Sechzehn

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Sincerely, ∞Sechzehn16^Talk∞ 04:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Sanskrit

Hi Sechzehn,

As you apparently speak some Sanskrit, I would like to ask you if you know of any good online dictionary for that language or if you can recommend any software for looking up Sanskrit words. Thanks for the information Watasenia 06:35, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Language skills

After I got my language skills in English and Japanese, I updated my language skills. Sechzehn 06:13, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

OpenBase

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the OpenBase article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! Wakemp 03:27, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for pointing out. Any possible violations have been fixed as per the rules of Wikipedia and posted a reply on your discussion page. --16(Sechzehn) 05:39, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, Sechzehn, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member, you might be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee, Titoxd, JoanneB, and Freakofnurture.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact me by my talk page, Celestianpower by email or talk page, or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users on our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, please see the IRC Tutorial, which was written by one of our members. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to be!

Thanks! G.He 21:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! What's New? In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed! The In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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Sri Lankan Army

Dear my friend, This what i want to say. Before Accusing me for blanking the Human Rights Allegations section you have to go through the history page of Sri Lankan Army article. See [1], someone came from 64.231.40.234 IP did that blanking job. Its a Canadian IP [2]. On that day I just did some corrections for two minor mistakes and one was done by 160.94.105.163. Believe me, I'm from Sri Lanka and I can even prove that if you want. My pal, I'm not blaming on you for this incidence. I know that you made a simple mistake. So I here by I'm asking from you to leave a message on talk page, about this incidence. Thank you, Lahiru_k 18:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject NCSLC

Hi Sechzehn, we wanted to invite you to join this project to help clean Sri Lanka ethnic conflict related articles on wikipedia. NCSLC: Neutral Coverage of the Sri Lankan Conflict. Pls let me know your inputs and how to take it forward from here. We eagerly looking fwd to having you there. Cheers, Elalan 02:24, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sechzen, thanks a lot for your inputs. Could you pls tell me how to include a picture in it, without changing the template? Thanks. Btw, you are most invited to the comm :-) Sudharsansn 17:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Great Sechzen, it looks good now. Could you pls tweak with the project banner and make it more presentable, by including links, etc..? Something like the code which you used in the members banner for automatic updation and related stuff?? Thanks a lot. Sudharsansn 18:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Great Sechzen, thanks for the work!! :-) Sudharsansn 10:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Civility

Hi Sechzen, there is a new kid, literally a kid, who is going beyond limits with scant respect for fellow editors and has gone overboard with his civility almost thrice inspite of friendly suggestions. Kindly intervene and warn him so as to avoid trivial conversations. He is dragging in things like how his parents brought him up, how we all should have been brought up, how he wants to honor the SL Army, how much of a pre-school kid 'I' am for all the good work I did on the VP page. I would pls ask you to interfere and issue him a strict civility warning and ask him to go through WP policies. The link is here and the user name is User:Iwazaki Thanks Sudharsansn 06:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sechzen, Pls go through this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Velupillai_Prabhakaran&diff=82998537&oldid=82954817

Here Iwazaki has framed up two entire sections of his own, literally without any citation at all. The citations he has pointed to refer to a newspaper article which he has read sometime ago and is not a piece of evidence which can be verified by everybody who would be reading that article. It is something like 'I-saw-that-in-news-once' kind of a link. A strong msg needs to be sent out to Iwazaki who is violating almost every single policy of Wikipedia, Civility, NPOV, Verifiability, etc...I kindly request you to step in and take some action to avoid blanking-out vandalism and reverting to uncited versions of the article which transitively refers to Vandalism. Pls go through my posts here to justify removal of the sections and how he has responded here

The user has also been issued a final warning for Civility but continues his spree of personal attacks and diplomatic vandalism. Check this Iwazaki Talk page

This seems to be going on for almost a month inspite of several friendly suggestions and also Admin warnings. Kindly help. Thanks Sudharsansn 13:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Iwazaki referred to WP:PAIN

Hi Seczhen, could you please express whatever you had mentioned in Iwazaki's talk page here: WP Personal attack notice board I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Sudharsansn 19:58, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Sechzen. Could you probably leave a msg there? Thanks again! Sudharsansn 21:02, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Completely agreed, I assume perfectly good faith with everyone but it is irritating to note that at times this lack of good faith is so detrimental to an article, which to me spoils the very essence of Wiki. Eitherway, point taken! Thanks Sudharsansn 12:56, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

VP Page

I need your help in explaining Verifiability to Iwazaki here because he is framing up two sections based on nil evidence. Pls check this diff. Thanks Sudharsansn 13:30, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message

Sorry I was not aware of the policy.Hence removed controversial content feeling it should be backed by citation.As I felt it did not have the citation .Very sorry about it

I felt the comment was harsh and needed a citation to be put there.I will not remove controversial content without citation.Anyway what I removed was

The entire Muslim and Sinhalese population of Jaffna was forced to leave within 48 hours in 1990 due to an ethnic clensing order by the LTTE. During this forced exodus, they were not allowed to take any of their belonging with them. LTTE had even removed the jewellery from the women that they were wearing at the time. Regards Harlowraman

Thanks for your message and I assume good faith as of WP:AGF and as a fellow Wikipedian, you'll get accustomed to the formalities and procedures here. Wishing you the best and looking forward for more contributions from you to Wikipedia. --∞Sechzehn16^Talk∞ 23:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Your language skills

You have mentioned all your language skills in your user boxes, but it is very sad to note that you don't have a native level user box to show your native language!!! After a thorough investigation about your work on wikipedia, I came across this user box which I can highly recommend to you.

WHAT DO YOU THINK??? ;-)  ♪♫ĽąĦĩŘǔ_Қ♫♪  ^(Ŧ) 07:52, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your thorough investigations and pointing out your opinion about language skills. But I am sorry to say that your language skill is assesment about me is not right and I am deleting the userbox you added in the talk page because it adds my talk page to wrong category. -∞Sechzehn16^Talk∞ 23:57, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm currently having a very busy schedule with my studies until 4th December. I will definetely give you a full scale comment on this matter after that.So long Happy Editing!!  ♪♫ĽąĦĩŘǔ_Қ♫♪  ^(Ŧ) 08:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanx bro ♪♫ĽąĦĩŘǔ_Қ♫♪  ^(Ŧ) 08:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

SL Navy and Airforce

Sechzehn, on this point I think the stuff related the Sri Lankan airforce and navy should belong in their respective pages. You can perhaps add a link to mention see also under the human rights abuses section. In all fairness though, the human rights abuses shouldn't dominate the articles on the navy and airforce. In fact both of these pages require a lot more content and once thats there, there shoulb be room to insert the human rights abuses section. Elalan 04:10, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

November Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Admin Coaching (needs coaches!) Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach. Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. What's New? The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one! A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived. There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia. The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested! In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias. A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted! Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello 20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Sri Lankan Army

Yep. ♪♫ĽąĦĩŘǔ_Қ♫♪  ^(Ŧ) 07:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Eelam Image

Where did you find this? Link please? You can refer this to WP:VAND or the Admin incidents noitce board. And yes, pls give me some time to reply to your mail, I am still typing :-) Sudharsansn (talk ·  contribs) 18:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem, we can just create an image called as 'Against Sinhala goons vandalism in Wikipedia', not a problem at all!! After all, we can exercise our democracy too Sudharsansn (talk ·  contribs) 18:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually this image is copyright violation. Its Donkey from the movie Shrek superimposed on part of the LTTE logo. The copyright permission on this is invalid. Elalan

The image is a copyright violation, plus the statement on the user box opposes certain wikipedian, which is against the rule of the project. The user pages are not mean to be a soapbox or insult/attack/oppose anyone particularly fellow wikipedians. Elalan 20:13, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments on Vaharai bombing required

Hi Sechzehn,

When you have a minute can you look at the Vaharai bombing page. Thanks. Elalan 20:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Userbox removed

I managed to get the userbox removed from Lahiru's user page. The image still left to be removed. Elalan 04:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Sinhala Vandalism

Pls read through this link to understand how my user page and the NCSLC being vandalized by Sinhala, pro-govt vandals!! Request you to voice your support and report everything that happens!! Sudharsansn (talk • contribs) 11:52, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Ghastly userbox

Note that a new userbox has been created by Lahiru and is being used by so many others. This is the one:

This user supports the Sri Lankan troops

Rather than saying that they want to support the Army, they would simply want to kiill all Tamils?

Isn't it that clear that Wiki is just not the place for any of them? Sudharsansn (talk • contribs) 13:16, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

You may want to look at this

[3] Thanks Elalan 03:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

TfD initiation by sockpuppets

Please check this

Project page vandalism

Check this Sudharsansn (talk • contribs) 11:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Periyar Vandalism

People have vandalised the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periyar_Ramasami.I have reverted it with no changes .How do you use the revert command?

This page is clearly getting vandalised.

1:Only 1 name needs to be used either Periyar or EVR not 2 creates confusion to readers particularly foriegners.Periyar is how he is known.He is refered as Periyar in Tamil Nadu Government.[1] University is called Periyar Universityn named after him[2]

2: Periyar being likened to Hitler is potentially libellous as Hitler was responsible for millions of deaths whereas Periyar was not guilty of even one.Further no evidence or citation is given this comment.Periyar turned the offer to become the head of the Madras Presidency in 1939 after the Congress quit but he turned it down now to compare Hitler is wrong.

3:Brahmins:comments like The population of Brahmins in Tamil Nadu, which was about 10% in the 1920s, is today less than 3% as a result of persecution by EVR and his followers are strange as not even a Single Brahmin has been killed in the entire Dravidan movement. Further Rajaji,Jayalaitha and Janaki who were Chief Minsiters were Brahmins and ruled Tamil Nadu longer than any other single community and these statements are not backed by citations or evidence which are required.Jayalalitha is the head of a Dravidan Party

4: And the wording should be encyclopedic none emotional and contraversial lines like Within a span of 20 years, the Brahmins of Tamil Nadu, who had been living there for more than 2000 years, were turned into alien immigrants by the DK's propaganda. The speeches called for the elimination of Brahmins from Tamil Nadu, and the enslavement of Brahmin women. The speeches harkened back to an ancient Tamil glory, similar to Hitler's revival of ancient Germanic culture are not abcked by citations or Evidence

5:Further someone blanked His Childhood and Education 6:I have Reverted the Mass deletion done by 192.223.243.6 without changes

Please help.Thanks Harlowraman.

Read WP:BIAS

That's all I have to say. --snowolfD4^{( talk / @ )} 02:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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