User contributions for SarahRMadden
A user with 1,268 edits. Account created on 3 October 2013.
29 April 2024
- 21:4321:43, 29 April 2024 diff hist +14 m Malawi Updated this sentence: "Banda was declared President for life in 1971, and Malawi's next few decades of independence were characterized by Banda's highly repressive dictatorship."
25 April 2024
- 17:2717:27, 25 April 2024 diff hist +22 Ray Walston →Early life and education: Added a hot link for repertory theater
- 17:2317:23, 25 April 2024 diff hist −2 m Ray Walston Changed “He’s appeared” to “He appeared” in “He appeared in the films ...”
24 April 2024
- 23:1023:10, 24 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Nicole Brown Simpson →Civil trial: Minor edits: In a 1997 civil trial filed by Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father, a jury found Simpson liable for the wrongful deaths of Brown and Goldman and awarded $33.5 million in damages to the Goldmans; however, Simpson never paid the "lion's share"
- 23:0823:08, 24 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Nicole Brown Simpson →Final weeks: Fixed the em dashes: "— a close friend to Nicole —"
- 23:0623:06, 24 April 2024 diff hist +8 m Nicole Brown Simpson →Post-divorce life: Removed commas before and after “Denise,” because Nicole had more than one sister: Nicole’s sister Denise described this period in a 1994 interview, saying that Nicole “was just so vivacious, so full of life” and “I was so happy for her. For the first time in her life, she was able to have her own friends. We were talking about going to Yosemite, camping, taking the kids to Club Med. Everything was going to revolve around the kids.”
- 23:0223:02, 24 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Nicole Brown Simpson →Post-divorce life: Added a comma after “Aspen”: “Brown met and became friends with Kato Kaelin on a skiing trip in Aspen, Colorado, in December 1992.”
26 March 2024
- 15:2215:22, 26 March 2024 diff hist +1 m Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore) At the end of the introduction, added a comma after the year: “The center span of the bridge was destroyed on March 26, 2024, when a container ship crashed into one of its support pillars,”
25 March 2024
- 00:4900:49, 25 March 2024 diff hist 0 m Reckless driving Added a semicolon before "however": "Reckless driving has been studied by psychologists<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200011/are-you-risk-taker|title=Are You a Risk Taker?|work=Psychology Today|access-date=May 26, 2016}}<"/ref> who found that reckless drivers score high in risk-taking personality traits; however, no one cause can be assigned to the mental state.
7 March 2024
- 23:4323:43, 7 March 2024 diff hist −1 m Rwanda Deleted comma before "ref" in this string of text: {{IPA|rw|u.ɾɡwaː.nda||Rwanda (rw) pronunciation.ogg}})<ref>{{Cite web |title=Government of Rwanda: Welcome to Rwanda
20 February 2024
- 18:2918:29, 20 February 2024 diff hist +1 m Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina →Yugoslav period: Changed “or” to “nor”: “During the interwar period Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina had neither a status within it nor a flag to go with.”
6 February 2024
- 18:1018:10, 6 February 2024 diff hist −1 Computer Sciences Corporation →History: Moved the 2000 paragraph to the appropriate chronological spot (after 2017). ONE QUESTION: Is the 2000 date correct?
- 18:0318:03, 6 February 2024 diff hist +2 m Computer Sciences Corporation →History: Added commas after “2000” and “Germany”: “In 2000, CSC founded a joint-venture called Innovative Banking Solutions AG<ref>iBS – Smart Applications for Banking on SAP. 2000|https://www.ibs-banking.com/en/company.html</ref> in Wiesbaden, Germany, to market their newly developed SAP solution for mortgage companies.”
- 18:0018:00, 6 February 2024 diff hist +4 m Computer Sciences Corporation →History: Added hotlink brackets to "United Kingdom" so it will point to the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
29 November 2023
- 01:3301:33, 29 November 2023 diff hist +1 m List of longest prison sentences →Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment: For Nathan Dunlap, added a comma after “Colorado”: “Perpetrator of the 1993 Aurora, Colorado, shooting.”
- 01:3001:30, 29 November 2023 diff hist +1 m List of longest prison sentences →Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment: For Jeffrey Kollie and Ryan Brandt, added an “s” to “sentence” in “7 life sentences plus 265 years”
- 01:2701:27, 29 November 2023 diff hist +1 m List of longest prison sentences →Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment: Added an “s” to “sentence” in “6 life sentences without parole plus 1067.5 years”
24 November 2023
- 22:4922:49, 24 November 2023 diff hist +15 m Ginkgo biloba →Distribution and habitat: Added “in South Korea” to “Many municipalities in Korea and Japan use Ginkgos as street trees, and Ginkgo leaves are the emblem of prominent educational institutions such as the University of Tokyo and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea.”
16 October 2023
- 22:0322:03, 16 October 2023 diff hist +32 m Coat of arms and flag of New Jersey Added quotation marks to the words “LIBERTY” and “PROSPERITY”: She is holding a staff with a liberty cap on it, and the word “LIBERTY” is underneath her. The goddess on the right is Ceres, goddess of agriculture. She is holding a cornucopia with the word “PROSPERITY” written below her.
22 September 2023
- 06:2206:22, 22 September 2023 diff hist +1 m Equatorial Guinea Added a comma after "Bioko": "{{As of|2021}}, the country had a population of 1,468,777,<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/equatorial-guinea-population/| title = Equatorial Guinea Population}}</ref> over 85% of whom are members of the Fang people, the country's dominant ethnic group. The Bubi people, indigenous to Bioko, are the second largest group at approximately 6.5% of the population."
30 August 2023
- 02:3202:32, 30 August 2023 diff hist +3 m Long Island Added "is": "With a land area of {{convert|1,401|sqmi|km2}}, it is the largest island in the contiguous United States."
27 August 2023
- 21:4721:47, 27 August 2023 diff hist −1 m Le Conquet In the first paragraph, changed "north-western" to "northwestern," and "further west" to "farther west.": '''Le Conquet''' ({{IPA-fr|lə kɔ̃kɛ}}; {{lang-br|Konk-Leon}}) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. This is the westernmost town of mainland France. Only three island towns—Ouessant, Île-Molène and Ile de Sein—are farther west."
18 August 2023
- 17:0017:00, 18 August 2023 diff hist +1 m Mark Keam In the second paragraph, added a comma after "South Korea": "Keam was born in Seoul, South Korea, and has lived in Vietnam, Australia, and California."
- 16:5916:59, 18 August 2023 diff hist +1 m Mark Keam In the first paragraph, added a comma after the year: "He resigned his seat on September 6, 2022, to take a position in the Biden administration"
21 June 2023
- 18:4018:40, 21 June 2023 diff hist +5 m Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard →Police investigations: Added a curly apostrophe in “Garridos’ property,” and added “to” between “pertaining” and “missing”: “Police agencies from Hayward and Dublin, California, conducted searches of the Garridos’ property for evidence pertaining to missing girls from those communities but did not find any.”
11 May 2023
- 20:5020:50, 11 May 2023 diff hist +1 m Tate–LaBianca murders →LaBianca murders: Added a comma after "wife": "Located next door to a home where Manson and Family members had attended a party the previous year,<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|176–184, 204–210}} it belonged to supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, co-owner of a dress shop."
- 20:4520:45, 11 May 2023 diff hist +1 m Tate–LaBianca murders In the first paragraph, added a comma after "wife": "The following evening, the Family also murdered supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, at their home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles."
30 March 2023
- 20:5020:50, 30 March 2023 diff hist +8 m Rolling Fork, Mississippi Changed “Grain” to “grain,” and “26” to “Twenty-six” (because the number starts the sentence): “The Rolling Fork water tower was blown over, two grain trucks were thrown into each other, power lines were knocked down, and trees were uprooted. Twenty-six people were killed in Rolling Fork and nearby Midnight and Silver City from the same tornado, with at least 15 more injured.”
14 March 2023
- 20:0520:05, 14 March 2023 diff hist 0 Wyoming Under "Dimensions," reverted the labels for length and width, because the length should be the longest dimnsion.
13 February 2023
- 22:2422:24, 13 February 2023 diff hist +21 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park →The Douglas hike: Added Merlo J. Pusey to the list of nine hikers, because it was Pusey's editorials in The Washington Post that prompted Douglas to organize the hike.
23 January 2023
- 12:2012:20, 23 January 2023 diff hist −26 m Alaska Deleted "Northwest Territories"
- 12:1812:18, 23 January 2023 diff hist +29 m Alaska Added “Northwest Territories”: “A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders British Columbia and the Yukon in Canada’s Northwest Territories to the east, and”
21 January 2023
- 17:5617:56, 21 January 2023 diff hist +203 User talk:SarahRMadden →January 2023: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:4917:49, 21 January 2023 diff hist −9 m Computer Sciences Corporation →Criticism: Changed the tense from present perfect (“has been accused” and “has led”) to past tense (“was accused” and “led”), because CSC no longer exists: “* The company was accused of breaching human rights by arranging several illegal rendition flights for the CIA between 2003 and 2006, which also led to criticism of shareholders of the company, including the governments of Norway and Britain.”
- 17:4617:46, 21 January 2023 diff hist +7 m Computer Sciences Corporation →Criticism: Changed the wording in this sentence from “one of the contractors” to “the prime contractor” and added the year the contract was awarded: “*# In 1998, CSC was the prime contractor hired by the Internal Revenue Service to modernize its tax-filing system.” SOURCE: www.irs.gov/pub/irs-procure/prime-contract.pdf
- 17:3917:39, 21 January 2023 diff hist 0 m Computer Sciences Corporation →Criticism: Added a hyphen to “so-called” in “*# Its so-called ''WorldBridge Service'' (Visa Services), which processed and issued millions of visa applications to enter Britain, did not involve British authorities.{{cn|date=May 2020}}”
- 17:3817:38, 21 January 2023 diff hist −8 m Computer Sciences Corporation →Criticism: Because CSC no longer exists, I changed this to the simple past tense (“engaged” and “resulted”) instead of the present perfect (“has engaged” and “have resulted”) and changed “legal action” to “legal actions” in “The company engaged in a number of activities that resulted in legal actions against it.”
- 17:3417:34, 21 January 2023 diff hist +5 m Computer Sciences Corporation →Business: Added “once” to “CSC once ranked among the leading IT service providers in the world.”
14 January 2023
- 00:5700:57, 14 January 2023 diff hist +156 User talk:SarahRMadden →January 2023: Reply Tag: Reply
12 January 2023
- 23:1123:11, 12 January 2023 diff hist +51 Jackson Stephens Undid revision 1122721513 by CommonsDelinker (talk) Jackson Stephens gave explicit permission in 2022 and again in January 2023 to use this photo on this Wikipedia page. Tags: Undo Reverted
- 22:1222:12, 12 January 2023 diff hist +53 Jackson Stephens Undid revision 1122721527 by CommonsDelinker (talk) Mr. Jackson Stephens gave explicit permission for this photo to be included. Tags: Undo Reverted
- 15:4215:42, 12 January 2023 diff hist +7 m Sissy Added "traits" after "masculine"
9 January 2023
- 23:2523:25, 9 January 2023 diff hist +1 m Pan American Games →Junior Pan American Games: Changed "less" to "fewer": "On 16 January 2019 PASO announced the creation of the Junior Pan American Games. This event, inspired by the Youth Olympic Games, is exclusive for athletes who are under 21 years of age, with fewer requirements on infrastructure and cost.<ref name="panamjuniorsodepa" /><ref name="mexicannocjunior" /><ref name="radiocentrodeportesjunoir" />"
31 December 2022
- 00:2300:23, 31 December 2022 diff hist +1 m 911 (emergency telephone number) →History: Added a comma after “Alabama”: “In the United States, the first 911 call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill.”
- 00:2100:21, 31 December 2022 diff hist +4 m 911 (emergency telephone number) In the paragraph about the Philippines, added “the” before “Asia-Pacific region”: “It is the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region.”
- 00:1800:18, 31 December 2022 diff hist −1 m 911 (emergency telephone number) →History: Changed “indicating” to “indicated”: “In 1968 ... because of the middle 1, which indicated a special number”
21 December 2022
- 15:1215:12, 21 December 2022 diff hist +2 m Andrew Tate →Early life: Added commas after "Indiana" and "England": "He grew up in Goshen, Indiana, and Chicago, later moving to Luton, England, as a child."
19 December 2022
- 00:0800:08, 19 December 2022 diff hist +10 m Computer Sciences Corporation →History: Added "Virginia" to "In February 2016, CSC announced it was moving its headquarters to Tysons, Fairfax County's central business district, just a few miles from Annandale, Virginia."
2 December 2022
- 00:1700:17, 2 December 2022 diff hist +49 Thalidomide scandal Birth Defect Crisis: Added "U.S. Food and Drug Administration"
