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|| Seminumerical 21:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC) I cleaned up some awkward phrases, put in a few apostrophes, and fixed some spelling, but the article still needs a little bit of work.
- Thanks for that! I know it needs work, but I've not had time to redirect it. I'll tag and flag it for a cleanup too. --[[User:|User:]]\[[User_talk:|talk]] 09:56, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Seminumerical 22:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC) I made some more corrections. The article seems to be getting close to being finished. Most of the corrections were apostrophes (Solomon's wife, not Solomons wife) and the one word you gotta learn to spell, heh heh!: "separate, not seperate". I guess the only other thing I noticed is that sometimes you write Ikey, and sometimes you write Solomon. I think it should be one or the other? I haven't read the guidelines yet so I'm not sure of the rules. By the way, did you cite your sources for the article somewhere? I don't know how to do that yet. Also, I think alot of people are going to visit this page. Now that Polanski's movie, Oliver Twist, is out alot of people are going to wonder who Fagin was based on. That is how I came to this page, an hour after I saw the movie. Thanks for creating it by the way.
- You're welcome. My gramma' has always let me down! I ordered a book called "The First Fagin", so I might be adding to this later! The sources used are just the Old Bailey Records, which has led to me being addicted to those Old Bailey records.. they are amazing!! Also, the information on that New Zealand site too. --[[User:|User:]]\[[User_talk:|talk]] 22:14, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I did a little grammar tweaking too. It's a good article. What it needs now is better citations. Instead of something like 'Ikey was devoted to his family', say 'so-and-so says Ikey was devoted to his family', and cite your source. XyKyWyKy 11:39, 1 October 2006 (UTC) I see a couple of points in this article which are clearly inconsistent with the rest of the article and unverifiable according to the references which have been included. Firstly it says that Solomon was 23 at the time of his first trial and conviction. The reference provided shows his birth year as '1787?' which is two years later than the year of birth provided on this page, and does not indicate his age at the time of his trial. Either the year of his birth provided on this page is wrong, or he must have been either 24 or 25 at the time of his first trial in 1810. Secondly this article claims that after his second conviction, he appeared to reach New York in 1810. The reference provided at this point shows that this second conviction was in 1827, and gives no indication of what year he arrived in the US. It appears that both his age at the time of his first conviction and the year he arrived in New York are unverified statements and inconsistent with the information given on this page. Due to the unverified statements and inadequate references for them, I do not feel comfortable editing this page. Perhaps the author would like to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilonka2 (talk • contribs) 04:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
