User contributions for TypoBoy

13 November 2024

• 17:0317:03, 13 November 2024 diff hist +7 m Carl S. Williams →Coaching career: copy edit current
• 17:0217:02, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9 Carl S. Williams we needed another conjunction if we want "American football" to modify "coach", because we aren't trying to call him an "American football ophthalmologist".

6 November 2024

• 00:0000:00, 6 November 2024 diff hist −1 m Olgivanna Lloyd Wright →Early life: remove unwanted comma between verb and object current

23 October 2024

• 13:2713:27, 23 October 2024 diff hist +2 Boeing P-8 Poseidon copy edit lede. We have three clauses, one summarizing what it is and two describing how it was created. Those latter two go together; we had it the other way.

22 October 2024

• 00:4000:40, 22 October 2024 diff hist +4 m Arnold Palmer →Career: change "due to relatively small purse" to "due to its relatively small purse"

14 October 2024

• 04:0904:09, 14 October 2024 diff hist 0 Pizza Margherita →History: "Queen" is a common noun (though it means royalty), so it isn't capitalized -- notice what the BBC did in the cited article
• 01:3201:32, 14 October 2024 diff hist +9 Pizza Margherita copy edit: we're saying it's either wild yeast or cultured S. cerevisiae. The latter has several names, but "baker's yeast" is most relevant here.

13 October 2024

• 02:0402:04, 13 October 2024 diff hist 0 m Henry Firth →Early life and imprisonment: fix run-on sentence

12 October 2024

• 02:2802:28, 12 October 2024 diff hist 0 m Wyoming Valley remove unwanted hyphen, because "coal mines" is not being used as a modifier

7 October 2024

• 23:5723:57, 7 October 2024 diff hist −11 m Pennamite–Yankee War →Resolution: copy edit: "such" has no antecedent, and we have said nothing that implies that this "was the only interstate dispute settled by Congress under the Articles of Confederation". Let's drop the hollow claim of such an implication, and just make the statement.

6 October 2024

• 15:3615:36, 6 October 2024 diff hist −4 m Predator satiation change "synchronicity" to "synchrony". we're talking about things happening at the same time, not about Jungian psychology current
• 03:0303:03, 6 October 2024 diff hist 0 m Pipistrel Alpha Trainer →Design and development: no hyphen in "high wing" when it is not used as a modifier (e.g. "A high-wing aircraft has a high wing.") See the linked monoplane article. current

23 September 2024

• 19:0819:08, 23 September 2024 diff hist 0 The Life Eaters →Story: no caps for "surface navy" because that isn't a proper noun, since it isn't its formal name

22 September 2024

• 12:3612:36, 22 September 2024 diff hist +21 Shōgun (novel) →Plot: copy edit

18 September 2024

• 13:0913:09, 18 September 2024 diff hist −14 Comcast Technology Center The short description should include only the most crucial facts about the article's subject. For this building, "What state is Philadelphia in?" is not such a fact.

13 September 2024

• 02:2902:29, 13 September 2024 diff hist +6 Hannibal fix my misspelling of file name
• 02:2602:26, 13 September 2024 diff hist −24 Hannibal As the Name section points out, the Carthaginians did not use hereditary surnames. See talk page discussion
• 01:3501:35, 13 September 2024 diff hist −6 m Barbados It is not necessary to explain that 2021 was later than 1966

12 September 2024

• 13:2113:21, 12 September 2024 diff hist −14 Mill Creek →United States: link directly to page, rather than a redirect, on a disambiguation page current

10 September 2024

• 23:0523:05, 10 September 2024 diff hist −11 Telogreika fix dangling modifier -- it is the vatnik, not "the wearer", that is "worn with valenki and an ushanka"
• 18:1218:12, 10 September 2024 diff hist −4 West Philadelphia →History: Simpler and clearer to name the intersection instead of stating the address. People who want to send them mail can click through for the address. And we don't have to explain that 48th and Baltimore is in West Philadelphia; that's clear from context.
• 17:5817:58, 10 September 2024 diff hist +20 West Philadelphia →History: It wasn't Woodlands Cemetery until after Hamilton's day, as we note later in the paragraph

9 September 2024

• 15:4015:40, 9 September 2024 diff hist −7 m Slobodan Praljak grammar fix -- "as well as" doesn't work in a list with more than two items, unlike "and"

6 September 2024

• 15:4215:42, 6 September 2024 diff hist −20 Noah Syndergaard dropping the phrase "he decided to sign" because it makes the sentence ungrammatical and -- more to the point -- it says something that's obvious from the context that he turned down his only college scholarship and he then spent three years in the Mets farm system.

29 August 2024

• 00:4600:46, 29 August 2024 diff hist −31 Upton Sinclair →Early life and education: It is not necessary to explain that New York City is in the state of New York. Readers who don't already know this are unfamiliar with the State of New York. It's all explained in the linked New York City article. None of this has much to do with Upton Sinclair.
• 00:4000:40, 29 August 2024 diff hist +5 m Upton Sinclair add missing conjunction, because we aren't trying to call Sinclair "an American the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California"

28 August 2024

• 20:4720:47, 28 August 2024 diff hist +3 Jose Altuve add missing conjunction for the two objects of the verb "won", so we aren't saying that the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award and the Hank Aaron Award are the same thing
• 17:0817:08, 28 August 2024 diff hist +65 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 →Aircraft and crew: correct image label: of the original flight plan, the part that was flown is red and the part that didn't happen is blue

24 August 2024

• 02:5102:51, 24 August 2024 diff hist −3 m Strasburg Rail Road →Passenger car equipment: wikilink Edward Stotesbury; drop "former" from "former president", because he was the then-current president Tag: Reverted

23 August 2024

• 20:3320:33, 23 August 2024 diff hist −5 m Norrmalmstorg robbery →Events: simple past rather than past perfect -- Olsson's being 16 was a then-current condition, not a previous one, when he committed his first act of violence

19 August 2024

• 16:3216:32, 19 August 2024 diff hist +3 Charles Townsend Ludington →Early life: Drop stray period; add article current Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 16:3116:31, 19 August 2024 diff hist +3 Charles Townsend Ludington →Early life: add missing conjunction, to join the two objects of “attended” Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 00:5000:50, 19 August 2024 diff hist −18 Paris Gun This article is about the Paris Gun, the German artillery piece, not about the name "Paris Gun".

16 August 2024

• 20:3920:39, 16 August 2024 diff hist −3 Jack Ruby →Early life and career: There's no point calling it "Dallas, Texas" after we've called it "Dallas" several times. Linking to the Dallas article (which, of course, names the state) just in case anybody is confuised

13 August 2024

• 21:0521:05, 13 August 2024 diff hist −8 m Schwalbe Tires fix run-on sentence current

9 August 2024

• 18:0218:02, 9 August 2024 diff hist +2 Javelin throw →Rules and competitions: copy edit -- we were saying "the tip first strikes the ground with its tip"

31 July 2024

• 19:5419:54, 31 July 2024 diff hist +3 Operation Sea Orbit edit photo caption: fix misspelling of "Bainbridge"; change "Task Force ONE" to "Task Force One", to be consistent with other occurrences in the page; rephrase for flow
• 02:4502:45, 31 July 2024 diff hist +3 m Fantome (schooner) →Loss current
• 02:4202:42, 31 July 2024 diff hist −84 Fantome (schooner) copy edit lede to put the 1927 part before the 1969 part

23 July 2024

• 23:1923:19, 23 July 2024 diff hist +4 Andrew Jackson →Early life and education: add missing conjunction (to join the three verbs Jackson "learned to" do, namely "read",
• 00:2000:20, 23 July 2024 diff hist −13 m Pennsbury Manor No edit summary current
• 00:1800:18, 23 July 2024 diff hist +4 m Lillehammer affair change "a Moroccan waiter and brother of the French musician Chico Bouchikhi" to "a Moroccan waiter and the brother of the French musician Chico Bouchikhi". "Brother" needs its own article; otherwise we're calling him "a Moroccan brother of the French musician Chico Bouchikhi", which is ridiculous.

19 July 2024

• 00:2400:24, 19 July 2024 diff hist −1 Paul Philippe Cret Cret was not a Philadelphian. He was Lyonnais. But he lived and worked in Philadelphia, so he was a Philadelphia architect.

15 July 2024

• 03:1703:17, 15 July 2024 diff hist +3 m Gangnam Style →Background and release: add missing conjunction to join the two things that "people are", namely "trendy" and "hip"

14 July 2024

• 19:2619:26, 14 July 2024 diff hist +3 George Sylvester Viereck →Early life: rephrase to make it clear that the phrases "in 1870" and "eight years later" do not refer to the same events. wikilink The Importance of Being Earnest

6 July 2024

• 03:4603:46, 6 July 2024 diff hist +10 Diamond Jim Brady →Personal life: fix dangling modifier (it is the hospital, not the department of urology, that is now known as NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital) current

4 July 2024

• 14:4114:41, 4 July 2024 diff hist −2 Elio Chacón →'¡La tengo!': remove unwanted commas. We aren't trying to say that Yo La Tengo are the ONLY band. So we need "Yo La Tengo" to modify "band", rather than being in apposition. Also, edited graf 2 of the section to use Chacón's name rather than a pronoun for the first mention of the paragraph current

1 July 2024

• 00:5800:58, 1 July 2024 diff hist +11 Watershed (broadcasting) →Chile: consistent usage: "watershed" means the beginning (not the whole) of the adult-programming period

29 June 2024

• 16:3716:37, 29 June 2024 diff hist −13 Atlantic (yacht) It seems clear that the text "(yacht designer)" was not meant to be displayed, in this sentence that already says that Hoyt designed the yacht, but rather as disambiguation in the title of a future article about Hoyt. But how many Frederick Maxfield Hoyts are there? [None, so far, on Wikipedia.] I made the undisambiguated name a link, which a future editor may wish to undo. But, either way, we don't need to explain that the yacht was designed by a yacht designer. current

28 June 2024

• 19:2219:22, 28 June 2024 diff hist −10 Addison Hutton →Architectural Works (partial listing): It is not necessary to explain that Addison Hutton was an architect in the context of this article about Hutton