22:4822:48, 4 January 2020diffhist+111
Black comedy
Destupidified the lede. Dark humor is humor that is dark. A genre principally based on it can also be called by the same name, but the genre is a subset of the phenomenon, not the entire phenomenon.
18:2918:29, 4 January 2020diffhist+151
Garage door
This cross-reference needs to be here because as a reader I found it lacking today—I knew I had read the information on Wikipedia before, but in trying to find it again, I came here first and could not find it, then had to hunt it up. This fixes that.
01:2901:29, 14 March 2019diffhist+80
G-code
Can't win on that, because when it used to say "students" there, some crank took some weird exception to that, alleging essentially that there was no such thing as trade school students learning CNC operation in the 1970s and 80s (which is patently false, but whatever), so it was changed to "people". Which students or which people is not the point anyway: the point is to duly acknowledge "yes, it's not literal, but that doesn't matter, because it is what it is."
17:1217:12, 10 March 2019diffhist−125
Ford flathead V8 engine
→Block: Duboius. The block was a single casting and the oil pan was stamped steel. So where is the alleged "bottom part" of the crankcase that is separate from those? I'm not convinced that either the German-language Kremser 1942 ref or the citing of it were done with completely accurate understanding. See my previous edit summary as well.
17:0317:03, 10 March 2019diffhist−38
Ford flathead V8 engine
→Crankshaft: Removed dubious and unsourced claim that was injected later into a previously accurately referenced sentence. The cited reference does not support the claim that the cast steel was stainless.
00:3900:39, 23 January 2019diffhist+167
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
The |d|uː version is more commonly used than the |d|j|uː version, and Merriam-Webster lists them in that order. (Neither English pronunciation represents any affected approximation of the French pronunciation, lest anyone imagine that |d|j|uː does.)
00:3700:37, 23 January 2019diffhist+189
Du Pont family
The |d|uː version is more commonly used than the |d|j|uː version, and Merriam-Webster lists them in that order. (Neither English pronunciation represents any affected approximation of the French pronunciation, lest anyone imagine that |d|j|uː does.)
00:3000:30, 23 January 2019diffhist−22
Du Pont family
Clarified to restore the original point of the sentence—it is not about every variant that someone published without editing, it is about references to the family in well-edited published content.
05:5005:50, 10 January 2019diffhist+33
Brass Era car
Restore blue link anchor removed without explanation by anon on 2018-10-22. If this was done under some misapprehension that motor trucks and motor cars couldn't possibly be lumped together under automobiles, that would be ignorant of the times.
22:4822:48, 4 January 2020diffhist+111
Black comedy
Destupidified the lede. Dark humor is humor that is dark. A genre principally based on it can also be called by the same name, but the genre is a subset of the phenomenon, not the entire phenomenon.
18:2918:29, 4 January 2020diffhist+151
Garage door
This cross-reference needs to be here because as a reader I found it lacking today—I knew I had read the information on Wikipedia before, but in trying to find it again, I came here first and could not find it, then had to hunt it up. This fixes that.
01:2901:29, 14 March 2019diffhist+80
G-code
Can't win on that, because when it used to say "students" there, some crank took some weird exception to that, alleging essentially that there was no such thing as trade school students learning CNC operation in the 1970s and 80s (which is patently false, but whatever), so it was changed to "people". Which students or which people is not the point anyway: the point is to duly acknowledge "yes, it's not literal, but that doesn't matter, because it is what it is."
17:1217:12, 10 March 2019diffhist−125
Ford flathead V8 engine
→Block: Duboius. The block was a single casting and the oil pan was stamped steel. So where is the alleged "bottom part" of the crankcase that is separate from those? I'm not convinced that either the German-language Kremser 1942 ref or the citing of it were done with completely accurate understanding. See my previous edit summary as well.
17:0317:03, 10 March 2019diffhist−38
Ford flathead V8 engine
→Crankshaft: Removed dubious and unsourced claim that was injected later into a previously accurately referenced sentence. The cited reference does not support the claim that the cast steel was stainless.
00:3900:39, 23 January 2019diffhist+167
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
The |d|uː version is more commonly used than the |d|j|uː version, and Merriam-Webster lists them in that order. (Neither English pronunciation represents any affected approximation of the French pronunciation, lest anyone imagine that |d|j|uː does.)
00:3700:37, 23 January 2019diffhist+189
Du Pont family
The |d|uː version is more commonly used than the |d|j|uː version, and Merriam-Webster lists them in that order. (Neither English pronunciation represents any affected approximation of the French pronunciation, lest anyone imagine that |d|j|uː does.)
00:3000:30, 23 January 2019diffhist−22
Du Pont family
Clarified to restore the original point of the sentence—it is not about every variant that someone published without editing, it is about references to the family in well-edited published content.
05:5005:50, 10 January 2019diffhist+33
Brass Era car
Restore blue link anchor removed without explanation by anon on 2018-10-22. If this was done under some misapprehension that motor trucks and motor cars couldn't possibly be lumped together under automobiles, that would be ignorant of the times.