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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:12, 9 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Afternoon. After a few years resting (resisting temptation - so long that I have lost my previous id and password) some entries caught my eye - I was researching Ogilby so his maps were interesting.
 * Ogilby's maps can be found at:
 * https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
 * For Carmarthen to Aberystwyth, see:
 * https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ATLAS-00004-00067-00006/92
 * Regards, Sc2. Scruppy Two (talk) 17:30, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Tyvm, that is a lot clearer than the Archive.org copy.
 * I admire your will power. I signed up many moons ago, just to correct one glaring error. The rest is history. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:28, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Your "home" page
You may notice that I incorrectly put the welcome message on your "home" page at user:Scrappy Two. That was a cock-up and I have deleted. That page is yours ti use for whatever you like, so long as it is broadly for Wikipedia purposes. Here's hoping I don't hit a third strike! --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:12, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

John Ogilby: Revision history
My edit of 22:56 UTC, 11 July 2023‎ may have conflicted with yours of 22:06, 11 July 2023‎. would you check please that the net effect is as you expect? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:00, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi. I think "Ogilby" progresses well - & I see no clashes here.
 * I think the Ogilby spelling of "(place-names)" in the details of the routes work well - now these appear in a consistent format. Sc2 Scruppy Two (talk) 23:31, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The Philip Parker citation I've just added has some interesting details about Britannia that you may want to use? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:24, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Bristol
Hi, JMF: could I ask you for editing advice?

The wikipaper Historical urban community sizes has irked me for some time - it reproduces recent secondary sources that all have a major omission: Bristol has not been listed as a nineteenth century major urban centre. This is a significant flaw which has misled notable urban historians. To rectify this I have inserted a row and the appropriate data - but I cannot get the references to behave. How should I have done this? Scruppy Two (talk) 16:37, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You don't appear to have created named references "Latimer" or "Shannon"? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:48, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, found it. You have added the cited works in the bibliography so you need to use Harvard referencing to cite them. See sfn or (my preference) sfnp. Easier to show you how it is done but the mobile interface is giving me grief . Will get back when done. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:59, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:10, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * That's wonderful - many thanks. Scruppy Two (talk) 17:14, 15 July 2023 (UTC)