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Thank you mister!   VihirLak007 (talk) 15:58, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

September 2022

  Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from St. Joseph's College, Wattala. 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 your sandbox. Thank you. Dan arndt (talk) 03:52, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Recent edit reversion

In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.

I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. S Philbrick(Talk) 15:01, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

I figured out out caused the copyright violation. I straight copied and pasted the history section from the official college website. No your edit wasn't a mistake and that's for your service! MihirNak007 (talk) 16:00, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Source reference problem

Regarding a information source problem.

I am working on an article about St. Sebastian's Church, Enderamulla, Wattala, Sri Lanka. It's not so popular in online articles. It's very hard to find references online. There's actually no articles about it online except for their official Facebook page. Almost all the information I got for my working article is from their 100th jubilee magazine. Where they had the history informations of the church, parish, priests and the land. I want to know a way to continue this article. Is there a way to make this happen? MihirNak007 (talk) 16:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

References do not need to be online. If you have printed materials such as books in a library, that's fine. If there are no independent reliable sources with significant coverage of this church, however, there cannot be a Wikipedia article about it. 331dot (talk) 17:36, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
A magazine put out by the church would not be an independent source. 331dot (talk) 17:37, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of St. Anne's Balika Maha Vidyalaya, Wattala

 

The article St. Anne's Balika Maha Vidyalaya, Wattala has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Speedy deletion nomination of National seminary of Our Lady of Lanka

 

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Proposed deletion of Anthony Jayakody

 

The article Anthony Jayakody has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP: ANYBIO, is solely dependent upon primary sources. The position of Auxiliary Bishop is not a notable position and there is no evidence that the individual is notable for any other reasons.

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Aight. So can i delete it or will it be automatically deleted? MihirNak007 (talk) 02:55, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

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MihirNak007 (talk) 09:34, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

  The Editor's Barnstar
You have done a great job reformatting and rephrasing articles to meet Wikipedia standars. Keep it up!

Wikiceylon.pvt (talk) 12:21, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of St. Anne's Balika Maha Vidyalaya, Wattala for deletion

 
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Colombo Scouts moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Colombo Scouts, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 TT me 21:31, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Colombo Scouts

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Your draft article, Draft:Colombo Scouts

 

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 15:15, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

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