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Dear Sir,

I hope you found the article i wrote and edited on the Travancore Royal Family accurate and correct. It would be great if you could contribute to Sethu Lakshmi Bayi since the resources at my hand are limited. With warm regards,

Manu rocks (talk) 15:36, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thank you for your reply. I will be looking forward to any changes you could make to improve the information and quality of the article. Also, although this is hardly the place to ask, I wonder if you knew how and where I could procure the biography written by your cousin, Lakshmi Raghunandan, of HH the Maharani. Regards Manu rocks (talk) 11:11, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And also, I hope you read my article on the Travancore Royal Family. Do check the same for errors as well. Would be very grateful. Manu rocks (talk) 18:22, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks immensely for the email id. I have also uploaded a new picture of the maharani that i found somewhere which i believe is better than the earlier picture. Do read it when you find time and correct/add info. Thanks again. Manu rocks (talk) 14:05, 1 May 2009 (UTC).[reply]

I just sent an email but it seems to have bounced. Apparently the id does not exist. Manu rocks (talk) 14:13, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Book on HH Maharani

You could reach Lakshmi at maruti99@vsnl.com. I haven't been able to study your article because of some work with a deadline. I will need a little more time. (Thinkopotamus (talk) 13:41, 21 April 2009 (UTC))[reply]

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i find no reason why i should have been blocked. kindly clarify.

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You weren't blocked directly. This is an issue related to the IP address you're editing from - it appears to be an open proxy. I'm forwarding your request below to Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Open proxy

Blocking administrator: Jpgordon (talk • blocks)

Decline reason: We don't unblock open proxies unless there is evidence that the open proxie issue has been addressed. The IP is still on a few blacklists as of today; looks like it's being used as a spam relay. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 13:17, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's ridiculous. I'm a highly regarded professional and all my work on Wikipedia has been done

on a single computer-- my own. I'm sorry that some technical incompetence has denied me permission

to continue this work.

I have nothing more to say. (Thinkopotamus

(talk) 07:42, 13 July 2009 (UTC))

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