User contributions for Duxwing
A user with 915 edits. Account created on 19 November 2011.
8 May 2024
- 20:3020:30, 8 May 2024 diff hist −11 m Hornet Copy Edit - Replaced the passive voice with the active one. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:2920:29, 8 May 2024 diff hist −11 m Hornet Copy Edit - Replaced the wordy phrase "It is therefore likely that ..." with the direct phrase "... therefore likely ..." Tag: Visual edit
- 20:2720:27, 8 May 2024 diff hist −9 m Hornet Copy Edit - Replaced a wordy phrase with a shorter one Tag: Visual edit
- 20:2620:26, 8 May 2024 diff hist −8 Hornet Copy Edit - Replaced "are able to" with 'can'. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:2620:26, 8 May 2024 diff hist −11 m Hornet Copy Edit - Removed a redundant "able to". Tag: Visual edit
21 April 2024
- 05:1805:18, 21 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Nuclear safety and security Copy Edit - Replaced "ensure" with "prevent". Tag: Visual edit
19 April 2024
- 00:4900:49, 19 April 2024 diff hist −8 m Kutta–Joukowski theorem Copy Edit - Replaced 'large enough so that' with 'so large that' and removed an extra space. current Tag: Visual edit
21 February 2024
- 01:4001:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −1 m Erie Canal Removed unnecessary comma. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:3901:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist −16 m Erie Canal Replaced wordy phrase with one word. Tag: Visual edit
4 December 2023
- 22:0422:04, 4 December 2023 diff hist −106 m Free-electron laser Copy Edit - Consolidated wordy sentences into one. Tag: Visual edit
- 21:5921:59, 4 December 2023 diff hist −5 Free-electron laser Copy Edit - Reordered the phrases of the second clause to respectively refer to the correct antecedents. Tag: Visual edit
- 21:5721:57, 4 December 2023 diff hist −18 Free-electron laser Copy Edit - Replaced a wordy phrase with a shorter one Tag: Visual edit
- 21:5621:56, 4 December 2023 diff hist −2 m Free-electron laser Copy Edit - Words in the lede sentence are generally worth adding without parentheses or not worth adding at all. Tag: Visual edit
1 November 2023
- 18:0018:00, 1 November 2023 diff hist −2 m Chen Xiaocui Connected the sentence about Chen's appointment to the one about her death because the rise of Communism in China had to do with both. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:5417:54, 1 November 2023 diff hist +20 m Chen Xiaocui Specified which kind of paintings Chen Xiaocui made in the lede. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:5217:52, 1 November 2023 diff hist −2 Chen Xiaocui Put Chen Xiaocui's works in the lede sentence to emphasize that she produced them throughout her life. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4717:47, 1 November 2023 diff hist −5 m Chen Xiaocui Integrated the independent clause into the first clause. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4617:46, 1 November 2023 diff hist −21 m Chen Xiaocui Everything Chen did was during her lifetime. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4317:43, 1 November 2023 diff hist −6 m Chen Xiaocui Replaced the wordy "was able to" with the concise "could". Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4217:42, 1 November 2023 diff hist +1 m Chen Xiaocui Reordered the sentences to be in chronological order. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4117:41, 1 November 2023 diff hist −21 m Chen Xiaocui Everything Chen did was during her lifetime. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4017:40, 1 November 2023 diff hist −29 m Chen Xiaocui Changed the wordy "which" clause to a shorter one linking the year to the Cultural Revolution era. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:3817:38, 1 November 2023 diff hist −4 m Chen Xiaocui The passive voice "was founded" is more concise than "the founding of". Tag: Visual edit
- 17:3717:37, 1 November 2023 diff hist −10 m Chen Xiaocui X is one of the Y, where Y is a plural noun, is more concisely written as X is a Y Tag: Visual edit
15 August 2023
- 22:3022:30, 15 August 2023 diff hist −10 m Star Changed "existence" to "lifetimes" to emphasize time over the life of a star, replaced an unnecessary repetition of high with a hyphenated expression, and removed an unnecessary comma. Tag: Visual edit
14 August 2023
- 15:0115:01, 14 August 2023 diff hist +1 m Star Added a comma before the conjunction of a compound sentence. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:0015:00, 14 August 2023 diff hist −52 m Star Reworded a tortured sentence and the following sentence into an easier to read semicolon sentence with more direct phrasing. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:5414:54, 14 August 2023 diff hist +1 m Star Added a comma before the conjunction of a compound sentence. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:5214:52, 14 August 2023 diff hist −21 m Star Switched to the possessive from "the...of" and used "differ" instead of "be ... different from". Tag: Visual edit
- 14:4014:40, 14 August 2023 diff hist −16 m Star Reworded clunky phrase "have a relatively close orbit" with "orbit closely," which means the same thing. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3814:38, 14 August 2023 diff hist −12 m Star Removed unnecessary "the case of" from "as in" phrase because "in" is literally true in this sentence. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3714:37, 14 August 2023 diff hist −13 m Star Replaced clunky phrase "is the main factor that determines" with the simpler phrase "mainly determines". Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3414:34, 14 August 2023 diff hist −6 m Star Replaced verb + helping-verb pairs with verbs that mean the same thing and replaced a noun-of phrase with an adjective that means the same thing. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3114:31, 14 August 2023 diff hist −17 m Star Changed the clunky phrasing of "hydrogen, alongside..." to a simpler list "hydrogen, helium, and...". Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3014:30, 14 August 2023 diff hist +1 m Star Changed comma to em dash, which is a more appropriate punctuation mark interjecting the following subordinate clause than a comma is. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:2714:27, 14 August 2023 diff hist −4 m Star Changed "but" to a semicolon because the second independent clause of the sentence is not a comparison to the second. Tag: Visual edit
2 February 2021
- 21:4921:49, 2 February 2021 diff hist −394 Harp seal Copy Edit - Replaced wordy phrases with words and passive with active voice. Tag: Visual edit
31 August 2020
- 22:1522:15, 31 August 2020 diff hist −160 Planetesimal Copy Edit Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 22:0822:08, 31 August 2020 diff hist −23 m Planetesimal Copy Edit Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
1 August 2020
- 14:1014:10, 1 August 2020 diff hist −777 Structural steel Bold Copy Edit - Shortened and simplified wordy and jargon-y phrasing. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
27 May 2020
- 03:0703:07, 27 May 2020 diff hist −9 m Fermat's Last Theorem No edit summary Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
5 May 2020
- 14:1614:16, 5 May 2020 diff hist 0 m Cat Split “such” and “as” across their object “pests”. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 14:1514:15, 5 May 2020 diff hist −7 Cat Copy Edit. Removes redundant “is” and “a” from lede and reworded a few sentences. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 14:0314:03, 5 May 2020 diff hist −169 Meow (cat) Copy Edit. Removed wordy phrases and linked sentences together. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 13:5413:54, 5 May 2020 diff hist −84 Meow (cat) Copy Edit. Removed wordy phrases. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
5 April 2020
- 16:3916:39, 5 April 2020 diff hist −2 Southern strategy Copy Edit - Corrected gibberish. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
28 March 2020
- 04:0704:07, 28 March 2020 diff hist −8 Adiabatic process Copy Edit - Undergirds is not archaic. I checked on Google: its use dramatically expanded during the 1990s, plateauing by 2010 to a frequency an order of magnitude above its historic one. Reverting this edit for now, but feel free if you think it’s just too fancy for the lede. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
27 March 2020
- 20:3220:32, 27 March 2020 diff hist −119 ASEAN Copy Edit - Replaced wordy phrases with words. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
13 March 2020
- 19:2919:29, 13 March 2020 diff hist −15 m Anjediva Island No edit summary Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 15:1115:11, 13 March 2020 diff hist −15 Adiabatic process Copy Edit - Removed redundant words. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
