User talk:Barroncd

Welcome!

Hello, Barroncd, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 16:13, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why the Raphael picture is likely to continue to be used

Wikipedia isn't about what is "true," but verifiable: Cite sources because original research is not accepted. Neither picture can be verified to truely look like Hypatia, but there is no verification that the ancient picture represents her, while it is verified that the Raphael picture is accepted as representing Hypatia (as shown by the contents of the <ref>references tags</ref>). If you can find a reliable source to cite (with <ref>references tags</ref>) that say that the ancient picture is indeed supposed to represent Hypatia, then it probably would be used instead. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:05, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Welcome

Hello, and let me also extend a welcome to you (doesn't matter we jumped right into a disagreement, that happens all the time on Wikipedia :-). I'd just like to make you aware of one important rule of this place: in the spirit of consensus editing, it's considered bad form to repeatedly undo other people's edits, and we have the three-reverts rule to prevent so-called edit wars. It seems you re-inserted the image three times now, which means you'd be breaking the rule if you continued to do so. That said, I do hope you'll stay around and enjoy editing here. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]