User contributions for Colin Douglas Howell
A user with 5,728 edits. Account created on 14 September 2004.
21 May 2024
- 06:4006:40, 21 May 2024 diff hist 0 American Progress →Description: I don't know whether the phrase "a painting of profound historical significance" should be retained here, but it is not part of the painting's title and should not be styled as if it were. current
20 May 2024
- 17:0117:01, 20 May 2024 diff hist +2 Abdulaziz →Death: Yes, deaths tend to be unbalanced in their viewpoints. (Corrected "unbalanced" template to read "section".) current
18 May 2024
- 02:5802:58, 18 May 2024 diff hist −3 Pleiades →Gallery: Fix misformatted gallery.
15 May 2024
- 08:5908:59, 15 May 2024 diff hist +9 Big Bang →Hubble's law and the expansion of the universe: When discussing "v" in Hubble's law, be consistent in showing it with <math></math> typography.
14 May 2024
- 07:4907:49, 14 May 2024 diff hist 0 William F. Fiedler →World War II: According to the cited sources, Fiedler's final kills were on June 16 ("four days later" after his third victory), not June 30 (the day he himself was killed).
11 May 2024
- 15:4815:48, 11 May 2024 diff hist +15 Overpressure ammunition →History: Reword a sentence to make clear that the "machine gun only" loads *were* usable in rifles, which is the whole point of this rifles vs. revolvers comparison.
10 May 2024
- 20:0420:04, 10 May 2024 diff hist −1 Glock →Variants: Remove stray period in "48" model number.
- 06:0806:08, 10 May 2024 diff hist −6 FN Five-seven →Feeding: Fix a grammar goof that got in when some feed terminology was corrected. current
5 May 2024
- 13:3513:35, 5 May 2024 diff hist +10 Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1929) Wikilink "Twilled", for those readers not familiar with the textile pattern term. current
1 May 2024
- 03:5903:59, 1 May 2024 diff hist +44 Fubuki-class destroyer →Type I (Fubuki): Fix photo caption, using proper style, and linking Hibiki. current
- 03:5503:55, 1 May 2024 diff hist +31 Fubuki-class destroyer →Type I (Fubuki): Inazuma should be linked here too.
19 April 2024
- 02:1302:13, 19 April 2024 diff hist +2 Hikaru Saeki →Career: Correct spelling goof: "Ministry of Dense" to "Ministry of Defense" current
7 April 2024
- 06:5106:51, 7 April 2024 diff hist +8 Camellia japonica →Taxonomy: Always italicize scientific names.
- 06:4906:49, 7 April 2024 diff hist 0 Camellia japonica →Description: Do not include the definite article "the" in the "engrailed" wikilink.
- 03:1203:12, 7 April 2024 diff hist +5 Interrupted screw →Design: This got garbled in a past edit. The threadless parts of the screw are supposed to line up with threaded parts of the *receptacle* so that the screw fits into the receptacle.
6 April 2024
- 07:4607:46, 6 April 2024 diff hist −244 ArtButMakeItSports →History: Remove 1630 Ribera painting, "The Mocking of Christ"; correct date of the Ribera painting mentioned to 1615, as seen in the original tweet. Comparing the 1630 painting to the 1615 painting in the tweet shows that they are obviously different. Alas, the 1615 painting does not seem to have an image in Wikimedia Commons; see https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/5440566/ and https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/6416766/ for images and a description.
1 April 2024
- 21:5021:50, 1 April 2024 diff hist −1 List of geological features on Titan →Montes: Be more specific on which of Tolkien's mountains the Luin Montes are named after.
29 March 2024
- 08:3708:37, 29 March 2024 diff hist −4 Mount Okmok →43 BCE: Okmok II eruption: "last 2,500 years" (which is what the cited source says), not "last 2,500 millennia", which would be 2.5 million years.
21 March 2024
- 01:3501:35, 21 March 2024 diff hist +207 List of American Airlines accidents and incidents →1940s: Despite what the originally cited source claims, the American DC-4 over Texas in October 1947 executed part of an outside loop, not an "outside roll"; the latter would not be possible by manipulating elevator trim. Added a better source.
15 March 2024
- 17:1717:17, 15 March 2024 diff hist +1 David E. Harris →Commercial airline career: The MD-11 was American Airlines' largest aircraft when Harris retired, but not throughout his career, which also covered American's usage of 747s. Also, removed redundant "commercial" from "American Airlines' largest commercial aircraft", since all their aircraft are commercial by definition.
- 17:0217:02, 15 March 2024 diff hist −3 David E. Harris →Commercial airline career: American Airlines never flew the Lockheed Model 10 Electra, a small twin-engine piston-driven airliner of the 1930s; the "Lockheed Electra" mentioned in the sources was the much later Lockheed L-188 Electra, a large four-engine turboprop.
13 March 2024
- 21:3821:38, 13 March 2024 diff hist +4 Cylindropuntia fulgida →Description: Italicize abbreviated scientific name "C. fulgida".
- 01:2701:27, 13 March 2024 diff hist +5 Construction and management simulation →Business simulation and tycoon games: Italicize two more wikilinks that are game titles; reword a sentence for better grammar. current
- 01:2401:24, 13 March 2024 diff hist −4 Construction and management simulation →Factory simulation games: Fix italicized wikilinks that aren't titles and shouldn't be italicized, and italicize one external link that is a title.
10 March 2024
- 02:3502:35, 10 March 2024 diff hist 0 SS Eastland →Speed modifications: Further wording tweak.
- 02:3302:33, 10 March 2024 diff hist +554 Talk:SS Eastland →How can adding weight reduce draft?: Explain, after my recent edit to the article which hopefully clarified things.
- 02:2702:27, 10 March 2024 diff hist +1,117 SS Eastland →Speed modifications: Mention addition of induced-draft system, and cite Hilton (1995) with quote explaining how the modifications reduced hull draft even though weight was increased. Reword the explanation of the bad effect on stability.
8 March 2024
- 08:0908:09, 8 March 2024 diff hist +3 Bacteriorhodopsin Italicize scientific name "Halobacterium salinarum" in infoxbox image caption, also remove stray space there. current
28 February 2024
- 17:0417:04, 28 February 2024 diff hist +103 Tasmanian giant crab →Description: Add back lithograph image of male that was deleted; article should have at least one image showing a male with its distinctive oversized claw. current
- 05:4205:42, 28 February 2024 diff hist +29 Danganronpa →Premise: Whoops, missed another occurrence further up.
- 05:4005:40, 28 February 2024 diff hist +47 Danganronpa →Development: Wikilink and explain names "Ogata" and "Makoto", which had been introduced before their first wikilinked appearances.
27 February 2024
- 07:1807:18, 27 February 2024 diff hist +74 Lestes sponsa →See also: Correct a couple of entries whose genus has been changed. current
- 06:1706:17, 27 February 2024 diff hist 0 Ecchlorolestes peringueyi →Conversation: Fix misspelled heading.
- 06:1306:13, 27 February 2024 diff hist 0 Episynlestes →Species: Fix second table entry to point to the intended second species rather than the first species again. current
26 February 2024
- 07:5707:57, 26 February 2024 diff hist +24 Damselfly →Classification: Fix cladogram's Lestoidea wikilink to point to the superfamily rather than the genus, which is in Lestoideidae.
25 February 2024
- 07:5807:58, 25 February 2024 diff hist +12 Mayfly →Distribution: Wikilink three mayfly families.
- 07:5407:54, 25 February 2024 diff hist +4 Mayfly →Effects on ecosystem functioning: Wikilink Isonychia.
- 07:5107:51, 25 February 2024 diff hist +4 Mayfly →Ecology: Italicize Rhamphomyia longicauda.
- 07:4807:48, 25 February 2024 diff hist +4 Mayfly →Ecology: Wikilink Povilla.
- 07:4307:43, 25 February 2024 diff hist +4 Mayfly →Ecology: Wikilink Hexagenia.
24 February 2024
- 08:4608:46, 24 February 2024 diff hist +3 Tropical Airways Flight 1301 →Flight: Correct another translation error. The flight was authorized to join the right downwind leg of the traffic pattern for landing ("autorisés à joindre le vent arrière droit pour l'atterrissage"; "vent arrière droit" is literally "wind rear right"). Wikilink the term "downwind leg" for explanation. current
- 08:2708:27, 24 February 2024 diff hist +3 Tropical Airways Flight 1301 →Investigation: Fix a couple of translation errors, after consulting the cited source (in French). The French expression for a feathering a propeller is to put it "en drapeau", literally "in flag". "tlaps" looks like an OCR error for "flaps".
23 February 2024
- 06:5406:54, 23 February 2024 diff hist +24 Suzanne Ciani →External links: Rewrite the description of the Suzanne Ciani oral history link, after listening to the clip myself. The old one was confused and misunderstood what she was saying. The larger audience had no problem in accepting the keyboard—it was a traditional interface for instruments. The problem was that the keyboard interface limited what you could do with electronic music—hence the belief (held, not by the larger public, but by Buchla and his followers) that it was inappropriate.
5 February 2024
- 23:2723:27, 5 February 2024 diff hist −54 Vickers Vulcan Use higher-resolution image (courtesy of user One Cookie) of photograph for infobox. current
31 January 2024
- 03:4703:47, 31 January 2024 diff hist +4 Battle of George Square →Military deployment: Wikilink the Mark V* tank.
27 January 2024
- 01:1901:19, 27 January 2024 diff hist +48 H1504+65 Briefly note the one white dwarf whose surface temperature exceeds that of H1504+65, with wikilink (currently a redlink).
18 January 2024
- 22:0222:02, 18 January 2024 diff hist +7 USS Emmons →1944-1945, Transfer to Pacific and loss: Add wikilink for the Ellyson. current
- 02:3302:33, 18 January 2024 diff hist −2 2020 Coulson Aviation Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash →Aircraft history: Change "turbo propeller" to the correct term, "turboprop", with a wikilink.
16 January 2024
- 19:0019:00, 16 January 2024 diff hist +1 Joachim Peiper →Further prosecutions: Fix unbalanced quote mark that caused italics to be misapplied.
11 January 2024
- 05:4105:41, 11 January 2024 diff hist +6 Japanese destroyer Kisaragi (1925) →WWII: Nevitt & Tully, among other sources, show that Asanagi was not part of the first landing attempt at Wake on 8-11 December, though Mochizuki was (as part of the 30th Destroyer Division with Mutsuki, Kisaragi, and Yayoi). At that time Asanagi and her sister Yuunagi were in the 29th Destroyer Division and were both still supporting the Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands; they were then moved to support the second assault on Wake (on 23 December). current
