User contributions for TypoBoy
2 June 2024
- 16:5916:59, 2 June 2024 diff hist −2 Attack on Pearl Harbor →Military planning: Remove scare quotes around "Hull note", to be consistent with the rest of the article
1 June 2024
- 15:2415:24, 1 June 2024 diff hist −27 Displacement →Engineering: Mariners measure displacement under various standard conditions, but it's always simply the ship's weight, the number you would see if you could put the ship on an enormous scale current
27 May 2024
- 17:2417:24, 27 May 2024 diff hist −40 Clearview, Philadelphia When we say "east of Cobbs Creek", we're talking about the creek, not the neighborhood of Cobbs Creek, Philadelphia current
23 May 2024
- 22:4522:45, 23 May 2024 diff hist +4 David Raymond →Early life: add missing conjunction (to join the two objects of "making")
22 May 2024
- 00:2800:28, 22 May 2024 diff hist −20 Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple Undid revision 1224875891 by 141.155.7.246 (talk) reverting good-faith edit. The temple is in the downtown area, vaguely defined, but not in Center City, whose northern boundary is Vine Street. See the Center City, Philadelphia article. current Tag: Undo
20 May 2024
- 02:4202:42, 20 May 2024 diff hist −62 Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Philadelphia) →History: copy edit current
17 May 2024
- 03:2003:20, 17 May 2024 diff hist −2 Drainage system (geomorphology) Undid revision 1223447005 by 119.252.195.0 (talk) Undo change to section header, which made it inconsistent with all other uses of the term current Tag: Undo
- 03:1803:18, 17 May 2024 diff hist +10 Battle of Big Black River Bridge break up run-on sentence; remove redundant naming of the state in which Vicksburg is located
16 May 2024
- 03:2803:28, 16 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Tinian Naval Base →Early works: changing "leads from the scoop shovel" to "loads from the scoop shovel" current
- 03:1903:19, 16 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Frederick Kimble →Between the wars: typo fix. For I am. . . TYPO BOY!!!
15 May 2024
- 17:4617:46, 15 May 2024 diff hist −26 Displacement (ship) Undid revision 1223931505 by 2A02:587:9847:E800:D86F:7497:EC25:ADB1 (talk) Undoing good-faith edit to keep the lede sentence straightforward. See talk page discussion current Tag: Undo
- 00:4500:45, 15 May 2024 diff hist −113 UPS Airlines Flight 1354 →Accident: We've already named the airport, runway, and approach type. current
- 00:4300:43, 15 May 2024 diff hist −3 Instrument approach →Non-precision approaches and systems: Non-precision systems provide neither altitude nor glide path information. There is no call here for "and/or". current
- 00:0600:06, 15 May 2024 diff hist −111 Casio SK-1 →External links: dropping casiosk1.com, which is (now) a spam site
12 May 2024
- 16:2516:25, 12 May 2024 diff hist +145 Comcast Technology Center wording of height superlatives; see talk page discussion
10 May 2024
- 15:3015:30, 10 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Jake Virtue →Biography: add missing comma
7 May 2024
- 00:4900:49, 7 May 2024 diff hist −10 Rōnin copy edit current
- 00:4900:49, 7 May 2024 diff hist +1 Rōnin No edit summary
- 00:4800:48, 7 May 2024 diff hist +1 Rōnin No edit summary
1 May 2024
- 18:4018:40, 1 May 2024 diff hist −19 La Salute è in voi Fix dangling modifier (it is the book's title, not the "anonymous authors", that translates to "Health Is in You!" or "Salvation Is within You!")
- 02:1902:19, 1 May 2024 diff hist −1 m Press Your Luck scandal →Fallout: typo fix. For I am. . . TYPO BOY!!!
24 April 2024
- 18:1918:19, 24 April 2024 diff hist −9 Underscores (musician) →Early life: Change "San Francisco, California" to "San Francisco" for better readability. People mostly know what state San Francisco is in. Those who don't (if such there be) can check the info box or the (now) linked San Francisco article. It doesn't have a lot to do with Underscores. Tag: Reverted
12 April 2024
- 18:5318:53, 12 April 2024 diff hist +579 Talk:Depleted uranium →Density of depleted uranium: new section Tag: New topic
- 18:4018:40, 12 April 2024 diff hist +12 USS Oklahoma (BB-37) →Final voyage: fix dangling modifier -- it was USS Oklahoma, not "a delegation of nearly 500 Oklahomans led by Governor Roy J. Turner", that was "due to arrive on Memorial day"
- 16:1216:12, 12 April 2024 diff hist +18 List of Philadelphia placename etymologies →Streets: wikilink Mulberry
- 01:3401:34, 12 April 2024 diff hist −19 Mount Trashmore Park add missing commma; copy-edit photo caption current
10 April 2024
- 16:0216:02, 10 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Logan's Run →Plot: add missing article (Francis is "another Sandman" but is not "another friend of Logan" [because by "another" we mean "other than Logan"])
5 April 2024
- 17:1917:19, 5 April 2024 diff hist +1 Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II →A-X program: add missing comma
- 16:4916:49, 5 April 2024 diff hist −28 List of tallest buildings →Tallest buildings in the world
- 13:5013:50, 5 April 2024 diff hist −23 Breaking wheel →Punishment: We already gave the German term in a previous picture caption.
4 April 2024
- 02:5902:59, 4 April 2024 diff hist +398 List of tallest buildings →Tallest buildings in the world: Comcast Technology Center, at 1,121 feet, is taller than One Shenzhen Bay Tower 7, which we're listing
3 April 2024
- 15:3015:30, 3 April 2024 diff hist −2 Nautical mile "Such" has no antecedent here. (It's positioned as though it refers to "equator', but it's meaningless to speak of "such an equator"; there's only one equator.) We just mean "so that".
30 March 2024
- 02:0502:05, 30 March 2024 diff hist +856 Talk:Piano tuning →"Trichord"?: Reply current Tag: Reply
27 March 2024
- 21:2921:29, 27 March 2024 diff hist +175 Talk:Blue force tracking →Capitalization: new section current Tag: New topic
- 21:2421:24, 27 March 2024 diff hist +3 Jack Black →Early life and education: add missing conjunction (to join the objects of "worked on")
- 16:4516:45, 27 March 2024 diff hist −2 m Women Airforce Service Pilots →Legacy: remove unwanted comma. We want a comma between two nouns in apposition (e.g. "Another WASP, Florence Shutsy-Reynolds, began a social media campaign"), but not here between a noun used as a modifier and the noun it modifies.
- 16:4016:40, 27 March 2024 diff hist −1 m Women Airforce Service Pilots →Legacy: drop unwanted comma
23 March 2024
- 02:3902:39, 23 March 2024 diff hist +1 m Overbrook School for the Blind add missing comma (second of the pair setting off "Pennsylvania")
22 March 2024
- 16:0416:04, 22 March 2024 diff hist −2 Mario Lanza →Early years: Link reference to Abruzzi e Molise to the historical region rather than its two modern-day successors
21 March 2024
- 19:3419:34, 21 March 2024 diff hist +2 m Talk:Michael Foot →Should the "Foot Heads Arms Body" section be deleted?: ).
- 19:3219:32, 21 March 2024 diff hist +603 Talk:Michael Foot →Should the "Foot Heads Arms Body" section be deleted?: new section
19 March 2024
- 14:3914:39, 19 March 2024 diff hist +420 Talk:Michael Foot →Foot Heads Arms Body
- 02:3202:32, 19 March 2024 diff hist +2,535 Michael Foot restoring "In popular culture" section pending talk-page discussion
- 02:2802:28, 19 March 2024 diff hist +587 Talk:Michael Foot →Foot Heads Arms Body: hed cut off
16 March 2024
- 00:4500:45, 16 March 2024 diff hist +3 m Lottie Williams (actress, born 1866) The plural of "Williams" is "Williamses". Apostrophes are just for possessive forms.
14 March 2024
- 03:3603:36, 14 March 2024 diff hist +455 Talk:Piano tuning →"Trichord"?: Reply Tag: Reply
13 March 2024
- 20:3420:34, 13 March 2024 diff hist +383 Talk:Piano tuning →"Trichord"?: new section Tag: New topic
9 March 2024
- 03:1303:13, 9 March 2024 diff hist −9 Lurleen Wallace →Governorship, illness, and death: copy edit
- 03:1203:12, 9 March 2024 diff hist −4 Lurleen Wallace →Governorship, illness, and death: copy edit
8 March 2024
- 18:5418:54, 8 March 2024 diff hist −2 Grant's Canal →Background: copy edit: we have already established, in the lede, which civil war we're talking about, so we can use its customary name. Also, the city is most commonly called "New Orleans", which is why "New Orleans, Louisiana" is a redirect.
