User talk:Vinodm

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Hello Vinodm, welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed the Bracegirdle article, the normal format suggests it should be it is now at Mark Anthony Bracegirdle would you like me to move the article there?

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Leftist Politics in Sri Lanka

I think this is an interesting subject to you, so you can continue this with my guide lines given below. I think it is helpful to you.

• British colonial era and Sri Lankan people's uprising.
• Forming of the GCSU.
• Forming of the LSSP and CP.
• 1953 Hartal.
• General strikes in public sector 1960's.
• Forming of the JVP.
• 1971 youth uprising.
• 1987-89 insurrection.

Thank you.

Bracegirdle

If the article is moved to Mark Bracegirdle it will leave a redirect to there from Bracegridle, as per Elvis, which is redirected to Elvis Presley (and Pilate -> Pontius Pilate), my formatting of dates was purely to avoid the redirect. Having read your notes on the article's talk page I seem to already upset you over those - didn't mean that at all, so I'll refrain from further edits to the article. Alf ^melmac 11:42, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

India related links

Welcome!! --Gurubrahma 18:09, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

BLOCKED!

I have been blocked by the 'Hall Monitor' for 'serial vandalism'. I wrote immediately, but received no reply. I have therefore sent again this email via the relevant page:

My Ip address as given by your page is

220.247.230.151

I searched for this on the 'blocked' log, but have not been able to find it for the past 2500 users (ie dating back to 15 December).

I have edited after this. I am at a loss to know the reasons for this. I have definitely not vandalised any pages.

Vinodm 02:55, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

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Given that this was your own picture, I assumed you were releasing this under the GFDL and as such, have declared that to be the licensing for this picture. If this is incorrect, please feel free to change it. howcheng {chat} 19:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

History of Sri Lanka

Hey Vinod,

could you look at the article and at what Bodhi dhana is doing to it? I'm quite speechless. Cheers, Krankman 10:38, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

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