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Collaboration

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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)[reply]

suggestions

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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 (talkcontribs)

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)[reply]

Text editor cruft?

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Second Thoughts are Best has been nominated for Did You Know

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Checks

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

DYK for Second Thoughts are Best

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