User contributions for AndyAnderson
A user with 1,489 edits. Account created on 17 April 2006.
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. current
- 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.
