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Speedy deletion nomination of Andrew Jayamanne

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A tag has been placed on Andrew Jayamanne requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Proposed deletion of Andrew Jayamanne

The article Andrew Jayamanne has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:28, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

June 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Biographies of Living Persons prods from an article unless it contains at least one reliable source or was created before 18 March 2010, as you did with Andrew Jayamanne. If you oppose the deletion of an article under this process, please consider sourcing the article or commenting at the respective talk page. Thank you. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:58, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Andrew Jayamanne

The article Andrew Jayamanne has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:01, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Do not remove Biographies of Living Persons prods from articles without addressing the issue, as you did with Andrew Jayamanne. You are, however, welcome to comment about the proposed deletion on the respective talk page instead. Thank you. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:02, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Andrew Jayamanne with this edit, you may be blocked from editing. Happy editing, hajatvrc with WikiLove @ 17:06, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you remove Articles for deletion notices or comments from articles and Articles for deletion pages as you did with this edit to Andrew Jayamanne. Happy editing, hajatvrc with WikiLove @ 17:08, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Andrew Jayamanne, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. ShriRam^{Talk to}_me 17:21, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Sanity

Perhaps you don't realize the problem, so let me spell it out for you. The Andrew Jayamanne article is proposed for deletion because all biographies of living persons must be supported by at least one reliable source. You have added a source, but you formatted it so poorly that editors may well have missed the fact that you added it at all. You may want to use the edit summary feature to indicate: "I added a source". This might have prevented the back and forth that has occurred.

The source you added is trivial in the extreme -- it is about an entirely different person, and mentions Jayamanne once in passing as the cinematography instructor of the subject. This is sufficient to avoid deletion based on the BLP grounds, but it will not save the article from a articles for deletion discussion. Unless there is more information available about Jayamanne, this article is not likely to survive. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:34, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps you should have started by writing a userspace draft of the article you are working on while you familiarized yourself with WP:Citing Sources. This will wonderfully reduce the number of conflicts you will run into with other editors. Happy editing, hajatvrc with WikiLove @ 18:02, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

I have cleaned up your article. Jayamanne appears to be a major figure in Sri Lankan cinema, a topic that appears to be sorely under-reported on the English Wikipedia. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 18:55, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Kopi Kade

I have reverted a slew of edits made by you and Nevillejm (talk · contribs) to the Kopi Kade article which appear to overinflate Andrew Jayamanne's importance in the history of this drama. According to the cited sources, Thevis Guruge is credited as the creator of Kopi Kade, while Jayamanne is credited as its first director. To be sure, Jayamanne's contributions to Sri Lankan film and television is significant, but please do not artificially inflate it by misinterpreting or misrepresenting the sources that are available. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 12:27, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Can you explain why you reverted my change to Kopi Kade, intoducing material that is not supported by the available sources? While Jayamanne may have had influence in the early technical direction of this program, Guruge is clearly identified in the given source as the creator. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:24, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

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