User contributions for Eb.hoop

7 February 2019

• 10:0710:07, 7 February 2019 diff hist +359 Pierre Duhem Reordering topics to coincide with Duhem's own priorities

1 January 2019

• 13:2913:29, 1 January 2019 diff hist +148 m Nicolas Fatio de Duillier →Early life: Copyedits

24 December 2018

• 23:2923:29, 24 December 2018 diff hist 0 m Jair Bolsonaro →Military career

26 November 2018

• 02:2702:27, 26 November 2018 diff hist +77 Alfred Hayes (banker) Lead should mention he was president of the NY Fed for 19 years

25 November 2018

• 16:1516:15, 25 November 2018 diff hist −473 Henrietta Swan Leavitt Improving refs.

22 November 2018

• 00:0400:04, 22 November 2018 diff hist −1 m Thomas H. Watts →References

9 November 2018

• 21:5021:50, 9 November 2018 diff hist +159 Henrietta Swan Leavitt Mentioning "standard candle" in lead

7 November 2018

• 22:4222:42, 7 November 2018 diff hist −882 Henrietta Swan Leavitt Reorganization of sections and subsections
• 18:4918:49, 7 November 2018 diff hist +300 Henrietta Swan Leavitt Improving description of her discovery of the period-luminosity relation. Removing picture of "Pickering's harem" which doesn't include her. Replacing picture of her published work with the more relevant plot from the 1912 paper.
• 12:2412:24, 7 November 2018 diff hist +46 m Henrietta Swan Leavitt Copyedits to lead
• 12:1812:18, 7 November 2018 diff hist −6 m Henrietta Swan Leavitt →Early years and education: Copyedits

6 November 2018

• 20:3920:39, 6 November 2018 diff hist +11 m Henrietta Swan Leavitt →Early years and education
• 20:3220:32, 6 November 2018 diff hist 0 Henrietta Swan Leavitt Moving a quote to a more appropriate section
• 20:3120:31, 6 November 2018 diff hist −555 Henrietta Swan Leavitt →Career: Avoiding repetition of the same results
• 20:2520:25, 6 November 2018 diff hist −133 Henrietta Swan Leavitt →Career: Fixing stray ref.
• 20:2120:21, 6 November 2018 diff hist −744 Henrietta Swan Leavitt Avoiding duplications. Other copyedits.
• 19:4719:47, 6 November 2018 diff hist +41 m Henrietta Swan Leavitt →Early years and education: Copyedits

5 November 2018

• 15:5915:59, 5 November 2018 diff hist −496 Feynman sprinkler →Solution: Torque on the sprinkler associated with an internal vortex was reported only in 2015. Steady torque on the reverse sprinkler is small and most old experiments (including Mach's and Feynman's) didn't see it at all.
• 15:3715:37, 5 November 2018 diff hist −49 Feynman sprinkler →History: Mach treatment was more experimental than theoretical
• 08:5908:59, 5 November 2018 diff hist −30 m Anglo-Irish people →Prominent members: The usual short form of referring to a peer is just "Lord" plus short title.

4 November 2018

• 23:2423:24, 4 November 2018 diff hist +111 m Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet →Biography: Copyedits

30 October 2018

• 20:4420:44, 30 October 2018 diff hist −67 m Jacobo Árbenz →In popular culture: Title was duplicated. Italics.
• 18:0618:06, 30 October 2018 diff hist +24 m J. Marion Sims →Legacy and honors

29 October 2018

• 23:4523:45, 29 October 2018 diff hist +26 m David Brewster Adding Malus to influences in infobox
• 00:2400:24, 29 October 2018 diff hist +378 User talk:Eb.hoop →Sims: OK. Point taken.

28 October 2018

• 23:5523:55, 28 October 2018 diff hist −28 m J. Marion Sims →Critiques of experimentation
• 23:5123:51, 28 October 2018 diff hist +1,049 J. Marion Sims →Critiques of experimentation: Quote from an article in Med. J. Aust., with ref.
• 22:5822:58, 28 October 2018 diff hist +68 J. Marion Sims →Legacy and honors: An offprint is a reproduction of an article published in a journal. It's not self-publication, and we can't assume that Sims provided the list of honors himself.

26 October 2018

• 20:3120:31, 26 October 2018 diff hist +29 m J. Marion Sims Names of Dr. Wall and his organization

24 October 2018

• 00:1200:12, 24 October 2018 diff hist −49 Lord Kelvin Undid revision 865441352 by 24.65.154.39 (talk) Tag: Undo

22 October 2018

• 20:3320:33, 22 October 2018 diff hist +111 Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet Improving lead

21 October 2018

• 17:3617:36, 21 October 2018 diff hist +513 Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet Improving lead. On the issue of nationality, see talk page.
• 17:2217:22, 21 October 2018 diff hist +13 m Stokes relations Fixing lead sentence
• 12:2012:20, 21 October 2018 diff hist −18 m John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh No edit summary
• 12:1212:12, 21 October 2018 diff hist +48 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh Mentioning Chancellorship in lead
• 10:1510:15, 21 October 2018 diff hist +1,005 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh Improving the lead
• 09:2909:29, 21 October 2018 diff hist +669 Talk:Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet →Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland?: Stokes was certainly Irish-born, but the category "Anglo-Irish" seems to me a much more accurate characterization of his background.
• 09:2609:26, 21 October 2018 diff hist +76 Anglo-Irish people →Prominent members: Some minor copyedits to paragraph on Anglo-Irish mathematicians, astronomers, and physicists
• 09:0709:07, 21 October 2018 diff hist +149 Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe →Academic reception: A bit more from Mendelsohn

20 October 2018

• 18:3918:39, 20 October 2018 diff hist +1 m Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe →Academic reception
• 18:3318:33, 20 October 2018 diff hist +1,056 Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe →Academic reception: Summarizing negative review by Daniel Mendelsohn

15 October 2018

• 19:1719:17, 15 October 2018 diff hist +9 m Frank–Tamm formula →Derivation of Frank-Tamm formula

1 October 2018

• 18:0118:01, 1 October 2018 diff hist −1 m Feynman sprinkler No edit summary

12 September 2018

• 20:4620:46, 12 September 2018 diff hist +968 Talk:Nicolas Fatio de Duillier →Nationality of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier: Attempting compromise. Insisting that Sapphorain's purge of refs. to pre-1815 Genevans as "Swiss" shouldn't proceed unilaterally.
• 20:3120:31, 12 September 2018 diff hist +48 Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Compromise on the Swiss-Genevan debate (see talk page)

10 September 2018

• 17:0117:01, 10 September 2018 diff hist −15 m User talk:Sapphorain →Nationality of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
• 06:0606:06, 10 September 2018 diff hist +1,741 User talk:Sapphorain →Nationality of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier: new section

9 September 2018

• 17:0417:04, 9 September 2018 diff hist −324 Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Undid revision 857609304 by Sapphorain (talk). Marking 17th-century Genevans as not Swiss is controversial and shouldn't have been done without prior consultation. Moreover, Fatio was born in Basel. Tag: Undo

13 August 2018

• 03:1303:13, 13 August 2018 diff hist +229 J. Marion Sims Improving lead

8 August 2018

• 17:3317:33, 8 August 2018 diff hist +297 List of University at Buffalo people →Science, technology, and engineering: Robert Pound