16:2516:25, 14 July 2022diffhist+36
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Madhyamaka
Restored some missing diacritical marks -- more should be checked and corrected! -- and removed inconsistency in the article's use of Sanskrit "sutra" vs. Pali "sutra". The Pali text titles may use "sutra," but the article is written in English and should use one English word throughout. "Sutra" is the most widely used form in English.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
16:0316:03, 14 July 2022diffhist+71
Madhyamaka
Expanded an unexplained abbreviation ("MMK"), corrected punctuation, slight stylistic improvementsTags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
15:5615:56, 14 July 2022diffhist+15
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Madhyamaka
Corrected missing diacritical marks on Sanskrit name; smoothed out awkwardness caused by the overuse of "he states" and other infelicities.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
15:4615:46, 14 July 2022diffhist+491
Madhyamaka
Deleted bracketed interpolations in a block quotation that made the quotation much harder to understand, in part by referring to a doctrine of "links" that the article had not yet explained but seemed to be taking for granted. The interpolated brackets had also sharply (and in my view not just unnecessarily but also incorrectly) narrowed Nâgârjuna's meaning. After this, clarity also required adding in a few explanatory phrases to follow and elucidate the quotation more helpfully.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
15:1415:14, 14 July 2022diffhist−7
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Madhyamaka
Cleaned up punctuation and streamlined style (e.g., the overreliance on the clumsy phrase "he states that" to introduce quotation after quotation, when a colon does the trick better).Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
22:0222:02, 8 June 2021diffhist+37
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Bronze Age
The dates of the Age should be spelled out at the top of the article, not withheld till several paragraphs in.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
01:2601:26, 5 June 2021diffhist+8
Talk:Julian of Norwich
The article is by no means “good,” and I am startled that it could be thought good. It needs to be stringently edited for clarity and focus, by someone other than those who wrote it. I am not the one to assess its accuracy or neutrality, even, but I do know when work by an inexperienced writer really needs the hand of a seasoned writer/editor. My sense is also that the balance given to different topics needs rectifying if it is to become a good article. For example, opening with a leng...Tags: Mobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
20:0920:09, 18 February 2021diffhist+388
Das Lied von der Erde
Added a reference that in an earlier edit summary I'd said I didn't know how to add (thank you, visual editing!). Also, I added the publication dates to Judith Gautier's volume (source was https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Gautier),Tag: Visual edit
19:5219:52, 18 February 2021diffhist+12
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Das Lied von der Erde
→History: Just incorporating into the summary, for accuracy, the fact that the poems are multiply removed from Chinese -- Bethge freely adapted Heilmann's German version, but Heilmann knew no Chinese and merely translated from the French of two other writers, one of whom (Gautier) had herself taken many liberties and made many errors. See doi:10.2307/746721 (and my other proposed edits to this page).
19:2819:28, 18 February 2021diffhist+17
Das Lied von der Erde
There was a mistranslation from the German page & a misspelling. I also filled in more information from a peer-reviewed source (but I don't know how to insert references). The source is: Hamao, Fusako. "The Sources of the Texts in Mahler's "Lied Von Der Erde"." 19th-Century Music 19, no. 1 (1995). Cf. [de]: "Bethge hatte ... Heilmanns deutsche Übersetzungen der französischen Übersetzungen ... frei nachgedichtet" means "Bethge had freely adapted Heilmann's German translations of French versions."
18:1818:18, 18 February 2021diffhist+10
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Hans Bethge (poet)
Corrected a mistranslation (from the German Wikipedia entry): "Der Bildhauer Wilhelm Lehmbruck, dessen Genie Bethge früh erkannte, hat ihn mehrfach porträtiert" means that Bethge recognied Lehmbruck's genius, not the reverse. The correction also removes the false impression that the English entry is tainted by advocacy, praising Bethge as a "genius".
07:5707:57, 4 August 2020diffhist+1,687
Standard German
This article is still a mess, a mix of accurate facts and uninformed opinions, as also of good clear writing and other passages that look to me to be the work of a decidedly inexperienced writer. I don't have time to provide all the references for the bits I rewrote, but the related wiki articles are generally accurate and should be consulted carefully by anyone working on this entry henceforth.
05:3905:39, 4 August 2020diffhist+8,901
Talk:Standard German
This entry suffers from a lack of attention by qualified linguists, with too much armchair reasoning that misleads or is simply wrong. I just added a lengthy rejoinder to the most obvious error, namely the implication that standard German originates from Northern German dialects.
00:4800:48, 8 July 2019diffhist+782
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Talk:Simbari people
just commenting on the need for more info, ideally more sources (both are by one person), and above all a more neutral and less biased style.
02:2302:23, 16 July 2015diffhist−374
Deutsches Wörterbuch
→New edition: I used material from the German entry on this subject and from the relevant websites of the research teams in Berlin and Göttingen, as well as news articles, to update.
03:1403:14, 25 April 2015diffhist+4
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Shawn Mendes
The previous writer did not know that "notoriety" only means negative attention, and so was the wrong word to use here.
16:2516:25, 14 July 2022diffhist+36
m
Madhyamaka
Restored some missing diacritical marks -- more should be checked and corrected! -- and removed inconsistency in the article's use of Sanskrit "sutra" vs. Pali "sutra". The Pali text titles may use "sutra," but the article is written in English and should use one English word throughout. "Sutra" is the most widely used form in English.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
16:0316:03, 14 July 2022diffhist+71
Madhyamaka
Expanded an unexplained abbreviation ("MMK"), corrected punctuation, slight stylistic improvementsTags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
15:5615:56, 14 July 2022diffhist+15
m
Madhyamaka
Corrected missing diacritical marks on Sanskrit name; smoothed out awkwardness caused by the overuse of "he states" and other infelicities.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
15:4615:46, 14 July 2022diffhist+491
Madhyamaka
Deleted bracketed interpolations in a block quotation that made the quotation much harder to understand, in part by referring to a doctrine of "links" that the article had not yet explained but seemed to be taking for granted. The interpolated brackets had also sharply (and in my view not just unnecessarily but also incorrectly) narrowed Nâgârjuna's meaning. After this, clarity also required adding in a few explanatory phrases to follow and elucidate the quotation more helpfully.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
15:1415:14, 14 July 2022diffhist−7
m
Madhyamaka
Cleaned up punctuation and streamlined style (e.g., the overreliance on the clumsy phrase "he states that" to introduce quotation after quotation, when a colon does the trick better).Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
22:0222:02, 8 June 2021diffhist+37
m
Bronze Age
The dates of the Age should be spelled out at the top of the article, not withheld till several paragraphs in.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
01:2601:26, 5 June 2021diffhist+8
Talk:Julian of Norwich
The article is by no means “good,” and I am startled that it could be thought good. It needs to be stringently edited for clarity and focus, by someone other than those who wrote it. I am not the one to assess its accuracy or neutrality, even, but I do know when work by an inexperienced writer really needs the hand of a seasoned writer/editor. My sense is also that the balance given to different topics needs rectifying if it is to become a good article. For example, opening with a leng...Tags: Mobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
20:0920:09, 18 February 2021diffhist+388
Das Lied von der Erde
Added a reference that in an earlier edit summary I'd said I didn't know how to add (thank you, visual editing!). Also, I added the publication dates to Judith Gautier's volume (source was https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Gautier),Tag: Visual edit
19:5219:52, 18 February 2021diffhist+12
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Das Lied von der Erde
→History: Just incorporating into the summary, for accuracy, the fact that the poems are multiply removed from Chinese -- Bethge freely adapted Heilmann's German version, but Heilmann knew no Chinese and merely translated from the French of two other writers, one of whom (Gautier) had herself taken many liberties and made many errors. See doi:10.2307/746721 (and my other proposed edits to this page).
19:2819:28, 18 February 2021diffhist+17
Das Lied von der Erde
There was a mistranslation from the German page & a misspelling. I also filled in more information from a peer-reviewed source (but I don't know how to insert references). The source is: Hamao, Fusako. "The Sources of the Texts in Mahler's "Lied Von Der Erde"." 19th-Century Music 19, no. 1 (1995). Cf. [de]: "Bethge hatte ... Heilmanns deutsche Übersetzungen der französischen Übersetzungen ... frei nachgedichtet" means "Bethge had freely adapted Heilmann's German translations of French versions."
18:1818:18, 18 February 2021diffhist+10
m
Hans Bethge (poet)
Corrected a mistranslation (from the German Wikipedia entry): "Der Bildhauer Wilhelm Lehmbruck, dessen Genie Bethge früh erkannte, hat ihn mehrfach porträtiert" means that Bethge recognied Lehmbruck's genius, not the reverse. The correction also removes the false impression that the English entry is tainted by advocacy, praising Bethge as a "genius".
07:5707:57, 4 August 2020diffhist+1,687
Standard German
This article is still a mess, a mix of accurate facts and uninformed opinions, as also of good clear writing and other passages that look to me to be the work of a decidedly inexperienced writer. I don't have time to provide all the references for the bits I rewrote, but the related wiki articles are generally accurate and should be consulted carefully by anyone working on this entry henceforth.
05:3905:39, 4 August 2020diffhist+8,901
Talk:Standard German
This entry suffers from a lack of attention by qualified linguists, with too much armchair reasoning that misleads or is simply wrong. I just added a lengthy rejoinder to the most obvious error, namely the implication that standard German originates from Northern German dialects.
00:4800:48, 8 July 2019diffhist+782
m
Talk:Simbari people
just commenting on the need for more info, ideally more sources (both are by one person), and above all a more neutral and less biased style.
02:2302:23, 16 July 2015diffhist−374
Deutsches Wörterbuch
→New edition: I used material from the German entry on this subject and from the relevant websites of the research teams in Berlin and Göttingen, as well as news articles, to update.
03:1403:14, 25 April 2015diffhist+4
m
Shawn Mendes
The previous writer did not know that "notoriety" only means negative attention, and so was the wrong word to use here.