User contributions for MinnesotanUser
A user with 4,301 edits. Account created on 12 May 2016.
10 March 2024
- 09:0809:08, 10 March 2024 diff hist −355 Glove compartment Wholesale elimination of small section without sources. In my part of the world, I've never come across those usages. If others know of ones just deleted, please provide sources. current
9 February 2024
- 08:4308:43, 9 February 2024 diff hist +31 The Backrooms The article's subject and its most popular renderings are really just a new take on the labyrinth and the minotaur. At the same time, this (obvious) connection is not currently mentioned in the article. Making this sort of basic comparison is exactly what the "See also" section is for. See (also!) WP:SEEALSO
31 January 2024
- 03:4603:46, 31 January 2024 diff hist +64 Bibliography of Bobby Fischer Undo last, it created an incomplete sentence. More importantly, have a look at MOS:LEADSENTENCE and MOS:REDUNDANCY on this. It's better to give a grammatically correct sentence that describes the article's subject in a way that isn't clumsy and isn't of the form "This list of (X) is a list of X." Tag: Undo
21 January 2024
- 04:5904:59, 21 January 2024 diff hist −322 Sneeze lead image caption: waaay too much detail. No one cares that the photo was taken in 2009, and "dramatically" was needless editorializing. For health concerns and the rest, let the article text do the telling. Show, don't tell (as far as the image goes).
30 December 2023
- 02:4402:44, 30 December 2023 diff hist +7,849 Maurizio Lazzarato Punching up a section on subject's recent work.
29 November 2023
- 22:1622:16, 29 November 2023 diff hist −2,096 User talk:MinnesotanUser blanking annual arbcom message. current Tags: Blanking Manual revert
22 October 2023
- 01:3301:33, 22 October 2023 diff hist −450 User talk:MinnesotanUser Blanking talk. I may reply at the Bourbaki article at some point, but it's a very minor issue. Tags: Blanking Manual revert
15 October 2023
- 03:5403:54, 15 October 2023 diff hist 0 m Carrie (novel) lead, grammar.
13 October 2023
- 02:4502:45, 13 October 2023 diff hist −10 Hans-Jürgen Krahl "endlessly" in "endlessly fractious" is a fancy, grandiose, editorializing word. We don't do that here.
10 October 2023
- 01:1601:16, 10 October 2023 diff hist +14 DMX The condition of dying without a will is known as intestacy. This has its own article, and so a bluelink is helpful.
11 September 2023
- 05:4005:40, 11 September 2023 diff hist −130 User talk:MinnesotanUser Undoing unexplained test edit comment by an IP user with no other apparent history. Tags: Undo Reverted
10 September 2023
- 05:3205:32, 10 September 2023 diff hist −4 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Undo good faith edit which attempted to reduce ambiguity, but which contextually re-introduces ambiguity, by confusing the two old houses shown. The first "old Franklin" (Hardesty) house is the truly abandoned one, and the second "other" house is not at all abandoned. It has signs of life (the generators), and is later populated by the villains. Tag: Undo
29 August 2023
- 03:1003:10, 29 August 2023 diff hist −397 Operant conditioning chamber Undo last edit. The ideas in the section are very reasonable and sound right. I also agree that the article could use a section on ethics. However, there's no citations here. Please look up some sources about the ethics of the skinner box and cite them if you'd like to put the section back. Tag: Undo
22 August 2023
- 16:4916:49, 22 August 2023 diff hist −91 The Exorcist Plot: undo IP edit for reason recently explained. Tag: Undo
- 05:1405:14, 22 August 2023 diff hist +268 Immortal Game The blanket statement that Anderssen moved first with the black pieces is also wrong. Kieseritzsky's original report indicates that Anderssen moved first as White, per the modern norm. There do exist conflicting historical reports, so the right thing to do is to explain and contextualize these as a note, siding with Kieseritzky as an exemplar-agreeing-with-modern-norm.
- 03:5503:55, 22 August 2023 diff hist −208 Immortal Game cutting two redundant external links, these are used as citations.
18 August 2023
- 04:3004:30, 18 August 2023 diff hist +434 State (polity) An edition of Webster's gives three senses of the word which justify the first sentence. Nor is this an America-centric rendering; the general concept is given reasonably well in the three bits cited.
- 03:2903:29, 18 August 2023 diff hist +19 Statelessness We should bluelink the central (negated) concept right at the very top, for reference.
9 August 2023
- 01:4401:44, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,368 Glossary of chess Also, the starting position itself certainly warrants an entry—consider that the concept and equivalent phrases (initial position/array) are invoked multiple times throughout the glossary. It is a concept so elementary, yet so commonly repeated at the front of every primer (and thus germane), that it has been taken for granted. If we want to mention the uncommon "array" usage in the article (I slightly favor this), this is also a better place to do it.
8 August 2023
- 03:0403:04, 8 August 2023 diff hist −119 The Exorcist Plot, undo recent IP edit with plot coda. This language doesn't really add anything critical to the story. Tag: Undo
6 August 2023
- 02:2102:21, 6 August 2023 diff hist +1,078 Glossary of chess The term frontier line was introduced by Nimzowitsch right at the top (of his work), it stuck, and has been repeated by several others. It's also a simple and intuitive concept, so it seems to warrant an entry.
1 August 2023
- 04:1104:11, 1 August 2023 diff hist +27 Arthur Koestler Lead: per MOS:EUPHEMISM we avoid "took their lives", "passed away" etc in favor of more clinical, precise language like "committed suicide", "died". Also, regardless of the private details of their relationship (and whatever pressures he may have exerted), all evidence indicates that in any event, they agreed to kill themselves together, so a bluelink to the pact-topic article is germane since this is a historical example of the concept.
17 July 2023
- 03:3303:33, 17 July 2023 diff hist +196 User talk:MinnesotanUser Reply Tags: Reverted Reply
14 July 2023
- 03:4603:46, 14 July 2023 diff hist +62 Nicolas Bourbaki No, it does reasonably reduce to "sets vs. cats". Historical sources, taken together, contradict assertion. One could argue that "sets (and: entailed 'structures') versus categories" is a simplification, but at bottom it's not a misrepresentation of the issue-the point. Groth. and others wanted cat. "start-over", but they'd already committed to sets/"structures", and this is why Groth. left. Agree that announced Cat. book changes things in very interesting way. Happy to discuss in talk.
14 June 2023
- 22:3722:37, 14 June 2023 diff hist +2 m Talk:Karpov–Kasparov rivalry →Possible scope duplication: fix para.
- 22:3422:34, 14 June 2023 diff hist +60 Karpov–Kasparov rivalry "Sofixit": easy fix, a little punchup on the bare link. (Legitimately) remove that minor complaint tag, now.
- 03:1103:11, 14 June 2023 diff hist +821 Talk:Karpov–Kasparov rivalry →Possible scope duplication: two cents
- 03:0403:04, 14 June 2023 diff hist +79 Karpov–Kasparov rivalry No, the article's scope is still dubious as it's largely a re-hash of the various championship articles with nothing real or unique to itself. I myself like to remove "complaint tags" where I don't agree with them, and I don't like to drive-by edit, but in this case I think my scope complaint is right and still needs addressing here.. See talk. The bare link thing is an easy fix. Tag: Undo
- 02:5902:59, 14 June 2023 diff hist −91 Voice type Striking the highly dubious and unsourced claim that ANY (read: all) humans can perform within one-ish two-ish octaves, assuming that they have a voice and are capable of speaking/singing. Sounds more like an expected norm in classical musical performance than a general human fact.
4 June 2023
- 05:3105:31, 4 June 2023 diff hist −1,784 User talk:MinnesotanUser blanking a well-meaning greeting. Tags: Blanking Manual revert
1 June 2023
- 07:0407:04, 1 June 2023 diff hist −34 Tracy's Rock No need for this ancient and vague complaint tag about a minor article, the article is reasonably well developed as-is.
29 May 2023
- 04:2304:23, 29 May 2023 diff hist +1,509 User talk:MinnesotanUser →cool name: Reply Tags: Reverted Reply
25 May 2023
- 02:2602:26, 25 May 2023 diff hist −78 Gilbert & George There were slightly promotional/gushing/advertising usages throughout, so let's tone those down.
24 May 2023
- 21:1821:18, 24 May 2023 diff hist −2 Nuclear weapons of the United States rvv.
22 May 2023
- 06:2406:24, 22 May 2023 diff hist −41 The Exorcist That's fine, but the bit I was looking at appears to be mere suggestion, not requirement. Unfortunately I've confused the matter by goofing multiple edit summaries which I will try to correct here. The "in the opening shot... in film" stuff is a bit jarring "authors' voice" next to simple description-of-events. We want to keep it very simple. Also this is probably still a bit afoul of WP:PLOTBLOAT, but as long as under 800 words or so should be fine for GA, perhaps. Happy to talk more.
- 06:1106:11, 22 May 2023 diff hist +1,050 Talk:The Exorcist/GA1 →Start assessment: two cents on plot. Tag: Reply
- 06:0506:05, 22 May 2023 diff hist −184 The Exorcist Also, undoing recent opening shot expansion (I goofed and did not give a reason just now, wanted to record it). Even if some GAR criteria Tags: Undo Reverted
- 06:0206:02, 22 May 2023 diff hist +184 The Exorcist Undid revision 1156298878 by MinnesotanUser (talk) Tag: Undo
- 06:0206:02, 22 May 2023 diff hist −184 The Exorcist No edit summary Tags: Undo Reverted
- 05:4905:49, 22 May 2023 diff hist −59 The Exorcist Plot, undo last closing sentence. It really doesn't add anything meaningful. Tag: Undo
24 April 2023
- 05:4505:45, 24 April 2023 diff hist +7 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Plot: at this point in description, there is a slight ambiguity (the very old man vs the masked man). adding "masked" clears it up.
16 April 2023
- 06:5706:57, 16 April 2023 diff hist −176 Folklore Again, delete the (arbitrary, Eurocentric) details per last. At a glance, the article appears to be reasonably well-developed and doesn't seem to need distracting complaint tags at top at the moment.
- 06:5506:55, 16 April 2023 diff hist −22 Folklore Undid recent apparent good-faith bot tag. I agree that the English article might be improved by incorporating stuff from other languages, but this doesn't warrant adding a big scary "multiple issues" tag at top. That sort of tag is better used for more serious problems like no sources, blatant bias, etc. Tag: Undo
9 April 2023
- 03:3703:37, 9 April 2023 diff hist −145 The Trouble with Being Born (book) Ugh, let's strike the correct graph.
- 03:3603:36, 9 April 2023 diff hist −315 The Trouble with Being Born (book) No need for this pop culture ref.
3 April 2023
- 05:1505:15, 3 April 2023 diff hist −26 Jake Sully Call a spade a spade, the other stuff is only comics at the moment. If some books/prose narratives appear later, than the section might be expanded and re-titled.
18 March 2023
- 21:2921:29, 18 March 2023 diff hist +691 Talk:Vladimir Putin two cents on "fugitive". The word still has "running" connotations which don't really apply here. Tag: Reply
- 06:3806:38, 18 March 2023 diff hist −215 Vladimir Putin A good faith edit eliminating all references to the subject as a "fugitive", following ICC decision, which I don't find on source inspection (e.g. ICC announcement). The word "fugitive" means that the wanted has FLED FROM somewhere (i.e. some place or jurisdiction), which is not the case for the article's subject. Also, the lead already satisfactorily describes the subject's ICC warrant toward bottom, in appropriate historical/linear way.
17 March 2023
- 22:5222:52, 17 March 2023 diff hist +43 Emil Cioran The "secretary of sensations" line also (and originally) comes from a late page in Drawn and Quartered.
1 March 2023
- 04:5404:54, 1 March 2023 diff hist −30 AS-202 improve poor short desc (of a... production..?)
