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Happy editing! Derwydd74 (talk) 04:48, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Derwydd74! Bonglosaxon (talk) 10:41, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bare refs, and refs after punctuation[edit]

Thank you for editing Slack Roman Fort. Please note that citations are inserted after the punctuation (with no space between). Also, please format your citations using the form which you'll find in the dropdown box under "cite" at the top of the edit box. This type of format is the WP house style, and the reason for it, is that if the citations become deadlinks in the future, the information that you give in the cite format will help other editors to retrieve any archive versions or alternative versions of the citation, so all is not lost (we hope). If you are editing regularly, please use your watchlist (link at top of your WP browser page) to check whether errors have been found in your editing, so that you can put it right next time. That will help you to learn, then you won't be leaving a trail of errors behind you, for others to clean up. Storye book (talk) 17:13, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, sorry Storye book! I've only just noticed this after adding a whole bunch of other stuff. I got into trouble on french wiki for putting the ref' behind the punctuation, so I'm kind of programmed now to do it that way 'round. Well, there's no accounting for etiquette! I'll take your tutorial into account in future for English wiki. Many thanks! Bonglosaxon (talk) 10:48, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Happy editing! Storye book (talk) 15:41, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Malton - South Holme Canoe[edit]

Thanks for adding this to the Malton page. I was thinking of copying it to the South Holme page as well (or instead of). Before I do please could you add a date/period for the canoe. Thanks Davidvaughanwells (talk) 11:44, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David

I found the info' in the annals of Yorkshire. Then I contacted the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to find out more, and they (Emily North) sent me an article in the New York Evening Post 1869- https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=evpo18690923-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- (bottom of column 2 page 1) which said that the canoe had been left in a pile of sticks, and that only a relic remained. The YPS never received the relic, but suggested I contact Malton museum. David Snowden from the museum sent me this (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) and said that it had never been in the museum, but that it had been the possession of Mr Charles Monkman an antiquarian of Malton in the nineteenth century. It seems that it has since been lost. So, all I have for the period is that the antiquarians of the day were convinced that it was 'british'. As the NYEP explains, the geographical mutation of the landscape is the clue as to it's antiquity. Quite a mystery! Bonglosaxon (talk) 09:40, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]