You beat me to vandalism, twice! You may want to consider applying for WP:ROLLBACK when you've been fighting vandals for a month. Be sure you are warning people (though I'm sure you are). Let me know if you have any questions!
Exactly what the title says. I've been looking out for vandalism by watching a bot spit stuff out into an IRC channel and reviewing the suspicious looking ones, but a lot of the time I find that you've beaten me to it! How do you do it? Sirocco745 (talk) 03:43, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can't make any reverts today! I click rollback, Twinkle tells me the latest revision was made by you, over and over! Let me some! In all seriousness, good job reverting vandalism! win8x (talking | spying)01:10, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For the amazing job you did on reverting bad faith edits from recent changes and been so quick with reverting them! Also to mention that you've accumulated over 1,000 edits in just 10 days after creating this account. Keep going with reverting bad faith edits and enjoy your time on Wikipedia PEPSI697 (💬 • 📝) 02:04, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, please protect the article from vandals who keep adding pallar's pov to the myth origin. The sources they added say (The Sri Lankan Tamils Ethnicity and Identity, EDITED BY Chelvadurai Manogaran and Bryan Pf affenberge)
"From the Vellalar point of view, the stigma of Nalavar and Pallar rank,
coupled with the history of these castes as recent immigrants from south
India, denies that they have any real claim to membership in the Tamil
community. In the early 1970s, some Vellalars expressly denied that
Nalavars and Pallars were Tamils; and in tum, members of these two
castes in the early 1970's still sometimes referred to Vellalars as "Tamils,"
thus driving home the social and cultural gulf that divided them from
Vellalars. The Nalavars' and Pallars' recent historical origins in
Dutch-sponsored immigrations from south India, and their putatively
darl<er skin, also seive to deepen the Vellalar sense that the Minority
Tamils are a people apart from the mainstream Tamil community. It
should be noted that Minority Tamils do not always accept the view that
they are non-Tamilians. The Pallars of Jaffna expressly conceive
themselves to be descended from one of two Vellalar brothers; after the
older brother's death, the widow--a "bad woman," according to the
tale-made the younger one into a landless slave.25 In contrast to other
low-ranking castes, which are (on the whole) remarl<ably quiescent, the
Nalavars and Pallars have not hesitated to speak their minds about the
injustice of their status. "
That is an invalid source for the claim. The source is right but the interpretation is wrong. That article's name is "Sri Lankan Vellalar". The origin of vellalar in't on the book. Many castes claimed to be Vellalar as the name was a source of prestige. In that case, pallar is an example. Someone has added misleading edits to the article. It is violating wikipedia's policies. 2409:40F4:2006:B160:C117:E00A:233C:723B (talk) 10:36, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have the full context here and don't have prior knowledge with the content at hand, so I don't feel comfortable commenting on content. For dispute resolution, and after reading other comments you've made, I just want to remind you to focus on content. It will greatly help the process, and having the dispute focus on content only will make it more approachable to other editors. (this applies to both you and Luigi Boy). Thanks, FifthFive (talk) 20:44, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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