User contributions for Pmcray
A user with 402 edits. Account created on 19 December 2003.
29 January 2024
- 07:0607:06, 29 January 2024 diff hist +10 m Midnight International Standardization Organization -> International Organization for Standardization (ISO does *not* stand for International Standardization Organization)
28 November 2023
- 21:5721:57, 28 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Sigmund Jähn it's -> its
16 November 2023
- 00:3500:35, 16 November 2023 diff hist +51 m Battle of Inkerman Added mention of Inkerman Street in Preston, Lancashire.
8 November 2023
- 23:2423:24, 8 November 2023 diff hist +207 m Naomi Alderman Added "Borrowed Time" to the bibliography
26 October 2023
- 21:5721:57, 26 October 2023 diff hist +116 m Simon Callow →External links: Added link to the archive of Callow's essays at "The New York Review of Books".
- 21:5321:53, 26 October 2023 diff hist 0 m Simon Callow →Author: the "New York Review of Books" -> "The New York Review of Books"
- 21:5221:52, 26 October 2023 diff hist +41 m Simon Callow →Author: Callow has also contributed articles to the "New York Review of Books".
12 October 2023
- 00:5700:57, 12 October 2023 diff hist +330 m 4587 Rees Added an In fiction section as asteroid 4587 is mentioned in Arthur C. Clarke's 1975 novel, "Imperial Earth".
15 August 2023
- 20:3320:33, 15 August 2023 diff hist +211 m Denys Wilkinson Building The building was known as the Nuclear and Astrophysics Laboratory for a period.
- 17:0317:03, 15 August 2023 diff hist +898 Talk:Gillian Rose →Rose's Degree Class: new section Tag: New topic
9 March 2023
- 23:2523:25, 9 March 2023 diff hist +1,679 m Verlyn Klinkenborg Added recent NYRB articles to Book Reviews table plus some minor corrections/formatting changes to table
2 March 2023
- 01:5501:55, 2 March 2023 diff hist +6 m Anne Sayre PhD -> DPhil current
16 January 2023
- 19:4719:47, 16 January 2023 diff hist +1 m Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Palmerston North -> (Palmerston North)
13 January 2023
- 20:1220:12, 13 January 2023 diff hist 0 m Charles Sidney Beauclerk Accrington and Preston are both in Lancashire, but aren't in any sense near one another (Accrington is its own place and the extent that it's near anywhere is much nearer Burnley and Blackburn in East Lancashire; it's quite possible, of course, that Beauclerk in Accrington might well have had connections to the Jesuits in Preston (Accrington probably wasn't in the same diocese even in the early C20th as Preston, but might have been in the same Jesuit province or administrative unit)
29 November 2022
- 18:4218:42, 29 November 2022 diff hist +4 m Doctor Who: The Lost Stories Added hyperlink for Stephen Gallagher to his article.
16 April 2022
- 15:2915:29, 16 April 2022 diff hist +1 m Mike England failre -> failure
3 March 2022
- 00:2000:20, 3 March 2022 diff hist +20 m Cardinal Newman College Corrected format of link for Clifford V. Johnson
19 January 2022
- 13:3113:31, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1 m Richard Susskind Ph.D -> D.Phil. Also, in standard British orthography, Dr is preferred to Dr,
8 December 2021
- 16:3416:34, 8 December 2021 diff hist +1 m Allegra Stratton Comma after "Muhajababes"
- 16:3216:32, 8 December 2021 diff hist +8 m Allegra Stratton "Muhajababes" is not a novel, but a non-fiction account of the lives of various young Arab people in the early 2000s
3 December 2021
- 00:0700:07, 3 December 2021 diff hist +8 m Chick Cray "One of the few cricketers to have played first-class cricket before the war" -> "One of the last living cricketers to have played first-class cricket before the war"
29 November 2021
- 15:1215:12, 29 November 2021 diff hist +4 m Joy Williams (American writer) Emphasised an unemphasised instance of the novel "Harrow"
22 November 2021
- 15:5515:55, 22 November 2021 diff hist −8 m Jan Joosten (biblical scholar) Christ Church College -> Christ Church
19 November 2021
- 17:5617:56, 19 November 2021 diff hist +2 m Roger Highfield PhD -> DPhil
19 October 2021
- 21:3621:36, 19 October 2021 diff hist +2 m Frances Wilson (writer) PhD -> DPhil
18 October 2021
- 18:4518:45, 18 October 2021 diff hist −5 m 2001 in Wales The Stephen Knight who the Wales Book of the Year (English language) for "Mr Schnitzel" is Stephen Knight the poet not Stephen Knight the academic
- 12:5112:51, 18 October 2021 diff hist +49 m London Borough of Hounslow Approximately a third of Chiswick - north of the railway -> Approximately a third of Chiswick - north of the Underground (District Line/Piccadilly Line) railway line [The original statement is ambiguous as it could be taken as referring to the National Rail line through Chiswick, which is to the south of Chiswick High Road]
9 October 2021
- 21:4121:41, 9 October 2021 diff hist +2 m Stephen Marley (writer) a 'masterpiece' -> 'his masterpiece'
11 September 2021
- 18:0518:05, 11 September 2021 diff hist +1 m Norwegian Joy less -> fewer
8 September 2021
- 15:0615:06, 8 September 2021 diff hist +2 m Ben Chacko PhD -> DPhil
21 August 2021
- 16:4016:40, 21 August 2021 diff hist +94 m Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl The novel has 367 sections (21 August has sections for 1967 and 1968 and 1968 is a leap year) plus a prelude o the first section of the first volume and an appendix to the second volume
20 August 2021
- 18:4318:43, 20 August 2021 diff hist +126 m Tom Shippey Added external link to Shippey's essays at the "London Review of Books"
20 July 2021
- 19:3419:34, 20 July 2021 diff hist −114 m Zond 3 Sorry, *nobody* uses microinches
28 May 2021
- 19:0519:05, 28 May 2021 diff hist +9 m 4923 Clarke sci-fi -> science fiction
23 February 2021
- 20:2520:25, 23 February 2021 diff hist +37 m Cardinal Newman College Added Clifford V. Johnson as a former student
13 December 2020
- 15:5915:59, 13 December 2020 diff hist +218 m Verlyn Klinkenborg Added reference to 2020 NYRB article
4 December 2020
- 22:0122:01, 4 December 2020 diff hist +2 m Simon MacKenzie PhD -> DPhil
24 October 2020
- 23:2323:23, 24 October 2020 diff hist +17 m Arts Educational Schools Added "Doctor Who" for Bonnie Langford
21 October 2020
- 21:1221:12, 21 October 2020 diff hist +2 m Graham Richards PhD -> DPhil
6 September 2020
- 17:5617:56, 6 September 2020 diff hist −18 m Centre for Quantum Computation PhD -> DPhil; some other minor tidy-ups
29 August 2020
- 19:2919:29, 29 August 2020 diff hist 0 m Gillian Wright (astronomer) Principle -> Principal
18 July 2020
- 12:1312:13, 18 July 2020 diff hist +1 m Our Lady's Catholic High School, Fulwood next -> close
14 July 2020
- 15:5115:51, 14 July 2020 diff hist 0 m Archenfield principle -> principal
9 March 2020
- 11:2111:21, 9 March 2020 diff hist +91 m Imperial College Innovations Imperial Innovations was originally known as IMPEL.
2 November 2019
- 22:5322:53, 2 November 2019 diff hist 0 m William Rupp Principle -> Principal
31 October 2019
- 17:5017:50, 31 October 2019 diff hist +30 m Kew Bridge railway station Given that only Chiswick-bound 237s, 267s and 391s stop *at* the station with the Brentford-bound buses stopping at the bus stops on the other side of the wide and busy road junction, and the 65 has a special extra 65-only bus stop for Kew-Bridge after the Steam Museum stop, it is incorrect to assert that the 65 does not serve Kew Bridge. If you live on the 65 route and want to get a bus to an SWT station, you would get the 65 to Kew Bridge.
30 March 2019
- 16:1016:10, 30 March 2019 diff hist +30 m Kew Bridge railway station Kew Bridge station is also served by the 65 bus, which has a 65-only bus stop just before the bus turns right over Kew Bridge going towards Kew
9 September 2018
- 17:2817:28, 9 September 2018 diff hist −14 m Historiographic metafiction Put William S. Burroughs link in alphabetical position
- 17:2617:26, 9 September 2018 diff hist +67 m Historiographic metafiction Added David Michell and links to articles for Jean Rhys and M.G.Vassanji
8 June 2017
- 01:2001:20, 8 June 2017 diff hist +4 m CAC Small Added link to Axway Software page
