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I thank you for leaving me a nice message on my talk page, but I'm afraid it doesn't change what I think should be done to the C. L. V. Jayathilake article. At least, not yet. I did, in fact, see the message you left at the BLP noticeboard, but I'm guessing you did not see my response. To summarize that response, The changes you are requesting are undoing information that was previously supported by good sources and you did not provide any sources that show why the changes should be made.
Your personal knowledge, which you have mentioned both on the noticeboard and on my talk page, is not verifiable by anyone else. While you may be in earnest, no other reader or editor has any way of knowing that. To give you an example of why this doesn't meet standards of sources, I can tell you I met and shook the hand of former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Now. How are you going to verify that? Are you going to just accept the words of an anonymous person halfway around the world you've never met?
The links you left me, I'm afraid, don't change matters much. The first link (the one for the National Education Commission) tells me that C.L.V. Jayatilleke is a professor who is the chair of that committee. It does not, unfortunately, mean that C.L.V. Jayatilleke is the same professor that Professor R.Shanthini and the Sunday Times acknowledged as Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya.
You see what I mean? You need sources that are reliable and independent that clearly state the C.L.V. Jayatilleke you know is definitely the C.L.V._Jayathilake the current article is about. It should also also clearly indicate that Jayatilleke is the preferred spelling in English to Jayathilake. I grant that the odds are probably slim that there are two engineering professors in Sri Lanka with such similar names. I, like most readers, know next to nothing about naming conventions and spelling in Sri Lanka. This means we can't judge how likely it is for these two to be the same person. But that is sort of the point: there needs to be something you can point to, and that we can see for ourselves, and say, "This is why I'm changing it."
I hope this helps, and the links I left in response to your message on the BLP noticeboard may give you more insight into why we do things this way. I know it sounds excessively bureaucratic, but the intent is to prevent Wikipedia from being used to spread falsehoods about other people. I hope this helps. -- Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:52, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I forgot to mention one thing. The English spelling of Sinhalese and Tamil names vary. Jayatilleke and Jayathilake (also Jayathilaka, Jayatilaka, Jayathilaka) all are ජයතිලක in Sinhalese, no difference between pronunciation. However, there are certain cast related matters etc. and inheritance that have caused differences among English spellings. -- User:navakawiki 13:45, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
About the current information in the article, you can see that the Chancellor of Wayamba University is Prof. Tuley De Silva by following http://www.wyb.ac.lk/index.php/about/the-chancellor whereas the link http://www.wyb.ac.lk/mkd/wusl_menu_files/chancellor.htm in the article is no longer active.
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I thank you for leaving me a nice message on my talk page, but I'm afraid it doesn't change what I think should be done to the C. L. V. Jayathilake article. At least, not yet. I did, in fact, see the message you left at the BLP noticeboard, but I'm guessing you did not see my response. To summarize that response, The changes you are requesting are undoing information that was previously supported by good sources and you did not provide any sources that show why the changes should be made.
Your personal knowledge, which you have mentioned both on the noticeboard and on my talk page, is not verifiable by anyone else. While you may be in earnest, no other reader or editor has any way of knowing that. To give you an example of why this doesn't meet standards of sources, I can tell you I met and shook the hand of former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Now. How are you going to verify that? Are you going to just accept the words of an anonymous person halfway around the world you've never met?
The links you left me, I'm afraid, don't change matters much. The first link (the one for the National Education Commission) tells me that C.L.V. Jayatilleke is a professor who is the chair of that committee. It does not, unfortunately, mean that C.L.V. Jayatilleke is the same professor that Professor R.Shanthini and the Sunday Times acknowledged as Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya.
You see what I mean? You need sources that are reliable and independent that clearly state the C.L.V. Jayatilleke you know is definitely the C.L.V._Jayathilake the current article is about. It should also also clearly indicate that Jayatilleke is the preferred spelling in English to Jayathilake. I grant that the odds are probably slim that there are two engineering professors in Sri Lanka with such similar names. I, like most readers, know next to nothing about naming conventions and spelling in Sri Lanka. This means we can't judge how likely it is for these two to be the same person. But that is sort of the point: there needs to be something you can point to, and that we can see for ourselves, and say, "This is why I'm changing it."
I hope this helps, and the links I left in response to your message on the BLP noticeboard may give you more insight into why we do things this way. I know it sounds excessively bureaucratic, but the intent is to prevent Wikipedia from being used to spread falsehoods about other people. I hope this helps. -- Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:52, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I forgot to mention one thing. The English spelling of Sinhalese and Tamil names vary. Jayatilleke and Jayathilake (also Jayathilaka, Jayatilaka, Jayathilaka) all are ජයතිලක in Sinhalese, no difference between pronunciation. However, there are certain cast related matters etc. and inheritance that have caused differences among English spellings. -- User:navakawiki 13:45, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
About the current information in the article, you can see that the Chancellor of Wayamba University is Prof. Tuley De Silva by following http://www.wyb.ac.lk/index.php/about/the-chancellor whereas the link http://www.wyb.ac.lk/mkd/wusl_menu_files/chancellor.htm in the article is no longer active.
Hello Navakawiki. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled " Royal College Quiz Team".
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