18:3518:35, 14 May 2024diffhist+4
Christopher Columbus
This has been discussed repeatedly. The majority opinion of mainstream scholarship is that the abuses do not constitute “genocide”.
17:0017:00, 14 May 2024diffhist+559
Archytas
The 200 meters is spurious. The new text is the entirety of ancient sources that we have on the topic.
16:0716:07, 14 May 2024diffhist−347
Archytas
Clarified student/teacher status. Deleted irrelevant citations: Aulus Gellius is the sole mention of the pigeon from ancient sources.
16:5116:51, 12 May 2024diffhist−528
Archytas
Unreliable source: The account given is nationalistic puffery that does not source its content and gives an impossible date (425) for Archytas’s feat, making Archytas 3 years old at the time. While the dates of Archytas’s life are unknown, confidently given any specific date for the event signals unreliability.
16:4616:46, 12 May 2024diffhist−176
Archytas
Unreliable source: This is a highly synthesized, unscholarly account that assigns a date (300 BC) well outside the range of dates given by reliable sources for Archytas’s life and adopts a tendentious interpretation of steam power, which does not appear in any primary source.
15:0515:05, 15 April 2024diffhist−129
Geoid
Confusing to say “at sea level” when that’s what the geoid is. Deleted unclear clarification.
13 April 2024
23:4523:45, 13 April 2024diffhist−546
Dire wolf
Deleted WP:OR while recognizing that a single mandible analyzed by a single team does not meet the burden of proof to constitute a fact.
21:2321:23, 11 April 2024diffhist−2
Hare
Unless you are an uncivil “idit” (as you wrote), “comprises” means what the dictionary says: “Comprise… can also mean ‘constitute or make up a whole’, as in ‘this single breed comprises 50 per cent of the Swiss cattle population’.” It is meaningful to note that the four species make up the entirety of the genus. Undid revision 1218373892 by Khajidha (talk)Tags: UndoReverted