A user with 278 edits. Account created on 12 February 2017.
8 June 2024
- 01:09 01:09, 8 June 2024 diff hist +57 m Wheel of Fortune (American game show) Previous version "It stars Sajak (until...), Seacrest (from...), and White as hosts, who have hosted the nighttime version since its inception." implied Seacrest had hosted since it started & was just awkwardly worded
30 May 2024
- 08:00 08:00, 30 May 2024 diff hist +329 Tournament (medieval) Added a disambiguation, clarified/made more accurate the reasons why some disliked tournaments (based on a previous editor's own reference). Rest is just cleaning up some of the manky grammar and sentence structure. Tag: Disambiguation links added
16 May 2024
- 18:17 18:17, 16 May 2024 diff hist +72 m Meghna Chakrabarti →External links: added link to Chakrabarti's WBUR bio
15 January 2024
- 03:23 03:23, 15 January 2024 diff hist +27 Hasty Pudding Theatricals Mostly rewording the poorly written parts of the intro + 1st 3 paragraphs of the history (=as far as I got). Actual changes: added that there was no 2020 performance (due to COVID); added the yearly awards+ceremony to the intro; and deleted sentence starting "Previous members...have included" (it's duplicated further down) and incorporated the rest of that paragraph into the next one (both are about women).
14 January 2024
- 23:50 23:50, 14 January 2024 diff hist +4 m Harvard College changed AB and SB to BA and BS which are far, far more common. They are also in keeping with Wikipedia ‘protocol’ (see entries Bachelor_of_Arts and Bachelor_of_Science). And, for those who use AB/SB or are unfamiliar with either format, I added the full terms in parentheses.
21 November 2023
- 07:37 07:37, 21 November 2023 diff hist +548 Martha Jefferson Randolph →White House: When you strip away all the stuff in parentheses, the 1st 2 sentences read “Randolph made several visits to the President's House when her father was president. During her visits from mid-November 1802 to January 5, 1803 and 1805–1806.” That’s some horrific grammar. Tried to parce out what original writer wanted to say and rephrase.
10 September 2023
- 23:12 23:12, 10 September 2023 diff hist +2,974 Talk:BTS →Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 10 September 2023: new section
3 May 2023
- 04:21 04:21, 3 May 2023 diff hist +6 m Lester Holt →Career: Clarified that Trump's comment that Holt's moderating the debate was "a very unfair system" came prior to the debate.
- 04:10 04:10, 3 May 2023 diff hist +366 Lester Holt Removed 'musician' from list of occupations. It was never his occupation, just a hobby. If we're going to list it under his occupations then we need to do the same for Steven King and Dave Barry (which we don't, I checked). Instead I'm expanding the music mention under Personal Life
8 March 2023
- 05:51 05:51, 8 March 2023 diff hist +127 Peter Mark Roget 1)Removed the Samuel Romilly hyperlink in the second paragraph under Medical career. Only the 1st instance of his name should be hyperinked. 2) Moved info about Samuel earlier in the article. Previously who he was wasn’t explained until the 4th and final instance of his name. 3)put his family, later life, and about Samuel's suicide under a new header ‘Personal life'. Made no sense to have the suicide under 'Medical career'.
19 February 2023
- 05:51 05:51, 19 February 2023 diff hist +13 m James Arthur Ray every reputable news outlet, encyclopedia, and other reference work calls them 'convicted criminals' not just 'criminals'. Wikipedia does this by custom too (See Oscar Pistorius, Scott Peterson, Jesse Anderson).
3 February 2023
- 07:32 07:32, 3 February 2023 diff hist +313 m History of same-sex marriage in the United States →Court decision: Iowa: added that the decision remained in effect despite recall of judges
1 January 2023
- 01:39 01:39, 1 January 2023 diff hist +5 Birthday problem 1) Felt that the 1st 2 sentences need to be tied together at least a little, that the 2nd needs to reference the 1st. This could be done less drastically w/ '...counterintuitively, that probability exceeds...' or 'The related birthday paradox...' 2) 'seems wrong at first glance' insults people's intelligence a bit less than 'appears wrong'
10 September 2022
- 21:46 21:46, 10 September 2022 diff hist +1,010 Talk:Adolf Eichmann →Copyright infringement or plagiarism?: new section Tag: New topic
9 September 2022
- 05:24 05:24, 9 September 2022 diff hist +138 m Meghan, Duchess of Sussex clarified what 'multiracial' means/how Meghan identifies racially.
4 July 2022
- 07:44 07:44, 4 July 2022 diff hist +66 m U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state tidying up my previous edit's references
- 07:37 07:37, 4 July 2022 diff hist +558 U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state Corrected Alaska & Hawaii's drinking ages from 18 to 21 and provided references
28 June 2022
- 04:04 04:04, 28 June 2022 diff hist −5 m 4chan →Threats of violence: Just cleaning up my previous edit a little
- 04:02 04:02, 28 June 2022 diff hist +134 m 4chan →Threats of violence: The following sentence was confusing, so I edited it: The perpetrator and FBI considered the threat to be clearly frivolous; he was charged with fabricating a fake terrorist threat, sentenced to six months in prison, six months' house arrest, and ordered to pay $26,750 in restitution.
18 June 2022
- 23:35 23:35, 18 June 2022 diff hist +28 m Maine →State and local politics: Changed 'recently' to 'recent history' - seems more accurate when referring to 1979. Reworded bit about Angus King being current Senator - I found old version confusing.
30 May 2022
- 19:57 19:57, 30 May 2022 diff hist +57 m Eta (disambiguation) added 'Edited to Add' to the other uses
20 May 2022
- 19:23 19:23, 20 May 2022 diff hist −26 m Andy Rooney Paris and London don't have hyperlinks nor does the much more obscure Hamilton, NY. There's no reason why mention of Boston in a brief side note needs a hyperlink.
17 May 2022
- 18:26 18:26, 17 May 2022 diff hist +327 Help talk:Infobox →Guideline on not making the lead illegible?
- 18:10 18:10, 17 May 2022 diff hist +633 Help talk:Infobox →'website' or 'url'?: new section
11 May 2022
- 05:19 05:19, 11 May 2022 diff hist +3 m Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park 1) Under "Features and facilities" changed 'Billings Farm' to 'Billings Farm & Museum'. There hasn't been any stand-alone farm for decades. 2) Under "History" I fixed the grammatically incorrect sentence that starts wtih 'Between 1869 and 1881 Billings commissioned...'
- 04:10 04:10, 11 May 2022 diff hist −4 m Woodstock, Vermont removed the link to the wikipedia page 'Billings Farm & Museum' (under "Arts and culture") because as of right now there is no such page.
- 04:01 04:01, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Metropolitan Tabernacle added disambiguation link Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 03:59 03:59, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Tin tabernacle added disambiguation link Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 03:58 03:58, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Tabernacle societies added disambiguation link current Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 03:58 03:58, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Church tabernacle added disambiguation link Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 03:56 03:56, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Tabernacle (Methodist) added disambiguation link Tag: Disambiguation links added
7 May 2022
- 18:56 18:56, 7 May 2022 diff hist +14 m Androgen insensitivity syndrome added link to definition of 'karyotype'
4 April 2022
- 01:31 01:31, 4 April 2022 diff hist +12 m Plant community Reworked "the rate at which water infiltrates or evapotranspirates from the soil". First, because 'evapotranspirates' is not a word, and second, very few people will recognize that word so it should be hyperlinked to its wikipedia page.
29 September 2021
- 05:22 05:22, 29 September 2021 diff hist +479 Anita Hill →Work as a professor: added what she's done professionally since 1986
18 September 2021
- 20:41 20:41, 18 September 2021 diff hist +2,144 Talk:Knights Templar →opening synopsis: new section
13 August 2021
- 05:22 05:22, 13 August 2021 diff hist +42 m Red Shirt, South Dakota added disambiguation
- 05:22 05:22, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Red Shirts (Thailand) added disambiguation
- 05:21 05:21, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Red Shirt (Oglala) added disambiguation
- 05:19 05:19, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Red Shirts (Mexico) added disambiguation
- 05:18 05:18, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Redshirts (song) added disambiguation
- 05:17 05:17, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Redshirt (video game) added disambiguation
- 05:16 05:16, 13 August 2021 diff hist −39 m Red Shirts (film) →Cast: removed non-existent links
- 05:12 05:12, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Red Shirts (film) added disambiguation
- 05:11 05:11, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 Redshirts (novel) added disambiguation
- 05:09 05:09, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Redshirt (stock character) added disambiguation
9 July 2021
- 03:36 03:36, 9 July 2021 diff hist +172 Korean War Added to the intro paragraph that while the armistice was signed in 1953, the 2 sides are still technically at war. Tag: Reverted
- 03:28 03:28, 9 July 2021 diff hist +37 m Korean War Sentence starting 'After the surrender of Japan': added that the US & the Soviet Union were the ones who did the division & adjusted punctuation to make sentence clearer. Also fixed an unpaired open parenthesis in 1st paragraph.
16 June 2021
- 18:56 18:56, 16 June 2021 diff hist −3 m Jill Biden →Education and career, marriages and family: semi-colon didn't work. Changed it to 'and' and changed 'became known as' to 'took the name'
- 18:53 18:53, 16 June 2021 diff hist +14 Jill Biden →Early life: changed a couple pronouns (her) to 'Biden' for clarity; added 'Italian' for those who don't know where Sicily is; changed 'after entry into' to 'after entering' ...just sounded less awkward. Feel free to change it back.
- 18:33 18:33, 16 June 2021 diff hist −4 Jill Biden →First Lady of the United States: Removed the Anthony Bernal hyperlink. It linked to 'Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign' where the only mention of Bernal is in a list of 18 'Key People' in the campaign. ...You'd have to do a keyword search just to find what this article already says - that he was a campaign staffer
A user with 278 edits. Account created on 12 February 2017.
8 June 2024
- 01:09 01:09, 8 June 2024 diff hist +57 m Wheel of Fortune (American game show) Previous version "It stars Sajak (until...), Seacrest (from...), and White as hosts, who have hosted the nighttime version since its inception." implied Seacrest had hosted since it started & was just awkwardly worded
30 May 2024
- 08:00 08:00, 30 May 2024 diff hist +329 Tournament (medieval) Added a disambiguation, clarified/made more accurate the reasons why some disliked tournaments (based on a previous editor's own reference). Rest is just cleaning up some of the manky grammar and sentence structure. Tag: Disambiguation links added
16 May 2024
- 18:17 18:17, 16 May 2024 diff hist +72 m Meghna Chakrabarti →External links: added link to Chakrabarti's WBUR bio
15 January 2024
- 03:23 03:23, 15 January 2024 diff hist +27 Hasty Pudding Theatricals Mostly rewording the poorly written parts of the intro + 1st 3 paragraphs of the history (=as far as I got). Actual changes: added that there was no 2020 performance (due to COVID); added the yearly awards+ceremony to the intro; and deleted sentence starting "Previous members...have included" (it's duplicated further down) and incorporated the rest of that paragraph into the next one (both are about women).
14 January 2024
- 23:50 23:50, 14 January 2024 diff hist +4 m Harvard College changed AB and SB to BA and BS which are far, far more common. They are also in keeping with Wikipedia ‘protocol’ (see entries Bachelor_of_Arts and Bachelor_of_Science). And, for those who use AB/SB or are unfamiliar with either format, I added the full terms in parentheses.
21 November 2023
- 07:37 07:37, 21 November 2023 diff hist +548 Martha Jefferson Randolph →White House: When you strip away all the stuff in parentheses, the 1st 2 sentences read “Randolph made several visits to the President's House when her father was president. During her visits from mid-November 1802 to January 5, 1803 and 1805–1806.” That’s some horrific grammar. Tried to parce out what original writer wanted to say and rephrase.
10 September 2023
- 23:12 23:12, 10 September 2023 diff hist +2,974 Talk:BTS →Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 10 September 2023: new section
3 May 2023
- 04:21 04:21, 3 May 2023 diff hist +6 m Lester Holt →Career: Clarified that Trump's comment that Holt's moderating the debate was "a very unfair system" came prior to the debate.
- 04:10 04:10, 3 May 2023 diff hist +366 Lester Holt Removed 'musician' from list of occupations. It was never his occupation, just a hobby. If we're going to list it under his occupations then we need to do the same for Steven King and Dave Barry (which we don't, I checked). Instead I'm expanding the music mention under Personal Life
8 March 2023
- 05:51 05:51, 8 March 2023 diff hist +127 Peter Mark Roget 1)Removed the Samuel Romilly hyperlink in the second paragraph under Medical career. Only the 1st instance of his name should be hyperinked. 2) Moved info about Samuel earlier in the article. Previously who he was wasn’t explained until the 4th and final instance of his name. 3)put his family, later life, and about Samuel's suicide under a new header ‘Personal life'. Made no sense to have the suicide under 'Medical career'.
19 February 2023
- 05:51 05:51, 19 February 2023 diff hist +13 m James Arthur Ray every reputable news outlet, encyclopedia, and other reference work calls them 'convicted criminals' not just 'criminals'. Wikipedia does this by custom too (See Oscar Pistorius, Scott Peterson, Jesse Anderson).
3 February 2023
- 07:32 07:32, 3 February 2023 diff hist +313 m History of same-sex marriage in the United States →Court decision: Iowa: added that the decision remained in effect despite recall of judges
1 January 2023
- 01:39 01:39, 1 January 2023 diff hist +5 Birthday problem 1) Felt that the 1st 2 sentences need to be tied together at least a little, that the 2nd needs to reference the 1st. This could be done less drastically w/ '...counterintuitively, that probability exceeds...' or 'The related birthday paradox...' 2) 'seems wrong at first glance' insults people's intelligence a bit less than 'appears wrong'
10 September 2022
- 21:46 21:46, 10 September 2022 diff hist +1,010 Talk:Adolf Eichmann →Copyright infringement or plagiarism?: new section Tag: New topic
9 September 2022
- 05:24 05:24, 9 September 2022 diff hist +138 m Meghan, Duchess of Sussex clarified what 'multiracial' means/how Meghan identifies racially.
4 July 2022
- 07:44 07:44, 4 July 2022 diff hist +66 m U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state tidying up my previous edit's references
- 07:37 07:37, 4 July 2022 diff hist +558 U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state Corrected Alaska & Hawaii's drinking ages from 18 to 21 and provided references
28 June 2022
- 04:04 04:04, 28 June 2022 diff hist −5 m 4chan →Threats of violence: Just cleaning up my previous edit a little
- 04:02 04:02, 28 June 2022 diff hist +134 m 4chan →Threats of violence: The following sentence was confusing, so I edited it: The perpetrator and FBI considered the threat to be clearly frivolous; he was charged with fabricating a fake terrorist threat, sentenced to six months in prison, six months' house arrest, and ordered to pay $26,750 in restitution.
18 June 2022
- 23:35 23:35, 18 June 2022 diff hist +28 m Maine →State and local politics: Changed 'recently' to 'recent history' - seems more accurate when referring to 1979. Reworded bit about Angus King being current Senator - I found old version confusing.
30 May 2022
- 19:57 19:57, 30 May 2022 diff hist +57 m Eta (disambiguation) added 'Edited to Add' to the other uses
20 May 2022
- 19:23 19:23, 20 May 2022 diff hist −26 m Andy Rooney Paris and London don't have hyperlinks nor does the much more obscure Hamilton, NY. There's no reason why mention of Boston in a brief side note needs a hyperlink.
17 May 2022
- 18:26 18:26, 17 May 2022 diff hist +327 Help talk:Infobox →Guideline on not making the lead illegible?
- 18:10 18:10, 17 May 2022 diff hist +633 Help talk:Infobox →'website' or 'url'?: new section
11 May 2022
- 05:19 05:19, 11 May 2022 diff hist +3 m Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park 1) Under "Features and facilities" changed 'Billings Farm' to 'Billings Farm & Museum'. There hasn't been any stand-alone farm for decades. 2) Under "History" I fixed the grammatically incorrect sentence that starts wtih 'Between 1869 and 1881 Billings commissioned...'
- 04:10 04:10, 11 May 2022 diff hist −4 m Woodstock, Vermont removed the link to the wikipedia page 'Billings Farm & Museum' (under "Arts and culture") because as of right now there is no such page.
- 04:01 04:01, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Metropolitan Tabernacle added disambiguation link Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 03:59 03:59, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Tin tabernacle added disambiguation link Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 03:58 03:58, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Tabernacle societies added disambiguation link current Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 03:58 03:58, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Church tabernacle added disambiguation link Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 03:56 03:56, 11 May 2022 diff hist +43 m Tabernacle (Methodist) added disambiguation link Tag: Disambiguation links added
7 May 2022
- 18:56 18:56, 7 May 2022 diff hist +14 m Androgen insensitivity syndrome added link to definition of 'karyotype'
4 April 2022
- 01:31 01:31, 4 April 2022 diff hist +12 m Plant community Reworked "the rate at which water infiltrates or evapotranspirates from the soil". First, because 'evapotranspirates' is not a word, and second, very few people will recognize that word so it should be hyperlinked to its wikipedia page.
29 September 2021
- 05:22 05:22, 29 September 2021 diff hist +479 Anita Hill →Work as a professor: added what she's done professionally since 1986
18 September 2021
- 20:41 20:41, 18 September 2021 diff hist +2,144 Talk:Knights Templar →opening synopsis: new section
13 August 2021
- 05:22 05:22, 13 August 2021 diff hist +42 m Red Shirt, South Dakota added disambiguation
- 05:22 05:22, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Red Shirts (Thailand) added disambiguation
- 05:21 05:21, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Red Shirt (Oglala) added disambiguation
- 05:19 05:19, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Red Shirts (Mexico) added disambiguation
- 05:18 05:18, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Redshirts (song) added disambiguation
- 05:17 05:17, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Redshirt (video game) added disambiguation
- 05:16 05:16, 13 August 2021 diff hist −39 m Red Shirts (film) →Cast: removed non-existent links
- 05:12 05:12, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Red Shirts (film) added disambiguation
- 05:11 05:11, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 Redshirts (novel) added disambiguation
- 05:09 05:09, 13 August 2021 diff hist +41 m Redshirt (stock character) added disambiguation
9 July 2021
- 03:36 03:36, 9 July 2021 diff hist +172 Korean War Added to the intro paragraph that while the armistice was signed in 1953, the 2 sides are still technically at war. Tag: Reverted
- 03:28 03:28, 9 July 2021 diff hist +37 m Korean War Sentence starting 'After the surrender of Japan': added that the US & the Soviet Union were the ones who did the division & adjusted punctuation to make sentence clearer. Also fixed an unpaired open parenthesis in 1st paragraph.
16 June 2021
- 18:56 18:56, 16 June 2021 diff hist −3 m Jill Biden →Education and career, marriages and family: semi-colon didn't work. Changed it to 'and' and changed 'became known as' to 'took the name'
- 18:53 18:53, 16 June 2021 diff hist +14 Jill Biden →Early life: changed a couple pronouns (her) to 'Biden' for clarity; added 'Italian' for those who don't know where Sicily is; changed 'after entry into' to 'after entering' ...just sounded less awkward. Feel free to change it back.
- 18:33 18:33, 16 June 2021 diff hist −4 Jill Biden →First Lady of the United States: Removed the Anthony Bernal hyperlink. It linked to 'Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign' where the only mention of Bernal is in a list of 18 'Key People' in the campaign. ...You'd have to do a keyword search just to find what this article already says - that he was a campaign staffer