User contributions for Wclaytong
A user with 184 edits. Account created on 29 October 2018.
30 April 2024
- 17:5517:55, 30 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Albert Einstein →Resident scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study: add institutional link Tag: Visual edit
29 April 2024
- 10:2010:20, 29 April 2024 diff hist +200 John Marshall →Personal life and family: Add unlikely coincidence that one of his famous relations also held the same, senior cabinet position. Tag: Visual edit
17 April 2024
- 02:2802:28, 17 April 2024 diff hist +21 European storm petrel Replace a misused word and break up a couple of run ons. Tag: Visual edit
15 April 2024
- 06:2806:28, 15 April 2024 diff hist +1,310 Barbara Jordan →Statement on the Articles of Impeachment: Expanded section title and content to reflect Jordan's core strength and give context comparing her quantity and rankings to other recognizable orators. Tag: Visual edit
12 April 2024
- 22:4522:45, 12 April 2024 diff hist −12 m List of unarmed African Americans killed by law enforcement officers in the United States →Before 2000: Remove two of four occurrences of the phrase "led to" in a single sentence. Tag: Visual edit
29 March 2024
- 03:4203:42, 29 March 2024 diff hist +252 Aqueduct Bridge (Potomac River) →Demolition of Aqueduct Bridge: Remove statement that the Key mansion was blocks away with a more accurate placement and distance. current Tag: Visual edit
22 March 2024
- 05:0505:05, 22 March 2024 diff hist −239 Triple Crown of Acting →Rita Moreno: Remove details about her specific Grammy win in paragraph. Standardize to 'has won" and "TC qualifying for the living". Remove "the" and "won" from TC and EGOT as these aren't things you win Tag: Visual edit
19 March 2024
- 16:0216:02, 19 March 2024 diff hist −52 m Vatican City →Sede vacante: Keep consistency in the English translation of this formal body. Tag: Visual edit
13 March 2024
- 08:2108:21, 13 March 2024 diff hist −1,881 Construction of the Virginia approaches to Arlington Memorial Bridge →Repairs: Correct two typos and remove redundant paragraphs repeating the same federal committee appovals across every road route section. Tag: Visual edit
10 March 2024
- 17:0417:04, 10 March 2024 diff hist +14 First Indochina War Differentiate this support which definitely came from an ancient Chinese text (with writing dates and single authorship in minor dispute), also studied by American generals like MacArthur, from then new communist China which only came to power during this war. Tag: Visual edit
6 March 2024
- 20:1820:18, 6 March 2024 diff hist −8 m Rat Islands Remove the word largest. This is a complete list naming the Rat Islands. current Tag: Visual edit
27 February 2024
- 06:3606:36, 27 February 2024 diff hist +363 Amy Grant →Grammy Awards: Clarify discrepancy between Grammy site which says Grant has 19 nominations as of the 66th ceremony with wiki table which lists 20 total. Grant's name appears beside the other artists nomination but this rule is the reason it does not count under Grant's own Grammy profile. Tag: Visual edit
- 06:2806:28, 27 February 2024 diff hist +615 List of awards and nominations received by Amy Grant →Grammy Awards: Clarify discrepancy between Grammy site which says Grant has 19 nominations as of the 66th ceremony with wiki table which lists 20 total. Grant's name appears beside the other artists nomination but this rule is the reason it does not count under Grant's own Grammy profile. Tag: Visual edit
25 February 2024
- 02:2402:24, 25 February 2024 diff hist +51 Sara Bareilles Replace misspelled pronoun and rework sentence about the Waitress film which was also missing a key word. Tag: Visual edit
18 February 2024
- 14:2514:25, 18 February 2024 diff hist +137 List of U.S. states and territories by area Corrected the first of four and the last of four "row totals" at the bottom of the table.to match calculated values. Added 48 to the Contiguous description and similar words to help compare and contrast all four total rows.Corrected the Minor Outlying Islands data to include all nine so grouped. Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- 13:3713:37, 18 February 2024 diff hist +1 m Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by area →Revising Minor Outlying Island numbers and all Four Grand Total Numbers at the bottom
- 13:3713:37, 18 February 2024 diff hist +1,176 Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by area →Revising Minor Outlying Island numbers and all Four Grand Total Numbers at the bottom: new section Tag: New topic
- 13:1413:14, 18 February 2024 diff hist −6 m Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by area →Navajo Nation?: fix typos
- 13:0913:09, 18 February 2024 diff hist +3,083 Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by area →Navajo Nation?: Reply Tag: Reply
16 February 2024
- 08:2908:29, 16 February 2024 diff hist +18 m Timeline of Kansas history →1860s to 1890s: Correct wiki link to the place and not the biblical character. current Tag: Visual edit
11 February 2024
- 12:1012:10, 11 February 2024 diff hist +349 m Talk:Grammy Award for Album of the Year →This page is all wrong
- 12:0612:06, 11 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Grammy Award for Album of the Year →1980s: Correct back to 1982. Person on talk page used this year as an example of the formatting they expect to see and changed only this one leaving us with two 1981's. Tag: Visual edit
- 11:5211:52, 11 February 2024 diff hist +46 Grammy Award for Album of the Year Undid revision 1206170327 by Robertg62626 (talk) Tag: Undo
- 11:3211:32, 11 February 2024 diff hist +597 Grammy Award for Album of the Year Separate consecutive year nominations and nominations for consecutive studio albums into different paragraphs. Verify numbers for these two distinctions for those credited with three or more which led to corrections for The Beatles, Sinatra, Streisand and Lamar. Tag: Visual edit
9 February 2024
- 23:4923:49, 9 February 2024 diff hist +59 m Grammy Award for Album of the Year →Artists and bands with multiple wins: text clarifying why Lauryn Hill and Bruno Mars shown with 2 wins each in this category do not appear in this list focused only on multiple wins as artists. Tag: Visual edit
- 23:4023:40, 9 February 2024 diff hist +92 m Grammy Award for Album of the Year Clarify Mars' work on the Adele album as his own name does not appear on most sources. Tag: Visual edit
8 January 2024
- 11:2811:28, 8 January 2024 diff hist +4 Northern Mariana Islands Ignoring likely confusion using the word territory with regard to a state, a number of U.S. states have all their coastline in the Pacific ocean just like Hawaii. Adding "island" helps but the articles use of Pacific only thinking about Southern Pacific, tropical or natives is a problem. Tag: Visual edit
26 December 2023
- 03:3103:31, 26 December 2023 diff hist −1 m Peter Van Brugh Livingston →Career: add missing word and improve readability re: founding and university trusteeship Tag: Visual edit
19 December 2023
- 05:2005:20, 19 December 2023 diff hist +1 m Hemings family →Family tree: Standardize spelling of Fossett (two T's) to match numerous other articles where he, his wife and kids spell it that way. Tag: Visual edit
- 05:1705:17, 19 December 2023 diff hist −317 Burwell Colbert fix typo. standardize Joseph Fossett's (two "t"s) surname spelling to be consistent with his use, his wife's and his kids. Tag: Visual edit
17 December 2023
- 07:3707:37, 17 December 2023 diff hist +321 Talk:Pledge of Allegiance →Perfecting the pledge versions. Citation 1 conflicts with itself.: Yes, I say too much. Time to be bold and listen to others.
- 07:1907:19, 17 December 2023 diff hist +4,392 Talk:Pledge of Allegiance →Perfecting the pledge versions. Citation 1 conflicts with itself.: new section Tag: New topic
- 04:4704:47, 17 December 2023 diff hist +261 Grammy Award for Album of the Year Improve readability. Also listing 3 time winners before 2 time winners rather than as some lesser accomplishment that accidentally happens. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:4601:46, 17 December 2023 diff hist +1,097 Thomas Jefferson →Final days, death, and burial: Clarified the actions of Jefferson's will after reading and keeping Jon Meacham's cited pages but separated previous actions for Sally's older kids. Tags: Reverted Visual edit
16 December 2023
- 14:5814:58, 16 December 2023 diff hist +3,839 Burwell Colbert Contrast the UVA job assumed for Colbert in freedom and the real costs those freed faced to move anywhere else. Joseph Fosset and his wife had 10 children they conceived into slavery. Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 04:0904:09, 16 December 2023 diff hist +78 Talk:John Wayles →Skipwith brothers (Robert & Henry) spouses of Wayles sisters (Tabitha & Anne) respectively may be reversed
- 03:0103:01, 16 December 2023 diff hist 0 m Talk:John Wayles →Skipwith brothers (Robert & Henry) spouces of Wayles sisters (Tabitha & Anne) respectively may be reversed
15 December 2023
- 13:0013:00, 15 December 2023 diff hist +1 m Talk:John Wayles →Skipwith brothers (Robert & Henry) spouces of Wayles sisters (Tabitha & Anne) respectively may be reversed
- 12:5612:56, 15 December 2023 diff hist −5 m Talk:John Wayles →Skipwith brothers (Robert & Henry) spouces of Wayles sisters (Tabitha & Anne) respectively may be reversed: fix some typos
- 12:5312:53, 15 December 2023 diff hist +4,824 Talk:John Wayles →Skipwith brothers (Robert & Henry) spouces of Wayles sisters (Tabitha & Anne) respectively may be reversed: new section Tags: use of deprecated (unreliable) source New topic
- 09:2109:21, 15 December 2023 diff hist +252 John Wayles →Personal life: Add cited referene naming Tabitha Wayles husband. Also see talk page re possible flip flop about which brother married Tabitha and which Anne Tag: Visual edit
14 December 2023
- 16:2916:29, 14 December 2023 diff hist +1 m Martha Jefferson Restore letter dropped from Martha's name. Tag: Visual edit
13 December 2023
- 22:3422:34, 13 December 2023 diff hist 0 m Martha Jefferson →Thomas Jefferson: Mary (Maria/Poly) Jefferson had reached the age of 25 and was 3 1/2 months shy of being 26 when she died. Adjusted superlative uniquely reached by Martha (Patsy). Tag: Visual edit
- 16:2916:29, 13 December 2023 diff hist +3 m Geographical distribution of Italian speakers →Native and non-native speakers by country: add date as it exists on cited source Tag: Visual edit
10 December 2023
- 21:3021:30, 10 December 2023 diff hist +235 Pledge of Allegiance →Bellamy pledge: added sentence clarifying the impossible timing of Bellamy pledge published before written. Corrected the in line version of the original pledge but did not edit the box showing each version based on vandalism threat. Note the ushistory.org page cited #1 as the authority conflicts with itself. The true original version is on their page (near bottom) within The Youth's Companion, 1892 (perfectly typed) statement. Their first 4 versions are also wrong w comma after nation. Tags: Reverted Visual edit
7 December 2023
- 17:2617:26, 7 December 2023 diff hist +12 m Frank Munsey →Early life and career: fix typo missed in my major edit just submitted. Opted to improve language suggesting how an unpaid creditor might settle for control. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:1817:18, 7 December 2023 diff hist +776 Frank Munsey Full read through/editing, primarily reducing or eliminating run on sentences. Changes to improve readability, generally relying on facts already in the article. No new sources or citation this round. Tag: Visual edit
1 December 2023
- 00:1700:17, 1 December 2023 diff hist +2 m Water Resistant mark →ISO 2281 water-resistant watches standard: correct English typo current Tag: Visual edit
23 November 2023
- 08:3508:35, 23 November 2023 diff hist +2,086 List of EGOT winners →Scott Rudin: numerous edits to clarify when fully competitive EGOTS should be distinguished from the other 6 (Streisand, et al) and move closer toward one set of superlatives applicable to all 24. Tag: Visual edit
- 04:5604:56, 23 November 2023 diff hist +523 m Talk:List of awards and nominations received by Tim Rice Seeking guidance or skilled edit to separate two Jesus Christ Superstar Album of the Year Grammy nominations in subsequent years.
