UmakanthJaffna

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UmakanthJaffna, good luck, and have fun. --Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 13:55, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hello! UmakanthJaffna, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. An awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us! Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 07:11, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Venkatachalam Mahalingam.jpg

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Own work?

Can you please confirm if you took the Narendra Modi at Naguleswaram Temple photograph yourself, or if you downloaded it from Modi's facebook page (since the image has the same image and file size)? I have tagged tha image for speedy deletion at wikipedia common's since it appears to be a copyright violation; in case it is not you should respond here and there at the earliest, and ideally upload a higher resolution image. Abecedare (talk) 01:02, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Rajkumar Kanagasingam for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Rajkumar Kanagasingam is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rajkumar Kanagasingam (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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. Psychonaut (talk) 18:22, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Mahadeva Achchirama Children Home

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Mahadeva Achchirama Children Home, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.tamilguardian.com/tg220/features.htm, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Mahadeva Achchirama Children Home saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved.

Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Psychonaut (talk) 12:27, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Please do not remove the {{copyvio}} template from articles, as you did with Mahadeva Achchirama Children Home. Your action has been reverted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept non-free text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted, and removing copyright notices will not help your case. You can properly contest the deletion at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. If you are the owner of the material, you may release the material under the Creative Commons and GFDL licenses, as detailed at WP:IOWN. Alternatively, you are welcome to create a draft in your own words at Talk:Mahadeva Achchirama Children Home/Temp. If you continue to insert copyright violations and/or remove copyright notices, you may be blocked from editing. Psychonaut (talk) 13:33, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

UmakanthJaffna, please stop spamming other users with requests to fix your copyright infringement. None of the users you are contacting are copyright clerks, and most of them aren't administrators. Anyway, it's already been explained to you three times how you can fix the problem yourself. Please read the copyright template on the article and/or the two messages posted immediately above this. If there's anything you don't understand about the instructions, I would be happy to explain it to you. —Psychonaut (talk) 17:05, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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