User talk:Born1993

Scotland during the Roman Empire
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Hello, Born1993, 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: 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 Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Thanks for seeking to contribute to the above article. You may have noticed your amendments have been reverted a couple of times. When this happens, it is usually a good idea to start a discussion thread on the article talk page - there are good reasons editors will have for reverting. In this case there are a mixture of problems. These are the sorts of reasons the additions have been reverted and i am reverting them again. It is feasible to include material about Roman Roads in the article somehow, but we need to find a better way to do it. This can be discussed at the talk page and hopefully we'll find a solution. Regards, hamiltonstone (talk) 00:01, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
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 * Where you added this: " Roman influence on Scottish culture was not enduring like in Britain" your addition preceded an existing reference and did not add an additional reference. This both assumes that the referenced source made the contrast to Britain, but also did not improve the prose.
 * You changed the bit about genocide to say "Some scholars..." and then called Moffat "controversial", but without adding any references explaining why this view was controversial, nor any counter-argument from other sources.
 * You have added this: "Romans built in Caledonia the first real roads, and someone is still in use today ." However the source does not meet Wikipedia standards for reliable sources - it is one individual's webpage. It is a significant claim that needs a major source. The English syntax / choice of words is also wrong: "someone is still"?
 * This text has a number of problems: " The most famous is the "Dere road" that connected the Hadrian and Antonine Walls and reached the Perth area of northern Scotland (it has been thought that the Roman road to the north of the Forth, to Stirling and Perth, dates from the expedition of Severus to beyond the Dee, A.D. 209; it may, however, be doubted if there was time in that campaign for such a work, and the road may well belong to a period before the construction of the Wall of Antonine, A.D. 140". There would need to a source for the "most famous" claim, but those words would best be dropped altogether. Next, the detail should not be in brackets. Either there should be a proper discussion of roman roads and infrastructure in a previous section devoted to the subject, or this detail should be omitted. This section is about the Legacy. It is an appropriate place to talk about subjects such as the first introduction of proper roads (if that is true), but not the detail of when exactly they were built, or archaeological debate on that subject.
 * "Indeed near this road was found in early 2010 a Roman altar " This is not important enough to be included here.