User contributions for Pete Hobbs
A user with 2,331 edits. Account created on 17 January 2010.
27 August 2024
- 20:5020:50, 27 August 2024 diff hist +123 Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band Expanded first para to include being LA-based and include mention of Norman Greenbaum's songwriting ability. current
- 04:5504:55, 27 August 2024 diff hist −4 m The Bank Note Deleted my earlier wikilink to 'smithereens' disambiguation page - an Autobot has just informed me that such a disambig-link is not allowed! current
26 August 2024
- 20:2720:27, 26 August 2024 diff hist +1,470 Talk:Smithereens →57 cult Smithereens in 1872? Seems dubious: new section Tag: New topic
- 19:5219:52, 26 August 2024 diff hist −109 Smithereens Rationalised the descriptions by resorting and adding some missing dates (to help differentiate). Deleted dubious 1872 mention of 57 cult smithereens (see my Talk entry). current
- 19:1119:11, 26 August 2024 diff hist +1 m The Bank Note Inserted missing full-stop.
- 19:1019:10, 26 August 2024 diff hist +22 The Bank Note Split first para into two, to separate the date and cast-members of its first performance.
- 18:5918:59, 26 August 2024 diff hist +410 The Bank Note Added play's first recorded use of "smithereens" in print, with citation. Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 17:2817:28, 26 August 2024 diff hist +110 Smithereens Added General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien (1858–1930), as "Smithereens" was one of his nicknames (stated in his wiki article).
- 04:5504:55, 26 August 2024 diff hist 0 Theodore Bikel →Folk singer and composer: Combined para2 first sentence with para3 (as both are about 1962). Moved rest of para2 to end of section, as better chronological reading. Combine two separate mentions of Bikel's response to Dylan's 1965 performance into one extended ention.
- 04:4004:40, 26 August 2024 diff hist 0 Theodore Bikel →Folk singer and composer: Moved para 5 up to sit between paras 2-3, as better chronological reading.
25 August 2024
- 03:4103:41, 25 August 2024 diff hist 0 m Staffordshire Hoard →2009 excavation: Moved misplaced full-stop in caption. current
- 03:4003:40, 25 August 2024 diff hist +2 m Staffordshire Hoard →2009 excavation: Corrected end-brackets error in my previous edit.
- 03:3703:37, 25 August 2024 diff hist +19 m Staffordshire Hoard →2009 excavation: Wikilinked helmet image caption to its own Staffs helmet wiki-page.
24 August 2024
- 00:4200:42, 24 August 2024 diff hist −21 m The Fastest Gun Alive →Production: The glass is simply dropped - there is no count of three. current
23 August 2024
- 20:2820:28, 23 August 2024 diff hist +46 The Fastest Gun Alive →Cast: Split into credited (as per film-ending) and uncredited roles.
22 August 2024
- 20:2920:29, 22 August 2024 diff hist −1 m Joan Crawford →Contributions to charities and service members: Grammar-fix.
- 20:2720:27, 22 August 2024 diff hist −2,807 Joan Crawford →Death: Deleted mention in para4 of burial, as already mentioned in para1. Deleted own earlier accidental duplication of whole subsection Legacy.
- 20:1520:15, 22 August 2024 diff hist +3,097 Joan Crawford In Death section, combined some sentences for better readability, and added small extra info. Moved WW2 AWVS membership from Death section to Contributions to charities section, where already near-duplicate mention.
- 18:3218:32, 22 August 2024 diff hist 0 Joan Crawford Reversed the order of whole sections 1.Personal life and 2.Career, as per my reasoning explained on Talk page earlier today.
- 18:1818:18, 22 August 2024 diff hist +1,283 Talk:Joan Crawford →Running order of sections needs rejigging: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:3717:37, 22 August 2024 diff hist +3,224 Talk:Joan Crawford →Running order of sections needs rejigging: new section Tag: New topic
19 August 2024
- 15:0715:07, 19 August 2024 diff hist +131 Great Britain Olympic football team Extended the mention of Women's team inclusion, by adding that it followed the introduction of Women's Olympic football in 1996.
- 14:5114:51, 19 August 2024 diff hist +4 m Great Britain women's Olympic football team In Infobox, added 9 for Kim Little, as matching Jill Scott's 9 appearances for Team GB. current
16 August 2024
- 19:2119:21, 16 August 2024 diff hist +7 m Red King, White Knight Corrected Gorbachev wikilink. current
- 19:1819:18, 16 August 2024 diff hist +726 Red King, White Knight Added Neil Dudgeon to cast members. Added Tom Bell to Lede para. Expanded plot to include roles of Vlasek, Tulayev and Szaz, and corrected some plot details (eg. Soviet satellite country, not Russia).
- 06:1406:14, 16 August 2024 diff hist +24 Bathurst, New South Wales In Lede, added date of founding 1815, and clarified that the area (not the town itself) was the site of gold discovery in 1851. current
- 06:0406:04, 16 August 2024 diff hist −1,126 Bathurst, New South Wales Moved 1830 Bathurst Rebellion from 1850-60s section to pre-1850s section. Clarified that gold was found first at Ophir, and then Sofala and Hill End soon after. Moved large para about Hill End and the Beyers-Holtermann Specimen out and into Hill End article instead.
- 05:2105:21, 16 August 2024 diff hist +1,308 Hill End, New South Wales Inserted large para about the Beyers-Holtermann Specimen, removed from Bathurst article, and made other smaller tidyings in the general text. current
15 August 2024
- 18:3018:30, 15 August 2024 diff hist +433 Bathurst, New South Wales →Gold rush era (1851–1860s): Improved the general wording of the whole section by small sentence-amends etc., and added several appropriate wikilinks. Also added image of Beyers-Holtermann Specimen.
- 16:0816:08, 15 August 2024 diff hist +15 m Welcome Stranger →Discovery: In image caption, added county of Cornwall to Redruth. current
- 16:0016:00, 15 August 2024 diff hist +16 m Welcome Stranger Added exact location of find, being Moliagul (ie. 9 miles NW of Dunolly, as stated in article but unnamed).
- 15:5515:55, 15 August 2024 diff hist +16 m Welcome Stranger Inserted state of Victoria (with wikilink) into location address of Donelly, Australia, for clarity.
- 15:1915:19, 15 August 2024 diff hist +30 m Bernhardt Holtermann Wikilinked Hill End to wiki-page article. current
- 15:1615:16, 15 August 2024 diff hist +4 m Bernhardt Holtermann Wikilinked Bathurst to wiki-page article.
14 August 2024
- 16:1016:10, 14 August 2024 diff hist +20 m Hilaire Belloc In Infobox's 'Resting place', added the town (West Grinstead), as the shrine's name alone is an insufficient indication.
- 15:3615:36, 14 August 2024 diff hist +1 m Goring-by-Sea →Landmarks: re. Sistine Chapel, corrected from "the world's own handpainted copy" to state "the world's only handpainted copy". current
12 August 2024
- 17:5517:55, 12 August 2024 diff hist +57 Banksy's London animal series →List of works: Improved description from "..elephants on a house.." to read "..elephants in the bricked windows of a house..". Also "Piranha fish" and "big cat of the genus Panthera"
- 17:2717:27, 12 August 2024 diff hist +990 Untitled (2004) Added some extra details (auction, Sothebys, Feb) from same citation source, and added the citation's initial mention of a separate Banksy "Untitled" set for auction in Oct 2007. current
- 14:5214:52, 12 August 2024 diff hist −1 m Show Me the Monet (painting) →Crude Oils exhibition: Deleted illogical word "to", from the phrase "Before to entering the gallery space", as not belonging. current
11 August 2024
- 16:0016:00, 11 August 2024 diff hist −1 m Isle de France (Mauritius) →Population: Corrected appearance of sentence-ending, by removing erroneous line-break. current
8 August 2024
- 19:2119:21, 8 August 2024 diff hist +20 2020 Summer Olympics →New and Optional sports: Clarified timeline of "decision to drop wrestling" by amending to "2013 decision to drop wrestling after Rio 2016", as ultimately wrestling was reinstated without a break (which wasn't clear).
7 August 2024
- 17:0417:04, 7 August 2024 diff hist +1 French Grand Prix →Closed public road courses: Substituted "Because of" (WWI etc) instead of "Thanks to", as "Thanks to World War I and the amount of damage it did to France" is a very inappropriate decription. current
26 July 2024
- 14:2814:28, 26 July 2024 diff hist 0 m The Seeker (film) →Plot: Corrected the verb "realized" to present tense "realizes". current
- 14:2614:26, 26 July 2024 diff hist +4 m David L. Cunningham →Hakani: Inserted missing word "the".
21 July 2024
- 02:0902:09, 21 July 2024 diff hist +1 m Photograph (film) →Critical response: Omserted missing apostrophe. current
8 July 2024
- 14:0314:03, 8 July 2024 diff hist +4 m Controlled-access highway →Route numbering: Improved wikilink directly to Preston By-pass article.
3 July 2024
- 01:3201:32, 3 July 2024 diff hist +2 m Badland (2019 film) →Plot: Added missing brackets around name of atcor Trace Adkins. current
- 01:0101:01, 3 July 2024 diff hist +42 Badland (2019 film) →Plot: Rewrote a couple of sentences to include the bartender's character name (Alice Hollenbeck), as her role is larger than that of (for example) General Corbin Dandridge.
- 00:3600:36, 3 July 2024 diff hist +23 m Jeff Fahey →Film: Wikilinked film Badland.
24 June 2024
- 16:1416:14, 24 June 2024 diff hist +4 m George I of Great Britain →Marriage: Wikilinked Celle, as previously unlinked in article.
