06:0906:09, 8 January 2022diffhist+17
Lavender Scare
→History: Changed "and was accused of being" (a closeted homosexual) to "and, ironically, is believed to have been" for two reasons. First, "was accused" may confuse the reader by creating the impression that McCarthy hired Cohn despite contemporaneous claims that Cohn was homosexual. Second, the edit eliminates the implication that homosexuality is an offense; though it was indeed regarded as an offense at the time, that's not a position for us to take editorially today.
03:1003:10, 2 May 2021diffhist+20
Vincent van Gogh
→Death: Given that the auction house acknowledged it could not guarantee that the Lefaucheux it sold was the weapon used, and that experts say it will never be certain, to maintain neutrality on the question we should clarify that "it is believed" that this was the weapon used.
03:0803:08, 2 May 2021diffhist+20
Vincent van Gogh
Given that the auction house acknowledged it could not guarantee that the Lefaucheux it sold was the weapon used, and that experts say it will never be certain, to maintain neutrality on the question we should clarify that "it is believed" that this was the weapon used.
02:5602:56, 2 May 2021diffhist+20
Death of Vincent van Gogh
I understand that the prevailing theory is that Van Gogh shot himself, and that a minority theory, presented in this article, holds that he did not. Assuming that Wikipedia editors can't be expected to take a position on whether the majority theory is irrefutable or the minority theory is plausible, I think our most neutral course is to present the majority theory here (he shot himself) with the caveat "presumed."
02:4302:43, 2 May 2021diffhist−7
Death of Vincent van Gogh
Cleared up a bit of potentially confusing chronology. Rather than follow a sentence about his July 29 death with the statement that "he shot himself and died two days later," perhaps leaving some readers to briefly wonder how he could die on July 31 if he had already died on July 29, let's say that his July 29 death resulted from his having been shot "two days earlier."
21:0121:01, 25 April 2021diffhist0
Henry Haight
Reordered the descriptions of the ends of Haight Street to read from west to east (a more natural arrangement for left-to-right readers).
21:3521:35, 14 April 2020diffhist−19
Maggie Gyllenhaal
→2006–09: Undid insertion of "[sic]" notation after "dire straights" and corrected to "dire straits." Per /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotations, "trivial spelling and typographic errors should simply be corrected without comment... unless the slip is textually important."
06:0206:02, 7 July 2019diffhist+408
Ages of consent in North America
In the "History of the Canadian age of consent" section I expanded and added citations to the description of the status of anal intercourse, and I updated that description to reflect the change in that status resulting from the June 2019 passage of Bill C-75.
05:3005:30, 7 July 2019diffhist−2,175
Ages of consent in North America
Removed brief (three-sentence) section titled "Anal intercourse in Canada," which was relevant to this article prior to the June 2019 repeal of a Canadian law that criminalized anal intercourse for persons under the age of 18, but which was irrelevant and potentially confusing subsequent to that. This deletion also eliminates a redundancy; the law in question is mentioned in this article in the section titled "History of the Canadian age of consent."
06:0906:09, 8 January 2022diffhist+17
Lavender Scare
→History: Changed "and was accused of being" (a closeted homosexual) to "and, ironically, is believed to have been" for two reasons. First, "was accused" may confuse the reader by creating the impression that McCarthy hired Cohn despite contemporaneous claims that Cohn was homosexual. Second, the edit eliminates the implication that homosexuality is an offense; though it was indeed regarded as an offense at the time, that's not a position for us to take editorially today.
03:1003:10, 2 May 2021diffhist+20
Vincent van Gogh
→Death: Given that the auction house acknowledged it could not guarantee that the Lefaucheux it sold was the weapon used, and that experts say it will never be certain, to maintain neutrality on the question we should clarify that "it is believed" that this was the weapon used.
03:0803:08, 2 May 2021diffhist+20
Vincent van Gogh
Given that the auction house acknowledged it could not guarantee that the Lefaucheux it sold was the weapon used, and that experts say it will never be certain, to maintain neutrality on the question we should clarify that "it is believed" that this was the weapon used.
02:5602:56, 2 May 2021diffhist+20
Death of Vincent van Gogh
I understand that the prevailing theory is that Van Gogh shot himself, and that a minority theory, presented in this article, holds that he did not. Assuming that Wikipedia editors can't be expected to take a position on whether the majority theory is irrefutable or the minority theory is plausible, I think our most neutral course is to present the majority theory here (he shot himself) with the caveat "presumed."
02:4302:43, 2 May 2021diffhist−7
Death of Vincent van Gogh
Cleared up a bit of potentially confusing chronology. Rather than follow a sentence about his July 29 death with the statement that "he shot himself and died two days later," perhaps leaving some readers to briefly wonder how he could die on July 31 if he had already died on July 29, let's say that his July 29 death resulted from his having been shot "two days earlier."
21:0121:01, 25 April 2021diffhist0
Henry Haight
Reordered the descriptions of the ends of Haight Street to read from west to east (a more natural arrangement for left-to-right readers).
21:3521:35, 14 April 2020diffhist−19
Maggie Gyllenhaal
→2006–09: Undid insertion of "[sic]" notation after "dire straights" and corrected to "dire straits." Per /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotations, "trivial spelling and typographic errors should simply be corrected without comment... unless the slip is textually important."
06:0206:02, 7 July 2019diffhist+408
Ages of consent in North America
In the "History of the Canadian age of consent" section I expanded and added citations to the description of the status of anal intercourse, and I updated that description to reflect the change in that status resulting from the June 2019 passage of Bill C-75.
05:3005:30, 7 July 2019diffhist−2,175
Ages of consent in North America
Removed brief (three-sentence) section titled "Anal intercourse in Canada," which was relevant to this article prior to the June 2019 repeal of a Canadian law that criminalized anal intercourse for persons under the age of 18, but which was irrelevant and potentially confusing subsequent to that. This deletion also eliminates a redundancy; the law in question is mentioned in this article in the section titled "History of the Canadian age of consent."