User contributions for Markdery

5 November 2024

• 18:2018:20, 5 November 2024 diff hist +7 m The Wicker Man →Plot: grammar fix: misplaced modifier current

10 October 2024

• 16:1716:17, 10 October 2024 diff hist −27 Dick Bush Removed "{{distinguish|Pubic hair}}." This is cute, but this sort of frat-bro, 4chan sniggering is inappropriate to an encyclopedia. The editor isn't serious, because the entry "pubic hair" doesn't even mention "dick bush" and the phrase isn't common, in any event. current

21 September 2024

• 14:0814:08, 21 September 2024 diff hist +3 m Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The editor means "education," not the awkward, nonstandard "teaching." current

13 September 2024

• 19:1919:19, 13 September 2024 diff hist +15 User:Markdery No edit summary current
• 02:3802:38, 13 September 2024 diff hist +5 m RealClearPolitics →2016 Presidential general election: Fixed grammatical errors, errors in punctuation.

12 September 2024

• 18:5518:55, 12 September 2024 diff hist +7 m Edgar Oliver →Personal life: One doesn't "reside on" the East Village, one resides *in* it. And "reside" is high-flown and antique; "lived in" is less obtrusive. current

11 September 2024

• 21:1321:13, 11 September 2024 diff hist +10 m Smash & Scatteration Gene Santoro was ID'd as "writer," a vague term; he was, more accurately, a music critic.

9 September 2024

• 20:3020:30, 9 September 2024 diff hist 0 m Ligne claire →History: typo
• 20:3020:30, 9 September 2024 diff hist +42 m Ligne claire →History: Added Charles Burns
• 16:2716:27, 9 September 2024 diff hist −1 m Charles Burns (cartoonist) →Comics: Fixed non-idiomatic use of "supports"; editor ostensibly meant "outlets."
• 16:2616:26, 9 September 2024 diff hist −4 m Charles Burns (cartoonist) →Comics: fixed ital
• 16:2516:25, 9 September 2024 diff hist +19 m Charles Burns (cartoonist) →Comics: He wasn't awarded a "Pew Fellowships"; he was awarded a Pew Fellowship, singular.
• 02:3602:36, 9 September 2024 diff hist 0 m Nightbitch added missing hyphen

8 September 2024

• 18:2918:29, 8 September 2024 diff hist +2 m Norman Spinrad →Controversies: Corrected solecistic use of "passages," by which the previous editor seemed to mean "scenes."
• 18:2818:28, 8 September 2024 diff hist +2 m Norman Spinrad →Controversies: Added missing words "in French"
• 18:2818:28, 8 September 2024 diff hist −1 m Norman Spinrad →Controversies: fixed typo
• 18:2718:27, 8 September 2024 diff hist −20 m Norman Spinrad →Controversies: "very much mainstream" is defensive in tone and, self-evidently, biased.

29 August 2024

• 20:3720:37, 29 August 2024 diff hist +35 The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon →Disability and commercialism: Fixed solecism (you can't "generate" probity; it's a quality you either possess or you don't); smoothed out awkward syntax.

27 August 2024

• 04:2604:26, 27 August 2024 diff hist −1 Trees and Undergrowth →Sous-bois genre: typo current
• 04:2604:26, 27 August 2024 diff hist +1 m Trees and Undergrowth →Sous-bois genre: Corrected "interior forests" (there's no such thing) to "forest interiors"

26 August 2024

• 20:2420:24, 26 August 2024 diff hist −373 m Into the Wild (book) →Cause of death: Rewritten to eliminate confusion about toxicity of seeds Tag: Reverted
• 20:2220:22, 26 August 2024 diff hist 0 m Into the Wild (book) →Cause of death: fixed grammatical error Tag: Reverted
• 17:5417:54, 26 August 2024 diff hist −211 m Pan in popular culture →Film: Eliminated repetition of LEGEND.
• 15:1315:13, 26 August 2024 diff hist +4 m Coen brothers →Personal lives: "Several" means "more than two but not many." McDormand has, in fact, acted in what most would regard as many of the Coens' films. "A number" splits that difference.
• 14:3914:39, 26 August 2024 diff hist +1 m Wandervogel →Origin (1895–1900): Corrected error:"Hermann," not "Herman"

25 August 2024

• 13:4713:47, 25 August 2024 diff hist +27 m Heart of the Forest →Plot: fixed punctuation, smoothed out style mangled by inexpert translation
• 13:4413:44, 25 August 2024 diff hist +1,266 Heart of the Forest →Plot: Expanded plot desctiption
• 13:3213:32, 25 August 2024 diff hist +716 Heart of the Forest Added plot summary

14 August 2024

• 15:0715:07, 14 August 2024 diff hist +8 m Bruce Springsteen →1975–1983: Born to Run and breakthrough success: Ungrammatical use of "less." One sells *fewer* copies of a record, *less* sand, salt, or whatever thing can't be broken into discrete pieces.
• 15:0115:01, 14 August 2024 diff hist −15 m Steven Van Zandt →Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Condensed
• 15:0015:00, 14 August 2024 diff hist −9 m Steven Van Zandt →Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Eliminated redundant "overall"
• 15:0015:00, 14 August 2024 diff hist −11 m Steven Van Zandt →Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Rewritten for style, clarity, concision.
• 14:5814:58, 14 August 2024 diff hist −10 m Steven Van Zandt →Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Eliminated redundancy: "a significant bulk" is redundant because writing the "bulk" of a band's songs is, by definition, writing a "significant" amount of them.

11 August 2024

• 16:1616:16, 11 August 2024 diff hist +2 m Fran Lebowitz →Writer's block and public persona: Edited for clarity and concision.
• 16:1516:15, 11 August 2024 diff hist 0 m Fran Lebowitz →Writer's block and public persona: Edited for clarity and concision.
• 04:0204:02, 11 August 2024 diff hist −2 m Jane Russell →Personal life: Replaced solecism "denoting" with proper usage ("noting")

10 August 2024

• 16:0616:06, 10 August 2024 diff hist 0 m Thomas Eakins →Teaching and forced resignation: Fixed non-idiomatic usage of idiom: the expression is "fine line," not "thin line."

29 July 2024

• 19:0619:06, 29 July 2024 diff hist 0 m AIDS and Its Metaphors →Overview: Replaced the solecistic "impacted" with "affected." The use of "impact" as a verb is corporate managerial-speak, to be avoided at all costs. current
• 19:0219:02, 29 July 2024 diff hist −8 m Paul Thek →Life and career: Rewritten to eliminate awkward sentence structure.

27 July 2024

• 16:3916:39, 27 July 2024 diff hist +2 Sean Hannity →Death panels: There is abundant evidence, well-documented by reputable news sources, that the term "death panels" is a tendentious, propagandistic term intended to sow disinformation, as this entry makes clear. (See, for example, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/health/policy/14panel.html. See, also, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-19-republican-death-panels_n_5ecd6290c5b6c7533fa6719b.)Thus, it should be identified as such through the use of quotation marks.
• 14:4114:41, 27 July 2024 diff hist −9 m Nightjar →In history and popular culture: Removed "and, uh," which isn't required by scholarly ethics and only distracts, from Sting quote.

21 July 2024

• 03:1003:10, 21 July 2024 diff hist +17 m The Man Who Went Too Far Corrected genre.This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a "ghost story"; it's a work of supernatural fiction, influenced by Wildean Aestheticism and British Decadence. current
• 03:0903:09, 21 July 2024 diff hist −17 The Man Who Went Too Far No edit summary
• 03:0803:08, 21 July 2024 diff hist −3 The Man Who Went Too Far No edit summary
• 03:0703:07, 21 July 2024 diff hist +2 The Man Who Went Too Far No edit summary
• 02:2202:22, 21 July 2024 diff hist +40 The Call (2020 South Korean film) →Plot: Rewritten for clarity
• 02:2002:20, 21 July 2024 diff hist −4 m The Call (2020 South Korean film) →Plot: typo
• 02:1902:19, 21 July 2024 diff hist +89 m The Call (2020 South Korean film) →Plot: Written for clarity, concision, grammaticality, style.

16 July 2024

• 00:3100:31, 16 July 2024 diff hist +2 m The Birds and Other Stories →Stories current Tag: Manual revert
• 00:3000:30, 16 July 2024 diff hist −2 m The Birds and Other Stories →Stories: possessive pronoun didn't agree with subject