User contributions for 212.159.59.5

21 November 2021

• 13:4313:43, 21 November 2021 diff hist +66‎ Desert locust ‎ →‎Further reading: added Walford, G. F. 1963. Arabian Locust Hunter, London, Robert Hale.

18 November 2021

• 12:0112:01, 18 November 2021 diff hist −13‎ Fourth Way ‎ →‎Overview: para 2: grammar (person) & clarity. 'leaving one not really conscious, even as they clearly ''believe'' they are' ==> "'leaving one not really conscious, despite ''believing'' one is'

5 October 2021

• 13:4113:41, 5 October 2021 diff hist +3‎ Internet celebrity ‎ →‎Influencers and marketing networks: para 1: grammar & semantics. "creates that trust and confidence in which consumers translate" => "creates a sense of trust and confidence which consumers translate"

27 September 2021

• 13:4813:48, 27 September 2021 diff hist +4‎ Benny Hill ‎ →‎The Benny Hill Show: para 6: ambiguity "was not malicious and fundamentally harmless" ==> "was not malicious but was fundamentally harmless"

15 September 2021

• 13:5813:58, 15 September 2021 diff hist −36‎ Striking clock ‎ Factual error: "(also known as '''chiming clock''')" ==> deleted. A chiming clock is one that prior to striking the hour plays a chime sequence on bells (e.g. the London Parliament clock)

3 September 2021

• 17:2317:23, 3 September 2021 diff hist +3‎ Witchetty grub ‎ →‎Description: para 2: malapropism "attributed as" ==> "considered to be"

24 August 2021

• 10:0810:08, 24 August 2021 diff hist +1‎ Land reform in Scotland ‎ →‎Criticism: section: Recommendations by legal experts. bullet 1: "criteria ... is" --> "criteria ... are" // there are two criteria ('criteria' is in any case the plural of 'criterion')

27 July 2021

• 09:2709:27, 27 July 2021 diff hist +6‎ Convoy PQ 18 ‎ →‎14 September: para 3: grammar "the speed that the escorts had rescued the three" -> "the speed with which the escorts had rescued the three"

2 July 2021

• 08:1408:14, 2 July 2021 diff hist −5‎ Florida Keys ‎ →‎Geology: para 3: "below the contemporary level" - contemporary with what? --> "below the current level"

27 November 2020

• 19:3719:37, 27 November 2020 diff hist +5‎ Thomas More ‎ →‎Indictment, trial and execution: para 7: "charges [...] related to [...] and [...] for" - grammar --> change "for" to "included"
• 19:0819:08, 27 November 2020 diff hist +9‎ Thomas Wolsey ‎ →‎Justice: para 2: "and this mass urban migration" - what urban migration? --> "and the resulting urban migration"
• 19:0419:04, 27 November 2020 diff hist +355‎ Talk:Thomas Wolsey ‎ →‎Domestic achievements -> Justice: new section

17 November 2020

• 17:0317:03, 17 November 2020 diff hist 0‎ It's That Man Again ‎ →‎Format: para 3: incorrect usage "to identify which is the characters was speaking" --> "to identify which of the characters was speaking"

7 October 2020

• 16:5016:50, 7 October 2020 diff hist −2‎ Chinese typewriter ‎ →‎Cultural and technological impact: para 2: malapropism "typists became to rearrange" --> "typists came to rearrange"

2 October 2020

• 13:3413:34, 2 October 2020 diff hist −4‎ George Raft ‎ →‎Night After Night (1932): superflous word: "advocated for" --> "advocated" ["advocate" means "speak for", so the extra "for" is superfluous]

28 September 2020

• 08:0508:05, 28 September 2020 diff hist +2‎ C. V. Boys ‎ →‎Experimental physics: para 1: "firing the crossbow" - incorrect, only guns are "fired" --> "shooting the crossbow"

13 August 2020

• 10:2210:22, 13 August 2020 diff hist −1‎ Professional development ‎ para 1: grammar "There are a variety of approaches" --> "There is a variety of approaches" - "variety" is singular and is the grammatical subject of the sentence.

2 August 2020

• 12:3512:35, 2 August 2020 diff hist −9‎ Light-emitting diode ‎ →‎White LEDs and the illumination breakthrough: para 4: redundant comparative "this is not only a huge increase" -->"this is a huge increase" (no comprative is mentioned)
• 12:2712:27, 2 August 2020 diff hist +6‎ LED display ‎ →‎History: para 4: subjective and inaccurate "an early blue needed a power station to run it" --> "had excessively high power consumption"

26 July 2020

• 10:2110:21, 26 July 2020 diff hist +1‎ Deng Xiaoping ‎ →‎Activism in Shanghai and Wuhan: grammar: "Wuhan, whom the Communists at that time had their headquarters" --> "Wuhan, where the Communists at that time had their headquarters"

24 July 2020

• 16:0116:01, 24 July 2020 diff hist −1‎ Neanderthal ‎ →‎Music: grammar: "there are a lack of cut marks" --> "there is a lack of cut marks"

4 July 2020

• 15:1015:10, 4 July 2020 diff hist −4‎ Empiricism ‎ para 1: "advocate for" tautology (advocate means to speak for or in support of) -> "advocate"

29 May 2020

• 12:5712:57, 29 May 2020 diff hist +1‎ Copper tubing ‎ →‎Compression connections: malapropism: "overtime" --> "over time" (two separate words, as single word "overtime" means excess paid working hours)

24 May 2020

• 17:5817:58, 24 May 2020 diff hist +3‎ Operation Mincemeat ‎ →‎Spanish handling of the corpse and the ramifications: final para: "credence" --> "credibility" - malapropism, credence is the act of finding something credible

28 April 2020

• 10:5410:54, 28 April 2020 diff hist −3‎ Cesare Beccaria ‎ →‎Later life and influence: para 6: "forerunner"-->"pioneer" [malapropism]
• 10:4710:47, 28 April 2020 diff hist −2‎ Cesare Beccaria ‎ →‎On Crimes and Punishments: para 4: "left parts away"-->"omitted parts" [poor English]
• 10:4310:43, 28 April 2020 diff hist −2‎ On Crimes and Punishments ‎ →‎History: "left parts away" -->"omitted parts" [poor English]
• 10:3210:32, 28 April 2020 diff hist −31‎ Mycotoxin ‎ →‎Production: "the fungus may use them as a strategy to better" -->"they may improve" [evolution is not purposive and fungus can not think or plan]

19 March 2020

• 12:0412:04, 19 March 2020 diff hist 0‎ Orders of magnitude (data) ‎ ~ 10⁴⁵ bits ... adult male human being --> adult male human brain : see Bekenstein Bound article

13 January 2020

• 17:3817:38, 13 January 2020 diff hist +154‎ James T. Kirk ‎ →‎Development: para 1, end: additional information

9 January 2020

• 08:4908:49, 9 January 2020 diff hist +10‎ Causality ‎ para 1: "and all lie in its past" --> "some of which may lie in its past"
• 08:4408:44, 9 January 2020 diff hist +14‎ Causality ‎ para 1: "by which one process or state" --> "by which one event, process or state" (two instances)

2 January 2020

• 09:1209:12, 2 January 2020 diff hist +483‎ Talk:Gregor Mendel ‎ →‎" results of Mendel's inheritance study in hawkweeds was unlike his results for peas": new section

9 December 2019

• 16:1916:19, 9 December 2019 diff hist −7‎ Brown Bess ‎ →‎The Land Pattern Muskets: para 5: "in the battle of the soldiers acted fear, fatigue and stress" --> "in battle, soldiers suffered fear, fatigue and stress" [garbled language]
• 16:1516:15, 9 December 2019 diff hist +3‎ Brown Bess ‎ →‎The Land Pattern Muskets: para 4: "the result of shooting ordinary soldiers" --> "the result of shooting by ordinary soldiers" [the shield, not the soldiers, was the target]

29 November 2019

• 14:2914:29, 29 November 2019 diff hist +7‎ Sharpe's Challenge ‎ →‎Plot: para 1: "Dodd's men kill the entire garrison"-->"Dodd's men kill almost the entire garrison": "almost" as Sharpe is left alive

28 November 2019

• 16:1516:15, 28 November 2019 diff hist +1‎ Richard Glossip ‎ →‎Innocence controversy: "advocated against" --> "campaigned against": Advocate means "speak for". You can't "speak for against" - it negates itself

26 July 2019

• 12:4812:48, 26 July 2019 diff hist +19‎ James Lovelock ‎ →‎Gaia hypothesis: "and the Arctic Ocean was 23 °C" --> "and the temperature of the Arctic Ocean was 23 °C"

6 July 2019

• 11:4111:41, 6 July 2019 diff hist 0‎ Harry Kendall Thaw ‎ "Schloss Katzenstein in the Austrian Tyrol, the foreboding, gothic structure" malapropism "foreboding" --> "forbidding"

23 June 2019

• 07:0407:04, 23 June 2019 diff hist −57‎ Intuition ‎ "or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired" subjectivist not supported by cited refs -> deleted
• 07:0107:01, 23 June 2019 diff hist −17‎ Intuition ‎ "ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence," incorrect and not in accord with cited refs -> amended this part of definition

28 March 2019

• 09:2009:20, 28 March 2019 diff hist +3‎ The Matrix ‎ →‎Plot: para 2 "...lends credence to Morpheus' belief.." Malapropism: credence -> credibility

6 December 2018

• 10:2310:23, 6 December 2018 diff hist +218‎ Talk:PayPal ‎ →‎PayPal Limitation Criticism: new section

15 August 2017

• 10:5310:53, 15 August 2017 diff hist +468‎ Talk:Antarctic ‎ →‎introductory paragraph - ambiguity: new section

27 July 2017

• 17:0317:03, 27 July 2017 diff hist +1‎ Gang ‎ →‎Membership: Grammar: "Gang membership represents the phenomena of a" -> "phenomenon" (phenomena is the plural)

11 September 2016

• 10:4510:45, 11 September 2016 diff hist +487‎ Talk:Parkerian Hexad ‎ →‎Possession or Control: new section

20 July 2016

• 06:5806:58, 20 July 2016 diff hist +716‎ Help:Books/Feedback ‎ →‎"The Book Creator software has been crippled since it was rebuilt in 2014"; "the situation is not going to change": new section
• 06:2106:21, 20 July 2016 diff hist +293‎ User talk:212.159.59.5 ‎ →‎equations fall off page in PDF: new section current

23 June 2016

• 07:3807:38, 23 June 2016 diff hist +4‎ Swift J1644+57 ‎ information error: "...event that occurred..." --> "...event that was observed..." [it _occurred_ 3.8 billion years ago]

5 May 2016

• 14:3914:39, 5 May 2016 diff hist +3‎ Maker culture ‎ →‎Philosophical emphasis: grammar & semantics: "an anti-response on" ->"a negative response to"