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Michelle Dilhara
If you believe that the recent changes to the article address the issues raised in the maintenance notices, particularly the copy-edit issue then you are able to remove those notices yourself. I suggest you take a look at the results of the Copyvio Dector] first, which provides details of where the potential copyvios exist. If you can address those then I'm prepared to remove that maintenance notice. BTW I don't think the AfD is justified. Dan arndt (talk) 08:21, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

August 2020
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to remove Articles for deletion notices or comments from articles and Articles for deletion pages, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michelle Dilhara, you may be blocked from editing. Also do not ever do this again Praxidicae (talk) 16:40, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Disruptive editing??? What is that nonsense?? I have never done such thing. So how you rate my idea like that. The article has deletion tag for more than 14 days now. The article has many comments regarding KEEP. So, what is wrong with you about not removing the deletion tag?? Inform me about these ridiculous comments on me. If you all are highly rated Wikipedian editors, you should have faith on such deletion tags. Pointless debate!!

Proposed deletion of Sura Sapa Soya


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Proposed deletion of Jundai Gundai


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Proposed deletion of Sewanali


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Proposed deletion of Sooriya


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Proposed deletion of The Letter (Sinhala film)


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Nomination of 2015 Sri Lanka Under-19 Tri-Nation tournament for deletion
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Licypriya Kangujam
I am not an administrator, so I cannot semiprotect this page. Go to WP:RFPP or ask an administrator. BTW good work with creating articles for the AfriCine project. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 13:56, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Daily Mail reference at Shana Dowdeswell
Hi. The Daily Mail reference you included at Shana Dowdeswell needs to be replaced or removed. See WP:DAILYMAIL. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 18:20, 23 October 2020 (UTC)


 * This still needs to be done. Robby.is.on (talk) 21:40, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Length of articles
Hey, please notice that for the AfroCine project it was asked The minimum requirement of readable prose for new articles is 1000 characters or 1kB. Though this is still a stub, as long as the articles have several sourced facts this is permitted. Try to make the articles at least 1500 characters or 1.5kB and effectively start class entries if there are plenty of sources.

At a quick look at some of your articles, a bunch don't seem to hold up to that, for example Alexis Tsafas, Figueira Cid, Being Black: A Documentary on African Australians, 30 Days in China, Napomuceno's Will (film) which are a few sentences each. You can measure the prose using this tool. --SuperJew (talk) 09:06, 2 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi. Thank you for your information regarding minimum number of characters. I noticed that, Napomuceno's Will consists with 4402 chacracters. So it should be more than 1 kB right?? However, three or four articles may be lower than 1500 character level. It is due to lack of online information in those citations. Anyway, I will contribute with my level best. Thank you again for your information. Gihan Jayaweera (talk) 18:11, 2 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Firstly, I prefer you answer on your talk page (don't worry I put it on my watchlist) to keep the discussion in one place. Regarding Napomuceno's Will (film), not sure how you counted. Counting with the lists in the "Cast" and "International screenings" sections I get to around 2350 characters. But I would say that the count should be only of the prose, so only the lede section in this case, which makes around 300 characters. If there isn't enough information to make even a stub of at least 1000-1500 bytes, I would re-consider if the article is worth having. --SuperJew (talk) 13:07, 2 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Understood. Thank You. Gihan Jayaweera (talk) 18:54, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Creating articles
Hi. When you are writing articles, make sure to reread them before publishing. I've noticed several spelling and grammar errors. Don't worry, it happens to the best of us at times but be sure to double check. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 23:20, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi.. Thank you for the notice... Highly appreciate... Cheers Gihan Jayaweera (talk) 17:32, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Wiki english page
ගිහාන්! මට දැනගන්න පුළුවන්ද Wikipedia එකේ සිංහල පිටුවක් ලියලා ඒකම ඉංග්‍රීසි පිටුවක් කරන්න පුළුවන්ද කියලා? මම ලියපු සිංහල පිටුව තමයි මේක. https://si.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thisarana_Arama Usp1988 (talk) 14:47, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ඔව් පුලුවන්. ඒ ලින්ක් ටිකම පාවිච්චි කරලා English වලින් හදන්න පුලුවන්. Gihan Jayaweera (talk) 20:31, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

ගිහාන්! ගූගල් එකේ Thisarana Arama සර්ච් කලාම Knowledge panel එකේ සමාජ ජාල ගිණුම් එහෙම පෙන්වනවා. ඒත් english wikipedia පිටුවක් නැති නිසා විස්තර කිසි දෙයක් නෑ. ඒ නිසයි හදන්න ඕන. ඔයා එහෙම පිටු ලියන්න බාරගන්නවද? බාරගන්නවා නම් කීයක් විතර මුදලක් වෙනවද ඔයාගේ මහන්සිය!? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Usp1988 (talk • contribs) 17:41, 7 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Internet එකෙ websites නැත්තම් English wiki එකට දාගන්න හරි අමාරුයි. අඩු ගානේ සිංහල and English websites ඔක්කොම 5ක් වගේ තිබ්බානම් හදන්න පුලුවන්. Gihan Jayaweera (talk) 23:19, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

ගිහාන්! ඔයා Thisarana Arama ගූගල් කරලා බැලුවද? ඒ පෙන්වන විස්තර මදිද වැඩේ කරගන්න? Usp1988 (talk) 18:13, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ඔව්. ඒ ටික මදි කොහොමත් English Wiki හදන්න. Gihan Jayaweera (talk) 23:54, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

හරි ගිහාන්.. ස්තූතියි විස්තර වලට! Usp1988 (talk) 18:27, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of List of international cricket centuries at the Central Broward Regional Park


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Nomination of List of international cricket centuries at Central Broward Park for deletion
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Carmen Pretorius
Gihan Jayaweera, I have just completed a copyedit of the Carmen Pretorius article that you created. Given your extensive experience on Wikipedia, I was very surprised to see the number of factual inaccuracies in what you wrote when compared to the sources, and also how some of the other material was very similar to the sources.

Just a few examples:
 * You use "he" and "she" interchangeably. Carmen is a female, and should always be referred to as "she" or "her".
 * Her first stage performance came through the play A Whole New World. Actually, she sang the song "A Whole New World", which comes from the musical Aladdin, though she wasn't performing in the musical at the time. She was eight years old. It's an unnecessary detail, and I removed it.
 * She also worked a lot at Stageworx Performing Arts School in Johannesburg. The implication here is that this was as an actor/singer, but the source makes clear that she was a makeup artist—another of her skills—working with students there, not as a performer or performing instructor. I've removed this as well, since it's misleading and not particularly relevant unless her training and work as a makeup artist is discussed.
 * In 2005, she appeared in the popular theater play Cape Town where she played the lead role of 'Roxy Hart', a murderous housewife. She continued to play the role in second and third seasons. This is very wrong. She appeared in the musical Chicago, in a 2018 revival of a production that had previously been mounted in 2005 (when Pretorius was 15) and 2008. It's a musical, so there aren't seasons like on a television show.

I hope you will take better care in accurately reflecting the material in the sources, while being sure to put them in your own words—there were a few phrases that were uncomfortably close to those used in the sources, and you need to be careful to avoid close paraphrasing. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:50, 30 November 2020 (UTC)