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A user with 132 edits. Account created on 25 January 2023.
2 May 2023
- 01:2401:24, 2 May 2023 diff hist −1 m Motagua River Switched "along" for "down," primarily for stylistic and clarity reasons. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:2201:22, 2 May 2023 diff hist +7 m Motagua River To ensure clarity, changed "it" to "the river" Tag: Visual edit
- 01:2101:21, 2 May 2023 diff hist −20 Motagua River Eliminated "over the next decade," which assumes a time frame reference that is not appropriate when considering the longevity of a Wikipedia article as a source of reliable information. Also separated the conservation sub-section into two paragraphs, the first focusing on the government and the second focusing on independent organizations. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:1901:19, 2 May 2023 diff hist +26 Motagua River Added "Additionally" to improve flow of the paragraph and emphasize a new idea. Added "financially" to specify the manner in which the people are actually most affected. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:1501:15, 2 May 2023 diff hist +2 m Motagua River Fixed grammatical error by adding commas to separate the clause Tag: Visual edit
- 01:1101:11, 2 May 2023 diff hist +2 Motagua River Separated Water Quality sub-section content into two paragraphs, creating a more logical organization. The first focuses on rivers generally, and the second on the Motagua, which might eliminate any potential confusion. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0901:09, 2 May 2023 diff hist −1 Motagua River Changed the order of the sentences to improve flow and clarity within the article. Also added clause "Despite this" to introduce some contradiction between the sentences that better connects them and makes the entire paragraph more cohesive. Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5900:59, 2 May 2023 diff hist +16 Motagua River Added "generally" to ensure that the meaning of the sentence is clear. Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5600:56, 2 May 2023 diff hist +7 Motagua River Grammatical change to ensure clarity, as the previous sentence might have been seen as somewhat ambiguous. Tag: Visual edit
- 00:4800:48, 2 May 2023 diff hist −1 Motagua River Fixed a grammatical error and linked jadeitite to the corresponding Wikipedia page, while also removing the original link for the same word that appears later in the article. Tag: Visual edit
1 May 2023
- 14:4414:44, 1 May 2023 diff hist +45 m Motagua River Made the sub-heading formatting universal across the article. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:4014:40, 1 May 2023 diff hist −4 m Motagua River Removed a link for a word that had already been linked earlier in the article. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3814:38, 1 May 2023 diff hist −99 Motagua River The last two sentence focus on independent organization that have also undertaken conservation efforts targeted primarily towards the river. The latter was a sentence already included in the article, which I slightly changed to remove the causal clause "As such" and replaced it with also to better fit into the flow of my edits and to improve clarity. I also edited the source to better reflect the sourcing of my edits. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3514:35, 1 May 2023 diff hist +1,017 Motagua River The next two sentences describe some of the measures that the Guatemalan government has undertaken in an effort to combat the pollution issues concerning the river, as well as for the country at large. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3414:34, 1 May 2023 diff hist +303 Motagua River The first two sentences contextualize one aspect of the need for conservation, which is the right of the people to safe drinking water. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3214:32, 1 May 2023 diff hist +557 Motagua River The next two sentences maintain balance by discussing the human related consequences of the pollution, which can be just as drastic as those experienced by marine life. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:3114:31, 1 May 2023 diff hist +363 Motagua River The first two sentences of the outcomes section focus more on the environmental consequences of the pollution, particularly on the marine environments in which the pollution flows into. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:2914:29, 1 May 2023 diff hist +146 Motagua River The last sentence provides another perspective on the issue, which is how many people living on the river also contribute to the issue, which increases the balance of the article so that it does not focus entirely on the government. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:2814:28, 1 May 2023 diff hist +294 Motagua River The new sentence I added replaced an old sentence, but carries essentially the same information. The original sentence, however, including a quotation that did not exist from the sources that were originally linked to the article. Thus, I edited the sentence to eliminate the quotation while maintaining the original author's voice, and included an appropriate and verifiable citation. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:2614:26, 1 May 2023 diff hist +909 Motagua River The next two sentences focus on the governmental policy surrounding the maintenance of water quality in rivers, which is again, important context that highlights the source of many of the issues surrounding continued polluting of the river. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:2414:24, 1 May 2023 diff hist +554 Motagua River The first sentence describes water quality assessments in Guatemala in general, and provides important contextual information about pollution in the Motagua River specifically. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:2314:23, 1 May 2023 diff hist +607 Motagua River My first section is a very brief history section, which I feel is more relevant to Pollution than it is to the history section itself because it is very directly related and highlights the longevity of the issue as well as the recurring issues that contribute to the continued pollution that we see today. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:2014:20, 1 May 2023 diff hist +288 Motagua River Here I edited the sentence. First I added a verifiable source to the claim. Next, I linked a few of the terms in the sentence to other Wikipedia pages, as these terms are important for the reader to understand. Lastly, I deleted the lead in to the sentence about the lake, which I determined to be not relevant to the topic at hand. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:1714:17, 1 May 2023 diff hist 0 m Motagua River I capitalized R in river here to maintain consistency with the other references in the article. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:1514:15, 1 May 2023 diff hist +74 Motagua River For the pollution section, I added four sub-categories, as this spreads out the information logically and ensures that the section does not seem too overbearing. As such, I can include sufficient information about a very relevant topic pertaining to a contemporary understanding of the article without losing the balance that I have strived to maintain throughout. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:1314:13, 1 May 2023 diff hist +289 Motagua River The final two sentences of the history section provide more in-depth information about the river's use as a trade route. This improves the balance of the section to discuss more practical uses beyond just jade. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:1114:11, 1 May 2023 diff hist +144 Motagua River The next sentence that I added improves the balance of the article by including the major site Copan, which complements the existing discussion of another important site Quirigua. I also added verifiable sources to the information already in the article about the latter. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:0914:09, 1 May 2023 diff hist +886 Motagua River The next three sentences discuss the next notable Indigenous civilization to occupy the river area, the Maya. Similarly to the previous sentences about the Olmec, they are primarily connected to the use of jade. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:0714:07, 1 May 2023 diff hist −33 Motagua River The next two sentences discuss the Olmec people. I also fixed some of the previously added citations, as there were a few duplicates. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:0414:04, 1 May 2023 diff hist +707 Motagua River The first paragraph of the History section discusses jadeitite, and the two sentences following the original sentence discuss green and blue-green jade respectively. The sentences describe two notable re-discoveries of the resource, as well as introducing the Indigenous communities that used the resource, which will be expanded upon further in the next paragraph. Tag: Visual edit
- 14:0214:02, 1 May 2023 diff hist +559 Motagua River I split the first sentence of the history section into two sentences, as both discuss important topics that I will expand on further. I also added verifiable citations to both claims, which the original text lacked. Tag: Visual edit
- 13:4513:45, 1 May 2023 diff hist −22 Motagua River I changed the "World's most polluted river" section heading to Pollution, as I find that Pollution is a more neutral title and is more indicative of what the section attempts to prove. The new section will both focus on the pollution and some of the ways in which the issue is being alleviated, which might not fit as well under the "World's most polluted river" title, which is more pessimistic. Tag: Visual edit
- 13:4213:42, 1 May 2023 diff hist −1 Motagua River I changed the Overview section to History, as the term overview is very broad and does not really reflect the information that the section contains. I find that history accomplishes this better, and provides more balance to the article. Tag: Visual edit
- 13:3913:39, 1 May 2023 diff hist +1 m Motagua River I added a space in the tributaries section, fixing a grammatical error. Tag: Visual edit
30 April 2023
- 20:4020:40, 30 April 2023 diff hist +605 Motagua River Lastly, I moved the paragraph about the fault to the course section, as I think that it is more appropriate to include it here, as it describes another geographic aspect of the country that pertains the river's course. I also added sources to both sentences to improve verifiability. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:3820:38, 30 April 2023 diff hist +693 Motagua River The final sentence of the paragraph specifies where the river ends, expanding further upon the information in the lead section. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:3720:37, 30 April 2023 diff hist +525 Motagua River Next, I re-inserted the deleted sentence from the lead, which for clarity reasons, I deemed more fitting for this section. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:3620:36, 30 April 2023 diff hist +78 Motagua River The next sentence notes another notable feature of the geographic landscape of Guatemala, as it describes the number of other rivers that feed into the Motagua. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:3320:33, 30 April 2023 diff hist −11 m Motagua River No edit summary
- 20:3320:33, 30 April 2023 diff hist +6 m Motagua River No edit summary
- 20:3120:31, 30 April 2023 diff hist +44 Motagua River Changed again, as the last edit did not cite the correct source.
- 20:2820:28, 30 April 2023 diff hist −39 Motagua River Changed the Wikicode of the infobox so that the citations match up. Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 20:1920:19, 30 April 2023 diff hist +24 Motagua River Changing citations in the infobox to match those of the main article, when both are referring to the same source. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:1720:17, 30 April 2023 diff hist +188 Motagua River Added another verifiable source from the Guatemalan government to describe where geographically the river runs, which is along one of the three major slopes in Guatemala. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:1120:11, 30 April 2023 diff hist +34 User:Spcml12/Motagua River Atlantic slope current Tag: Visual edit
- 20:0620:06, 30 April 2023 diff hist +555 Motagua River The next sentence notes the direction, as well as some of the notable geographic locations through which the river flows, which includes the departments and ecoregions. Tag: Visual edit
- 20:0020:00, 30 April 2023 diff hist +317 Motagua River The first sentence of the new course section restates part of what was stated in the lead section with appropriate sourcing. The sentence describes the source of the river. Tag: Visual edit
- 19:5819:58, 30 April 2023 diff hist +14 Motagua River The first new section that I am adding to the article is titled "Course." This section will briefly describes the path of the river, and provide important geographic features of its path. This section is commonly found in other Wikipedia articles about rivers. Tag: Visual edit
- 19:5619:56, 30 April 2023 diff hist −11 Motagua River I made edits to the second sentence of the second paragraph in the lead, primarily for flow reasons so that it meshes more clearly with the sentences that I added before and after it. Tag: Visual edit
- 19:5419:54, 30 April 2023 diff hist +259 Motagua River I added two additional sentences to the lead such that the lead encapsulates the rest of the article. The first sentence describes the use of jadeitite by Indigenous communities, which summarizes my to-be-added history section, and the second sentence describes conservations efforts concerning the river, which summarizes changes I will make to the section about pollution. Tag: Visual edit