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12:5112:51, 13 October 2024 diff hist −7‎ m 2024 Major League Baseball season ‎ →Rule changes: Remove the use of the future tense in the sentence about the "rule changes" that were scheduled to take effect as of the start of the 2024 season. As of "before" (and maybe even 'during') spring training, those "rule changes" may not have "taken effect" [completely]; but once the 2024 regular season had started, those "rule changes" were definitely in use -- 100%. So, now, it is not appropriate to use the future tense in that sentence. current
08:4308:43, 13 October 2024 diff hist +12‎ Jackson Pollock ‎ →Art market: Insert a wikilink (hyperlink) pointing to (the article about) Blue Poles, where the phrase "Blue Poles" appears in the first paragraph of this sub-section. See the article about Blue Poles for more information, including the facts that [1] "Blue Poles" is the name of an abstract expressionist painting by Jackson Pollock, aka "Number 11" [for the year 1952], and: [2] its purchase in 1973 by the government of Australia for US $2 million occurred "amid controversy". current

15:3415:34, 19 September 2024 diff hist +547‎ Panspermia ‎ →History: add a footnote
15:3215:32, 19 September 2024 diff hist +75‎ Panspermia ‎ →History: Change the wording to clarify the nature of the "pattern of coincidence" which "lead Hoyle to suggest" a certain hypothesis involving comets.

11:5611:56, 18 September 2024 diff hist +2,152‎ Robert F. Christy ‎ →Later life: Add a footnote right after (and, 'supporting' and giving more 'details' about) the episode when "[...] Christy publicly refused to shake Teller's hand".
10:3310:33, 18 September 2024 diff hist +4‎ Robert F. Christy ‎ →Later life: Convert the words "Project Vista" to become a ('wikilink') hyperlink, pointing to ([the article about] "Project Vista".

20:2820:28, 17 September 2024 diff hist −8‎ Kenneth Pitzer ‎ →Biography: CORRECT the "#fragment" portion (= the last part) of the ["wikilink"] hyperlink displayed as "thermonuclear weapons", at the end of the last sentence of this section of this article. The section of the "Nuclear weapon design" article that this wikilink was originally *intended* to point to, has apparently been RE-NAMED, at least once, (to remove the word "weapons"); and, now, it is named "#Two-stage thermonuclear". current

14:4414:44, 16 September 2024 diff hist +25‎ Proverbs 31 ‎ →{{Anchor|Verses 1–9}}The words of Lemuel (31:1–9): Include a wikilink cross-reference (pointing) to [the article about the use and meaning of the phrase] "queen mother", near the place where [the hyphenated word] "queen-mother" was already appearing in the text of this section of this article. current

20:1920:19, 15 September 2024 diff hist +2,985‎ Talk:Joseph Jacobs ‎ →TYPO (or other mistake) at the end of the "Later life" section: new section current Tag: New topic
19:0519:05, 15 September 2024 diff hist +79‎ Proverbs 31 ‎ →Hebrew: Add a wikilink, pointing to [the article about] "Niqqud", where the word "vowels" was already appearing in the text of the sentence about the "wikitable" in this sub-section -- the sentence that begins by saying "The following table shows [...]"]. Include a mention of the "[Hebrew cantillation] Trope Symbols", which are also present in (the Hebrew text in) that table. That newly included "mention" also has a similar "wikilink" cross-reference.

05:5805:58, 13 September 2024 diff hist +123‎ Basel III ‎ →US version of the Basel Liquidity Coverage Ratio requirements: Change the value of the "title" field in the "ref" tag for footnote no. "[15]" from "Archived copy" <--("see also" the question in parentheses, in the previous edit to this article, by which footnote no. "[8]" was updated.) to the phrase "Liquidity Coverage Ratio: Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards, and Monitoring". Also add a "publisher" field, with a publisher field value of "The Federal Reserve System".
05:3705:37, 13 September 2024 diff hist +686‎ Basel III ‎ →CET1 capital requirements: Change the value of the "title" field in the "ref" tag for footnote no. "[8]" from "Archived copy" <--(was that "title" phrase 'set' or 'chosen' by some robot? and/OR chosen to "go with" the "archive-url" field value, but NOT with the [now dead/'former'] "url" field value?) to the phrase (translated from ['Brazilian'] Portuguese to English courtesy of "Google Translate") "Understanding Basel III". Also, add a (translated) "QUOTE" field, for readers of English.

06:4206:42, 12 September 2024 diff hist +2,175‎ Talk:The Free Press (online newsletter) ‎ →"Dead link" in footnote "[16]": new section current Tag: New topic
04:2904:29, 12 September 2024 diff hist +7‎ A. G. Sulzberger ‎ →The New York Times: Add 2 "bullet point" formatting changes, to help to clarify the structure of a long sentence ... in the last sentence of this sub-section.

20:2120:21, 8 September 2024 diff hist +920‎ Talk:Bose–Einstein statistics ‎ →What about Superconductivity -- ? --: new section current Tag: New topic
20:0320:03, 8 September 2024 diff hist +1‎ Clostridium ‎ →top: CHANGE the singular noun "tract" (part of the phrase "intestinal tract") to use the plural word "tracts" instead. Technically (grammatically) speaking, perhaps the rules of grammar do not (absolutely) prohibit using a singular noun here, even though it is being modified by the prepositional phrase "of animals", where the word "animals" is clearly plural. HOWEVER, in this case, one can clearly see that the direct object of the verb "inhabit" includes both 'soils' (plural) and this word. current
17:5517:55, 8 September 2024 diff hist +4‎ m Section 51(xxxi) of the Australian Constitution ‎ →top: MINOR grammatical (and choice of words) correction: The singular verb "is" appears to disagree (in "number") with the plural (or... IS it really plural?) noun "terms". However, in this case, rather than changing the verb -- "is" -- to [the plural verb] "are", the best remedy is probably to use the (singular) noun "subclause"; partly because the noun phrase "the 'just terms' provision" -- (at the end of the sentence) -- is singular, even though it does include the (plural) word "terms". current
16:2916:29, 8 September 2024 diff hist +1‎ m J. D. Tippit ‎ →top: MINOR grammatical correction: The word "has" (a part of the verb [whose infinitive is] "to have") is required -- as is the word "remain" -- to "agree in number" ("agreement in number" usually involves being either singular or plural) with the subject [the noun phrase "The commission's findings", which includes the plural noun "findings"]. The verb "remain" is plural, so it already agrees "in number" with the [plural] noun phrase "The commission's findings". But "has" is [was] singular.

03:4303:43, 6 September 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Sex symbol ‎ →Sports: Move the apostrophe to the end of the word ([athlete's] --> [athletes']) since this noun is both plural and possessive.
03:3503:35, 6 September 2024 diff hist +142‎ Sex symbol ‎ →Sports: Insert a (parenthetical) mention of the annual Sports Illustrated "swimsuit issue", mainly as a hint to those readers for whom the mere mention of Sports Illustrated -- even along with the context, here -- might not 'otherwise' be sufficiently self-explanatory [e.g., previous to this change]. Also, include some wikilink cross-references, which might turn out to be convenient for those readers [and/or, maybe some 'other' readers].

12:1112:11, 4 September 2024 diff hist +2‎ Mycotoxin ‎ →Production: Replace the obsolete word "diminute" with the word "diminutive". https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/diminute says that "diminute" -- used as an adjective -- was already "[Not in use.]" way back in 1828! Also, https://wikidiff.com/diminute/diminutive says that the adjective "diminute" is obsolete, and www.dictionary.com says "No results found for Diminute". Even wikt:diminute says that, [as an adjective], it is: "(obsolete)"; though it may still be used as a verb.

10:4210:42, 1 September 2024 diff hist +928‎ Five Minutes of Heaven ‎ →Release: Fix a the ["{{dead link}}"] value of the URL in footnote number "[9]". That URL gave a "404", and the solution (to fix it) was not a different URL. Instead, an "archive-url", was used, ... which involved changing to use a "{{cite web}}". A first TRY of the URL https://web.archive.org/web/20121025223525/https://variety.com/article/VR1117999028.html?categoryId=1061&cs=1 gave (for a few seconds) a web page saying "Got an HTTP 301 response at crawl time"; but then it found its way.

04:0104:01, 30 August 2024 diff hist 0‎ Talk:Gab (social network) ‎ →Boycotts after pay policy change: REMOVE carefully, all of the changes that were UNintentional (if not malicious) during THIS edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AGab_%28social_network%29&diff=1242712122&oldid=1242682445 ; By doing so "carefully", that means: allowing the part that appears to have been *** intentional *** (and not malicious) to remain. No extra work is needed, to cause the "reversion" of the "reverted" edit, to still *cancel* the "insertion" of that edit.
03:3603:36, 30 August 2024 diff hist +1,514‎ Talk:Imperative programming ‎ →Different 'target', for a another wikilink: new section current Tag: New topic
02:3902:39, 30 August 2024 diff hist +17‎ Imperative programming ‎ →Rationale and foundations of imperative programming: Make a "partial improvement" ["P.I."] in the "non-" specific target for the wikilink that appears right after the words "... imperative languages, in addition, permit the", and right before [the next quoted phrase is only PART OF the rest of the sentence] the words "of complex expressions,". This "P.I." adds a "#fragment" suffix (namely, "#Computer_science") to point to a section [a partially specific part] of the destination article.

10:4110:41, 29 August 2024 diff hist +49‎ Climate change in Antarctica ‎ →Temperature and weather changes: insert a wikilink pointing to "Greenhouse effect#Negative greenhouse effect" in [the wikitext for] the caption of the diagram with 12 heat maps (one per month) named "File:Sejas 2018 Antarctica inversion.jpg", right where (the first word of) the phrase "negative greenhouse effect" was already appearing in the text of that caption. The last 2 words of that phrase were already a hyperlink so just 'linkify' the first word, (the word "negative").

23:0923:09, 28 August 2024 diff hist +105‎ Ice sheet ‎ →Marine ice cliff instability: Update (correct) the answer to a "time interval" calculation -- (the number of years from 12,300 years B.P. to 11,200 B.P.) -- in the last sentence of the second paragraph of this section. The numbers (-12,300 and -11,200) were quoted correctly from the reliable source (the journal Nature, from Oct. of 2017) of footnote no. [43], but whoever tried to subtract those two numbers (to get the difference), made a mistake. The answer is 1100 years; not 900 years.
05:3405:34, 28 August 2024 diff hist −1‎ HTTP ‎ →top: Change [the instance or "use" of] the word "obsolesce", to "obsolete" instead. Rationale: the word is used here as a transitive verb (a verb having a 'direct object'.) For some evidence that "obsolesce" is an intransitive verb, see [A.2] https://www.websters1913.com/words/Obsolesce ... to which there is a hyperlink from [A.1] wikt:obsolesce#Further_reading. For evidence that "obsolete" is a transitive verb, see (B.2 the MANY links from) [B.1] https://www.onelook.com/?w=obsolete
04:1904:19, 28 August 2024 diff hist +333‎ Talk:Gab (social network) ‎ →Boycotts after pay policy change: Ask whether this amount of 'waiting' [so far, roughly half a year] is enough time for us to "re-consider" the suggestion from "LonelyBoy2012 (talk)" of "03:16, 29 February 2024 (UTC)". That suggestion involved: adding a certain topic -- (so far, identified *only* by the URL of [what is probably] a reliable source) -- "to the history section". By the way, the list of "reliable sources", might be longer, now!
01:2701:27, 28 August 2024 diff hist +4‎ m HTTP ‎ →top: At the end of the first paragraph, insert a wikilink pointing to [the article about] "web browser", ... right at the exact place where the phrase "web browser" was already appearing -- (without any hyperlink) -- in the text of that paragraph.
01:1401:14, 28 August 2024 diff hist −1‎ m Web browser ‎ →top: UPDATE the sentence that used to say "In 2020, an estimated 4.9 billion people have used a browser.". Since that information is "as of" several years ago, it should be using some kind of past tense. I think this change (Changing "In 2020" to "By 2020", and changing "have used" to "had used"), counts as replacing an instance of the "present perfect" [tense], with an instance of the "past perfect"; or something like that; and it seems appropriate here, since ...the info is not "current".

17:4117:41, 25 August 2024 diff hist +12‎ Berdychiv ‎ →top: In the sentence beginning with "The city has seen continued conflict" and ending with "sustained during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022." (which is now the last sentence of the lede in this article ... just before the start of the "Name" section), insert the word "[beginning]" -- in square brackets -- before "in 2022". Explanation: While the "Russian invasion of Ukraine" did begin in 2022, the resulting military conflict has continued for (a plural number of) years. current

16:0816:08, 22 August 2024 diff hist +31‎ Steve Jobs ‎ →top: Add a wikilink cross-reference [linking] to [the article about] "Aldus Pagemaker" (in a parenthetical 'aside'), right after the place where the phrase "the desktop publishing industry in 1985" was already appearing in the text of the paragraph about the concept of -- and hence, [quote!], "the commercial potential of" -- inventing and mass-producing a very "easy-to-use" computer, including a "mouse", and having a "GUI".
15:0915:09, 22 August 2024 diff hist +1,287‎ Robert Friedland ‎ →All One Farm: Update (and correct ... e.g., the "title" in) footnote number "[6]" (i.e., the 'Isaacson' bio of Steve Jobs ... as in, 'Steve_Jobs_(book)'). Also, add some values for fields such as "publisher" and "isbn", and a "quote" field value that might seem long, but a lot was omitted from it. current

15:1415:14, 16 August 2024 diff hist +120‎ m User talk:Mike Schwartz ‎ →Love the edit comments: ":duly noted." current

23:0023:00, 15 August 2024 diff hist 0‎ Kamala Harris ‎ →Attorney General of California (2011–2017): Improve the correctness of the values of the "first [name]" and the "last [name]" fields, [in the "ref" tag] for footnote no. "[113]", by changing "first=Gordon|last=Larry" to "first=Larry|last=Gordon" instead. See the web page at https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porn-extortion-20140214-story.html [the value of the "url" field in that footnote] for clear evidence that "Larry" was the author's first name, ... NOT the author's last name.

08:2308:23, 14 August 2024 diff hist −6‎ Clade ‎ →History of nomenclature and taxonomy: Correct (or, "improve") an ambiguous hyperlink, by replacing a wikilink that was (incorrectly, in a sense) pointing to, or "linking" to, a destination ("Cohort") that was a "disambiguation" page. In fact, before this edit, that wikilink was pointing to [the ambiguous page] "Cohort" *** via *** a page that is explicitly a disambiguation page: "Cohort (disambiguation)". Better: point (or, link) instead, to: "Cohort (taxonomy)".
07:1307:13, 14 August 2024 diff hist +106‎ Pileus (mycology) ‎ →the lede: Add some introductory info to orient the reader as to what we are talking about (especially given the fact that there are so many [sorta] "technical" terms, such as "basidiocarp" and "ascocarp", occurring right in the first sentence of this article, where it is trying to explain what the word "pileus" means.) The word "Mycology" does appear -- (in parentheses) -- in the title of this article, but the info added now also tells the reader what *that* word ["Mycology"] means. current

18:4718:47, 13 August 2024 diff hist +1,062‎ Federal Prison Camp, Bryan ‎ →Notable inmates (current and former): Update the info in the "status" column, in the row (entry) for "Elizabeth Holmes". Also, add a COMMENT, near the "quote" field of the footnote -- (NOT displayed as part of this article ... not even in the footnote) -- stating that, clearly, "that 1000-year mistake [near "August 16"], *along with* the 9-year mistake [near "December 29"], are probably [both] TYPOs".
02:3002:30, 13 August 2024 diff hist +150‎ Heather Heying ‎ →top: Add an "archive-url" field (and value), and an "archive-date" field (and value), to the "ref" tag for footnote number "[2]".

05:0005:00, 9 August 2024 diff hist +123‎ Batya Friedman ‎ →top: Correct [or update] the value of the "title" field inside the "<ref>" tag for footnote number "[1]". The character string "iSchool Directory | Information School | University of Washington" might be associated in some way with that web page, (maybe even more so on [the 'access-date'] 2020-10-04 than ... more recently); but obviously, (as of Aug 2024), that web page is about "FACULTY > BATYA FRIEDMAN", so its "title" should be [more like] "Batya Friedman<br/>Professor<br/>batya@uw.edu".
04:2104:21, 9 August 2024 diff hist +3‎ m Batya Friedman ‎ →top: RESTORE (or insert) a missing word ("of") (right after the word "School") in the name of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. Exhibit A of reliable evidence that the word "of" was left out (or deleted) 'BY MISTAKE' is: the S.R.P. ("search results page") https://www.google.com/search?q=the+Paul+G.+Allen+School+Computer+Science+and+Engineering not only adds that word ["of"] back in, but also: it does NOT even offer you the OPTION of insisting on 'no of' vs. 'of'!

02:3602:36, 7 August 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Mount Tambora ‎ →Chronology of the eruption: Minor SPELLING correction ("stratispheric" --> "stratospheric"). For a reliable "source", see [e.g.], https://www.onelook.com/?w=stratispheric , which says (in part) [QUOTE] : (( "'''''Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the word stratispheric.''''' Did you mean: [https://www.onelook.com/?loc=dmapirel&w=stratospheric stratospheric]" )).

06:0206:02, 6 August 2024 diff hist +821‎ Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics ‎ →Suspected mistake: new section Tag: New topic
05:3505:35, 6 August 2024 diff hist +2,011‎ Talk:List of things named after Leonhard Euler ‎ →Suspected mistake ("finite" vs. "infinite"): new section Tag: New topic
03:3103:31, 6 August 2024 diff hist 0‎ Euler's formula ‎ →top: UPDATE the "For other uses" part of the "{{about}}" template instance to reflect [more] recent CHANGES, to the name of a certain section in the article "List of things named after Leonhard Euler", one section of which is supposed to be 'pointed to' by a part of that "{{about}}" template instance. Before this update, it was pointing to the "#Formulae" section of that article, which has apparently -- (since the last time that link worked as intended!) -- been renamed to "#Formulas".
02:5402:54, 6 August 2024 diff hist +2,432‎ Talk:Brahmagupta–Fibonacci identity ‎ →suggestion: maybe call it "associativity" vs. "multiplicativity": new section Tag: New topic

17:4917:49, 4 August 2024 diff hist 0‎ Birth name ‎ →Maiden and married names: Correct ("Consist" --> "Concise") a TYPO -- (or something; a word that was spelled wrong) in the "title" field of footnote number "[3]" -- a misspelling of the second word of the title Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage. This mistake might well have occurred due to a slip-up involving a not-very-intelligent *** "spell check" *** episode; ... how else to explain a mistake like this, which a human typist would be unlikely to insert "on his own"?
17:2117:21, 4 August 2024 diff hist +3,360‎ Judy Blume ‎ Add a footnote ( <ref name="Rosenfield-Aug-3-2024"/> ) which quotes [see the "QUOTE" field] from an article (by Kat Rosenfield) about Blume's books -- and their relevance, and their obsolescence -- (OR lack thereof) -- and [Kat R.] takes issue, (to some extent), with the conclusions presented in a recent book (by author Rachelle Bergstein) called The Genius of Judy. Of course both Bergstein and Rosenfield (and Blume) are entitled to their opinions, but so are the readers of this article.

08:1908:19, 31 July 2024 diff hist 0‎ Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ‎ →Genetic structure: Break up a "run-on" sentence -- (it did not have a conjunction, such as "and", in the middle) -- by inserting a period (and a capital letter) to convert it into two ['normal'] sentences.

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