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Your text is now a draft article at User:Jacobandtotty/Cross Road (byway). -- John of Reading (talk) 14:36, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Mrmatiko (talk) 18:00, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you give the URLs of the pages at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and www.postalheritage.org.uk that back up the statements in your text? -- John of Reading (talk) 19:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(More) I expect that parts of the article are backed up by statements in the "What is a Cross Road?" book. It would be helpful if you could indicate this by adding in the page numbers where the information comes from. I'd be happy to do the formatting for you, or you could have a look at Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply at my talk page. I've reformatted the draft article a bit, moving the source information into the references. I've tagged the statements that need more input from you:

What sub-page at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk do you expect the reader to look at? I'm afraid I don't understand parts of your answer at my talk page, so can you give an exact URL please, or idiot-proof instructions for getting from the home page www.nationalarchives.gov.uk to the proper sub-page.
What source backs up the claim that "no other term" was used during those centuries? If this is from the Taylor book, what is the page number?
What source backs up the claim that highway surveyors used the term?
What sub-page at www.postalheritage.org.uk do you expect the reader to look at?
On my talk page you mention "The History of the Post Office from Its Establishment down to 1836" by Herbert Joyce. This is good; the more reliable sources the better. What statements in the article can be backed up by references to this book, and what are the page numbers?

Sorry to be so picky! (Oh, and can you reply here please, as other editors will find our conversation easier to understand if it is all in one place) -- John of Reading (talk) 16:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello John. The National Archives doe not have a URL for all their road maps. It is necessary to go to the records office at Kew and order them from storage and they are physically brought out to you. I can cite the earliest found, "Britannia" by John Ogilby (1600-1675) whose map is kept there under reference LC3/24 but to the best of my knowledge you can't look at it online. It is cited in the Taylor book on pages 11/12. Other map makers that followed kept to Ogilby's style in using the term "cross road". My trawl through all the road maps published by surveyors in this and other archives prove that "no other term" was used during those centuries and there are 38 named examples with the libraries also named between pages 12 and 18). To the best of my knowledge no-one else has pulled this research together so I can't cite another book. There is no sub-page at www.postal heritage.org.uk as likewise it is an archive that one must visit and order documents from their store. Herbert Joyce's book "The History of the Post Office from Its Establishment down to 1836" is kept under Refernce number 54A). The references to Joyce's book in the Taylor book are no pages 34 and 35. The Taylor book also includes extracts from 17 dictionaries which confirm that a "cross road" was (is) a by-way or by-road. These are on pages 9/10 and include: Oxford English Dictionary "A road running across between two main roads - a by-road" Collins New English Dictionary: "A road which crosses another - a by-road" Collins English Dictionary: "A road that crosses from one main road to another" Modern Library Dictionary of the English Language: "A road that crosses another road or one that runs transversely to main roads. A by-road" Universal English Dictionary: "A smaller road joining two main roads" Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition: "A road that connects two or more main roads" Jacobandtotty (talk) 22:13, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for these answers. I don't do much work with sources and articles, so this is an interesting change.

I'll stop fussing about those URLs. Wikipedia prefers secondary sources, such as the Taylor book, to primary sources, such as the old maps themselves. See WP:PRIMARY for lots of detail on this.

Your personal research in the archives cannot be used to source the sentence beginning "No other term...". Wikipedia does not publish original research; the research has to be published somewhere else first. I've reworded that sentence of the draft. What it now says is sourced but doesn't say anything about cross roads.

I found an online copy of the Joyce book, here, but it doesn't seem to mention "cross road" or "cross-road" anywhere. On page 57 it mentions "cross-post", but it doesn't say anything about the kinds of roads that post was carried on. This doesn't seem to help the article much. How does Taylor use this material? I've reworded the draft to reflect page 57 of Joyce, but now this part of the draft also doesn't say anything about cross roads.

Feel free to give more feedback here, and/or to edit the draft at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Cross Road (byway), and/or to re-submit the draft following the instructions in the pink box at the top. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:21, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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In case you want to refer to it, our last conversation has now been archived at User talk:John of Reading/Archive 9#Cross Road (a byway) -- John of Reading (talk) 16:15, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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