User talk:Dudleyportrait

Joseph Dudley portrait
Thank you for your contributions about the portrait of Joseph Dudley. I just wanted to let you know that I have significantly edited your contribution, primarily to remove details that do not particularly add to our understanding of Joseph Dudley. (These removals include details on the publication history of the image, which is subject matter that is more properly suited for an article about the painting itself.)

I have also tagged several of your sentences for more detailed source information. If you go to the article and search for "[citation needed]" (without the quotes) you will find them. The article is fully cited, and you need to say from what published sources you know these facts. If they are from either the Dudley family history or the Belknap work you mention, it will be sufficient for you to tell me here on what pages those facts occur, and I will format them correctly into the article. (Alternatively you can read about citing sources and make the edits yourself.) Also, you also use the word "current" in reference to research on the portrait's painter. This information will not be "current" in ten years, so a date when this assumption was made is needed. (See WP:DATED for suggestions on how to avoid this type of language.)

Thanks again for your attention.  Magic ♪piano 16:55, 6 July 2011 (UTC)