Amodha

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before making any edits

please read the discussion page. there was a reason why your edits were reverted. please discuss before making any huge edits to a stable article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.247.248.147 (talk • contribs)

About the removal. I have checked the revert ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sri_Lanka&diff=prev&oldid=39189538 ) and it appears that you have - perhaps by accident - removed all the text below the part which you were editing. Your prehistory edits appears to be correct, but for some reason the text below that was deleted, so the user above reverted your changes. As far as I am concerned, try to reinsert it and just edit by section ( press the Edit button on the specific section ), because that way you cannot accidently remove any data. Dr Debug (Talk) 09:49, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I forgot this part

That sign thing ~~~~ is for talk messages. That way you know who said what and when ;) That is why I have added that unsigned in the message above as well. Dr Debug (Talk) 10:09, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

this is not your toy

you can't playaround like this can't you see the Discussion page ??? wikipedia is based on consensus. not on your personal opinion.

consensus please

Bulletin boards, posts to Usenet and Partisan websites do not qualify as reliable sources <- wikipedia policy.

I did not provide any sources, i only put the last version back.

Content must not violate any copyright and must be verifiable. You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL. <- wikipedia policy.

your edit incorporate direct sentences from those sources.

i even left some of your edit which i found to be verifiable & not adirect cut& paste. and your edit consists of many grammer & spelling mistakes

its not nice to made very big change to an already established article, first raise the changes on the discussion page for the article - and then if none disagrees then add it again

RE : removed edits without reliable published sources & copyrighted

"""The Island of Sri Lanka has an written history of over 2,500 years and an unwritten history for more than 300,000 years attested to by archaeological ruins and other evidence,on the island of Heladiva ('Sri Lanka') Historical chronicles are found in stone writings (‘sel lipi’), leaf writings (‘Hela Atuva’) and also in great Indian chronicles as Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The main historical written evidence updated even today is the Mahavamsa, also including Dipavamsa & Cholavamsa."""

what "other evidence" are you talking about?? what is that sentence supposed to mean??

this is about sri lanka not 'Heladiva', if you want to talk about 'Heladiva' start a new article aboit it. like there is one for tamileelam

there is no such thing as Cholavamsa, dont you even know the correct spelling??

this section is about the pre-history of sri lanka what does (‘sel lipi’), leaf writings (‘Hela Atuva’)have to do with it??

your spelling & grammer is wrong.

cite source that the mahavansa is updated today?/

"historical written evidence " is that supposed to make sense?

dont you understand the nature of GFDL??

"""The island presently known as 'Sri Lanka' was originally known as ‘Simhale’ or 'Heladiva' ('the island of the Hela(Comprising of naaga, yaksha, deva & raksha tribes) people') for over 30 millenia."""

this section belongs in the 'Names of Sri Lanka' article not is the pre-0history section

where is your source for dental morphological analysis?? you provided a Bulletin board as source which is not accepted.

there are you satisfied??

About Sri Lanka

Hi Amodha,

We spoke earlier about a revert on Sri Lanka. Yesterday I received a message from somebody else who doesn't like what he sees happening there - and your talk page - either. I have been giving it some thought, but you are up against a very rude person and I find his arguments faulty, but talking about it will only upset him and I doubt very much whether he will allow any change on tha tpage since he claims ownership. My advice is to take some distance from that page, because it'll only make him madder and since he is a dynamic IP he can get away with it, because he can't be blocked and can't be warned either. I'm sorry. Dr Debug (Talk) 23:33, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I think that the only way to get through that content dispute is to use either Mediation or Request for Comment or another more formal way of handling things. But editing and talking on the talk page seems to do no good and if I try to intervere it will probably upset him even more and he will probably call me ignorant. Dr Debug (Talk) 23:36, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I am the other person who is concerned about what is happening on the Sri Lanka page and in your talk page. I understand that when someone has put some time into building a page they can become a little territorial over that page and resent changes. However, things have gone beyond the stage of polite discussion and turned into an argument. I believe that in the circumstances, you and the other anonymous user should take a step back and appreciate that you both have the same intention, i.e. to create a factual page discussing the various aspect of Sri Lanka, its history and peoples. Hopefully you can both come to an agreement and help each other rather than turning it into a competition. If not, then Mediation seems the best route for you. --Brerbunny 00:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC)