User contributions for RHodnett
A user with 10,877 edits. Account created on 2 April 2007.
27 August 2024
- 06:0006:00, 27 August 2024 diff hist +592 Jerry Jones →Dallas Cowboys: Used "Inflation" template to compute and display inflation-adjusted amount that Jones paid to buy the Cowboys. Added statement that Jimmy Johnson was head coach of Miami Hurricanes when he was hired to coach Cowboys. Added "s" after apostrophe for possessive case of names ending in "s" (Jones, Parcells). Linked to articles about particular Cowboys' seasons. Replaced "VNY" airport code with "Van Nuys Airport" in photo caption. Added display text for cited references. current
- 04:0904:09, 27 August 2024 diff hist +1 History of the Dallas Cowboys →Origins: Inserted comma after subordinate clause. current
25 August 2024
- 10:4210:42, 25 August 2024 diff hist +61 1979 Dallas Cowboys season →Playoffs: Replaced hyphens with endashes in game scores and W–L records. Inserted apostrophes for possessive case as appropriate. Replaced spaces with hyphens in two-word adjective phrases (e.g., "12 yard line", "go ahead score"). Inserted commas as appropriate. In the sentence "The Rams decided to go for it instead and attempting another field goal", changed "and" to "of". Linked to article about Doomsday Defense. Other minor copyediting. current
- 09:0709:07, 25 August 2024 diff hist +39 1979 Dallas Cowboys season →Week 16 (Sunday, December 16, 1979): vs. Washington Redskins: Replaced hyphens with endashes in game scores and W–L records. Inserted apostrophes for possessive case as appropriate. Changed unnecessary use of "would" (e.g., "it was Ron Springs who would make up for his earlier fumble") when simple past tense of verbs was more suitable. Replaced spaces with hyphens in two-word adjective phrases (e.g., "34 yard line", "7 play drive"). Inserted commas as appropriate. Other minor copyediting.
- 07:2807:28, 25 August 2024 diff hist −7 Skip Bayless →Fox Sports 1 (2016–2024): Changed unnecessary uses of "would" (e.g., "He would leave Undisputed and Fox Sports 1 on August 2, 2024") when simple past tense of verbs was more suitable ("He left Undisputed..."). current
- 07:1507:15, 25 August 2024 diff hist +12 Ira Sorkin →Education and career: In the phrase "star shot-put of the track and field team", changed "shot-put" to "shot putter". current
- 06:4306:43, 25 August 2024 diff hist +217 Parry O'Brien →Biography: Don't capitalize the first letter of the word "Yoga". Reworded sentence about Ralph Rose winning consecutive gold medals for shot put in 1904 and 1908. Deleted stray right parenthesis. Replaced double quotes with single quotes within nested double quotes. Replaced spaces with hyphens in two-word adjective phrases (e.g., "six kilogram shot", "500 yard freestyle"). Inserted a couple of commas as appropriate. Other minor copyediting. current
- 04:5904:59, 25 August 2024 diff hist +96 1960 Summer Olympics →Broadcasting: Rounded to the nearest $10K the inflation-adjusted amount that CBS paid for the US broadcast rights. Used "US-GDP" instead of just "US" as the inflation index. Used "Format price" template to format the inflation-adjusted result of "Inflation" template. "Format price" displays amounts less than $1 million as numbers with commas inserted appropriately (e.g., "$700,000"), but displays amounts of a million or more as numbers of millions (or billions) (e.g., "$3.11 million"). current
24 August 2024
- 12:4112:41, 24 August 2024 diff hist +4 David Meunier →Television: Replaced hyphens in ranges of years with endashes. current
- 06:2906:29, 24 August 2024 diff hist +4 Jeffrey Lurie →Awards and honors: Italicized movie title. current
- 06:2806:28, 24 August 2024 diff hist +25 Lorenzo Neal Minor copyediting. Added display text for cited reference. current
- 05:5505:55, 24 August 2024 diff hist +26 Lorenzo Neal →San Diego Chargers: Minor copyediting. Fixed error in "citation" template.
- 02:2002:20, 24 August 2024 diff hist −59 Allison Hayes →Career: Italicized movie title. current
23 August 2024
- 02:0102:01, 23 August 2024 diff hist +18 Faraday Future →Stock Short Squeeze: Linked to article about Short squeeze. current
22 August 2024
- 00:3000:30, 22 August 2024 diff hist +2 Amy Stoch →Filmography: Replaced hyphen in range of years with an endash. current
20 August 2024
- 12:2812:28, 20 August 2024 diff hist −541 Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip Used "USS" and "ship" templates to refer to warships, in order to link to the articles about the ships and italicize the ships' names without duplicating text. current
- 11:0011:00, 20 August 2024 diff hist −247 Battle of Mobile Bay Used "USS" and "ship" templates to refer to warships, in order to link to the articles about the ships and italicize the ships' names without duplicating text. current
- 10:0010:00, 20 August 2024 diff hist +14 Cadwalader Ringgold Changed occurrences of USS Weazel (the 1822 schooner used in anti-piracy operations in the Caribbean) to USS Weasel and linked to the article about that ship. Replaced hyphens with endashes in ranges of years and page numbers. current
- 09:3409:34, 20 August 2024 diff hist −110 John C. Watson Used "USS" template to refer to warships, in order to link to the articles about the ships and italicize the ships' names without duplicating text. In the phrase "officers who had served in the Union armed forced during the Civil War", changed "armed forced" to "armed forces". current
- 08:3108:31, 20 August 2024 diff hist +20 Calvin T. Durgin →Biography: Linked to article about Operation Torch. current
- 08:1708:17, 20 August 2024 diff hist 0 Frank Jack Fletcher →Further reading: Inserted missing digit in Fletcher's birth year. current
- 07:0507:05, 20 August 2024 diff hist +32 Calvin T. Durgin →Biography: Used "USS" template to refer to aircraft carrier, in order to link to the article about the carrier and italicize the carrier's name without duplicating text. Linked to article about Operation Dragoon. Removed stray comma between a sentence's subject and verb.
- 06:2306:23, 20 August 2024 diff hist −179 Robert E. Dixon Used "USS" template to refer to aircraft carrier, in order to link to the article about the carrier and italicize the carrier's name without duplicating text. Italicized carrier's name when it appeared later in the article. Changed how the same reference was cited multiple times: now the reference appears in the "References" section just once but with multiple citations, instead of appearing multiple times. current
- 05:4505:45, 20 August 2024 diff hist +1 Bishop International Airport →Historic airline service: Fixed typo: "Aviaton" -> "Aviation". current
- 05:4305:43, 20 August 2024 diff hist +1 Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport →Accidents and incidents: Fixed typo: "Aviaton" -> "Aviation".
- 05:4005:40, 20 August 2024 diff hist +1 Stephen Latchford Fixed typo in short description: "aviaton" -> "aviation". current
- 05:3705:37, 20 August 2024 diff hist 0 List of shipwrecks in February 1943 →26 February: Fixed typo: "aricraft" -> "aircraft".
- 05:3505:35, 20 August 2024 diff hist 0 Lockheed Martin Space →Mergers and acquisitions: Fixed typo: "aricraft" -> "aircraft". current
- 05:3205:32, 20 August 2024 diff hist +3 Muniz M-7 Fixed typos: "aricraft" -> "aircraft"; "Aviaton" -> "Aviation". Replaced hyphen in range of years with an endash. current
- 05:2705:27, 20 August 2024 diff hist 0 Frank Jack Fletcher →Coral Sea: May 4–8, 1942: Fixed typo: "aricraft" -> "aircraft".
- 04:4904:49, 20 August 2024 diff hist −15 Robert L. Ghormley Used "USS" template to refer to warship, in order to link to the article about the ship and italicize the ship's name without duplicating text. Replaced curly quotes with straight ones. current
- 04:3204:32, 20 August 2024 diff hist +2 William L. Calhoun (admiral) Replaced hyphen in range of years with an endash. current
- 04:1304:13, 20 August 2024 diff hist 0 Gherardi Moved entry for Gherardi Davis from the main section to the "See also" section. The main section is for people with the last name "Gherardi". current
- 04:0504:05, 20 August 2024 diff hist +2 Alfred E. Montgomery →World War II: Replaced hyphen in range of dates with an endash. current
- 03:5803:58, 20 August 2024 diff hist +12 Gherardi Replaced hyphens with endashes in ranges of years. Italicized name of class of destroyer where the class name was taken from the name of the lead ship of that class.
- 03:4603:46, 20 August 2024 diff hist +3 John S. McCain Sr. →Naval aviation: In the phrase "proving assistance", changed "proving" to "providing". Inserted comma after subordinate clause.
19 August 2024
- 11:2911:29, 19 August 2024 diff hist +7 Timothy Dalton Italicized movie title. Replaced hyphen in range of years with an endash. current
- 10:4110:41, 19 August 2024 diff hist 0 Jimmy Cliff →1960s and 1970s: Capitalized the first letters of the words "egypt" and "islam". current
- 09:1009:10, 19 August 2024 diff hist +2 Michele Lee →Filmography: Replaced hyphen in range of years with an endash. current
- 07:3407:34, 19 August 2024 diff hist +320 Battle of the Philippine Sea Used "ship" template to refer to warships, in order to link to articles about the ships and italicize the ships' names without duplicating text. Added display text for a couple of cited references, one of which was just a bare URL. current
- 02:4702:47, 19 August 2024 diff hist +3 Leslie Griffith →Personal life and death: Inserted missing word "of". current
18 August 2024
- 04:1004:10, 18 August 2024 diff hist +2 List of NFL career quarterback wins leaders →List: Updated W–L records for Tannehill's career and for his time with Titans. Fixed typo in Tannehill's last name in "data-sort-value" parameter. Updated URL for cited reference for Tannehill's stats to be his PFR webpage instead of his footballdb.com page, so as to match what the display text says the source is. current
17 August 2024
- 15:5315:53, 17 August 2024 diff hist 0 Japanese battleship Kongō Don't italicize the ship prefix "USS". current
16 August 2024
- 03:3503:35, 16 August 2024 diff hist +113 Lynne Frederick →Marriages: In the "Inflation" templates that display inflation-adjusted amounts related to Peter Sellers's estate, used "UK-GDP" as the inflation index instead of "UK", and replaced the word "today" with a template that displays the most recent year for which inflation is calculated for that index. Used "cite web" template for cited reference. current
- 03:1003:10, 16 August 2024 diff hist +46 Lynne Frederick →1975–1977: Adult stardom: Rounded Frederick's inflation-adjusted weekly film earnings in the mid 1970s to the nearest £1,000. Used "UK-GDP" as the "Inflation" template's index instead of "UK".
- 01:4401:44, 16 August 2024 diff hist −3 Jan Sterling →Early life: Used "ship" template to refer to airship, in order to link to the article about the airship and italicize the airship's name without duplicating text. current
14 August 2024
- 06:5706:57, 14 August 2024 diff hist −1 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal →Prelude: Deleted space before colon. current
- 06:2706:27, 14 August 2024 diff hist −142 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Used "USS" template to refer to ships, in order to link to articles about the ships and italicize the ships' names without duplicating text. Used "sclass" template to refer to classes of ships, in order to link to the articles about the classes and italicize the class names without duplicating text.
- 04:1904:19, 14 August 2024 diff hist +54 Naval Act of 1938 Initial amount in "$Inflation" template was missing a trailing zero, so it was too small by a factor of 10. Used "Format price" template to format the inflation-adjusted result of "Inflation" template. "Format price" displays amounts less than $1 million as numbers with commas inserted appropriately (e.g., "$700,000"), but displays amounts of a million (or billion) or more as numbers of millions (or billions) (e.g., "$18.5 billion").
- 04:0304:03, 14 August 2024 diff hist −13 Battle of Midway →Impact: Used "sclass" template to refer to class of ships, in order to link to the article about the class and italicize the class name without duplicating text.
