User talk:Lahiru k/Archive 6

Please vote here
There is a vote on the title of a Sri lanka related page, please vote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sri_Lanka_Reconciliation/archive_4#Settle_this —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dutugemunu (talk • contribs) 09:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Biased, inappropriate contents in "Black July" article
Content: "The riots occurred following a deadly ambush by the organization known as Tamil militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which killed 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers."

Corrections:

1.The world knows and the organisation running a defacto state itself has named itself as "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam" or LTTE. Instead your text shows "Tamil militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam".

2.You say the riots of large scale erupted because of killing 13 SL armymen. That is quite childish having no base. So worldover many naiton have liberative movements and once such movements go for offences killing their armymen, does instantly it create any riots killings 100s of other groups???

The offense to kill 13 sri lankan armymen has a cause which must be pointed as base for these roits. So appending "held in reaction to the longtime discrimination and suppression over Tamils." could be a balanced one.

Same like here and there unwanted baised pharases are seeded which intrun creates a different image of the topic conveying inappropirate info. Do have a look to correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pumaaa123 (talk • contribs) 07:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

SLR agreement
As a signatory of this agreement, you may be interested that we're currently discussing the WT:SLR. This is just a courtesy notice. &mdash; Sebastian 05:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Israel userboxes
Hi, Lahiru k, I recently put up and because I thought they were awesome. I do have one small problem; why do they always align to the right? Did you intentionally make them this way? If you didn't, can you fix this? Thanks. миражinred (speak, my child...) 16:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

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Responsible use of anti-vandalism tools
Lahiru, I am very sad that I have to officially warn you to use anti-vandalism tools responsibly. See WT:SLR. &mdash; Sebastian 16:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

This is really no fun for me. You see, I can't avoid stepping on people's toes on both sides of the conflict. Some people only react by getting even more angry and committing even more vandalism when they are warned. Take for example the editor you warned, or the editor who just childishly vandalized SLR and related pages, as if SLR were anti-Tamil, which you know we aren't.

I know that you can be above that, so please take this warning in a good spirit. I sincerely hope that you find back to your old self, the Lahiru whom I befriended a year ago. &mdash; Sebastian 18:28, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

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