Roshan Sylu

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Thanks for the feedback and guidance. I will continue with learning to contribute more . Roshan Sylu (talk) 23:22, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ajith Rupasinghe Surendra

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Thanks for the feedback and guidance. I am still learning how to do the article. This is my first attempt to create a page. I have removed the sentences copied from the above link. Please help to guide me further to continue my contribution about the forgotten leaders. Roshan Sylu (talk) 06:01, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Samal De Silva for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.   // Timothy :: talk  03:31, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Please help to guide me on your concern, so that I can avoid similar situation again in future and also improve this article. I am trying to contribute on the hidden history of the forgotten Sri Lankan leaders who sacrificed their life for others. Roshan Sylu (talk) 06:53, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

I understood your concern that I couldn't find enough information about Samal De Silva from the available online resources. As such I agree with your proposal for the delegation. Thanks for the help and suggestions. Roshan Sylu (talk) 12:48, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

• Hello, my apologies for not leaving this note sooner. I was the editor that nominated the article for deletion. I genuinely hope you don't find this discouraging, although I know from experience this is hard to do. Please contribute to the discussion on the nomination page. It's certainly possible it will not be deleted if you make a good case for notability and others agree with you; I'm completely open to changing my mind if you convince me. Writing an article can be very difficult if you're new to Wikipedia and it often takes some time and experience before success. I'd be happy to request the article be moved to your draft space so you can continue to work on it; alternatively, you can post the sources on the nomination page or add them to the article for others to consider. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know and I genuinely do hope you're not discouraged. Best wishes,   // Timothy :: talk  02:39, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Yes I am new to Wikipedia. As suggested I moved this article to the draft space. Thanks for your help and suggestions. I will continue to improve this article by adding more citations. Roshan Sylu (talk) 06:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that in this edit to Samal De Silva, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 08:48, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your help to alert me. I tried to fine tune the initial draft version. I will leave details remarks in future. Thanks. Roshan Sylu (talk) 09:55, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Please stop

Roshan Sylu, this is an encyclopedia. Please stop adding a list of obscure communists into existing articles. You have also created new articles for several of these obscure individuals, all but one of whom do not meet notability guidelines.--Obi2canibe (talk) 10:53, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the help and guidance. I will improve my contribution. Roshan Sylu (talk) 11:25, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Regarding page move

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Thanks for the help and suggestions. I will continue to improve my contribution. Roshan Sylu (talk) 06:17, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for the feedback and guidance. I will correct the link Roshan Sylu (talk) 06:47, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for the alert and please kindly allow me to check. Roshan Sylu (talk) 22:37, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

My sincere apologies for the earlier article based on the contents from Sri Lanka Guardian. Now I collected from various sources in Tamil and posted at this temporary page. Please help to move this new article. Thanks for your guidance.

My sincere apologies for the earlier article based on the contents from Sri Lanka Guardian. Now I collected from various sources in Tamil and posted at this temporary page. Please help to move this new article. Thanks for your guidance. Roshan Sylu (talk) 07:15, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• K. A. Subramaniam is also a copyright problem and has been blanked and listed for investigation. MER-C 09:28, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback and guidance. I acknowledge that some of these were imported from http://noolaham.net/project/128/12749/12749.html According to Noolaham, copyright is belonging to the author. Actually this book was donated by K.A. Subramaniam's wife Valliammai Subramaniam while she was living in Singapore. Please help to see this from the pdf version http://noolaham.net/project/128/12749/12749.pdf on page 2. Also she has published this book in text mode in her blog at this link below https://sathiamanai.blogspot.com/1989/12/1989-kasubramaniam-commemoration-volume.html with a note on the headline and also in her profile on the right side top corner of her blog allowing anyone to use her materials in Wikipedia. So please help to reconsider your decision and kindly help to restore the article. I am extremely so sorry for the trouble and please accept my sincere apologies. Once again thanks for your help to restore the article. Roshan Sylu (talk) 11:32, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

The following is the exact text from Mrs.Subramaniam's https://sathiamanai.blogspot.com profile :"Please note that I started this in 2009 only and the events up-to 1969 are placed in 1970. I have re-posted the events after 1971 accordingly. I retired from the Government of Sri Lanka in 1991 and lived in Singapore from 1998 to 2011. Currently living in Chulipuram, Sri Lanka. I, wife of K.A. Subramaniam and mother of PLOTE Meeran Master ( Sathiarajan 1962 -2001) give my full copyright permission from this Blog's contents to re-produce in Wikipedia or any other media. I permit the use of my material under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).- Valliammai Subramaniam" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atttraff (talk • contribs) 00:12, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Please help to note that Madam Valliammai sent email with the Ticket#: 2020090610001228 .

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