8 May 2024
- 11:1711:17, 8 May 2024 diff hist −37 Religion in Indonesia →History: The name of the prophet is Zaratustra in Indonesian, as it is in Hindi and other Indian languages. In the past it was commonly written Zarathustra by western scholars, e.g. in Nietzsche’s work. In German this would, of course be pronounced with a “t”, not with the sibilant English “th”. The Wikipedia article, however, insists that it was prounounced Zarathustra with a sibilant “the”. The form “Zoroaster” is the Greek form of the name, and appears to be a transliteration. I... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
4 January 2024
- 12:1212:12, 4 January 2024 diff hist +1 Sarju →Etymology: Corrected errors. I cannot give a lesson in Sanskrit in this space, but you can verify the meanings given in any of the Sanskrit dictionaries at https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/, and the derivation at https://sanskrit.inria.fr/cgi-bin/SKT/sktlemmatizer.cgi?lex=SH&q=sarayu%3A&t=VH&c=Noun. The verb सार्, sār, a variation of शार्, shār, means to be weak or to weaken. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 11:4011:40, 4 January 2024 diff hist +1 Sarasvati River →As a river: Inserted full stop. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 09:0309:03, 4 January 2024 diff hist −354 Incheon Airport Maglev →Past research: This is nonsense. Google “energy efficiency of maglev” and you will get page after page emphasising the relatively higher efficiency of maglev compared to wheels. BUT this is always in the case of high-speed maglev, where the reduction of rolling friction will greatly exceed the energy required to keep the vehicle suspended (where rolling friction includes the loss of energy through “hunting”, or yawing as it is called in a ship). That said at LOW SPEED in an urban magl... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
17 November 2023
- 00:1200:12, 17 November 2023 diff hist +1 m LGBT rights in the State of Palestine →Legal status and criminal law Tag: Reverted
14 November 2023
- 21:3921:39, 14 November 2023 diff hist −18 Geography of antisemitism →India: I removed a duplicate reference to the inquisition in the Portuguese colonies and a spurious reference to Spain, which has never had colonies in India. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
21 October 2023
- 05:1605:16, 21 October 2023 diff hist −1 Black people No edit summary
- 05:1605:16, 21 October 2023 diff hist +3 m Black people No edit summary
- 04:3604:36, 21 October 2023 diff hist +593 Black people Correcting and expanding on terminology in Australia
16 September 2023
- 12:3012:30, 16 September 2023 diff hist −130 Cave hyena →Diet: The propositions that a Cave Hyena would have chosen to avoid certain prey in order to lessen competition with another species is an anthropomorphism. It doesn’t really sound plausible that a predator would avoid taking one particular species of prey in the hope that another predator would reciprocate to show its appreciation. The opposite seems rather more likely. Under the circumstances, it seems appropriate to delete this unsourced proposition, in accordance with Wikipedia prot... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 10:4010:40, 16 September 2023 diff hist +5 Cave hyena →Diet: I rewrote the sentence in more idiomatic English. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 10:1310:13, 16 September 2023 diff hist −8 Dire wolf →DNA evidence: The original was exactly wrong. I quote from the Wikipedia article on Cladistics. “ Cladistics (/kləˈdɪstɪks/; from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos) 'branch')[1] is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry. ” Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
13 September 2023
- 18:1418:14, 13 September 2023 diff hist +1 Largest prehistoric animals The beast went extinct at the start of the Holocene. The weight has therefore never been recorded. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
11 September 2023
- 19:0219:02, 11 September 2023 diff hist +28 American lion I restructured the sentence to achieve both clarity and better, more idiomatic, English. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
25 August 2023
- 11:5311:53, 25 August 2023 diff hist −9 m Islamization of Jerusalem I edited for style, replacing unidiomatic expressions with more appropriate ones. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
16 April 2023
- 21:5621:56, 16 April 2023 diff hist +1,530 Talk:Jewish land purchase in Palestine →Citation: Reply Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit Reply
- 21:1021:10, 16 April 2023 diff hist +5 Paraphilia I moved the link to Wilhelm Stekel to the first mention. I then added in John Money’s given name for symmetry. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
13 April 2023
- 04:2704:27, 13 April 2023 diff hist +16 Jewish land purchase in Palestine →Land purchases: Left this name out of earlier edit. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 04:1904:19, 13 April 2023 diff hist +839 Jewish land purchase in Palestine This passage is reliably sourced from a prominent widely-published Palestinian-American Academic, who would have been able to speak to people who were alive under the Ottoman Empire. It provides an extremely plausible alternative explanation compared to the unsourced paragraph immediately above. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 03:5103:51, 13 April 2023 diff hist +74 Jewish land purchase in Palestine These passages are unsourced, and I challenge their veracity. “Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations, anywhere in article space.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources I will accordingly delete these passages if no citations are provided. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
10 April 2023
- 22:0822:08, 10 April 2023 diff hist +1 Białowieża Forest Deleted derogatory term while increasing precision. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 22:0622:06, 10 April 2023 diff hist −3 Białowieża Forest Removed derogatory term for farmer while clarifying. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 06:0806:08, 10 April 2023 diff hist +47 Muhammad Ali Jinnah Clarification Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 06:0606:06, 10 April 2023 diff hist +107 Muhammad Ali Jinnah Clarification Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 05:3805:38, 10 April 2023 diff hist +11 m B. R. Ambedkar Improved the sentence Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
9 April 2023
- 22:4322:43, 9 April 2023 diff hist −12 m Canaan Fix sentence structure Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
25 March 2023
- 03:3603:36, 25 March 2023 diff hist −33 m Bhagat No edit summary Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 03:3503:35, 25 March 2023 diff hist −144 Bhagat Deleted a statement which is unsourced and not relevant to the article. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 03:3403:34, 25 March 2023 diff hist −160 Bhagat Deleted an unsourced assertion. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 03:3303:33, 25 March 2023 diff hist +54 Bhagat Corrected translation based on dictionaries. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 03:2403:24, 25 March 2023 diff hist +172 Bhagat Corrected Sanskrit etymology in conformity with a dictionary source. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
12 March 2023
- 18:1718:17, 12 March 2023 diff hist +14 m Lindsay Shepherd Please refer to description in previous edit. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 18:1218:12, 12 March 2023 diff hist 0 Lindsay Shepherd Reversed previous edit. The sentence is a direct quote. Tags: Manual revert Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 18:0418:04, 12 March 2023 diff hist 0 Lindsay Shepherd →Class: The use of a hyphen in “left-wing” is an egregious solecism. This form is appropriate when the two words taken together are used attributively as an adjective. It is inappropriate in this case, where “wing” is a noun qualified by the adjective “left”. Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
26 June 2022
- 00:3200:32, 26 June 2022 diff hist +9 Szlachta →Etymology: This is the etymology provided by dictionaries (check Wiktionary, which is easily accessible). It corresponds to the terms used in East Slavic languages. In accordance with the pattern of the other words in the paragraph, I have not included a reference, and I think that none is required for any of them. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
18 April 2022
- 08:0608:06, 18 April 2022 diff hist −2 m Rigvedic rivers No edit summary
- 08:0308:03, 18 April 2022 diff hist +8 Rigvedic rivers Macdonnel, Apte and Monier-Williams Dictionaries all give the meanings of river, ocean, water body, first, then the Indus River second as a secondary meaning. As Sapta Sindhu (in the nominative case in accordance with English scholarly convention) ) is the name of the country in Sanskrit as well as the rivers, it is more appointment to translate Sindhu as the Indus.
- 07:4507:45, 18 April 2022 diff hist +104 Rigvedic rivers This is NOT a different word, or a variant. This is an important point because of the great confusion amongst speakers of languages, such as English, which lack case endings. The general practice in English is to use the nominative cas, regardless of the appropriate case ending in languages which have this.
23 January 2022
- 01:0201:02, 23 January 2022 diff hist −33 Taxila From शिला, 11. f. (perhaps connected with √1. शि) a stone, rock, crag AV. &c; तक्ष, mfn. "cutting through" see तपस्-, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
7 September 2021
- 19:2719:27, 7 September 2021 diff hist −160 Madeira →Climate: This makes no sense at all. African air masses may affect the climate, but what could the connection be with presence of zinc and calcium fluoride? This looks like a the remnants of two different thoughts.
2 August 2021
- 20:3020:30, 2 August 2021 diff hist +23 Israeli land and property laws →History: I replaced “peasant” with “farmer”, “subsistence farmer” and “tenant farmer” according to the context. The term peasant is a gratuitous insult to poor farmers, comparable to an ethnic or racial slur.
- 19:4819:48, 2 August 2021 diff hist −429 Israeli land and property laws →Land (Acquisition for Public Purposes) Ordinance (1943): The comment is from a magazine article, which is no longer at the web site cited. This is quite inadequate as a source when one can refer to the actual law. urce
26 July 2021
- 12:1412:14, 26 July 2021 diff hist −136 0 →Etymology: The reference provided, Dictionary.com, gives the definition “ noun: anything whatever; any part: for aught I know; adverb: Archaic. in any degree; at all; in any respect. This is the opposite of what the text said.
- 09:4809:48, 26 July 2021 diff hist +10 Janapada →Administration: “Paura” is the regular adjective derived from “pura”, meaning pertaining to a city. For the sentence to make sense it must be “Paura Sabha”.
17 April 2021
- 04:3704:37, 17 April 2021 diff hist −2 Pleistocene rewilding →Considered for reintroduction
- 04:3704:37, 17 April 2021 diff hist +3 Pleistocene rewilding →Asia
8 March 2021
- 01:4701:47, 8 March 2021 diff hist +148 Gotra I say “a couple consisting of” because son and mother are joined in the form of a dvandva compound, therefore meaning “son and daughter-in-law”.
- 01:1601:16, 8 March 2021 diff hist −25 Gotra One cannot define anything other than a grammatical concept “for grammatical purposes”. I note that no reference is given to support this. Nor would one expect the world’s first, and in the view of many, still the greatest to hame made such an error. If you want to revert this, you must supply a sound reference, i.e. a quote from Panini.
10 December 2020
- 06:5506:55, 10 December 2020 diff hist −3 Surnames by country →Scandinavia: corrected erroneous Danish form
8 November 2020
- 02:2702:27, 8 November 2020 diff hist −163 List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin I eliminated an unsubstantiated statement. The reference provided to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is a broken link. I checked three Sanskrit dictionaries: Aptes, Monier-Williams and McDonell. None of them included the meaning cake for पुर.
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