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Hello, I'm Dan arndt. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to List of Mahinda College alumni have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.

List of Mahinda Colllege alumni

I have provided clear feedback as to the rationale for the changes that I have made to the list. If there are any individuals that you think I have unfairly deleted then I am happy to discuss their inclusion (however there needs to be clear evidence to establish their notability). I have left a number of individuals (they are hidden) that are potentially notable - so that I can check their notability before they are removed permanently. Dan arndt (talk) 09:18, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

See my comment at the relevant talk page. --LahiruG ^talk 09:31, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I explained my rationale on the talkpage - which you have ignored. There doesn't necessarily need to be a 'consensus' as all changes are in accordance with WP policies and standards. Dan arndt (talk) 09:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

• Please see WP:LISTBIO and Wikipedia:ALMAMATER|Wikipedia:Namechecking, which states "inclusion within stand-alone lists should be determined by WP's notability criteria. Inclusion in lists contained within articles should be determined by WP:Source list, in that the entries must have the same importance to the subject as would be required for the entry to be included in the text of the article according to Wikipedia policies and guidelines (including WP:Trivia sections). Furthermore, every entry in any such list requires a reliable source attesting to the fact that the named person is a member of the listed group. For instance, articles about schools often include (or link to) a list of notable alumni/alumnae, but such lists are not intended to contain everyone who attended the school — only those with verifiable notability. Dan arndt (talk) 11:52, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Dan arndt (talk) 10:10, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

February 2017

As discussed (refer link). Dan arndt (talk) 11:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

As per your request i 'll put forward my suggestions there. LahiruG ^talk 07:12, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm intending to replace the List of Mahinda College alumni with the newly modified list but thought I'd let you know first. Dan arndt (talk) 06:32, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Ok you can go ahead, but I am not done yet with my suggestions here. LahiruG ^talk 09:32, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Sri Lankan cricketers

Hi. I see from edits on several Sri Lankan cricketers, you are in an edit-war with another user. As far as I can tell, no attempt has been made to discuss these edits on any user's talkpages or article talkpages. I strongly recommend that you make no further edits to any of these articles until a discussion has taken place. Please be aware your next revert will probably lead to a block. For the record, I don't want that to happen, but consider this a warning of what could happen if you continue. Articles include, but are not limited to:

• Yashodha Lanka
• Nisala Tharaka‎
• Thikshila de Silva‎
• Sithara Gimhan‎

The edit histories of these articles speak for themselves. Please start talking with the other editor on their talkpage to avoid any problems. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Precious bodily fluids} 08:44, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

@Lugnuts: Thanks for paying your attention to this issue, which has been going on for some days now. I have not tried to discuss this with the other user as it is obvious who is violating the rules of WP by removing content backed by RS in these pages, to show his dominance. As an experienced editor he should know that all the policies and regulations are equal to all the users, irrespective of their edit count. His contradictory behavior when adding categories to different pages should be scrutinize by the Wikipedia community and he should be advised to be consistent with the rules and regulations of WP. Considering your advice I have not tried to reinstate the removed content in these pages by the other editor, hopefully you can involve to do the right thing as an experienced editor. Thanks. --LahiruG ^talk 07:18, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Saman Weerasinghe

I would have to disagree with your comments about removing the copyright violation tags from this article. There are significant portions of this article that have been directly lifted from both sources or are close paraphrasing which raise concerns about potential pagarism. This includes but is not limited to sections such as "He has also served as a consultant to the international section of the Moscow State Medical Academy. During his academic career in Russia, Dr. Weerasinghe developed strong ties with Russia and became an advocate for stronger Sri Lanka-Russia cooperation.", "was responsible for introducing several lucrative investment and trade opportunities to Sri Lanka through the Russian business community" and "in the development of economic and cultural affairs between Russia and Sri Lanka in the last two decades." Copyright violations need to be treated seriously and not dismissed without serious consideration. Please do not take this personally as I understand that you were not the editor responsible for the aforementioned edits to the article however I will re-instated the maintenance tags until the issue is addressed. Dan arndt (talk) 09:33, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

The accepted Copyvio detector states as "violation is unlikey",1 2your personal assessment is irrelevant here. Anyway how did your copyright violation detection occurred suddenly when I removed the false tag of "Primary sources". I would like to know the relationship between your sudden copyvio detection and my this edit? --LahiruG ^talk 10:31, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

The fact that there are word for word copies of sections of text within an article is clearly a copyright violation, irrespective of what an automated tool states. I think you need to check the policies on copyright violations they are fairly explicit. If you want I can report your actions but I'd rather have the issues addressed hence the reason for tagging the article. Dan arndt (talk) 11:12, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Saman Weerasinghe, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Dan arndt (talk) 11:18, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

I have replied to you at the talk page of the article.--LahiruG ^talk 06:37, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

List of Mahinda College alumni

Can you please advise why you have reverted the changes to this article. You have not provided any explanation on your edits or responded to any of my comments on the article's talkpage. Dan arndt (talk) 03:49, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

I have replied to you at the talk page of the article.--LahiruG ^talk 04:06, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Harrassment

I'm not certain where you are coming from making totally baseless statements about racial victimisation. I do note that you've made similar statements against other editors that you've had edit wars in the past with. The edits I've made in the past have always been an attempt to improve the quality of articles- which should be the aim of every Wikipedian, irrespective of which country they relate to. Just because I'm not currently living in Sri Lanka doesn't make me any less qualified to edit articles on Sri Lanka, if anything I'm able to take a more objective view. Many of the Sri Lankan articles, particularly some of the newer articles, fall short of Wikipedia's standards. In most cases I work at trying to improve however some are unable to be saved and should be deleted. If you take offence at that - too bad. Dan arndt (talk) 11:30, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

As an editor who has edited WP for few years, I can clearly identify the users who have the genuine intention of improving the standards of WP pages and the editors who cross the line while pretending to do so. The editors who genuinely try to improve the quality of articles do not do these kind of edits 1, do they ? While you are not interested to provide citations to each and every line of articles you create (See Matara Municipal Council), you tagg pages created by others for each and every sentence AB. Why double standards ? There's no point in wasting time by discussing it here in my talk page as I have seen many such incidents where you have tried to impose strict policies on other Sri Lankan editors to harass them. --LahiruG ^talk 06:04, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

seriously if that's the best you can find, I don't see that as racism. LibStar (talk) 06:41, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Surely you won't see them as racism, because you seems to be a good friend of User:Dan arndt. How ever harassing only Sinhalese Sri Lankan Wikipedians, by urging them to adhere to WP policies strictly, while him self not following those policies, seems racism to me. --LahiruG ^talk 06:52, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

no Dan and I have actually had disputes in the past. take it up on WP:ANI . however, I can't see it as racism. LibStar (talk) 06:54, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

if there were racist comments, or racist edit summaries, simply interpreting a style of editing as racism is not necessarily racism. LibStar (talk) 06:56, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I see you've had a history of edit warring with Dan, but to play the racism card without actual evidence is hardly fair on your part. LibStar (talk) 06:59, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

It seems that you need to understand the definition of "racially motivated harassment". He has a history of harassing only Sri Lankan wikipedians and I will take it to WP:ANI, if he continues to do so. --LahiruG ^talk 07:08, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

the links you provide to me do not establish racially motivated harassment, in fact , just because he is a non Sri Lankan working on Sri Lankan articles does not constitute racially motivated harassment. are you trying to dissuade him from working on Sri Lankan articles? LibStar (talk) 07:10, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Actually, I am not trying to dissuade him from working on Sri Lankan articles, rather than trying to stop him from bullying Sri Lankan wikipedians. --LahiruG ^talk 07:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

could you please provide more evidence of this alleged harassment? LibStar (talk) 07:24, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I really don't think that I need to provide more evidence to you or discuss this matter further with you, unless you are an administrator. I will provide them at WP:ANI, if necessary. --LahiruG ^talk 07:32, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I rest my case... LibStar (talk) 07:33, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I will ask that you either withdraw your accusations or provide real evidence to support your claim... Yes, before you comment I do know User:Dan arndt and have work collaboratively with the user on many projects over the last 10 years and have never found him to express any kind of racism. I also know that the User has spent considerable time in Sri Lanka and helped a number of editors from there as well as attended meetups when he's been there. I will also note that such accusation as you have raised are serious to raise such accusations without justification is in itself an issue worthy of a warning. Gnangarra 11:09, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Agreed. you cannot make unevidenced claims of harassment without providing the diffs that you say you are withholding for an ANI. making unwarranted accusations of am editor being a racist is a form of harassment itself. LibStar (talk) 11:43, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

May 2017

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make personal attacks on other people, as you did at User:Dan arndt. Comment on content, not on fellow editors. You have made unfounded accusations against another editor of racial harassment. After 5 days of dialogue you have continued to refuse to provide links or withdraw the accusation. Gnangarra 00:57, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

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