User talk:Bellerephon1

Welcome!
Thanks for your enthusiastic editing of same-sex marriage. However, your claims are being presented without source citations, and thus come across as original research, which is not keeping with Wikipedia policy. Please find and cite appropriate sources if you're going to continue to make edits. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 15:36, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Roman marriage
Just to be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm also not saying you're right. I don't know anything particularly about ancient Roman marriage, and to be honest, I don't care. Wikipedia has a standard for what gets in the articles, and while folks may be pretty lose on, say, a minor pop culture article, when it comes to a contentious topic (as same-sex marriage is), those standards get taken pretty seriously. They have to be, or else the articles collapse under a pile of whatever comments someone with a point of view cares to add. I hope you take the interest and enthusiasm you obviously have and find your way around here. If you can't launch into editing with proper citations, you may want to raise the topic on the article's talk/discussion page; someone there might be able to help you with references, or may point you to something source that challenges your understanding. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 05:35, 8 November 2009 (UTC)