19:1619:16, 22 May 2017diffhist−35
Cassino (card game)
rmv obviously false (and unsupported) stmnt re It/Am immigrants: it was treated as familiar by Jane Austen in rural England (P&P, ch 29: "Miss de Bourgh chose to play at cassino") in 1813—long before large-scale It/Am immigration
01:2701:27, 18 May 2017diffhist−6
RG-6
rmv
weaselly "quite" from "generic"—if the genericness is not completete, then its limitations must be specified, not hinted at
10:2910:29, 16 May 2017diffhist−4
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
rmv inappropriate quotation marks from straightforward terms that are not quotations, not words-used-as-words, do not merit
scare quotes, and have no other reason to be enclosed in quotation marks except in some editor's mind
18:5918:59, 14 May 2017diffhist−85
Gloria Swanson
→Early years: rmv unencyclopedic and inane editorialzing ("one would hardly believe Swanson was barely five feet tall"); rmv "unfortunately" per
WP:OPED: "Wikipedia should not take a view as to whether an event was fortunate or not"
03:1603:16, 13 May 2017diffhist−401
John Getz
→Career: ce; prune more puffery and irrelevant details (like wearing a beard in a particular role—again, this isn't a fan mag)
02:5202:52, 13 May 2017diffhist+24
John Getz
→Career: prune much empty and inappropriately biased editorializing about failed TV series; cn for 10pm Monday as "graveyard slot"; rmv errant comma, quotes from another character name
02:3602:36, 13 May 2017diffhist−131
John Getz
→Career: prune unnecessary verbosity, puffery, and irrelevant details about other actors (this is an encyclopedia, not a fan magazine); rmv inappropriate quotation marks from character name; rplc colloquial "moved on" w/ "then moved"
19:1619:16, 22 May 2017diffhist−35
Cassino (card game)
rmv obviously false (and unsupported) stmnt re It/Am immigrants: it was treated as familiar by Jane Austen in rural England (P&P, ch 29: "Miss de Bourgh chose to play at cassino") in 1813—long before large-scale It/Am immigration
01:2701:27, 18 May 2017diffhist−6
RG-6
rmv
weaselly "quite" from "generic"—if the genericness is not completete, then its limitations must be specified, not hinted at
10:2910:29, 16 May 2017diffhist−4
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
rmv inappropriate quotation marks from straightforward terms that are not quotations, not words-used-as-words, do not merit
scare quotes, and have no other reason to be enclosed in quotation marks except in some editor's mind
18:5918:59, 14 May 2017diffhist−85
Gloria Swanson
→Early years: rmv unencyclopedic and inane editorialzing ("one would hardly believe Swanson was barely five feet tall"); rmv "unfortunately" per
WP:OPED: "Wikipedia should not take a view as to whether an event was fortunate or not"
03:1603:16, 13 May 2017diffhist−401
John Getz
→Career: ce; prune more puffery and irrelevant details (like wearing a beard in a particular role—again, this isn't a fan mag)
02:5202:52, 13 May 2017diffhist+24
John Getz
→Career: prune much empty and inappropriately biased editorializing about failed TV series; cn for 10pm Monday as "graveyard slot"; rmv errant comma, quotes from another character name
02:3602:36, 13 May 2017diffhist−131
John Getz
→Career: prune unnecessary verbosity, puffery, and irrelevant details about other actors (this is an encyclopedia, not a fan magazine); rmv inappropriate quotation marks from character name; rplc colloquial "moved on" w/ "then moved"