User contributions for Wordsmith
A user with 1,511 edits. Account created on 30 January 2007.
4 September 2023
- 17:3017:30, 4 September 2023 diff hist −4 Ruth Roman 2nd paragraph: replaced “relocated” with “moved” :—
1 September 2023
- 15:5915:59, 1 September 2023 diff hist −11 Succession (TV series) →Premise: 1st paragraph: replaced “who are the owners of” with “which owns” :—
10 August 2023
- 22:2922:29, 10 August 2023 diff hist −33 Qian Xuesen →Detention: 2nd paragraph: replaced “on a personal basis” {¡barf!} with “personally” :—
- 22:1322:13, 10 August 2023 diff hist −9 Qian Xuesen →Detention: 2nd paragraph: replaced “in a personal basis” {¡barf!} with
2 August 2023
- 10:1610:16, 2 August 2023 diff hist −122 Concept 1st & 2nd paragraph: petty pruning :—
19 July 2023
- 06:2906:29, 19 July 2023 diff hist +11 Katherine Langford →Career: 2nd paragraph: replaced “adolescence” with “adolescent development”. :—
- 06:2306:23, 19 July 2023 diff hist −7 Katherine Langford 1st paragraph: replaced “has gone on to appear” with “then appeared” :—
29 May 2023
- 15:3015:30, 29 May 2023 diff hist −9 Methodist Episcopal Church 1st paragraph: I loathe the expression “on a {blank} basis”: do I snuggle my sweetie on a daily basis? ¡No! we snuggle a bit very nearly every day. :—
- 13:3813:38, 29 May 2023 diff hist −10 Liturgy →Etymology: 1st paragraph: flushed “literally” :—
13 May 2023
- 22:4222:42, 13 May 2023 diff hist +3 Penélope Cruz →Early life: 3rd paragraph: replaced “multiple” with “several” :—
- 22:1422:14, 13 May 2023 diff hist +51 Casting (performing arts) →Cast types or roles: 1st paragraph: replaced “consist of” with “comprise”, and “multiple” with “several” :—
- 21:4521:45, 13 May 2023 diff hist −9 Ensemble cast 1st paragraph: replaced “ is composed of multiple” with “comprises many” :—
8 March 2023
- 02:2302:23, 8 March 2023 diff hist −48 The 5th Wave (film) →Differences between the novel and the film: petty pruning :—
- 01:5201:52, 8 March 2023 diff hist −19 The 5th Wave (film) →Plot: In the 1st paragraph’s 3rd sentence, I changed the tense of its last clause to the same third-person singular as its first two. :—
23 November 2022
- 02:5902:59, 23 November 2022 diff hist +9 Russell Crowe I spelled “10” and “21” out :— Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
8 October 2022
- 02:0602:06, 8 October 2022 diff hist 0 List of James Bond films →No Time to Die (2021): I replaced “to only attack the” (as opposed to, say, only kissing or killing) with “ to attack only the” :—
- 01:4601:46, 8 October 2022 diff hist −202 Mathematical induction 1st paragraph: although I regard the only other statement in this paragraph — as well as its supportive quotation from the “light-hearted” and “often humorous” Concrete Mathematics — as preposterous (one’s footsteps may climb a ladder only as high as several rungs below the ladder’s last rung if there is one; a line of dominoes similarly serves as neither a “metaphor” nor an analogy that “helps to explain” anything here, I confined myself to little more than flushing “essentially” :—
29 August 2022
- 02:2902:29, 29 August 2022 diff hist +1 Photography →Film: In the 4th paragraph, I flushed a colon from the end of a preposition— where it is no more permissible than a period. :—
20 August 2022
- 12:2512:25, 20 August 2022 diff hist 0 Creek War In the 1st paragraph, I replaced “put down the rebellion” with “to put the rebellion down“ :—
5 August 2022
- 11:0011:00, 5 August 2022 diff hist +5 William A. Wellman →Early life: 1st paragraph: one has “immigrated” from some place — from which one had “emigrated” —)
2 August 2022
- 07:2507:25, 2 August 2022 diff hist +202 Santa Teresa, New Mexico →History: I had replaced “they {Sunland Park} have” with “it has” — but then I got carried away :—
12 June 2022
- 18:0418:04, 12 June 2022 diff hist −1 Aishah Hasnie →Biography: 1st paragraph: properly stated, one “immigrates from” a place, but “emigrates to” a place. :—
10 April 2022
- 21:3521:35, 10 April 2022 diff hist −8 Supreme Court of the United States →Nomination, confirmation, and appointment: From the last line, 5th paragraph, I flushed the deadwood, "actual" :— Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
24 March 2022
- 15:0415:04, 24 March 2022 diff hist +27 Maryana Naumova 1st paragraph: flushed "multiple" in favor of "several" and "as per" in favor of "according to" :—
20 March 2022
- 21:2021:20, 20 March 2022 diff hist −1 Julia Ioffe →Politico: I flushed "multiple" in favor of "several" :— Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 21:1021:10, 20 March 2022 diff hist −5 Vaccine hesitancy in the 1st paragraph, I replaced "there is overwhelming consensus that vaccines are safe" with "the consensus that vaccines are safe is overwhelming" :— Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 20:0720:07, 20 March 2022 diff hist −9 The Red and the Black →Background: in the 2nd paragraph, I flushed "actually" :—
5 March 2022
- 16:2516:25, 5 March 2022 diff hist −2 Académie Française 2nd paragraph: I replaced "consists of" with "comprises" :—
1 January 2022
- 08:3908:39, 1 January 2022 diff hist +13 User talk:AlsoWukai →Removal of doctor title on doctors
- 08:3108:31, 1 January 2022 diff hist −3 User talk:AlsoWukai →"Saying" vs. "stating"
- 07:5207:52, 1 January 2022 diff hist −10 User talk:AlsoWukai →Removal of doctor title on doctors
- 07:5007:50, 1 January 2022 diff hist +4 User talk:AlsoWukai →"Saying" vs. "stating"
- 07:4107:41, 1 January 2022 diff hist +28 User talk:AlsoWukai →Removal of doctor title on doctors
- 07:3807:38, 1 January 2022 diff hist +374 User talk:AlsoWukai →Removal of doctor title on doctors
- 07:3007:30, 1 January 2022 diff hist +94 User talk:AlsoWukai →"Saying" vs. "stating"
29 December 2021
- 04:0204:02, 29 December 2021 diff hist +8 Vladimir Nabokov →Berlin years (1922–37): 3rd paragraph: petty pruning :—
- 03:5303:53, 29 December 2021 diff hist +14 Vladimir Nabokov →Berlin years (1922–37): 2nd paragraph: petty pruning :—
- 03:3903:39, 29 December 2021 diff hist −45 Vladimir Nabokov →Berlin years (1922–37): 1st paragraph: petty pruning :—
- 03:2203:22, 29 December 2021 diff hist +4 Vladimir Nabokov Last line, 1st paragraph: loathing is what I feel for constructions so fashionable among those decidedly dedicated to Wikipedia; here, I flushed "settling" in favor of "then settled" :—
22 December 2021
- 00:1900:19, 22 December 2021 diff hist +2 Ludwig Staiger 1st & 2nd paragraphs: removed the Germanic capitalization of "mathematics"; changed "his . . . thesis was written" to "he wrote his thesis" :—
- 00:0100:01, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6 Janet Staiger →Career: 5th Paragraph: I flushed "very" from "very inadequate": contrary to the dominant wikipedian "Consensus" (egregiously, in the matter of "unique" — which means "the only one"), the threshold for the state of inadequacy is a line of separation between only two possible states in the matter of adequacy. I myself might modify pregnant, unique, or adequate — but only colloquially — as if to say how far from that threshold, as in "not even close," or "more than merely. :—
17 November 2021
- 06:1506:15, 17 November 2021 diff hist −10 Ancien régime →Origin of term: I flushed "in nature" :—
24 October 2021
- 04:0304:03, 24 October 2021 diff hist −4 Frank Herbert →Early life: 2nd paragraph: replaced "relocated" with "moved" :—
22 October 2021
- 18:2618:26, 22 October 2021 diff hist −20 Sobriquet I flushed "in nature" :—
- 17:5317:53, 22 October 2021 diff hist +13 A Knight's Tale 2nd paragraph: petty pruning :—
- 17:4917:49, 22 October 2021 diff hist +181 A Knight's Tale 2nd paragraph: petty pruning :—
- 17:0517:05, 22 October 2021 diff hist −4 A Knight's Tale →Production: removed a bug of my own :—
- 16:4316:43, 22 October 2021 diff hist +1 Classic rock 1st paragraph: replaced "features" with "comprises" :—
- 16:3716:37, 22 October 2021 diff hist +57 A Knight's Tale →Production: The 1st paragraph now precisely quotes the line in the film's credits that immediately follows the Columbia Pictures copyright notice beneath the list of ten '70s songs in the soundtrack :—
- 15:2315:23, 22 October 2021 diff hist +166 A Knight's Tale →Production: 3rd paragraph: supplied the precise year allegedly intended by the Writer-Director Helgeland, with a tentative documentation :—
