User contributions for JohnFromPinckney
A user with 34,135 edits. Account created on 5 October 2008.
23 May 2024
- 17:3417:34, 23 May 2024 diff hist −7 m Talk:Murder of Garrett Foster →Requested move 17 May 2024: Tweaks per WP:LISTGAP. Fix my duplicated word "only".
- 17:2417:24, 23 May 2024 diff hist −86 Inderscience Publishers Use {{Official website}} to let Wikidata provide current URL. Reduce overlinking for place names and ''h''-index. Citation tweaks. Date volatile rankings claim. current
- 16:5916:59, 23 May 2024 diff hist −52 Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Also, remove (3!) unused section headings current
- 16:4816:48, 23 May 2024 diff hist −2 m Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes No, really: MOS:CAPFRAG. Sentence captions get periods, non-sentence captions do not.
22 May 2024
- 01:1701:17, 22 May 2024 diff hist −230 m Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes WP:CAPFRAG. Quotation marks for song title. Ref cite tweaks. Correct double indentation.
- 00:5800:58, 22 May 2024 diff hist −292 Talk:Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Undid unexplained revision 1143893479 by 2A00:23C8:75A7:9C01:C088:DED4:1DCD:2773 (talk); nothing relevant or helpful added. Also, while I'm here anyway, trim superfluous nowiki markup from Typhoid bomb's previous post current
19 May 2024
- 10:4910:49, 19 May 2024 diff hist +1,200 Talk:Murder of Garrett Foster →Requested move 17 May 2024: Clarification (I hope) of a couple of points
- 10:2710:27, 19 May 2024 diff hist −230 Gale Norton →External links: Rm dead links current
18 May 2024
- 12:5812:58, 18 May 2024 diff hist −45 Kathy Whitmire →After the mayorship: Fix grammar, eliminate redundancy re: where she taught. Clarify Annise Parker paragraph. current
- 12:2212:22, 18 May 2024 diff hist +807 Talk:Murder of Garrett Foster Formatting tweaks per WP:LISTGAP. +My own two cents (opposing)
16 May 2024
- 21:3221:32, 16 May 2024 diff hist +2,093 Talk:NATO phonetic alphabet →Mystery formatting: new section Tag: New topic
- 21:0521:05, 16 May 2024 diff hist +2,300 m NATO phonetic alphabet Tweak tables toward WP:ACCESS and enhanced consistency. Rm unnecessary <small> treatments.
- 20:1220:12, 16 May 2024 diff hist +110 m NATO phonetic alphabet Rearrange pre-content templates per MOS:ORDER. Correctly mark notes as such (<ref group="Note">), not as refs. Fix "&c." per [MOS:LATINABBR]]. "U.S." -> "US" per MOS:US. Consistent MOS:DOUBLE quotes. MOS:DASHES
14 May 2024
- 23:3423:34, 14 May 2024 diff hist −310 Talk:Hoda Kotb Undid revision 1065245301 by 173.73.253.112 (talk). Rv unhelpful post irrelevant to article. current Tag: Undo
- 17:1017:10, 14 May 2024 diff hist −5 m The Homesman →Plot: Fix text where she "owns... ownership". MOS:GEOCOMMA. current
- 17:0217:02, 14 May 2024 diff hist +6 m Talk:The Homesman Fmt heading, rearrange sections to have oldest at top current
13 May 2024
- 12:5312:53, 13 May 2024 diff hist +91 m Sinking of the RMS Lusitania →External links: Fmt. dashes, title corrections
- 12:3512:35, 13 May 2024 diff hist −110 Sinking of the RMS Lusitania →See also: MOS:DASHES. Rm SS Arabic (1902), already linked (4 times!) in article, and American entry into World War I, mentioned in lede, per MOS:SEEALSO
11 May 2024
- 16:2116:21, 11 May 2024 diff hist +223 Sinking of the RMS Lusitania Sentences get periods, non-sentences don't, per MOS:CAPFRAG. Rm mention of Weird Nightmare as apparently non-notable. Caps and italics, e.g. for "Arabic crisis". Real alt text.
10 May 2024
- 21:4121:41, 10 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Fifth column →In popular culture: Somehow, " "''la quinta columna''"''.'' " is more formatting than I can digest; use {{lang}} template instead.
- 21:1821:18, 10 May 2024 diff hist −462 Xiaomi Undid GF revision 1222587670 by JArthur1984 (talk); whatever the unexplained term"national champion corporations" means, it's not mentioned anywhere in the article's body, of which the lede is supposed to be a summary of the main points. Tag: Undo
9 May 2024
- 15:1315:13, 9 May 2024 diff hist −13 m Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) →Notable personnel: Alphabetize what's left
- 15:0815:08, 9 May 2024 diff hist −957 Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) →Notable personnel: From list of "notable" people, rm those not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article (incl. "David Weiss, test pilot", linked to attorney born 1956). This should simplify the sourcing of the list's [remaining] members.
- 14:5714:57, 9 May 2024 diff hist −10 Ronald F. Prater First quick blast of fixes and basic clean-up. Needs much more, both in wikiprose and ref citations (incl. source quality). current
- 14:4214:42, 9 May 2024 diff hist +82 N Talk:Ronald F Prater JohnFromPinckney moved page Talk:Ronald F Prater to Talk:Ronald F. Prater: Misspelled: WaPo obit uses "Ronald F. Prater", with period after initial; no indication anywhere of usage w/out period. current Tag: New redirect
- 14:4214:42, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Talk:Ronald F. Prater JohnFromPinckney moved page Talk:Ronald F Prater to Talk:Ronald F. Prater: Misspelled: WaPo obit uses "Ronald F. Prater", with period after initial; no indication anywhere of usage w/out period. current
- 14:4214:42, 9 May 2024 diff hist +77 N Ronald F Prater JohnFromPinckney moved page Ronald F Prater to Ronald F. Prater: Misspelled: WaPo obit uses "Ronald F. Prater", with period after initial; no indication anywhere of usage w/out period. current Tag: New redirect
- 14:4214:42, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Ronald F. Prater JohnFromPinckney moved page Ronald F Prater to Ronald F. Prater: Misspelled: WaPo obit uses "Ronald F. Prater", with period after initial; no indication anywhere of usage w/out period.
- 14:3314:33, 9 May 2024 diff hist −92 Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) Undid relatively recent unexplained and unsourced revision 1133471880 by 2601:14D:8203:94B0:208E:8F2C:B650:FC7E (talk) (which doesn't mention Orion, anyway). Tag: Undo
- 14:2614:26, 9 May 2024 diff hist +39 m Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) →Notable personnel: Responsive columns for longish (and unsourced) list. Decaps per MOS:JOBTITLES.
- 14:2514:25, 9 May 2024 diff hist −327 Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) Undid GF but unexplained and unsourced revision 1218942167 by Cockayne (talk). Yes, I know the other appearances are also unsourced, but that's no reason to make the situation worse. Tag: Undo
- 14:1814:18, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0 Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) Undid unexplained revision 1222146505 by 96.63.26.145 (talk); not an improvement Tags: Undo Reverted
7 May 2024
- 17:0917:09, 7 May 2024 diff hist +607 Heat Wave (novel) Yes, an actual source, cited as such (one-sided and self-serving though it may be). Infobox: format lists as lists. Clarify multi-layer situation somewhat in "Premise". current
- 16:2416:24, 7 May 2024 diff hist +34 m Tenspeed and Brown Shoe Replace hyphen w/ colon. Tweak table toward WP:ACCESS. Rm tiny and teeny-tiny formatting current
- 16:1516:15, 7 May 2024 diff hist +100 m Shawne Fielding Template+dates for Williams marriages. Decap "ambassador" per MOS:JOBTITLES. current
- 12:0812:08, 7 May 2024 diff hist −155 m Chase (1973 TV series) Infobox: Format lists as lists; MOS:CAPFRAG; num_episodes is for a link to *another* page, not this one (caused preview warning). MOS:DASHES. Rm unhelpful constraints from episodes table.
- 12:0712:07, 7 May 2024 diff hist −190 m Stephen Downing (producer) Many caps, italics, dashes, wikilink and ref cite corrections. Page needs much more attention. current
- 00:2600:26, 7 May 2024 diff hist −166 Talk:Periodic table Undid GF revision 1219405975 by 41.116.7.2 (talk); no intelligible contribution to development of the article. Tag: Undo
6 May 2024
- 14:1914:19, 6 May 2024 diff hist +89 m SS Arabic (1902) Dashes per MOS:ENBETWEEN. Decap common terms like "first class". Reuse named ref. Periods per MOS:CAPFRAG. Italics for ships' names (linked via handy templates). Sentence case for headings (good sources appear to *not* consistently capitalize "pledge" or "crisis". current
- 12:2312:23, 6 May 2024 diff hist −32 m East St. Louis massacre Consistent periods. MOS:GEOCOMMA. ELs: there doesn't seem to have been a "The Crisis Magazine", just a magazine named "The Crisis''. current
5 May 2024
- 20:3920:39, 5 May 2024 diff hist −152 Shetland Sheepdog Infobox: Format lists as lists; Rm {{small}} formatting from already small text, per MOS:SMALL. Rm bogus ref citing example.org. "Clem" is not part of Charlotte McGowan's last name. MOS:CAPFRAG. MOS:DOUBLE. Decap common nouns like "head" and "cheeks". No page number in cite to Hnilica's 600+-page book. Script-assisted date audit and style (still dmy) fixes per MOS:NUM
- 19:2119:21, 5 May 2024 diff hist −83 Talk:Shetland Sheepdog Signing unsigned, but: Rm clutter of "Personal recollections" section and more personal gushing in the "Image data" section (which has nothing to do with Williamv1138's actual image data) per WP:NOTFORUM current
2 May 2024
- 23:4723:47, 2 May 2024 diff hist +93 m Xiaomi →Sanctions: Sentence case, not title case in heading. Straight apostrophes/quote marks. Date fmt fixes, ref expansions
- 23:1723:17, 2 May 2024 diff hist +79 Xiaomi Reverted good faith edits by 2607:9880:1A90:9E:D44D:7CB7:4EDF:B4E5 (talk): Rv unexplained removal of Android basis. Tags: Twinkle Undo
- 23:0523:05, 2 May 2024 diff hist −690 The Omen Reverted good faith edits by 75.172.3.243 (talk): Rv unexplained changes, not an improvement. Tags: Twinkle Undo
- 22:5822:58, 2 May 2024 diff hist −56 Tethering Short description shortened (79→37) per WP:SDFORMAT. Correct quote of Sprint terms, trim URL. Rm extraneous line-breaks in middle of text/refs. Decaps and ref cite fixes, esp. in Germany section. Date format adjustments per MOS:DATEUNIFY: yyyy-mm-dd for access/archive dates, established May 2009; mdy for prose and pub dates, est. late 2012.
- 21:5221:52, 2 May 2024 diff hist +529 Talk:Tethering Rearrange comment threads by date, oldest at top. Rearrange individual comments where they where incorrectly inserted inside others' threads. Add Header for oldest comment "thread". Correct heading levels (2x) from 3 to 2. Sign unsigned. Rm extraneous empty lines. current
30 April 2024
- 21:4121:41, 30 April 2024 diff hist +6 m Popular Science With ES from last edit: Downcase titles like "Editor-In-Chief " per MOS:JOBTITLES. Ref cite fixes. Glue together broken pgraphs. "Popular Science Australia" is apparently properly "Australian Popular Science".Tweak table toward WP:ACCESS.
- 21:4021:40, 30 April 2024 diff hist +102 Popular Science ta
- 18:5818:58, 30 April 2024 diff hist −222 m Umami Sentences get periods per MOS:CAPFRAG. Ref cite tweaks/param misuse fixes. Glue bits of broken paragraph (back) together.