User contributions for SMcCandlish
A user with 199,299 edits. Account created on 11 August 2005.
8 June 2024
- 23:5623:56, 8 June 2024 diff hist +273 User talk:SMcCandlish →Deletion of a redirect you created: r current
- 20:2220:22, 8 June 2024 diff hist +97 m Niall Glúndub MOS:SINGLE. MOS:FOREIGN; needs more current
- 20:1520:15, 8 June 2024 diff hist 0 m Lochlann treated as a proper name (not sure why, but it's nearly universal) current
- 19:4519:45, 8 June 2024 diff hist −674 Charles Bertram Fix more non sequiturs. Link at first occurrence after the lead, but not thereafter in an article this short. Rm. WP:SUBMARINE link. MOS:ENGVAR. MOS:TENSE. WP dooen't use long-dash style to suppress author names (we can't count on citations remaining in same order forever since people can move material around; even if we did use it, it would be with the real Unicode char. for that). Misc. cite cleanup, and use single cite style per WP:CITESTYLE. Grammar. current
- 18:4918:49, 8 June 2024 diff hist +7 Charles Bertram →The Description of Britain: MOS:ELLIPSIS; fix non sequiturs; {{lang}} already italicizes when it should; other typographic cleanup.
- 18:3718:37, 8 June 2024 diff hist −33 Chrestomathy Fix markup mess: Template:Wiktell is for Modern Greek (el) not Ancient Greek of any kind (grc); don't nest parentheses if this can ever be avoided; MOS:SINGLE (and we'd never use curly quotes anyway per MOS:CURLY). MOS:LQ. Cite cleanup. current
- 18:0818:08, 8 June 2024 diff hist +3 m Owen Roe O'Neill grammar current
- 17:5917:59, 8 June 2024 diff hist +7 m Cintra Wilson MOS:ELLIPSIS current
- 17:5717:57, 8 June 2024 diff hist +28 m Montgomery McFate →Defense career: Pretty much no one outside recent-to-current US military service knows these newfangled rank abbreviations; to everyone else in the world, it's "Lt. Col." current
- 17:2417:24, 8 June 2024 diff hist +28 Irish Rebellion of 1641 →Plantations: Replace GIF image with a PNG version. current
- 17:2417:24, 8 June 2024 diff hist +28 m Irish republicanism →Background of British rule in Ireland: Replace GIF image with a PNG version. current
- 17:2317:23, 8 June 2024 diff hist +34 m Irish republicanism →1627 Hispano-Irish proposal: use standard English; MOS:FOREIGN, MOS:SINGLE
- 16:2816:28, 8 June 2024 diff hist +31 m Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 →Main changes and repeals: clarify current
- 13:3713:37, 8 June 2024 diff hist −204 Clan Gillanders name cleanup; MOS:DLIST (don't abuse list markup to make fake headings; just use real ones, but we don't need two here); cite cleanup; "mid-" is a prefix not a stand-alone word; MOS:SINGLE; MOS:HYPHEN; MOS:INITIALS current
- 13:0013:00, 8 June 2024 diff hist +1 m Clan Anderson comma current
- 12:2712:27, 8 June 2024 diff hist +35 John Major (disambiguation) fix chron. order current
- 12:2212:22, 8 June 2024 diff hist +37 John Mair entry cleanup current
- 11:5911:59, 8 June 2024 diff hist 0 m Clan Chattan ditto current
- 11:5911:59, 8 June 2024 diff hist 0 m Clan Chattan MOS:HEADINGS
- 10:4910:49, 8 June 2024 diff hist 0 m Clan Chattan →The Members Today: conventional spelling of this name
- 10:4810:48, 8 June 2024 diff hist +1 m Clan Chattan →The Skene assumption: MOS:QUOTEMARKS, MOS:TITLES, MOS:THECAPS, MOS:BIO; MOS:DASH, MOS:TENSE (Skene is long dead, and doesn't "give" anything in present tense).
- 10:4510:45, 8 June 2024 diff hist −6 m Clan Chattan →The Skene assumption: Fix non sequitur; who "Skene" is has never been stated clearly in the article, and there's more that one person by this name who is notable.
- 10:4310:43, 8 June 2024 diff hist 0 m Clan Chattan MOS:HEADINGS
- 08:0908:09, 8 June 2024 diff hist +19 m Digital Accessible Information System text clanup current
- 05:1905:19, 8 June 2024 diff hist +600 Talk:Benito Mussolini →Infobox Picture: cmt
- 05:1705:17, 8 June 2024 diff hist −7 m Talk:Benito Mussolini →Infobox Picture: list repair
7 June 2024
- 16:2716:27, 7 June 2024 diff hist −2 m Kent →Kentish independence: We don't need "scare quotes" around everyday English terms. current
- 16:2516:25, 7 June 2024 diff hist +2 m Kent →Kentish independence: MOS:DASH
- 12:0512:05, 7 June 2024 diff hist −1 m Whittington, Shropshire That spelling is no longer contemporary even in British English. It has gone the way of "to-morrow" and "connexion". current
- 12:0012:00, 7 June 2024 diff hist +1 m Halston Hall comma current
- 11:3911:39, 7 June 2024 diff hist +656 Talk:Cleopatra's Needle, London →Missing controveries: new section current Tag: New topic
- 11:3311:33, 7 June 2024 diff hist +170 Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom MOS:FOREIGN, MOS:SINGLE; more specific link; give case date; italicise case name (MOS:v.); MOS:JOBTITLES; rm. incorect use of dash; cite cleanup; clarify; table cleanup (either use "None" consistently everywhere it could apply in these tables, or don't use it; preferably the latter, since our readers are generally are not dirt-stupid).
- 11:2311:23, 7 June 2024 diff hist +36 m Whitaker's Almanack MOS:INITIALS, MOS:THECAPS, and other typographic cleanup; link current
- 11:2011:20, 7 June 2024 diff hist +4 Joseph Whitaker (publisher) link current
- 11:0811:08, 7 June 2024 diff hist +30 Peerage law →Wensleydale Peerage Case (1856): clarify current
- 10:5010:50, 7 June 2024 diff hist −1 m KC "region" does not mean "state" in the US; a region is larger (e.g. New England, the South, the Pacific Northwest, the Soutwest, the Midwest, etc.) current
6 June 2024
- 04:3004:30, 6 June 2024 diff hist +2,085 Talk:Right of way →Requested move 14 May 2024: r current
5 June 2024
- 17:2017:20, 5 June 2024 diff hist +467 Talk:Senate Democratic Caucus →Contradiction: new section current Tag: New topic
- 17:2017:20, 5 June 2024 diff hist +428 Talk:Party leaders of the United States Senate →Contradiction: new section current Tag: New topic
- 12:2512:25, 5 June 2024 diff hist +2,125 Talk:The Highland Council →Requested move 4 June 2024: r
- 12:0612:06, 5 June 2024 diff hist +883 Talk:Right of way →Requested move 14 May 2024: sup
- 11:5911:59, 5 June 2024 diff hist +23 User talk:SMcCandlish →Nomination for deletion of Template:AZBilliards: done
- 11:5811:58, 5 June 2024 diff hist +24 User talk:SMcCandlish →"User:2601:9:4303:8590:4571:E326:4AB2:E047" listed at Redirects for discussion: done
- 11:5211:52, 5 June 2024 diff hist +21 m King Arthur (2004 film) clarify
- 11:4811:48, 5 June 2024 diff hist +10 m King Arthur (2004 film) →Religious inaccuracies: MOS:ELLIPSIS, MOS:LQ, MOS:FOREIGN, MOS:CAPS; spacing & punct. cleanup; link cleanup (and we don't need to call him "St." and then say again he was a saint; do one or the other).
- 11:4411:44, 5 June 2024 diff hist +2 m King Arthur (2004 film) →Religious inaccuracies: MOS:NUM
- 11:4211:42, 5 June 2024 diff hist +1 King Arthur (2004 film) MOS:TITLES; don't re-link; a book is not a place
- 11:4011:40, 5 June 2024 diff hist −2 m King Arthur (2004 film) →Cinematic versus traditional portrayal: "presence" in this sense (the quality of being present, a mass noun); "presences" is a plural count noun that means 'spirits, ghosts' and is not the meaning intended here.
- 11:3811:38, 5 June 2024 diff hist +95 King Arthur (2004 film) →Cinematic versus traditional portrayal: clarify
- 11:3311:33, 5 June 2024 diff hist +3 King Arthur (2004 film) →Relationship with Arthurian legend: Make caption make more sense. And the date was wrong (that painting was the cover to T. W. Rolleston's 'Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race', 1911).