User contributions for Oxymetheus
A user with 173 edits. Account created on 14 August 2020.
21 May 2024
- 12:0312:03, 21 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Bearded vulture →Threats: removed unnecessary capitalization current Tag: Visual edit
10 May 2024
- 00:0300:03, 10 May 2024 diff hist +8 m Gadolinium →Alloys: Improved English grammar and style. Tag: Visual edit
18 January 2024
- 22:4422:44, 18 January 2024 diff hist −110 Rhinoceros (genus) Removed a sentence that didn’t actually say anything. I suspect it was originally meant to place extant rhino species in the context of the more numerous extinct species, but instead it was merely confusing. current Tag: Visual edit
29 September 2021
- 22:4622:46, 29 September 2021 diff hist +1 Golden eagle →Colour: Grammar correction. Previous text implied that other accipitrids are yellow birds. Tag: Visual edit
28 September 2021
- 05:1805:18, 28 September 2021 diff hist 0 m Babylon 5 →Regular cast: Wrong preposition, fixed. Tag: Visual edit
15 September 2021
- 02:2502:25, 15 September 2021 diff hist −55 GE Wind Energy →Enron Wind acquisition era (2002-2015): Reorganized for a clearer chronological sequence. I’m still not 100% happy with the Zond-patent description, but this is better anyway. Tag: Visual edit
6 September 2021
- 22:4622:46, 6 September 2021 diff hist 0 m Geography of Africa fixed typo Tag: Visual edit
5 September 2021
- 04:5404:54, 5 September 2021 diff hist −109 1-Diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole →Properties: Copy-edit for a more encyclopedic style, and for better English style in general. Also re-sequenced to bring related ideas together and remove redundancies. Tag: Visual edit
4 September 2021
- 07:0007:00, 4 September 2021 diff hist −35 Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet →Development: Copy-edit for brevity and clarity Tag: Visual edit
31 August 2021
- 02:1402:14, 31 August 2021 diff hist −69 Southern ground hornbill →Breeding and life cycle: Copy-edit for clarity and English style. The previous version put 15 words between the subject and the verb. Tag: Visual edit
30 August 2021
- 18:0018:00, 30 August 2021 diff hist −11 Pickling salt Copy-edit for English style and greater clarity. Tags: Reverted Visual edit
29 August 2021
- 08:0208:02, 29 August 2021 diff hist +1 m Spalding, Saskatchewan →History: corrected misspelling Tag: Visual edit
26 August 2021
- 04:4804:48, 26 August 2021 diff hist +10 m Fuel oil →United States: Copy edit for clarity. Tag: Visual edit
22 August 2021
- 20:3920:39, 22 August 2021 diff hist +115 m Five Days of Milan Corrected capitalization Tag: Visual edit
19 August 2021
- 01:4201:42, 19 August 2021 diff hist −7 m Nature (journal) →Creation: Corrected misuse of the phrase ‘as well as’, which does not mean ‘and’. Tag: Visual edit
16 August 2021
- 20:5420:54, 16 August 2021 diff hist −17 Canadian titles debate →Exceptions and anomalies: Swapped paragraphs to preserve chronological order. Tag: Visual edit
14 August 2021
- 23:3023:30, 14 August 2021 diff hist −3 m Japanese punctuation →Interpunct: You can replace [old thing] WITH [new thing], or you can substitute [new thing] FOR [old thing]. There is no ‘substitute with’. It’s a serious source of confusion and uncertainty, and a reliable marker of illiteracy in English. Not to rant in an edit summary, but I’m getting tired of changing this all over Wikipedia. Tag: Visual edit
11 August 2021
- 22:1222:12, 11 August 2021 diff hist −8 m ANFO →Malicious use: Fixed my own tyop. Tag: Visual edit
- 22:1122:11, 11 August 2021 diff hist −143 ANFO →Malicious use: Copy-edit for clarity—the central idea of the altered sentence, that a government in Pakistan banned certain agricultural chemicals, was buried. This version should be clearer. I also removed a stray sentence that repeats points made elsewhere in the article. Tags: nowiki added Visual edit
5 August 2021
- 05:4805:48, 5 August 2021 diff hist −5 Kansas City massacre →Death of Miller: Rewritten for clarity, without changing the substance. Tag: Visual edit
4 August 2021
- 20:1720:17, 4 August 2021 diff hist −87 Clog →Fashion clogs: Removed awkward sentence. Either an illustration, or a much clearer description, would be needed for this point to belong in the article. Tag: Visual edit
1 August 2021
- 07:2407:24, 1 August 2021 diff hist +34 Mountmellick embroidery →Technique and uses: Edited for clarity; it makes no sense to say ‘though white, it could be boiled white again’ without clarifying WHY something white would need to be made white ‘again’. Tag: Visual edit
23 July 2021
- 05:0005:00, 23 July 2021 diff hist +35 IS tank family →Combat history: Copy edit for more formal English style, as the former text was rather slangy and had poor sentence structure. Tag: Visual edit
20 July 2021
- 20:4320:43, 20 July 2021 diff hist −118 King cobra Copy-edit for style, clarity, and brevity. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:3220:32, 20 July 2021 diff hist −7 m King cobra Copy-edit for correct grammar. Tag: Visual edit
17 July 2021
- 21:2621:26, 17 July 2021 diff hist −2 Northrop M2-F3 →Operational history: ‘Side-arm’ is unidiomatic in this context, and not used in the linked article; edited for more natural English usage. Tag: Visual edit
15 July 2021
- 07:5107:51, 15 July 2021 diff hist −102 Red deer →Neck mane: Removed stray sentence unrelated to the section in which it appears. Tag: Visual edit
12 July 2021
- 09:2609:26, 12 July 2021 diff hist +9 African wild dog →Enemies and competitors: Copy-edit for clarity and style. Tag: Visual edit
- 09:2109:21, 12 July 2021 diff hist −145 African wild dog →Hunting and feeding behaviour: Re-sequenced and copy-edited to bring related ideas together. Some corrections to English grammar and to logic. Tag: Visual edit
- 05:4405:44, 12 July 2021 diff hist −145 m Millstone →History: Removed obvious advertising message. Tag: Visual edit
11 July 2021
- 07:1407:14, 11 July 2021 diff hist −993 Aedes aegypti →Spread of disease and prevention methods: Removed two non-sequitur sentences. Tag: Visual edit
9 July 2021
- 02:4002:40, 9 July 2021 diff hist 0 m List of serial killers before 1900 →1600 to 1800: Corrected ‘at the wheel’ to the conventional phrase ‘on the wheel’. Tag: Visual edit
- 02:3402:34, 9 July 2021 diff hist 0 m List of serial killers before 1900 →Active before 1600: Corrected ‘broken at the wheel’ to the conventional phrase ‘broken ON the wheel’. Tag: Visual edit
7 July 2021
- 06:1206:12, 7 July 2021 diff hist −71 Campaign furniture →Examples: Copy-edit for brevity and style. Tag: Visual edit
- 06:0506:05, 7 July 2021 diff hist −19 Campaign furniture →Examples: Copy-edit for style. Tag: Visual edit
6 July 2021
- 21:0521:05, 6 July 2021 diff hist −5 Communes of France →Terminology: Copy-edit for style; substantive edit for accuracy. A word cannot itself have a ‘bias’, historical or otherwise. Tag: Visual edit
5 July 2021
- 23:2323:23, 5 July 2021 diff hist −6 African wild dog Re-sequenced the introduction to bring related ideas together more naturally. Made a few grammatical and stylistic improvements—‘fewer’ not ‘less’ for countable things, etc. Tag: Visual edit
- 23:0423:04, 5 July 2021 diff hist +76 Boundaries between the continents Copy-edit for better English style. As is so often the case, a construction in ‘respectively’ is often shorter and clearer without distribution. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:3120:31, 5 July 2021 diff hist +10 Historical materialism Copy-edit for better comprehension. I found the previous phrasing “… in human society in the means by which humans …” awkward and liable to cause confusion. The revised sentence is still rather long, but clearer. Tag: Visual edit
4 July 2021
- 02:2702:27, 4 July 2021 diff hist −94 Ultraviolet index →Technical definition: Restructured and edited for easier reading. Also removed references to the way the index was originally developed, which belong in the history section. As a Canadian, I understand the desire to emphasize the origin of the UV Index in this country; that doesn’t mean we have to sprinkle little maple leaves on every section of the article. Tag: Visual edit
3 July 2021
- 09:5909:59, 3 July 2021 diff hist +12 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 →Operational history: Corrected dangling participle and other grammatical errors. Replaced ‘possibly’ with ‘potentially’, as I think the original meant that autothrottle could be applied to multi-engine aircraft, not that it might already have been done but couldn’t be confirmed. The citation is paywalled so I can’t confirm the latter. Tag: Visual edit
- 09:4809:48, 3 July 2021 diff hist +27 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 Improved parallel structure for readability. Tag: Visual edit
1 July 2021
- 22:2222:22, 1 July 2021 diff hist +2 m Inflection →Examples in English: Corrected what was probably an autocorrect error. The –ed suffix applies to adjectives ending in –y or –ie. Also used an en-dash instead of a hyphen: –ed rather than -ed. In a great many typefaces, the hyphen is very short, and really only works in the middle of a hyphenated word. Where it begins or ends a string of letters, it needs to be bigger to read properly. Tag: Visual edit
30 June 2021
- 23:0323:03, 30 June 2021 diff hist −5 Playtime →Production: Polished English style. Tag: Visual edit
- 22:5922:59, 30 June 2021 diff hist −3 Playtime Moved one sentence to place related ideas together. Tag: Visual edit
23 June 2021
- 10:2610:26, 23 June 2021 diff hist −153 Rick and Morty →Critical reception: Copy edit for better English style. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:4101:41, 23 June 2021 diff hist +6 Ljungström turbine Copy-edit for better English style. Tag: Visual edit
17 June 2021
- 20:5720:57, 17 June 2021 diff hist +12 Alfred Nobel →Personal life: Corrected citation supporting Bertha von Suttner’s influence on Nobel’s decision to include a prize for peace. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:5120:51, 17 June 2021 diff hist +165 Alfred Nobel →Personal life: added citation supporting Bertha von Suttner’s influence on Nobel Tag: Visual edit
16 June 2021
- 21:1921:19, 16 June 2021 diff hist −54 Agnatha →Reproduction: Removed a sentence that didn’t actually say anything. I suspect it was originally supposed to *introduce* a description, and had become a stray in the course of editing. Tag: Visual edit
