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29 May 2024
- 18:5618:56, 29 May 2024 diff hist +6 Treaty of Paris (1763) →Exchange of territories: A little more precision in the relative time of the two treaties.
- 18:5418:54, 29 May 2024 diff hist +15 Treaty of Paris (1763) Added relative time of the Treaty of Fontainebleau to clarify the timeline.
28 May 2024
- 00:2700:27, 28 May 2024 diff hist +228 Talk:Mercator projection →Terminology in section Properties: Reply Tag: Reply
27 May 2024
- 18:1218:12, 27 May 2024 diff hist +274 Talk:Mercator projection →Terminology in section Properties: Reply Tag: Reply
- 16:4816:48, 27 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Talk:Mercator projection →Standard lines
- 16:4816:48, 27 May 2024 diff hist +5 m Talk:Mercator projection →Standard lines
- 16:4616:46, 27 May 2024 diff hist +1,658 Talk:Mercator projection →Standard lines: Reply Tag: Reply
- 16:3316:33, 27 May 2024 diff hist −6 Mercator projection →Properties: Reduced references to “standard lines” to just the introductory paragraph, to explain the graphic, and set up the equatorial tangent as the default for what follows.
- 15:5715:57, 27 May 2024 diff hist +194 Talk:Mercator projection →Terminology in section Properties: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:5215:52, 27 May 2024 diff hist +7 Mercator projection Undid revision 1225864821 by Jacobolus (talk) re “common terminology supportable by sources rather than made up alternatives” — “standard” is standard and I provided a [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-79824-5_15 | source]. When statements only apply to that variant the adjective is appropriate. Tag: Undo
26 May 2024
- 21:2921:29, 26 May 2024 diff hist +44 Mercator projection Undid revision 1225793784 by Strebe (talk) The entire point of using TM is to map north-south regions, so that phrase must remain to explain its use in general. “national grid system” doesn’t link to anything to explain what that means, whereas the US state plane system is a good example of such. “UTM” may be familiar to some but is not descriptive. Complications can be left to the linked article. Tag: Undo
- 16:4216:42, 26 May 2024 diff hist +954 Talk:Mercator projection →Terminology in section Properties: new section Tag: New topic
- 16:2716:27, 26 May 2024 diff hist +7 Mercator projection Undid revision 1225767681 by Jacobolus (talk) Understanding of readers is *paramount* in Wikipedia articles. The accompanying image uses the term "Standard", not "normal", so using the latter term is *confusing* and must be avoided except in brief reference. Jacobus asserts the latter is proper technical term, but there is no consistency, see e.g. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-79824-5_15 Tags: Undo Reverted
- 15:2615:26, 26 May 2024 diff hist 0 Mercator projection →Properties: Move the paragraph describing rhumb lines to just after the one describing conformal nature. Tag: Reverted
- 15:2515:25, 26 May 2024 diff hist +21 Mercator projection →Properties: Update paragraph describing issues at the poles to specifically refer to standard Mercator, and point “other applications” reference to the Uses section that describes oblique and transverse Mercator. Tag: Reverted
- 15:0015:00, 26 May 2024 diff hist −14 Mercator projection →Properties: “Standard” is used as an adjective in the adjacent image and therefore must also be referred to in the accompanying text. Drop reference to Mercator in a sentence that refers more generally to normal cylindrical projections (resulting from combining paragraphs). Tag: Reverted
- 14:5114:51, 26 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Mercator projection →Oblique Mercator: Improve language by keeping geographic location references together rather than being split by an image reference that refers to both of them.
25 May 2024
- 18:5018:50, 25 May 2024 diff hist −3 Mercator projection →Properties: A term *must* be used to distinguish the different types of cylindrical orientations from each other, as they are all introduced in this section. “Standard” is used in the accompanying graphic, but I see in the linked page on cylindrical projections that they are called “normal”, so there is a conflict in terminology here (especially since “normal” can also mean “perpendicular”). I’ll use “standard” here for consistency, although that can also be confused with “standard lines”.
- 18:1318:13, 25 May 2024 diff hist +609 Mercator projection →Uses: Added short section on transverse Mercator, to make it more complete.
- 17:3517:35, 25 May 2024 diff hist +629 Mercator projection →Properties: Add introductory paragraphs to this section that help explain its content and the image provided.
- 15:3715:37, 25 May 2024 diff hist −6 m Mercator projection →Oblique Mercator: Ensured straight quotes/apostrophes.
- 15:3115:31, 25 May 2024 diff hist +174 Mercator projection →Oblique Mercator: Corrected description of image: the axis is clearly *south* of the Arc, or its top would not appear in the end of the projection to the north of Paris; the distortion is not exponential, it is *logarithmic* ~ –Log[φ + π/2]; no need to say “axis of projection” because the axis is in reference to "oblique Mercator projection" several words before. It is important to describe the distortion to help interpret the image.
- 06:1106:11, 25 May 2024 diff hist +224 Mercator projection →Oblique Mercator: Corrected the description of oblique Mercator
- 05:3505:35, 25 May 2024 diff hist +62 Mercator projection →Oblique Mercator: Clean up and correct caption for the oblique Mercator image.
- 04:1904:19, 25 May 2024 diff hist 0 Mercator projection Moved new "Oblique Mercator" section to a better location.
24 May 2024
- 17:5517:55, 24 May 2024 diff hist +680 Talk:Mercator projection →Irrelevance of Non-Coaxial Mercator: Reply Tag: Reply
23 May 2024
- 19:1219:12, 23 May 2024 diff hist +248 Talk:Mercator projection →Irrelevance of Non-Coaxial Mercator: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:0819:08, 23 May 2024 diff hist +75 Mercator projection →History: Added a brief description of the rhumb line after its introduction into the article.
- 17:3817:38, 23 May 2024 diff hist +10 Talk:Mercator projection →Irrelevance of Non-Coaxial Mercator
- 17:3817:38, 23 May 2024 diff hist +24 m Talk:Mercator projection →Irrelevance of Non-Coaxial Mercator
- 17:3717:37, 23 May 2024 diff hist +858 Talk:Mercator projection →Irrelevance of Non-Coaxial Mercator: new section Tag: New topic
- 17:2617:26, 23 May 2024 diff hist −251 Mercator projection Undid revision 1225309733 by Kencf0618 (talk) This is not the standard mercator projection that is the subject of this article. It is a toy variation that is irrelevant to the understanding of that subject. The example image is also incomprehensible, unlike the immediately adjacent one. In addition it is not sized appropriately. Tag: Undo
- 17:2517:25, 23 May 2024 diff hist −2 Mercator projection Undid revision 1225311028 by Kencf0618 (talk) This is not the standard mercator projection that is the subject of this article. It is a toy variation that is irrelevant to the understanding of that subject. The example image is also incomprehensible, unlike the immediately adjacent one. In addition it is not sized appropriately. Tag: Undo
- 15:3415:34, 23 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Mercator projection →Distortion of sizes: “poles” are more generally understood than “axis”.
- 15:3315:33, 23 May 2024 diff hist −193 Mercator projection →Distortion of sizes: Removed "Mercator Extreme" image, as it is a variant of Mercator that sets the projection axis at an arbitrary angle to the Earth’s, and does not help in understanding the actual Mercator projection and its issues, even if it included an explanation (which it didn’t).
13 May 2024
- 18:5818:58, 13 May 2024 diff hist −13 Norwottuck Moved new orthographic variant into the existing list of them.
29 April 2024
- 15:2215:22, 29 April 2024 diff hist +299 Generative model Added into the introductory paragraph some less-technical language distinguishing “generative” models from “discriminative” models, copied from further down in the article.
2 April 2024
- 05:1505:15, 2 April 2024 diff hist −31 m List of poems by Robert Frost →West-Running Brook (1928): Remove duplicate # "Acquainted with the Night" current
1 April 2024
- 02:4402:44, 1 April 2024 diff hist +6 List of poems by Robert Frost →A Boy's Will (1913): Corrected title for "Ghost House” and added missing closing quote. Reference: https://ia804503.us.archive.org/16/items/aboyswill03021gut/boysw10.txt
23 March 2024
- 22:0322:03, 23 March 2024 diff hist +63 Robert Thurman Added Amherst College to his work institutions
20 March 2024
- 15:3915:39, 20 March 2024 diff hist +14 m 2009 Burlington mayoral election Added breaks to infobox info on final round of voting to improve its appearance. Tag: Reverted
- 15:3515:35, 20 March 2024 diff hist +75 2009 Burlington mayoral election Undid revision 1214692246 by Closed Limelike Curves (talk) The previous revision removed many clarifying comments. Further changes should be discussed on the Talk page. Tags: Undo Reverted
19 March 2024
- 20:2720:27, 19 March 2024 diff hist −4 m 2009 Burlington mayoral election →Background: Removed link to Kevin Curley, previously to a page that was deleted due to him being non-notable.
17 March 2024
- 00:1700:17, 17 March 2024 diff hist +1,633 2009 Burlington mayoral election →Effect on IRV in Burlington: Add latest information on its use in Burlington.
16 March 2024
- 23:2523:25, 16 March 2024 diff hist +499 Burlington, Vermont City Council Added description of city council seats and their relationship to wards and districts
- 18:5018:50, 16 March 2024 diff hist −12 2009 Burlington mayoral election Moved paragraph that was primarily about the repeal to the section “Effect on IRV in Burlington” from its location in the section “Analysis”, which it didn’t really enhance.
- 18:3418:34, 16 March 2024 diff hist −234 m 2009 Burlington mayoral election →Analysis: Removed dead and unarchived reference <ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Etnier |first=Carl |date=March 6, 2009 |title=Instant runoff was success |url=https://www.rutlandherald.com/articles/instant-runoff-was-success/ |access-date=March 17, 2018 |work=Rutland Herald}}</ref>
- 18:3018:30, 16 March 2024 diff hist +445 2009 Burlington mayoral election →Analysis: Expanded description of what a runoff election would have meant in this context, as well as what it meant to be a “spoiler” in the two cases mentioned.
- 17:3617:36, 16 March 2024 diff hist +52 2009 Burlington mayoral election Restore 99.9% figure for successful ranking of at least one candidate; restore reference to bullet voting, a useful term describing single preferences in many election systems; correct non-participation figure and provide accurate description of final round voting
- 13:5313:53, 16 March 2024 diff hist +52 2009 Burlington mayoral election Added back correct interpretation of vote percentage in the final round, and to compromise with those who only want to focus on ballots cast, I have included both percentages in the infobox.
8 March 2024
- 21:4121:41, 8 March 2024 diff hist −124 2009 Burlington mayoral election Undid revision 1212636257 by Closed Limelike Curves (talk) — Exhausted ballots are not the same thing as spoiled ballots, and the California gubernatorial election is not a ranked choice election. Tags: Undo Reverted
- 19:2119:21, 8 March 2024 diff hist −41 2009 Burlington mayoral election Undid revision 1212600263 by Closed Limelike Curves (talk) — percentages are appropriately based on votes cast, not the number of ballots; it is speculation that voters didn’t understand what they are doing rather than they really only wanted to vote for one candidate, and therefore needs a reference to supportive data to include this statement. Tag: Undo
2 March 2024
- 19:0819:08, 2 March 2024 diff hist −14 m Theodore Tiron →Dragon slaying: Fixed language current
23 February 2024
- 23:1723:17, 23 February 2024 diff hist −258 Gerard Kuiper Removed second, duplicate description of Project A119 and Sagan’s participation, but moved its reference to the first one.
11 February 2024
- 02:5802:58, 11 February 2024 diff hist +10 Kálmán →Surname: Added Hungarian nationality for Emmerich Kálmán to provide consistency with the others in the list.
4 February 2024
- 15:5715:57, 4 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Dean Phillips 2024 presidential campaign →Disputes with DNC and state Democratic parties: Moved a summary paragraph to the end of the section.
3 February 2024
- 16:2916:29, 3 February 2024 diff hist +3 2009 Burlington mayoral election →Results: Provided better, standard name for exhausted ballots.
18 January 2024
- 15:3315:33, 18 January 2024 diff hist +8 m Follett Corporation →History: Clarified who “Dwight” was.
15 January 2024
- 19:3319:33, 15 January 2024 diff hist +83 Francis Marion Smith In the introduction, moved his nicknames out of parentheses and into their own sentence, and added a short reference to Twenty-Mule-Team Borax to provide a quick explanation of his fame. Also moved the latter’s link there as its first use.
31 December 2023
- 04:4704:47, 31 December 2023 diff hist +48 Reapportionment Act of 1929 Added link to Congressional timeline Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses
- 04:3404:34, 31 December 2023 diff hist +57 Reapportionment Act of 1929 →Historical context: Corrected the timeline of control of Congress leading to the 1920 decadal census.
26 November 2023
- 06:1406:14, 26 November 2023 diff hist 0 m Minnesota–Wisconsin football rivalry Corrected total number of games to 133.
20 November 2023
- 20:3420:34, 20 November 2023 diff hist +331 Aqueous humour →Function: Added refractive index, corrected description of function.
- 20:1520:15, 20 November 2023 diff hist 0 m Aqueous humour →Drainage: Missing period.
13 November 2023
- 22:3822:38, 13 November 2023 diff hist −1 m University of Wisconsin–Platteville Richland →History: Remove excess comma.
- 19:2519:25, 13 November 2023 diff hist −3 m Stephen Cole Kleene Undid revision 1184967213 by Equinox (talk) Grammar was correct, so reverted. Read this without the adjunct as “Kleene he is best known as a founder” and you’ll see “he” doesn’t belong here. Tag: Undo
7 November 2023
- 06:2806:28, 7 November 2023 diff hist +1 m Jerrie Cobb →Career: New section, shouldn’t start with a pronoun.
18 October 2023
- 23:0623:06, 18 October 2023 diff hist +24 George Bird Grinnell →External links: Add back {{Find a Grave|5567}} reference, which is very useful and a WP feature.
- 22:5522:55, 18 October 2023 diff hist −140 George Bird Grinnell Undid revision 1180801277 by AndyAnderson (talk) Tag: Undo
- 22:5322:53, 18 October 2023 diff hist +140 George Bird Grinnell Undid revision 1180798764 by Nikkimaria (talk) Revert for many reasons: (1) standard location format includes links to state; (2) The separate section "Early life and education" is standard to include in biographies; (3) Wikipedia style requires straight quotes rather than curly quotes; (4) External links should be at the end of an article. (5) It's better to do unrelated changes separately and provide explanations when not obvious. Tags: Undo Reverted
- 11:2511:25, 18 October 2023 diff hist +24 George Bird Grinnell Brooklyn did not merge with New York City until 1898, so remove that inclusion from his birthplace. Add country per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Location_Format.
- 11:1911:19, 18 October 2023 diff hist +50 George Bird Grinnell Undid revision 1180684949 by Nikkimaria (talk) This change has nothing to do with WP:ELPEREN. The specificity is important (see next edit). Tag: Undo
1 October 2023
- 14:4914:49, 1 October 2023 diff hist +113 Indian summer Added relevant, illustrative photo.
30 September 2023
- 15:4015:40, 30 September 2023 diff hist +557 Indian summer →Etymology: Added quote of first use and comment on its implication of common usage.
- 15:1415:14, 30 September 2023 diff hist +10 Indian summer →Etymology: Removed confusing reference to a “letter” in the middle of a paragraph describing an “essay”; added approximate date of publication.
27 August 2023
- 20:1120:11, 27 August 2023 diff hist +4 John S. Mason →Civil War: Added link from existing reference to John_Hunt_Morgan.
19 August 2023
- 15:1015:10, 19 August 2023 diff hist +44 m Arden, Delaware Restore |official_name = Village of Arden, which is a standard infobox piece of information for a settlement, and [https://arden.delaware.gov accurate information]; remove excess comma
10 August 2023
- 02:0002:00, 10 August 2023 diff hist +1 m Leonard Russell Spacing current
7 August 2023
- 19:2219:22, 7 August 2023 diff hist +21 Reapportionment Act of 1929 Rewrote the opening paragraph to make the time line clearer, in particular on the origin of the 435-seat count.
14 July 2023
- 09:3009:30, 14 July 2023 diff hist +22 m Parable of the Sower (novel) →Adaptations: Clarified the reference "it" in the second paragraph.
30 June 2023
- 16:3016:30, 30 June 2023 diff hist +380 2000 United States presidential election Undid revision 1162693978 by 92.20.55.94 (talk) Undo vandalism. Tag: Undo
31 May 2023
- 03:4603:46, 31 May 2023 diff hist +4 m Flyover country Updated URL for the National Geographic Article.
25 May 2023
- 18:0918:09, 25 May 2023 diff hist −4 m William H. Hastie Undid revision 1156999283 by 164.82.32.13 (talk) It isn’t commonplace to write out full corporate names of fraternities, it’s unnecessary to understanding.
25 April 2023
- 02:4902:49, 25 April 2023 diff hist +19 Five College Consortium →Five College folklore: Clearly some different experiences about which schools Daphne and Velma represented, so write their associations more generally.
29 March 2023
- 15:5115:51, 29 March 2023 diff hist −71 m Mercator projection →Criticism: Removed a recent in-line comment that was unhelpful (“weasel words”) and an in-line comment asking for citations when several were already provided. Yes, I agree this section needs help due to its use of passive voice and lack of historical placement of this very real controversy.
22 March 2023
- 03:4303:43, 22 March 2023 diff hist +120 Talk:2000 United States presidential election →Texas Governor Portrait of GWB
13 February 2023
- 01:4001:40, 13 February 2023 diff hist 0 m Glendon Swarthout →Postwar: Publication date is 1975 (movie is 1976) https://archive.org/details/shootist00swar/page/n7/mode/2up
4 February 2023
- 21:5821:58, 4 February 2023 diff hist +28 m Gavin Newsom →2010: Split descriptions of lg-election from lg-tenure into two paragraphs.
- 08:4108:41, 4 February 2023 diff hist +16 Political parties and political designations in Massachusetts →List of current parties and designations: Demote Libertarian Party from “political party” to “non-party political designation” (just not getting enough votes to maintain!)
- 08:4008:40, 4 February 2023 diff hist −4 m Political parties and political designations in Massachusetts →List of current parties and designations: Remove non-existent link for Massachusetts Independent Party
- 08:3808:38, 4 February 2023 diff hist −86 m Political parties and political designations in Massachusetts →List of current parties and designations: Remove non-existent template shading for People’s Party and Natural Law Party
- 08:3608:36, 4 February 2023 diff hist +245 Political parties and political designations in Massachusetts →List of current parties and designations: Corrected MA-state abbreviations using up-to-date manual, provided reference
- 07:3907:39, 4 February 2023 diff hist −2 Political parties and political designations in Massachusetts Undid revision 1137366535 by 2600:1017:B83D:8E54:6846:A804:9823:D33A (talk) These are the official abbreviations used by the State of Massachusetts. See, for example, https://www.hubbardstonma.us/sites/g/files/vyhlif3276/f/uploads/enrollment.pdf Tag: Undo
3 February 2023
- 12:1212:12, 3 February 2023 diff hist +183 Logistic function Undid revision 1137211739 by 217.13.253.166 (talk) Undo previous politics-based edit to restore fact-based example. Tag: Undo
22 January 2023
- 04:2104:21, 22 January 2023 diff hist +8 m Talk:Logistic function No edit summary
- 04:2004:20, 22 January 2023 diff hist +307 Talk:Logistic function Reply Tag: Reply
- 03:4303:43, 22 January 2023 diff hist −1 m Infimum and supremum Merged first two paragraphs so that the tooltip for this page works with links on other pages for both "infimum" and "supremum".
21 January 2023
- 22:4822:48, 21 January 2023 diff hist +192 Talk:Logistic function Reply Tag: Reply
10 December 2022
- 02:3402:34, 10 December 2022 diff hist +562 Talk:Beryl Howell →To add to article: Asking for actual news.
28 November 2022
- 18:0118:01, 28 November 2022 diff hist +288 Political parties and political designations in Massachusetts Added a new paragraph on the requirements to be either a political designation or a political party (the latter was not present), provided a citation, and removed duplicative language.