08:4108:41, 16 July 2024diffhist+354
Sutton House, London
→17th century: Add'l ref for Sutton House girls' school, w/ year it opened; Guardian article on exhibition of students' paper art found in floor. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
13 July 2024
10:5910:59, 13 July 2024diffhist+395
Buckingham Palace
Added Telegraph article on the East Wing (w/ archive URL to circumvent paywall) as ref for 2 points: specific furnishings from Brighton Pavilion (was in article) and its sale defraying costs (wasn't). Some tightening and tweaks in earlier history. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
07:5507:55, 13 July 2024diffhist+30
m
Willis Polk
Replaced ref for Sierra Club logo w/ their current page, linked org., tweaked wording. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
12 July 2024
11:5311:53, 12 July 2024diffhist−4,064
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
Some copyediting and tweaks, mostly in first half; I ran out of time and steam. Did not evaluate refs, just moved them with text; there was some doubling of points. Psychological diagnosis, womanising, and perhaps ennui should perhaps go in a Personal life section at the end. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
01:0701:07, 12 July 2024diffhist+7,365
Red Devils (Parachute Regiment)
Reverted redirection, replaced most of text based on added refs (inevitable recentism); archived version of unofficial history from Ext. links as a ref. Updated official website URL, removed duplicate of Commonscat. Removed Refimprove. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.currentTag: Removed redirect
03:0503:05, 10 July 2024diffhist+1,169
The Marriage of the Prince of Wales
Added Buckingham Palace location from The Guardian, reordered to separate Description and History, identified Royal Collection ref and made a named ref, corrected "Trotter" ref (neither chapter author nor editor), ISBNs for both books.
10:1110:11, 9 July 2024diffhist+1,054
St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls
Updated w/ closure (we had the BBC article simply listed as an ext. link), incl. cats, enrolment when announcement was made. Moved some material around. Added projected use of site for Oasis St Martin's Village youth hub. Combined former student lists, commented out Christine Bicknell (nowhere found to link), unlinked Lynn Trickett (no bio but link to firm). Unlinked Ambassador School, moved that website to last ext. link. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
00:4100:41, 9 July 2024diffhist+268
Rocamadour
Rewrote para section on sword, replacing early and inaccurate report on CNN w/ New York Times and a French news report, clarifying that it was a copy. Other tweaks, esp. to start of Middle Ages section w/ removal of other account of body discovery. Removed gallery, image placement & size work. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
8 July 2024
20:4420:44, 8 July 2024diffhist+393
Oldham Coliseum Theatre
BBC ref for decision to refurbish, rewrote that para, rewrote 3 proseline paras on closure as one summary. Replaced bald statement of reopening in lintro w/ closure and planned reopening. TV show combined w/ rumoured hauntings, for which citation needed. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
08:2708:27, 8 July 2024diffhist+1,229
Baptiste Masotti
Fixed DAB link (welcome back, bot!), added 2 more refs w/ a bit more. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
01:5601:56, 8 July 2024diffhist+50
Talk:Baptiste Masotti
Translated page template for attribution; rewrite based on the corresponding fr.wikipedia page. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
01:5301:53, 8 July 2024diffhist+4,039
Baptiste Masotti
Replaced unreferenced text about early football career w/ junior career from news ref posted to the unnameable site, pro career based on translation of fr.wikipedia, leaving a gap between 2 and another 2021 - present. Added 2022 World Games w/ ref since category present, a couple of other bits from refs I found. Updated intro and infobox from the 2 stats sites (one of which also refs birthdate and birthplace). This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
7 July 2024
10:4510:45, 7 July 2024diffhist+1,082
Durendal
Fixed template errors incl. 2 typos, 2 primary sources out of footnotes into list of sources (losing Sayers page URL). Moved Wayland to Origins/Owners, corrected ref (wrong yr/article). Tweaked text throughout, esp. in intro & Rocamadour legend (added another news ref), moved Properties before Chanson de Roland, but placement of other attestations still a bit odd..Battle image to top, dmy dates. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
6 July 2024
21:5221:52, 6 July 2024diffhist+567
Talk:Main Page
→Straw poll: Oppose - redundant to DYK (and in principle, pretty much everything on the Main Page, the main exception being the images). This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
21:0321:03, 6 July 2024diffhist−502
Sam Carling
Removed ref from intro, used it to replace brief summary in same newspaper. Uni Labour Club ref was a duplicate; moved point (for one thing he remains at Cambridge, postgrad). This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
10:2310:23, 6 July 2024diffhist+2,990
Sam Carling
Expanded, sectioned, added more news refs, removing Peterborough official Gen. Election result page as now superfluous. (Archive URL for one to circumvent paywall.) Only birth year is ref'd. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Disambiguation links added
08:5408:54, 6 July 2024diffhist−725
Great Wyrley
Removed unref'd Lord of the Manor section, added in 2013 and 2015 by
User:Anthonygtwyrley and 2014 by
User:Lordgtwyrley (thanks to the unnameable site). Covered school URLs w/o checking primaries are current, untemplated the archived one, updated Academy, removed barelinks tag. Removed Google maps invocation for distances. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
08:3508:35, 6 July 2024diffhist−1,343
Mayflower (tugboat)
→Preservation: Removed material added by
User:Anthonygtwyrley in 2012, unreferenced, contrary to cited ref, promotional (flagged at the unameable site). Named curator from ref, combined paras both based on it. Found a ref for boiler refurb. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
00:0000:00, 6 July 2024diffhist−18
Lea DeLaria
Replacing unfortunate top image flagged at the unnameable site w/ more recent and better shot, see talk. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
03:3303:33, 4 July 2024diffhist+1,640
Sierra Pacific Industries
Added Joel Engel's book, incl. cogeneration, 100-yr conservation aims, accusation of gov't oversimplification on Moonlight Fire (plus a Chron opinion article updating on that). Reverted some of TheSpacebook's changes, incl. removal of a subheading, "percent" for %. Clarified by using "it" for company at one point. Other tweaks. Moved some material from Criticism into Conservation. 3 sources from footnote format to sfn to match, removing e-pub dates. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.currentTag: harv-error
3 July 2024
23:0223:02, 3 July 2024diffhist+530
Flintstone House
→History: Added "Stoneage Omakase" pop-up restaurant, to open mid-July. Flipped authors' names in 2 refs to match preponderance. This edit intended to improve the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
2 July 2024
12:3112:31, 2 July 2024diffhist+1,773
Joshua N. Haldeman
Expanded, primarily from Keating pdf, separate Personal life and death sect. w/ both marriages, some links (Winnipeg Agricultural College prob. = Manitoba Agricultural College, a precursor of the U of Manitoba), copyediting, ref work. Moved Benton to specific points; Edmonton Journal cd also prob. be used more. This edit intended to improve the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
09:4309:43, 2 July 2024diffhist−1,035
Richard S. Forrest
After article flagged at the unnameable site, commented out unref'd cause of death, made sep. Personal life and death sect. w/ family info added (incl. daughter
Katherine Forrest, sentence about rough financial patch w/ a ref from there), working URL & archive URL for NYT death notice, in Works sep'd non-fiction, fixed templating, removed plot summaries, Goodreads/blogs cites. Bio all uncited incl DOB; from books ref'd in intro?? Italics, links, US dates. Not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Disambiguation links added
10:5110:51, 1 July 2024diffhist+1,789
Burslem
→Leopard Inn: Rewrote w/ a bit more history, additional BBC and 2 local paper refs plus additional local history site. Left Leopard Inn heading tho most sources incl. Historic England call it The Leopard. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsem,ent of the WMF.current
07:5407:54, 1 July 2024diffhist+7,093
N
User talk:Dots321
Starting user's talk page with welcome template after realizing they're still new and have never even been welcomed. (This edit to a new colleague is not an endorsement of the WMF.)current
03:2403:24, 1 July 2024diffhist+1,612
Talk:Thor
→June 2024: re:VeryRarelyStable: I apologize if I misunderstood your argument; I was avoiding calling it a straw man, so I've probably just made things worse by saying that. But more importantly, I wasn't responding just to you. Discussion of whether infoboxes are universally good is both not the purpose of this talk page and, I believe, contrary to policy. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
01:3301:33, 1 July 2024diffhist+5,440
Talk:Thor
→June 2024: My response to the arguments, and comparing the 2 infoboxes that I mistakenly conflated in my edit summary. Neither is an improvement, and the differences between them illustrate the problem and that Dots321 has approached this from the wrong direction. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
28 June 2024
12:1312:13, 28 June 2024diffhist−323
Sif
Re-removed infobox. Intro provides more nuanced summary. This edit maintaining the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Reverted
12:0812:08, 28 June 2024diffhist−530
Baldr
Reverted addition of infobox (with misleading edit summary). Introduction provides a better overview. This edit maintaining the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tags: Manual revertReverted
12:0412:04, 28 June 2024diffhist−323
Odin
Re-reverted infobox. Introduction provides a nuanced view. This edit maintaining the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Reverted
12:0012:00, 28 June 2024diffhist−860
Thor
Removed infobox, added with deliberately misleading edit summary. The introduction provides a more nuanced summary of the article, and the purported correspondences do not merit such prominence. This edit maintaining the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Reverted
02:1602:16, 28 June 2024diffhist−21
Resurs-P1
Changing redirect target from series to article on the specific satellite. This edit facilitating navigation is not an endorsement of the WMF.currentTags: Redirect target changedManual revert
27 June 2024
21:2321:23, 27 June 2024diffhist+4
Jochen Rindt
2 modifications in intro: clarified that he lived most of his life in Austria, replacing Austrian licence w/ competed as an Austrian (conflict w/ infobox mentioned at the unnameable site); on death, replaced throat injury w/ poorly installed crash barrier giving way, since article section states that that was found at fault. Left "notoriously unreliable" slur on Lotus, extended mention in text. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
00:1200:12, 27 June 2024diffhist−50
California State Route 99
Undid revision
1231125007 by
RickyCourtney (
talk), but linked SFGate for 1st ref, and added Hearst as publisher. Distinct website from SF Chronicle for some years now, and separate para unnecessary. Linked Modesto Bee too after seeing it in preview. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
08:4108:41, 16 July 2024diffhist+354
Sutton House, London
→17th century: Add'l ref for Sutton House girls' school, w/ year it opened; Guardian article on exhibition of students' paper art found in floor. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
13 July 2024
10:5910:59, 13 July 2024diffhist+395
Buckingham Palace
Added Telegraph article on the East Wing (w/ archive URL to circumvent paywall) as ref for 2 points: specific furnishings from Brighton Pavilion (was in article) and its sale defraying costs (wasn't). Some tightening and tweaks in earlier history. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
07:5507:55, 13 July 2024diffhist+30
m
Willis Polk
Replaced ref for Sierra Club logo w/ their current page, linked org., tweaked wording. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
12 July 2024
11:5311:53, 12 July 2024diffhist−4,064
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
Some copyediting and tweaks, mostly in first half; I ran out of time and steam. Did not evaluate refs, just moved them with text; there was some doubling of points. Psychological diagnosis, womanising, and perhaps ennui should perhaps go in a Personal life section at the end. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
01:0701:07, 12 July 2024diffhist+7,365
Red Devils (Parachute Regiment)
Reverted redirection, replaced most of text based on added refs (inevitable recentism); archived version of unofficial history from Ext. links as a ref. Updated official website URL, removed duplicate of Commonscat. Removed Refimprove. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.currentTag: Removed redirect
03:0503:05, 10 July 2024diffhist+1,169
The Marriage of the Prince of Wales
Added Buckingham Palace location from The Guardian, reordered to separate Description and History, identified Royal Collection ref and made a named ref, corrected "Trotter" ref (neither chapter author nor editor), ISBNs for both books.
10:1110:11, 9 July 2024diffhist+1,054
St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls
Updated w/ closure (we had the BBC article simply listed as an ext. link), incl. cats, enrolment when announcement was made. Moved some material around. Added projected use of site for Oasis St Martin's Village youth hub. Combined former student lists, commented out Christine Bicknell (nowhere found to link), unlinked Lynn Trickett (no bio but link to firm). Unlinked Ambassador School, moved that website to last ext. link. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
00:4100:41, 9 July 2024diffhist+268
Rocamadour
Rewrote para section on sword, replacing early and inaccurate report on CNN w/ New York Times and a French news report, clarifying that it was a copy. Other tweaks, esp. to start of Middle Ages section w/ removal of other account of body discovery. Removed gallery, image placement & size work. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
8 July 2024
20:4420:44, 8 July 2024diffhist+393
Oldham Coliseum Theatre
BBC ref for decision to refurbish, rewrote that para, rewrote 3 proseline paras on closure as one summary. Replaced bald statement of reopening in lintro w/ closure and planned reopening. TV show combined w/ rumoured hauntings, for which citation needed. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
08:2708:27, 8 July 2024diffhist+1,229
Baptiste Masotti
Fixed DAB link (welcome back, bot!), added 2 more refs w/ a bit more. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
01:5601:56, 8 July 2024diffhist+50
Talk:Baptiste Masotti
Translated page template for attribution; rewrite based on the corresponding fr.wikipedia page. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
01:5301:53, 8 July 2024diffhist+4,039
Baptiste Masotti
Replaced unreferenced text about early football career w/ junior career from news ref posted to the unnameable site, pro career based on translation of fr.wikipedia, leaving a gap between 2 and another 2021 - present. Added 2022 World Games w/ ref since category present, a couple of other bits from refs I found. Updated intro and infobox from the 2 stats sites (one of which also refs birthdate and birthplace). This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
7 July 2024
10:4510:45, 7 July 2024diffhist+1,082
Durendal
Fixed template errors incl. 2 typos, 2 primary sources out of footnotes into list of sources (losing Sayers page URL). Moved Wayland to Origins/Owners, corrected ref (wrong yr/article). Tweaked text throughout, esp. in intro & Rocamadour legend (added another news ref), moved Properties before Chanson de Roland, but placement of other attestations still a bit odd..Battle image to top, dmy dates. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
6 July 2024
21:5221:52, 6 July 2024diffhist+567
Talk:Main Page
→Straw poll: Oppose - redundant to DYK (and in principle, pretty much everything on the Main Page, the main exception being the images). This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
21:0321:03, 6 July 2024diffhist−502
Sam Carling
Removed ref from intro, used it to replace brief summary in same newspaper. Uni Labour Club ref was a duplicate; moved point (for one thing he remains at Cambridge, postgrad). This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
10:2310:23, 6 July 2024diffhist+2,990
Sam Carling
Expanded, sectioned, added more news refs, removing Peterborough official Gen. Election result page as now superfluous. (Archive URL for one to circumvent paywall.) Only birth year is ref'd. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Disambiguation links added
08:5408:54, 6 July 2024diffhist−725
Great Wyrley
Removed unref'd Lord of the Manor section, added in 2013 and 2015 by
User:Anthonygtwyrley and 2014 by
User:Lordgtwyrley (thanks to the unnameable site). Covered school URLs w/o checking primaries are current, untemplated the archived one, updated Academy, removed barelinks tag. Removed Google maps invocation for distances. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
08:3508:35, 6 July 2024diffhist−1,343
Mayflower (tugboat)
→Preservation: Removed material added by
User:Anthonygtwyrley in 2012, unreferenced, contrary to cited ref, promotional (flagged at the unameable site). Named curator from ref, combined paras both based on it. Found a ref for boiler refurb. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
00:0000:00, 6 July 2024diffhist−18
Lea DeLaria
Replacing unfortunate top image flagged at the unnameable site w/ more recent and better shot, see talk. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
03:3303:33, 4 July 2024diffhist+1,640
Sierra Pacific Industries
Added Joel Engel's book, incl. cogeneration, 100-yr conservation aims, accusation of gov't oversimplification on Moonlight Fire (plus a Chron opinion article updating on that). Reverted some of TheSpacebook's changes, incl. removal of a subheading, "percent" for %. Clarified by using "it" for company at one point. Other tweaks. Moved some material from Criticism into Conservation. 3 sources from footnote format to sfn to match, removing e-pub dates. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.currentTag: harv-error
3 July 2024
23:0223:02, 3 July 2024diffhist+530
Flintstone House
→History: Added "Stoneage Omakase" pop-up restaurant, to open mid-July. Flipped authors' names in 2 refs to match preponderance. This edit intended to improve the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
2 July 2024
12:3112:31, 2 July 2024diffhist+1,773
Joshua N. Haldeman
Expanded, primarily from Keating pdf, separate Personal life and death sect. w/ both marriages, some links (Winnipeg Agricultural College prob. = Manitoba Agricultural College, a precursor of the U of Manitoba), copyediting, ref work. Moved Benton to specific points; Edmonton Journal cd also prob. be used more. This edit intended to improve the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.
09:4309:43, 2 July 2024diffhist−1,035
Richard S. Forrest
After article flagged at the unnameable site, commented out unref'd cause of death, made sep. Personal life and death sect. w/ family info added (incl. daughter
Katherine Forrest, sentence about rough financial patch w/ a ref from there), working URL & archive URL for NYT death notice, in Works sep'd non-fiction, fixed templating, removed plot summaries, Goodreads/blogs cites. Bio all uncited incl DOB; from books ref'd in intro?? Italics, links, US dates. Not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Disambiguation links added
10:5110:51, 1 July 2024diffhist+1,789
Burslem
→Leopard Inn: Rewrote w/ a bit more history, additional BBC and 2 local paper refs plus additional local history site. Left Leopard Inn heading tho most sources incl. Historic England call it The Leopard. This edit intended to improve the encyclopaedia is not an endorsem,ent of the WMF.current
07:5407:54, 1 July 2024diffhist+7,093
N
User talk:Dots321
Starting user's talk page with welcome template after realizing they're still new and have never even been welcomed. (This edit to a new colleague is not an endorsement of the WMF.)current
03:2403:24, 1 July 2024diffhist+1,612
Talk:Thor
→June 2024: re:VeryRarelyStable: I apologize if I misunderstood your argument; I was avoiding calling it a straw man, so I've probably just made things worse by saying that. But more importantly, I wasn't responding just to you. Discussion of whether infoboxes are universally good is both not the purpose of this talk page and, I believe, contrary to policy. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
01:3301:33, 1 July 2024diffhist+5,440
Talk:Thor
→June 2024: My response to the arguments, and comparing the 2 infoboxes that I mistakenly conflated in my edit summary. Neither is an improvement, and the differences between them illustrate the problem and that Dots321 has approached this from the wrong direction. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.
28 June 2024
12:1312:13, 28 June 2024diffhist−323
Sif
Re-removed infobox. Intro provides more nuanced summary. This edit maintaining the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Reverted
12:0812:08, 28 June 2024diffhist−530
Baldr
Reverted addition of infobox (with misleading edit summary). Introduction provides a better overview. This edit maintaining the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tags: Manual revertReverted
12:0412:04, 28 June 2024diffhist−323
Odin
Re-reverted infobox. Introduction provides a nuanced view. This edit maintaining the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Reverted
12:0012:00, 28 June 2024diffhist−860
Thor
Removed infobox, added with deliberately misleading edit summary. The introduction provides a more nuanced summary of the article, and the purported correspondences do not merit such prominence. This edit maintaining the encyclopedia is not an endorsement of the WMF.Tag: Reverted
02:1602:16, 28 June 2024diffhist−21
Resurs-P1
Changing redirect target from series to article on the specific satellite. This edit facilitating navigation is not an endorsement of the WMF.currentTags: Redirect target changedManual revert
27 June 2024
21:2321:23, 27 June 2024diffhist+4
Jochen Rindt
2 modifications in intro: clarified that he lived most of his life in Austria, replacing Austrian licence w/ competed as an Austrian (conflict w/ infobox mentioned at the unnameable site); on death, replaced throat injury w/ poorly installed crash barrier giving way, since article section states that that was found at fault. Left "notoriously unreliable" slur on Lotus, extended mention in text. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.current
00:1200:12, 27 June 2024diffhist−50
California State Route 99
Undid revision
1231125007 by
RickyCourtney (
talk), but linked SFGate for 1st ref, and added Hearst as publisher. Distinct website from SF Chronicle for some years now, and separate para unnecessary. Linked Modesto Bee too after seeing it in preview. This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF.