User contributions for Chain27

20 October 2024

• 01:3401:34, 20 October 2024 diff hist −1 m John Haines →Career: correcting minor errors. There are many errors and confusions in this article. current
• 01:3001:30, 20 October 2024 diff hist −7 m John Haines →Early life: correcting a few phrases (missing words, extra words)

3 October 2024

• 00:1900:19, 3 October 2024 diff hist +3 m Scuppernong →History

2 September 2024

• 18:2718:27, 2 September 2024 diff hist 0 Edward Charles Pickering →Harvard Computers: This is still a confusing sentence, but clearly the word "added" was intended here.
• 18:2018:20, 2 September 2024 diff hist +1 m Edward Charles Pickering →Career and research: adding comma
• 18:1918:19, 2 September 2024 diff hist +1 Edward Charles Pickering →Career and research: "compared" is the better word choice here
• 18:1418:14, 2 September 2024 diff hist −4 m Edward Charles Pickering →Personal life: removing misplaced helping verb

5 August 2024

• 22:1522:15, 5 August 2024 diff hist −1 Kenneth Pobo →Awards and honors: correction to titles
• 20:2920:29, 5 August 2024 diff hist +1 m Kenneth Pobo →Career

1 August 2024

• 13:4913:49, 1 August 2024 diff hist +5 The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth →Book III: supplying a missing word

28 July 2024

• 01:5501:55, 28 July 2024 diff hist 0 Tooth-to-tail ratio When speaking of personnel, we deal with numbers, not amounts.

2 July 2024

• 16:1816:18, 2 July 2024 diff hist −1 m Margaret Farrand Thorp →Journalism and service during WWI: removing wrongly placed comma current
• 16:1416:14, 2 July 2024 diff hist −31 Willard Thorp →External links: removing the link to Project Gutenberg Project because it refers to a different Willard Thorp, the former professor of English at Princeton University.
• 16:0416:04, 2 July 2024 diff hist +4 Lou B. ("Bink") Noll →Biography: adding link
• 16:0216:02, 2 July 2024 diff hist 0 Lou B. ("Bink") Noll →Biography: correction to syntax

29 June 2024

• 18:5918:59, 29 June 2024 diff hist 0 Katherine Oppenheimer →Later life: correcting run-on sentence
• 18:5418:54, 29 June 2024 diff hist −2 Katherine Oppenheimer →Later life: "With" would suggest that he became famous at that moment; in fact, his fame had grown prior to the end of the way, and by that time, he was certainly famous.
• 18:5118:51, 29 June 2024 diff hist +9 Katherine Oppenheimer →Manhattan Project: clarifying: Oppenheimer (not his son Peter, subject of the previous sentence) bought the house.
• 18:4918:49, 29 June 2024 diff hist −7 Katherine Oppenheimer →Manhattan Project: simplification of phrase
• 18:4818:48, 29 June 2024 diff hist +1 Katherine Oppenheimer →Manhattan Project: Correction to grammar.

11 June 2024

• 17:3417:34, 11 June 2024 diff hist −6 Kenneth Pobo →Early life and education: removing a redundant word

7 June 2024

• 03:3703:37, 7 June 2024 diff hist −3 m Brian Kolfage →Guilty plea and sentence: removed extra word (basically, a typo)

23 May 2024

• 22:1122:11, 23 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Rock Island, Illinois →European-American Settlement: supplying missing apostrophe

16 May 2024

• 01:4201:42, 16 May 2024 diff hist +1 Zoran Đinđić →Political career: correcting typo: the period should be a comma because the opening clause ("Though ...") is dependent.
• 01:3901:39, 16 May 2024 diff hist −1 m Zoran Đinđić →Political career: "led" is the past tense of "lead"

8 May 2024

• 14:0314:03, 8 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Frank O'Hara →Poetry: typo
• 14:0214:02, 8 May 2024 diff hist +1 Frank O'Hara →Poetry: A comma must be placed in front of the quotation because the quotation (despite the fact that it begins with a relative pronoun) is a complete sentence, not a dependent clause.

7 May 2024

• 20:0220:02, 7 May 2024 diff hist +83 Diane Seuss →Selected works: publication info
• 19:5719:57, 7 May 2024 diff hist +19 Diane Seuss →Selected works: adding press for most recent book
• 19:5219:52, 7 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Diane Seuss →Selected works
• 19:5119:51, 7 May 2024 diff hist +41 Diane Seuss →Selected works: press info for first book

21 April 2024

• 14:3314:33, 21 April 2024 diff hist +2 Dido →Early accounts: supplying necessary commas
• 14:3014:30, 21 April 2024 diff hist +17 Dido →Early accounts: clarifications through punctuation and additional words
• 14:2614:26, 21 April 2024 diff hist +23 Dido →Early accounts: providing missing punctuation (mostly commas)
• 14:1814:18, 21 April 2024 diff hist +2 Dido →Early accounts: commas to clarify the appositive

20 April 2024

• 13:4913:49, 20 April 2024 diff hist −5 Tyndareus →Curse of the goddess: deleting unnecessary word

15 April 2024

• 13:4213:42, 15 April 2024 diff hist +1 DeSoto (automobile) →Predecessors: An offer is declined, not deleted.
• 13:2013:20, 15 April 2024 diff hist +2 m Judgement of Paris →Mythic narrative: Correcting punctuation.
• 13:1713:17, 15 April 2024 diff hist 0 Judgement of Paris →Mythic narrative: this rephrasing clarifies the sentence, avoiding the momentary confusion suggesting that Paris felt attraction for himself.

3 April 2024

• 15:1915:19, 3 April 2024 diff hist +8 Medea I've put the narrative consistently in the literary present tense (it had been mixed with past tense). I've also corrected some punctuation.

30 March 2024

• 15:3515:35, 30 March 2024 diff hist +46 Red Cloud →Great Sioux War of 1876–1877: providing wikilinks to pages of prominent people

28 March 2024

• 03:5603:56, 28 March 2024 diff hist −4 Buffalo wallow →In popular culture: correcting the title from "Childhood" to "Boyhood" current

24 March 2024

• 20:4920:49, 24 March 2024 diff hist +1 m Stratosphere →Formation and destruction: adding comma

23 March 2024

• 22:4322:43, 23 March 2024 diff hist 0 Karen Carpenter →Early years: correcting the idiom

22 March 2024

• 19:5219:52, 22 March 2024 diff hist −1 Blanche of Castile →Regency: minor grammatical correction

14 March 2024

• 21:3521:35, 14 March 2024 diff hist +1 Animal Farm →Plot summary: the added comma makes clear that it is Napoleon who falsely represented himself as the hero.
• 16:1416:14, 14 March 2024 diff hist −3 m Peter Abelard →Affair with Héloïse: removing superfluous word "in"

11 March 2024

• 14:2014:20, 11 March 2024 diff hist −1 m Euclid →Contents: "straight forward" should be one word
• 00:4200:42, 11 March 2024 diff hist +228 Philip Baruth →Political career: updating senate resume items
• 00:2100:21, 11 March 2024 diff hist +2 Lester M. Wolfson minor corrections to punctuation current