A user with 33 edits. Account created on 18 September 2020.
28 February 2022
- 21:17 21:17, 28 February 2022 diff hist +18 m Circumcision an important distinction. Tag: Visual edit
29 January 2022
- 09:37 09:37, 29 January 2022 diff hist +37 m Dictum de omni et nullo →Dictum de omni: I am confused, and I would guess that others are confused, as to the exact difference between dictum de omni and universal instantiation. It can't be that it is merely notational. Or is it? Tag: Visual edit
20 December 2021
- 06:25 06:25, 20 December 2021 diff hist +38 m Eolith the final paragraph needs citations for the broad claim "more and more evidence was discovered that suggested a purely natural origin....." Tag: Visual edit
13 November 2020
- 07:25 07:25, 13 November 2020 diff hist +242 Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery →Post-collapse management: this article is quite editorialized; but then, a lot of conservation science is covertly opinionated as well Tag: Visual edit
- 07:17 07:17, 13 November 2020 diff hist +14 m Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery →Mismanagement: fixed a bit of the purple verse; tagging source 15 (it's just a table of numbers--not Wiki-worthy) Tag: Visual edit
- 07:00 07:00, 13 November 2020 diff hist −75 m Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery →Socioeconomic factors: just an unnecessary clause (speaks for itself--of course a booming market provides "interest" to its participants) Tag: Visual edit
1 November 2020
- 10:32 10:32, 1 November 2020 diff hist +161 Land and Water Conservation Fund →Funding: Sentence above about expiration of funding in 2018? "Oppose" sounds a bit too strong for "decided not to renew", if this was indeed the case. Given the NYT's Trump vendetta, exaggeration seems likely. Tag: Visual edit
- 10:24 10:24, 1 November 2020 diff hist +28 Land and Water Conservation Fund →Funding: which other purposes? source? Tag: Visual edit
26 October 2020
- 07:50 07:50, 26 October 2020 diff hist +22 Estate tax in the United States →Arguments in support: Where does this historical argument come from? Seems weak--not that most cultures don't have funeral rights, but Egyptians were a crazy outlier. And you could make the same argument for a holiday banquet tax or artistic creation tax ("wealthy offspring sometimes devoted their time and inherited resources to make art, which perhaps had some artistic purposes, but also practically reduced wealth disparities and improved social cohesion"). Some wordiness reduced. Tag: Visual edit
21 October 2020
- 09:49 09:49, 21 October 2020 diff hist +38 m Susan Blackmore →Personal life: relevance of her CFS bout-- I would assume that most looking to learn about Blackmore don't give a skink about it. Anyways, is it really "chronic" if it only lasts a year? I guess there's no such thing as Acute Fatigue Syndrome... Tag: Visual edit
11 October 2020
- 05:51 05:51, 11 October 2020 diff hist +31 m Renewable energy in developing countries No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
9 October 2020
- 07:40 07:40, 9 October 2020 diff hist +779 Talk:Economic policy of the Donald Trump administration →Global GDP versus USA GDP
- 02:53 02:53, 9 October 2020 diff hist −2 m Gilles-Éric Séralini →Recent work: Grammar: "a" non-disclosure agreement, or non-disclosure agreement"s"? Tag: Visual edit
6 October 2020
- 08:46 08:46, 6 October 2020 diff hist −357 m Tuskegee Syphilis Study No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 08:44 08:44, 6 October 2020 diff hist +474 Tuskegee Syphilis Study →Study details: paragraph 3 last sentence: Seems Hanlon's-Razor-y--why would it not be like "the researchers provided contemporary treatments of 606, Hg, and Bi every 6 months (which only eased symptoms without being curatives, with substantial side effects)" rather than how it stands as some sort of malicious misdirection? I suspect either this editor or source author (some Prof. Reverby) might be jumping to conclusions of evil intent. Verify and/or add citations. Tag: Visual edit
- 08:23 08:23, 6 October 2020 diff hist −83 m Tuskegee Syphilis Study No edit summary Tag: Undo
- 08:21 08:21, 6 October 2020 diff hist +83 Tuskegee Syphilis Study →Study details: This is suspiciously Hanlon's Razor-ish. Why would the charitable interpretation of the facts--that the researchers felt that they needed to provide some treatment (and in fact the best treatment avail. at the time of the decision), even if it were only rarely and to ease symptoms? I'm not confident that the wiki editor and/or the source author isn't injecting a bit of melodrama here. Marked for future scrutiny Tags: Reverted Visual edit
5 October 2020
- 21:57 21:57, 5 October 2020 diff hist +169 Alois Alzheimer minor note in Death section--can't read that whole book Tag: Visual edit
- 01:34 01:34, 5 October 2020 diff hist +1 m Gig worker →Difference from temporary workers Tag: Visual edit
- 01:07 01:07, 5 October 2020 diff hist −114 Peter Thiel →The Diversity Myth: the parenthetical is mildly interesting but mostly unimportant, thus deleted. Those curious can follow the link to her page Tag: Visual edit
- 01:01 01:01, 5 October 2020 diff hist +1 m Peter Thiel →The Diversity Myth Tag: Visual edit
3 October 2020
- 23:00 23:00, 3 October 2020 diff hist −57 Containment →Earlier uses of term: don't think we need to explain obvious metaphors Tag: Visual edit
29 September 2020
- 11:13 11:13, 29 September 2020 diff hist +18 m SCA armoured combat →Rules Tag: Visual edit
- 11:10 11:10, 29 September 2020 diff hist +2 m SCA armoured combat →Rules Tag: Visual edit
- 10:22 10:22, 29 September 2020 diff hist −1,362 Egyptomania in the United States First two paragraphs edited just to give example of what is appropriate for an encyclopedia--omitted needless sentences. For instance, you don't need 3 sentences that basically say "the Europeans were very interested and stuck it in cultural things", nor even 2-- just the one. Saying that a people's interest was "scientific, aesthetic, cultural, and political" goes without saying. Talk of "waves of Egyptomania" is unnecessarily specific. Tag: Visual edit
- 09:40 09:40, 29 September 2020 diff hist +125 Egyptomania in the United States Sorry to be harsh but this reads like "the interesting work my English phd advisor did"--purple, subjective, obscure. And I'm not convinced by the explanations on the talk page (Trafton himself calls it AMERICAN Egyptomania, right in the title--no reason why this shouldn't be merged). Much of these sections can be condensed to single sentences with links to appropriate pages. Although a single paragraph compiled from the Race section could be included in other page under new section "in the US". Tag: Visual edit
- 00:03 00:03, 29 September 2020 diff hist +1 m Capital Purchase Program No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
28 September 2020
- 12:24 12:24, 28 September 2020 diff hist −123 Rwandan genocide →Genocide: I really don't think this sentence is necessary--the connection is already mentioned above in the History section, and appears to be based on the opinion of a single person, Alison DeForges. The "if only the Belgians hadn't given them identity cards in 1933" hypothesis is tangential at best, and I think adds little to the information I'm looking for. If re-added, perhaps another source that supports this opinion? Tag: Visual edit
22 September 2020
- 10:37 10:37, 22 September 2020 diff hist +231 Nebbia v. New York Expanded dissent-- McReynolds offers a fair point beyond blind Constitutional essentialism. I'd also like to point out that the only 2ndary source is written by the lawyer for New York in this case, who seems to have a very high opinion of himself and a very low understanding of economics. Additional sources (such as, what happened to the milk market, effects of decision, contemporary news coverage, scholarly articles) would be good. Tag: Visual edit
21 September 2020
- 10:20 10:20, 21 September 2020 diff hist −467 Feminizing hormone therapy Changed to "Adverse Effects" to mirror other medical wikis (which can also use "Side Effects")--"Health Changes" is too general. Intro sentences unnecessary (obviously, any treatment available from medical professionals is considered acceptably low-risk under their supervision; if added back needs more sources than just the one) Tags: references removed Visual edit
- 09:36 09:36, 21 September 2020 diff hist −309 Feminizing hormone therapy I think those sentences don't add much in the way of information, and run the risk of overstatement Tag: Visual edit
- 05:46 05:46, 21 September 2020 diff hist −398 Circular economy No sources found since 2009; seems highly unlikely anyways (cf perpetual motion machine)
20 September 2020
- 10:29 10:29, 20 September 2020 diff hist +43 m Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 specific facts might be correct, but heavily biased source.
A user with 33 edits. Account created on 18 September 2020.
28 February 2022
- 21:17 21:17, 28 February 2022 diff hist +18 m Circumcision an important distinction. Tag: Visual edit
29 January 2022
- 09:37 09:37, 29 January 2022 diff hist +37 m Dictum de omni et nullo →Dictum de omni: I am confused, and I would guess that others are confused, as to the exact difference between dictum de omni and universal instantiation. It can't be that it is merely notational. Or is it? Tag: Visual edit
20 December 2021
- 06:25 06:25, 20 December 2021 diff hist +38 m Eolith the final paragraph needs citations for the broad claim "more and more evidence was discovered that suggested a purely natural origin....." Tag: Visual edit
13 November 2020
- 07:25 07:25, 13 November 2020 diff hist +242 Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery →Post-collapse management: this article is quite editorialized; but then, a lot of conservation science is covertly opinionated as well Tag: Visual edit
- 07:17 07:17, 13 November 2020 diff hist +14 m Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery →Mismanagement: fixed a bit of the purple verse; tagging source 15 (it's just a table of numbers--not Wiki-worthy) Tag: Visual edit
- 07:00 07:00, 13 November 2020 diff hist −75 m Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery →Socioeconomic factors: just an unnecessary clause (speaks for itself--of course a booming market provides "interest" to its participants) Tag: Visual edit
1 November 2020
- 10:32 10:32, 1 November 2020 diff hist +161 Land and Water Conservation Fund →Funding: Sentence above about expiration of funding in 2018? "Oppose" sounds a bit too strong for "decided not to renew", if this was indeed the case. Given the NYT's Trump vendetta, exaggeration seems likely. Tag: Visual edit
- 10:24 10:24, 1 November 2020 diff hist +28 Land and Water Conservation Fund →Funding: which other purposes? source? Tag: Visual edit
26 October 2020
- 07:50 07:50, 26 October 2020 diff hist +22 Estate tax in the United States →Arguments in support: Where does this historical argument come from? Seems weak--not that most cultures don't have funeral rights, but Egyptians were a crazy outlier. And you could make the same argument for a holiday banquet tax or artistic creation tax ("wealthy offspring sometimes devoted their time and inherited resources to make art, which perhaps had some artistic purposes, but also practically reduced wealth disparities and improved social cohesion"). Some wordiness reduced. Tag: Visual edit
21 October 2020
- 09:49 09:49, 21 October 2020 diff hist +38 m Susan Blackmore →Personal life: relevance of her CFS bout-- I would assume that most looking to learn about Blackmore don't give a skink about it. Anyways, is it really "chronic" if it only lasts a year? I guess there's no such thing as Acute Fatigue Syndrome... Tag: Visual edit
11 October 2020
- 05:51 05:51, 11 October 2020 diff hist +31 m Renewable energy in developing countries No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
9 October 2020
- 07:40 07:40, 9 October 2020 diff hist +779 Talk:Economic policy of the Donald Trump administration →Global GDP versus USA GDP
- 02:53 02:53, 9 October 2020 diff hist −2 m Gilles-Éric Séralini →Recent work: Grammar: "a" non-disclosure agreement, or non-disclosure agreement"s"? Tag: Visual edit
6 October 2020
- 08:46 08:46, 6 October 2020 diff hist −357 m Tuskegee Syphilis Study No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 08:44 08:44, 6 October 2020 diff hist +474 Tuskegee Syphilis Study →Study details: paragraph 3 last sentence: Seems Hanlon's-Razor-y--why would it not be like "the researchers provided contemporary treatments of 606, Hg, and Bi every 6 months (which only eased symptoms without being curatives, with substantial side effects)" rather than how it stands as some sort of malicious misdirection? I suspect either this editor or source author (some Prof. Reverby) might be jumping to conclusions of evil intent. Verify and/or add citations. Tag: Visual edit
- 08:23 08:23, 6 October 2020 diff hist −83 m Tuskegee Syphilis Study No edit summary Tag: Undo
- 08:21 08:21, 6 October 2020 diff hist +83 Tuskegee Syphilis Study →Study details: This is suspiciously Hanlon's Razor-ish. Why would the charitable interpretation of the facts--that the researchers felt that they needed to provide some treatment (and in fact the best treatment avail. at the time of the decision), even if it were only rarely and to ease symptoms? I'm not confident that the wiki editor and/or the source author isn't injecting a bit of melodrama here. Marked for future scrutiny Tags: Reverted Visual edit
5 October 2020
- 21:57 21:57, 5 October 2020 diff hist +169 Alois Alzheimer minor note in Death section--can't read that whole book Tag: Visual edit
- 01:34 01:34, 5 October 2020 diff hist +1 m Gig worker →Difference from temporary workers Tag: Visual edit
- 01:07 01:07, 5 October 2020 diff hist −114 Peter Thiel →The Diversity Myth: the parenthetical is mildly interesting but mostly unimportant, thus deleted. Those curious can follow the link to her page Tag: Visual edit
- 01:01 01:01, 5 October 2020 diff hist +1 m Peter Thiel →The Diversity Myth Tag: Visual edit
3 October 2020
- 23:00 23:00, 3 October 2020 diff hist −57 Containment →Earlier uses of term: don't think we need to explain obvious metaphors Tag: Visual edit
29 September 2020
- 11:13 11:13, 29 September 2020 diff hist +18 m SCA armoured combat →Rules Tag: Visual edit
- 11:10 11:10, 29 September 2020 diff hist +2 m SCA armoured combat →Rules Tag: Visual edit
- 10:22 10:22, 29 September 2020 diff hist −1,362 Egyptomania in the United States First two paragraphs edited just to give example of what is appropriate for an encyclopedia--omitted needless sentences. For instance, you don't need 3 sentences that basically say "the Europeans were very interested and stuck it in cultural things", nor even 2-- just the one. Saying that a people's interest was "scientific, aesthetic, cultural, and political" goes without saying. Talk of "waves of Egyptomania" is unnecessarily specific. Tag: Visual edit
- 09:40 09:40, 29 September 2020 diff hist +125 Egyptomania in the United States Sorry to be harsh but this reads like "the interesting work my English phd advisor did"--purple, subjective, obscure. And I'm not convinced by the explanations on the talk page (Trafton himself calls it AMERICAN Egyptomania, right in the title--no reason why this shouldn't be merged). Much of these sections can be condensed to single sentences with links to appropriate pages. Although a single paragraph compiled from the Race section could be included in other page under new section "in the US". Tag: Visual edit
- 00:03 00:03, 29 September 2020 diff hist +1 m Capital Purchase Program No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
28 September 2020
- 12:24 12:24, 28 September 2020 diff hist −123 Rwandan genocide →Genocide: I really don't think this sentence is necessary--the connection is already mentioned above in the History section, and appears to be based on the opinion of a single person, Alison DeForges. The "if only the Belgians hadn't given them identity cards in 1933" hypothesis is tangential at best, and I think adds little to the information I'm looking for. If re-added, perhaps another source that supports this opinion? Tag: Visual edit
22 September 2020
- 10:37 10:37, 22 September 2020 diff hist +231 Nebbia v. New York Expanded dissent-- McReynolds offers a fair point beyond blind Constitutional essentialism. I'd also like to point out that the only 2ndary source is written by the lawyer for New York in this case, who seems to have a very high opinion of himself and a very low understanding of economics. Additional sources (such as, what happened to the milk market, effects of decision, contemporary news coverage, scholarly articles) would be good. Tag: Visual edit
21 September 2020
- 10:20 10:20, 21 September 2020 diff hist −467 Feminizing hormone therapy Changed to "Adverse Effects" to mirror other medical wikis (which can also use "Side Effects")--"Health Changes" is too general. Intro sentences unnecessary (obviously, any treatment available from medical professionals is considered acceptably low-risk under their supervision; if added back needs more sources than just the one) Tags: references removed Visual edit
- 09:36 09:36, 21 September 2020 diff hist −309 Feminizing hormone therapy I think those sentences don't add much in the way of information, and run the risk of overstatement Tag: Visual edit
- 05:46 05:46, 21 September 2020 diff hist −398 Circular economy No sources found since 2009; seems highly unlikely anyways (cf perpetual motion machine)
20 September 2020
- 10:29 10:29, 20 September 2020 diff hist +43 m Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 specific facts might be correct, but heavily biased source.