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Sinhala Only Act

Here in Wikipedia we use the common name, not official name, when naming articles. So we use Sri Lanka, not Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.--obi2canibe^{talk contr} 14:29, 24 September 2016 (UTC)--obi2canibe^{talk contr} 14:29, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

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FYI, 3RR

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Pls avoid deciding on what should be added or not based on your own POV. Explain how you decided that views of feminist gamers feminist gamers have no place in wikipedia and claim that it not properly sourced when the entire series of articles by her have been posted? UmdP 11:09, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

please fix your sig

Your sig lists UmdP as your username. It should be UMDP. -- ForbiddenRocky (talk) 06:32, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

@ForbiddenRocky: I don't see any issue with that as WP:CUSTOMSIG doesn't say its wrong. UmdP 16:15, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

@UMDP: UmdP is not your username, UMDP is. Wikipedia is case sensitive. Your sig doesn't link to your account. -- ForbiddenRocky (talk) 18:15, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

@ForbiddenRocky: There was an error in the code. recheck again, thanks -UmdP 06:57, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of LAUGFS Holdings

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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged LAUGFS Holdings for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

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Buzzfeed report

Hi there,

Great addition to the Greenpeace page! I had a quick question: at one point, you use the passive voice and say "the investigators were threatened with death" (or something). Do you know who threatened them?

Thanks, Toad02 (talk) 17:52, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

@User:Toad02 I was editing with my phone so I didn't type the whole thing. Buzzfeed article says it was the Paramilitary Guards. Thanks - UmdP 04:05, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! Toad02 (talk) 13:07, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

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Dear UMPD As I mentioned earlier why are you removing my edits ? There is still no proof of hate speech or money laundering by the indian government and court has given him the clean chit Kindly update yourself

I verbatim quoted what zakir said about the women's rights still you changed it to something else .. why ? Please check the citation I have given

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It seems that this user continuously engaged in edit wars as it is done in the Sri Lankan Moors and Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology without participating in proper discussions. Chathu69 09:15, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

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Don't try to disruptively edit and spam warnings. You can't change content against WP:CONSENSUS - UmdP 09:24, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

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@EdJohnston: Sorry, I messed up. I just lost it as the user tried to force the edits through reverts and while I reached out and tried to point out the issues, my points were entirely ignored and the user kept on reverting and reverting. I put up a edit warring notice because I did not want to engage in a revert fight and even in their the user kept ignoring my points and again reverted causing me to forget and remove the content again as the user did not take the burden to prove the edits or discuss it out but I know that it is also wrong on my part. I am am extremely sorry and I fully understand why I was blocked. Thank you for listening and sorry for troubling you, not an unblock request. -UtoD 04:37, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

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Hi UtoD - there are anon/new user(s) attempting to restore content to Steve Breedlove that violates WP:UNDUE, WP:RS and other policies that you removed in November. Flagging for your awareness; see discussion at Talk:Steve Breedlove. ThanksDclemens1971 (talk) 00:05, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

If this persists without engagement I guess putting a page protection request would be the only option. -UtoD 10:26, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

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No more than three reverts were carried out and there were more than just above that between 20th and 22nd reverts. If you are going to randomly use irrelevant warnings again you are going to get in trouble. Especially considering you are trying to forcefully remove content by by forceful reverts without explaining it first and ignoring the protests- UtoD 13:47, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

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I will look out for any patterns. Thanks -UtoD 16:20, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

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I will try although I am extremely busy at the time due to work sadly so I am concentrating on stopping the brute force POV pushing in the Armed Forces page and also has to do deal with WP:ANI. Thank you -UtoD 15:04, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

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