07:0307:03, 1 December 2014diffhist−53
List of world folk-epics
Look, comic books almost died, & I don't know that Wonderwoman represents a US Weltanschauung better than, say, Dances with Wolves, Gone with the Wind, or the Disney Classics. This early on, any & all such claims need either citations or removal.
04:4604:46, 1 December 2014diffhist−9
Cuisine of the Midwestern United States
It is absolutely not strange that Midwestern cities display culinary diversity and sophistication. Our cities... are cities. That gratuitous "however" encoded a discriminatory stereotype about Midwestern cities; and stereotypes are never encyclopedic.
04:1904:19, 1 December 2014diffhist+42
Midwestern United States
→Recent trends: Original wording was highly unclear; it sounded as if all political offices statewide are held by Republicans. I'm not satisfied with this wording, but at least it's not semantically confusing.
21:0521:05, 16 November 2014diffhist−3
Linguistic prescription
To be informed by something is to have taken in new information. Making a statement of preference for some variety of linguistic purism is not the same as informing onesself, though one's actions can be "based in" that preference. Hence the change.