User contributions for Rsquire3
A user with 3,196 edits. Account created on 26 June 2008.
2 June 2024
- 13:5713:57, 2 June 2024 diff hist −1 Liverpool Blitz Removal of misplaced comma. What follows it is a restrictive modifying phrase, and thus the comma there made the meaning of the sentence incorrect. current
- 13:4913:49, 2 June 2024 diff hist 0 Crosley Field →Later years: Removed misplaced hyphen current
16 May 2024
- 02:4902:49, 16 May 2024 diff hist −1 Peerages in the United Kingdom →Privileges: Correction of pronoun number mismatch.
11 May 2024
- 14:3414:34, 11 May 2024 diff hist −9 Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 The term for a human male child is "boy."
6 February 2024
- 13:5413:54, 6 February 2024 diff hist −5 Golden ratio Removal of unneeded word
- 13:5413:54, 6 February 2024 diff hist +3 Golden ratio Insertion of missing word
- 13:5313:53, 6 February 2024 diff hist +59 Golden ratio Words expressing the point of the sentence were missing.
28 January 2024
- 22:4922:49, 28 January 2024 diff hist −1 Katie Hopkins →Islam: comma misuse
23 January 2024
- 05:0205:02, 23 January 2024 diff hist +9 Ecclesiastical province Correction of multiple errors (capitalization, number mismatch, etc.) in just one sentence.
- 04:5904:59, 23 January 2024 diff hist −2 List of Catholic dioceses (structured view) →Types of Catholic dioceses: Capitalization error, parenthesis misuse
9 January 2024
- 23:3223:32, 9 January 2024 diff hist −6 Rumpelstiltskin "Little imp" is redundant.
7 January 2024
- 13:0913:09, 7 January 2024 diff hist −7 Bret Weinstein →COVID-19: Removal of term that lacks objective informational content and serves purely to discredit. Tag: Reverted
11 December 2023
- 15:0215:02, 11 December 2023 diff hist −11 Lawrence Krauss "previously taught" is redundant
10 November 2023
- 03:1703:17, 10 November 2023 diff hist −4 Stock market →Size of the market: The citation refers to market capitalization, i.e., equities, not all securities (which would include bonds)
14 September 2023
- 02:3702:37, 14 September 2023 diff hist +19 Tom Cruise →Litigation: correction of confusing language
- 02:3602:36, 14 September 2023 diff hist −6 Tom Cruise →Litigation: removal of superfluous word
- 02:3402:34, 14 September 2023 diff hist −1 Tom Cruise →Personal life: better punctuation and word choice
23 August 2023
- 21:1621:16, 23 August 2023 diff hist +8 Basilica A comma is not a word and is a bad substitute for one.
- 11:2811:28, 23 August 2023 diff hist −4 Purdue Pharma →Removal of Sackler name: Removal of word that makes sentence self-contradictory (as it is "now" no longer May 2023).
- 11:2711:27, 23 August 2023 diff hist +1 Purdue Pharma →The Ogrosky memo: Another missing comma. Note it is needed here to distinguish what the senators were saying from what the memo was saying.
- 11:2611:26, 23 August 2023 diff hist +1 Purdue Pharma →The Ogrosky memo: Missing comma
29 July 2023
- 15:4215:42, 29 July 2023 diff hist +9 Second Balkan War →Serbian front: Missing modifier; "confusion" is not a count noun.
- 15:4115:41, 29 July 2023 diff hist +12 Second Balkan War →Background: Better date
- 15:4015:40, 29 July 2023 diff hist +17 Second Balkan War →Background: A date would be nice here.
- 15:3815:38, 29 July 2023 diff hist +2 Second Balkan War Gerunds require possessives.
- 15:3815:38, 29 July 2023 diff hist −1 Second Balkan War Replaced "which" with "that" because what follows is a restrictive modifying phrase.
27 April 2023
- 03:1103:11, 27 April 2023 diff hist −47 Corpus language Concision
- 03:0803:08, 27 April 2023 diff hist −19 Corpus language "Recorded productions" is a pretentious phrase that while perhaps used by linguists is not familar to the average reader and is in any event unnecessary since "writings" and "records" are both adequate substitutes.
12 February 2023
- 22:3122:31, 12 February 2023 diff hist −13 Madoff investment scandal →Recovery of funds: redundant adverb as the dates are given
25 January 2023
- 02:4302:43, 25 January 2023 diff hist −6 Karen Allen "later reprised" is redundant.
16 January 2023
- 01:4601:46, 16 January 2023 diff hist +5 Bernie Madoff Run-on sentence.
29 June 2022
- 03:5103:51, 29 June 2022 diff hist −2 Candidates Tournament 2022 →Points by round: The possessive pronoun in English for a man is “his.” Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
27 June 2022
- 03:5003:50, 27 June 2022 diff hist +1 Curtis LeMay Comma needed because otherwise phrase becomes restrictive modifier, making the “later” that appears earlier in the sentence redundant. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 03:4603:46, 27 June 2022 diff hist −6 Palacio de Santoña Obviously the eighteenth century is later than the sixteenth century. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 03:2903:29, 27 June 2022 diff hist −18 Toponymy Cleanup of non-parallel construction and bad diction. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 03:2503:25, 27 June 2022 diff hist +1 Toponymy Missing space Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 03:2403:24, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2 Toponymy Number disagreement, wrong conjunctions Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
24 June 2022
- 12:1112:11, 24 June 2022 diff hist −6 Dick Cheney Unneeded adverb. Obviously he was in his birthplace before, not after, he was somewhere else. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
11 June 2022
- 16:5016:50, 11 June 2022 diff hist +1 Pia Cramling →Personal life: Missing comma. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 16:4816:48, 11 June 2022 diff hist −10 Anna Cramling →Early life and background: Missing comma, redundant adverb. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 16:4616:46, 11 June 2022 diff hist −6 Anna Cramling →Early life and background: Another unneeded adverb. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 16:4616:46, 11 June 2022 diff hist −6 Anna Cramling Unneeded adverb Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
1 June 2022
- 20:1120:11, 1 June 2022 diff hist −11 Philip Johnson →Architecture school and Army service: Another unneeded and redundant adverb. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 20:1020:10, 1 June 2022 diff hist −9 Philip Johnson →Architecture school and Army service: Unneeded adverb. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
31 May 2022
- 03:4703:47, 31 May 2022 diff hist −1 Pope Linus Better to write with verb tenses than adverbs. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
28 May 2022
- 20:5620:56, 28 May 2022 diff hist −13 Ray Liotta →Early life: Unneeded adjective Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
18 May 2022
- 05:0805:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +1 Curtis LeMay Comma needed to avoid redundancy with “later” and to indicate non-restrictive modifying phrase. Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
20 April 2022
- 12:2712:27, 20 April 2022 diff hist −5 Rick Ankiel Wrong words. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
1 April 2022
- 00:0200:02, 1 April 2022 diff hist −6 Clarence Darrow →Marriages and child: No need for that word. The reader knows that 1903 is later than 1897. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
30 March 2022
- 04:1004:10, 30 March 2022 diff hist +2 Eternal sin Conforming to rules of grammar and to normal diction. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
