User contributions for Cynical

30 November 2024

• 13:2613:26, 30 November 2024 diff hist −7 Royal Waggon Train I think "Revolutionary France" works better here because "Revolutionary French Forces... declared war on Britain" isn't correct current

5 November 2024

• 20:0120:01, 5 November 2024 diff hist −1 m Cheesesteak Fix typo (mid-sentence period)

28 July 2024

• 22:2622:26, 28 July 2024 diff hist −4 m Horse theft 'Parliament' here is used as a proper noun and hence doesn't take the definite article

8 August 2023

• 21:1121:11, 8 August 2023 diff hist −62 m Albert Kesselring Fix broken wikilink syntax

19 May 2023

• 18:2618:26, 19 May 2023 diff hist +1 Battle of Zenta 'The Imperial Dragoon' -> 'The Imperial Dragoons'

12 April 2023

• 16:3716:37, 12 April 2023 diff hist +334 Roald Dahl revision controversy Added requested more reliable source for claim that ebooks were automatically updated

28 February 2023

• 18:1418:14, 28 February 2023 diff hist 0 Pollok →Location: Capitalisation fix (minor edit but mobile site doesn’t give the the option to mark it as one for some reason) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

27 December 2022

• 15:1715:17, 27 December 2022 diff hist 0 m Rambouillet Agreement Fix typo ('vessles' -> 'vessels')

30 October 2022

• 23:3223:32, 30 October 2022 diff hist +3 m High Speed 2 Missing 'of'

27 September 2022

• 21:4421:44, 27 September 2022 diff hist −7 Hohenwerfen Castle "cinema film" -> "film" (more idiomatic English)

9 August 2022

• 22:4422:44, 9 August 2022 diff hist +32 Gold Stick and Silver Stick Fix wikilink to point to the ceremonial position rather than the operational rank

6 August 2022

• 19:3419:34, 6 August 2022 diff hist +16 Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby The siege is a more relevant article to link to than the one about the city itself

2 August 2022

• 20:5720:57, 2 August 2022 diff hist −3 m Ganj-i-Sawai Fix duplication
• 20:5320:53, 2 August 2022 diff hist 0 Henry Every "Sir Dr" -> "Dr Sr" which is more conventional

30 June 2022

• 20:5020:50, 30 June 2022 diff hist −17 Chris Pincher Undid revision 1095859083 by 150.143.128.252 (talk) Tag: Undo

28 May 2022

• 23:4823:48, 28 May 2022 diff hist +23 SS Arctic disaster Since the reference is specifically to the _sinking_ of Titanic (rather than to the ship itself) I think linking to that article is more useful here

1 May 2022

• 18:4318:43, 1 May 2022 diff hist −1 Hallvard Vebjørnsson 'was' -> 'is' (the subject is _currently_ the patron saint of Oslo, despite being deceased)

29 January 2022

• 23:1623:16, 29 January 2022 diff hist +34 Alastair Campbell Fix 'the Earl of Airlie' wikilink to point to the person being referred to (the 13th Earl) rather than a generic article about the title

21 January 2022

• 18:3918:39, 21 January 2022 diff hist −2 Yoshio Kodama Grammar fix: 'recruited from' -> 'recruited by'
• 00:0900:09, 21 January 2022 diff hist +16 One Way Ticket (The Darkness song) Change wikilink to point to the page about the ticket (which is what the album cover depicts) rather than one about the ticket-issuing machine

9 November 2021

• 15:0315:03, 9 November 2021 diff hist +5 Birmingham New Street railway station Added missing word ('three letter station' -> 'three letter station code') Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

29 October 2021

• 19:0919:09, 29 October 2021 diff hist +14 North Atlantic Treaty Remove mention of Franks's peerage - he wasn't awarded it until 13 years after the event being discussed

16 September 2021

• 00:5900:59, 16 September 2021 diff hist −210 'Allo 'Allo! This is untrue - he refers to her exclusively as "my wife's mother" in the original English version of the series

7 September 2021

• 01:1201:12, 7 September 2021 diff hist +18 Barry Lyndon Unattributed statements marked with appropriate templates Tag: Reverted

12 August 2021

• 23:4323:43, 12 August 2021 diff hist −1 m 1803 Minor grammar fix ('The Napoleonic Wars begins' -> 'The Napoleonic Wars begin')

6 August 2021

• 22:0222:02, 6 August 2021 diff hist −12 m Department of public safety Fix formatting error with bold text (replaced smart quotes with straight quotes)

30 July 2021

• 21:5621:56, 30 July 2021 diff hist +9 USS Indianapolis (CA-35) Reword to eliminate repetition
• 21:5521:55, 30 July 2021 diff hist +10 USS Indianapolis (CA-35) Add Mochitsura Hashimoto's rank - the American officers all have their rank included on first mention

25 April 2021

• 22:4922:49, 25 April 2021 diff hist +11 G&L Musical Instruments 'generally considered' by whom

17 March 2021

• 22:3222:32, 17 March 2021 diff hist −1 m Tiya Sircar Fix broken formatting on wikilink

27 February 2021

• 13:1413:14, 27 February 2021 diff hist +1 m Cadbury Dairy Milk Fix typo

23 February 2021

• 23:1623:16, 23 February 2021 diff hist −14 The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) I'm not convinced that the years of publication add useful information here, especially when it's the same year for both of the books mentioned

22 August 2020

• 20:5520:55, 22 August 2020 diff hist +180 HM Prison Barlinnie Update capacity and add citation (albeit to existing source!)

8 August 2020

• 21:2921:29, 8 August 2020 diff hist −7 September 1966 Fix internal link to point to correct article

15 July 2020

• 23:2823:28, 15 July 2020 diff hist −155 Jedi Remove claim that "it has been confirmed that there were 250k Jedi" - there's no source cited, and the only source I can find is for 250k real people declaring themselves 'Jedi' on census forms

21 June 2020

• 22:5822:58, 21 June 2020 diff hist −2 Napoleon Minor grammar fix ('revolt from royalist insurgents' -> 'revolt by royalist insurgents')

12 June 2020

• 23:5723:57, 12 June 2020 diff hist 0 KD Hang Tuah 'turned to the museum ship' -> 'turned into a museum ship'

6 June 2020

• 00:1800:18, 6 June 2020 diff hist +27 Alan West, Baron West of Spithead Given the context, I think a link to the _specific legislation_ being discussed is more helpful to the reader than a link to a definition of the word legislation!

31 May 2020

• 00:4300:43, 31 May 2020 diff hist +2 m List of Star Wars characters Fix non-displayed typo in reference name
• 00:4100:41, 31 May 2020 diff hist +628 List of Star Wars characters Add source for claim that was marked with citation needed since April 2017

19 May 2020

• 23:3123:31, 19 May 2020 diff hist −32 Russian battleship Peresvet Reverted 4 pending edits by 96.57.40.98, DR ROSS B and Glane23 to revision 957617672 by Gpkp: Most edits are disruptive. The change to the passage on the mines is not disruptive, but the old version of that paragraph is more concise and idiomatic English

6 May 2020

• 21:4621:46, 6 May 2020 diff hist +5 BMP development Since we're talking about the 1960s, I think _West_ German is more appropriate

6 April 2020

• 22:2522:25, 6 April 2020 diff hist −1 Battle of Krasnoi 'stopped to exist' -> 'ceased to exist' (more idiomatic English)

8 February 2020

• 12:5712:57, 8 February 2020 diff hist −23 Siege of Badajoz (1812) The claim that the book was dramatised for TV is adequately covered by the link to the Wikipedia article about the dramatisation

1 February 2020

• 21:0421:04, 1 February 2020 diff hist −1 Braehead Changed the reference in the 'boundary dispute' section to point to the schedule of the SI which actually mentions the chain-link fence

26 January 2020

• 01:0701:07, 26 January 2020 diff hist −16 Simplon Tunnel Reword the end of the opening paragraph slightly to remove the unnecessary double-statement of the length of time

16 January 2020

• 23:5223:52, 16 January 2020 diff hist −13 Heart of Oak Not sure a specific reference is needed for this, since it's simply the combination of (adequately sourced) claims elsewhere: the date that Heart of Oak was written (in this article) and Blackbeard's date of death (in that article).

30 December 2019

• 05:0905:09, 30 December 2019 diff hist +30 The Campaign for North Africa Add "update" template to section that talks about 2007 in the present tense - did this reprint happen or not?

26 December 2019

• 01:3501:35, 26 December 2019 diff hist −7 Hirohito Remove duplication of the word 'status'

20 December 2019

• 19:0319:03, 20 December 2019 diff hist −21 Paisley Gilmour Street rail accident Remove duplication