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Happy editing! Cheers, Doug Weller talk 15:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Marble House, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. You actually subtracted source material because you disagreed with it. That's against basic policy. Doug Weller talk 15:51, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- hello mr weller. if you want a source for the removal of the false claim that the portico of marble house is a porte cochere, which i believe is what you're referring to, i would refer you to this image from wikimedia commons, which shows very clearly that the portico does not extend over the drive, thus making it definitionally not a porte cochere https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Marble_House%2C_William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_house_%28Newport%2C_Rhode_Island%29_LOC_ds.10851.jpg this diagram can be verified as true by observing the photographs of the building here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Exterior_of_the_Marble_House Saccharinesilk (talk) 21:05, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Saccharinesilk I doubt it. For a definitive answer post to WP:RSN. Doug Weller talk 09:39, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- you doubt what, exactly? again this is information that can be verified by looking at the building. i'll even share a direct link to a photograph that shows it extremely clearly. https://www.alamy.com/newport-rhode-island-nov-29-2020-marble-house-is-a-gilded-age-mansion-with-beaux-arts-style-in-bellevue-avenue-historic-district-in-newport-rho-image396822162.html Saccharinesilk (talk) 10:48, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Saccharinesilk I doubt it. For a definitive answer post to WP:RSN. Doug Weller talk 09:39, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Winchester Mystery House. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 15:52, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- Apologies, I was under the impression that information which was self evident would not need to be sourced; "Victorian and Gothic-style" is an oxymoron denoting two time periods that do not overlap, and Victorian in particular does not refer to a style but rather a family of styles sharing chronology, as the Wikipedia article it links to states. By this I think whoever wrote that part of the article originally is trying to say it's Gothic Revival, but that's, and I apologize if this is rudely put but I truly don't know any other way to phrase it, obvious to anyone who has seen a Gothic Revival building, https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture seen an American Queen Anne style building, https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Queen_Anne_style_architecture_in_the_United_States and Has Eyes. Saccharinesilk (talk) 11:00, 22 November 2024 (UTC)