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RE:Fade to Black (webzine)

Hello mate. Thanks for letting me know, but it's not actually my text. I was just tidying up the disambig page, which the text in the article was too long for. You might want to let User:Schmeitgeist know, who seems to have written it initially. Cheers. - Nzd (talk) 21:07, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Allegations of sock puppetry on the Center for Science in the Public Interest page

Allegations of sock puppetry have been made against some of the accounts that have edited the Center for Science in the Public Interest page. I have instigated the wiki process for handling such allegations. See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/David Justin. As someone who has contributed to the CSPI page, please add your views to the Comments section. You have up to 10 days to make comments on the allegation. Nunquam Dormio 18:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Katie Jackson

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AfD Nomination: Billy Jackson

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Thanks..

Hey, thanks for helping out with Little Terrorist :) -- Lost^(talk) 08:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh.. thanks for the tip. I was wondering where you got the precise info about the category for nomination so quickly from.. -- Lost^(talk) 08:24, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

RE:Fair Use

Hey, I'm actually glad you found it - back when I started I had that page full of album covers until I found out about WP:FUC. I removed all of them except apparently I must have missed one. Thanks for pointing it out. Weatherman90 23:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Mahinda Rajapaksa

Thanks for looking into the Mahinda Rajapakse article. A case could be made that the human rights abuses listed were listed since the person in question is the president, head of the armed forces, defence and finance minister and is ultimately responsible since he is the person in command. I will certainly raise this as part of my discussion for the page. I should just mention that the section Human rights abuses existed well before (there was some discussion albeit a small one) and it was repeteadly removed without a valid reason with false pretenses. I am not the original author of the section, nevertheless it may need a clean up. Regardless, User Snowolfd4 has gone on spree POV pushing numerous articles including Tamilnet and has not been in mood to discuss things I am afraid. The user repeteadly insists on putting original research and baseless allegations without any citations and has repeteadly removed the content in dispute tag. Please take a look at the discussion section on Tamilnet to see what I mean. Elalan 05:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the holes/cleaning up the human rights section. These articles really need constructive criticisms from neutral observers from time to time and unfortunately due to these revert wars, all of this gets lost in emotion. Where there is smoke there is a fire and so I'll certainly try to get the sources pinned down regarding significant increase in human rights abuses etc and where it links Rajapakse directly. That shouldn't be too hard to find, but I'll certainly look into it and move whatever else to the separate human rights section. I am agreeble to your suggestion of having a link to see also section. Elalan 05:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ricky81682, you might want to see what is happening at the Tamilnet page. In my opinion User snowolfd4 is using Mickey Mouse reasoning to try to remove some of the tags on the page. He has accepted that Ministry of Defence is not a reliable source and is clearly biased, hence I really think this false reporting purpoted by Ministry of Defence should go. Short of that, the fact that section is not Neutral and relies on unreliable source tag should be there. Allegations of false reporting that dominates the article hinges on the Ministry of Defence and Asiantribune citations. I have never seen any news source cite Asiantribune. Only the Ministry of Defence seems to cite it. Elalan 18:10, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I have outlined a more detail set of problems with the two 'contreversial events' with citations by the Defence ministry. Your comments and citations with regards to the issues raised would be much appreciated. Elalan 04:31, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Velupillai Prabhakaran article

Hi Ricky, I had gone this biography on Velupillai Prabhakaran, which is in an utter state of mess and made a first effort of putting citation needed tags (probably more than 50 or so), since a lot of the stuff remains unreferenced and needs to be cleaned up. The article has been heavily vandalized and statement really sound like someone had too much time on their hands to play practical jokes or something. User Snowolfd4, reverted my changes with the following terse justification First of all everyone please remember referencs do not have to be websites only. Reliable books are also valid references Next all the citation problems have arisen from Adhoc's previous mistake where he changed the word "References" to "Further Reading"[39]. All the content from this article had been from those books that are mentioned. Therefore the citation tags aren't neccessary. --snowolfD4( talk / @ ) 19:56, 6 October 2006 (UTC). I am not sure what the reason for this statement and reversion was to accomplish. Was it to ensure the page remains in its present statement of mess or not ? I honestly think this is helping to perpetuate vandalism and needs to be stopped. Your input in this regard I am sure will help to ensure constructive changes occur. Elalan 22:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ricky, I completely concur with Elalan, and you can take a look at the Talk page for all the mess that has been created and also the standard of discussion that is being adopted by snowfold and others. Most of the citation tags need to stay or be cleaned up to ensure a clean article. Thanks for your help. Sudharsansn 23:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Great Ricky, thanks. I will also go through your draft and add any citable ones if necessary, but I think your version is pretty trimmed down now and quite a lot of crap is out now. I will def'ly try to add on to the version with NPOV statements, citable and verifiable. Thanks again Sudharsansn 23:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Ricky, I might need some help from you in creating a project, similar to Project India or Project Indian history for this issue. The vandalism isn't restricted to this page alone, the Eelam page, Tamilnet page and almost everything coming under the spectrum of Sri Lankan crisis is either vandalized or completely lopsided. I have an idea of creating something like 'Project: Neutral coverage of SL Crisis' or 'Project NCSLC' or something in those lines. Could you please help me with it? I'd want to know how to go about with the projects and stuff, etc..ThanksSudharsansn 23:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ricky, I wanted to thank you again for helping further enable constructive efforts to progress with regards to the VP article. Its certainly admirable that you have plunged yourself into the article when many of us were starting to think it was a lost cause. Elalan 04:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Sudharsansn has got it right on by mentioning that a lot of articles related to Sri Lanka has undergone absolute devastation once the conflict flared up earlier this year and there is need for some sort of publicized/open joint effort to clean articles in a mess and then potentially police to ensure it doesn't get devastated again. What is also very dissappointing is that a lot of neutral/profesional editors were turned off and left in disgust due to determined efforts to propagate openly POV content mostly siding the govt. side, although there was also some on the Tamil Nationalist side as well. I am sure many will return if some level of stability is reclaimed. Elalan 04:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Edit done

I have done some work on this article and all claims made are explicitly verifiable from all the information, taken even from the Sri Lankan media and also the international media to ensure a NPOV. The issuing of death warrants, the thileepan incident, the alfred duraiappah incident are all cited with background information and some hearsay remarks about his family have also been added with citation tags clearly. Let me know what you think about this version, we can refine it.

Btw, I am working on creating the project. I'd sure would like to have you there. Thanks again for your help in cleaning this up. There is some wore work left to be done in the last few sections, I shall get this done and you can verify it and then the best option would be to protect this page. Thanks.

Sudharsansn 17:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Revamped version

This article Velupillai Prabhakaran as of now, is almost completely revamped with regard to completely cited information about VP in a NPOV and all evidence is verifiable as stated - SL media, Indian media and the international media. Complete rework has been done on this article. Please read through it again, with all the exact citations and references provided and also some redundant sections trimmed down.

As of now this article, IMHO, seems to be perfectly NPOV - his murders, assasinations are also cited with evidence and so are his achievements as a military leader, both sides are portrayed equally - This should be fine enough for the reader to make a good, informed decision about VP.

Let me know your opinions. Please read through it again if any fine-tuning is required. VP Talk page

Sudharsansn 18:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ricky, User Iwazaki is bringing back info from all the sections which you had trimmed, including the cult of personality section which had not a single cited evidence.

Pls go through this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/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 Sudharsansn 17:53, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject NCSLC

Hi Ricky, I have created a project titled NCSLC: Neutral Coverage of the Sri Lankan Crisis. Pls let me know your inputs and how to take it forward from here. I am eagerly looking fwd to have you there. Thanks again Ricky Sudharsansn 20:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Tamilnet Again

User snowolfd4 has come up with new ambiguous reasons to remove relevant content from the Tamilnet article as he did for the Vellupillai article:

Here is his justification:

Sudharsansn the reasons are given in the edit summery. Thats not vandalism. Get your facts straight. Practically everything I removed is irrelevant to the context of the article. The international news organizations don't say sympathetic to LTTE website. Its plain pro LTTE website. That means they support the LTTE. Plain English. Not sympathetic. Support. And stuff like

David Jeyaraj a Canada based freelance journalist known for his neutral stance in the current Sri Lankan civil war had written that Karuna, was personally involved in the murder of famed journalist Taraki Sivaram

is just not encyclopedic and doesn't belon in WP. So again I'm removing irrelevant content and restoring my previous version. --snowolfD4( talk / @ ) 04:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

He claims David Jeyaraj's statement (with reference) is unencylopedic, so he decides to remove it completely. He also insists on mentioning the LTTE with the list of countries banned in detail. Is the article about the LTTE or Tamilnet ? But he wants to include as much negative detail about the LTTE in order to highlight his POV. He also insists on saying the website supports the LTTE, which is legally vague. Material support, financial support, political support what does support mean ?? The best word as far as I see it is that it is sympathetic to the the LTTE. Furthermore he blanks many other factual statements, with relevant citations without even discussing it. The reasons for these factual statements are outlined in detail on the talk page. Here is the diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Tamilnet&diff=80561873&oldid=80558808) Please also look into the section which labeled as "Time", because there is the added complication of old Sri Lanka time (5h30 difference from GMT) and new Sri Lanka time (6h difference from GMT).

I had also switched the title of the allegations section from "Allegations of False Reporting" to "Controversy" because:

Only one incident is where Tamilnet is accused of false reporting, the other two references, it is called discrepancies [1], [2].

So in my opinion, snowolf is adding words from his POV to fill in the gaps...

Thanks, Elalan 05:29, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

New user Civility

Hi Ricky, 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 05:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Article on Zeest Deleted without any notice

Dear Ricky, the article u edited on Zeest, the major part of the article is deleted by someone without any notice. while i've contributed the article with reliable reference n sources. plus the article is according to the criteria mentioned in WP:MUSIC, on such points For composers and performers outside of mass media traditions

 Italic text  * Is cited in notable and verifiable sources as being influential in style, technique, repertory or teaching in a particular music genre.
   * Has established a tradition or school in a particular genre.
   * Is frequently covered in publications devoted to a notable sub-culture.

we all know that Zeest did really influence its music on major population. plus not frequently but it did appeared on some major newspapers & magazines too, and it can be viewed and observe through many web articles too . I've provided the whole article with the reliable and verifiable sources. but this guy deleted the whole article with reliable sources and references, leaving only introduction. please help me to recover that article again or tell me where i can complain abt it. Sohail981 22:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Verifiability breach

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 13:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

User Talk

Hello , user [3] at my talk page . You have already warned him about this. Can I blank his comment on my Talk page? What can I do about this?
See the comment he made at my talk page here:[4]
Thanks
Trade2tradewell 16:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Conflict of interest edits by Bob Fink

Hi, I noticed your comment at User talk:65.255.225.49, that said "Please don't spam this site with links to help sell your book. If you continue, you may be blocked.". It is an old comment, but the problem addressed persists.

He has inserted numerous links to his website throughout wikiepdia. A search for greenwych.ca shows more than 40 articles that still contain links to his website, and I am confident that a review of the history of these articles will show that in every case that the link was added by him (every one I have checked up on so far has revealed this). I have compiled a list of IPs used by him at User:Rainwarrior/Bob Fink. He seems to have a dialup account which assigns him one of many IPs within a certain range; I don't think anyone else currently uses these IPs to edit wikipedia, but in the past 65.255.225.41,42,50,51 and may have also been used briefly by someone named Kate McMillan (see history). I have not found any other edits which indicate a different person in any of the other IPs listed.

I discovered this after I attempted to prune irrelevant material from Musical acoustics, which I later found that he had added, and is his own original research from his self-published books (to which I assume your older comment had referred). He has left lengthy diatribes on Talk:Musical acoustics in response to my assertion that he should not be doing this, and I've asked a few others to comment, but no one seems willing to do so given the sheer amount of text involved at this point.

This is not the only page this author has had such problems with. Any glance at the edit history of Divje Babe will reveal that he has been massively editing the article that is about his own research; the article about himself, Bob Fink has a similar history, et cetera...

Because he refuses, in general, wish to log in and make edits under a username (though he possesses at least two), I have no way of leaving messages directly for the author, and any points I have made at Talk:Musical acoustics have been met with pages of vitriolic response. I would appreciate if you would be willing to comment on the situtation at musical acoustics (if you find you have an opinion about the disputed content in the article itself, the section Talk:Musical acoustics#Please comment on the "Evolution of the diatonic scale" section is probably the most appropriate), or if administrative action could be taken (if you think it's appropriate), or otherwise leave a comment to this user about his actions.

Thanks if you could be of help in resolving these issues. - Rainwarrior 23:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Nlitement

You blocked this user indef for incivility back in the beginning of October. I am wondering if you think the two months this person has been blocked is enough, or if you think the block should remain. I personally think the user may have a change of contributing helpfully and will keep the user's talk page on my watchlist in case reblocking is needed.

Regardless of how I feel I will defer to your judgment in this case. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:00, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

fork

I made a huge revert on that day, and wanted to save that version of the page.Baka man 19:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

sure go ahead.Baka man 19:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Category:Djibouti Wikipedians

Hi. I see that you created that category and was wondering, with no members, if you'd want to keep it. Thanks. Xiner (talk, email) 23:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

ok. Could you delete it then? It'd be faster. Thanks. Xiner (talk, email) 05:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Thank you. Xiner (talk, email) 19:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi (Lata Mangeshkar)

Hi my username is shshshsh. I am the anon who wrote you the claim. I really have worked very hard on this page. according to you, all the written things are copied, but it`s not right. I`m going now to turn back some little things that as I see, are not copied, because some of them, has have written by me too.(don`t try to find it. I have a new username now.) If you find my new edits as wrong, please revert the page again. I won`t do enything else.

Lata

Hi Ricky. about the apology, it`s OK:). I know you haven`t done that deliberately, only to protect WP rights. In my opinion, your idea is very good. we really can`t write the names of every film here. Lata has sung in over 950 films in her career, so we really need to select the most notables films. Thanks!! User:Shshshsh

Thank you!

Just a quick note to thank you for the speed you categorized my new article John Grady (author). I was really impressed.Gillyweed 12:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Spiked

Cheers. Trying to create a more balanced article there. Hope I'm using this page for a reply correctly, please delete the comment if not! Arthur Jakubowski 17:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Added a warning about Weasel after some amendments. I noticed you removed some comments seen as smears by associaton, some have been added back. Various other slants added to provide a political point too. Arthur Jakubowski 20:32, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Brief footnotes on current events articles

Thank you for improving and combining a number of footnote-citations on Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. I had tagged the footnotes that needed to be filled out with full citation info...a while ago.
One problem with brief footnotes of the flavor <ref name= "ad-hoc-hame-here"/> on articles which rapidly change is when other editors come along, the first citation occasionally gets deleted by an editor unaware of the consequenses of deleting a named-footnote, orphaning all of the subsequent named footnotes. (Discussion here: Talk:Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy#Ref_problem).

Although I haven't given that article a going over for footnotes, on occasion when I have corrected orphan footnotes there in the past, or occasionally simply just improved a footnote, I have made the subsequent named-footnotes full named ones, to eliminate the potential orphan footnote problem--the result being the second named-footnote carries forward and displays its citation information if the first is deleted. This is why I regret to seeing genuinely useful and helpful clean-ups that make potential footnote-orphans more likely.

If you have any better ideas on how to reduce this problem on current events articles, articles subject to rapid changes, the efforts of many editors, or subject to disputes--so that the footnotes can have less degradation, I'd like to hear of thim. I view this as a general policy problem for citations, and I suspect there is no better solution than full-named-citations this, but I admit I have not checked the village pump or other archives for the discussion that in all likelihood has occured on this topic. -- Yellowdesk 16:43, 8 April 2007 (UTC)!

Agreed, it's not a big deal, and these things are quite recoverable. Cheers, -- Yellowdesk 21:41, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for your hard work!

Just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work you did fixing the references in the black billionaires article. Pacingcar 02:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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User:Nlitement

Hello, I am the user of the account Nlitement, you blocked me for breaking WP:CIVIL 8 months ago. I had asked for an unblock recently, but was rejected by an admin on the grounds: "you don't sound convincing" followed by an apparent violation irrelevant to the issue that I wasn't even aware of. Anyway, as you in the summary of previous unblocking disapproval you requested me to "at least acknowledge violating policy before I would even remotely consider.." I would like to tell you that even if I didn't express it or express it clearly, I still acknowledge my violations, and would like to request to be unblocked. You may check my IP which I provide you as an example of me not violating any WP:CIVIL policy in the course of 8 months. I was redirected to the arbitration committee once, but it was based on the assumption that you wouldn't unblock me as the person notifying hadn't considered the fact that my appeal to you had been old and rather open (advising to do something before being able to be unblocked, in my interpretation). I also request an unblock based on the fact that it is by an infinite amount too long (indefinite). I happened to find a user, here, who had apparently received more than one warning, and merely a 72 hour block. My block may very well become a ban if more admins deny my appeal, and that one comes from an indefinite block after a single warning. If you compare his block to mine, one might conclude a large difference if the nature of the violation compared to the block's duration. I'd truly thank you if you'd take my request into consideration, I myself see no reason to keep my account blocked. I only need it to upload files or make edits to locked articles now and then, it hadn't come to my mind that I was blocked until I needed to do contributions with features which only those editors with an account enjoy recently.--212.26.27.107 23:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. And no, you won't regret it. I'll keep WP:CIVIL in mind, it's something I've been spinning around for the past 2 days. :) I didn't ask much, so thanks a lot. And I doubt we'll see each other in terms of a block anymore. --nlitement ^[talk] 10:59, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I see you just recently unblocked this guy, after 2 indefinate blocks, and he has been vandalising pages.. http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=San_Andreas_Multiplayer&diff=next&oldid=137235515 for example.

f3llah1n ^(talk) 13:07, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

RE:

Get a fuckin' job, dude. Most all these I upped before you little trolls starting bitching about pointless rationale, I barely edit shit anymore cuz of you faggots, so block me and "make your point". Do you not realize this is the most pointless shit in human history? "You can't have album covers on here unless you type 'oh this is fair use because blah blah blah'", go asphyxiate on a cock. --PDTantisocial 06:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

CSI character list

No need to edit my user draft subpages as I have implemented them already. Sorry, should have clarified. Editus Reloaded 19:27, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Cutout mini.jpg

You listed this image for speedy delete - despite it appearing in a featured article - you only added a tag to let me even get a clue that there was a problem with it an entire day after the image claims to be liable to be deleted!! That's not a nice way to behave!

No image that made it though WP:GA and WP:FA without problems should EVER be a speedy-delete candidate - that's lunacy! Yeah - maybe it slipped through and needs further consideration - but a speedy leaves essentially zero time for editors to get their act together - it's a blatent abuse of the rational behind the speedy process.

Anyway - I've added a fair use rational to the image comments - please undo all of the mayhem you have unloosed - I can't figure out all of the myriad of tags and bullshit procedures involved - and frankly I don't see why I should have to.

Thanks. SteveBaker 03:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello!

I believe you don't remember me. We had a little talk a few months ago. I turn to you for an admin help. It is very important for me.

It was my request ro WP:RM:

Rekha Ganesan → Rekha — This article has been known as Rekha and everybody knows this actress as Rekha. Someone decided to use her full name, while she is known as Rekha everywhere; Her stage name is only Rekha; She is credited as Rekha in every single film without exceptions; IMDb.com names her as Rekha, as well as every other reliable and unreliable site does. Even here on wikipedia, all the other articles related to her somehow, name her as Rekha. Please redirect her name. Her full name can be used in the introduction. Let's take Shakira for example. We can't move her page to Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll just because it's her real name. Her stage name is Shakira, and that's how it should be here. No-one prefers Rekha Ganesan over Rekha. It wasn't an established editor who moved the page earlier. It was a new editor, who is absent from Wikipedia now. Thanks, best regards.

The only reason for that, is that her name is only Rekha as per every source on the net, every every every film of her, and even here on WP, all the articles of her films, all as one, name her as Rekha. They decision was to shift my requst to an incomplete section there, since, as per them, it can cause to problems with those who disagree with this redirect. But the fact is that no-one disagrees. It was formerly moved by some user who is now absent (or blocked, if I'm not wrong). I turned to the user who shifted my request to the incomplete list, and he/she said that I had to debate this on her talk page and after some consensus this will be redirected. I know, they have their motives to do it, but it can take ages until this page would be redirected as it actually should be, as I gave all the sufficient and necessary explanations. And BTW, this page is a bit abandoned now. I've already posted a message on the talk page, but no-one reacts and no-one knows, since most of the users of WP:INCINE who were working on this page are not here. Please help me. Thanks, best regards, --Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:32, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Abdalqadir as-Sufi

Hi

Certain images from the above mentioned article have been deleted and others have been tagged for deletion.

Could you please explain the reason for this and how the action taken can be reversed.

~~JoeSanchez

Barnraisers Article

Hello, I noticed you had taken the time to add a review to the Barnraisers article. Thank you. However there seems to be an effort by a handful of editors to delete the article despite any good reason for doing so. The main criticisms have been that the references are questionable and the band has not released any recordings. On the matter of the references I've pointed out many times that two of the main references are The Wilmington Star-News which has a circulation of 50,000+ each day and is owned by The New York Times Company and Encore Magazine, an entertainment magazine which has been in print for 22 years and circulates 20,000 issues each week. On the point of released recordings I see nothing in WP:BAND that requires recordings, in addition to meeting another criterion. Your help on the WP:DRV would be much appreciated. Thanks again. Emerson1975 23:45, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Template:album cover fur

Hello, Is there anything you can do to help me here, or advise me how to go forward? The edit-warring started again tonight, followed by an admin wading in to protect the infamous "wrong version". So instead of having a text we can discuss and fine-tune, we now has the message transcluded on 500 bona-fide image pages, "this image has no rationale, please go ahead and speedy it in 5 days". And the response of the admin who protected it is just "stop bugging me".

I don't know what more I'm supposed to do. There's broad support - at least so it seems to me - for the template in the discussion at WT:FAIR#Template:Album_cover_fur.

Is someone like User:NedScott allowed to ignore all the discussions and unilaterally just blank it? Is that how wikipedia is supposed to work?

Jheald 22:07, 16 July 2007 (UTC) (a bit despondent).

re:Image tagging

Geez, how tired was I when I posted that :) Thanks for telling me, I'll try not to make that kind of mistake anymore.. — Moe ε 03:15, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Good day admin

Isn't this image below a non-free image ? it was taken from a public forum i guess.

Image:Jeddah House.jpg

Ammar (^Talk - ^{Don't Talk}) 12:01, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about taking so long to respond. No, I wouldn't consider it a free image, unless we know exactly what the creator of the photo thinks. Just because it was on a public forum doesn't mean it is free. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how to ask for permission for images from other people. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:26, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks boss , i was justtrying to prove it to someone. Ammar (^Talk - ^{Don't Talk}) 19:49, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Call of Duty 5

there is one check G4 on tv--Physik 15:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

there is also another rumor also o G4 but it was on July 5

RE

Thank you. It's just that, apparently there was a plan to give every orbital frame its own article. But, I have played the games, and there is not enough info on them to warrent an article. And I do not know too much on deleting articles. So, once again, thank you. THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED! 04:30, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello

The Jeddah house picture was from a forum which i had permission under GFDL to use on wikipedia. -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faisal Saddiq (talk • contribs)

Lier , you often copy your images from search engines and license them as Self Made. for example , the following image is stolen from this link : (This Link) , this user has uploaded tons of non free images and when he reach the limit of warnings he create a Sock puppetry account and start again . his old username was Unites , they both donno how to sign their comments with the ~~~~ , and they both vandalize pages by the same way , and they both only interested about cities wealth. Ammar (^Talk - ^{Don't Talk}) 06:53, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

thumbnail|50px|left

Hello!

Leave me alone and mind your own bussiness, if you think these images are nonfree images then delete them if you like, I'm not so bothered. Delete them then.

Thank You. Bye Faisal Saddiq 19:02, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Look

Simple Answer:

http://flickr.com/photos/neleenjan/132539055/

are you a wikipedia deletionist??

Thank You very much Ricky.

No I'm Not Faisal Saddiq!

I'm Unites

national party template

okay -for deletion CatonB 05:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Rationales

Thank you for letting me know about the missing rationales. Rationales have now been provided for the images you mentioned.

Wikiburger 13:53, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

there, now stop bugging me for such trival matters —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunter (talk • contribs) 18:55, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationales on promotional images

Hi. Thanks for telling me about adding the parameter, I didn't know that I should do that. Bláthnaid 23:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks and sorry for the mess up. I checked and someone already corrected the mistake. I responded to the previous days in a similar manner (I think) -- are they okay (I looked and they seem to read correctly, but I'm new to AFDs so am unsure). Thanks much, Renee 00:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

it's addictive...easy, clean, no conflict, just your honest opinion and then detach...love it! thanks again, Renee 00:54, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Historical parties

I am neutralin this issue. My project is creating the template with present relevant parties. Other editors can add more info, but usually the boxes are limited to present parties. Electionworld Talk? 15:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for cleaning up Nartopa. I tripped across it because it had an editprotected request on it (who knows why?) and I didn't have the energy to fix it. You did a great job. Cheers. --MZMcBride 23:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Chasnalla Academy

Thanks for your excellent job. I'm glad the very rough-and-ready emergency rescue I made to save it from Speedy wasn't wasted and could be developed so well. DGG (talk) 01:28, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

please see Hindawi and the pages linked there, and the comments from User:hi pedler on my talk page. I could indeed use some help. DGG (talk) 01:52, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I am sure you are violating some or the other rule when you put the ad message on Hindawi Programming System page. Please justify your edit action and why you think it is written like an ad. Hi pedler 10:18, 30 September 2007 (UTC)hi_pedler

Abhishek choudhary

Why have you redirected the article on Abhishek Choudhary to Hindawi Programing System? You should have started a discussion first. there were enough refernce available. I request you to undo the changes and open it up for discussion Hi pedler 10:28, 30 September 2007 (UTC)hi_pedler

Fair use

I have fixed the fair use in the images, however may I add Copyright paranoia is more of a stress and a unnecessary annoyance to most editors who would much rather be doing constructive edits. Thanks. - Mike Beckham 08:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, i've noticed that you're the one who blocked user:Winky Bill for repeated vandalism and assaults on user:Parsecboy. I just want to let you know that today he started again and maked over 30 vandalism acts. Could you please block him again? Best regards, --Eurocopter tigre 18:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, no problem, I just wanted to let you know that he started again. Cheers, --Eurocopter tigre 18:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Harassment

Thanks for your action. Looking over the recent edits of this user, I hope you might reconsider and make an immediate block. Some of the more disturbing (although admittedly juvenile) include these: [5] [6] [7] and others. I'm not losing any sleep over this, but I think this person has clearly lost his right to edit here.Notmyrealname 19:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

and some more commercial silliness here: [8] Notmyrealname 19:24, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, we'll see what happens next. Notmyrealname 19:30, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Winky Bill

It's self evident, Ricky. He's been placing AfD tags on articles I've created or substantially enlarged. You blocked him 3 days ago for harassing me, and 48 hours apparently wasn't enough. I had hoped you would've taken the fact that he is without a doubt a sockpuppet of Jetwave Dave (talk · contribs) into account, and blocked him indefinitely. I ask that you consider this fact, and take appropriate action. Parsecboy 19:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. The reasons I didn't file a checkuser are twofold. The near identical editing patterns (barely stub-class articles on obscure weapons, transgender people, harassing me) are, at least in my opinion, incontrovertible, along with other information, such as block date/creation date, etc. Therefore, I didn't want to bother a Checkuser with a case that didn't seem to require it. Again, thanks for your assistance in this matter. Regards, Parsecboy 22:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

You seem to be online so I thought I'd ask you first - can you intercede with User:Secparboy, another presumed User:Winky Bill/User:Jetwave Dave sock created to imitate Parsecboy? Note that he has literally copied Parsecboy's user page and talk page to this new account. This is the second new harassment account created since a checkuser was filed on the 17th; no action has been taken on that yet, apparently. Maralia 03:37, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick action, Ricky. This guy really needs to grow up. Regards, Parsecboy 11:22, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Template:Orphan

I noticed that you fixed the extra brackets problem on Template:Orphan, but there is still an issue of there not being a space before the end of the text and the date in parentheses when a date of the origin of the notice is listed. (see, for example Eightfold Path (policy analysis)). Can you please fix that as well? -Bonus Onus 20:46, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I just noticed how much of Contaminated haemophilia blood products was your doing. I thought you did a lot of useful work there and just wanted to say thanks. WhatamIdoing 01:04, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

You're right on the money. It's so frustrating when people use AOL to try to get around guidelines and policies. Appreciate you looking in on it! --Tenebrae 02:25, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

DWM

Hi, that's me. DWM is Doctor Who Magazine, a disgustingly overpriced but reliable BBC publication. I don't know if it did confirm it, because I can't afford it :-) but the convention is to cite a page-number, journalist and article title with DWM. Cheers,--Porcupine (prickle me! · contribs · status) 09:11, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

I referred him three times to WP:CITE on how to cite it, but all he did was keep removing the tag... Porcupine (prickle me! · contribs · status) 09:19, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:ALCO 0900.jpg

I'm sorry, but there is a fair use rationale on that image. If you disagree with the specifics of it, please state your specific objections to it instead of templating me with meaningless boilerplate. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 17:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Also note that (1) fair use rationales do not have to be in {{rationale}} template form to be valid; and (b) the presence of ANY image-specific rationale disqualifies speedy deletion. Speedy deletion is for bright-line cases, not for disputed cases; I'd appreciate it if you read the speedy deletion criteria more carefully and remember that if there is any doubt about whether a speedy classification applies, it does not. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 17:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Add the Dalit descriptive term to the Ezhava community page.

The Ezhava users have vehemently opposed edits that correctly label their community as Dalit perhaps due to insecurity, despite the fact that the caste tag has almost no relevance to modern day India except for caste reservations. "It is a well-known fact that Ezhavas have no varnas under the Hindu caste system" and the definition of Dalit is "a Dalit, often called an untouchable, or an outcaste, is a person who according to traditional Hindu belief does not have any "varnas"". Ezhavas are known to be untouchable to both Nairs and Namboothiri Brahmins so this is a common feature shared by them with other Dalits in India (untouchability to upper castes). There are also references that support the fact that the community are Dalits. References:

Thanks. B Nambiar 05:26, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

That is my error then. I have already commented outlining the changes but they have and will continue to be ignored, or taken the wrong way, so was hoping an admin can sort it out. B Nambiar 05:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Pontiac Montana

Hey there Ricky, and thank you for blocking that IP. Well, the reason why I did what I did was because this whole month, I have been dealing with a large number of IPs (which I believe is the same person)who kept injecting large amounts of POV into the GM minivan articles. This IP was reverting to a version what was of blatant POv (it said such things like "you cna get a good deal on a used Montana anytime" and "[It] equaled or beat the Dodge Caravan in value". Frankly, I have reason to believe that this Ip was the same guy who I have been dealing with all this time (who is that Ip you just blocked). He knows what he is doing is not permitted here, but he for some reason is utterly determined to gloss up the articles about the GM minivans. Frankly, I am running out of patience with him, fast. Karrmann 21:37, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I have gotten the articles targeted by this guy semi protected a couple of times, but they were all temporary, and he simply waited it out and went back to his usual ways. Karrmann 23:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

User:216.95.17.12

I know this may sound like a ridiculous question, but do you happen to know if User:216.95.17.12 is some sort of reoccurring vandal going after you? I'm just curious why he chose to attack your user page so fast? See all the discussion at WP:AN. He's blocked anyways. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:28, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Him? He's very recurring -- take a look at the histories of some of the pages he changes. This has been going on for quite a while.

His usual range seems to be 216.95.17.* and 216.95.15.* ...so actually, do you think you could range-block those two ranges, for a week or so? And we'll see if the vandalism stops, 'cause I think the other couple ip's are just flukes. Gscshoyru 23:33, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Who can I get to help me?

Please give me a name of an admin that will be fair? Please! I am trying to get myself together and I can see the ANI is useless by the way it is being handled. I need help desperately. Please. I do not know any. Perhaps the LessHand guy. Do you think he would help? He seemed fair. Sincerely, --Mattisse 08:13, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I can see it is hopeless. Never mind. Sorry to have bothered you. Sincerely, Mattisse 08:56, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I have tried to cooperative but I see you are not getting it and you are partial to Cybor Nina so you view will have less believable in my eyes. I prefer the straight out in the open approach rather than all the hidden agendas. Thanks anyway. Sincerely, Mattisse —Preceding comment was added at 11:55, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: User talk:89.243.222.7

To be honest I'm aproving more and more WP:DENY for obvious troll unblock requests. "Rollback, protect, walk away". That's often the cruelest thing to do to a troll (Ok, arguably, I reply once in a while :) -- lucasbfr ^talk 08:43, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:User:Cyborg Ninja

As you probably know, the following warning has been placed on Cyborg Ninja's talk page by User:LessHeard vanU expeditiously on the basis of the diffs provided I provided him: [9] That is all I wanted, as there was no need to confuse the issue by dragging out muddy past history as was happening on the ANI page. I do thank you for you time and your response in being at least willing to try to look into the problem. LessHeard vanU is just a little more able to look quickly at the issue directly at hand, perhaps because he had no need to mollify Cyborg Ninja, and act fast. Sincerely, --Mattisse 16:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about confusing you by striking it out. Yes, the copyvio stuff had nothing to do with Cyborg Ninja. There is a bot User:CorenSearchBot that tagged two of my articles that were two sentences long and footnoted as copyvio within 25 seconds of creation and I was self-righteously indignant as the articles were on Supreme Court decisions and such articles have quotes from the Supreme Court decisions. After discussions with the bot people and others on ANI, I was stressed out and made a very poor decision to nominate all the articles I had created in the last couple of months as copvio. Wmarsh said on ANI that I was being disruptive, would be blocked if I continued as the articles were not copyvio, and sternly told me to remove the templates from the articles and from the copyvio list. So I did. Cyborg Ninja was not involved in any way. Thanks for being open minded about all this. Sincerely, --Mattisse 16:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, M.march told me on my talk page. [10] --Mattisse 16:44, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for templating Tennard v. Dretke

I forgot to and it makes it look a little more official. I have referenced it to death so that bot won't delete it! I'm bogged down in in the case. Maybe tomorrow inspiration will come. Regards, --Mattisse 02:54, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

And thanks for adding "indicated". I had used it originally but then changed that and other words that are commonly used in decisions, fearful of the copyvio bot! --Mattisse 16:08, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Parameter

Thanks for the heads-up on the parameter on the FUR template... if he is going to be that much of a stickler over images... comment declined... then maybe we need a bot to start filing pages used into the "Article" parameter. I personally don't have the slightest clue how to do this, but it would be better than me doing hundreds upon hundreds of sports logo edits. DMighton 10:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Newcoke.jpg

I provided a rationale for the use of this image. However, I never found anywhere it was listed for deletion. Why did you say it was? Daniel Case 13:05, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

My apologies. I know how this process works; of course it wouldn't have been listed for deletion but speediable. The rationale includes a valid backlink now. That bot has been giving me quite a lot of work lately. Daniel Case 02:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

You mean you're putting in rationales? Thanks. As I promised during my RfA, I've been busy since then moving all of my free images to Commons and rationalizing all the fair-use ones. This is on top of uploading new images. So any help is appreciated. Daniel Case 15:20, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Pontiac Montana

To tell the truth, I have had it up to here with all the GM minivan lovers either adding bias or making those comments cause they are in denial that GM is leaving the minivan business. I say that you should indefinite block that account, and give that IP a month long block. I am really running out of patience, if it were up to me, I would just lock the pages and their talk pages down indefinitely and end this. It is hard keeping those articles pure, because those users are utterly determined to gloss up the GM minivan articles. So frankly, I have never seen anything useful coming from those two, all I have seen them do is editwar and add false info on the Pontiac Montana page. Karrmann 00:21, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

RE: User talk:Undefined

Replied on my page. *Cremepuff 222* 02:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Could use some help

Excuse me, kind administrator. How can I effectively stay off Wikipedia for awhile? I want to take a break, but I impulsively return every second. Mr. Carbunkle 06:05, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Self-blocking is impossible, as I'm not an admin... yet. But before you block me, I'd ask that you do not. I'd like my block log spotless when I nominate myself a few months later when I understand polic well enough. As for the scripts, I'm considering it somewhat. Thanks for the much-needed advice. Mr. Carbunkle 06:15, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Heh, heh. Thanks, man. Mr. Carbunkle 06:18, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I took that off of User:Miltopia's userpage (it's archive, now it's just a page that says he's been blocked indef).I liked it so much I want to keep it. Mr. Carbunkle 06:41, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Image licensing question

Hello,

I got some messages on my talk page regarding image licensing. The images in question are album covers of a band. I received permission from the band to use their covers in Wikipedia. I stated that reason in the description. I guess that's not enough - could you please tell me how I would go about using the appropriate license/reasons for the images? Image licensing always confuses me! --vi5in^[talk] 19:12, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch Ricky. The band is my cousin's band, so I've got permission to use their images in Wikipedia. They have seen the article and they don't mind that the image are in there. --vi5in^[talk] 01:35, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

WP:ROUGE

What's a rouge admin? The policy page is unclear about what they are. Mr. Carbunkle 23:18, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Legal threat rescinded

User:BadMojoDE has rescinded his threat, and should be unblocked? --Step hen 04:04, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Please stop

You have removed many sourced content from the ezhava article. Refer page no 27 of this book. http://books.google.com/books?id=07Y3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=izhava+kerala&source=web&ots=zFl70XFRFi&sig=FhdgryHrCKak2z2bK3yvQl8IjJk#PPA27,M1. The above refs says that ezhavas also a martial class and served all important kings of travancore, kochin and calicut. I dont think you need any more ref. At the end of the page you have more more ref as well. If you have any personal enmity with the commnunity, this is not the way to show. do discuss these changes before removing. this is so cruel and total partiality. Daya Anjali (talk / contribs) 05:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

please tell me whats not refered in below article section

The Ezhavas form a major progressive community, and also one of the largest in Kerala, a south Indian state. They have made a mark in the economic and political panorama of the state and have contributed enormously to the literature and culture of the state. They are also found amongst the Malayalee diaspora around the world. They are a social group sharing a common history from the pre-social reform era, when caste was an integral part of the political, economic, legal, and social order across the Kerala State.

Folklore and written records show that Ezhavas were a martial class.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] The folk songs, Vadakkan Pattukal, composed about 400 hundred years ago, are full of descriptions of the military exploits of Ezhava heroes. Ezhavas served in the armed forces of all important kings of the region, such as Zamorins of Calicut, and the Kings of Travancore and Cochin. Many from community became Kottaram Vaidyan(Palace Physician) of important kings in the region.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[6] They enjoyed better status before the arrival of the brahmins from north. Historically, they never found a place in the four-tier caste system of hinduism. They were engaged in many professions, and many were warriors, ayurvedic physicians, astrologers, arrack brewers, traders, roddy Tappers, spiritualists, traditional toxicologists, devil worshipers and dancers, sorcerers, farmers, and weavers. The Ezhavas are also known as Thiyyas or Billavas in some of part of Kerala especially Malabar areas.

Ref

^ ^a ^b Bardwell L. Smith, Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia. (BRILL publications, 1976,ISBN 9004045104), Page 27 Cite error: The named reference "ezh1" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b "Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia. Page 27". Bardwell L. Smith. (BRILL publications ,1976. Retrieved Aug 17, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Bardwell L. Smith, Vadakkan and Thekkan Pattukal. (Sri Rama Vilasom Press, 1967), Page 128 - 148
^ ^a ^b Nagam Aiya, Travancore State Manual by Nagam Aiya
^ "Alummuttil". Radhakrishnan. (Alummuttil. Retrieved Aug 17, 2007.
^ "Alummuttil". Radhakrishnan. (Alummuttil. Retrieved Aug 17, 2007.

Daya Anjali (talk / contribs) 05:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I have taken back my allegations. The folk songs, Vadakkan Pattukal, composed about 400 hundred years ago, are full of descriptions of the military exploits of Ezhava heroes The statement can be found in the ref book which i have mentioned above. please discuss about that. thank you.Daya Anjali (talk / contribs) 06:21, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Keep your head up

Hey Ricky,

Keep your head up. Just from personal experience, I'll tell you that getting into caste-based articles turns a little ugly. You need a thick skin. When I decided to clean up these articles, I knew I'd be experiencing a lot of problems. I experienced this before in Nair. I think you have been doing a good job. I feel personally vindicated by your edits because I thought that the edits I made were objective. I was trying hard to make the article good. I started wondering if I was being subjective and biased. But I can see that you've pretty much been doing the same thing I did - you were looking for unsourced content and removing it. Or, you were trying to find references for existing content. You were also improving the article by fixing grammatical mistakes and such. All these accusations you face of "personal enmity against the community" are ridiculous. It seems that certain editors somehow assume (rather illogically) that because we try to make an article better, and if by doing that we remove some information that is "aggrandizing" and include material that is "unfavourable", we are somehow "against" a particular community. You've got my support. --vi5in^[talk] 06:10, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello Vivin, i have taken back my allegation about Ricky. for your case i have not since i and other editors found that your edits were totally biased. cheers Daya Anjali (talk / contribs) 06:23, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Ezhava : martial tradition : Reference

You can use this as reference http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/sundayItems.asp?id=SET20021221042249&eTitle=Think+Piece&rLink=0 Waht I meant by "Else Wwe will get you" is "If no reference, we will get you the reference" -- Panikkar 12:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I would request you to take a look at "Nair" page. You can find the same generalizations there aswell. Panikkar 16:50, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Ezhava Page protection

I assume you have protected this page from editing. How long are you gona protect? I see lot of stuffs deleted. Panikkar 20:44, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Pro-Pedo Movement Talk Page

Hey Ricky -- just wanted to say thanks for your timely resolution regarding my negative comments on the above article and talk page. I'm still in disagreement with one or two editors who claim that the pro-pedo movement is valid and worthy of an encyclopedic entry. That being said, I'm not going to take it any further. I appreciate you restoring my editing privileges. All the best! BadMojoDE 01:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Ricky - Please Help, Man!

This pro-pedophilia article is really making me sick. I honestly believe it has no ground in fact. How can I STRONGLY recommend this article for deletion?

BadMojoDE 02:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[ezh1-1] Bardwell L. Smith, Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia. (BRILL publications, 1976,ISBN 9004045104), Page 27 Cite error: The named reference "ezh1" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[ezh1a-2] "Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia. Page 27". Bardwell L. Smith. (BRILL publications ,1976. Retrieved Aug 17, 2007.

[ezh2-3] Bardwell L. Smith, Vadakkan and Thekkan Pattukal. (Sri Rama Vilasom Press, 1967), Page 128 - 148

[ezh3-4] Nagam Aiya, Travancore State Manual by Nagam Aiya

[0-5] "Alummuttil". Radhakrishnan. (Alummuttil. Retrieved Aug 17, 2007.

[1-6] "Alummuttil". Radhakrishnan. (Alummuttil. Retrieved Aug 17, 2007.

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