4 September 2024
- 12:1112:11, 4 September 2024 diff hist +2 Mycotoxin →Production: Replace the obsolete word "diminute" with the word "diminutive". https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/diminute says that "diminute" -- used as an adjective -- was already "[Not in use.]" way back in 1828! Also, https://wikidiff.com/diminute/diminutive says that the adjective "diminute" is obsolete, and www.dictionary.com says "No results found for Diminute". Even wikt:diminute says that, [as an adjective], it is: "(obsolete)"; though it may still be used as a verb. current
1 September 2024
- 10:4210:42, 1 September 2024 diff hist +928 Five Minutes of Heaven →Release: Fix a the ["((dead link))"] value of the URL in footnote number "[9]". That URL gave a "404", and the solution (to fix it) was not a different URL. Instead, an "archive-url", was used, ... which involved changing to use a "((cite web))". A first TRY of the URL https://web.archive.org/web/20121025223525/https://variety.com/article/VR1117999028.html?categoryId=1061&cs=1 gave (for a few seconds) a web page saying "Got an HTTP 301 response at crawl time"; but then it found its way.
30 August 2024
- 04:0104:01, 30 August 2024 diff hist 0 Talk:Gab (social network) →Boycotts after pay policy change: REMOVE carefully, all of the changes that were UNintentional (if not malicious) during THIS edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AGab_%28social_network%29&diff=1242712122&oldid=1242682445 ; By doing so "carefully", that means: allowing the part that appears to have been *** intentional *** (and not malicious) to remain. No extra work is needed, to cause the "reversion" of the "reverted" edit, to still *cancel* the "insertion" of that edit.
- 03:3603:36, 30 August 2024 diff hist +1,514 Talk:Imperative programming →Different 'target', for a another wikilink: new section current Tag: New topic
- 02:3902:39, 30 August 2024 diff hist +17 Imperative programming →Rationale and foundations of imperative programming: Make a "partial improvement" ["P.I."] in the "non-" specific target for the wikilink that appears right after the words "... imperative languages, in addition, permit the", and right before [the next quoted phrase is only PART OF the rest of the sentence] the words "of complex expressions,". This "P.I." adds a "#fragment" suffix (namely, "#Computer_science") to point to a section [a partially specific part] of the destination article. current
29 August 2024
- 10:4110:41, 29 August 2024 diff hist +49 Climate change in Antarctica →Temperature and weather changes: insert a wikilink pointing to "Greenhouse effect#Negative greenhouse effect" in [the wikitext for] the caption of the diagram with 12 heat maps (one per month) named "File:Sejas 2018 Antarctica inversion.jpg", right where (the first word of) the phrase "negative greenhouse effect" was already appearing in the text of that caption. The last 2 words of that phrase were already a hyperlink so just 'linkify' the first word, (the word "negative"). current
28 August 2024
- 23:0923:09, 28 August 2024 diff hist +105 Ice sheet →Marine ice cliff instability: Update (correct) the answer to a "time interval" calculation -- (the number of years from 12,300 years B.P. to 11,200 B.P.) -- in the last sentence of the second paragraph of this section. The numbers (-12,300 and -11,200) were quoted correctly from the reliable source (the journal Nature, from Oct. of 2017) of footnote no. [43], but whoever tried to subtract those two numbers (to get the difference), made a mistake. The answer is 1100 years; not 900 years. current
- 05:3405:34, 28 August 2024 diff hist −1 HTTP →top: Change [the instance or "use" of] the word "obsolesce", to "obsolete" instead. Rationale: the word is used here as a transitive verb (a verb having a 'direct object'.) For some evidence that "obsolesce" is an intransitive verb, see [A.2] https://www.websters1913.com/words/Obsolesce ... to which there is a hyperlink from [A.1] wikt:obsolesce#Further_reading. For evidence that "obsolete" is a transitive verb, see (B.2 the MANY links from) [B.1] https://www.onelook.com/?w=obsolete
- 04:1904:19, 28 August 2024 diff hist +333 Talk:Gab (social network) →Boycotts after pay policy change: Ask whether this amount of 'waiting' [so far, roughly half a year] is enough time for us to "re-consider" the suggestion from "LonelyBoy2012 (talk)" of "03:16, 29 February 2024 (UTC)". That suggestion involved: adding a certain topic -- (so far, identified *only* by the URL of [what is probably] a reliable source) -- "to the history section". By the way, the list of "reliable sources", might be longer, now!
- 01:2701:27, 28 August 2024 diff hist +4 m HTTP →top: At the end of the first paragraph, insert a wikilink pointing to [the article about] "web browser", ... right at the exact place where the phrase "web browser" was already appearing -- (without any hyperlink) -- in the text of that paragraph.
- 01:1401:14, 28 August 2024 diff hist −1 m Web browser →top: UPDATE the sentence that used to say "In 2020, an estimated 4.9 billion people have used a browser.". Since that information is "as of" several years ago, it should be using some kind of past tense. I think this change (Changing "In 2020" to "By 2020", and changing "have used" to "had used"), counts as replacing an instance of the "present perfect" [tense], with an instance of the "past perfect"; or something like that; and it seems appropriate here, since ...the info is not "current".
25 August 2024
- 17:4117:41, 25 August 2024 diff hist +12 Berdychiv →top: In the sentence beginning with "The city has seen continued conflict" and ending with "sustained during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022." (which is now the last sentence of the lede in this article ... just before the start of the "Name" section), insert the word "[beginning]" -- in square brackets -- before "in 2022". Explanation: While the "Russian invasion of Ukraine" did begin in 2022, the resulting military conflict has continued for (a plural number of) years. current
22 August 2024
- 16:0816:08, 22 August 2024 diff hist +31 Steve Jobs →top: Add a wikilink cross-reference [linking] to [the article about] "Aldus Pagemaker" (in a parenthetical 'aside'), right after the place where the phrase "the desktop publishing industry in 1985" was already appearing in the text of the paragraph about the concept of -- and hence, [quote!], "the commercial potential of" -- inventing and mass-producing a very "easy-to-use" computer, including a "mouse", and having a "GUI".
- 15:0915:09, 22 August 2024 diff hist +1,287 Robert Friedland →All One Farm: Update (and correct ... e.g., the "title" in) footnote number "[6]" (i.e., the 'Isaacson' bio of Steve Jobs ... as in, 'Steve_Jobs_(book)'). Also, add some values for fields such as "publisher" and "isbn", and a "quote" field value that might seem long, but a lot was omitted from it. current
16 August 2024
- 15:1415:14, 16 August 2024 diff hist +120 m User talk:Mike Schwartz →Love the edit comments: ":duly noted." current
15 August 2024
- 23:0023:00, 15 August 2024 diff hist 0 Kamala Harris →Attorney General of California (2011–2017): Improve the correctness of the values of the "first [name]" and the "last [name]" fields, [in the "ref" tag] for footnote no. "[113]", by changing "first=Gordon|last=Larry" to "first=Larry|last=Gordon" instead. See the web page at https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porn-extortion-20140214-story.html [the value of the "url" field in that footnote] for clear evidence that "Larry" was the author's first name, ... NOT the author's last name.
14 August 2024
- 08:2308:23, 14 August 2024 diff hist −6 Clade →History of nomenclature and taxonomy: Correct (or, "improve") an ambiguous hyperlink, by replacing a wikilink that was (incorrectly, in a sense) pointing to, or "linking" to, a destination ("Cohort") that was a "disambiguation" page. In fact, before this edit, that wikilink was pointing to [the ambiguous page] "Cohort" *** via *** a page that is explicitly a disambiguation page: "Cohort (disambiguation)". Better: point (or, link) instead, to: "Cohort (taxonomy)".
- 07:1307:13, 14 August 2024 diff hist +106 Pileus (mycology) →the lede: Add some introductory info to orient the reader as to what we are talking about (especially given the fact that there are so many [sorta] "technical" terms, such as "basidiocarp" and "ascocarp", occurring right in the first sentence of this article, where it is trying to explain what the word "pileus" means.) The word "Mycology" does appear -- (in parentheses) -- in the title of this article, but the info added now also tells the reader what *that* word ["Mycology"] means. current
13 August 2024
- 18:4718:47, 13 August 2024 diff hist +1,062 Federal Prison Camp, Bryan →Notable inmates (current and former): Update the info in the "status" column, in the row (entry) for "Elizabeth Holmes". Also, add a COMMENT, near the "quote" field of the footnote -- (NOT displayed as part of this article ... not even in the footnote) -- stating that, clearly, "that 1000-year mistake [near "August 16"], *along with* the 9-year mistake [near "December 29"], are probably [both] TYPOs".
- 02:3002:30, 13 August 2024 diff hist +150 Heather Heying →top: Add an "archive-url" field (and value), and an "archive-date" field (and value), to the "ref" tag for footnote number "[2]". current
9 August 2024
- 05:0005:00, 9 August 2024 diff hist +123 Batya Friedman →top: Correct [or update] the value of the "title" field inside the "<ref>" tag for footnote number "[1]". The character string "iSchool Directory | Information School | University of Washington" might be associated in some way with that web page, (maybe even more so on [the 'access-date'] 2020-10-04 than ... more recently); but obviously, (as of Aug 2024), that web page is about "FACULTY > BATYA FRIEDMAN", so its "title" should be [more like] "Batya Friedman<br/>Professor<br/>batya@uw.edu". current
- 04:2104:21, 9 August 2024 diff hist +3 m Batya Friedman →top: RESTORE (or insert) a missing word ("of") (right after the word "School") in the name of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. Exhibit A of reliable evidence that the word "of" was left out (or deleted) 'BY MISTAKE' is: the S.R.P. ("search results page") https://www.google.com/search?q=the+Paul+G.+Allen+School+Computer+Science+and+Engineering not only adds that word ["of"] back in, but also: it does NOT even offer you the OPTION of insisting on 'no of' vs. 'of'!
7 August 2024
- 02:3602:36, 7 August 2024 diff hist 0 m Mount Tambora →Chronology of the eruption: Minor SPELLING correction ("stratispheric" --> "stratospheric"). For a reliable "source", see [e.g.], https://www.onelook.com/?w=stratispheric , which says (in part) [QUOTE] : (( "'''''Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the word stratispheric.''''' Did you mean: [https://www.onelook.com/?loc=dmapirel&w=stratospheric stratospheric]" )).
6 August 2024
- 06:0206:02, 6 August 2024 diff hist +821 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Suspected mistake: new section Tag: New topic
- 05:3505:35, 6 August 2024 diff hist +2,011 Talk:List of things named after Leonhard Euler →Suspected mistake ("finite" vs. "infinite"): new section Tag: New topic
- 03:3103:31, 6 August 2024 diff hist 0 Euler's formula →top: UPDATE the "For other uses" part of the "((about))" template instance to reflect [more] recent CHANGES, to the name of a certain section in the article "List of things named after Leonhard Euler", one section of which is supposed to be 'pointed to' by a part of that "((about))" template instance. Before this update, it was pointing to the "#Formulae" section of that article, which has apparently -- (since the last time that link worked as intended!) -- been renamed to "#Formulas". current
- 02:5402:54, 6 August 2024 diff hist +2,432 Talk:Brahmagupta–Fibonacci identity →suggestion: maybe call it "associativity" vs. "multiplicativity": new section Tag: New topic
4 August 2024
- 17:4917:49, 4 August 2024 diff hist 0 Birth name →Maiden and married names: Correct ("Consist" --> "Concise") a TYPO -- (or something; a word that was spelled wrong) in the "title" field of footnote number "[3]" -- a misspelling of the second word of the title Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage. This mistake might well have occurred due to a slip-up involving a not-very-intelligent *** "spell check" *** episode; ... how else to explain a mistake like this, which a human typist would be unlikely to insert "on his own"? current
- 17:2117:21, 4 August 2024 diff hist +3,360 Judy Blume Add a footnote ( <ref name="Rosenfield-Aug-3-2024"/> ) which quotes [see the "QUOTE" field] from an article (by Kat Rosenfield) about Blume's books -- and their relevance, and their obsolescence -- (OR lack thereof) -- and [Kat R.] takes issue, (to some extent), with the conclusions presented in a recent book (by author Rachelle Bergstein) called The Genius of Judy. Of course both Bergstein and Rosenfield (and Blume) are entitled to their opinions, but so are the readers of this article.
31 July 2024
- 08:1908:19, 31 July 2024 diff hist 0 Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 →Genetic structure: Break up a "run-on" sentence -- (it did not have a conjunction, such as "and", in the middle) -- by inserting a period (and a capital letter) to convert it into two ['normal'] sentences.
- 08:1508:15, 31 July 2024 diff hist +33 m Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 →Genetic structure: INSERT "((Main|H5N1 genetic structure))" at the top of this sub-section ("Genetic structure"). The idea for this update was prompted by seeing something on the "Talk:" page, in an entry ending with [the 'dot sig'] "Bob (talk) 20:03, 9 July 2024 (UTC)", where that entry said, in part, << "(Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable). There is an excellent page H5N1 genetic structure which does this. [...]" >>.
- 06:3906:39, 31 July 2024 diff hist +36 m Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 →top: In the ((Virusbox)) template instance (like an Infobox, near [actually, *in*] the top of this article), INSERT a new wikilink, as a cross-reference to [the article about] "Madin-Darby canine kidney cells", right at the exact place where the phrase "MDCK cells" was already appearing the text of [the value of] the "image_caption" field of that "((Virusbox))". Preserve (do not change) the fact that the phrase is still displayed as just "MDCK cells" (but: now it is underlined.)
30 July 2024
- 19:3619:36, 30 July 2024 diff hist +1,739 Talk:October 1979 →slight change (correction) to the wording: new section current Tag: New topic
29 July 2024
- 09:4209:42, 29 July 2024 diff hist +449 Shulchan Aruch →Study resources: Change the entry by the last bullet point, ('List [...] of Ladino words used by the Shulchan Aruch') to use a ((cite web)) template instance, and to include an "archive-url" field, along with some related fields such as "archive-date", and "| url-status = dead <!-- original URL does literally result in a "404 -- Not Found" error message -->".
24 July 2024
- 06:1906:19, 24 July 2024 diff hist +37 Dido →Name: To help clarify how to parse the sentence starting with "It is composed of", re-arrange the displayed rendering of the two noun phrases -- (which are "joined" by the conjunction word "and") -- that appear right after "It is composed of". Also, change << means "fire" >> to << meaning "fire" >>, and, in the sentence beginning with "Other works state [...]", insert one word ("that"), right after "Other works state".
15 July 2024
- 01:4001:40, 15 July 2024 diff hist −352 m Brooks Brothers riot "Merge" footnote number "[4]" (ref name="Gigot2") with footnote number "[1]" (ref name="Gigot") because they were identical. (They were 100% identical, including the "archive-url" and the "archive-date".) There were already 3 instances of footnote no. "[1]" ("Gigot"), and there was one instance of footnote no. "[4]" ("Gigot2").
12 July 2024
- 14:0514:05, 12 July 2024 diff hist +39 Nigga →Notes: Add a wikilink cross-reference in the explanatory Note labeled "[a]", pointing (or 'linking') to "intrusive r", that is, the "IntrusiveR" section of [the article about] "Linking and intrusive R", right at the one place where the phrase "intrusive r" was already appearing (without a hyperlink) in the text of Note "[a]". Retain the lack of capitalization (and all other aspects of the way "intrusive r" is displayed), the same as before.
- 03:1403:14, 12 July 2024 diff hist +3,698 Talk:Copenhagen Consensus →A sentence that seems to have some 'room for improvement': new section current Tag: New topic
10 July 2024
- 22:0022:00, 10 July 2024 diff hist +29 Lewis F. Powell Jr. →top: Add a wikilink -- (pointing or "linking" to the "#Powell Memorandum, 1971" section of the article) -- right where a sentence mentioning the phrase "1971 Powell Memorandum" was already appearing in the text of the "lede" part of this article. Retain the previously chosen (*displayed*) word order, in accordance with which the year -- ("1971") -- is still displayed before the words "Powell Memorandum".
- 17:3517:35, 10 July 2024 diff hist +70 Shtetl →top: Modify the caption of the first image in this article, to clarify that this image is (a picture of) a painting of a wedding, (as opposed to: a photograph of an actual wedding). Also move the ["artist's credit"] name, "Isaak Asknaziy", closer to the word "painting", to clarify that it is the painting (and not the photograph thereof) that [dates from 1893, and] is being credited to Isaak Asknaziy. Also, add a wikilink cross-reference.
3 July 2024
- 22:5522:55, 3 July 2024 diff hist +2,151 Talk:VITAS Healthcare →Currently the (Wikipedia) page "Chemed Corporation" does not exist: new section current Tag: New topic
- 14:4214:42, 3 July 2024 diff hist −16 CCH (company) →History: CLARIFY the meaning of a needlessly ambiguous phrase ("the company") by instead using the unambiguous proper name "CCH", near the end of the 2nd paragraph of this section, and again near the beginning of the 3rd paragraph. In light of the fact that a recently mentioned "company" (in the 2nd paragraph) was a different company -- namely, "the publisher Facts on File" -- some readers might find this more specific (and unambiguous) name to be better. The name CCH is also shorter. current
30 June 2024
- 21:1721:17, 30 June 2024 diff hist +23 Tri-state area →Northeast: CLARIFY the last two words ("the state") of the first bullet point, by modifying (adding to) what was previously a potentially ambiguous phrase. Even though the placement of the word "sometimes" may have been 'intended' to lessen the potential ambiguity, IMHO there is no substitute for saying what you mean... especially since a total of FOUR states, (including PA), got mentioned in this bullet point ...so in a way it's almost like a "QUAD" state area. No harm adding "of PA" here.
27 June 2024
- 03:3803:38, 27 June 2024 diff hist +241 Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski →Biography: Correct the value of the "title" field in the "ref" tag for footnote number "[5]". Also, add a "date" field, and some new fields such as "archive-url" and "archive-date", etc., due to a "url-status = dead" situation. (Actually, the "url" field value ... [when 'dereferenced'] ... does not exactly give a "404 Not Found" [error message]; but it also does not give the "intended" ['reliable source'] web page ... which there are plenty of clues about, at the newly added "archive-url".)
26 June 2024
- 23:5923:59, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,244 Talk:Classical language →TYPO -- but it comes straight from Sapir's book: new section Tag: New topic
24 June 2024
- 15:5015:50, 24 June 2024 diff hist +4 Carlos Chagas →Early life and education: CORRECT the word right before "San Antonio", in order to more accurately reflect what IT SAYS (on page 227) in the reliable source "linked to" by the footnote. When the incorrect word ("in") was there, in that sentence -- (instead of the word "called") -- it could cause some readers to think that "San Antonio" might be the name of a city. What the linked source actually SAYS, is: [quote]: "to transfer Carlos to San Antonio, another religious school closer to home."
21 June 2024
- 21:4921:49, 21 June 2024 diff hist +2,182 User talk:David Eppstein →Revert of an "example": new section Tag: New topic
- 21:1621:16, 21 June 2024 diff hist +42 m Double factorial →top: ADD an "|authorlink=Donald Knuth" field to the "((Cite book))" template instance for footnote number "[6]". Also, include a wikilink pointing to the same article -- (the article about] "Donald Knuth") -- right where the [surname only] name "Knuth" was already appearing -- (without any hyperlink) -- in the same sentence.
- 20:5620:56, 21 June 2024 diff hist +25 Half-integer →References: ADD a new section, called "Notes", containing [only] the template instance "((Notelist))". The need for this was indicated by an "ERROR MESSAGE" that appeared AFTER (but NOT "during") the previous edit ... and the wording of that "ERROR MESSAGE" was [something like]: "Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or ((efn)) templates on this page, but the references will not show without a ((reflist|group=lower-alpha)) template or ((notelist)) template (see the help page)." Tag: Reverted
- 20:4720:47, 21 June 2024 diff hist +1,884 Half-integer →top: Add an explanatory footnote, giving an example that illustrates how the term "half-odd-integer" can be -- (and sometimes, should be) -- used in a context where it is appropriate (and maybe even necessary) to avoid the use of the [potentially confusing] term "half-integer". Tag: Reverted
