User contributions for Enginear

27 May 2024

• 07:4607:46, 27 May 2024 diff hist +21‎ m City of London ‎ →‎Governance: piped corporate city current
• 05:2505:25, 27 May 2024 diff hist +240‎ County corporate ‎ →‎History: Noted "The City of London retained (and as of 2024 still retains) its previous status, including most responsibilities associated with a borough and some normally associated with a county, for example having its own police force and its own education authority" current
• 00:5100:51, 27 May 2024 diff hist +14‎ River Fleet ‎ Changed "used as a sewer" to "used as a culverted sewer" -- it was already used as a de-facto open sewer before Bazalgette -- Jonathan Swift: "Sweepings from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts and Blood, Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in Mud, Dead Cats and Turnip-Tops come tumbling down the Flood" (already quoted under #Cultural references). current
• 00:2900:29, 27 May 2024 diff hist +22‎ m City of London ‎ Changed "The City has responsibility for five bridges..." to "The City has responsibility for five bridges across the Thames...). Although the River Fleet/Holborn and the Walbrook, complete with their tributaries, running through the City are now culverted throughout, much of this was done in late 19th/early 20th century, and many prior bridges must remain, most noticeably Holborn Viaduct.

26 May 2024

• 20:2320:23, 26 May 2024 diff hist +29‎ m Directly elected mayors in England ‎ →‎Local Government Act 2000: Updated "Following the passing of the Elections Act 2022 future mayoral elections will be run..." to "...Elections Act 2022, the 2024 election was, and future..." current
• 20:0920:09, 26 May 2024 diff hist +6‎ m Greater London ‎ →‎Greater London Authority: Changed "The 2016 and 2021 elections were won by Sadiq Khan" to "The 2016, 2021 and 2024 elections..." current

20 May 2024

• 21:4221:42, 20 May 2024 diff hist +361‎ m Grenfell Tower fire ‎ →‎Elsewhere: Added cite in Massive Engineering Mistakes video -- 11 min segment; recently added to YouTube on what appears to be one of Banijay's official channels

19 May 2024

• 19:1019:10, 19 May 2024 diff hist +375‎ Lots Road Power Station ‎ →‎History: To "Since 2002, all power for the London Underground has been supplied from the National Grid" added "(except that Greenwich Power Station is kept on standby, in case of National Grid failure)" + cite current

13 May 2024

• 17:2617:26, 13 May 2024 diff hist −2‎ m Sherlock Holmes ‎ →‎{{anchor|"Great Hiatus"}}The Great Hiatus: in "surprised Doyle very much", changed "Doyle" to "him". The surname is "Conan Doyle", so we must either have that in full or say "him". Since there are a lot of "Conan Doyle"s in the paragraph already, and no obvious confusion can result, "him" is appropriate current

12 May 2024

• 18:3918:39, 12 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ m St Mary-le-Bow ‎ →‎Exterior: typo principle facades > principal ... current

4 May 2024

• 20:4820:48, 4 May 2024 diff hist −3‎ m Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 ‎ →‎Box office: removed spurious "in" current
• 18:0718:07, 4 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Goliath GD750 ‎ →‎Technical description: typo ( current
• 18:0618:06, 4 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Goliath GD750 ‎ →‎Technical description: typo 60 V > 60 W

29 April 2024

• 04:2504:25, 29 April 2024 diff hist +20‎ m Antarctic Circumpolar Current ‎ →‎Formation: changed first occurrence of "Ma" to "million years ago (Ma)" current

23 April 2024

• 05:0605:06, 23 April 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Land Rover 101 Forward Control ‎ →‎History: typos: changed "Land-Rovers" to "Land Rovers"; changed "winch fitted 101" to "winch-fitted 101" in two places current

2 April 2024

• 01:2301:23, 2 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ m SUV ‎ →‎Safety: wikified electronic stability control

1 April 2024

• 03:3803:38, 1 April 2024 diff hist −8‎ m Wanlockhead ‎ →‎Robert Burns: Changed piped link poste-chaise leading to Chaise which article had a link to post chaise, to direct link post chaise current

31 March 2024

• 23:4523:45, 31 March 2024 diff hist +2‎ m The Boat Race 1925 ‎ →‎Race: Corrected 3 different mistakes in spelling "stake boats"! current
• 23:0623:06, 31 March 2024 diff hist +18‎ m King's College School Boat Club ‎ →‎Other Uses: Added " of the boat house" to the section title - since the article is about the club, rather than the boat house. Also de-capitalised "Uses" to match 'pedia's house style current

30 March 2024

• 20:2320:23, 30 March 2024 diff hist +475‎ Neave Brown ‎ →‎Life: To "his reputation was nonetheless severely damaged" added " in the UK, and for the rest of his architectural career he worked on prestigious projects elsewhere in Europe." To "After his children had left home, he and his wife then moved to Dunboyne Road Estate, added ", a council estate he had designed"..."Asked "If money were no object, where would you live?" he replied "Here!"", etc and tidied. All supported by existing cites. current
• 19:1119:11, 30 March 2024 diff hist +3‎ m Winscombe Street ‎ →‎Design: dash typo
• 16:4816:48, 30 March 2024 diff hist −1‎ m Neave Brown ‎ →‎Work: typo expenddability > expendability

11 March 2024

• 00:3000:30, 11 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ m List of SR V "Schools" class locomotives ‎ typo changed "numberplate" to "nameplate" in 30931 ''King's - Wimbledon'' There is no number on the surviving nameplate! The numbers were on the smokebox, cab sides (& some tenders but not 30931's). The nameplates were heavy arc-shaped castings over the front driving wheels, widened at the centre to say "Schools class" in small type. There is a photo of 30931 here [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2636912] with both number and nameplates, though name barely legible.

9 March 2024

• 11:0811:08, 9 March 2024 diff hist +1‎ m Life on the Mississippi ‎ Corrected punctuation of last sentence of head para -- as stated later on the page, both the trips in the 2nd half were "many years after the war", no justth2nd one. current

6 March 2024

• 18:0918:09, 6 March 2024 diff hist +16‎ £sd ‎ →‎Colloquial terms: Added "ten bob (note)" as UK colloquialism; I left "half a bar" in place, but I have never heard it (or heard "bar" for £1) in London in the 70 years I have (mainly) lived there; perhaps it was regional.

3 March 2024

• 23:5623:56, 3 March 2024 diff hist +245‎ The Crooked House ‎ →‎Origins: Changed "Although strengthened by buttresses by the mid-1910s" to "...by 1904" to match the cite given --the cite, from the Express and Star newspaper, features a postcard they claim is from 1904 (also widely attested as such on the web), which clearly shows one of the buttresses (narrower than recently - they were strengthened in 1957/8). I have also added a cite which includes a 1905 news article and a 1906 photo, both mentioning/showing buttresses
• 20:4320:43, 3 March 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Punch Bowl Inn ‎ →‎History: typo: changed "The western elevation of the 19th-century addition" to "The eastern elevation..." -- required to match existing cite (English Heritage listing) which describes the building as viewed from the front (road) side, ie looking south, and refers to the wall as "the left-hand return wall". Also obvious on Google Streetview.

26 February 2024

• 17:0417:04, 26 February 2024 diff hist +384‎ Hall Barn ‎ →‎History: Noted that since the 6th Baron's death it has been the home of his sister, Jenefer Farncombe (nee Lawson) current

6 February 2024

• 10:0410:04, 6 February 2024 diff hist +314‎ King Canute and the tide ‎ →‎Historicity and possible location: Added alternative tradition of attempting to stop the Trent aegir at Gainsborough + cite current

4 February 2024

• 21:1921:19, 4 February 2024 diff hist +249‎ User talk:Enginear ‎ →‎Diff where most of the useful info re PrivateEye was removed: new section current Tag: New topic

29 January 2024

• 23:1923:19, 29 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ m HMS Recruit (1806) ‎ repiped redlink Warwick Lake to Warwick Lake -- it seems unlikely that the 3rd viscount will get a section of his own, so little advantage in keeping the redlink, while it did make finding the viscount much more difficult.
• 22:5922:59, 29 January 2024 diff hist +55‎ m Marooning ‎ →‎Famous maroonings: piped link to Robert Jeffrey

28 January 2024

• 23:3223:32, 28 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ m Uni Wheel ‎ change "narrower" to "smaller-diameter" -- AFAIK, "narrower" can only refer to a 2-dimensional object, not a cylindrical one
• 19:3719:37, 28 January 2024 diff hist +1‎ m Playboy ‎ →‎Jennifer Saginor: adjusted position of pic in text to avoid orphaning last word of para

27 January 2024

• 00:4200:42, 27 January 2024 diff hist +596‎ m Pontcysyllte Aqueduct ‎ changed "footpath runs alongside" to "towpath...". It was designed for horses, which are not permitted on footpaths! Confirmed existing text that, although many sources suggest otherwise, the feature of the water trough extending under the towpath to allow water displacement as boats went by, was not added when the towpath structure was replaced in 1831, but was original; added cite from Inst of Civil Eng in case someone reads the mistaken sources & "corrects" our current correct version current

26 January 2024

• 22:3122:31, 26 January 2024 diff hist +552‎ Pont Cysyllte ‎ Clarified text garbled in transfer from existing cite 4 & changed order of units for S arch to match other arches, ie metric (imperial) -- in both cases the original was not wrong, but was confusing, at least to me. Removed that vehicles "are supposed to stop before crossing" -- road signs require giving way only, not stopping, so ref 3 is no longer correct; added Google Street View as ref. Moved Grade 1 listing sentence to more logical position. current

19 January 2024

• 08:4108:41, 19 January 2024 diff hist +6,801‎ Talk:Dominic Behan ‎ →‎Liverpool Lou: new section Tag: New topic

18 January 2024

• 15:3015:30, 18 January 2024 diff hist +1‎ British Post Office scandal ‎ →‎Investigative reporting: null edit. Edit summary of previous edit should have read "Noted, re PO executive bonus scheme, that enquiry team had never been contacted about it"
• 15:2415:24, 18 January 2024 diff hist +53‎ British Post Office scandal ‎ →‎Investigative reporting: Added,re

17 January 2024

• 04:3904:39, 17 January 2024 diff hist +2,324‎ British Post Office scandal ‎ →‎Investigative reporting: I've learned more since my last edit summary. There were other publications involved, and an interesting sequence of who learned from who, now inserted. Although my major source was "only" a blogpost listing credits, it was on postofficetrial.com, written by Nick Wallis, a respected journalist who specialised in the scandal and who was already named 5 times in the article and 18 times in its references! Tag: use of deprecated (unreliable) source

16 January 2024

• 15:2215:22, 16 January 2024 diff hist +105‎ British Post Office scandal ‎ →‎Investigative reporting: Reordered paras into date order. Noted that in 2011, the issue was picked up by BBC South and BBC Radio Surrey and coverage in ''Private Eye'' started in September 2011 [info from existing ''Press Gazette'' cite -- important since AFAICS, after ''Computer Weekly'', the BBC and PE were the only outlets until 2015, 4 years later, to cover the scandal as a whole, rather than occasional reports on particular convictions assumed to be one-offs]

9 January 2024

• 05:5705:57, 9 January 2024 diff hist +2,040‎ Jessica Robinson (performer) ‎ added DoB +cite, clarified current stage name & name confusion +cites, removed "official blog" - a few photos not updated for 10 years, removed 13yo BBC competition webpage (it's still a link elsewhere), added her current website. Removed 13yo info that she lives "with her parents and brother" -- it's still her "hometown" but she may now have her own house. Since she now seems "universally" known by her stage name, we should probably have a page move, but I'll leave that for someone else.

8 January 2024

• 21:3321:33, 8 January 2024 diff hist −29‎ m Jessica Robinson (performer) ‎ →‎After Over the Rainbow: changed "Robinson is about to embark on the ''Evita'' International Tour, starting in China as Eva Perón,{{when?|date=January 2024}}" to "In 2019, Robinson starred as Eva Perón on the ''Evita'' International Tour, starting in China". Reasoning: "about to..." was added in 23 Jul 2019 edit; cite added in edit earlier today at end of para refers to 2019 international tour.

17 November 2023

• 23:2823:28, 17 November 2023 diff hist +10‎ m Enola Holmes 2 ‎ →‎Production: Changed "In April 2021, a sequel was reportedly in development" to "In April 2021, ''Enola Holmes 2'' was reportedly in development". OK, a para earlier it spoke of "a sequel to Enola Holmes", but it confused me, particularly as (see #Future) a sequel to Enola Holmes 2 is indeed now "in the works"

12 November 2023

• 20:0720:07, 12 November 2023 diff hist +1‎ m Chełmno extermination camp ‎ →‎Deportations begin: In "who had first been deported to the ghetto in Łódź and subsided there already for weeks" changed "subsided" to "subsisted". "Subsided" was clearly wrong. Another possibility was "resided", but "had to supply their own means of subsistence, though they had been deprived of all their valuables" is used about the same people in cite 6 of Łódź Ghetto, so "subsisted", in the sense of "barely survived" seems apposite.

1 November 2023

• 22:3922:39, 1 November 2023 diff hist +16‎ m Trump ‎ →‎See also: Inserted "in the Bible" in ""The last trump", a trumpet call signalling the resurrection of the dead 1 Corinthians 15"

27 October 2023

• 03:3603:36, 27 October 2023 diff hist −31‎ m Birds of a Feather (TV series) ‎ →‎Revival: Removed "clarify" tag from "police tell Tracey that Darryl died in an attempted robbery and that Garth is next of kin{{clarify|date=September 2016}}." That is normal UK law. Tracey and Darryl are divorced, so she is no longer his kin, and his (and her) oldest child, Garth, is his next of kin

22 October 2023

• 20:4920:49, 22 October 2023 diff hist +398‎ Land's End to John o' Groats ‎ →‎Motoring: Noted that a sub-24 hr return car journey requires an ''average'' speed exceeding the 70 mph national speed limit
• 19:2419:24, 22 October 2023 diff hist +16‎ m Land's End to John o' Groats ‎ →‎Cycling: Added date of Richard Thoday's penny-farthing record (24 July 2019)

18 October 2023

• 20:5920:59, 18 October 2023 diff hist −344‎ m Pat Robertson ‎ →‎Christian Broadcasting Network: Removed Student Press Law Centre cite at end of 2nd para of section. Original dead. Archived copy is well described by its title: "Former Regent student who posted freeze-frame of Robertson sues school" not mentioned on this page. Presumably it was intended to refer to selling off the Family Channel. Checked Wayback for other archived SPLC articles, but there were none on this subject. Assumed archiving error. Haven't found an alternative yet.