Talk:The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit) There are several places in the article in which it seems as though the author is referring to Robinson Crusoe as an actual or historical figure, with Defoe acting as his biographer. e.g.: "The first thing that appears to the reader is the absence of Daniel Defoe's name, supporting the possibility that it was written by Robinson Crusoe" and: "Crusoe was a territorial British colonist: he considered as his own island, and he seems reluctant to confess its exact location to anyone, not even to Defoe. Or, they may have had an agreement to place the island near the mouth of the River Orinoco." This is, of course, misleading. Robinson Crusoe is an entirely fictional character, though perhaps somewhat inspired by the figure of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk. Defoe is famous for his "fireside travelling”, however, Robinson Crusoe is one of the few Defoe novels (such as Moll Flanders, Roxanna and the likes) in which the hoax was never really a hoax. --Irisid 14:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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Is this original work? -- Zoe

Blimey, yes, I see what you mean. I rather liked "three rude villains and two good fellows" mind you. But it is hardly contemporary English. Come on author, tell us please? :) Nevilley 20:57 Dec 4, 2002 (UTC)

200.149.130.249, I'll give you a few days to respond to my comments regarding this. If you don't let us know that this is your own work, I'm going to delete the contents and apply for this article to be deleted. Also, the article just sort of runs out at the end without any denoument. -- Zoe

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Sorry about the flurry of edits and saves. I wanted to compare 200.x's latest version with the last save, and could not because of a formatting problem which made each para go on for miles to the right. I didn't realise (until just now) that it was caused by ONE SPACE!! at the start of one para, which makes it go into fixed width and affects the whole layout. I hope that the last thing I did, of reverting to Zoe's last (the 2nd ever save) and then to 200's last (the 3rd save) has been helpful in making it possible once again to compare the two.

Finally I note that 200 has supplied loads more content but not replied to Zoe's query about the source, which would have been very helpful and interesting. Nevilley 18:05 Dec 10, 2002 (UTC)

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The author is Zoltan Simon, zasimon/at/hotmail/dot/com, and he has contributed original works by himself to Wikipedia. --Eloquence 11:47 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)