User contributions for User1678

21 May 2019

• 21:4021:40, 21 May 2019 diff hist 0 m Mustard (record producer) →Artistry: comma
• 21:3221:32, 21 May 2019 diff hist +48 Mustard (record producer) Moved the section about the production software that he uses from the "Early Life" section to "Artistry" also changed the grammar so it flows better into that section.
• 21:2321:23, 21 May 2019 diff hist +2 m Mustard (record producer) →Early life: Edited the wording in the first paragraph to help the sentences flow together
• 19:5919:59, 21 May 2019 diff hist −6 m Kelvin Benjamin →Early years: grammar
• 19:5819:58, 21 May 2019 diff hist +441 Kelvin Benjamin Dad is Jamaican and was deported back when he was two (ref. = official twitter)
• 18:2418:24, 21 May 2019 diff hist +515 Jamaican Americans Actors and Politicians
• 18:0818:08, 21 May 2019 diff hist +938 Jamaican Americans →Sports: Added runners, NBA players, NFL players, Boxers
• 17:5017:50, 21 May 2019 diff hist +3 m Jamaican Americans coding
• 17:4917:49, 21 May 2019 diff hist +84 Jamaican Americans I added "full or partial", because Chinese Jamaicans can also be mixed with black. Also, there are other races as well.
• 17:3917:39, 21 May 2019 diff hist +33 m Mustard (record producer) "Jamaican-American" (see previous edit)
• 17:3717:37, 21 May 2019 diff hist +663 Mustard (record producer) →Early life: DJ Mustard: Dad is Jamaican, got deported at a young age; uncle is parental figure
• 17:2417:24, 21 May 2019 diff hist +3 m KRS-One →Biography: grammar
• 17:2317:23, 21 May 2019 diff hist +12 m KRS-One →Biography
• 17:2217:22, 21 May 2019 diff hist +344 KRS-One →Biography: His father and stepfather are Jamaican. (ref.= NY Times Article (1989))
• 03:4503:45, 21 May 2019 diff hist +24 m DJ Envy →Personal
• 03:4403:44, 21 May 2019 diff hist +71 DJ Envy →Personal: Added a ref. (He just posted an interview saying that his wife is Chinese-Jamaican). Video starts at 37:00.
• 03:0803:08, 21 May 2019 diff hist −220 m DJ Envy Removed that he's Dominican. He's said over and over this is not true (also no source), he's 100% Black American. Also removed that his wife is from the island Dominica (no ref. either), she's JAMAICAN.

24 March 2019

• 01:0201:02, 24 March 2019 diff hist +163 Jamaica The CIA Factbook (reference) doesn't say "Afro" or "African" anything, it says "BLACK". Also, Black Brits aren't referred to as "Afro-British" they're called, "BLACK BRITISH", and this Wiki page is following British standards.

23 March 2019

• 22:2322:23, 23 March 2019 diff hist −5 Jamaica "Afro-American" is a slang/colloquial term used by Black Americans since the 1970s , when "afros" were considered a hip thing. That does not make it appropriate to describe any other group of Black people in this way.
• 21:5021:50, 23 March 2019 diff hist −5 Jamaica Jamaicans don't have Afros. Every single dictionary since the 1700s states that creoles are Caribbean/West Indian people who are a mixture of African and European (ie. Jamaicans). Please note the DNA studies of Jamaica and you will undertand why creole was placed here.
• 10:2110:21, 23 March 2019 diff hist −1 Jamaica reverted the infobox that was changed to "Black/African". "Black/African", is not appropriate for Jamaica or anywhere in the diaspora, Jamaica is a part of the Caribbean and not Africa. Also, the term "Black" already signifies something dealing with the African continent. The appropriate phrase for the Caribbean is "

12 March 2019

• 07:5607:56, 12 March 2019 diff hist +1,483 Marcus Garvey Reverted information of Marcus Garvey creating the phrase "Black is Beautiful" as well as the largest black movement that has been continuously removed from several articles by Malik Shabazz. The information has three authoritative sources (New York Public Library, Univ. of Illionois, and the History Channel) Shabazz has either removed info or added uncited info to other articles.
• 07:5007:50, 12 March 2019 diff hist +2,710 Black is beautiful Reverted to information that was removed by Mlik Shabaaz because the previous information that it was founded by Marcus Garvey has three authoritative sources (New York Public Library, Univ. of Illinois, and the History Channel) and the new information is not cited nor does it have any sources.

8 March 2019

• 10:4510:45, 8 March 2019 diff hist −1 m Black is beautiful →History: period
• 10:4410:44, 8 March 2019 diff hist +2,731 Black is beautiful Marcus Harvey led the largest movement in black history and created the term "Black is Beautiful" (refs: New York Public Library's Official website, Univ. Illinois's website, and the History Channel's website.) I had to remove the part abput it being created in the 1960s because thats not true, and so there is no point of leaving it there.
• 10:2710:27, 8 March 2019 diff hist +1,483 Marcus Garvey Harvey led the largest movement in black history and created the term "Black is Beautiful" (refs: New York Public Library's Official website, Univ. Illinois's website, and the History Channel's website.)

2 March 2019

• 20:5420:54, 2 March 2019 diff hist 0 m Jada Pinkett Smith →Family and early life: grammar
• 20:4020:40, 2 March 2019 diff hist +340 Jada Pinkett Smith →Family and early life: Her grandmother was born in Jamaica, not Boston. The ref. is her official Facebook, where she states that her grandmother was born there and pics of her with her family there during Thanksgiving

28 February 2019

• 00:5200:52, 28 February 2019 diff hist +1,153 Kofi Kingston Undid revision 885431998 by MisterJay123 (talk) Undid, because although wrestling is about characters, it was very dishonest, and caused enough shock that it was written about by several major media sources and caused trends all over social media. Tag: Undo
• 00:0800:08, 28 February 2019 diff hist +1 m Kofi Kingston →Controversies: quote
• 00:0300:03, 28 February 2019 diff hist +22 m Kofi Kingston small edit: He's not "African-American", but "Ghanaian-American". African Americans are those who are descended from American slaves. He was born in Ghana.

27 February 2019

• 23:2323:23, 27 February 2019 diff hist +31 Kofi Kingston →Debut and undefeated streak (2007–2008): readded the information that was removed by an unregistered IP address stating that Kofi has no Jamaican ancestry nor any links to Jamaica.
• 23:2123:21, 27 February 2019 diff hist +1,152 Kofi Kingston Readded controversies section that was removed by an unregistered IP address (Controversies: Kofi lied about being Jamaican and built his career on being a fake Jamaican.. BBC and Bleacher report article refs)

23 February 2019

• 18:5818:58, 23 February 2019 diff hist +711 Jamaica →Economy: In 2018 Moodys and S&P upgraded Jamaica (removed citation needed from Moxy and added ref from gov site and newspaper)
• 18:5018:50, 23 February 2019 diff hist +426 Jamaica I added an economic snippet into the intro (upper middle class, visitors). I notice that the other countries have that as well.
• 18:0618:06, 23 February 2019 diff hist +106 m Jamaica →Economy: linked to wikis pineapple, banana, dasheen, etc
• 18:0118:01, 23 February 2019 diff hist +557 Jamaica →Economy: removed previous info on 1998 and added 2001 and 2018 agricultural improvements w refs from the UN and Jamaican gov site
• 17:4517:45, 23 February 2019 diff hist −215 m Jamaica →Economy: removed double ref.
• 17:4117:41, 23 February 2019 diff hist +4 m Jamaica →Economy: *and
• 17:3817:38, 23 February 2019 diff hist −249 Jamaica →Economy: "In 1997 and 1998, nominal GDP was approximately a high of about 8 percent of GDP in 1997/98 to 4½ percent of GDP in 1999/2000" (removed citation needed by Moxy and added ref from IMF)
• 17:2017:20, 23 February 2019 diff hist −49 Freemasonry Undid revision 884559758 by Blueboar (talk)Undid the revision because its very wordy and also because it was still Jamaica's 300 year celebration as well (not only freemasonry as a whole) Tag: Undo
• 17:1217:12, 23 February 2019 diff hist +165 Jamaica →Economy: "From 2001, once it had restored these banks and companies to financial health, Finsac divested them." (commonwealth)
• 17:0917:09, 23 February 2019 diff hist +1,054 Jamaica →Economy: removed citation needed by Moxy and added more general info that took place during the 80s and 90s directly from the UK Commonwealth Secretariat website
• 16:5016:50, 23 February 2019 diff hist +316 Jamaica →Economy: Jamaica has established trade free zones, duty free importation, tax-free profits, and free repatriation of export earning (official Commonwealth site UK)
• 16:3616:36, 23 February 2019 diff hist +1,732 Jamaica →Economy: added the many awards Jamaica has won over the past 4 months for its improvement in tourism (including World Tourism Minister of the Year)
• 16:2216:22, 23 February 2019 diff hist +250 Jamaica →Economy: removed citation needed placed by Moxy (the previous information from the 90s is not verifiable at the moment, so I added something that is w a Journal reference from UWI)
• 15:4415:44, 23 February 2019 diff hist +148 Jamaica →Economy: a drought in the 90s devasted the agricultural industry and economy (removed citation needed by Moxy and added a ref from the UN Food and Agricultural Org also added "hurricane" which is also in ref)
• 15:3515:35, 23 February 2019 diff hist −1 Jamaica →Economy: replaced the most recent unemployment announcement from last month (that was removed by Moxy) back into the top paragraph
• 15:3115:31, 23 February 2019 diff hist +1,029 Jamaica →Economy: since the 1980s Jamaica has been increasing private sector role (removed citation needed placed by Moxy and added refs from Jamaica news and gov sites)
• 15:2315:23, 23 February 2019 diff hist +814 Jamaica →Economy: greater openness to new investment; private sector and divestment (removed citation needed by moxy and added refs from: Jamaican gov and news sites)