User talk:Polochinoc

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Again, welcome! --Xover (talk) 07:58, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Agrarian Justice
Great work on Agrarian Justice, and thank you for contributing!

I've replaced the old unsourced version by transcluding your newly proofread one, and added it to the "New texts" section on the Main Page. You can do both of these yourself for future works, they're just a bit fiddly so I did it here just to demonstrate how.

As you can tell from Author:Thomas Paine, our coverage there is pretty spotty (and the quality isn't great). If you have an interest in Paine and his writings there are plenty of projects to dig in on, from individual short articles to the four-volume complete writings edited by Conway in 1894–96.

I'd be happy to help—so feel free to me at need—and a post at Scriptorium/Help will usually elicit a response. Cheers, and hope you stick around! --Xover (talk) 07:03, 24 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you ! And of course, thank you for your precious help on this project, I will check how you replaced the old source by the new one. It was an essay I read and liked, so that's why I wanted to do something. I'll probably read others that need to be put here, so hopefully I can help more. By the way, small question : do you put a space before a two-points in English ? Because I think I did put a space before those in the text. — Polochinoc (talk) 11:56, 24 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Ok, nevermind, I got the answer by reading you modifications, I will correct the first one. — Polochinoc (talk) 12:00, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * In general there will never be a space character before any punctuation mark in English text (in the few cases it happens in our source texts we tend to normalise it to our house style and remove it). There are some exceptions like the en-dash (–) that usually appear spaced, but the commons ones like periods (aka. "full stop" and some times "point", (.)), commas, colons (what I think you mean by two-point, ":"), semi-colons , exclamation marks (!), and question marks (?) are never preceded by a space. --Xover (talk) 13:08, 24 May 2020 (UTC)