Irene1209

Collaboration

Good choice! You will find it useful to collaborate with, as Second Thoughts is closely related to Augusta Triumphans, which she has chosen. I think also to "Some Considerations on Street Walkers" - which no-one has chosen yet. --Jfclegg (talk) 19:58, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

suggestions

Since you and are working on closely related texts which have no wiki articles you should both create stubs soon so that people know you are working on them; and you could usefully collaborate, sharing sources and an introductory section on Defoe' s proposals for social reform. --Jfclegg (talk) 23:46, 25 October 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jfclegg (talk • contribs)

Paul Griffiths in Lost Londons has a section on "Watching". It mainly concerns the 16th-17th centuries but still could be useful. I have a copy and on Monday can lend it to you to takes notes on the relavant section. See also your colleague working on The Watch --Jfclegg (talk) 18:00, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Text editor cruft?

Do you use an offline editor before posting your articles? I ask because I noticed that your latest entry had a couple of tell-tale marks of a text editor... one was the curly quotes, and another was the way there was a trailing space at the end of the paras, which I suspect was originally some sort of vertical whitespace. I hope I've edited it into the originally desired format, I did try to be careful. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:24, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

I did use a curly style for the quotes before but then I decided for a normal format. Anyway I keep reading and adjusting things. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your help. --Irene1209 (talk) 17:37, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

No inconvenience at all! I like this sort of thing, it introduces me to articles I'd otherwise never see. Please, add more of same! Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:19, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Checks

Dear Irene many congratulations on the nomination - and on the help you are receiving! I did a bit of language revision last week, but you could usually do some more. - Its normal to use the presente tense when reporting to contents of a test. - I would think it better to refer to "Andrew Moreton" as the narrator/polemicist, rather than Defoe. - Do a thorough spell check (Englihs spelling excepet in quoites form Americans , also (especially on names) Its Richetti, not Ricchetti. . Check for consistency in use of italics in refs (book tiles as opposed to article titles) . --Jfclegg (talk) 17:43, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Dear Prof. Clegg, thank you very much for your suggestions. I have revised the references, following Saul's instructions too. While I was reading again my article and I noticed that you put a link, in my preface section, about the journal The Craftsman. The link is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craftsman , and as you may see is not about the 18th-century english journal, but about an early 20th century American magazine apparently having the same title. For this reason I removed the link and I just wanted you to know. Since there are many disambiguation pages on wikipedia I generally use the searching box (top right of every wikipedia page) to check if the page in question is really what I am looking for. Anyway thank you again for all your help.--Irene1209 (talk) 15:55, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Second Thoughts are Best

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:01, 19 November 2015 (UTC)