User contributions for 8.9.94.16

20 March 2020

• 16:4816:48, 20 March 2020 diff hist −4‎ Hypotension ‎ correct "more rare" to "rarer" Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit

15 March 2020

• 08:4808:48, 15 March 2020 diff hist 0‎ Sodium ascorbate ‎ typo in ref

14 March 2020

• 15:2915:29, 14 March 2020 diff hist −12‎ Soda bread ‎ again, no basis is cited for referring to yeast as the "traditional" means of leavening bread—historically, yeast is a relatively recent innovation, becoming practical for widespread use only in the 19th century
• 15:2215:22, 14 March 2020 diff hist −16‎ Soda bread ‎ no cited basis for referring to yeast as "the traditional" means of leavening soda bread—or any other type of bread, for that matter

13 March 2020

• 02:2402:24, 13 March 2020 diff hist +6‎ Microware ‎ update tense; ce
• 02:1602:16, 13 March 2020 diff hist −4‎ The Answer ‎ →‎Other uses: clarify that it's a nickname

12 March 2020

• 02:3202:32, 12 March 2020 diff hist 0‎ Pope Leo IX ‎ comma splice
• 02:3102:31, 12 March 2020 diff hist −11‎ Pope Leo IX ‎ puffery: if it really were "well-known", (1) you wouldn't have to say that it is, and (2) there would be a Wikipedia article about it (there isn't)
• 02:1302:13, 12 March 2020 diff hist −1‎ Hoagy Carmichael ‎ errant comma

11 March 2020

• 15:5215:52, 11 March 2020 diff hist −12‎ The Oscar (film) ‎ →‎Critical response: unsupported editorializing "ironically,"
• 15:5015:50, 11 March 2020 diff hist −26‎ The Oscar (film) ‎ inane, unnecessary puffery

10 March 2020

• 22:4422:44, 10 March 2020 diff hist −1‎ Corned beef ‎ correct "steak" to "beef"

9 March 2020

• 19:3219:32, 9 March 2020 diff hist −5‎ Staten Island ‎ →‎Consolidation with New York City: "which", not "who": a borough is not a person; meaningless "Today,", redundant anyway w/ present-tense verb
• 19:1119:11, 9 March 2020 diff hist +2‎ At Folsom Prison ‎ →‎Reception and impact: spaced slash between song lines

8 March 2020

• 00:5900:59, 8 March 2020 diff hist −241‎ Mikhail Glinka ‎ →‎Career: what I just said
• 00:5600:56, 8 March 2020 diff hist −28‎ Mikhail Glinka ‎ rmv ambiguous (surname only) name of non-notable (no WP article) artist from caption per
  MOS:CREDITS

6 March 2020

• 17:3717:37, 6 March 2020 diff hist +27‎ Land O'Lakes ‎ intro reads like an advert
• 07:1607:16, 6 March 2020 diff hist −6‎ Alain Cuny ‎ →‎Biography: surname only
• 07:0707:07, 6 March 2020 diff hist −127‎ Antonio Canova ‎ rmv auto-tagged unknown infobox params; rmv quotation marks and italics from block quotations per
  pull quotes
  , which almost never appear in articles—decorative quotations may be aesthetically pleasing to some editors, but they impede reading the CONTENT of afflicted articles
• 06:4306:43, 6 March 2020 diff hist −13‎ Lichas ‎ →‎Ovid's account: quotations should not be italicized just because they're quotations; correct double hyphen to em dash

5 March 2020

• 23:0923:09, 5 March 2020 diff hist +15‎ Petronius ‎ →‎Life: refine link to newly anchored suffect consul
• 23:0923:09, 5 March 2020 diff hist +12‎ Roman consul ‎
  WP:EMDASH
  and for uniformity w/in section
• 23:0123:01, 5 March 2020 diff hist +21‎ Roman consul ‎ →‎Under the Republic: add {{anchor|suffect consul}} for wikilinking
• 22:4622:46, 5 March 2020 diff hist +8‎ Sestertius ‎ →‎Unit of account: ce
• 03:4503:45, 5 March 2020 diff hist −2‎ Capucine ‎ →‎Early life: "claim" is biased, "say" is neutral

4 March 2020

• 16:5616:56, 4 March 2020 diff hist −12‎ Hiram Keller ‎ →‎Broadway: puffery
• 07:2707:27, 4 March 2020 diff hist −61‎ University of Leeds Refectory ‎ rmv self-link (
  University Refectory
  is a redirect to this article) and unsupported, peacockish editorializing "showing special respect for this very influential venue"
• 06:1106:11, 4 March 2020 diff hist −64‎ Pinot ‎ no red links on a dab page

2 March 2020

• 07:3807:38, 2 March 2020 diff hist −39‎ Anna Karenina ‎ →‎Plot introduction: prune some of the distracting and insignificant title crap: Kitty is just Kitty, practically never called "Princess Kitty", for example; and Levin is practically always called Levin, occasionally Kostya, very rarely Konstantin ("Lëvin or Ljovin" must be from some esoteric translations and definitely are not standard transliterations of his name)—Russian names are complex enough without adding unnecessary complications
• 07:2207:22, 2 March 2020 diff hist −9‎ Anna Karenina ‎ →‎Part 1: ditto
• 07:1807:18, 2 March 2020 diff hist −37‎ Anna Karenina ‎ →‎Plot introduction: ditto
• 07:1507:15, 2 March 2020 diff hist −15‎ Anna Karenina ‎ →‎Main characters: Alexei and Anna Karenin are not a count and countess or any other sort of nobility
• 00:2700:27, 2 March 2020 diff hist +7‎ Zippo ‎ →‎Zippo BLU and Zippo BLU 2: correct "more square" to "squarer" per standard English dictionaries; ce

29 February 2020

• 20:5720:57, 29 February 2020 diff hist +147‎ Burmese python ‎ →‎Invasive species (United States): the phrase "in the last decade" is meaningless without reference to a specific date or range of dates
• 15:3615:36, 29 February 2020 diff hist +2‎ Duck as food ‎ →‎Duck meat: "As" is properly an adverb; "Like" is the corresponding preposition, which is what's needed here (the opposite error—misusing "Like" in place of "As"—is much more common, so it's such a pleasant surprise to see this one that I almost want to celebrate it instead of correcting it)

28 February 2020

• 19:5719:57, 28 February 2020 diff hist −9‎ Nora Ephron ‎ →‎Deep Throat: "claim" is biased and should be avoided in an encyclopedia, even if what is being said is patently false—"say" is neutral, as an encyclopedia must be; "that" is used to introduce indirect quotations, not direct quotations; ce
• 18:0718:07, 28 February 2020 diff hist −464‎ 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster ‎ rmv from intro details better located in body of article
• 18:0018:00, 28 February 2020 diff hist −391‎ 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster ‎ →‎Notes: rmv section: its significant content has been relocated to an earlier section where it belongs Tag: section blanking
• 17:5717:57, 28 February 2020 diff hist +44‎ 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster ‎ →‎Expanded version: note change from oyster to panther
• 17:5217:52, 28 February 2020 diff hist +501‎ 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster ‎ →‎Full text: rmv "Full" from section title; extract two versions of poem from {{Verse translation}} template, which makes their relationship nearly impossible to understand; rearrange sequentially, in separate subsections, retaining all significant information and adding important context; rmv unsupported statement about "mind rhyme", which makes no sense
• 16:4116:41, 28 February 2020 diff hist −244‎ 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster ‎ ce; rmv absurdly inappropriate and unsupported editorial musing "The Mock Turtle* is interesting in that he is created from typical Carrollean attention to duality of meaning; in this case that of ‘Mock Turtle Soup’, it being either not real turtle soup or real soup made from real mock-turtles!"
• 16:2916:29, 28 February 2020 diff hist +15‎ Edmund Beecher Wilson ‎ add caption w/date from image file
• 16:2616:26, 28 February 2020 diff hist −331‎ Edmund Beecher Wilson ‎ ce; inappropriate and wholly unnecessary honorific; if we must indulge in puffery, "influential" is more meaningful here than "famous"; rmv from intro a statement about Nettie Stevens duplicated more coherently and appropriately later in the article
• 16:0216:02, 28 February 2020 diff hist +86‎ Carl Anton Bjerknes ‎ →‎Death: this entire section seems to have been copied directly from a cited source: its eulogistic content and verbose, florid style are wholly inappropriate in an encyclopedia article—since I have no access to the cited source (an almost-120-year-old scientific journal) to verify how much of it is a direct quotation (I strongly suspect all) I have moved the whole thing into a footnote and left only the bare facts here, assuming that "apoplexy" in 1904 was what is now called stroke
• 16:0016:00, 28 February 2020 diff hist −1‎ Apoplexy ‎ "or" is more idiomatic here than "and"
• 15:3515:35, 28 February 2020 diff hist −3‎ Jacob Bjerknes ‎ corrected caption: the photo shows him sitting on the arm the chair his father is sitting in, not on his father's lap—changed "on his father's lap" to "with his father", which is sufficiently descriptive and less prone to error
• 15:2715:27, 28 February 2020 diff hist −8‎ Jacob Bjerknes ‎
  restrictive appositives
• 15:2315:23, 28 February 2020 diff hist +13‎ Vilhelm Bjerknes ‎ →‎Life and career: let's not go out of our way to hide from readers the fact that "Christiania" is just a former name of Oslo; puffery
• 15:1915:19, 28 February 2020 diff hist +3‎ Vilhelm Bjerknes ‎ subject missing from second independent clause
• 15:1815:18, 28 February 2020 diff hist −19‎ Vilhelm Bjerknes ‎ rmv "to this day", which is meaninglessly ambiguous and redundant anyway, following "that are still in use"; rmv inappropriately and unjustifiably hyperbolic "wildly" before "successful"