User contributions for JudahH

30 December 2024

• 20:5820:58, 30 December 2024 diff hist +8 m Ruth Chepng'etich clarifying ambiguous statement in lead par.

18 December 2024

• 05:3705:37, 18 December 2024 diff hist −23 m Caramel →Candy: removed needless words (including "the", belied by following sentence)
• 05:3405:34, 18 December 2024 diff hist +8 Dulce de leche Undid revision 1263710843 by JudahH (talk) undid mistaken edit Tag: Undo
• 05:3305:33, 18 December 2024 diff hist −8 m Dulce de leche "non-enzymatic browning" -> caramelization: both more familar and more precise Tag: Reverted

16 October 2024

• 20:4220:42, 16 October 2024 diff hist +11 Names of the days of the week flagged unclear reference to "the actual" seven-day week Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit

9 October 2024

• 01:2601:26, 9 October 2024 diff hist −10 Mpemba effect Not a scientist, per Wikilinked bio, but a schoolboy at the time and, in later life, a game warden. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

20 September 2024

• 06:2206:22, 20 September 2024 diff hist −81 Three-check chess more formal and clearer description

3 September 2024

• 01:1301:13, 3 September 2024 diff hist +8 Roger Norrington →Historically informed performance: "despite critical comment" -> "rejecting the common speculation" [that these markings were "miscalculated"] to make it clear that the opposing position was speculative, not based on critical analysis

26 July 2024

• 02:2302:23, 26 July 2024 diff hist −3 m Gordon Ryan →2023: The "-logy" in tetralogy refers to works of language

22 July 2024

• 01:1701:17, 22 July 2024 diff hist −5 m Ice Poseidon →Other ventures: deleted redundant word "both", which may wrongly suggest that individual losses are possible in a team match

25 June 2024

• 18:2818:28, 25 June 2024 diff hist +4 m Ludwig van Beethoven Wikilinked "opera" in line with other musical forms mentioned in the paragraph

7 May 2024

• 21:3921:39, 7 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Metafont Wikilinked "raster fonts" in introductory paragraph

3 April 2024

• 03:4003:40, 3 April 2024 diff hist +240 Loebner Prize →Criticisms: Added source that makes the aforementioned point clearer
• 03:3303:33, 3 April 2024 diff hist +51 Loebner Prize →Criticisms: clarified misleading statement ("whimsical conversation" is one example of a topic of a contestant's choice, not the only topic allowed by the contest)

14 March 2024

• 01:3401:34, 14 March 2024 diff hist −42 m Piano trio →The role of the three instruments: eliminated meaningless part of statement "[It is thought that] this practice was quite intentional on Haydn's part"—how could it not be?

8 March 2024

• 04:1304:13, 8 March 2024 diff hist +1 m Twig →Uses of twig: -> "...of twigs"

6 March 2024

• 17:0817:08, 6 March 2024 diff hist 0 m Pardes (legend) wording: "inverse" -> "reverse"

21 September 2023

• 22:0022:00, 21 September 2023 diff hist −31 m Shivon Zilis →Personal life: removed ungrammatical comma, along with the editorial interpretation ("despite criticism towards him") misrepresented as part of direct statement.

27 August 2023

• 12:1912:19, 27 August 2023 diff hist 0 m Procter & Gamble →"The Talk": "parents" -> "mothers": more precise, and gives the background for criticism noted in following sentence.

19 July 2023

• 12:4312:43, 19 July 2023 diff hist +14 m Damask →History: fixed minor redundancy and usage errors

11 April 2023

• 20:3620:36, 11 April 2023 diff hist −6 m Cape Fear (1991 film) →Plot: corrected idiom

1 February 2023

• 11:1311:13, 1 February 2023 diff hist +708 Talk:History of slavery →"Enslaved people": Reply Tag: Reply
• 11:0511:05, 1 February 2023 diff hist −664 History of slavery "Enslaved person/people" back to "slave(s)". Aside from being more verbose, "enslaved person" remains less common and has potential to mislead by implying that an individual was made a slave in his lifetime, rather than born into slavery. Reading the Talk Page, I found that the politically correct change is being imposed by an editor with an agenda but no consensus. Tag: Reverted

24 November 2022

• 19:5119:51, 24 November 2022 diff hist +451 Talk:Equals sign →"Equals sign" or "Equal sign"?
• 19:4419:44, 24 November 2022 diff hist −4 Equals sign "formerly known [as equality sign]" -> "also known": formerly implies that it's not known by this name at all nowadays, which overstates the case for a term that still sees occasional contemporary usage (per Google Books) and is included in at least two dictionaries (MW and wiktionary).

28 October 2022

• 05:3805:38, 28 October 2022 diff hist −80 Methuselah Removed two unreliable source tags, since both were simply offering straightforward mathematical calculations which can be verified by anyone with a Bible and a calculator.

16 October 2022

• 06:3706:37, 16 October 2022 diff hist +1 m Tak (game) →Reception: combined two sentences, removing incorrect pronoun in the process
• 04:5904:59, 16 October 2022 diff hist −5 m Andriy Melnyk (diplomat) updating lead sentence from present to past tense

2 October 2022

• 01:2301:23, 2 October 2022 diff hist −2 m Walking →Variants: grammar: "footwear" is a collective noun

12 September 2022

• 01:4701:47, 12 September 2022 diff hist +35 Jacob Have I Loved No reason to emphasize Jewish Bible, especially when, in fact, reference is to the Christian Bible—which is explicitly cited when the title reference appears in the book itself, at the end of Chapter 14.

8 September 2022

• 14:0714:07, 8 September 2022 diff hist 0 m Diagram →Diagrammatology: fixed typo

15 August 2022

• 07:5507:55, 15 August 2022 diff hist +1 m Anne Heche past tense

4 August 2022

• 09:0109:01, 4 August 2022 diff hist 0 m Firestorm →Background: decapitalization of midsentence common noun

29 July 2022

• 08:3108:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +147 Dark Ages (historiography) corrected mischaracterization of Petrarch's usage of dark ages (contradicted by both the cited source and the previous sentence of this Wiki article). Added a sentence to end of lead paragraph to give the alternative understanding of "dark ages" in proper context.

27 June 2022

• 16:4916:49, 27 June 2022 diff hist +9 Atlantis "fictional" -> "mythical": the former would appear to suggest that Plato invented the story himself, which, per the following paragraphs, is debated. "Mythical" is an accurate description in either case, since, if it wasn't mythic in Plato's day, it certainly is in our own. Tag: Reverted

18 May 2022

• 04:5804:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist −2 m Manic Pixie Dream Girl replaced incorrect "as per" (which means "according to", not "similarly to") with "like"

17 May 2022

• 12:0412:04, 17 May 2022 diff hist +307 Talk:Kansas City Shuffle →Neologism

24 March 2022

• 20:2520:25, 24 March 2022 diff hist −25 Jackal (The Day of the Jackal) →In other media: Not Patrice Lumumba, because in the scene where the assassin is being selected from among three men, the killing of Lumumba is ascribed to "the South African" rather than "the Englishman" (the Jackal) Tag: Reverted
• 14:3014:30, 24 March 2022 diff hist −2 m August 1 (film) →Plot: grammar
• 14:0114:01, 24 March 2022 diff hist +3 m The Day of the Jackal →Part Two: Anatomy of a Manhunt: "is able to identify" -> "identifies": the identification turns out to be mistaken, so displays no particular ability

28 February 2022

• 00:2600:26, 28 February 2022 diff hist 0 m Impossible Is Nothing (video résumé) →Other details: past tense

27 February 2022

• 04:1804:18, 27 February 2022 diff hist +1 m Erev Shel Shoshanim →English transliteration: added apostrophe to separate syllables to distinguish "ma'le" from the English word "male"

9 February 2022

• 22:5222:52, 9 February 2022 diff hist −51 Exploded-view drawing →History: no reason given for singling out the cutaway view from "many [other] graphic inventions of the Renaissance". It's still linked in See Also, so the interested reader will still find it.

30 December 2021

• 06:4006:40, 30 December 2021 diff hist −3 m Nick Szabo →Satoshi Nakamoto speculation: spelling

18 December 2021

• 23:4723:47, 18 December 2021 diff hist −8 m DNCE combined first two sentences to fix tense inconsistency

10 October 2021

• 03:0303:03, 10 October 2021 diff hist +1 m Like a Rolling Stone missing space

17 September 2021

• 16:5316:53, 17 September 2021 diff hist −22 Mia Hamm deleted meaningless qualifier: since men do not play in the women's league and vice versa, records in the respective leagues are incomparable

24 August 2021

• 14:2814:28, 24 August 2021 diff hist −12 Shadetree mechanic equivalent, but less clunky term
• 14:2614:26, 24 August 2021 diff hist +97 Talk:Handyman →Handy person?
• 14:2614:26, 24 August 2021 diff hist +188 Talk:Handyman →Handy person?