User contributions for Rdfalberg

29 January 2023

• 22:3822:38, 29 January 2023 diff hist −15 Fred Hampton I removed the title of Assassination from the head of Mr. Hampton's death and from the Death Cause. Assassination is something alleged by those sympathetic to Mr. Hampton's political activities. Assassination has been alleged, but never proven in the court of law, and it is inappropriate and misleading to readers to overtly accuse the FBI and Chicago Police Department of murder based on accusations made by political allies of Mr. Hampton, not proven in any court case/official government inquest. Tag: Reverted

16 October 2022

• 02:1102:11, 16 October 2022 diff hist +4 Jenny Durkan →Handling of George Floyd protests and failed recall attempt: Adding link to Wikipedia profile of judge who made legal opinion.
• 01:4801:48, 16 October 2022 diff hist +147 William Barr →Phone surveillance program: Added more context and went to original source over secondhand source for DOJ Inspector review of DEA surveillance program.
• 01:3901:39, 16 October 2022 diff hist −1 William Barr →Phone surveillance program: Took off an additional period that was after the end of the last sentence.
• 01:3501:35, 16 October 2022 diff hist +404 William Barr →Phone surveillance program: Removed the "an illegal surveillance program without legal analysis" from this section. The article does not state that the program was found to be illegal or made without any basis by any legal court, only that the two senator's opinions. These opinions by the Senators should have been placed in quotes and made clear it was their opinions. Added more context to what data bulk collection's purpose was and how it was enacted.

6 September 2022

• 22:1222:12, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,733 Execution of Saddam Hussein →Legality: This article "Execution of Saddam Hussein" section Legality only has content and statements critical of the hearing. It has no statements from legal experts at the time who were supportive of the trial and defended its legality. I am including statements made by legal experts at the time who were quoted in a New York Times article defending the legality and fairness of the trial, due its partisan nature and lack of presenting both sides of the argument rather than only one.

1 September 2022

• 11:1411:14, 1 September 2022 diff hist −405 Tom Cotton →2006 letter to The New York Times Tag: Reverted
• 08:0908:09, 1 September 2022 diff hist +151 Iraq War The final result of the war, the US and its Coalition partners winning the war, was not included. Added along with source. Tag: Reverted

25 August 2022

• 12:2512:25, 25 August 2022 diff hist +28 Iraq War The source is missing that the American Coalition won the war. Adding it to the result details. Tag: Reverted

17 August 2022

• 21:1421:14, 17 August 2022 diff hist +26 Liz Cheney →Military: Changed wording again from "torture", an improper and politically charged phrase, to "enhanced interrogation techniques", the proper wording that isn't politically charged. Tag: Reverted
• 21:1221:12, 17 August 2022 diff hist +26 Liz Cheney →Military: Changed wording from "torture", an incorrect phrase, to "enhanced interrogation techniques". Tag: Reverted

10 July 2022

• 10:2510:25, 10 July 2022 diff hist +304 Chris Christie →Allegations of corruption and abuse of power: Adding more content to the Bridgegate controversy. Specifically, adding claims made by then Gov. Christie's Press Secretary in response to Judge McGeady as reported by NBC New York.

16 June 2022

• 23:4323:43, 16 June 2022 diff hist −165 Dan Crenshaw →Immigration: The statement about PolitiFact is meant more as a jab at Dan Crenshaw and contains way too much detail. I merged the two sentences about Dan Crenshaw on the View and PolitiFact's response and shortened it to make it less political and lean more nuetral.

27 March 2022

• 18:3618:36, 27 March 2022 diff hist +99 Karl Rove →Torture: Changing the title to the more appropriate "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" and the body to include that, in order to be more neutral as it is debated whether the enhanced interrogation methods used were torture or not. Tag: Reverted

7 January 2022

• 05:4105:41, 7 January 2022 diff hist +642 H. R. McMaster →Post-military career: There were only negative reviews of the book by H.R. McMaster and none that were positive. Adding two positive reviews for to keep things neutral, and separating negative and positive reviews from one another.

31 December 2021

• 04:1604:16, 31 December 2021 diff hist −5 Jim Keady →Hurricane Sandy: The statement, "Over the three months following the confrontation, more recovery funds were disbursed than in the prior three years" was removed because upon reviewing the source, this statement is actually a quote from Jim Keady, not a statement of fact from the article. Added that Mr. Keady ran for Congress after the experience highlighted in this section, using the orginal article source.

22 December 2021

• 23:4823:48, 22 December 2021 diff hist +15 Ele Não movement Editing wording of intro. Too political. Made the language more neutral, apolitical. Changed, "They were motivated by the sexist declarations of the candidate and his threats to democracy", to "They were motivated by alleged sexist declarations of the candidate and accusations of threats to democracy".

18 December 2021

• 00:4100:41, 18 December 2021 diff hist +140 Killing of Daunte Wright →Trial proceedings: Adding content of racial and gender make-up of jury from NBC news article to include number of African American and Asian American jurors, and even split of men and women, on jury. Removed added political commentary (criticisms of 3/4 white jury) from opinion article that are personal opinion and not relevant to case.

1 November 2021

• 08:3008:30, 1 November 2021 diff hist −792 George W. Bush →Iraq invasion: Content relating to Benjamin Berell Ferencz unnecessary.
• 08:0808:08, 1 November 2021 diff hist +180 Greg Casar →Reimagining public safety: police budget: Fixed my edits.
• 08:0508:05, 1 November 2021 diff hist −1 Greg Casar →Reimagining public safety: police budget
• 08:0408:04, 1 November 2021 diff hist +809 Greg Casar →Reimagining public safety: police budget: The statement "officers harmed multiple civilians" is a very politically loaded statement in the negative and is not politically neutral language, so that was taken and the language was amended. Language "to again call for systemic change" was not neutral and was also amended. Update also added regarding APD that relates to the Councilman's policy decisions.

29 October 2021

• 10:5110:51, 29 October 2021 diff hist −104 Ben Carson →Decline in polls: Deleting content that is partisan, not neutral.
• 10:4310:43, 29 October 2021 diff hist −165 Ben Carson →Decline in polls: Irrelevant content removed.
• 07:3507:35, 29 October 2021 diff hist −4 Soy boy →Public perception: Fixed a sentence to be grammatically correct.

28 October 2021

• 23:3523:35, 28 October 2021 diff hist −31 Soy boy →Public perception: Cut out a part of sentence. Did not find any mention of the statement used, which I cut, in the article that was sourced.
• 23:3323:33, 28 October 2021 diff hist −53 Soy boy →Usage: Fixing some content I added to the article.
• 22:3722:37, 28 October 2021 diff hist −1 Soy boy →Usage
• 22:3622:36, 28 October 2021 diff hist +303 Soy boy →Usage: Adding some use of the term from American media/television.

26 October 2021

• 08:4408:44, 26 October 2021 diff hist +426 Please Twins! →Supporting characters: Fixing the character details for Kousei Shimazaki. The article incorrectly states the character pretends to be gay. The character is actually Bisexual. Also added and fixed details regarding Kousei and Maiku, another main character in the series, friendship/relationship.

13 October 2021

• 17:2317:23, 13 October 2021 diff hist +528 Chris Christie →Fort Lee lane closure: Adding content to events relating to hearings regarding the citizen complaint.

8 October 2021

• 02:4602:46, 8 October 2021 diff hist +315 Lois Leveen Adding a a new subject line, "Controversy". Tag: Disambiguation links added

14 July 2021

• 18:1218:12, 14 July 2021 diff hist +247 User talk:Rdfalberg →July 2021: Responding to another user's remarks.

11 July 2021

• 23:0623:06, 11 July 2021 diff hist −44 Iraq War Cut out an unnecssary part of the sentence for the 1st paragraph. Tag: Reverted

2 July 2021

• 01:0201:02, 2 July 2021 diff hist +8 Enhanced interrogation techniques Adding the word alleged in the first sentence. The matter over whether enhanced interrogation techniques, whether one, some, or all, of the the methods can fit the legal definition of torture. Alleged therefore needs to be be added into the first sentence due to that fact.
• 00:5900:59, 2 July 2021 diff hist +26 Enhanced interrogation techniques →Consequence of failing to prosecute: The term that should have been used was enhanced interrogation techniques. The article title calls enhanced interrogation techniques torture. If the word torture was to be used, it should have had quotes around it. The proper term should have stated enhanced interrogation techniques, as there is still debate over whether all enhanced interrogation techniques fit the legal definition of torture. Tag: Reverted
• 00:4900:49, 2 July 2021 diff hist −494 Mitt Romney →General election: I decided to cut out a sentence I had added on a previous revision and instead put the sources to the prior sentence. I had made the addition regarding the statement being a focal point for Democratic attacks, and I feel including several comments outside the administration were too much content, and didn't match with the prior sentence I had added. I decided to cut them out and stick to the then administration's responses to the comment.

25 June 2021

• 04:5004:50, 25 June 2021 diff hist +219 Mitt Romney →General election: Adding a sentence the Russia geo-political foe content, adding that the innocuous comment spiraled into a big sticking point during the 2012 presidential campaign. Also cut down on a quote, sti

17 June 2021

• 02:5602:56, 17 June 2021 diff hist −1 m Mitt Romney →Political positions: Removed a minor grammatical error, a comma that I placed incorrectly in an earlier edit before a source in the 1st sentence of the 5th paragraph.
• 02:3002:30, 17 June 2021 diff hist +4 m Mitt Romney →General election: I just added the word "the" in the sentence, "...and continued to defend his position into the Presidential debates", to fix a grammatical error I made in an earlier edit.
• 02:2402:24, 17 June 2021 diff hist +99 User talk:Rdfalberg →June 2021
• 02:1102:11, 17 June 2021 diff hist −177 Mitt Romney →General election: There were several issues regarding grammar but also of framing. "Luke Johnson of the ''Huffington Post'' attacked Romney for his foreign policy positions, specifically on Russia" didn't have a quote to it, and it was posted before the topic sentence, "Romney would also be attacked for..", rather than after that opening topic sentence to the paragraph. I also changed up the second sentence as the edits that came afterwards had grammar and structure issues.
• 01:5801:58, 17 June 2021 diff hist −20 m Ben Carson →Decline in polls: Deleted an unnecessary comment that was pulled from the source, which wasn't put properly in quotation marks, and insinuated a position that couldn't be verified. If a political figure says a state or states, such as the Baltic states, should "get involved in NATO", that doesn't mean the person was unaware the mentioned states were in NATO. The individual could have been saying they feel the states should get more involved in the organization than they are currently.
• 01:4401:44, 17 June 2021 diff hist +8 m Enhanced interrogation techniques Calling Enhanced Interrogation Techniques as torture is debatable. There is still debate as to whether methods used in enhanced interrogation techniques can be considered torture. This is why the word "alleged" needs to be added, to reflect that. Tag: Reverted
• 01:3601:36, 17 June 2021 diff hist +786 Mitt Romney →Political positions: Added content to Mitt Romney's position on Russia as it was lacking depth.
• 01:2401:24, 17 June 2021 diff hist +2,877 Mitt Romney →General election: This section is missing the controversy that erupted during the 2012 Presidential campaign where Mitt Romney was attacked for his positions on Russia and Vladamir Putin.

15 April 2021

• 09:5409:54, 15 April 2021 diff hist +9 m Meghan McCain →Political positions: Changed words in 2nd paragraph from "supported her father's pro-war position" to "supported her father's pro-intervention position". When it comes to specific conflicts, such as the Iraq War, people aren't either Pro-War or Anti-War; nobody sensible likes war for the sake of war. People are either Pro-Intervention, for getting militarily involved, or Anti-Intervention, for not getting militarily involved. Calling someone Pro-War is an attempt to disparage someone.

3 April 2021

• 02:2702:27, 3 April 2021 diff hist +744 m Ben Ferencz →Role in forming the International Criminal Court: Switching and fixing grammar of statement moved from other section to this one.
• 02:2602:26, 3 April 2021 diff hist −793 m Ben Ferencz →Later years Tag: Manual revert
• 02:2302:23, 3 April 2021 diff hist +793 m Ben Ferencz →Later years: Content from George W Bush Page that was in Iraq War section switched to this page due to it's content being relevant here, and not on GWB page. Tag: Reverted