User talk:Katechis303
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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Katechis303, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Kastri Lighthouse has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
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October 2016
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Romanos III Argyros. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Constantine ✍ 09:15, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
- Seriously, please stop spamming the Argyros-related articles with ahistorical or OR interpretations of coins etc. Most of the "sources" you use are nationalist or popular history blogs, and certainly a far cry from WP:RS. The few WP:RS you use you interpret at will, without any reference to historical context. You clearly don't understand what historical research and scientific objectivity is, if you include such material only because it is "pretty". The Argyroi did not have a coat of arms, period. Romanos III did not have a motto, what you have quoted is a standard phrase found on imperial coinage. Please stop mixing later, Western European concepts like heraldry and mottos into a period and place where they don't belong. Constantine ✍ 09:20, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
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