25 June 2024

• 15:18 15:18, 25 June 2024 diff hist +541‎ Talk:Recto and verso ‎ →‎Reading order: Reply current Tag: Reply
• 15:04 15:04, 25 June 2024 diff hist +1,119‎ Talk:Recto and verso ‎ →‎Reading order: Reply Tag: Reply

24 June 2024

• 19:36 19:36, 24 June 2024 diff hist −18‎ Manuscriptology ‎ Amended "Vellum OR parchment - typical writing MATERIAL used in the European codex - ARE not used in India since THE INTRODUCTION OF leather - the material used for vellum AND parchment - ARE considered impure" --> "Vellum AND parchment - typical writing MATERIALS used in the European codex - are not used in India since leather - the material used for vellum AND parchment - IS considered ..."~~~~ current
• 19:30 19:30, 24 June 2024 diff hist +1‎ Manuscriptology ‎ Amended "Vellum]] or parchment - typical writing materials used in the European codex - are not used in India since the introduction of leather - the material used for vellum or parchment - are considered impure"

19 June 2024

• 01:05 01:05, 19 June 2024 diff hist +5‎ m New Horizons ‎ →‎History: Amended "The ''New Horizons'' proposal was one of five that officially submitted to NASA." --> "The ''New Horizons'' proposal was one of five that WERE officially submitted to NASA."~~~~

31 May 2024

• 00:36 00:36, 31 May 2024 diff hist +497‎ Talk:Trundholm sun chariot ‎ →‎Is that really a horse?: new section current Tag: New topic

11 May 2024

• 22:24 22:24, 11 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Great Comet of 1744 ‎ →‎Perihelion, "six tails": Amedned "the 1744 comet was unique BY having six" to "the 1744 comet was unique IN having six" current

3 May 2024

• 13:02 13:02, 3 May 2024 diff hist +5‎ m Glossary of rowing terms ‎ →‎Stroke: Changed the last word in "in a severe crab, the oar handle will knock the rower flat and end up behind them" to "the rower" for clarity.

16 April 2024

• 13:23 13:23, 16 April 2024 diff hist +2‎ m Bilingual method ‎ →‎Principles of The Bilingual Method: Amended "Bilingual method is THE combination of..." --> "THE bilingual method is A combination of... ".~~~~ current

23 February 2024

• 16:41 16:41, 23 February 2024 diff hist −1‎ m Little Sodbury Manor ‎ →‎Architecture: Amended "planeted" --> "planted current

17 February 2024

• 15:46 15:46, 17 February 2024 diff hist +17‎ FKU IK-3, Kharp ‎ →‎Notable prisoners: I added Navalny's age when he died in this prison.~~~~

29 January 2024

• 13:26 13:26, 29 January 2024 diff hist −130‎ m Clothespin ‎ →‎BDSM: It is foul to have torture presented as pleasure. This way lies shame, filth and madness.~~~~ Tag: Reverted

26 January 2024

• 15:44 15:44, 26 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ m Amazons ‎ →‎Historiography: Changed "lent him the idea that ..." --> "suggested to him the idea that ...". ~~~~

13 January 2024

• 19:15 19:15, 13 January 2024 diff hist −4‎ m 2023 Polish protests ‎ →‎Lex Tusk: Amended "the Duda" to "Duda" as Duda is a personal surname, not a title. Andrzej Duda is the current President of Poland.~~~~

5 January 2024

• 16:46 16:46, 5 January 2024 diff hist +12‎ Grade (slope) ‎ In the first few words I distinguished between US usage 'grade' and UK usage 'gradient'. UK has the word 'grade' but very rarely uses it to mean gradient/slope.~~~~
• 13:11 13:11, 5 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Grade (slope) ‎ Changed "typically grades are used for human-made surfaces" --> "typically the word "grade" is used for human-made surfaces".~~~~

6 December 2023

• 14:37 14:37, 6 December 2023 diff hist 0‎ m National Highway 134 (India) ‎ →‎Silkyara Bend – Barkot Tunnel: Amended "all weather connectivity" --> "all-weather connectivity". Without the hyphen it is difficult to understand. ~~~~

17 August 2023

• 17:49 17:49, 17 August 2023 diff hist +633‎ Talk:William Oughtred ‎ →‎Pronunciation of name Oughtred: Reply Tag: Reply

5 August 2023

• 17:21 17:21, 5 August 2023 diff hist +6‎ m Claude Bernard ‎ →‎Life and career: Amended "Bernard had been CHOSEN THE first occupant of" TO "Bernard had been CHOSEN TO BE THE first occupant of". ~~~~

1 August 2023

• 10:42 10:42, 1 August 2023 diff hist −5‎ m Byrhtferth ‎ Amended "the only information we have is THE ONE in his" to "... THAT GIVEN ...". Amended "[The Manual] CAN BE OF GREAT REFERENCE for the study of" to "... IT IS VALUABLE ...". Amended "compiled most of THESE THINGS things from works" to "... THIS MATERIAL ...".~~~~

31 July 2023

• 18:28 18:28, 31 July 2023 diff hist −6‎ m Location arithmetic ‎ →‎Multiplication: Amended "Napier PROCEEDED TO multiplication and division on an abacus, AS IT WAS common" to "Napier PERFORMED multiplication and division on an abacus, AS WAS common"; also a few other minor linguistic adjustments.~~~~ current
• 17:48 17:48, 31 July 2023 diff hist +1‎ m Roman numerals ‎ →‎Apostrophus: Amended "is often credited FOR introducing" to "... WITH ...". ~~~~

18 July 2023

• 12:58 12:58, 18 July 2023 diff hist +2‎ m Corian ‎ →‎History: Changed "is credited AS inventing Corian" --> "is credited WITH inventing Corian". "with" is the only correct preposition in British English. If "as" is correct in some other native English-speaking country I apologise!~~~~

17 July 2023

• 12:34 12:34, 17 July 2023 diff hist 0‎ m Ilford Photo ‎ Amended "a management buy out; Harman Technology Ltd, which " --> "a management buy-out, Harman Technology Ltd, which ". ~~~~

13 July 2023

• 12:30 12:30, 13 July 2023 diff hist +7‎ m Musical argument ‎ In the phrase "Experimental musics may use...", I changed "musics" to "musical forms". I hope this is acceptable.~~~~

6 July 2023

• 10:48 10:48, 6 July 2023 diff hist −1‎ Factoring (finance) ‎ →‎Rationale: Amended "firms" --> "firm's"; "the services insure the entrepreneurs" --> "these services insure entrepreneurs". I also suspect something illogical in "a major source of a liquidity crises and their equity" but I do not understand finance so will leave that.~~~~

8 April 2023

• 15:34 15:34, 8 April 2023 diff hist +24‎ Robert Estienne ‎ →‎Religious texts: Polished the English in various places without changing the meaning. E.g. "the most used Greek font ... and it combined" --> "the most widely used Greek font ... . In it he combined"; "contains the Latin translation of Erasmus and the Vulgate" --> "contains Erasmus's Latin translation Erasmus and the Vulgate"; "Scholars have qualified his editing of the Vulgate to be" --> "Scholars have described his editing of the Vulgate as"; etc.~~~~

6 April 2023

• 10:04 10:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4‎ De La Rue ‎ →‎History: Changed "he secured his business a Royal Warrant to ..." --> "he secured a Royal Warrant for his business to ...".~~~~
• 10:01 10:01, 6 April 2023 diff hist 0‎ Commemorative coin ‎ →‎History: Changed "economically exhaustiVE Napoleonic wars" (exhaustive = complete) --> "... exhaustiNG ..." (exhausting = wearying, draining). ~~~~

4 April 2023

• 14:38 14:38, 4 April 2023 diff hist +3‎ m Commodus as Hercules ‎ →‎Intent: Polished "There is speculation OF the Emperor's intent BY creating depictions of himself" --> "There is speculation ABOUT the Emperor's intent IN creating depictions of himself". ~~~~

27 March 2023

• 21:28 21:28, 27 March 2023 diff hist −795‎ Talk:School Mathematics Project ‎No edit summary Tag: Manual revert
• 21:25 21:25, 27 March 2023 diff hist +795‎ Talk:School Mathematics Project ‎ →‎What were sets and matrices for?: new section Tags: Reverted New topic
• 13:22 13:22, 27 March 2023 diff hist −4‎ m Firearms unit ‎ →‎History: Amended "The key to the box was held by a senior officer, AND THEIR permission had to be sought" --> "The key to the box was held by a senior officer, WHOSE permission had to be sought".~~~~

17 March 2023

• 11:15 11:15, 17 March 2023 diff hist +89‎ Communes of France ‎ →‎Area of a typical commune: Changed "The median area is a better measure of the area of a typical French commune." to "The median area gives a better sense of the size of a *typical* mainland France commune than the average area, since the average includes some very large communes."

23 February 2023

• 11:11 11:11, 23 February 2023 diff hist +1‎ Gooseneck (sailing) ‎ Changed "The boom MOVES from side to side and up and down --> "The boom PIVOTS from side to side and up and down" to make it clear that the boom does not move translationally: at its gooseneck end it stays in place. ~~~~

24 January 2023

• 18:53 18:53, 24 January 2023 diff hist +6‎ Optimates and populares ‎ Amended "historians have pointed the impossibility to apply such labels on" --> "historians have pointed TO the impossibility OF APPLYING such labels TO". ~~~~.

2 December 2022

• 18:28 18:28, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ m Project commissioning ‎ →‎Objective and impact: Amended "to AFFECT the safe and orderly handover ... "--> "to EFFECT the safe and orderly handover ...". ~~~~

11 November 2022

• 17:24 17:24, 11 November 2022 diff hist −492‎ Chicken wire ‎ →‎Other uses: I deleted a cold-blooded sentence about murder. It is wicked to casually spread sickening thoughts of murder, which is universally recognised to be the greatest crime, especially in a perfectly innocent topic. Research into ghoulish things can be done in fetid, putrid, dark places on the internet, but even there, God sees.~~~~

31 October 2022

• 15:55 15:55, 31 October 2022 diff hist −5‎ m Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting ‎ Corrected "an US teaching script" five times to "a US teaching script". We use "a" before "US" because the letter U is pronounced /ju/ (exactly the same as the word "you"), and the /j/ prevents any collision between the /ә/ and the /u/. ~~~~

3 October 2022

• 23:11 23:11, 3 October 2022 diff hist +295‎ Scroll ‎ →‎Replacement by the codex: Added a sentence about the weakening of scrolls due to being bent and unbent for storage and reading, which the written surface in a codex does not undergo. ~~~~

28 September 2022

• 12:12 12:12, 28 September 2022 diff hist 0‎ Old English grammar ‎ →‎Strong verbs: I put the list of formerly strong, now weak verbs into alphabetical order for ease of reference. ~~~~

18 September 2022

• 12:59 12:59, 18 September 2022 diff hist −3‎ m Annus horribilis ‎ →‎Juan Carlos I: Amended "led TO Spanish newspapers to" --> "led Spanish newspapers to"

13 August 2022

• 22:31 22:31, 13 August 2022 diff hist +4‎ m Horses gifted by the RCMP to the monarch of Canada ‎ →‎Subsequent horses gifted by the RCMP to Queen Elizabeth II: Amended "The Queen presented in 2002 with PSH Golden Jubilee" --> "The Queen WAS presented in 2002 with PSH Golden Jubilee"

11 August 2022

• 00:06 00:06, 11 August 2022 diff hist +354‎ Talk:Arminianism ‎ →‎16th Century Baptists: Reply Tag: Reply

9 August 2022

• 19:20 19:20, 9 August 2022 diff hist +566‎ Talk:Arminianism ‎ →‎16th Century Baptists

8 August 2022

• 16:09 16:09, 8 August 2022 diff hist −184‎ B. B. Warfield ‎ →‎Books: I have deleted 3 titles near the end of the "Books" list because they are listed (with dates) higher up the list: 'Counterfeit Miracles'; 'Are They Few that Be Saved'; 'The Lord of Glory: A Study of...' ~~~~

26 April 2022

• 18:50 18:50, 26 April 2022 diff hist −2‎ m Jennifer Widom ‎ →‎Academic career: Amended "conferred HER WITH the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award" --> "conferred ON HER the [...] Award".~~~~

28 February 2022

• 21:22 21:22, 28 February 2022 diff hist +3‎ Leonard Bailey (inventor) ‎ Amended "and remain popular BY today's wood craftsman" to "and remain popular AMONG today's wood craftsman". ~~~~

3 January 2022

• 09:38 09:38, 3 January 2022 diff hist 0‎ m Load-following power plant ‎ In the lead paragraph I removed the hyphen from "in-between", and inserted hyphens in "start up" and "shut down".~~~~

3 December 2021

• 16:26 16:26, 3 December 2021 diff hist −13‎ Metal profiles ‎ →‎Acoustics: Rephrased "The sound reduction assessments of up to ... have been realised." as "Sound has been found to be reduced by up to ... ."~~~~