User contributions for JohnFromPinckney

16 May 2024

• 21:3221:32, 16 May 2024 diff hist +2,093‎ Talk:NATO phonetic alphabet ‎ →‎Mystery formatting: new section Tag: New topic
• 21:0521:05, 16 May 2024 diff hist +2,300‎ m NATO phonetic alphabet ‎ Tweak tables toward WP:ACCESS and enhanced consistency. Rm unnecessary <small> treatments.
• 20:1220:12, 16 May 2024 diff hist +110‎ m NATO phonetic alphabet ‎ Rearrange pre-content templates per MOS:ORDER. Correctly mark notes as such (<ref group="Note">), not as refs. Fix "&c." per [MOS:LATINABBR]]. "U.S." -> "US" per MOS:US. Consistent MOS:DOUBLE quotes. MOS:DASHES

14 May 2024

• 23:3423:34, 14 May 2024 diff hist −310‎ Talk:Hoda Kotb ‎ Undid revision 1065245301 by 173.73.253.112 (talk). Rv unhelpful post irrelevant to article. current Tag: Undo
• 17:1017:10, 14 May 2024 diff hist −5‎ m The Homesman ‎ →‎Plot: Fix text where she "owns... ownership". MOS:GEOCOMMA. current
• 17:0217:02, 14 May 2024 diff hist +6‎ m Talk:The Homesman ‎ Fmt heading, rearrange sections to have oldest at top current

13 May 2024

• 12:5312:53, 13 May 2024 diff hist +91‎ m Sinking of the RMS Lusitania ‎ →‎External links: Fmt. dashes, title corrections
• 12:3512:35, 13 May 2024 diff hist −110‎ Sinking of the RMS Lusitania ‎ →‎See also: MOS:DASHES. Rm SS Arabic (1902), already linked (4 times!) in article, and American entry into World War I, mentioned in lede, per MOS:SEEALSO

11 May 2024

• 16:2116:21, 11 May 2024 diff hist +223‎ Sinking of the RMS Lusitania ‎ Sentences get periods, non-sentences don't, per MOS:CAPFRAG. Rm mention of Weird Nightmare as apparently non-notable. Caps and italics, e.g. for "Arabic crisis". Real alt text.

10 May 2024

• 21:4121:41, 10 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Fifth column ‎ →‎In popular culture: Somehow, " "''la quinta columna''"''.'' " is more formatting than I can digest; use {{lang}} template instead. current
• 21:1821:18, 10 May 2024 diff hist −462‎ Xiaomi ‎ Undid GF revision 1222587670 by JArthur1984 (talk); whatever the unexplained term"national champion corporations" means, it's not mentioned anywhere in the article's body, of which the lede is supposed to be a summary of the main points. Tag: Undo

9 May 2024

• 15:1315:13, 9 May 2024 diff hist −13‎ m Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) ‎ →‎Notable personnel: Alphabetize what's left
• 15:0815:08, 9 May 2024 diff hist −957‎ Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) ‎ →‎Notable personnel: From list of "notable" people, rm those not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article (incl. "David Weiss, test pilot", linked to attorney born 1956). This should simplify the sourcing of the list's [remaining] members.
• 14:5714:57, 9 May 2024 diff hist −10‎ Ronald F. Prater ‎ First quick blast of fixes and basic clean-up. Needs much more, both in wikiprose and ref citations (incl. source quality). current
• 14:4214:42, 9 May 2024 diff hist +82‎ N Talk:Ronald F Prater ‎ JohnFromPinckney moved page Talk:Ronald F Prater to Talk:Ronald F. Prater: Misspelled: WaPo obit uses "Ronald F. Prater", with period after initial; no indication anywhere of usage w/out period. current Tag: New redirect
• 14:4214:42, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Talk:Ronald F. Prater ‎ JohnFromPinckney moved page Talk:Ronald F Prater to Talk:Ronald F. Prater: Misspelled: WaPo obit uses "Ronald F. Prater", with period after initial; no indication anywhere of usage w/out period. current
• 14:4214:42, 9 May 2024 diff hist +77‎ N Ronald F Prater ‎ JohnFromPinckney moved page Ronald F Prater to Ronald F. Prater: Misspelled: WaPo obit uses "Ronald F. Prater", with period after initial; no indication anywhere of usage w/out period. current Tag: New redirect
• 14:4214:42, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Ronald F. Prater ‎ JohnFromPinckney moved page Ronald F Prater to Ronald F. Prater: Misspelled: WaPo obit uses "Ronald F. Prater", with period after initial; no indication anywhere of usage w/out period.
• 14:3314:33, 9 May 2024 diff hist −92‎ Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) ‎ Undid relatively recent unexplained and unsourced revision 1133471880 by 2601:14D:8203:94B0:208E:8F2C:B650:FC7E (talk) (which doesn't mention Orion, anyway). Tag: Undo
• 14:2614:26, 9 May 2024 diff hist +39‎ m Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) ‎ →‎Notable personnel: Responsive columns for longish (and unsourced) list. Decaps per MOS:JOBTITLES.
• 14:2514:25, 9 May 2024 diff hist −327‎ Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) ‎ Undid GF but unexplained and unsourced revision 1218942167 by Cockayne (talk). Yes, I know the other appearances are also unsourced, but that's no reason to make the situation worse. Tag: Undo
• 14:1814:18, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) ‎ Undid unexplained revision 1222146505 by 96.63.26.145 (talk); not an improvement Tags: Undo Reverted

7 May 2024

• 17:0917:09, 7 May 2024 diff hist +607‎ Heat Wave (novel) ‎ Yes, an actual source, cited as such (one-sided and self-serving though it may be). Infobox: format lists as lists. Clarify multi-layer situation somewhat in "Premise". current
• 16:2416:24, 7 May 2024 diff hist +34‎ m Tenspeed and Brown Shoe ‎ Replace hyphen w/ colon. Tweak table toward WP:ACCESS. Rm tiny and teeny-tiny formatting current
• 16:1516:15, 7 May 2024 diff hist +100‎ m Shawne Fielding ‎ Template+dates for Williams marriages. Decap "ambassador" per MOS:JOBTITLES. current
• 12:0812:08, 7 May 2024 diff hist −155‎ m Chase (1973 TV series) ‎ Infobox: Format lists as lists; MOS:CAPFRAG; num_episodes is for a link to *another* page, not this one (caused preview warning). MOS:DASHES. Rm unhelpful constraints from episodes table.
• 12:0712:07, 7 May 2024 diff hist −190‎ m Stephen Downing (producer) ‎ Many caps, italics, dashes, wikilink and ref cite corrections. Page needs much more attention. current
• 00:2600:26, 7 May 2024 diff hist −166‎ Talk:Periodic table ‎ Undid GF revision 1219405975 by 41.116.7.2 (talk); no intelligible contribution to development of the article. Tag: Undo

6 May 2024

• 14:1914:19, 6 May 2024 diff hist +89‎ m SS Arabic (1902) ‎ Dashes per MOS:ENBETWEEN. Decap common terms like "first class". Reuse named ref. Periods per MOS:CAPFRAG. Italics for ships' names (linked via handy templates). Sentence case for headings (good sources appear to *not* consistently capitalize "pledge" or "crisis". current
• 12:2312:23, 6 May 2024 diff hist −32‎ m East St. Louis massacre ‎ Consistent periods. MOS:GEOCOMMA. ELs: there doesn't seem to have been a "The Crisis Magazine", just a magazine named "The Crisis''. current

5 May 2024

• 20:3920:39, 5 May 2024 diff hist −152‎ Shetland Sheepdog ‎ Infobox: Format lists as lists; Rm {{small}} formatting from already small text, per MOS:SMALL. Rm bogus ref citing example.org. "Clem" is not part of Charlotte McGowan's last name. MOS:CAPFRAG. MOS:DOUBLE. Decap common nouns like "head" and "cheeks". No page number in cite to Hnilica's 600+-page book. Script-assisted date audit and style (still dmy) fixes per MOS:NUM current
• 19:2119:21, 5 May 2024 diff hist −83‎ Talk:Shetland Sheepdog ‎ Signing unsigned, but: Rm clutter of "Personal recollections" section and more personal gushing in the "Image data" section (which has nothing to do with Williamv1138's actual image data) per WP:NOTFORUM current

2 May 2024

• 23:4723:47, 2 May 2024 diff hist +93‎ m Xiaomi ‎ →‎Sanctions: Sentence case, not title case in heading. Straight apostrophes/quote marks. Date fmt fixes, ref expansions
• 23:1723:17, 2 May 2024 diff hist +79‎ Xiaomi ‎ Reverted good faith edits by 2607:9880:1A90:9E:D44D:7CB7:4EDF:B4E5 (talk): Rv unexplained removal of Android basis. Tags: Twinkle Undo
• 23:0523:05, 2 May 2024 diff hist −690‎ The Omen ‎ Reverted good faith edits by 75.172.3.243 (talk): Rv unexplained changes, not an improvement. Tags: Twinkle Undo
• 22:5822:58, 2 May 2024 diff hist −56‎ Tethering ‎ Short description shortened (79→37) per WP:SDFORMAT. Correct quote of Sprint terms, trim URL. Rm extraneous line-breaks in middle of text/refs. Decaps and ref cite fixes, esp. in Germany section. Date format adjustments per MOS:DATEUNIFY: yyyy-mm-dd for access/archive dates, established May 2009; mdy for prose and pub dates, est. late 2012.
• 21:5221:52, 2 May 2024 diff hist +529‎ Talk:Tethering ‎ Rearrange comment threads by date, oldest at top. Rearrange individual comments where they where incorrectly inserted inside others' threads. Add Header for oldest comment "thread". Correct heading levels (2x) from 3 to 2. Sign unsigned. Rm extraneous empty lines. current

30 April 2024

• 21:4121:41, 30 April 2024 diff hist +6‎ m Popular Science ‎ With ES from last edit: Downcase titles like "Editor-In-Chief " per MOS:JOBTITLES. Ref cite fixes. Glue together broken pgraphs. "Popular Science Australia" is apparently properly "Australian Popular Science".Tweak table toward WP:ACCESS.
• 21:4021:40, 30 April 2024 diff hist +102‎ Popular Science ‎ ta
• 18:5818:58, 30 April 2024 diff hist −222‎ m Umami ‎ Sentences get periods per MOS:CAPFRAG. Ref cite tweaks/param misuse fixes. Glue bits of broken paragraph (back) together.

25 April 2024

• 19:1919:19, 25 April 2024 diff hist −41‎ m The Omen ‎ →‎The Omen (1995): gr. Minor ref template tweaks.

22 April 2024

• 18:0218:02, 22 April 2024 diff hist +41‎ m Ava (2020 film) ‎ →‎Production: Avoid surprise/confusion when we later say it was "re-titled 'Ava". Also: MOS:NOTUSA current
• 17:3117:31, 22 April 2024 diff hist +3‎ m No Labels ‎ →‎2024 presidential ticket: Ital for newspaper. One-sentence "paragraph" attached to preceding (3-sentence) graph with related content.
• 17:1617:16, 22 April 2024 diff hist +5‎ m Death in Paradise (TV series) ‎ Fmt list as list
• 17:0217:02, 22 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ m Grace (TV series) ‎ script-assisted date audit and style (still dmy) fixes per MOS:NUM current
• 17:0117:01, 22 April 2024 diff hist +111‎ m Grace (TV series) ‎ →‎Home media: Tweak table toward WP:ACCESS. Alignment of data in columns
• 15:4915:49, 22 April 2024 diff hist +465‎ Grace (TV series) ‎ Infobox: Rm list_episodes entry to avoid preview error. Ref expansions and corrections (though not all these cites verify what's claimed, and some are dead). The novels get italics, but the episodes within the series shout get quotation marks. "UK" per MOS:ACRO.

19 April 2024

• 18:2118:21, 19 April 2024 diff hist −1‎ m Death in Paradise (TV series) ‎ →‎Spin-off series: Comma fix
• 18:1818:18, 19 April 2024 diff hist 0‎ Death in Paradise (TV series) ‎ Undid GF but unexplained revision 1219387719 by Franchisegeek (talk). We use sentence case for headings; see also MOS:JOBTITLES. Tag: Undo
• 18:1018:10, 19 April 2024 diff hist +7‎ m Chris Wallace ‎ →‎The Chris Wallace Show: MOS:RANGES, tense, cite tweak. current
• 18:0018:00, 19 April 2024 diff hist +5‎ m Chris Wallace ‎ →‎Debates, coverage, and interviews: Gr. Correction of Martha MacCallum link.
• 17:4817:48, 19 April 2024 diff hist −3‎ True crime ‎ →‎Books: Fix mangled citation of work by Shirelle Phelps; tagged because there's no page number (and the book is over 800 pages long).
• 17:3117:31, 19 April 2024 diff hist +189‎ m True crime ‎ Rm unneeded wikilink piping. Standardize mish-mash of date formats with script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM, back to dmy, established 2007 and stable to Nov. 2018.
• 17:1317:13, 19 April 2024 diff hist +106‎ m True crime ‎ Ref cite corrections/expansions, e.g. wikilinking of websites. "US" -> "United States" per MOS:US. Replace "#" per MOS:NUMBERSIGN. Double quotes.

18 April 2024

• 15:3615:36, 18 April 2024 diff hist +327‎ OpenText Quality Center ‎ Punct, caps, etc. Convert bogus footnotes to actual reference citations (which may or may not be usable, reliable sources). current
• 15:0515:05, 18 April 2024 diff hist −9‎ m UFT One ‎ Minor ref cite tweaks (esp. misuse of publisher=), replace "Archived copy" as title. Caps, punctuation, ref spacing. current
• 09:0809:08, 18 April 2024 diff hist −14‎ XING ‎ →‎See also: I see no relevance for BoardEx and have removed it from SA. current
• 09:0509:05, 18 April 2024 diff hist +161‎ XING ‎ Infobox: Format lists as lists; Rm {{small}} formatting from already small text, per MOS:SMALL. MOS:GEOCOMMA. Rm useless ISSN for NYT and similar cites. Some other ref fixes.Tweak table toward WP:ACCESS. Alignment of data in columns Tag: Visual edit: Switched

15 April 2024

• 17:5517:55, 15 April 2024 diff hist −50‎ YouGov ‎ Undid revision 1212897301 by 154.47.106.49 (talk). A change like this is non-NPOV and needs good, reliable sources. Tags: Undo Reverted
• 17:5217:52, 15 April 2024 diff hist −29‎ m Adélie penguin ‎ →‎Threats: Wikilink, ref clean-up
• 17:4417:44, 15 April 2024 diff hist −219‎ m Geothermal energy ‎ →‎Socioeconomic Benefits of Geothermal: Decap heading per MOS:HEAD. Fix new citations (rm duplicate, correct parameters).
• 17:2417:24, 15 April 2024 diff hist +575‎ National Research Centre (Egypt) ‎ Let the {{Official website}} template get the URL (www.nrc.sci.eg) from Wikidata for us. Rm unhelpful redlink. Fix instances of incorrect cite param misuse, esp. publisher=. Add source (primary, like all the rest, unfortunately) to finally support "14" and "109" claims. Group institutes (using Google Translate from Arabic) as listed in source. current
• 15:5015:50, 15 April 2024 diff hist −1‎ m Xiaomi ‎ →‎Since 2022: Replace weird levitating comma-like creature (，) with actual comma (, ).
• 15:4515:45, 15 April 2024 diff hist +45‎ Beyond Paradise (TV series) ‎ →‎Episodes: Mostly more c-e, punctuation fixes

13 April 2024

• 20:4920:49, 13 April 2024 diff hist −93‎ m Death in Paradise (TV series) ‎ →‎Home media: Correct cite params to names of (media-selling) websites, not domain names. Rm space before <ref> tag.
• 20:3620:36, 13 April 2024 diff hist +199‎ m Death in Paradise (TV series) ‎ Format list as list in infobox. Rm odd quoted italics for "BBC First". Decaps in headings per MOS:JOBTITLES. Tweak tables toward WP:ACCESS, simplify alignment coding. Periods per MOS:CAPFRAG.
• 19:1519:15, 13 April 2024 diff hist +2‎ m Beyond Paradise (TV series) ‎ Restore "whole new approach", edited 2024-03-24. Straight apostrophes, possesives corrections. Do we need to say "Anne's *male* companion"? Decaps per MOS:JOBTITLES.