User talk:Debmason1

October 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to The Spectator (1711), did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: The Spectator (1711) was changed by Debmason1 (u) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2009-10-28T14:45:07+00:00. Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 14:45, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to The Spectator (1711). Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Saddhiyama (talk) 01:09, 31 October 2009 (UTC) -Retracted. Edit was not vandalism but good faith.--Saddhiyama (talk) 10:54, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

The edits were not vandalism at all. A link from The Spectator (1711) to the opera based on Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" would show how several editions of The Spectator were directly used to create a scene in the opera which corresponds to Pope's line, "Snuff and the Fan supply each pause of chat with singing, laughing, ogling, and all that." The scene where The Ladies have lessons in The Use of the Fan was taken from Spectator 102 and modern readers would enjoy seeing it inserted into an opera in a comic scene. The Lords have lessons in how to manage their snuff-boxes, as described in another Spectator issue. These scenes prepare the Lords and Ladies for The Battle of the Beaux and Belles later on, and is a proper Mock-Heroic use of the text. Debmason1 (talk) 15:31, 1 November 2009 (UTC)