User contributions for JohnFromPinckney
A user with 34,142 edits. Account created on 5 October 2008.
3 June 2024
- 13:3313:33, 3 June 2024 diff hist −28 m Wings (1927 film) Infobox: Format lists as lists; Rm {{small}} formatting from already small text, per MOS:SMALL. "U.S." -> "US" per MOS:US. MOS:CAPFRAG. Glue bits of broken paragraph (back) together. Caps, italics, etc. current
29 May 2024
- 19:2219:22, 29 May 2024 diff hist +43 m Template:Expand language/doc Link the "links", make the pseudo (bold) "subheadings" into real subheadings current
- 19:0419:04, 29 May 2024 diff hist +71 m Shawne Fielding More MOS:GEOCOMMAs, fewer "Shawne"s. Ref cite correction. Also, script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM; chose dmy, one of the four formats used even in the first version from October 2019. current
- 18:2118:21, 29 May 2024 diff hist −62 Shawne Fielding Rm {{expand German}} template as not (currently) useful/appropriate. I see little in the German article that's not already here in English, and the DE sources aren't significantly better than ours. We also have more length (26,027/13,724) and more refs (83/45).
- 18:0118:01, 29 May 2024 diff hist −16 m Xiaomi →Logo and mascot: Rm {{small}} formatting from already small text, per MOS:SMALL.
- 17:4917:49, 29 May 2024 diff hist +491 Talk:Dionne quintuplets →Order in infobox "Died" section: Was birth order, now death order.
- 17:3717:37, 29 May 2024 diff hist +163 m Dionne quintuplets Infobox: Format lists as lists; order by death date (as mentioned on Talk). EL: fix id usage in {{IMDb title}}, add the other four sisters (why just Annette?) using {{IMDb name}}
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.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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
