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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Obi2canibe. Thank you for your work on Coalition for the Republic. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Good day! Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia by writing this article. I have marked the article as reviewed. Have a wonderful and blessed day for you and your family!

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 16:50, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

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Ratnahastin (talk) 07:00, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Vile personal attacks

Not only you have personally attacked me and falsified my editing history,[1] you are also casting WP:ASPERSIONS by targeting editors by speculating their nationalities and calling them meatpuppets without any evidence.

You should remove that part from your comment on the AfD on Tamil genocide or you will end up at WP:ANI. Ratnahastin (talk) 07:00, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ratnahastin (talk) 15:14, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Block

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for personal attacks or violations of the harassment policy: of an ethno-national nature (WP:CT/SL). Please be aware that any further attacks, especially of that nature (Indian friends, etc.), will result in sanctions of especial severity, up to and including an indefinite suspension from editing. Below is an alert concerning this particular contentious topic, so please ensure you review it closely. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

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Obi2canibe (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I do have evidence of the meatpuppetery at the AfD but haven't been given a chance to present it before being blocked.

I have edited hundreds of articles related to Sri Lankan Tamils over the last 15 years. I have never known so many accounts of Indian origin to interact with a Sri Lankan Tamil article as is happening in this AfD. Currently, seven accounts of Indian origin have participated in the AfD:

• Ratnahastin (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• CharlesWain (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Orientls (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Lorstaking (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Pravega (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Raymond3023 (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)
• Azuredivay (talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log)

All seven are voting to delete the article and are using the same non-policy based reasoning for deleting the article: Orientls ("no such genocide against the Tamils"); Lorstaking ("No Tamil genocide ever happened"); Pravega ("No genocide against the Tamils"); Ratnahastin ("Nobody recognizes any "Tamil Genocide""); Azuredivay ("nobody recognises this non-existing "genocide"").

Prior to taking part in the AfD, the seven accounts have had no interaction with the article up for deletion and little or no interaction any other Sri Lankan Tamil related article. The Tamil genocide does not relate to India - the genocide is alleged to have been perpetrated by Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka against Tamils from Sri Lanka. It should not be of such great interest to so many Indian origin accounts.

A look at the interaction of the accounts shows that they edit similar articles:

• Ratnahastin and CharlesWain
• Ratnahastin and Orientls
• Ratnahastin and Lorstaking
• Ratnahastin and Pravega
• Ratnahastin and Raymond3023
• Ratnahastin and Azuredivay

I have experience of spotting signs of meatpuppetery and sockpuppetery and have reported a number accounts with evidence to WP:SPI. Based on the above evidence I am convinced that there is off-wiki co-ordination by the accounts in relation to the AfD.

In relation to me categorising the accounts as "Indian" at the AfD, it was not meant to be an insult or a personal attack or xenophobic but merely to point the connection between the accounts for the reasons set out above. If there had been any other commonalities between the accounts I would have pointed that out too. Similarly, the term "friends" was meant to signify the off-wiki connection between the accounts, nothing else. I am not Indian/Pakistani/Afghan. I have never edited topics coming under the jurisdiction of WP:CT/IPA. I have no issue with Indian editors or Indian people in general.

I am not someone who castes aspersions as claimed by the account that reported me to ANI. My record speaks for itself. My comment on the AfD was given in good faith - based on my experience and knowledge I genuinely believe there is meatpuppetery involved in the highly unusual activity at the AfD by Indian origin accounts. Thank you. Obi2canibe (talk) 19:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Please read WP:NOTTHEM. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:13, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you

@Pharaoh of the Wizards:, @Lustead: and others: Thank you for all your support at ANI but I would like to move on therefore could you please cease further discussion at ANI, I do not want others getting blocked trying to defend me. I will resume editing once my block expires next week. Thanks. Obi2canibe (talk) 19:37, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Belgium political party shading templates

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Liège (former Chamber of Representatives constituency)

Hello. Not sure I agree with the statement that it was a "much smaller constituency". It had 14 seats in 1985 and still 12 by 1995, while the current constituency has 15. Can I suggest the unmerge is undone? Cheers, Number 57 21:38, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

@Number 57:Hi, sorry for late response. The area of the constituency increased by 380% from 797 km² to 3,857 km². This map shows Liège arrondissement (old constituency) within Liège province (new constituency). The electorate increased by 80% from 400,000 to 725,000. To me this says these are different constituencies and should have separate articles. Obi2canibe (talk) 10:22, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tamil publishers (people)

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ITN recognition for R. Sampanthan

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Category:2018 in Tamil Nadu

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Austria political party shading templates

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Marshal of the Sri Lanka Air Force

@Obi2canibe:, Please see the page Marshal of the Sri Lanka Air Force, it has been suggested to merge the article to Roshan Goonetileke, you do something. Hamwal (talk) 21:27, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Category:Tamil priests has been nominated for renaming

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Years of the 21st century in Tamil Nadu

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Years in Tamil Nadu

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Category:People from Kalmunai has been nominated for merging

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Russian on Latvian articles

I find it inappropriate that you added Russian names on articles about Latvia. While an argument can be made for historical articles (as Russian was the lingua franca throughout most of Latvian history and still is a major language) to do it for modern articles is absurd. Especially since 2022. Calling the fact that in modern day Latvia Russian holds no official status as "irrelevant" is absurd and I hope you will realize this. --OskarsC (talk) 02:19, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

@OskarsC: Wikipedia guidelines (WP:NCPLACE#Alternative names) requires other names of places to be mentioned in articles, especially when used significantly. Russian is the mother language of more than one third of Latvians. The fact that it has no official recognition has no relevance. I am aware Latvian nationalists have systematically removed Russian names from articles for Latvian places but I do not intend to allow this to happen to the constituency articles.--Obi2canibe (talk) 19:33, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Ok. I see... I was hoping you were just uninformed but you are aware of what you are doing. For your information I hate nationalism. Especially Russian nationalism. Let's put Chinese now on every article because it's a popular language in the world. Alright, I'm done. --OskarsC (talk) 20:49, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

@OskarsC: Immature response. Just like trying to correct one wrong (annexation and colonisation) with another wrong (suppressing the culture of hundreds of thousands of people and depriving them of their basic human rights).--Obi2canibe (talk) 12:13, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Telling your colonizer to stop acting like they own the place is "suppressing their culture and depriving them of their basic human rights". Sure thing buddy. And as for my "immaturity" - I was just suggesting adding "popular languages" to unrelated articles. If you find that immature, I have to say - I completely agree with you! --OskarsC (talk) 13:08, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

@OskarsC: :) --Obi2canibe (talk) 21:23, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Embassy of Sri Lanka, Tokyo

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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 October 7 § Local politicians by nationality

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Puigdemont

I’d like to bring to your attention that my recent edits to the article were made to address the previous concerns. I kindly request that you refrain from undoing my version without first taking the time to review the changes. I believe this will ensure we maintain a constructive dialogue. Thank you for your understanding! 194.38.172.194 (talk) 07:13, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Uusimaa (electoral district 2 in Finland)

Hi, I provided a Finnish language source from Yle to the talk page concerning "Uusimaa" as being the Finnish name of the district. Check the Wiktionary page for "Uusimaa" for more information. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Uusimaa Loser12user (talk) 08:40, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Biographies of women

Hi there, Obi2canibe. I see that recently you have created several biographies of women. If you intend to continue along these lines, you might like to join WikiProject Women in Red where we are trying to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women. You can sign up under "New registrations" on Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/New members. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 14:11, 24 October 2024 (UTC)