User talk:Dendyard

I'm currently a student at Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, (Dendyard, Sri Lanka), studying Electronics along with plenty of Computer Science.

Hi. I have put the text of the deleted article here. The first part of the article is okay, but about halfway it starts to make extravagant claims for how good the school is. I know you are familiar with Wikipedia:NPOV so you will be able to recognise the problems and correct them. Deb (talk) 14:36, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GoASM

I made some changes but you still need to provide some reliable independent references. See Help:Referencing for beginners. Deb (talk) 15:27, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Poramadulla Central College

Hi! I started a new article on Poramadulla Central College. Do you know what the Sinhala name of the school is? That should be also added to the article. Also I would like to have a source that mentions the official street address of this school.

If articles on this school exist in the Sinhala and/or Tamil Wikipedias they should be linked. If not, would you be interested in starting a Sinhala article on this school?

Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 17:34, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the notice! One thing is that according to Wikipedia policies text should not be copied wholesale from other websites unless the text is under a free license (in that case, indicate the source). At User:Dendyard/Poramadulla I notice the history text is the same as http://poramadullacentralcollege.com/history_english/ - That would be a copyvio. Things should be rewritten in one's own words.
Also in general things should be sourced, and try to get as many things from newspaper sources as possible. If you know of Sri Lankan newspaper articles about the school, that would be great. Thank you for getting the Sinhala name of the school.
WhisperToMe (talk) 14:49, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

BTW thank you for correcting the names of the towns :) WhisperToMe (talk) 16:13, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Do you edit the Sinhala Wikipedia? WhisperToMe (talk) 16:15, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! If you want to make new Sinhala articles, here is what I want:

Sinhala article about en:Poramadulla Central College - You can write just a stub if you want
- Use This Sinhala source but please do not copy the text word for word. Write it in your own words.
Sinhala articles about en:Rikillagaskada and en:Karandagolla

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 16:30, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please also add en:Hanguranketha Divisional Secretariat and en:Nuwara Eliya District to your Sinhala list WhisperToMe (talk) 00:31, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Date of birth

Hi. I notice that you have your exact date of birth posted on your user page. This can be used by identity thieves and other people with malicious intentions. I advise you to consider removing it, or give just the year. Happy editing! Reh man 02:00, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka

Dear Dendyard,

Thank you for your contributions to the Wikimedia Projects. As an editor from Sri Lanka, you are warmly invited to join the official Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka and to subscribe to its mailing list, Wikimedia-LK.

The user group currently includes volunteers from Wikipedia and other projects, from the English, Sinhala, and Tamil speaking communities. It is the Wikimedia-approved platform for editors from Sri Lanka to enable wider collaboration, for both online and offline projects.

With your support, we hope to organize cross-project content improvement drives as part of online projects, as well as organize in-person edit-a-thons, training sessions, photowalks, and other such activities, in the near future. The ultimate goal(s) of these initiatives is to improve the overall coverage and quality of topics relating to Sri Lanka, as well as encourage new editors to join the Wikimedia community, while simultaneously empowering and retaining our existing team of editors.

There are no mandatory obligations for members who choose join the community, other than the usual editing rules for online projects, and the friendly space policy for in-person projects. You may also (or instead) subscribe to the mailing list, where any member could initiate discussions with volunteers across projects, notify members of events and meetings, stay up to date with competitions, organize your own events, and so on.

See you on board, and Happy Editing!

Reh man 02:01, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]