hesitate to get in touch on my talk page. Budgiekiller 09:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Again, thank you for your numerous contributions. Could I gently remind you that writing an article for Wikipedia requires you to keep an eye on the Manual of Style (MOS), rather than just creating articles by copying and pasting text in.  Other users will add  or  to each of your contributions until you provide the reader with an article with some context and whose style is in-line with the MOS.  A couple of general points:


 * 1) You could add a template to the very short articles you write about the various stupa so that other authors would be encouraged to contribute to it.
 * 2) You could add some category tags (which I've seen you've just started to do) to your articles - this certainly makes them more useful, easier to locate and group etc.

Thanks again for all your hard work, just a bit more time spent on the basics I've outlined will make your contributions first class! If you'd like to discuss any of this, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Budgiekiller 09:54, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Don't forget to add categories and stubs to your work!! Budgiekiller 11:15, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Proto History of Sri Lanka
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Category
Hey, I see that you're adding categories and stubs to all your fine work. Just thought I should point out that there already exists a category specifically for the history of Sri Lanka, that is Category:History of Sri Lanka. I've created another one (your one), i.e. Category:Sri Lanka History, to remove the red links, but having checked out the naming conventions, I discovered that it was the wrong thing to do.

I'll try to go through your pages and re-cat them using the correct category, and put Category:Sri Lanka History up for deletion. Perhaps you can help, or at least when using the category in the future, use the one that already exists. Hope you understand everything I've tried to explain! Keep up the good work, if you want to talk it over, get in touch on my talk page. Budgiekiller 20:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, even better and more specific to some of your work is the category Category:Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka. I'll leave it to you to decide!  Budgiekiller 20:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I've recommended your category for deletion, here but only after the pages tagged with it are modified to the Category:History of Sri Lanka. Hope you understand!  Budgiekiller 20:27, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Copyrighted text on Sri Lanka pages
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Permission had been granted to this website
i was going through the article discussion for Mihintale and also found that "Permission has been received from the copyright holder to license this material under the GNU Free Documentation License, and evidence of this has been lodged with the Wikimedia PR department "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mihintale


 * I see there is justification for that website and I have removed the copyvio notices on pages that were taken only from that website, but part of Irrigation Works of Ancient Sri Lanka was copied from (section 3.1), which is copyrighted, so I cannot remove the copyvio for that page.  SCH ZMO  ✍ 02:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but I don't think that permission is sufficient. The owner must agree to license his material under the terms specifically in the GNU Free Documentation License. Please feel free to use any information on this site is not nearly the same as I agree to license this material under GFDL. See Requesting copyright permission for the specific steps on how to request and confirm copyright permission.  SCH ZMO  ✍ 10:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Categories and subcategories
Hey, thanks for your recent communication on my talk page, glad to know that I'm not talking to myself all the time!! I hope that the advice I've given has been helpful and that you will be able to apply it to your future edits.

I have noticed one or two last possible issues with some of your pages, one of which is adding pages to a category and to one of that category's subcategories. Now, there is a guide to this here which says that under certain circumstances, it's allowable within the style of Wikipedia. An example where I'm concerned is Thuparamaya which you have categorised under both Category:Stupas in Anuradhapura and Category:Stupas in Sri Lanka. I would have thought that the first category is a subcategory of the second, so you would only need to tag it as Category:Stupas in Anuradhapura. However, I'm no expert in the history, nor the geography of Sri Lanka and its stupas so I'm more than happy to be corrected!!

Secondly, Vessagiri, for example, is currently in Category:Ancient Constructions of Sri Lanka which will probably need to be renamed Category:Ancient constructions of Sri Lanka - minor, but I expect it'll happen, just to make you aware. Once renamed, you could add an appropriate supercategory (e.g. Category:History of Sri Lanka to it, and then make sure you don't have cats and sub-cats on the same page!

Confused?! I am! Anyway, once more, I hope this is helpful. If you'd like to discuss things further then I'd be more than happy to do so on my talk page! All the best, Budgiekiller 09:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, I'll try again. Say you had an article about a Volkswagen Beetle.  Now you can easily tag this as a Car or as a Volkswagen model.  Tagging as both is a waste of time because the category of Volkswagen model would be a subcategory of Car.  You would only want it to appear in the lowest sub-category available.  Any clearer?!  Budgiekiller 18:04, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Wanniyala Aetto language
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new sri lanka waterworks article
i enjoyed reading this new article. could you provide the sources in detail? that would add a great deal to the quality of this article. for example give complet cite for Parker, 1981. thanks Anlace 22:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

My talk page
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