User contributions for Steven Skaggs
A user with 117 edits. Account created on 21 March 2008.
11 May 2024
- 00:2700:27, 11 May 2024 diff hist −2 The Tell-Tale Heart No edit summary Tag: Reverted
- 00:2500:25, 11 May 2024 diff hist −2 The Tell-Tale Heart No edit summary Tag: Reverted
- 00:2400:24, 11 May 2024 diff hist −26 The Tell-Tale Heart Tried to help with the singular/plural amibiguity. Persuaded by the point of view that in the mid 19th century the narrator is assumed male or use of "default he" is warranted because of severe ambiguities. Tag: Reverted
4 September 2023
- 12:5712:57, 4 September 2023 diff hist +7 m Fall of the Western Roman Empire In the background section, there were three troubling (dehumanizing) terms referring to the Gothic tribes: "unmanageable", "plagued" and "exterminated".
9 October 2022
- 22:0122:01, 9 October 2022 diff hist −1,484 Hermann Zapf I have removed a section that states that Zapf's work was not always admired. This section leans heavily on the opinions of one man who reported hearing from someone else that two of Zapf's faces were inferior. The citation shows that the remarks were made in a conference, were picked up by a web site, but there there is no context or debate on this man's opinion, which is likely spurious. The typefaces mentioned disparagingly, Zapf International and Zapf Book, are widely used.
20 July 2022
- 20:0520:05, 20 July 2022 diff hist +1 m Peshtigo fire Under slash and burn: grammatically incorrect. Changed "ATtributed" to "CONtributed".
14 March 2022
- 07:0507:05, 14 March 2022 diff hist +49 Charles Dickens added the clause "with brief pauses in Cincinnati and Louisville" to the section describing his first visit to the US. The addition helps to delineate his path of travel.
30 January 2022
- 09:2009:20, 30 January 2022 diff hist +12 m Abraham Lincoln added "in Kentucky" after born in a log cabin
1 December 2021
- 13:2013:20, 1 December 2021 diff hist 0 Semiotics No edit summary
- 13:1913:19, 1 December 2021 diff hist +1 Semiotics No edit summary
- 13:1613:16, 1 December 2021 diff hist +246 Semiotics Revised the opening paragraphs for clarity. Especially felt the definition of semiotics was too narrowly wrought before as it could not account for expressive signs in which a feeling, rather than a concept, is communicated.
21 November 2021
- 13:3613:36, 21 November 2021 diff hist +6 m Dark Star (song) Added list of top ten ranked by Heady Version
- 13:3413:34, 21 November 2021 diff hist +581 Dark Star (song) →Selected performances
- 13:1313:13, 21 November 2021 diff hist +178 Dark Star (song) No edit summary
- 13:0413:04, 21 November 2021 diff hist −2 m Dark Star (song) Attempting to correctly cite 8-27-72
- 12:5912:59, 21 November 2021 diff hist +206 m Dark Star (song) Added August 27th 1972 Dark Star because it is often cited as the best or one of the best Dark Stars.
5 September 2021
- 11:3711:37, 5 September 2021 diff hist +9 John Floyd (pioneer) The last paragraph claimed that Floyd's Fork, where it meets the Salt River, is near Floyd's Defeat. This is incorrect. The conjunction is in Bullitt County near where he was shot, not at the Jefferson County/Shelby County line where he was ambushed in what is known as "Floyd's Defeat".
- 11:2911:29, 5 September 2021 diff hist −1 John Floyd (pioneer) No edit summary
- 11:2711:27, 5 September 2021 diff hist +2 m John Floyd (pioneer) Cleaned up grammar and made link to "Long Run Massacre".
3 November 2020
- 14:4914:49, 3 November 2020 diff hist +544 Abraham Moles Added a paragraph about his work Information Theory and Esthetic Perception which was important in information theory and also in semiotics.
- 14:2914:29, 3 November 2020 diff hist −2 m Abraham Moles Switched to more formal use of his name - Moles - instead of prior Abrham in referring to Abraham Moles.
19 October 2020
- 10:4410:44, 19 October 2020 diff hist +443 Hermann Zapf Filled in a bit more information about his calligraphy, which I felt was a bit dismissive. His calligraphic style and technique influenced a generation of calligraphers.
22 April 2020
- 08:2508:25, 22 April 2020 diff hist −9 m Pony Express grammar: "Bringing with it was" to "With it was"
- 07:2107:21, 22 April 2020 diff hist −20 m Pony Express Deleteed redundant and misleading string "In the early 1860s"
8 April 2020
- 18:4518:45, 8 April 2020 diff hist +56 m Bob Gibson added Baseball Hall of Fame
1 February 2020
- 12:0812:08, 1 February 2020 diff hist 0 Nick Brett copy had incorrectly stated "23 titles since 1960" . The source said "23 titles in 10 years". Source dated from 1019.
5 January 2020
- 13:3913:39, 5 January 2020 diff hist −9 Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album) Deleted word "however" in last paragraph. It is unclear though whether this is an extended quote of the reviewer or the active wiki text.
26 December 2019
- 14:5814:58, 26 December 2019 diff hist −18 m Eric Sloane corrected spelling of name and deleted "sign painter" as a description of Frederic W. Goudy.
18 December 2019
- 14:0814:08, 18 December 2019 diff hist +1,044 Visual semiotics Made several substantive additions to the first three paragraphs to help make clear the two perspectives (Saussurean and Peircean) as well as distinguishing between icon, index, symbol.
6 October 2019
- 21:3321:33, 6 October 2019 diff hist −15 Early Middle Ages No edit summary
- 21:3021:30, 6 October 2019 diff hist −124 Early Middle Ages Carefully handled word-choice concerning the period post 410 to diminish current buzz words and political connotations
8 September 2019
- 12:1912:19, 8 September 2019 diff hist +566 History of Louisville, Kentucky Took care of the reported insufficient summary lead paragraph.
14 June 2019
- 12:2512:25, 14 June 2019 diff hist +8 m W. T. Grant grammar
1 May 2019
- 18:3318:33, 1 May 2019 diff hist −8 Dallas Stoudenmire →After the gunfight: grammar deleted "quickly"
- 18:3118:31, 1 May 2019 diff hist −3 m Dallas Stoudenmire →Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight: grammar "drop"
- 18:1618:16, 1 May 2019 diff hist +5 m Hugh Anderson (cowboy) →Duel with Arthur McCluskie: Grammar: added direct object "work"
- 18:1318:13, 1 May 2019 diff hist +2 m Hugh Anderson (cowboy) →Duel with Arthur McCluskie: spelling McCluskie's (possessive 's)
- 18:1118:11, 1 May 2019 diff hist +2 m Hugh Anderson (cowboy) →Duel with Arthur McCluskie: corrected spelling of Medicine Lodge, Kansas
20 April 2019
- 12:3912:39, 20 April 2019 diff hist +1 m Pattern 1853 Enfield corrected grammar "potency"
18 April 2019
- 11:5311:53, 18 April 2019 diff hist −1,291 Instrumentalism Deleted section on "Moral Instrumentalism". The section was very badly written, contained numerous typos, etc. Advise a rewrite.
16 February 2019
- 16:0916:09, 16 February 2019 diff hist +206 Denny Crum Clarified how the defense worked - switching on picks and encouraging outside shots
- 15:5715:57, 16 February 2019 diff hist −659 Denny Crum Deleted the pejorative paragraph on claimed low graduation rates. While the rates were low for NCAA teams overall, Crum's rates were not unusually low among elite teams for the time.
- 15:4415:44, 16 February 2019 diff hist −12 m Denny Crum No edit summary
27 October 2018
- 09:4109:41, 27 October 2018 diff hist +40 m Indexicality No edit summary
23 August 2018
- 09:5709:57, 23 August 2018 diff hist +8 m Musical notation added the word "further" to "developed further" in order to clarify the paragraph.
22 August 2018
- 01:4401:44, 22 August 2018 diff hist −174 m Chester Carlson Eliminated fragment sentence that seemed to be unrelated to rest of paragraph.
16 August 2018
- 12:0312:03, 16 August 2018 diff hist −355 Jan Tschichold line-edited first half of article to make more grammatical and clear.
- 11:4211:42, 16 August 2018 diff hist +199 Jan Tschichold Added the introductory paragraph that summarizes the major contributions of Tschichold.
15 July 2018
- 12:1012:10, 15 July 2018 diff hist −1 m Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana mis-spelled word (lead - led) corrected
28 January 2018
- 16:3316:33, 28 January 2018 diff hist +16 m Paul Rand No edit summary
