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In response to the recent removal of the copyright violation tags from this article. I wish to state that there are significant portions of this article that have been directly lifted from both sources or are
close paraphrasing which raise concerns about potential
pagarism. This includes but is not limited to sections such as "He has also served as a consultant to the international section of the Moscow State Medical Academy. During his academic career in Russia, Dr. Weerasinghe developed strong ties with Russia and became an advocate for stronger Sri Lanka-Russia cooperation.", "was responsible for introducing several lucrative investment and trade opportunities to Sri Lanka through the Russian business community" and "in the development of economic and cultural affairs between Russia and Sri Lanka in the last two decades."
Copyright violations need to be treated seriously and not dismissed without serious consideration.
I have re-instated the maintenance tags until the issue is addressed.
Dan arndt (
talk) 09:32, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
There certainly were a number of sentences that were copied word for word directly from the FT article dated 5/9/15 but LahiruG seems to have amended them today.--
Obi2canibe (
talk) 20:11, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
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Dan arndt:I have further reworded and removed the tags per the Afd decision and Earwig's Copyvio Detector reading. If you still disagree with me, then we have to solve this issue at
WP:ANI. --
LahiruGtalk 06:35, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply