A user with 65 edits. Account created on 3 January 2007.
29 February 2024
- 05:34 05:34, 29 February 2024 diff hist −1 m Sons of the American Revolution The possessive pronoun does not take an apostrophe. I removed the apostrophe in the first paragraph so that "it's" now reads "its". Grammar and orthography require the change.
23 December 2023
- 06:08 06:08, 23 December 2023 diff hist +1 m Annette Schavan Typographical error corrected: "Germany" not "German" in paragraph beginning "On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary..."
17 November 2023
- 05:32 05:32, 17 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Robert Mallet (writer) Another superfluous comma removed. current
- 05:30 05:30, 17 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Robert Mallet (writer) Removal of a superfluous comma. The comma was grammatically incorrect anyway.
- 05:28 05:28, 17 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Robert Mallet (writer) The verb should be in the simple past form, "became", so as to be consistent with the verb forms in the rest of the sentence and the remainder of the paragraph.
23 September 2023
- 02:45 02:45, 23 September 2023 diff hist +1 m Evolution Institute Since "collaborations" is a plural noun, the helping verb in the governing verb phrase must also be in the plural--therefore "have"
20 September 2023
- 19:34 19:34, 20 September 2023 diff hist −4 m Lorna Crozier Removal of one copulative (or "helping") verb-- "was" -- this was a simple typographical error, one assumes.
29 May 2023
- 07:54 07:54, 29 May 2023 diff hist −1 m Boğaziçi University The verb "administrated" does not exist in ordinary English speech--the text should use the regular English verb "administered".
- 07:50 07:50, 29 May 2023 diff hist −2 m Boğaziçi University Replace "educational" (adjective) with "education" (noun) -- change required under the rules of English grammar
15 May 2023
- 02:41 02:41, 15 May 2023 diff hist −4 m Recep Tayyip Erdoğan grammar corrected: "would" not "shall" -- and "the" removed from Marmara University, consistent with established English style
9 January 2023
- 04:17 04:17, 9 January 2023 diff hist 0 m Elias Avery Lowe Reverses my previous editorial change--the original version was correct--my edit was incorrect. Tag: Manual revert
- 04:15 04:15, 9 January 2023 diff hist 0 m Elias Avery Lowe Typographical error--now repaired. Lowe should be spelled thus: Lowe. Tag: Reverted
18 November 2022
- 19:58 19:58, 18 November 2022 diff hist −1 Monastery of John the Evangelist in Makarovka No edit summary
- 19:57 19:57, 18 November 2022 diff hist −15 Monastery of John the Evangelist in Makarovka No edit summary
- 19:51 19:51, 18 November 2022 diff hist −4 Monastery of John the Evangelist in Makarovka No edit summary
- 19:50 19:50, 18 November 2022 diff hist −106 Monastery of John the Evangelist in Makarovka Numerous errors of English grammar and style corrected. This article must have begun as a machine translation from a Russian original. The English could do with further editing, perhaps by another Wikipedia contributor.
26 September 2022
- 04:40 04:40, 26 September 2022 diff hist −80 The Educated Mind Revisions to make the English more direct, to avoid redundancies, and to correct grammatical errors and elisions. The opening sentence of the section on "Cultural recapitulation theory" made no sense--objects of verbs and prepositions were misplaced or were entirely absent. The section on "Romantic understanding" is a little more understandable now, but needs more work. Perhaps the first author can repair these sections.
27 August 2022
- 02:40 02:40, 27 August 2022 diff hist −6 Physis (journal) The word "every" is redundant and ungrammatical. I removed it. The meaning of the original sentence is unaffected by this edit.
14 May 2022
- 06:43 06:43, 14 May 2022 diff hist −3 m Henry Wotton Removal of a superfluous preposition.
13 May 2022
- 03:31 03:31, 13 May 2022 diff hist +6 m Ernest Gowers Missing word "there" put back in place.
3 January 2022
- 21:42 21:42, 3 January 2022 diff hist −5 m Ernest Samuels Minor grammatical slip repaired.
- 20:40 20:40, 3 January 2022 diff hist −5 m Thomas Homer-Dixon Grammar mistake corrected; typo in citation repaired.
10 October 2021
- 01:15 01:15, 10 October 2021 diff hist −21 m Antoine Augustin Cournot Grammatical errors corrected.
28 August 2021
- 03:48 03:48, 28 August 2021 diff hist −10 m Church of Our Lady before Týn Grammar: removal of extra preposition. Change to make the number of the subject consistent with the verb.
- 03:33 03:33, 28 August 2021 diff hist +1 m Orfeo ed Euridice This makes the plural subject accord with the verb: reforms | have
29 June 2021
- 20:31 20:31, 29 June 2021 diff hist −7 Alison Prentice No edit summary
- 20:29 20:29, 29 June 2021 diff hist +30 Alison Prentice Death date included+place of death.
20 June 2021
- 02:51 02:51, 20 June 2021 diff hist −4 m Oral will Superfluous preposition removed. current
19 June 2021
- 05:02 05:02, 19 June 2021 diff hist 0 m William Edward Koenig To make the date of birth consistent with information contained in the text of the article about Bishop-Elect Koenig. Tag: Reverted
17 June 2021
- 03:34 03:34, 17 June 2021 diff hist +1 m Cognition No edit summary
- 03:29 03:29, 17 June 2021 diff hist −29 m Cognition In section "Improving cognition" : agreements between subjects, verbs, and predicates are incorrect in two places--now repaired. Redundancies in "Improving Cognition" and in "Dietary supplements" have been repaired.
7 June 2021
- 22:03 22:03, 7 June 2021 diff hist 0 m War of 1812 Replaced "underlaying" with "underlying" -- the intransitive form of the verb is required here -- correction made.
28 March 2021
- 00:34 00:34, 28 March 2021 diff hist +4 m Gottfried Bernhard Göz Incorrect verb replaced.
27 March 2021
- 00:31 00:31, 27 March 2021 diff hist −5 m Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Two small grammatical changes to make verbs agree with the number of subjects in the sentence (singular subject-->singular verb, plural subject-->plural verb)
18 March 2021
- 02:46 02:46, 18 March 2021 diff hist +1 m Ian Waddell Small grammatical and orthograhical errors fixed.
4 February 2021
- 06:05 06:05, 4 February 2021 diff hist −4 m Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Correction of a grammatical error in English. Removal of :"the" before "Latin America" -- definite article should not precede Latin America. A minor grammatical mistake.
24 January 2021
- 19:32 19:32, 24 January 2021 diff hist +2 m Paul Theroux Grammar mistake corrected: "political" should be "politically" in the section on "Controversies".
- 07:05 07:05, 24 January 2021 diff hist +6 m Sutter's Mill Grammar mistakes corrected: (i) diseases do not "break", rather they "break out"; (ii) if a thing is "unique" it cannot (logically speaking) come from "all over the world"--the writer must have intended "various cultures". There was and is no "world culture".
- 05:40 05:40, 24 January 2021 diff hist +1,112 N User:Montaigne1944 ←Created page with 'A note about my approach to Wikipedia: Wikipedia entries are sometimes remarkably good--their grammar is correct, their consistency from section to section is...' current
18 January 2021
- 00:45 00:45, 18 January 2021 diff hist +1 m Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya Spelling error corrected: "eloquence" not "eloquece"
10 November 2020
- 18:59 18:59, 10 November 2020 diff hist 0 m Theodore McCarrick The word "ministry" was mis-spelled. Now corrected.
6 November 2020
- 07:11 07:11, 6 November 2020 diff hist −31 Wilhelm von Humboldt Removed Alexander von Humboldt from list of surviving children of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Alexander was the BROTHER of Wilhelm, not the son.
5 December 2019
- 07:40 07:40, 5 December 2019 diff hist +2 m La Religieuse (novel) "drawing" is a mistranslation--"depicting" is the correct English form
18 February 2019
- 07:25 07:25, 18 February 2019 diff hist −1 m Jean Coulthard No edit summary
24 December 2018
- 05:33 05:33, 24 December 2018 diff hist −9 BBC Three Removed the word "immoral" from the text, as it was and is not in the description of the purpose of BBC 3 broadcasting.
21 April 2018
- 22:58 22:58, 21 April 2018 diff hist +1 m Fernando Pessoa No edit summary
31 July 2017
- 05:18 05:18, 31 July 2017 diff hist −2 Arpad Weixlgärtner An obvious translation mistake: "Aktstudien" means "action studies" or, in this context, "studies of action" -- correction made.
8 October 2016
- 20:14 20:14, 8 October 2016 diff hist 0 m Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge No edit summary
- 20:13 20:13, 8 October 2016 diff hist −1 m Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge Death date in text did not match death date in biographical date summary in upper-right quadrant of the Woodbridge entry. Dates are now made consistent.
- 20:12 20:12, 8 October 2016 diff hist +1 m Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge Death date in text did not match death date in biographical date summary in upper-right quadrant of the Woodbridge entry. Dates are now made consistent.
A user with 65 edits. Account created on 3 January 2007.
29 February 2024
- 05:34 05:34, 29 February 2024 diff hist −1 m Sons of the American Revolution The possessive pronoun does not take an apostrophe. I removed the apostrophe in the first paragraph so that "it's" now reads "its". Grammar and orthography require the change.
23 December 2023
- 06:08 06:08, 23 December 2023 diff hist +1 m Annette Schavan Typographical error corrected: "Germany" not "German" in paragraph beginning "On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary..."
17 November 2023
- 05:32 05:32, 17 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Robert Mallet (writer) Another superfluous comma removed. current
- 05:30 05:30, 17 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Robert Mallet (writer) Removal of a superfluous comma. The comma was grammatically incorrect anyway.
- 05:28 05:28, 17 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Robert Mallet (writer) The verb should be in the simple past form, "became", so as to be consistent with the verb forms in the rest of the sentence and the remainder of the paragraph.
23 September 2023
- 02:45 02:45, 23 September 2023 diff hist +1 m Evolution Institute Since "collaborations" is a plural noun, the helping verb in the governing verb phrase must also be in the plural--therefore "have"
20 September 2023
- 19:34 19:34, 20 September 2023 diff hist −4 m Lorna Crozier Removal of one copulative (or "helping") verb-- "was" -- this was a simple typographical error, one assumes.
29 May 2023
- 07:54 07:54, 29 May 2023 diff hist −1 m Boğaziçi University The verb "administrated" does not exist in ordinary English speech--the text should use the regular English verb "administered".
- 07:50 07:50, 29 May 2023 diff hist −2 m Boğaziçi University Replace "educational" (adjective) with "education" (noun) -- change required under the rules of English grammar
15 May 2023
- 02:41 02:41, 15 May 2023 diff hist −4 m Recep Tayyip Erdoğan grammar corrected: "would" not "shall" -- and "the" removed from Marmara University, consistent with established English style
9 January 2023
- 04:17 04:17, 9 January 2023 diff hist 0 m Elias Avery Lowe Reverses my previous editorial change--the original version was correct--my edit was incorrect. Tag: Manual revert
- 04:15 04:15, 9 January 2023 diff hist 0 m Elias Avery Lowe Typographical error--now repaired. Lowe should be spelled thus: Lowe. Tag: Reverted
18 November 2022
- 19:58 19:58, 18 November 2022 diff hist −1 Monastery of John the Evangelist in Makarovka No edit summary
- 19:57 19:57, 18 November 2022 diff hist −15 Monastery of John the Evangelist in Makarovka No edit summary
- 19:51 19:51, 18 November 2022 diff hist −4 Monastery of John the Evangelist in Makarovka No edit summary
- 19:50 19:50, 18 November 2022 diff hist −106 Monastery of John the Evangelist in Makarovka Numerous errors of English grammar and style corrected. This article must have begun as a machine translation from a Russian original. The English could do with further editing, perhaps by another Wikipedia contributor.
26 September 2022
- 04:40 04:40, 26 September 2022 diff hist −80 The Educated Mind Revisions to make the English more direct, to avoid redundancies, and to correct grammatical errors and elisions. The opening sentence of the section on "Cultural recapitulation theory" made no sense--objects of verbs and prepositions were misplaced or were entirely absent. The section on "Romantic understanding" is a little more understandable now, but needs more work. Perhaps the first author can repair these sections.
27 August 2022
- 02:40 02:40, 27 August 2022 diff hist −6 Physis (journal) The word "every" is redundant and ungrammatical. I removed it. The meaning of the original sentence is unaffected by this edit.
14 May 2022
- 06:43 06:43, 14 May 2022 diff hist −3 m Henry Wotton Removal of a superfluous preposition.
13 May 2022
- 03:31 03:31, 13 May 2022 diff hist +6 m Ernest Gowers Missing word "there" put back in place.
3 January 2022
- 21:42 21:42, 3 January 2022 diff hist −5 m Ernest Samuels Minor grammatical slip repaired.
- 20:40 20:40, 3 January 2022 diff hist −5 m Thomas Homer-Dixon Grammar mistake corrected; typo in citation repaired.
10 October 2021
- 01:15 01:15, 10 October 2021 diff hist −21 m Antoine Augustin Cournot Grammatical errors corrected.
28 August 2021
- 03:48 03:48, 28 August 2021 diff hist −10 m Church of Our Lady before Týn Grammar: removal of extra preposition. Change to make the number of the subject consistent with the verb.
- 03:33 03:33, 28 August 2021 diff hist +1 m Orfeo ed Euridice This makes the plural subject accord with the verb: reforms | have
29 June 2021
- 20:31 20:31, 29 June 2021 diff hist −7 Alison Prentice No edit summary
- 20:29 20:29, 29 June 2021 diff hist +30 Alison Prentice Death date included+place of death.
20 June 2021
- 02:51 02:51, 20 June 2021 diff hist −4 m Oral will Superfluous preposition removed. current
19 June 2021
- 05:02 05:02, 19 June 2021 diff hist 0 m William Edward Koenig To make the date of birth consistent with information contained in the text of the article about Bishop-Elect Koenig. Tag: Reverted
17 June 2021
- 03:34 03:34, 17 June 2021 diff hist +1 m Cognition No edit summary
- 03:29 03:29, 17 June 2021 diff hist −29 m Cognition In section "Improving cognition" : agreements between subjects, verbs, and predicates are incorrect in two places--now repaired. Redundancies in "Improving Cognition" and in "Dietary supplements" have been repaired.
7 June 2021
- 22:03 22:03, 7 June 2021 diff hist 0 m War of 1812 Replaced "underlaying" with "underlying" -- the intransitive form of the verb is required here -- correction made.
28 March 2021
- 00:34 00:34, 28 March 2021 diff hist +4 m Gottfried Bernhard Göz Incorrect verb replaced.
27 March 2021
- 00:31 00:31, 27 March 2021 diff hist −5 m Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Two small grammatical changes to make verbs agree with the number of subjects in the sentence (singular subject-->singular verb, plural subject-->plural verb)
18 March 2021
- 02:46 02:46, 18 March 2021 diff hist +1 m Ian Waddell Small grammatical and orthograhical errors fixed.
4 February 2021
- 06:05 06:05, 4 February 2021 diff hist −4 m Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Correction of a grammatical error in English. Removal of :"the" before "Latin America" -- definite article should not precede Latin America. A minor grammatical mistake.
24 January 2021
- 19:32 19:32, 24 January 2021 diff hist +2 m Paul Theroux Grammar mistake corrected: "political" should be "politically" in the section on "Controversies".
- 07:05 07:05, 24 January 2021 diff hist +6 m Sutter's Mill Grammar mistakes corrected: (i) diseases do not "break", rather they "break out"; (ii) if a thing is "unique" it cannot (logically speaking) come from "all over the world"--the writer must have intended "various cultures". There was and is no "world culture".
- 05:40 05:40, 24 January 2021 diff hist +1,112 N User:Montaigne1944 ←Created page with 'A note about my approach to Wikipedia: Wikipedia entries are sometimes remarkably good--their grammar is correct, their consistency from section to section is...' current
18 January 2021
- 00:45 00:45, 18 January 2021 diff hist +1 m Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya Spelling error corrected: "eloquence" not "eloquece"
10 November 2020
- 18:59 18:59, 10 November 2020 diff hist 0 m Theodore McCarrick The word "ministry" was mis-spelled. Now corrected.
6 November 2020
- 07:11 07:11, 6 November 2020 diff hist −31 Wilhelm von Humboldt Removed Alexander von Humboldt from list of surviving children of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Alexander was the BROTHER of Wilhelm, not the son.
5 December 2019
- 07:40 07:40, 5 December 2019 diff hist +2 m La Religieuse (novel) "drawing" is a mistranslation--"depicting" is the correct English form
18 February 2019
- 07:25 07:25, 18 February 2019 diff hist −1 m Jean Coulthard No edit summary
24 December 2018
- 05:33 05:33, 24 December 2018 diff hist −9 BBC Three Removed the word "immoral" from the text, as it was and is not in the description of the purpose of BBC 3 broadcasting.
21 April 2018
- 22:58 22:58, 21 April 2018 diff hist +1 m Fernando Pessoa No edit summary
31 July 2017
- 05:18 05:18, 31 July 2017 diff hist −2 Arpad Weixlgärtner An obvious translation mistake: "Aktstudien" means "action studies" or, in this context, "studies of action" -- correction made.
8 October 2016
- 20:14 20:14, 8 October 2016 diff hist 0 m Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge No edit summary
- 20:13 20:13, 8 October 2016 diff hist −1 m Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge Death date in text did not match death date in biographical date summary in upper-right quadrant of the Woodbridge entry. Dates are now made consistent.
- 20:12 20:12, 8 October 2016 diff hist +1 m Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge Death date in text did not match death date in biographical date summary in upper-right quadrant of the Woodbridge entry. Dates are now made consistent.