User contributions for STarry
A user with 213 edits. Account created on 28 March 2005.
5 June 2024
- 01:4901:49, 5 June 2024 diff hist +18 m Big Bang →Hubble's law and the expansion of the universe: link to definition of proper distance / proper length current
25 January 2024
- 05:4205:42, 25 January 2024 diff hist −3 m Chief mate →United States: remove superfluous "to" ("for" suffices)
14 December 2023
- 07:5007:50, 14 December 2023 diff hist −1 m Earliest known life forms →Biospheres: fix grammar typo it's -> its
9 March 2023
- 05:0405:04, 9 March 2023 diff hist +40 Mianus River Bridge →External links: Fixed link to NTSB report; periods added per examples at Wikipedia:External links.
14 February 2023
- 21:3721:37, 14 February 2023 diff hist −9 DFB-Pokal In the context of sports, "upsets" is the appropriate English translation of "sensationen"
10 February 2023
- 06:2206:22, 10 February 2023 diff hist +76 World Masters Orienteering Championships 2023 cite added; 2024 date and cite updated
18 November 2022
- 06:5106:51, 18 November 2022 diff hist −5 1960 Atlantic hurricane season →Hurricane Donna: storm caused crash, not vice versa, per cited source
22 August 2022
- 04:4404:44, 22 August 2022 diff hist +1 m Sydney Maree →Running career: Fix unmatched parenthesis
13 August 2022
- 09:2509:25, 13 August 2022 diff hist +4 m Üüreg Lake →Flora and fauna: Follow capitalization and italicization conventions for binomial scientific names
1 August 2022
- 14:1414:14, 1 August 2022 diff hist +4 m Noctiluca scintillans →Red tides: 2nd mention of N.scintillans italicized to match the first mention and adhere to Wiki style manual for binomial names
- 13:5013:50, 1 August 2022 diff hist +1 m Virus →Structure: Add missing comma
28 July 2022
- 08:2208:22, 28 July 2022 diff hist 0 m Finnish profanity comma after parenthetical "for example"
7 September 2021
- 01:4801:48, 7 September 2021 diff hist −11 m World Orienteering Championships →Venues: For 1993, specified that West Point is in New York (there are many places in other USA states also called West Point)
26 February 2021
- 23:0523:05, 26 February 2021 diff hist 0 m Bombardier Inc. "latter" -> "last"; serial comma usage made consistent throughout article
- 22:2322:23, 26 February 2021 diff hist +1 m Gasoline Swap clause order re tetraethyl lead for clarity
16 February 2021
- 05:2205:22, 16 February 2021 diff hist +6 Henry Hudson →Legacy: relative size compared to Baltic Sea: 3x, not 2x
8 January 2021
- 08:0308:03, 8 January 2021 diff hist −1 m Indo-European migrations →Germanic: fix typo "gwermany"
22 December 2020
- 12:3312:33, 22 December 2020 diff hist +11 Fulda Gap →Strategic responses to the geographic feature: "fall of the Iron Curtain" wikilink changed to the actual article/section of that name
30 November 2020
- 19:1219:12, 30 November 2020 diff hist +6 Adna Chaffee →Spanish–American War: better yet: point the "volunteers" wikilink to "United States Volunteers"
- 18:5018:50, 30 November 2020 diff hist +6 Adna Chaffee →Spanish–American War: fixed wikilink to "volunteers", which in this context presumably refers to "military volunteers"
- 01:1101:11, 30 November 2020 diff hist +1 m Flight engineer →Elimination: insert missing space between words
7 November 2020
- 23:3423:34, 7 November 2020 diff hist +3 User:STarry No edit summary current
- 23:0423:04, 7 November 2020 diff hist +4 m National Museum of Montenegro wikilink to Our Lady of Philermos
- 23:0223:02, 7 November 2020 diff hist −5 m Our Lady of Philermos fix dead wikilink to museum in Cetinje
6 November 2020
- 07:3907:39, 6 November 2020 diff hist 0 m Instant-runoff voting →2009 Burlington mayoral election: fix typo pluarlity -> plurality
- 07:0907:09, 6 November 2020 diff hist 0 m Plurality voting →Tactical voting: fix typo un -> in
14 September 2020
- 07:2207:22, 14 September 2020 diff hist +1,540 Template talk:Convert →Absolute temperature vs. temperature difference: new section
- 06:2806:28, 14 September 2020 diff hist +24 m Kuujjuaq →Climate: "means" has so many meanings, I changed it to "mean temperatures" to be unambiguous
- 06:2506:25, 14 September 2020 diff hist 0 m Kuujjuaq →Climate: Template:Convert does not do temperature differences, only absolute temps. So I entered the differences manually.
31 May 2020
- 04:3604:36, 31 May 2020 diff hist +3 McAlester Death year of Virginia Savage McAlester added. current
28 May 2020
- 02:5302:53, 28 May 2020 diff hist −259 User:STarry Updated to reflect retirement and shifting interests
- 02:4002:40, 28 May 2020 diff hist −658 Searles Castle (New Hampshire) Removed all mention of National Register of Historic Places. Previous editors seem to have confused Searles Castle with Searles School and Chapel; the latter is a completely separate building on a different property. Searles Castle is not NRHP listed.
12 April 2020
- 08:4508:45, 12 April 2020
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Undid revision 950474108 by Abejschwartz (talk) (undo vandalism)
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- 08:4408:44, 12 April 2020
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Magnet
Undid revision 950475210 by Abejschwartz (talk) (undo vandalism)
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24 March 2020
- 02:2202:22, 24 March 2020 diff hist 0 m Smartphone →Foldable smartphones: spelling flesible -> flexible
16 March 2020
- 20:1520:15, 16 March 2020 diff hist 0 m Leading-edge slat →History: link to Rumpler article rather than nonexistent Rumpler C article
- 20:0720:07, 16 March 2020 diff hist +5 m Rumpler C.VIII →Operators: change shortly to briefly (because the former means soon, the latter means for a short time)
15 March 2020
- 07:5907:59, 15 March 2020 diff hist −8 m Drew Hunter →High school: delete redundant "winning" (already said "won")
- 06:5606:56, 15 March 2020 diff hist +1 m Vinalhaven School →Athletics: add missing space between dates
- 06:0806:08, 15 March 2020 diff hist +1 m North Point Park (Massachusetts) add comma to clarify the objects of the preposition "between", namely, the old dam and the new dam
13 February 2019
- 06:4106:41, 13 February 2019 diff hist +12 m Zoonosis Italicize scientific names
- 06:2906:29, 13 February 2019 diff hist −3 Cysticercosis Clarify time period (that 400 is number of deaths in a particular year) (per cited reference)
- 06:1506:15, 13 February 2019 diff hist +255 m Template:Helminthiases Scientific name usage per Manual of Style: consistency; italicize only generic and specific epithets; always use generic epithet (or abbreviation) with specific epithet
- 03:5203:52, 13 February 2019 diff hist +658 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting →mvar and lower-case-L vs upper case-i: new section
3 February 2019
- 21:0121:01, 3 February 2019 diff hist −3 North Cape (Norway) →Geography: Caption changed to reflect that image shows latitude only, not full coordinates
20 December 2018
- 02:4602:46, 20 December 2018 diff hist +1,916 Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback →Spurious nowiki tag replacing space: new section
- 02:1502:15, 20 December 2018 diff hist −48 m Nurses' Health Study replace misguided nowiki tags with space
18 December 2018
- 06:5706:57, 18 December 2018 diff hist −7 m Grenade →Early grenades: Remove redundancy "before prior to" -> "prior to"
11 December 2018
- 05:1905:19, 11 December 2018 diff hist 0 m Robert Wilton Bass In citation of www.cemetery.state.tx.us, change website name to match actual URL used.
- 04:3304:33, 11 December 2018 diff hist 0 m Fall Creek Meeting House →External links: fix spelling (cemetaries -> cemeteries, cemetary -> cemetery) in actual link (the linked-to site is spelled correctly now)
