User contributions for PointyOintment
A user with 1,860 edits. Account created on 29 May 2006.
4 December 2020
- 00:4600:46, 4 December 2020 diff hist +3 m Moving iron speaker →Diaphragm: "is a feature" → "are limitations": poor bandwidth and modest output are two limitations, not one feature
25 August 2020
- 18:5618:56, 25 August 2020 diff hist +54 m User:PointyOintment/shortcuts changed all spaced hyphens to spaced en dashes current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:5518:55, 25 August 2020 diff hist +74 User:PointyOintment/shortcuts →Templates: added Template:Done/See also Tag: Visual edit
- 18:4818:48, 25 August 2020 diff hist +530 Wikipedia:Help desk →Containt is not correct: note
- 16:0316:03, 25 August 2020 diff hist +1,303 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science →combination window fan and air filter: reply
- 15:5015:50, 25 August 2020 diff hist +1,433 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science →ISS size, and micrometeorite damage.: two replies
- 15:3015:30, 25 August 2020 diff hist +3,492 Talk:Gasoline pump →Requested move 17 August 2020: my input
- 14:2714:27, 25 August 2020 diff hist +325 Talk:Gasoline pump →Requested move 17 August 2020: reply re data bias
21 August 2020
- 19:0819:08, 21 August 2020 diff hist +21 Scoop wheel added Commons category template Tag: Visual edit
- 19:0419:04, 21 August 2020 diff hist −330 Scoop wheel →Excavator: removed section—it was extremely short, cited no sources, and just described bucket wheel excavators without knowing their name Tag: Visual edit
18 August 2020
- 15:1815:18, 18 August 2020 diff hist +46 Hydraulic ram →top: added another confusable article to the hatnote: plunger pump (aka "ram pump") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:1615:16, 18 August 2020 diff hist +46 Plunger pump →top: added hatnote "Not to be confused with Hydraulic ram" because ram pump redirects here Tag: Visual edit
- 15:1215:12, 18 August 2020 diff hist −1 Ram pump changed target from hydraulic ram to plunger pump (seems to be a more commonly intended meaning) Tags: Redirect target changed Reverted Visual edit
13 August 2020
- 06:4606:46, 13 August 2020 diff hist +43 m UH88 added image hint for WP:POPUPS Tag: Visual edit
- 06:2806:28, 13 August 2020 diff hist +4,673 UH88 added gallery of additional pictures (switched because VE put the gallery at the top of the page even though that wasn't where my text cursor was when I went to insert it, and it wouldn't let me move it to the bottom either by dragging or by copying and pasting) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
12 August 2020
- 23:1123:11, 12 August 2020 diff hist +90 UH88 Adding local short description: "University of Hawai'i 88-inch telescope, at Mauna Kea Observatories", overriding Wikidata description "telescope at Hawaii" (Shortdesc helper)
- 23:1023:10, 12 August 2020 diff hist +7 m UH88 ce: punctuation, pluralization, spacing Tag: Visual edit
- 23:0523:05, 12 August 2020 diff hist +10 m UH88 →top: subject bolding and synonym list em dashes Tag: Visual edit
- 05:1505:15, 12 August 2020 diff hist +938 Wikipedia:Requests for page protection →Giorgio A. Tsoukalos: Requesting pending changes on Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. (TW)
- 04:5104:51, 12 August 2020 diff hist +1,382 User talk:Tanner29429 →I am extremely sorry for my poor behavior on Wikipedia: reply: appeal advice and one point in support
- 04:2604:26, 12 August 2020 diff hist +278 m User talk:Tanner29429 →I am extremely sorry for my poor behavior on Wikipedia: {{unsigned}} for Tanner
- 03:5403:54, 12 August 2020 diff hist −2 Giorgio A. Tsoukalos →top: fixed disguised disparaging link (though an IP editor will surely revert this)
- 03:5203:52, 12 August 2020 diff hist −127 Giorgio A. Tsoukalos rm unsourced silly sentence added by IP editor who used false edit summary
11 August 2020
- 23:1823:18, 11 August 2020 diff hist +75 Envisat →Instruments: tagged section as needing more citations—it only has one right now Tag: Visual edit
9 August 2020
- 21:3121:31, 9 August 2020 diff hist 0 m OSIRIS-REx →OLA: decapitalized "lidar" to match the common lowercase usage as indicated by that article's title Tag: Visual edit
- 19:4619:46, 9 August 2020 diff hist 0 m 29 Amphitrite →top: corrected spelling of name Tag: Visual edit
- 10:4610:46, 9 August 2020 diff hist +26 m List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft →Recent: Agency column: linked ESA because there was no link for it yet Tag: Visual edit
- 10:4510:45, 9 August 2020 diff hist −4 m List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft →Recent: Agency column: unlinked one more duplicate link that I missed Tag: Visual edit
- 10:4410:44, 9 August 2020 diff hist −82 m List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft →Recent: Agency column: corrected misspelling of "CNSA" ×3, unlinked duplicate links, corrected hyphen to en dash in "ESA–NASA" Tag: Visual edit
- 09:1609:16, 9 August 2020 diff hist +50 Athena (spacecraft) Adding short description: "Proposed Pallas flyby probe" (Shortdesc helper)
3 August 2020
- 19:0519:05, 3 August 2020 diff hist 0 m Interpretations of quantum mechanics →Influential interpretations: decapitalized "interpretations" in section title Tag: Visual edit
- 17:0117:01, 3 August 2020 diff hist +40 Reification (fallacy) →Counterexamples: added another example of self-reification, with link to article: preferred numbers Tag: Visual edit
- 16:5716:57, 3 August 2020 diff hist +98 Reification (fallacy) →As a rhetorical device: [clarification needed] on very unclear sentence that appears to be constructed using assumptions contradictory to statements made in preceding sentences Tag: Visual edit
2 August 2020
- 15:2915:29, 2 August 2020 diff hist +4 ICER (file format) →top: ce: removed unnecessary list formatting, merged paragraphs, added missing parenthetical phrase em dash, added clarifying ", instead," Tag: Visual edit
- 15:2115:21, 2 August 2020 diff hist +16 m ICER (file format) →top: update re rovers Tag: Visual edit
- 15:0715:07, 2 August 2020 diff hist +201 m Thermal Emission Imaging System →Discovery of a variety of rocks: converted pointless gallery of only one image to a flowable thumbnail, added links in and made small adjustments to its caption, and added alt text to it Tag: Visual edit
- 15:0015:00, 2 August 2020 diff hist +10 Thermal Emission Imaging System →Discovery of a variety of rocks: [clarification needed] on "central uplifts" Tag: Visual edit
- 14:5914:59, 2 August 2020 diff hist +52 m Thermal Emission Imaging System →Discovery of a variety of rocks: ce: commas, spellings of "picritic" and "fractional", (invisible) double/triple spaces → single spaces Tag: Visual edit
- 14:5514:55, 2 August 2020 diff hist −2 m Thermal Emission Imaging System →Discovery of a variety of rocks: changed section title from "THEMIS discovers variety of rocks" because section titles shouldn't restate the article's subject Tag: Visual edit
- 14:5414:54, 2 August 2020 diff hist +555 Thermal Emission Imaging System →Infrared camera: images: converted to thumbnail format, added captions and alts, moved one to proper place in text Tag: Visual edit
- 14:4814:48, 2 August 2020 diff hist +2 m Thermal Emission Imaging System →Infrared camera: grammar Tag: Visual edit
- 14:0114:01, 2 August 2020 diff hist +10 m 2001 Mars Odyssey →top: "Mars Science Laboratory" → "Curiosity rover", because what's communicated with on the surface is the rover, not the mission it's part of; I guess this was a remnant from before the rover had a name Tag: Visual edit
- 13:5813:58, 2 August 2020 diff hist +12 m 2001 Mars Odyssey →Mission: "friction" → "aerodynamic drag", because friction is only a small component of drag Tag: Visual edit
30 July 2020
- 07:5407:54, 30 July 2020 diff hist +77 Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring Adding local short description: "Future ESA satellite to study Earth's radiation budget", overriding Wikidata description "satellite" (Shortdesc helper)
- 07:4507:45, 30 July 2020 diff hist 0 m EarthCARE →History: decapitalized "lidar": it is not a proper noun Tag: Visual edit
- 07:4207:42, 30 July 2020 diff hist +10 m ADM-Aeolus →ALADIN: ce: comma splices around "however" and "therefore", parenthetical phrase comma, clearer wording, space between number and unit Tag: Visual edit
- 07:3907:39, 30 July 2020 diff hist 0 m ADM-Aeolus →ALADIN: "real-time" (adjective) → "real time" (noun) Tag: Visual edit
- 07:3007:30, 30 July 2020 diff hist +116 DORIS (satellite system) Adding local short description: "Doppler-radio-based system for determination of satellite orbits and ground station locations", overriding Wikidata description "system on board the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Envisat satellite" (Shortdesc helper)
29 July 2020
- 18:0918:09, 29 July 2020 diff hist +87 CryoSat-1 Adding short description: "ESA satellite to study polar ice; lost in launch failure in 2005" (Shortdesc helper)
- 18:0418:04, 29 July 2020 diff hist +74 CryoSat Adding local short description: "ESA programme monitoring polar ice using satellites", overriding Wikidata description "a research satellite" (Shortdesc helper)
