User contributions for Mucketymuck
A user with 4,903 edits. Account created on 21 April 2018.
1 June 2024
- 05:1705:17, 1 June 2024 diff hist +1 m Lola Falana →Early life current
- 05:1105:11, 1 June 2024 diff hist −8 m Copacabana (song) →Background: Overstatement excised. current
31 May 2024
- 06:4506:45, 31 May 2024 diff hist −4 m Leona Helmsley →Tax-evasion conviction: Adjective misused as preposition. current
28 May 2024
- 16:5416:54, 28 May 2024 diff hist 0 Titanic Rv of editor landaani, who on 15 April altered “as a result of” to “after,” for purposes of “clarity.” His edit doesn’t clarify. I had altered “after” to “as a result of” on 5 January specifically to preclude a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. On 14 April landaani similarly changed “during her maiden voyage” to “on the ship’s maiden voyage,” but a pronoun is simpler and thus better. “[O]nly equipped with” is poor style. “Titanic shipwreck is here now” seems too informal prose. (See here, now!)
27 May 2024
- 19:5519:55, 27 May 2024 diff hist +11 m Riff Clarification. current
- 19:5419:54, 27 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Baker Street (song) Internal link added.
26 May 2024
- 07:4107:41, 26 May 2024 diff hist +66 The Italian Job (charity event) Passage augmented to clarify Freddie St George's part in the event; prose improved (e.g., "both" is an awkward modifier of "the UK and other countries"). current
- 05:5405:54, 26 May 2024 diff hist 0 m The Wrecking Crew (music) WP stylebook endorses use of present tense in reference to media works (e.g., “The Ed Sullivan Show is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971….”), but not their past creators (e.g., “Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books….”). “Era” is rather too grand, and arguably suggests too long a time. current
25 May 2024
- 18:3418:34, 25 May 2024 diff hist −5 m Adele Jergens →Early life and career current
- 18:3418:34, 25 May 2024 diff hist +9 m Artemisia Gentileschi →Rape by Agostino Tassi: Grammar improved.
- 18:1918:19, 25 May 2024 diff hist −9 m Germán Valdés “Some of his co-stars were [these] and many more” reads awkward. Accent markings are optional over capital letters in Spanish but not uncommon.
21 May 2024
- 04:1104:11, 21 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Guy Gabaldon No edit summary current
- 04:1004:10, 21 May 2024 diff hist −13 m Guy Gabaldon Summary reset to flow better.
18 May 2024
- 05:2705:27, 18 May 2024 diff hist +31 Amy Winehouse →Death: It’s incongruous to read, “ ‘she was found dead.’ Later, Amy called her doctor….” Tenses thus also reset to past perfect as needed for comprehensibility. Further, “[w]ith this, Amy’s last recorded words are known to be the former” is pleonastic. Also, Winehouse’s surname substituted, in standard scholarly fashion observed elsewhere in this article, for given name. And, presumably, it was Winehouse herself, not her bodyguard, who was drinking moderately at the time mentioned.
17 May 2024
- 06:4706:47, 17 May 2024 diff hist +25 m Dextrin →Uses: Comparative adjective ought to have a referent. current
16 May 2024
- 18:5518:55, 16 May 2024 diff hist −2 m Statue of Liberty →Construction: Daily calls of five months' duration, that is.
- 18:5318:53, 16 May 2024 diff hist +9 m Statue of Liberty →Construction in France: Clarification (for ease of reading comprehension).
- 18:4418:44, 16 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Statue of Liberty →Design, style, and symbolism: Internal link added.
14 May 2024
- 18:0218:02, 14 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Standard-bearer →Role: Referent of leading phrase corrected. current
12 May 2024
- 07:4407:44, 12 May 2024 diff hist −3 m The Song of Names Tenses corrected. current
- 06:4306:43, 12 May 2024 diff hist +8 m Diplomatic immunity →Pre-modern era: The word “era” is overused, often carelessly; strictly, our historical era is the common one that reaches back more than two millennia. “Period” fits the accompanying text, but there is no “pre-modern period,” named as such, in history (let alone a “pre-modern era”).
- 05:2705:27, 12 May 2024 diff hist +11 Demonstrative Per Merriam-Webster, yons is the plural form of yon; yonder has adverbial and adjectival meanings.
11 May 2024
- 06:0206:02, 11 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Stød →Phonetics: Clarification; “there is rarely a full stop” may be taken to mean that Danish speakers do use an actual, rare (in Danish) full stop. current
10 May 2024
- 18:4618:46, 10 May 2024 diff hist −4 Surface energy This seems a more direct way to put it, unless, say, a materials scientist objects.
- 05:1105:11, 10 May 2024 diff hist +2 m Calendar Girls →Plot: "[W]ith the calendars and with the proceeds" tends to run together. current
- 04:3704:37, 10 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Love on the Run (1936 film) No edit summary current
9 May 2024
- 07:3707:37, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Matrix management No edit summary current
4 May 2024
- 18:5518:55, 4 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Helsingborg →History: By convention, such a title is capitalized.
- 07:0307:03, 4 May 2024 diff hist 0 Tim "Ripper" Owens →Judas Priest current
- 06:5806:58, 4 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Alan Moore (drummer) No edit summary current
- 06:5506:55, 4 May 2024 diff hist +23 m Scott Travis Internal link added. current
- 05:5305:53, 4 May 2024 diff hist +15 m Ring Lardner →Early life: Ringgold was the son's first name, as the linked Wikipedia article shows.
3 May 2024
- 18:4818:48, 3 May 2024 diff hist −5 Human hair color Color of hair shafts added to supplement that of follicles, as the former are hair’s most visible part; Central Asians, twice called out in main list, separated, and repetetive internal link excised; red hair noted; weak “associated with” description strengthened. Also, prose improved (wording somewhat simplified; lists made more parallel and main list better separated; and adjective misused as preposition altered).
- 04:4904:49, 3 May 2024 diff hist −1 m Bayeux Tapestry →Events depicted: Declarative, not subjunctive, mood fits here. Tag: Reverted
2 May 2024
- 17:1417:14, 2 May 2024 diff hist +3 m Desi Arnaz Jr. →Career: Non-restrictive complements.
1 May 2024
- 17:5917:59, 1 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Ugo Ugochukwu Non-restrictive participial phrase.
- 17:5017:50, 1 May 2024 diff hist +14 m Mary Jane (shoe) →History: More appropriate internal link. current
- 17:4717:47, 1 May 2024 diff hist −9 m Mary Jane (shoe) →Etymology: Fine point corrected.
- 17:3717:37, 1 May 2024 diff hist +3 m Mary Jane (shoe) List made parallel.
- 17:2817:28, 1 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Michael Nesmith →Health and death: Adjective misused as preposition. Tag: Reverted
- 17:2317:23, 1 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Micky Dolenz →Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart: Adjective misused as preposition.
- 17:1917:19, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 m The Cuckoo (song) →Performers
- 17:1717:17, 1 May 2024 diff hist +22 m The Cuckoo (song) →Bunclody: Tweaks, with value judgment excised.
- 17:1617:16, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Luke Kelly →Early life
- 17:1517:15, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Luke Kelly Misplaced modifier.
28 April 2024
- 19:3919:39, 28 April 2024 diff hist −13 m Electro-Motive Diesel Prose improved.
- 06:2506:25, 28 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Love Canal →Health effects: More appropriate conjunction.
- 06:1106:11, 28 April 2024 diff hist +26 m Castoreum Clarification.
- 04:4904:49, 28 April 2024 diff hist −43 m Komodo dragon Prose improved.
- 04:3604:36, 28 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Reptile Prepositional phrase should end with a comma.
