User talk:Jayatissaravindra

Copyright problem: Ravindra Ranasinha

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Ravindra Ranasinha, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2006/09/10/zin07.asp, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Ravindra Ranasinha saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Chanaka L (talk) 04:42, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

July 2010

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:14, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Given your use of the pronoun "we" in the article, I am presuming you are connected to the subject. If so, you may be in position to grant permissioon for some of the additional text which has had to be removed. The lead of the article seems to have been primarily copied from [1] and [2]. While this content is very liberally licensed, it forbids commercial re-use. Wikipedia requires that all content imported by available for commercial as well as non-commercial reuse. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information.

Additionally, the quotes have been removed to permit you time to read through our non-free content guideline and policy. Extended quotations are forbidden. You may provide brief quotations, but please be sure to cite your source immediate after the quotation, and please be sure that they are used for good reason, such as some of those set out in that guideline.

If you have questions about any of this, please feel free to come by my talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]