User talk:Tigerassault

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March 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. SBC-YPR (talk) 10:47, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Please don't call a constructive edit 'vandalism' just because it did not fit in with your narrow views on the subject. You will note that my supposed vandalism has been reinstated by other editors. BTW, have you yourself read that welcome page? Please read it.Tigerassault (talk) 07:14, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Re: Flag of Karnataka
My comments here. Regards, SBC-YPR (talk) 17:06, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Flags
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Perhaps you do not know that Karnataka has it's own flag and state anthem.......Heights of dumbness... --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:39, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Actually I know that Karnataka does not have its own official flag. That makes you the dumb height. :) Tigerassault (talk) 06:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your Effort
Even though I don't agree with you on many issues, especially regarding the Invasion of Goa and Portugal, I sincerely appreciate your different POV's and the information that you have researched and strive in conveyeing. Although your POV of Portuguese culture both in India and current Portuguese society seem quite incomplete (and when referring to Portugal itself dated also), your research has shed interesting and different elements which I think are enrichening to gain greater knowledge of the issue. Apart from some emotive comments, it also displays that you are open to discussing, informing and learning; the truth is that alone we can't reason anything out. Keep in touch and all the best to you Tigerassault.Goali (talk) 13:26, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

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Dear Tigerassault,
After many strenuous efforts, and even if I am not yet totally sure, I think I have finally found the correct way to reply to the message you left for me one year ago. I hope that my reply will reach you.

You suppressed my edit to the statement made by Air Marshal Raghavendran about Portuguese POWs in Goa, in the article 1961 Indian Annexation of Goa, on the basis that I had probably written a personal rebuke to the said statement and had then concocted a source to back it up. You based your conviction on the fact that the Air Marshal’s statement had been published in his 2004 memoirs, so it would be highly unlikely (‘outside of a time machine scenario’) that the Mozambican daily newspaper Notícias (the source I had mentioned) had commented on such statement 42 years prior to its making.

I do not know if Air Marshal Raghavendran published his statement in 2004, but I remember very well that a similar opinion had been commented by Notícias soon after the 1961 annexation of Goa, Damão and Diu, for I was living in Mozambique at the time and was already sufficiently grown-up and attentive to events as emotional as the one in question (as you will certainly understand, and regardless of further political considerations, the annexation of Portuguese India was experienced as a rude moral shock by the average citizen in Portugal, including the overseas territories under Portuguese sovereignty at the time; it had an indelible effect on me).

The said opinion by an Indian officer was so similar to the one you attribute to Air Marshal Raghavendran that I assumed they were one and the same. Mr Raghavendran may well have published, in his 2004 memoirs, a statement he had expressed over 40 years earlier. No ‘time machine scenario’ is required to explain this.

And as I found that in its previous form the article 1961 Indian Annexation of Goa was biased, I thought it would only be fair to introduce some type of counterweight to the opinion of an officer from the winning side about prisoners from the losing side in a hugely unequal war, besides of the fact that the prisoners in question were detained under deplorable conditions.

But, of course, I cannot produce any documentary evidence (a link or a scanned copy) of an editorial published by Notícias 50 years ago, whether the statement that the editorial referred to was made by Mr Raghavendran or by any other Indian officer.

At any rate, I doubt that producing such evidence would change anything. I have sound reasons to presume that, even then, my edit would be excluded, because I had inserted another one, about an interview, a few years ago, of RTP (the Portuguese public Radio and Television station) with a Portuguese actor who was a soldier in Goa at the time of the annexation, in which he declared that food was extremely bad in the prisoners’ camps, practically restricted to a daily bowl of rice, until one day they started to receive meat, by coincidence (or not) at the same time that the numerous errant dogs and cats had mysteriously vanished from the surrounding area... I quoted this interview with a due indication of the source (RTP), but that did not prevent my edit from being suppressed.

More recently, I had inserted another edit about the escape attempt of a group of Portuguese POWs. The attempt failed, as the captain of an Italian ship treacherously surrendered them to the Indian authorities. Then, as a reprisal, an Indian lieutenant attacked General Carlos Azeredo with a stick, yelling ‘Run! Run!’, to which Azeredo replied "Vai bardamerda" (something equivalent to ‘Go to hell’), only to be savagely spanked until he eventually fainted.

I duly indicated the source of these data: an article titled A Fuga de Alparqueiros, published in VISÃO HISTÓRIA magazine (#14, December 2011, p. 45). Yet, not only my edit was suppressed but I also received the following warning in May 2012: "This is your last warning. The next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at 1961 Indian annexation of Goa, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. NOTE: I noticed that a lot of your inputs on the aforementioned page are violations of our above policy, as well as WP:Neutral point of view and WP:Verifiability. Last warning, if you continue to do this, I guarantee you that you will be BLOCKED very soon. Take heed~! Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 00:57, 19 May 2012 (UTC)."

I suspect that the problem here is not so much my ‘inserting [of] unpublished information’ (I can, at any moment, send a copy of the VISÃO HISTÓRIA magazine in question; please tell me how, and I will do it) as the fact that my edits are excessively hurting for Indian pride.

So, my dear Tigerassault, as you seem to have the power to do it, you may leave your article in its current, unfair form. Just do not implicitly accuse me of dishonesty. Yours sincerely, Namaacha (talk) 20:28, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Dear Namaacha, I recall that your edit started with the words "However, this statement can be explained as the desperate need of an Indian officer to raise his own morale" The word 'Desperate' here being your personal opinion. Then you went on to say " India, an extremely poor, backward and underdeveloped Third World country" which was again your largely irrelevant personal analysis of India's economy (however right you may have been). Then you referred to "a long and humiliating domination by the United Kingdom" which is again your irrelevant personal analysis of the colonial era. And then finally you do not mention anywhere in these sentences that this is what some editor of some newspaper in Mozambique had to say... making it look like it part of a slightly preachy narrative. And then I note how you first added how "this statement can be explained" and then went on to add - in a later edit - a source that no one could verify... not even yourself.

Of course, you will appreciate that Air Marshal Raghavendran had just been promoted from Flight Lieutenant in 1961, and would not have been so important a person to be quoted anywhere about his views on the Portuguese POWs. These statements came out in his memoirs only many many years later, after he had retired. Tigerassault (talk) 19:13, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Stop inserting unsourced and delibaterly wrong information
Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to 1961 Indian annexation of Goa. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you.Neelkamala (talk) 06:02, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

I would not like to experiment. I am adding authentic information with sources as per approved policies. YOU are the one removing these wiothout reason because they do not suscribe to your POV. You, sir, are trying vehemently to keep any information taht reflects badly on your own POV out of this article. Tigerassault (talk) 16:01, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

September 2014
This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Indian annexation of Goa, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Neelkamala (talk) 05:44, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

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