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Anna Dalassene
[edit]Hello! First, welcome to Wikipedia! Second, good work on beginning an expansion of the article on Anna Dalassene. I couldn't agree with you more on the need to expand her article and that of Alexios I. However, I am a bit puzzled by the tone of this edit summary. Where exactly have I reverted your edits? I have only made some copyedits to improve the language and add links, as well as change the names to the ODB format current in WP. As long as your edits are factual (although it would be great if your would add inline citations too), they will not be reverted, quite the contrary. Being one of the unfortunately very few editors here who contributes on Byzantine stuff, I certainly welcome your additions! Regards, Constantine ✍ 15:12, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
- I would have added the citations by now but it is the editing process for inline citations that is a bit complicated. I normally follow APA manual of style and understanding the symbols and embedding the references is difficult to learn at first.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 15:26, 24 August 2010 (talk • contribs) Mgbsecteacher
You may be aware of Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia but this is a heads up in case you are not.
At 03:12, 5 Sep. 2010, you copied text into Alexios I Komnenos most probably from the article Anna Dalassene as it was added to that article by user:Cplakidas at 07:42, 4 Sept. 2010
The string of text I used to find the copy was "Alexios left Constantinople in mid-February 1081" using the tool: Wikipedia:WikiBlame (an online browser-based tool for searching the revision history of a Wikipedia article with a text string to identify the editor of a change to the page). I needed to do this to check on some citations added to the same string in a new article called Byzantine Empire under the Doukas dynasty. It is for this reason and not just to meet copyright requirements that it is useful if such copies are logged in the edit history. I have retrospectively left a message in the history of Alexios I Komnenos meeting the copyright requirements as laid out in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.