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27 November 2024

18 November 2024

  • 16:1616:16, 18 November 2024 diff hist −14 Virtual community →top: SOME, (maybe most) of the changes made "13:53, 24 November 2023" (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual_community&diff=prev&oldid=1186682424 the DIFF] have already been reverted; but (imho) ALL of them were of little or no (or, ... NEGATIVE!) value, and today I found TWO that still had not been restored to the status quo ante. Even if the damage was not "intentional" vandalism, THAT EDIT did not add (IMHO, it subtracted!) value. Hence, this belated (partial) "revert"!

17 November 2024

  • 04:5304:53, 17 November 2024 diff hist +500 m Justin Welby →Food banks: The previous "edit comment" had a mistake. It should have said << change the last 3 words from "a decade ago" to "a decade before" >>.This edit does NOT affect the "as displayed" text of the article. This edit only adds a comment, which [a] does NOT affect the displayed text of the article, but it [b] does allow this 'explanation' to be added to the list of 'edit comments', ... those comments which appear -- (under "Compare selected revisions") when one clicks on "View history".
  • 04:2504:25, 17 November 2024 diff hist +3 Justin Welby →Food banks: In the sentence starting "In December 2014", change the last 3 words from "a decade before" to "a decade ago". Even though some readers MIGHT be able to figure out that the appropriate interpretation of the words "a decade ago" would probably be relative to the time when that sentence was *written* (namely ... probably some time close to "December 2014"), there is some potential for confusion; especially now, when "December 2014" and "a decade ago" are soon to become synonymous.

13 November 2024

  • 14:4114:41, 13 November 2024 diff hist +1,014 Palantir Technologies →top: In the sentence that mentions "IL5", (which is part of the explanation about "Palantir Gotham", one of Palantir's four main projects), add a footnote -- (including an "archive-url" value, even though "| url-status = live") -- that points the reader to a (reliable source) web page -- ["What Is an IL5 Certification?"] -- that explains, (both at a simple level and in more detail), what the term "IL5" means. The footnote has a "QUOTE" field, that might even obviate going to the web page.
  • 06:3806:38, 13 November 2024 diff hist +17 Palantir Technologies →top: Add "Joe Lonsdale" to the list of "Founders" in the "{{Infobox company}}" template instance (for this company) at the top of this article.

12 November 2024

  • 17:4217:42, 12 November 2024 diff hist +43 University of Austin →History: Modify [the "ref" tag for] footnote number "[21]" to include [a value for] a "date" field ("|date=November 19, 2021"). Also, modify the sentence that includes that footnote, to add the words "as of November 2021".
  • 15:0915:09, 12 November 2024 diff hist +8 University of Austin →History: Two changes to the wording in the sentence that mentions "not clarifying" [and] "what their advisory roles entailed". It was not intentional to imply, in that sentence. that the clarifying did not (eventually) occur. As for the change of prepositions (from "for" to "by"), a check of the reliable source [see the footnote at the end of that sentence] will show that "by" is what was meant. The word "for" does appear (correctly) a few words away, which may have led to a [pseudo?] TYPO.

11 November 2024

  • 19:3819:38, 11 November 2024 diff hist +292 Wendy Shalit →External links: REMEDY a dead link situation (as in, a "{{dead link}}") by inserting an "archive-url" field (with a value for that field) in the entry that used to contain [only] a link that was displayed as "GirlsGoneMild.com" and that pointed to the [old] URL "http://www.girlsgonemild.com/". That old URL does not seem to work now, but apparently it did still work, "as of" March 8, 2022, so point to a web page that has been preserved courtesy of the 'archive.org' "Wayback machine". current
  • 12:4012:40, 11 November 2024 diff hist −1 Lomo saltado →Description: Change the verb "are" to "is". The noun which serves as the "subject" for this "predicate" is the word "use". The noun "use" is not plural; so ... the verb should not be plural. The linguistic rule that causes this to be the grammatically correct wording is called "subject / predicate agreement in number" -- where the word "number", there, has a meaning that involves a subject or a predicate being singular or plural. [A "mass" noun (which is neither) goes with a singular verb]. current

10 November 2024

8 November 2024

  • 20:5520:55, 8 November 2024 diff hist +168 Jonathan Chait →Positions: Make some changes to the contents of the "ref" tag for footnote number "[14]". The only "important" change here and now, is the ONE change: to add "| url-status = dead" to this "ref" tag. Most of [the rest of] the changes in this edit are un-important, and those 'other' changes are made necessary only by the need to use a "{{cite web}}" template instance, IN ORDER TO [be able to] insert the one important change, (the addition of "| url-status = dead").

6 November 2024

5 November 2024

  • 23:0423:04, 5 November 2024 diff hist +1,240 Memetics →History: Modify footnote number "[14]" to include a suggestion for (an idea for ... a 'work-around' for) a way to find the [third] chapter online ... the one called "'''On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures'''". This was done as [a suggestion for] a ['partial'?] "remedy" for the "dead link" situation that is mentioned or "indicated" by a "{{dead link}}" template instance -- [dated "August 2023"] -- near [or "in"] footnote number "[14]".
  • 22:0222:02, 5 November 2024 diff hist −296 m Memetics →History: Combine footnotes "[14]" and "[15]" since they are identical. ALSO, replace the "shortened" [sub-] title "questing for the ...", ending with three dots ["..."] (an ellipsis) -- and not all capitalized -- by the actual subtitle of the book ['Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern'], which is more complete and more completely (/slash 'correctly') capitalized. Also, correct the values of the [author 'name]' fields "first" and "last" in footnote number "[12]".

31 October 2024

  • 05:3005:30, 31 October 2024 diff hist 0 m Laying on of hands →Jewish tradition: "Combine" footnotes "[5]" and "[7]", because they were basically identical ... (except [for the minor difference] that, one of them -- [5] -- did not have a hyperlink pointing to [the article about] "Hagigah"); *and* [the even MORE minor difference, that] one of them -- [7] -- was expressing the letter 'b' in the 'daf' number ["10b"] as a superscript, and the other was not.) Now, they -- (those 2 footnotes) -- are identical, because now one is a copy of the other.

20 October 2024

13 October 2024

  • 12:5112:51, 13 October 2024 diff hist −7 m 2024 Major League Baseball season →Rule changes: Remove the use of the future tense in the sentence about the "rule changes" that were scheduled to take effect as of the start of the 2024 season. As of "before" (and maybe even 'during') spring training, those "rule changes" may not have "taken effect" [completely]; but once the 2024 regular season had started, those "rule changes" were definitely in use -- 100%. So, now, it is not appropriate to use the future tense in that sentence.
  • 08:4308:43, 13 October 2024 diff hist +12 Jackson Pollock →Art market: Insert a wikilink (hyperlink) pointing to (the article about) Blue Poles, where the phrase "Blue Poles" appears in the first paragraph of this sub-section. See the article about Blue Poles for more information, including the facts that [1] "Blue Poles" is the name of an abstract expressionist painting by Jackson Pollock, aka "Number 11" [for the year 1952], and: [2] its purchase in 1973 by the government of Australia for US $2 million occurred "amid controversy".

19 September 2024

18 September 2024

17 September 2024

16 September 2024

15 September 2024

13 September 2024

  • 05:5805:58, 13 September 2024 diff hist +123 Basel III →US version of the Basel Liquidity Coverage Ratio requirements: Change the value of the "title" field in the "ref" tag for footnote no. "[15]" from "Archived copy" <--("see also" the question in parentheses, in the previous edit to this article, by which footnote no. "[8]" was updated.) to the phrase "Liquidity Coverage Ratio: Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards, and Monitoring". Also add a "publisher" field, with a publisher field value of "The Federal Reserve System".
  • 05:3705:37, 13 September 2024 diff hist +686 Basel III →CET1 capital requirements: Change the value of the "title" field in the "ref" tag for footnote no. "[8]" from "Archived copy" <--(was that "title" phrase 'set' or 'chosen' by some robot? and/OR chosen to "go with" the "archive-url" field value, but NOT with the [now dead/'former'] "url" field value?) to the phrase (translated from ['Brazilian'] Portuguese to English courtesy of "Google Translate") "Understanding Basel III". Also, add a (translated) "QUOTE" field, for readers of English.

12 September 2024

8 September 2024

  • 20:2120:21, 8 September 2024 diff hist +920 Talk:Bose–Einstein statistics →What about Superconductivity -- ? --: new section current Tag: New topic
  • 20:0320:03, 8 September 2024 diff hist +1 Clostridium →top: CHANGE the singular noun "tract" (part of the phrase "intestinal tract") to use the plural word "tracts" instead. Technically (grammatically) speaking, perhaps the rules of grammar do not (absolutely) prohibit using a singular noun here, even though it is being modified by the prepositional phrase "of animals", where the word "animals" is clearly plural. HOWEVER, in this case, one can clearly see that the direct object of the verb "inhabit" includes both 'soils' (plural) and this word.
  • 17:5517:55, 8 September 2024 diff hist +4 m Section 51(xxxi) of the Australian Constitution →top: MINOR grammatical (and choice of words) correction: The singular verb "is" appears to disagree (in "number") with the plural (or... IS it really plural?) noun "terms". However, in this case, rather than changing the verb -- "is" -- to [the plural verb] "are", the best remedy is probably to use the (singular) noun "subclause"; partly because the noun phrase "the 'just terms' provision" -- (at the end of the sentence) -- is singular, even though it does include the (plural) word "terms". current
  • 16:2916:29, 8 September 2024 diff hist +1 m J. D. Tippit →top: MINOR grammatical correction: The word "has" (a part of the verb [whose infinitive is] "to have") is required -- as is the word "remain" -- to "agree in number" ("agreement in number" usually involves being either singular or plural) with the subject [the noun phrase "The commission's findings", which includes the plural noun "findings"]. The verb "remain" is plural, so it already agrees "in number" with the [plural] noun phrase "The commission's findings". But "has" is [was] singular.

6 September 2024

4 September 2024

  • 12:1112:11, 4 September 2024 diff hist +2 Mycotoxin →Production: Replace the obsolete word "diminute" with the word "diminutive". https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/diminute says that "diminute" -- used as an adjective -- was already "[Not in use.]" way back in 1828! Also, https://wikidiff.com/diminute/diminutive says that the adjective "diminute" is obsolete, and www.dictionary.com says "No results found for Diminute". Even wikt:diminute says that, [as an adjective], it is: "(obsolete)"; though it may still be used as a verb.

1 September 2024

  • 10:4210:42, 1 September 2024 diff hist +928 Five Minutes of Heaven →Release: Fix a the ["{{dead link}}"] value of the URL in footnote number "[9]". That URL gave a "404", and the solution (to fix it) was not a different URL. Instead, an "archive-url", was used, ... which involved changing to use a "{{cite web}}". A first TRY of the URL https://web.archive.org/web/20121025223525/https://variety.com/article/VR1117999028.html?categoryId=1061&cs=1 gave (for a few seconds) a web page saying "Got an HTTP 301 response at crawl time"; but then it found its way.

30 August 2024

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