A user with 377 edits. Account created on 27 January 2015.
22 May 2024
- 19:16 19:16, 22 May 2024 diff hist −3 m Computability Deleted a superfluous instance of the verb "is" in the sentence that mentions the "Chomsky hierarchy" current
16 May 2024
- 17:30 17:30, 16 May 2024 diff hist +1 m P versus NP problem →Example: Changed final comma to semi-colon and added comma after the word "however"
7 January 2024
- 23:02 23:02, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3 m Polo Grounds →Fire and reconstruction as Polo Grounds IV: Edited a sentence about the field's outfield dimensions to make it less unwieldy.
- 22:53 22:53, 7 January 2024 diff hist −1 m Polo Grounds →Fire and reconstruction as Polo Grounds IV: Changed an instance of "which" to "that" to avoid the duplicate appearance of "which" in the same sentence.
3 January 2024
- 17:32 17:32, 3 January 2024 diff hist +62 m Braitenberg vehicle Added the name of Braitenberg's book in the first sentence, since without it the text confusingly references the "book" in the second sentence.
18 October 2023
- 16:33 16:33, 18 October 2023 diff hist +2 m George F. Kennan →Kennan and the Eisenhower administration: Changed a hyphen to an em-dash
- 16:30 16:30, 18 October 2023 diff hist −5 m George F. Kennan →Kennan and the Eisenhower administration: Deleted the superfluous second instance of the conjunction "with" in the sentence "Kennan wrote that the only Fellow with whom he could have a 'serious conversation' with was Berlin...."
- 16:25 16:25, 18 October 2023 diff hist 0 m George F. Kennan →Kennan and the Eisenhower administration: Changed "Kennan was one of the first people whom the text of the 'Secret Speech was shown to" to the less awkward "Kennan was one of the first people to whom the text of the 'Secret Speech' was shown"
- 16:17 16:17, 18 October 2023 diff hist +2 m George F. Kennan →Criticism of diplomacy under Truman: Changed "many officials such as the Dulles" to "many officials such as the Dulleses", assuming that the proper plural of the name applies to Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles
- 16:01 16:01, 18 October 2023 diff hist 0 m George F. Kennan →Differences with Acheson: Changed "on the margin" to the more appropriate "in the margin"
- 15:59 15:59, 18 October 2023 diff hist −3 m George F. Kennan →Differences with Acheson: Deleted the ellipsis preceding the quotation from Acheson's marginal remark in Kennan's paper; it's unnecessary.
- 15:55 15:55, 18 October 2023 diff hist +5 m George F. Kennan →Influence under Marshall: added the relative noun "that" after the phrase "from the four occupying powers...."
13 October 2023
- 20:49 20:49, 13 October 2023 diff hist −1 m George F. Kennan →At the National War College: In accordance with the 16th edition of "The Chicago Manual of Style", deleted the colon at the end of the line "Kennan's opinion was that this misunderstanding"
- 20:43 20:43, 13 October 2023 diff hist −2 George F. Kennan →At the National War College: Changed elements of the block quotation (including the spelling of "manoeuvers") to conform a) to the original text of the article (I found a PDF of the "Foreign Affairs" article) and to conform to the rules for block quotations as they appear in the 16th edition of "The Chicago Manual of Style"
- 15:29 15:29, 13 October 2023 diff hist −243 George F. Kennan →"X": Deleting the first sentence of the second paragraph (following the block quotation of Kennan's "X" article) because it repeats a large chunk of text that appears in the block quotation.
- 15:15 15:15, 13 October 2023 diff hist +4 m George F. Kennan →At the Soviet Embassy: Eliminated the infelicitous phrase "the latter" from the second sentence
- 14:32 14:32, 13 October 2023 diff hist −3 m Loy W. Henderson →Eastern Europe and USSR: Removed the superfluous word "to" from the phrase "the Kremlin broke its pledge to not to interfere ..."
11 October 2023
- 20:15 20:15, 11 October 2023 diff hist +179 Loy W. Henderson →Near Eastern Affairs
- 16:21 16:21, 11 October 2023 diff hist +128 m Loy W. Henderson →Eastern Europe and USSR: Altered reference to Henderson's 1936 memorandum to include a link to the actual memo at the U.S. Dept. of State website
- 16:11 16:11, 11 October 2023 diff hist +12 m Loy W. Henderson →Eastern Europe and USSR: Changed capital letter I in the phrase "in a memorandum" and added first name to the secretary of state, Cordell Hull (plus a link to Hull's Wikipedia profile)
- 16:07 16:07, 11 October 2023 diff hist +736 Talk:Loy W. Henderson →Unclear sentence: new section Tag: New topic
- 16:03 16:03, 11 October 2023 diff hist −5 m Loy W. Henderson →Eastern Europe and USSR: Corrected title of "Document 310" according to title as it appears at the U.S. State Dept. website: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1933-39/d310
6 October 2023
- 12:53 12:53, 6 October 2023 diff hist +6 m History Will Absolve Me →Castro's first court appearance: Second sentence begins improperly with a numeral, so I've adjusted it to begin with text instead. To avoid the appearance of too many commas, I've eliminated the last one in this sentence and replaced it with an em-dash. I've made a similar adjustment to the second sentence of the final paragraph.
- 12:47 12:47, 6 October 2023 diff hist +4 m History Will Absolve Me →Castro's first court appearance: Second sentence begins improperly with a numeral, so I've adjusted it to begin with text instead. To avoid the appearance of too many commas, I've eliminated the last one in this sentence and replaced it with an em-dash.
5 October 2023
- 21:02 21:02, 5 October 2023 diff hist +1,248 Talk:June Cobb →Augmenting the final section, "CIA files": new section Tag: New topic
1 October 2023
- 20:09 20:09, 1 October 2023 diff hist −1 m June Cobb →CIA recruitment: Deleted the superfluous "e" in the phrase "one more than one occasion"
12 September 2023
- 19:12 19:12, 12 September 2023 diff hist +9 m Jim McWilliams →Artist's books, design, and teaching: Corrected a verb tense in the second sentence current
29 June 2023
- 13:53 13:53, 29 June 2023 diff hist +7 m Lewis Powell (conspirator) →Escape and Mosby's Rangers: Cleaned up an awkwardly phrased sentence about Augustus Bradford
- 13:47 13:47, 29 June 2023 diff hist +1 m Lewis Powell (conspirator) →Escape and Mosby's Rangers: Added an apostrophe to indicate the possessive for Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks' "plan to stop secession"
16 May 2023
- 16:43 16:43, 16 May 2023 diff hist +1 m Mehmet Yavuz →Biography: In the final sentence of this section, I changed "I" to "In", so it reads "In 2018, he criticized the constitution again."
19 April 2023
- 15:58 15:58, 19 April 2023 diff hist +26 m Blood, Sweat & Tears →David Clayton-Thomas era: Eliminated the vague noun "this" in the sentence "The band was criticized for this."
12 April 2023
- 19:13 19:13, 12 April 2023 diff hist −1 m Elle Fanning deleted the comma preceding the 2014 Disney film "Maleficent"; the comma indicates that Disney made only one movie in 2014 and "Maleficient" was it -- a claim I strongly suspect is incorrect.
11 April 2023
- 19:47 19:47, 11 April 2023 diff hist +4 m Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe added the definite article "the" before "population"
- 19:46 19:46, 11 April 2023 diff hist 0 m Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe Changed "drain of" to the better prepositional phrase "drain on"
27 February 2023
- 17:23 17:23, 27 February 2023 diff hist +1 m James A. Garfield →Treatment and death: I've corrected the date Guiteau was found guilty (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/01/26/106240802.html)
26 February 2023
- 22:00 22:00, 26 February 2023 diff hist −7 m James G. Kiernan Found Kiernan's death date on page 13 of the New York Times dated July 3, 1923. (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/07/03/105921069.html?pageNumber=13) Tag: Reverted
22 February 2023
- 22:46 22:46, 22 February 2023 diff hist −3 m Summa Theologica →Translations: The publisher "Benziger Brothers" was misspelled "Benzinger Brothers"
3 November 2022
- 16:10 16:10, 3 November 2022 diff hist −14 m Judeo-Christian Adjusted an awkwardly phrased sentence to remove a couple of unnecessary commas.
12 October 2022
- 15:29 15:29, 12 October 2022 diff hist −7 m Marshall Hodgson →Islamicate: Tweaked the first sentence to eliminate the duplicate use of the relative pronoun "which"
- 15:24 15:24, 12 October 2022 diff hist 0 m Marshall Hodgson →Life: Changed "chairman on" to "chairman of"
- 15:23 15:23, 12 October 2022 diff hist −1 m Marshall Hodgson →Life: corrected the misspelling of "later" as "latter"
13 May 2022
- 18:59 18:59, 13 May 2022 diff hist 0 m Volkswagen Beetle Eliminated the double usage of the word "even" in the sentence about GM's introduction of the rear-engine Corvair in 1959.
27 April 2022
- 15:21 15:21, 27 April 2022 diff hist −2 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Social media corporations: Deleted the unnecessary commas setting off the word "therefore"
- 15:19 15:19, 27 April 2022 diff hist 0 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Social media corporations: Hyphenated "Biden laptop and emails" before the word "situation" to clarify the meaning of the phrase
26 April 2022
- 22:24 22:24, 26 April 2022 diff hist +2 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Aftermath and veracity concerns: Eliminated improper punctuation and capitalization in the final sentence.
- 22:17 22:17, 26 April 2022 diff hist +2 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Aftermath and veracity concerns: Eliminated the confusing use of quotation marks in the paragraph that draws on Mac Isaac's comments as quoted in The Washington Post
- 22:10 22:10, 26 April 2022 diff hist +32 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Ukraine material: Added the first name -- and a significant detail about -- Mykola Zlochevsky
- 21:02 21:02, 26 April 2022 diff hist +1 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →New York Post reporting: Changed "a August 2017 venture" to "an August 2017 venture"
- 20:53 20:53, 26 April 2022 diff hist −1 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy Deleted unneeded comma preceding the name of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General
5 April 2022
A user with 377 edits. Account created on 27 January 2015.
22 May 2024
- 19:16 19:16, 22 May 2024 diff hist −3 m Computability Deleted a superfluous instance of the verb "is" in the sentence that mentions the "Chomsky hierarchy" current
16 May 2024
- 17:30 17:30, 16 May 2024 diff hist +1 m P versus NP problem →Example: Changed final comma to semi-colon and added comma after the word "however"
7 January 2024
- 23:02 23:02, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3 m Polo Grounds →Fire and reconstruction as Polo Grounds IV: Edited a sentence about the field's outfield dimensions to make it less unwieldy.
- 22:53 22:53, 7 January 2024 diff hist −1 m Polo Grounds →Fire and reconstruction as Polo Grounds IV: Changed an instance of "which" to "that" to avoid the duplicate appearance of "which" in the same sentence.
3 January 2024
- 17:32 17:32, 3 January 2024 diff hist +62 m Braitenberg vehicle Added the name of Braitenberg's book in the first sentence, since without it the text confusingly references the "book" in the second sentence.
18 October 2023
- 16:33 16:33, 18 October 2023 diff hist +2 m George F. Kennan →Kennan and the Eisenhower administration: Changed a hyphen to an em-dash
- 16:30 16:30, 18 October 2023 diff hist −5 m George F. Kennan →Kennan and the Eisenhower administration: Deleted the superfluous second instance of the conjunction "with" in the sentence "Kennan wrote that the only Fellow with whom he could have a 'serious conversation' with was Berlin...."
- 16:25 16:25, 18 October 2023 diff hist 0 m George F. Kennan →Kennan and the Eisenhower administration: Changed "Kennan was one of the first people whom the text of the 'Secret Speech was shown to" to the less awkward "Kennan was one of the first people to whom the text of the 'Secret Speech' was shown"
- 16:17 16:17, 18 October 2023 diff hist +2 m George F. Kennan →Criticism of diplomacy under Truman: Changed "many officials such as the Dulles" to "many officials such as the Dulleses", assuming that the proper plural of the name applies to Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles
- 16:01 16:01, 18 October 2023 diff hist 0 m George F. Kennan →Differences with Acheson: Changed "on the margin" to the more appropriate "in the margin"
- 15:59 15:59, 18 October 2023 diff hist −3 m George F. Kennan →Differences with Acheson: Deleted the ellipsis preceding the quotation from Acheson's marginal remark in Kennan's paper; it's unnecessary.
- 15:55 15:55, 18 October 2023 diff hist +5 m George F. Kennan →Influence under Marshall: added the relative noun "that" after the phrase "from the four occupying powers...."
13 October 2023
- 20:49 20:49, 13 October 2023 diff hist −1 m George F. Kennan →At the National War College: In accordance with the 16th edition of "The Chicago Manual of Style", deleted the colon at the end of the line "Kennan's opinion was that this misunderstanding"
- 20:43 20:43, 13 October 2023 diff hist −2 George F. Kennan →At the National War College: Changed elements of the block quotation (including the spelling of "manoeuvers") to conform a) to the original text of the article (I found a PDF of the "Foreign Affairs" article) and to conform to the rules for block quotations as they appear in the 16th edition of "The Chicago Manual of Style"
- 15:29 15:29, 13 October 2023 diff hist −243 George F. Kennan →"X": Deleting the first sentence of the second paragraph (following the block quotation of Kennan's "X" article) because it repeats a large chunk of text that appears in the block quotation.
- 15:15 15:15, 13 October 2023 diff hist +4 m George F. Kennan →At the Soviet Embassy: Eliminated the infelicitous phrase "the latter" from the second sentence
- 14:32 14:32, 13 October 2023 diff hist −3 m Loy W. Henderson →Eastern Europe and USSR: Removed the superfluous word "to" from the phrase "the Kremlin broke its pledge to not to interfere ..."
11 October 2023
- 20:15 20:15, 11 October 2023 diff hist +179 Loy W. Henderson →Near Eastern Affairs
- 16:21 16:21, 11 October 2023 diff hist +128 m Loy W. Henderson →Eastern Europe and USSR: Altered reference to Henderson's 1936 memorandum to include a link to the actual memo at the U.S. Dept. of State website
- 16:11 16:11, 11 October 2023 diff hist +12 m Loy W. Henderson →Eastern Europe and USSR: Changed capital letter I in the phrase "in a memorandum" and added first name to the secretary of state, Cordell Hull (plus a link to Hull's Wikipedia profile)
- 16:07 16:07, 11 October 2023 diff hist +736 Talk:Loy W. Henderson →Unclear sentence: new section Tag: New topic
- 16:03 16:03, 11 October 2023 diff hist −5 m Loy W. Henderson →Eastern Europe and USSR: Corrected title of "Document 310" according to title as it appears at the U.S. State Dept. website: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1933-39/d310
6 October 2023
- 12:53 12:53, 6 October 2023 diff hist +6 m History Will Absolve Me →Castro's first court appearance: Second sentence begins improperly with a numeral, so I've adjusted it to begin with text instead. To avoid the appearance of too many commas, I've eliminated the last one in this sentence and replaced it with an em-dash. I've made a similar adjustment to the second sentence of the final paragraph.
- 12:47 12:47, 6 October 2023 diff hist +4 m History Will Absolve Me →Castro's first court appearance: Second sentence begins improperly with a numeral, so I've adjusted it to begin with text instead. To avoid the appearance of too many commas, I've eliminated the last one in this sentence and replaced it with an em-dash.
5 October 2023
- 21:02 21:02, 5 October 2023 diff hist +1,248 Talk:June Cobb →Augmenting the final section, "CIA files": new section Tag: New topic
1 October 2023
- 20:09 20:09, 1 October 2023 diff hist −1 m June Cobb →CIA recruitment: Deleted the superfluous "e" in the phrase "one more than one occasion"
12 September 2023
- 19:12 19:12, 12 September 2023 diff hist +9 m Jim McWilliams →Artist's books, design, and teaching: Corrected a verb tense in the second sentence current
29 June 2023
- 13:53 13:53, 29 June 2023 diff hist +7 m Lewis Powell (conspirator) →Escape and Mosby's Rangers: Cleaned up an awkwardly phrased sentence about Augustus Bradford
- 13:47 13:47, 29 June 2023 diff hist +1 m Lewis Powell (conspirator) →Escape and Mosby's Rangers: Added an apostrophe to indicate the possessive for Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks' "plan to stop secession"
16 May 2023
- 16:43 16:43, 16 May 2023 diff hist +1 m Mehmet Yavuz →Biography: In the final sentence of this section, I changed "I" to "In", so it reads "In 2018, he criticized the constitution again."
19 April 2023
- 15:58 15:58, 19 April 2023 diff hist +26 m Blood, Sweat & Tears →David Clayton-Thomas era: Eliminated the vague noun "this" in the sentence "The band was criticized for this."
12 April 2023
- 19:13 19:13, 12 April 2023 diff hist −1 m Elle Fanning deleted the comma preceding the 2014 Disney film "Maleficent"; the comma indicates that Disney made only one movie in 2014 and "Maleficient" was it -- a claim I strongly suspect is incorrect.
11 April 2023
- 19:47 19:47, 11 April 2023 diff hist +4 m Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe added the definite article "the" before "population"
- 19:46 19:46, 11 April 2023 diff hist 0 m Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe Changed "drain of" to the better prepositional phrase "drain on"
27 February 2023
- 17:23 17:23, 27 February 2023 diff hist +1 m James A. Garfield →Treatment and death: I've corrected the date Guiteau was found guilty (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/01/26/106240802.html)
26 February 2023
- 22:00 22:00, 26 February 2023 diff hist −7 m James G. Kiernan Found Kiernan's death date on page 13 of the New York Times dated July 3, 1923. (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/07/03/105921069.html?pageNumber=13) Tag: Reverted
22 February 2023
- 22:46 22:46, 22 February 2023 diff hist −3 m Summa Theologica →Translations: The publisher "Benziger Brothers" was misspelled "Benzinger Brothers"
3 November 2022
- 16:10 16:10, 3 November 2022 diff hist −14 m Judeo-Christian Adjusted an awkwardly phrased sentence to remove a couple of unnecessary commas.
12 October 2022
- 15:29 15:29, 12 October 2022 diff hist −7 m Marshall Hodgson →Islamicate: Tweaked the first sentence to eliminate the duplicate use of the relative pronoun "which"
- 15:24 15:24, 12 October 2022 diff hist 0 m Marshall Hodgson →Life: Changed "chairman on" to "chairman of"
- 15:23 15:23, 12 October 2022 diff hist −1 m Marshall Hodgson →Life: corrected the misspelling of "later" as "latter"
13 May 2022
- 18:59 18:59, 13 May 2022 diff hist 0 m Volkswagen Beetle Eliminated the double usage of the word "even" in the sentence about GM's introduction of the rear-engine Corvair in 1959.
27 April 2022
- 15:21 15:21, 27 April 2022 diff hist −2 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Social media corporations: Deleted the unnecessary commas setting off the word "therefore"
- 15:19 15:19, 27 April 2022 diff hist 0 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Social media corporations: Hyphenated "Biden laptop and emails" before the word "situation" to clarify the meaning of the phrase
26 April 2022
- 22:24 22:24, 26 April 2022 diff hist +2 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Aftermath and veracity concerns: Eliminated improper punctuation and capitalization in the final sentence.
- 22:17 22:17, 26 April 2022 diff hist +2 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Aftermath and veracity concerns: Eliminated the confusing use of quotation marks in the paragraph that draws on Mac Isaac's comments as quoted in The Washington Post
- 22:10 22:10, 26 April 2022 diff hist +32 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →Ukraine material: Added the first name -- and a significant detail about -- Mykola Zlochevsky
- 21:02 21:02, 26 April 2022 diff hist +1 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy →New York Post reporting: Changed "a August 2017 venture" to "an August 2017 venture"
- 20:53 20:53, 26 April 2022 diff hist −1 m Hunter Biden laptop controversy Deleted unneeded comma preceding the name of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General