User talk:Vinuka Walawage

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Vinuka Walawage, you are invited to the Teahouse!
I was very happy to be with u but if others do absurd things like this, i would ask you to be more sensible. Don't think that you are such heros by deleting the description about Ananda Daham Pasala. For goodness sake!!!!!!!

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June 2019
Hello, I'm Gab4gab. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Ananda College, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Gab4gab (talk) 13:14, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You have added material regarding Ananda Daham Pasala multiple times now without referencing reliable sources that support your addition. All Wikipedia content must be based on published sources. Editors restoring challenged material have the burden of providing in-line citations that support what they are restoring. I invite you to participate in the discussion of 'Ananda Daham Pasala' by following this link: Talk:Ananda College.  Make your case there rather than continuing a slow motion edit war. Gab4gab (talk) 15:07, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I see that you again added a section on 'Ananda Daham Pasala' without participating in the discussion on the talk page and without providing a reliable source that supports that content you are restoring. Continuing to add this content without discussing it could be considered disruptive editing. I again suggest you join the discussion on the talk page. Gab4gab (talk) 01:54, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Ananda Daham Pasala is still in existence in Ananda College.
I added description about Ananda Daham Pasala because any one reading the wikipaedia page of Ananda college will know about it. Ananda Daham Pasala has an fb page too. If u go to that, u will see our teachers and students, prefects. Please do not delete our description. I uploaded our logo to prove that we are really existing. This is not a joke. Please let the whole description about Ananda Daham Pasala exist on the wikipaedia page of Ananda College. I hope you will give us good response. Thank you.

Vinuka Walawage-Vinuka Walawage (talk) 13:44, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * There is a discussion on the talk page of Ananada College which I have invited you to participate in. That is where you should be presenting your arguments.  Note however that if you are a Teacher of Ananada Daham Pascala then you have a conflict of interest in promoting your organization. See WP:COI Gab4gab (talk) 13:50, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Argument on Ananda college
Then rhere should not be a description about the olcott oration and old boys association. They are just societies in ananda college. Please be sensible. Vinuka Walawage (talk) 13:57, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You may be correct. Feel free to bring this up on the article talk page. 331dot (talk) 00:43, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

June 2019
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Ananda College. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing Wikipedia. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 00:42, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Vinuka Walawage. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 00:44, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Notability of Ananda Daham Pasala
I see you have written a draft Ananda Daham Pasala article. You may want to review how Wikipedia applies the term notability (See WP:N) before devoting more of your time to that project. The general need for reliable third-party sources may result in deletion of the article as non-notable. New editors are often surprised by how Wikipedia approaches notability. For most of us it's not how we use the word outside of Wikipedia. Gab4gab (talk) 03:07, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Reply to Gab4gab: It is not a draft my friend. It is on the following newspapers. You asked me for better citation. So there are two newspaper articles published in 2 national newspapers of Sri Lanka. (Daily Mirror 2019.07.24 14th page and Dinamina 2019.07.23 2nd page) So I think you can have a look at the pages of those newspapers. I request you to leave the description I put in the Article Ananda College as it goes parellel with the English news article.Vinuka Walawage (talk) 15:17, 24 July 2019 (UTC)Vinuka Walawage
 * Just to be clear: Draft:Ananda Daham Pasala is what you have written. That is a draft. You have copyright violation there as you did in the Ananda College article. You need to rewrite the information in your own words.  We can't simply copy and paste from copyrighted sources. I'm happy to leave your edits in place if they follow Wikipedia guidelines. Gab4gab (talk) 16:05, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Now I've noticed that in June your draft article contained the same text that appeared in the DailyMirror on July 24th. How did that happen? Gab4gab (talk) 16:32, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:AnandaDahamPasala.jpg
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Reply to CptViraj: Yes you may delete the imageVinuka Walawage (talk) 15:20, 24 July 2019 (UTC)Vinuka Walawage

Orphaned non-free image File:The 2019 Prefects&#39; investiture of Ananda Daham Pasala.png
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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Vinuka Walawage, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Ananda College have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Gab4gab (talk) 15:13, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

July 2019
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Ananda College. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. creffett (talk) 23:49, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Vinuka Walawage


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