User talk:Alpalfour

Maroubra beach
- re your undo of my edit 4 June re added length of the beach. Don't you think think the length is relevant? It's the longest beach in Sydney (the sand length as measured on google satellite is longer than that of Bondi beach), it's long enough to have 2 surf life-saving clubs, and the Bondi Beach wiki page has it's length shown. Alpalfour (talk) 12:03, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * G'Day Alpafour,
 * I reverted the edit because there is no reference proving that this is a fact. It's easy to make a statement but how do you know for sure that Maroubra Beach is the longest? If it is written somewhere and you can provide a link to a reference, then it can be included. Otherwise it's unproven. Cheers. J Bar (talk) 02:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ok i understand the need for factual material, but what I edited was part of:

"Maroubra Beach sits on Maroubra Bay. Mahon Pool is located north of the beach, near Mistral Point. There are two surf clubs at Maroubra: Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club and South Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club. Arthur Byrne Reserve sits behind both these clubs." For this and the whole rest of the article there are no references. How about simply "Maroubra beach is approximately" 1 km long". I think it's very relevant that it is a long beach... do I need to reference to a street directory? but as I said more than half the article (after refernce 5) is not referenced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alpalfour (talk • contribs) 12:32, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It's fine if you add a fact like Maroubra Beach stretches for approximately 1 km on Maroubra Bay. It's only a problem when you make a claim like it's the biggest, longest, best etc. By the way, when ending you messages on someone's talk page, use four of these tildes "~" to automatically add your signature. Cheers J Bar (talk) 02:40, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

The King's Speech
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Cleopatra bust
On 12 October 2014 you edited the article Cleopatra by adding "believed to be" to the lead image caption "Bust of Cleopatra VII, Altes Museum, Berlin". I'm sorry, but that's false, per the scholarly sources I cited in the article. See also the new section on ancient depictions in art. No one in academia disputes the Berlin Bust as being genuine and authentic when compared to her coinage. The only bust that's questionable is the British Museum bust, but even their own website says there are strong, "significant" comparisons to be made with the facial features of her coins and that bust. That doesn't even count the two other busts, one in the Vatican Museums, the other in the Archaeological Museum of Cherchel, or the life-size statue in the Vatican. These are widely considered to be authentic portraits of Cleopatra VII.

Also, if you're going to edit Wikipedia in the future with such claims, you should back them up with reliable sources (preferably multiple ones with a whole lot of source quotes just to be sure). Regards, -- Pericles of Athens  Talk 17:54, 6 March 2018 (UTC)