User talk:Voiceoftamil

Copyright concerns
You uploaded a number of files which appear to be photographs of paintings taken at the Mullivaikal Muttram shrine. According to Wikipedia image use policy, these images violate the copyright of the painter. Merely taking a picture of an image does not constitute a new, original work which has its own copyright. The photo's copyright belongs to the creator of the painting, so you (unless you are the painter) do not have the right to release that image to public domain as you have done. If you cannot resolve this matter (i.e. if you cannot prove ownership, or prove that the painter has approved this release of copyright), the image will have to be deleted. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:56, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Vellupillai.jpg
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Vellupillai.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:43, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

File:Balachandran.jpg listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Balachandran.jpg, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:CharlesAntony.jpg
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:CharlesAntony.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Thileepan mullivaikal.jpg
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Possibly unfree File:Col.sankar.jpg
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Possibly unfree File:Anton.Balasingam.jpg
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Anton.Balasingam.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:45, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Sivakumaran.jpg
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Sivakumaran.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:46, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Velunachiyar.jpg
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Possibly unfree File:MaruthuPandiyar.jpg
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:MaruthuPandiyar.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:46, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Kattabomman1.jpg
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Kattabomman1.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:47, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Tamil people, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please make sure to include an edit summary with every edit. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history.

The edit summary appears in:
 * User contributions
 * Recent changes
 * Watchlists
 * Revision differences
 * IRC channels
 * Related changes
 * New pages list and
 * Article editing history

Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:14, 30 January 2014 (UTC) Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:14, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:15, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

February 2014
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload new images. However, it appears that one or more of the images you have recently uploaded or added to an article may fail our non-free image policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted image of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free image criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 05:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Fair use images
Would you stop reverting everyone who tells you what you added is against policy? Like we've said before, the images which you keep adding are non-free and even if they weren't, they are disputable on that page. Undoing edits and asking "which one?" is considered disruptive, do not edit war...users can get blocked from editing for doing it. For the sake of answering your question, File:Thiruvarupa_cover.jpg, File:Pavanar.jpg, File:G._Nammalvar.jpg and File:Mylapore_Ponnuswamy_Sivaganam.jpg are all non-free. Do not revert again just because you disagree with the policy, read it at WP:NFC. If you any better reasoning you can post it on the article talk page, get consensus and then make the changes. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 06:20, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Blocked
I've blocked this account for one week for abusing multiple accounts, per the findings of Sockpuppet investigations/Voiceoftamil. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Sivakumaran's Pic at Mullivaikkal art Gallery.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Sivakumaran's Pic at Mullivaikkal art Gallery.jpg, which you've attributed to Sivakumaran's Pic at Mullivaikkal art Gallery.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:40, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Balachnadran.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Balachnadran.jpg, which you've attributed to Balachandran. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 08:22, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

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March 2017
Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Vaiko, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 06:25, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Vaiko
Your edit is stored in the wp:page history. Adding references is how we ensure that content is valid. Without references, a reader can not easily validate information and there is no presumption of accuracy. See Help:Referencing for beginners and Help:footnotes. This is covered by the Wikipedia policy of wp:verifiability (WP:V). Please wp:cite your edits with wp:reliable sources (RS). Per WP:V unsourced content can be removed. Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 07:37, 24 March 2017 (UTC)