User contributions for Binabik80
A user with 7,012 edits. Account created on 18 November 2004.
27 May 2024
- 18:2818:28, 27 May 2024 diff hist 0 Cheshire cheese though there’s some ambiguity, with a comma it’s easy to read it as eight different counties being discussed. with the colon it’s unambiguous that the four named counties are the same as the “four neighbouring counties” just mentioned #article-section-source-editor current Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
12 May 2024
- 01:2001:20, 12 May 2024 diff hist −17 Cups (song) separating this into two sentences and referring to a music video as “the film” when the song is associated with an ACTUAL film was an EXTREMELY confusing choice #article-section-source-editor Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
5 May 2024
- 17:1717:17, 5 May 2024 diff hist +646 Talk:Coronation of Louis XVI →"Aftermath": new section current Tag: New topic
15 April 2024
- 23:3723:37, 15 April 2024 diff hist −5 Mary & George ‘“even” more scathing’ would require that the quotations from the previous review (several compliments followed by a mild complaint) qualify as scathing themselves #article-section-source-editor Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
12 April 2024
- 10:1310:13, 12 April 2024 diff hist −3 Modern Family Claire is a homemaker at the start of the show (in fact for multiple early seasons), so that status & her return to employment should be in the present tense for a discussion of the show as a whole #article-section-source-editor Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
10 April 2024
- 16:1316:13, 10 April 2024 diff hist +4 Martial law correcting date of Dunmore's Proclamation, both on the actual date printed on the proclamation in the picture & to history's record of when Dunmore's Proclamation was issued
7 April 2024
- 21:5521:55, 7 April 2024 diff hist −8 Shōgun (novel) novels are, by definition, fiction; a novel that is a work of historical fiction is a historical novel #article-section-source-editor Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
26 March 2024
- 01:1801:18, 26 March 2024 diff hist −2 Dragon's Dogma 2 fiction is set in its setting, not set into its setting #article-section-source-editor Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
23 March 2024
- 22:1422:14, 23 March 2024 diff hist +2 m Shōgun (novel) not quite what ‘fiscal’ means #article-section-source-editor Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
19 February 2024
- 13:0513:05, 19 February 2024 diff hist −8 m Beyond: Two Souls the GAME has a plot, but “gameplay” does not have a plot #article-section-source-editor Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
4 February 2024
- 14:0314:03, 4 February 2024 diff hist −9 Lady Rebecca Staunton one can say "the comma makes clear 'who served as governor of virginia' refers to Sir WIlliam not Lady Gooch," but the very fact that this opening sentence was missing a grammatically necessary comma shows that the reader can't trust our comma usage. it's better to reword the sentence so that it's no longer ambiguous current
27 January 2024
- 15:0015:00, 27 January 2024 diff hist −40 Henry Willoughby, 16th Baron Willoughby of Parham it's deeply anachronistic to refer to the thirteen colonies in 1676, decades before many of them were founded current
21 January 2024
- 15:3515:35, 21 January 2024 diff hist −19 Visitors' Gallery The linked UK Parliament page makes no mention of "stangers' gallery" being the formal name, but this page from the same site does say that it was the FORMER (very different from formal) name current
15 January 2024
- 23:4723:47, 15 January 2024 diff hist −4 m Elizabeth of York “postpartum” is a word in the English language and should no more be italicised as if it’s an alien word than other loanwords from Latin, like “bonus”, “senator” or “formula” or Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
9 January 2024
- 15:1815:18, 9 January 2024 diff hist −1 Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon in full, after her marriage, she would be "lady hester, lady mahon", but if you're only going to use one of them, "lady mahon" is by far more appropriate in an encyclopaedia article. (though just "mahon" would probably be most appropriate, unless there's a danger of confusing her with her husband) current
3 January 2024
- 21:5321:53, 3 January 2024 diff hist −2 m 5th Maryland Regiment the parts compose the whole & the whole comprises the parts. thus "composed of eight companies" or "comprising eight companies" but not "composing of eight companies" (also, not "comprised of eight companies" current
28 December 2023
- 23:5723:57, 28 December 2023 diff hist −1 m Zanj subject/verb agreement Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
27 December 2023
- 14:4614:46, 27 December 2023 diff hist −2 Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere →Marriages and ordeals: commas would be grammatically correct, and brackets would be grammatically correct, but comma-open bracket-comma-close bracket is never grammatically correct current
- 14:4414:44, 27 December 2023 diff hist −5 Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere →Marriages and ordeals: great example of why "the <ADJECTIVE>" is always better than "the then <ADJECTIVE>". "the then huge sum" means exactly the same as "the huge sum" in context, but has much less of an impact on the reader
21 December 2023
- 12:5612:56, 21 December 2023 diff hist +5 The Boy Next Door (film) I’m guessing someone meant “a book written 3000 years ago in WHAT IS NOW modern Greece,” but (1) that’s not what this actually said and (2) we don’t actually know that’s true either. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
20 December 2023
- 16:1516:15, 20 December 2023 diff hist −316 Edenton Tea Party →Aftermath: She absolutely did not say this at the time, since it would have been impossible for anyone in the 18th century to say it, and the source cited makes absolutely no mention of the claim that she did
- 16:1416:14, 20 December 2023 diff hist +890 Talk:Edenton Tea Party →Penelope Barker quotation about tea parties: new section Tag: New topic
- 00:2100:21, 20 December 2023 diff hist −1 m Penny Downie rm grammatically incorrect colon. colons shouldn’t be used to separate transitive verbs from their objects current Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
19 December 2023
- 15:0615:06, 19 December 2023 diff hist −1 m First Continental Congress →Accomplishments: rm grammatically incorrect colon. No colon should separate a transitive verb from its object, whether or not that object is a list
15 December 2023
- 18:4818:48, 15 December 2023 diff hist +604 Talk:Lord of the Flies →Semi-protected edit request on 21 December 2022: Reply Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
13 December 2023
- 16:2516:25, 13 December 2023 diff hist −3 m Lessons in Chemistry it’s not customary to use the preposition in this construction Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
17 November 2023
- 13:5913:59, 17 November 2023 diff hist −3 m Petit Trianon →Design and construction: you attend your liege lord (or in this case, lady): you do not "attend to" them
13 November 2023
- 00:0800:08, 13 November 2023 diff hist +2 m François Henri de la Motte human beings are hanged, not hung
12 November 2023
- 23:5923:59, 12 November 2023 diff hist +13 Representative peer →Scotland: this would have meant what the original author intended if there were no comma after "entrenchment," but with the comma, it means the opposite of what would be correct
- 23:5323:53, 12 November 2023 diff hist −12 Representative peer →Scotland: again, inappropriate use of "however"; if anything, "representative peers received no writ of summons" FOLLOWS LOGICALLY from "the lord clerk register's return was sufficient to admit the representative peer," rather than confounding it
- 23:4923:49, 12 November 2023 diff hist −10 Representative peer →Scotland: "however" makes no sense here. it indicates that the information in the sentence contradicts what one would expect based on the previous sentence, but there's nothing about "each peer got as many votes as there were vacancies" to set up a specific expectation that the majority party WOULDN'T win all the seats
1 November 2023
- 18:3918:39, 1 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Hitman: Agent 47 a homophone, not an homophone Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
31 October 2023
- 00:4100:41, 31 October 2023 diff hist −10 m Lebensborn “including” has no place in this sentence Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
25 October 2023
- 13:5813:58, 25 October 2023 diff hist 0 m Pontiac's War punctuation correction to fix run-on sentence Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
6 October 2023
- 18:0318:03, 6 October 2023 diff hist −22 Mary Elizabeth Winstead mercy street is not a “civil rights drama” Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
17 September 2023
- 19:5219:52, 17 September 2023 diff hist −109 William Duer (Continental congressman) →Personal life: the continental army only ever existed during the revolutionary war, so it's not necessary to specify that service in the continental army came during the revolutionary war. lord stirling was referred to at the time and is known to modern historians by his title, like almost all holders of noble titles are (even in his unique circumstance), not by his name
2 September 2023
- 01:2601:26, 2 September 2023 diff hist −175 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral →"On Being Brought from Africa to America": This is absolutely an appropriate statement for a peer-reviewed scholar to make (though hopefully they'd avoid the saccharine "but 16 years old" or the weaselly "cannot be assumed") and Wikipedia to quote WITH A CITATION, but absolutely inappropriate for Wikipedia to say it of our own accord
9 August 2023
- 22:1822:18, 9 August 2023 diff hist −2 m Star Trek: Enterprise →Cancellation
8 August 2023
- 22:3022:30, 8 August 2023 diff hist +11 m Billions (TV series) No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
- 22:2622:26, 8 August 2023 diff hist −7 Billions (TV series) this is the sort of adjective that someone thinks sounds badass but that is actually meaningless. which animal are his trading instincts like? which animals are any good at trading stocks? Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
18 July 2023
- 15:0315:03, 18 July 2023 diff hist −306 Conciliatory Resolution →Receipt and rejection by Congress: this meandering sentence is a really inadequate description of the constitutional status of the continental congress, confuses states with provinces, and assumes that--after fighting in the american war of independence had already begun--it was only the british government and not the colonists who had any say in whether something was "legal" in the thirteen colonies current
12 July 2023
- 04:0404:04, 12 July 2023 diff hist +2 m Good Kids a -> an Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
6 June 2023
- 19:3719:37, 6 June 2023 diff hist −5 Moses Norton →Career: no reason to go for the ugly, awkward "the then-chief factor" when "then the chief factor" works just as well, but of course the best option is to omit "then" altogether ("the chief factor") since the word adds no meaning not already obvious from context
5 June 2023
- 20:4720:47, 5 June 2023 diff hist −5 m Evan Nepean →Career: rm uncited editorialising
6 May 2023
- 14:1914:19, 6 May 2023 diff hist −55 John Malcolm (Loyalist) we can include the information that he wasn't forcibly stripped naked before being tortured without editorializing "so in this instance he was only MILDLY tortured"
24 April 2023
- 17:1617:16, 24 April 2023 diff hist −7 Company rule in India WP:REF
23 April 2023
- 15:0615:06, 23 April 2023 diff hist −1 m Cultivar remove ungrammatical colon from second sentence; colons should not be used to separate a transitive verb from its direct object even if that object is a list
8 April 2023
- 22:2022:20, 8 April 2023 diff hist −8 m The Lieutenant No edit summary
- 21:2921:29, 8 April 2023 diff hist +7 James Oglethorpe the body of the article discusses makes clear there's a lot of uncertainty about his years outside of england during the seven years war and doesn't justify a statement in the lede that he was DEFINITELY in the prussian army
7 April 2023
- 17:4117:41, 7 April 2023 diff hist −3 m Governors Island →Colonial period: the third earl of clarendon is known to history as "lord cornbury," not "lord of cornbury"
