User talk:Alex-the-grate2

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July 2010

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Sage article and citations

Hi - please use the same citation style I've used in the article, and never raw urls. I was already in the process of acquiring a copy of the article. Do you actually have a copy? Dougweller (talk) 10:48, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minor edits

I asked you before not to mark edits as minor. If you aren't, then you've set this in your preferences. Go to My Preferences, click on the 'Editing' tab, and unclick the Minor preferences box. You really must do this. Dougweller (talk) 10:23, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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March 2011

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Hands of God. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 12:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at Swastika, you may be blocked from editing. Dougweller (talk) 13:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

woman on phaistos disc

Is it okay to point out that the woman on the phaistos disc and the snake goddesses of crete have a tiered dress and that Sumerian women also wore tiered dresses? Alex-the-grate2 (talk) 10:35, 12 September 2011 (UTC) Alex-the-grate2[reply]

Without a reliable source that sounds like original research and synthesis.--ukexpat (talk) 17:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The dress is in the book History begins AT Sumer by Kramer and is shown in the photo: http://www.cumorah.com/index.php?target=view_other_articles&story_id=3&cat_id=3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.13.69 (talk) 19:23, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK, but has a reliable source pointed out the apparent similarity between the two? If not, we cannot draw that conclusion because that would be original research.--ukexpat (talk) 00:12, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Draycoteextract.JPG

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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Water inlet.JPG

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Ron Fawcett

Please do not add content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Ron Fawcett. Thanks, Ericoides (talk) 09:16, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2015

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at The Tempest (Giorgione). and Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge - all since your last warning. Doug Weller (talk) 12:21, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

scale for map of pacific ocean at top right of main page

How about a scale for the map of the pacific ocean? Is it 3000 miles wide etc.

Alex-the-grate2 (talk) 21:44, 8 December 2015 (UTC)Alex-the-grate2[reply]