04:3804:38, 2 May 2024diffhist+34
Rachel Corrie
fails to mention that Corrie was committed to nonviolence, the ISM is committed to nonviolence, and her protest was a strategy of nonviolence.
16:4716:47, 26 April 2024diffhist−7
Great Barrington Declaration
calling the notion of targetted protection "fringe" is editorializing on one side of a valid scientific debate. The endorsers of the Gt. Barrington Declaration are hardly "fringe" scientists, despite portrayal as suchTag: Reverted
8 April 2024
20:4720:47, 8 April 2024diffhist+2
The City on the Edge of Forever
→Plot: changed "injured" to "near death" Sulu because the defiance of death and destiny is the them at the very core of the episode. Recounting it merely as "injured" overlooks this important moment, which then sets into motion the entire drama - McCoy's accident, the change of history, and the confrontation with Keeler's destiny.
20:4420:44, 8 April 2024diffhist−12
The City on the Edge of Forever
changed "proper timeline" to "history." History is restored, and yes it is restored in a way that brings back the Enterprise, but the word "proper" is too strong and is a critical interpretation, not consistent with the episode's haunting uncertainty if it /was/ the proper choice or not. Remember the Guardian tells Spock his science is very crude, so following Spock's admonition to kill Keeler is /not/ established as "proper" by any but a superficial reading. So just "history" is consistent/
23:4523:45, 31 March 2024diffhist+88
Atrocities in the Congo Free State
→Mutilation and brutality: The quote from Leopold is a complete historical non-sequiter that undermines the previous claims about live dismemberment being rare or unusual, so a transition phrase was added to note the discrepancy, suggesting, sympathetically to the historians cited, that Leopold was mistaken.Tag: Reverted
23 March 2024
22:4222:42, 23 March 2024diffhist−69
Glenn Greenwald
→Early life and education: Greenwald was born Jewish but does not practlce or believe in Judaism - like many Jews with Jewish parents and family. Removed strange phrasing that somehow his Jewishness is incidental to failed family influence, as it appeads to be the result of editors attemmpting to minimize his heritage because of objection to his political views.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
04:3104:31, 18 March 2024diffhist0
Wehrmacht
changed "audacious" to "bellicose" to make the account less laudatory and more consistent with the mass slaughter that ensued.
05:3305:33, 3 March 2024diffhist+106
The City on the Edge of Forever
Crucially, it is /not/ established in the episode that Spock's admonition that Keller must die was the right choice - that is what makes this episode so gut wrenching and haunting. Because if you can look into the future and see the results of your choices being the opposite of what you intend, how can Kirk know saving the Enterprise timeline /itself/ ultimately ends in good? The unedited version falsely forecloses this reading, which is clearly indicated by Kirk's silence and other plot clues.
12 February 2024
21:1521:15, 12 February 2024diffhist+171
List of democratic socialists
→Heads of government: added Morales and Ortego as heads of state. these are socialists who espouse and lead democratic politics. That some criticize them as "authoritarian" is of no consequence here - this is a list of leaders who endorse belief and ideology of democratic socialism. If critique of implementation were the measure, then Joe Biden arguably doesn't qualify as a "democratic capitalist" bc the US is widely critiqued as being an authoritarian oligarchy not a functioning democracy.
21:0921:09, 12 February 2024diffhist−260
List of democratic socialists
→Disputed: Removed Evo Morales and Daniel Ortega from "disputed." Both espouse democratic socialism and endorse electoral democratic paths to socialist politics. if we are judging by the implementation, then Corbyn and Sanders could equally be under "disputed" as many would call them "social democrats" for taking part in capitalist governance.Tag: Manual revert
21:0621:06, 12 February 2024diffhist−260
List of democratic socialists
→Disputed: Removed Evo Morales and Daniel Ortega - while they both came to power in elections, they both self-identify as endorsing both socialism and democracy. The list is prominent democratic socialists based on ideology, not implementation. One could argue that Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are both social democrats and capitalists, not democratic socialists, if one was using a standard of evaluating their practice as both as part of capitalist, not socialist, politics.Tag: Reverted
25 January 2024
19:5219:52, 25 January 2024diffhist−5
Jason Morningstar
replaced "lack" with "forgo" because lack implies lack or deficiency or lower worth, whereas forgo is consistent with an intention that may equally add value.
20 January 2024
05:5205:52, 20 January 2024diffhist−63
Freikorps
removed "Soviet backed" as the German communist movement targeted by the freikorps was driven by the deeply rooted German left and labor movements; the revolutionary German left was allied with communist movements worldwide but could not be accurately described as "Soviet backed" as if it were an extension of Soviet foreign policy. It received no significant military resources or other backing of note; this is an inaccurate portrayal of the left as extension of the USSR, repeating Nazi tropes.
01:3901:39, 20 December 2023diffhist+1
Pseudoscience
→Improper collection of evidence: Clarified that "appeals to holism" is not indicative in itself of pseudoscience; only when such appeals are used to dismiss negative findings. Many adherents of strict normative science may also embrace holism or even religious viewsl; it is only when such views negate evidentiary counter-claims that they become psuedoscientific.
11:2411:24, 27 November 2023diffhist+220
Thomas Merton
→Death: Recent book provides extensive additional journalistic evidence related to Merton's death. This section should likely be revised based on this new additional evidence, as Turley's previous book provided much of the existing content related to the death.
11:0811:08, 27 November 2023diffhist+131
Thomas Merton
→Death: Turley's book does not merely "question" but demonstrates with careful investigation of the evidentiary record that claims of accidental death are insupportable. The book provides strong evidence of foulplay. This section was edited to correctly reflect the nature of Turley's book as strongly supporting the explanation that Merton was assassinated.
5 October 2023
17:4917:49, 5 October 2023diffhist−62
Anti-war movement
removed just cause clause - most anti-war movements are distinct from pacfist movements in that they recognize potential just-cause for war, but contest whether /this/ war has a just cause. Anti-war and pacifism or anti-all war are not the same.
23:1823:18, 18 September 2023diffhist+23
The City on the Edge of Forever
→Plot: Replaced "huge dose" with "overdose" as episode does not state "overdose." Added quotes about what McCoy says because crucial to the plot's questioning who is really mad: Kirk who allows Keeler to die or McCoy who tries to save her.
23:1123:11, 18 September 2023diffhist+5
The City on the Edge of Forever
→Plot: Removed "delusional and paranoid" because it interprets the episode rather than describes. it. To the others McCoy seems delusional and paranoid, but as we will see, the episode suggests McCoy, in his ranting, may in fact be the only sane one - Spock and Kirk do actually plan a murder.
23:0823:08, 18 September 2023diffhist+21
The City on the Edge of Forever
→Plot: Removed "With history restored," because one important point is that there are multiple histories, and it would be more accurate to say "with their preferred history restored", but this is awkward, so removed it entirely and just added ", where they find the Enterprise is restored." to the end as it accurately described the episode rather than adding there is one History to restore, which is not found in the episode."
04:5004:50, 6 July 2023diffhist−30
Thiomersal
removed "anti-vaccination" groups bc the majority of groups raising the concern support some vaccinations and generally advocate for safer vaccinations. Calling them "anti-vaccination" groups is like calling activists for seatbelts in cars "anti-automobile" groups. While there are some groups that are completely against all modern medication interventions incl vaccines such as religious groups, they generally are not activists on the issue beyond their own group.Tag: Reverted
16:3616:36, 9 February 2023diffhist+8
Seymour Hersh
Accuse and claim are not what reporters do. They do reporting. Edited for accuracy; original text made it sound like Hersh shared opinions, rather than doing detailed investigative reporting work.Tag: Reverted
17:3217:32, 28 October 2022diffhist+38
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is significant in its political use against government critics widely; association with anarchism.socialism.and communism arises from the accusation not from the intended targets who are primarily not so affiliated.Tags: RevertedMobile editMobile web edit
03:3203:32, 21 October 2022diffhist+570
Anti-psychiatry
lede definition is antiquated and misleading; primary issues are legal freedom, scientific validity, and effectiveness/iatrogenic harm of medications; lobotomy and electroshock are single issues more associated with activism of the 1970s and 1980s.
19:3119:31, 11 February 2022diffhist−1,768
Dorothy Kilgallen
→Kennedy assassination: Deleted the Newsweek "putting in context" section. Wikipedia is a report of facts, not a place to mobilize an argument against an interpretation of facts presented. The section on the JFK assassination spends a small amount of space about Kigallen's journalism on the assassination, which gained nationwide attention as she was such a prominent journalist, and then a /larger/ amount of space "contextualizing" this with what is essentially a one-sided rebuttal?
04:3804:38, 2 May 2024diffhist+34
Rachel Corrie
fails to mention that Corrie was committed to nonviolence, the ISM is committed to nonviolence, and her protest was a strategy of nonviolence.
16:4716:47, 26 April 2024diffhist−7
Great Barrington Declaration
calling the notion of targetted protection "fringe" is editorializing on one side of a valid scientific debate. The endorsers of the Gt. Barrington Declaration are hardly "fringe" scientists, despite portrayal as suchTag: Reverted
8 April 2024
20:4720:47, 8 April 2024diffhist+2
The City on the Edge of Forever
→Plot: changed "injured" to "near death" Sulu because the defiance of death and destiny is the them at the very core of the episode. Recounting it merely as "injured" overlooks this important moment, which then sets into motion the entire drama - McCoy's accident, the change of history, and the confrontation with Keeler's destiny.
20:4420:44, 8 April 2024diffhist−12
The City on the Edge of Forever
changed "proper timeline" to "history." History is restored, and yes it is restored in a way that brings back the Enterprise, but the word "proper" is too strong and is a critical interpretation, not consistent with the episode's haunting uncertainty if it /was/ the proper choice or not. Remember the Guardian tells Spock his science is very crude, so following Spock's admonition to kill Keeler is /not/ established as "proper" by any but a superficial reading. So just "history" is consistent/
23:4523:45, 31 March 2024diffhist+88
Atrocities in the Congo Free State
→Mutilation and brutality: The quote from Leopold is a complete historical non-sequiter that undermines the previous claims about live dismemberment being rare or unusual, so a transition phrase was added to note the discrepancy, suggesting, sympathetically to the historians cited, that Leopold was mistaken.Tag: Reverted
23 March 2024
22:4222:42, 23 March 2024diffhist−69
Glenn Greenwald
→Early life and education: Greenwald was born Jewish but does not practlce or believe in Judaism - like many Jews with Jewish parents and family. Removed strange phrasing that somehow his Jewishness is incidental to failed family influence, as it appeads to be the result of editors attemmpting to minimize his heritage because of objection to his political views.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
04:3104:31, 18 March 2024diffhist0
Wehrmacht
changed "audacious" to "bellicose" to make the account less laudatory and more consistent with the mass slaughter that ensued.
05:3305:33, 3 March 2024diffhist+106
The City on the Edge of Forever
Crucially, it is /not/ established in the episode that Spock's admonition that Keller must die was the right choice - that is what makes this episode so gut wrenching and haunting. Because if you can look into the future and see the results of your choices being the opposite of what you intend, how can Kirk know saving the Enterprise timeline /itself/ ultimately ends in good? The unedited version falsely forecloses this reading, which is clearly indicated by Kirk's silence and other plot clues.
12 February 2024
21:1521:15, 12 February 2024diffhist+171
List of democratic socialists
→Heads of government: added Morales and Ortego as heads of state. these are socialists who espouse and lead democratic politics. That some criticize them as "authoritarian" is of no consequence here - this is a list of leaders who endorse belief and ideology of democratic socialism. If critique of implementation were the measure, then Joe Biden arguably doesn't qualify as a "democratic capitalist" bc the US is widely critiqued as being an authoritarian oligarchy not a functioning democracy.
21:0921:09, 12 February 2024diffhist−260
List of democratic socialists
→Disputed: Removed Evo Morales and Daniel Ortega from "disputed." Both espouse democratic socialism and endorse electoral democratic paths to socialist politics. if we are judging by the implementation, then Corbyn and Sanders could equally be under "disputed" as many would call them "social democrats" for taking part in capitalist governance.Tag: Manual revert
21:0621:06, 12 February 2024diffhist−260
List of democratic socialists
→Disputed: Removed Evo Morales and Daniel Ortega - while they both came to power in elections, they both self-identify as endorsing both socialism and democracy. The list is prominent democratic socialists based on ideology, not implementation. One could argue that Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are both social democrats and capitalists, not democratic socialists, if one was using a standard of evaluating their practice as both as part of capitalist, not socialist, politics.Tag: Reverted
25 January 2024
19:5219:52, 25 January 2024diffhist−5
Jason Morningstar
replaced "lack" with "forgo" because lack implies lack or deficiency or lower worth, whereas forgo is consistent with an intention that may equally add value.
20 January 2024
05:5205:52, 20 January 2024diffhist−63
Freikorps
removed "Soviet backed" as the German communist movement targeted by the freikorps was driven by the deeply rooted German left and labor movements; the revolutionary German left was allied with communist movements worldwide but could not be accurately described as "Soviet backed" as if it were an extension of Soviet foreign policy. It received no significant military resources or other backing of note; this is an inaccurate portrayal of the left as extension of the USSR, repeating Nazi tropes.
01:3901:39, 20 December 2023diffhist+1
Pseudoscience
→Improper collection of evidence: Clarified that "appeals to holism" is not indicative in itself of pseudoscience; only when such appeals are used to dismiss negative findings. Many adherents of strict normative science may also embrace holism or even religious viewsl; it is only when such views negate evidentiary counter-claims that they become psuedoscientific.
11:2411:24, 27 November 2023diffhist+220
Thomas Merton
→Death: Recent book provides extensive additional journalistic evidence related to Merton's death. This section should likely be revised based on this new additional evidence, as Turley's previous book provided much of the existing content related to the death.
11:0811:08, 27 November 2023diffhist+131
Thomas Merton
→Death: Turley's book does not merely "question" but demonstrates with careful investigation of the evidentiary record that claims of accidental death are insupportable. The book provides strong evidence of foulplay. This section was edited to correctly reflect the nature of Turley's book as strongly supporting the explanation that Merton was assassinated.
5 October 2023
17:4917:49, 5 October 2023diffhist−62
Anti-war movement
removed just cause clause - most anti-war movements are distinct from pacfist movements in that they recognize potential just-cause for war, but contest whether /this/ war has a just cause. Anti-war and pacifism or anti-all war are not the same.
23:1823:18, 18 September 2023diffhist+23
The City on the Edge of Forever
→Plot: Replaced "huge dose" with "overdose" as episode does not state "overdose." Added quotes about what McCoy says because crucial to the plot's questioning who is really mad: Kirk who allows Keeler to die or McCoy who tries to save her.
23:1123:11, 18 September 2023diffhist+5
The City on the Edge of Forever
→Plot: Removed "delusional and paranoid" because it interprets the episode rather than describes. it. To the others McCoy seems delusional and paranoid, but as we will see, the episode suggests McCoy, in his ranting, may in fact be the only sane one - Spock and Kirk do actually plan a murder.
23:0823:08, 18 September 2023diffhist+21
The City on the Edge of Forever
→Plot: Removed "With history restored," because one important point is that there are multiple histories, and it would be more accurate to say "with their preferred history restored", but this is awkward, so removed it entirely and just added ", where they find the Enterprise is restored." to the end as it accurately described the episode rather than adding there is one History to restore, which is not found in the episode."
04:5004:50, 6 July 2023diffhist−30
Thiomersal
removed "anti-vaccination" groups bc the majority of groups raising the concern support some vaccinations and generally advocate for safer vaccinations. Calling them "anti-vaccination" groups is like calling activists for seatbelts in cars "anti-automobile" groups. While there are some groups that are completely against all modern medication interventions incl vaccines such as religious groups, they generally are not activists on the issue beyond their own group.Tag: Reverted
16:3616:36, 9 February 2023diffhist+8
Seymour Hersh
Accuse and claim are not what reporters do. They do reporting. Edited for accuracy; original text made it sound like Hersh shared opinions, rather than doing detailed investigative reporting work.Tag: Reverted
17:3217:32, 28 October 2022diffhist+38
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is significant in its political use against government critics widely; association with anarchism.socialism.and communism arises from the accusation not from the intended targets who are primarily not so affiliated.Tags: RevertedMobile editMobile web edit
03:3203:32, 21 October 2022diffhist+570
Anti-psychiatry
lede definition is antiquated and misleading; primary issues are legal freedom, scientific validity, and effectiveness/iatrogenic harm of medications; lobotomy and electroshock are single issues more associated with activism of the 1970s and 1980s.
19:3119:31, 11 February 2022diffhist−1,768
Dorothy Kilgallen
→Kennedy assassination: Deleted the Newsweek "putting in context" section. Wikipedia is a report of facts, not a place to mobilize an argument against an interpretation of facts presented. The section on the JFK assassination spends a small amount of space about Kigallen's journalism on the assassination, which gained nationwide attention as she was such a prominent journalist, and then a /larger/ amount of space "contextualizing" this with what is essentially a one-sided rebuttal?