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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 November 10 § Sri Lankan people by occupation and ethnic or national origin[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tamil teachers[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tamil police officers[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tamil bankers[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tamil sociologists[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tamil surveyors[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tamil editors[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tamil geographers[edit]

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Category:Sri Lankan Moor people by occupation has been nominated for merging[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Vavuniya Hindu College[edit]

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Fails WP:NSCHOOL, lacks significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources.

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Proposed deletion of Nelukkulam Kalaimagal Maha Vidyalayam[edit]

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December 2023[edit]

I've removed the claim that the post-civil war Finnish government was "fascist" from Matti Turkia as neither of the attached references verified that claim; as far as I can tell, this is a WP:FRINGE view not held by the mainline historians. I'll also note that I already brought up this issue on your talk page July 2023. Ljleppan (talk) 21:29, 29 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You continue to include these unsupported claims in new articles you create, such as Kalle Hakala, while also refusing to communicate. If this problem continues, my next step will be to take this to WP:ANI. Ljleppan (talk) 21:38, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Sri Lankan Chetties by occupation has been nominated for merging[edit]

Category:Sri Lankan Chetties by occupation has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 02:08, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Vipulanantha College logo.jpg[edit]

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Continuing concerns about editing and lack of communication[edit]

Hi, Obi2canibe I've noticed you've kept introducing unverified claims about fascism in Finland into biographies about Finnish Civil War era people. I've already approached you about this issue on your talk page multiple times, both in December 2023 and in July 2023. To recap my issues with your most recent edits:

Article content must be supported by reliable sources. See WP:V. You've failed to support numerous claims about fascism in Finland, see e.g. the following removals of unsupported claims you'd inserted during article creation: diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff.
Where you've attached a reference to the above claims, those references have failed to verify your claims. This is unacceptable, per WP:INTEGRITY.
Masters theses are not seen as sufficiently reliable sources outside of exceptional cases. See WP:SCHOLARSHIP, stating "Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence." For example in Eino Tainio you've heavily based the article on citations to a master's thesis ("pro gradu", in Finnish). Other articles you've created using masters theses as sources include Jaakko Mäki and Ville Kiviniemi.
Based on my attempt to review the relevant academic literature on Finnish fascism, it appears to me that your claims that the Finnish government (see diff, diff, diff) or the Whites (diff, diff, diff, diff) as a whole were fascists or fascist organizations are rather exceptional, and would thus need exceptional sources per WP:EXCEPTIONAL.
- For one, they are contradicted by e.g. the works of Oula Silvennoinen [fi], a historian who has been extremely active in e.g. highlighting the "nasty" aspects of Finnish cooperation with Nazi Germany. For example, in ‘Home, Religion, Fatherland’: Movements of the Radical Right in Finland, which "charts the history of fascism in Finland", he states that the Lapua movement was "the only [fascist-style organization] one to ever gain true mass support for any period of time" and "the only mass movement of radical nationalism to attract wide popular support in inter-war Finland" (p. 135).
- See also Vesa Yrjö Vares's From allies to opponents. Conservatives facing fascism in Finland in the 1930s , concluding with "It also became abundantly clear that in the long run the success of ‘fascism’ elsewhere did not give encouragement to Finnish conservatives nor rouse any appeal to imitate it, except briefly in the spring of 1933, and even then hesitantly. This remained the only potential time of ‘hybridization’ between authoritarian and fascist or semi-fascist tendencies, and it ended up in a fiasco for the Finnish conservatives. [..] ‘Fascist’ success abroad became a clear burden, not an advantage, to Finnish conservatives in Finnish domestic policy. Open fascism and national socialism were very unpopular in the Finnish political culture of the 1930s. When democracy fell and political systems became authoritarian in most European countries, Finland went to the Left – ending up with an Agrarian President and an Agrarian-Social Democratic-Liberal Government. [..] In short: although not a democratic knight in shining armour in the eyes of the present day, nor even in the period in question, Finland represented in many senses a rare case of a successful conservative anti-fascist struggle in a democratic society."
- Neither can I find anything supporting such strong statements in Tepura and Roselius's (eds) The Finnish Civil War 1918: History, Memory, Legacy

As an editor with almost 55 000 edits, these policies should be very clear to you, as should be the requirement to communicate with other editors. see e.g. WP:EPTALK, and the explanatory essay Wikipedia:Communication is required. - Ljleppan (talk) 07:52, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Ljleppan: I have refrained from responding to you because what I have to say to you will offend you. But as you keep hounding me on my talk page and have now resorted to reporting me to ANI I will respond in the hope that you will leave me alone. I find you contemptible. And I have no desire to engage with someone who defends war crimes, murder and torture. I am here to create content, not protect of the reputation of my tribe by censoring information.

If the community has issues with my editing I will take notice and act accordingly. I will not take any notice of anything you say, you have lost all credibility with me. Please stay away from my talk page.--Obi2canibe (talk) 16:46, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I know it can be difficult if you are feeling vulnerable, but please try to avoid personal attacks. A phrase like "I find you contemptible" is unacceptable. Deb (talk) 14:24, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Accusing Ljleppan of defending war crimes, murder and torture, censoring information, hounding [you] on [your] talk page, as well as outright saying I find you contemptible & that I will not take any notice of anything you say is beyond the pale, and goes far past the line of AGF & NPA. Content dispute aside, which you ought to engage with anyway, this is not how we are supposed to conduct ourselves here. sawyer * he/they * talk 02:47, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

January 2024[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ljleppan (talk) 14:59, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]