User contributions
12 December 2017
OxiClean
History: correct "Billy" to "Mays"
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OxiClean
rmv quotation marks from product name
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Medical Hypotheses
rmv puffery "prestigious"
−12
11 December 2017
Crisco
Kream Krisp: rmv incongruous (and sourced by a permanently dead link) ", and Crisco was reintroduced to the market"—there has been no mention in this context that Crisco was ever removed from the market
−43
Crisco
Kream Krisp: no justification for boldface on product name this deep into the article—readers looking for it will see the section heading before they see it in the text
−6
Crisco
Changes in fat content: tag another weasel
+27
Crisco
Changes in fat content: tag weasel
+31
Trans fat regulation
History: no justification for italicizing the name of a company
−4
Michael Anthony Bilandic
Later career/Personal and death: ce; separate absurdly jumbled (and titled) section into two sections
−29
Michael Anthony Bilandic
ce intro
+1
Harold Washington
Legacy: ce; WP:SURNAME; rmv unsupported editorial analysis "Despite the bickering in City Council, Washington seemed to relish his role as Chicago's ambassador to the world"
−119
Harold Washington
Rumors: ce; rmv editorial "Coincidentally," and "just"; correct verbose and euphemistic "followed him in death" to "died"
−39
Jane Byrne
correct typo
Jane Byrne
Early life and career: ce; correct unnecessarily verbose "stay at home wife" to "housewife"; add links
−3
10 December 2017
9 December 2017
Judy Garland
Final years: correct euphemistic "Issues" to "Problems"; rmv editorial "just"
−3
Mark Herron
rmv absurdly unencyclopedic "Fans of the cable TV show ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' may recall his performance ..."—this is an encyclopedia, not a fan magazine
−157
Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir
Overview: rmv the last two ¶s: they are melodramatic, unsupported ({{cn}}'d almost 11 years ago) excerpts from interviews totally unrelated to the book which is the subject of this article
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Judy Garland
The Gumm Sisters: ce; rmv quotation marks from block quotation; link to The Judy Garland Show; correct non-neutral "claimed" to "said"
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Judy Garland
Early life: ce; correct "'Suzy/Suzanne'" to "'Suzy' or 'Suzanne'"—nobody was ever called a double nickname like "Suzy/Suzanne"; add that the rumors about Frank were never verified
+18
7 December 2017
Naked Lunch (Austrian band)
repair infobox image caption and add link to DE article on festival
+17
Naked Lunch (Austrian band)
ce intro, rearranging some facts more logically, pruning unencyclopedic language like "musical scene", clarifying what a cryptic phrase like "The Notwist/Weilheim" actually means without having to jump off-page to find out, etc
−36
6 December 2017
Nematode
rmv vestigial close-quotation mark from block quotation—the corresponding open-quotation mark apparently was deleted (properly, per MOS:BQ: "Do not enclose block quotations in quotation marks") sometime in the past
−1
Eruca sativa
correct curly to straight quotation marks; rplc informal, relatively obscure "stymie" with more standard and more widely understood "hinder"
−12
5 December 2017
Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)
rmv inane, meaningless "notably", which adds ambiguous verbiage but nothing of value to the sentence
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List of television series canceled after one episode
rmv "(for example, Virtuality)": it is inappropriate (since no specific examples of other cases are given) and unnecessary (since it adds no real value in this context); clarify the description
+3
List of television series canceled after one episode
rmv unnecessarily ambiguous "and/" from "or"; ce; correct "either case" to "any of those cases", since more than two are given; chg awkward "extremely" to "very", which is less distracting when used repeatedly within a sentence
−3
Jack Lescoulie
Television: add image caption; rmv superfluous editorial analysis "He was a purveyor of light features": besides, any word that requires a Wiktionary link should be used in Wikipedia ONLY if no alternative exists
+312
Jack Lescoulie
Television: rmv editorial puffery "was a versatile cast member", again allowing his accomplishments (detailed immediately following) to speak for themselves; correct biased (and slang) "line" to neutral "explanation"
−27
Jack Lescoulie
Radio: rmv inane puffery "future TV legend" (his accomplishments, which speak for themselves, are enumerated in the same sentence); remove slash
−12
The Phil Silvers Show
Premise: rmv misleading puffery "famous": the overwhelming majority of Wikipedia readers (well over 99%) have never heard of that specific episode—and if it were truly famous, there would be no need to TELL anybody that it's famous
−7
Kewpee
Lima, Ohio: rmv inappropriate boldface
−5
Fort Jefferson (Florida)
Construction: correct several bizarre constructions using "would" to simple past tense verbs
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Everglades
need to specify what date "to date" refers to
+28
Schlörwagen
translate editorial enthusiasm into encyclopedic language
−38
Streamline Moderne
Industrial design: rmv unsupported editorial flourishes from image caption
−60
Kewpee
Lima, Ohio: fix image captions
+41
Silicone
Uses: ce; correct three instances of slash ("/") to "and"
+12
Silicone
correct "... and/or ..." to "... and ... or both"
+4
4 December 2017
SCOBY
WAY too technical in the very first ¶: phrases like "a syntrophic mixed culture, generally associated with kombucha" (wtf is kombucha?) and "take place concurrently along an oxygen gradient" must be rewritten in language human baings can understand
+55
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Lyrics: def need ref for "The most common modern version": far more online versions end in "So early in the morning" (even in the <score> above!) than in "On a cold and frosty morning", which I had NEVER seen or heard before I read it here just now
+25
Talk:Vanderbilt University
Why no mention of the Unabomber?: new section
+1,344
Vanderbilt University
Founding and early years: rmv editorializing "Indeed,"
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E. Gordon Gee
Early life, education, and early career: add Ohio State first-term photo, relocated from Vanderbilt University section
+106
E. Gordon Gee
Vanderbilt tenure: relocate Ohio State photo to the correct section
−106
E. Gordon Gee
Vanderbilt tenure: newspaper headlines are enclosed in quotation marks, not set in boldface font
−4
E. Gordon Gee
Personal life: ce; rmv redundant "the late": her death is mentioned in a more meaningful context in the next sentence; correct awkward, non-idiomatic (in American English, anyway) "life after the death of Elizabeth" to "life after Elizabeth's death"
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Vanderbilt University
1970s to present: add ¶ break when subject changed; rmv sensational and unencyclopedic "caved in to the public outcry"
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Asiago cheese
correct pretentious "reminiscent of" and "aspect" to more encyclopedic "similar to" and "appearance"