User talk:Mcolombowala

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File permission problem with File:Sister Khanti Khema.jpg

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@Explicit I was already in the process of getting permission. I had sent a email within the 7 days period, Yesterday email sent to permissions@wikimedia.org by copyright holder herself. Please restore the file Sister_khanti_khema.jpg Mcolombowala (talk) 06:46, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Bhante Vimalaramsi Mahathera.jpg listed for discussion

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Bhante Vimalaramsi

Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Dharmalion76 (talk) 06:17, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 2016

Hello, I'm Dharmalion76. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Dharmalion76 (talk) 19:37, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am not trying to promote anything here. This is stating of facts. Estimates are also a means of communicating a information. Not everything has a central referencing point. That does not mean it did not happen. Here I feel my free speech is being trampled on by not allowing me to convey an idea that the book was widely distributed. No books were sold for money and thus there is no promotional aspect to this. I am new here but I am sure a re-editing of words would have been sufficient. Removing the complete thing seems too much. Mcolombowala (talk) 16:21, 12 May 2016 (UTC) mcolombowala Mcolombowala (talk) 16:21, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your "free speech" has no bearing here. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and information needs to be verifiable and not original research. Dharmalion76 (talk) 05:27, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm JimRenge. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to the page Sister Khanti-Khema have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. You have added potentially unreliable weblinks as sources several times in this article. Please see WP:RS, WP:EL, and WP:SPAM. Thank you. JimRenge (talk) 18:14, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Bhante Vimalaramsi Mahathera.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Bhante Vimalaramsi Mahathera.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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Article for deletion

Sorry, LLC Books publishes printed wikipedia articles (WP:CIRCULAR). You wrote: "Also I have a scanned copy of her interview dated 16th May 2016 in a Main news paper in Colombo Sri Lanka ...". I see no reason why you should not use this source. Please use the complete info about this source, author , date, correct title of the article and newspaper. I assume additional reliable sources will be needed to establish notability. Perhaps some newspaper reported about her ordination? Good luck JimRenge (talk) 15:56, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]