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28 April 2024

26 April 2024

  • 18:3718:37, 26 April 2024 diff hist +47‎ m Joseph Silk ‎ →‎top: Make some MINOR corrections to [the template instance in] the "ref" tag for footnote number "[1]", close to the value of the only entry in the "Doctoral students" field of the "{{Infobox}}" near the top of this article. The value of the "title" field was changed to be "Max Tegmark / Professor of Physics", since that name is displayed in a large, *bold*, RED font. The character string "MIT Department of Physics" was kept as -- instead -- the value of the [newly added] "publisher" field. current

25 April 2024

24 April 2024

22 April 2024

  • 04:4504:45, 22 April 2024 diff hist −6‎ m Hy Gardner ‎ →‎top: Correct a minor TYPO in which the {{cite news}} template instance in the "ref" tag for footnote number 2 had some incorrect content -- about half a word of cosmic dust (perhaps from the last half of the third-to-last word of the URL in the "url" field?) -- appearing [until now] before the first *correct* word, at the beginning of the value of the "title" field. current

21 April 2024

  • 11:3211:32, 21 April 2024 diff hist +1‎ m Lauren Sánchez ‎ →‎External links: CORRECT a minor TYPO in the spelling of a name. The name ("Laura Sánchez") did not match the spelling ["Lauren Sánchez"] that was contained in the * * * domain name * * * ("laurensanchez.com") in the URL that was nearby ... in the same "External links" entry.
  • 10:2610:26, 21 April 2024 diff hist −9‎ m Radiative forcing ‎ →‎The second sentence of this article: REMOVE the single (unnecessary) tag "<nowiki/>" which was added -- [for no good reason?] -- circa [the "Revision"] "as of 04:05, 19 April 2024". This tag is un-paired, and is ^H^H *was* the ONLY occurrence of "nowiki" in this entire article. Yet another "picayune nitpick" that does not have to remain on the "to do" list. [Also, this tiny change will have no effect -- that I know of -- on the way in which that paragraph will be *displayed* to the reader.]
  • 09:4609:46, 21 April 2024 diff hist −1‎ m Radiative forcing ‎ →‎top: MINOR [ONE character] change, to correct a grammatical error. ("can independently measured it" --> "can independently measure it"). This might have been due to a TYPO. Explanation: as you can see from the preceding [parenthetical] presentation of the "before" and "after" versions, the verb [to] "measure" is preceded by the word "can" ['!']; so it should be an 'infinitive' verb form, not a past tense -- nor a past participle -- verb form. Now there is one less "picayune nitpick" to fix.

18 April 2024

  • 08:2008:20, 18 April 2024 diff hist +1,348‎ Louis Jacobs ‎ →‎top: Add a footnote, linking to an online explanation (an article posted on the website of 'The Times of Israel') with the title "The Jacobs Affair: A Theological Storm from Within". Put that footnote right at the exact place (in the lede paragraph) where the phrase << what became known as the "Jacobs Affair" >> was already appearing in the final sentence of the first paragraph of this article.

14 April 2024

10 April 2024

  • 01:3401:34, 10 April 2024 diff hist +39‎ Allomorph ‎ →‎Past tense allomorphs: Include an explanatory phrase -- "(that is, listed in order of priority)" -- to clarify the meaning of the last word -- ["ordered"] -- of the phrase "together with the fact that the environments are ordered". Some readers might not *need* this "clarification", (for example, if they have already read the last word, i.e. "priority", of the *following* sentence, while they are still trying to parse *this* sentence); but otherwise, having this "clarification" should help. current

7 April 2024

  • 05:1805:18, 7 April 2024 diff hist +843‎ Six degrees of separation ‎ →‎Small world: Fix a dead link in the "url" field of the {{cite web}} for the "ref" tag for footnote number '[11]'... "mainly" by adding an "archive-url" field, etc. Rather than [only] updating the OLD {{cite web}} template instance, it seemed to be better to also include -- as a separate {{cite web}} -- a link to the place (found via a "search") to which the 'old' web page [apparently] got MOVED ["!"]. I hope that is correct.
  • 03:5103:51, 7 April 2024 diff hist −2‎ m Six degrees of separation ‎ →‎Small world: Change the word "attributed" to "credited" one place. Note that ... the word "attributed" is used 2 other places in this article, and ... THOSE 2 places ... it was already [before now] being used correctly.
  • 03:4603:46, 7 April 2024 diff hist +6‎ Six degrees of separation ‎ →‎John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation: INCLUDE a copy of [what is now] footnote number "[11]", at the other place [in this article] where it mentions this idea being "attributed [...] to Marconi". (The first such place in this article, did already have an instance of footnote number "[11]".) Also, REMOVE a "[citation needed]" tag -- (apparently, dating back to "July 2016" [!]) -- at that second place, which now has -- (it does now but it did not before) -- a copy of footnote number "[11]".
  • 03:1703:17, 7 April 2024 diff hist +125‎ Clustering coefficient ‎ →‎top: Slight TWEAK to the wording of some of the last 4 to 7 words of the lede. (the embeddedness of single nodes --> the extent of "clustering" of a single node); . . . Also, insert a wikilink to the "Local clustering coefficient" section of this article, where the last few words -- that is, the words << extent of "clustering" of a single node >> -- now appear. Also add a similar wikilink for the phrase "the clustering in the network". current

4 April 2024

  • 02:0602:06, 4 April 2024 diff hist +46‎ Max Polyakov ‎ →‎EOS Data Analytics: At the first occurrence [other than the section name or "title"!] in this section, where the entity EOS Data Analytics [which, btw, is now still a 'red link'] gets mentioned, insert a source "ref" containing a link to the entity's own web site, https://eos.com/. That entity may or may not be notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article, but that does not stop it from having a website. Also, insert a (red) link to that [future?] article.

2 April 2024

31 March 2024

27 March 2024

  • 06:2206:22, 27 March 2024 diff hist +7‎ Cardiopulmonary bypass ‎ →‎Uses: Fix a TYPO (or other mistake) introduced during THIS edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cardiopulmonary_bypass&diff=1214400660&oldid=1214400322 . The LARGE number of changes made (apparently during the space of just 3 minutes of wall time!) between that edit and the previous one, left little time for proof reading. Maybe the two "extra" [?] words - "of the" - should have been deleted? (If so ...'C U' on the "Talk:" page!) This solution inserts the word "degree", instead.

26 March 2024

  • 04:4604:46, 26 March 2024 diff hist +54‎ Sphex ‎ →‎Use in philosophy: UPDATE the footnote at the end of this section. INSTEAD OF footnote "[10]" (using "ibid.", which is typically risky on Wikipedia since a later edit might occur, during which the "immediately previous" footnote [which is kinda the MEANING of "ibid."] might change [e.g., due to the insertion or deletion of one or more "ref" tags] -- thus causing the footnote that says "ibid." to start "pointing to" (or "pointing at") the WRONG "other" footnote), just insert a COPY of "[9]"! current
  • 04:2904:29, 26 March 2024 diff hist +31‎ Daniel Dennett ‎
    Sphexishness#Uses_in_philosophy
    .

25 March 2024

  • 23:0123:01, 25 March 2024 diff hist +1‎ m Paywall ‎ →‎Newspapers disabling the paywall: MINOR edit: Fix a TYPO in the last sentence of the first paragraph of this sub-section of the article. The third letter of the surname "Sonderman" was missing ...a surname that appears -- SPELLED CORRECTLY! -- *several* other places in this article, including right at the very beginning of the FOOTNOTE that appears at the end of THIS SENTENCE! (and, actually, that same footnote -- with the same surname -- also appears at the end of the *previous* sentence.)

22 March 2024

18 March 2024

17 March 2024

14 March 2024

  • 22:0922:09, 14 March 2024 diff hist +37‎ Hacker ‎ →‎top: Update the parenthetical phrase starting with "conducting warrantless" to indicate the reason why having a warrant (or not) might be relevant. Before this change, those beginning words were followed by [only] the word "activities", so the reader might not see why having -- (or not having) -- a warrant, might be important. Changing the ending to instead say espionage [or even 'sabotage']" activities helps to clarify why the "activities" being conducted might require a warrant.

13 March 2024

12 March 2024

10 March 2024

6 March 2024

29 February 2024

27 February 2024

22 February 2024

16 February 2024

9 February 2024

  • 20:3120:31, 9 February 2024 diff hist +358‎ Poet laureate ‎ →‎England: MODIFY the caption for the image of a plaque or "sign" marking a place (a building) where Tennyson once lived. "ADD" (include) some information about where the sign is located, and "retain" (do not remove) the quotation of what the sign itself says. The previous version of this caption was somewhat less helpful, as it had -- ONLY! -- the words "Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 Poet Laureate lived here", which (as a reader of this article could already see) is just what the sign says.

5 February 2024

  • 16:5416:54, 5 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ m International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology ‎ →‎Publication controversy: MINOR change ("email" to "email message"). The word "email" is usually understood [correctly] when it is used to mean something such as "email address" or "email message", even though 'technically' the sentence that contains it would be less ambiguous if it specified explicitly whether the intended meaning was "email address" or "email message" (or something else). This lessening of ambiguity might not be urgently needed here, but neither is saving a few bytes here. current
  • 16:4016:40, 5 February 2024 diff hist +259‎ International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology ‎ →‎Publication controversy: FIX a "dead link" by updating [by adding an "archive-url", etc. to it] the {{cite web}} instance in the "ref" tag for footnote no. "[8]", which shows that "Assoc. Prof. in IT at Federation U. Australia Dr. Peter Vamplew B.A., B.Sc. (Hons), PhD" is (or was) a real person with real credentials, and that this -- his "CV" / "bio" / "profile" -- is clearly not as BOGUS as someone -- [if confused] -- might suspect, from looking at (say) the paper linked from footnote [7].

4 February 2024

  • 16:4016:40, 4 February 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Discount Tire ‎ →‎Sponsorships: MINOR correction: (of ... perhaps a "TYPO"? or something like that) : Change the car numbers of the two "Team Penske" cars listed here as being * * * "sponsored by" * * * Discount Tire ... from "2 and 22" to "2 and 12". According to (the "Cup Series" sub-section of ... the "Sponsors" section of) the "Infobox" near the top of the article about "Team Penske", the correct information is: "2 and 12"; (not "2 and 22").

2 February 2024

  • 05:4405:44, 2 February 2024 diff hist +43‎ Southern Ivy ‎ →‎Magnolia Conference: UPDATE the "ref" tag for footnote number "[2]", to change the value of the "url-status" field of the "{{cite web}}" template instance (from "live") to "dead". The URL shown as the value of the "url" was apparently working OK, as of August 17, 2017 ; but as of some time after that ... it seems that the web page that it used to point to, either moved to a different URL, or else it is no longer extant (except on an "archive" web site). (Also add a comment in the wikitext).
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