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7 June 2024

  • 20:5220:52, 7 June 2024 diff hist +711‎ Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch ‎ →‎top: UPDATE the value of the "archive-url" [field] in the "ref" tag for footnote no. "[1]", and add a COMMENT that explains (or at least ... "mentions") the reason why this update was [thought to be] necessary. I "tried" clicking on the hyperlink in the version of this article wherein that "archive-url" field had just been newly added, and, let me just say that ... I am confused about why the URL displayed when it DOES work, is different from the URL that must be used [first], to get there. current
  • 20:0720:07, 7 June 2024 diff hist +676‎ Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch ‎ →‎top: update the last sentence of the first paragraph, which listed "Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky" as the vice-chairman of this "umbrella" Chabad-Lubavitch educational organization. This update was needed because Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky died in June 2024.

6 June 2024

  • 04:4404:44, 6 June 2024 diff hist −6‎ Adposition ‎ →‎top: Break the last sentence of the second paragraph into two sentences, partly because the first half of it was already pretty long. Also, expand [what is now] the second of those two sentences, to include the possibility of (for example) a prepositional phrase that modifies a noun (and hence, functions as an adjective, not as an adverb). current
  • 04:1904:19, 6 June 2024 diff hist +250‎ Parenthesis (rhetoric) ‎ →‎Types: Add some explanatory information, such as [a] a guide regarding how to find the parenthetical phrase in each bulleted example in this section (namely, by finding the phrase that is displayed in an italic font); and [b] the fact that it is appropriate to use the term "parenthetical" phrase, even when the phrase is not "delimited" by (= surrounded by) brackets [such as, round or square brackets]. current
  • 03:5503:55, 6 June 2024 diff hist 0‎ Apposition ‎ →‎top: Change the word "appositions" to "appositives" in the sentence starting with the adverb "Traditionally". When the word "apposition" is used, it is typically in a prepositional phrase such as "in apposition", and [hence] it is a "mass" noun (= an "uncountable" noun), which is not suitable for being "pluralized" by adding a suffix such as the letter "s". The correct use of the countable noun "appositive" (singular or plural, without or with an "s"), is introduced earlier in this article. current

3 June 2024

  • 21:0121:01, 3 June 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Emerson College ‎ →‎The EVVY Awards: Correct a minor TYPO (or grammar or spelling) mistake. (Change one word, from: student's --> To: students'). The word being changed now, should be both possessive AND plural. Hence the apostrophe belongs after the second letter "s", not after the second letter "t". current

2 June 2024

29 May 2024

26 May 2024

  • 06:2306:23, 26 May 2024 diff hist +34‎ Phallus ‎ →‎top: Add some wikilinks to the caption for the picture "NAMA Phallus ailé.jpg", without changing the spelling of the words displayed. The only 2 changes are: [A] add a wikilink [pointing] to [the article about] "Attica", where the [capitalized] word "Attic" was already appearing in the caption (to help readers who might not know that "attic" can have another meaning besides 'a part of a house'); and [B] add a link pointing to "Red-figure_pottery", where it says "red-figure". current

24 May 2024

  • 20:0820:08, 24 May 2024 diff hist +256‎ Baal teshuva ‎ →‎top: Add a "|quote=..." field to the "{{cite web}}" template instance for footnote number "[1]". NOTE that this quote is one that includes a wikilink [pointing] to the article about the word "frum" ... as part of the title -- ("Becoming Frum") -- of a book by 'Sarah Bunin Benor'. In connection with (or "inspired by") this, CHANGE to use the word frum -- (in place of the word "stringent") -- in the first sentence that has [a hyperlink to] an instance of footnote number "[1]". current

21 May 2024

16 May 2024

  • 19:5619:56, 16 May 2024 diff hist +14‎ El Shaddai ‎ →‎top: Change the part about the word ''shaddai'' and its plural, in Biblical Hebrew and in Modern Hebrew [respectively]. Please feel free to make further corrections if this is still not right, but it is clear that the English word "(plural)" -- in parens -- was *** out of place *** before this edit ... right between the English phrase "Biblical Hebrew" and the (SINGULAR!) ["Biblical Hebrew"] word, "שדי". So this is a step in the right direction.
  • 18:3918:39, 16 May 2024 diff hist +1,126‎ Limousine liberal ‎ →‎top: CORRECT [the value of] the "title" field (was this "{{cite web}}" template instance composed -- perhaps -- by some robot? or what?) and enhance some of the other fields, in *** the "{{cite web}}" template instance *** for footnote number "[2]". Add -- (among other things) -- a "QUOTE" field ... for which it was hard to choose one "quote" to include ... because this interview is so chock FULL of amazingly juicy QUOTEs. ["!"] That is why it was so difficult, to choose just "one" of them! current
  • 18:1418:14, 16 May 2024 diff hist +1‎ Teach For America ‎ →‎Criticism: CORRECT a small [1 byte] (TYPO...or other) error introduced during a recent EDIT to this section of this article. The final field of the "{{cite news}}" template instance for footnote "[24]" was followed by an extra "field separator" character -- "pipe" or "|" character -- that was not needed. The error message was confusing -- (to me) -- until I clicked on the "help" link ... which gave a better explanation. Also, this edit got away from me before I finished typing this comment.
  • 18:0418:04, 16 May 2024 diff hist −1‎ Teach For America ‎ →‎Criticism: CORRECT a small (one character) error ()
  • 18:0018:00, 16 May 2024 diff hist +249‎ Teach For America ‎ →‎Criticism: ADD an "archive-url" field to the "{{cite news}}" template instance in the "ref" tag for footnote number "[24]". Also add some other fields (some related, such as "archive-date", and others just previously "missing", such as "date" and "author"). Note that even though the "url-status" field is still omitted, if that is interpreted by some readers -- or robots! -- to 'imply' "|url-status=dead", then that would not be far off. The web page still exists, but ... behind a "pay wall".

15 May 2024

  • 22:2322:23, 15 May 2024 diff hist +12‎ Sheryl Sandberg ‎ →‎Facebook / Meta Platforms: Add "(as of 2012)" to a sentence with footnote number "[26]", since that 'reliable source' is from 2012. (and apparently, it can be found [only] at the "archive-url", since [it says] the 'url-status' = "dead".) Also, change the verb in that sentence to the past tense, since -- (besides the fact that 2012 was in the past) -- Sheryl Sandberg is no longer the Chief Operating Officer of Meta Platforms (e.g., Facebook) since about a year and a half ago ... August 2022.
  • 21:0221:02, 15 May 2024 diff hist +1,230‎ North Lamar Independent School District ‎ →‎District Administration: Add a footnote (whose links do not require any entry of a "password"), to the entry for "Superintendent", which still links now to the same URL it pointed to before -- (namely, "http://www.northlamar.net/page/administration") -- but that [old] URL seems to require the person viewing the destination website to have to enter a "password"; so ... the link[s] included in this new footnote might be more practical for the use of some readers of this Wikipedia article. current

14 May 2024

  • 20:0620:06, 14 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ Transduction (physiology) ‎ →‎top: Modify the "{{Cite book}}" template instance in the "ref" tag for footnote number "[1]". Change the field name of the field that has a value of "Lodish, Harvey F." already. That value properly belongs to a field with the name "author"; so, change the old field name, "others" -- (which was wrong! Was it put here by some well-intentioned robot? ...who created [or modified] this "{{Cite book}}" instance, here in this "ref tag" at some time in the past?) -- to the NEW field name, "author".

13 May 2024

  • 05:3205:32, 13 May 2024 diff hist +34‎ m Julian Huxley ‎ →‎top: UPDATE the value, which a list -- (using a "{{Ubl}}" template instance) [as in, "{{Unbulleted list}}"] -- of the field whose 'field name' is displayed as "Institutions", in the "{{Infobox scientist}}" near the top of this article. The OLD "Institution" previously shown first in that list, was displayed as "Rice Institute" -- which _is_ correct, "as of" the early days at Rice, where Huxley was one of the original faculty members. ADD [the explanation] "(now Rice U.)"

8 May 2024

3 May 2024

28 April 2024

  • 20:0320:03, 28 April 2024 diff hist +15‎ DePauw University ‎ →‎History: In the paragraph beginning with "As of July 2020," ADD a wikilink [pointing] to [the article about] "Lori White", ... (but, still *** displayed *** as "Lori S. White" -- *with* the middle initial included) ... right at the exact place where that name ("Lori S. White") was already appearing -- with a middle initial -- in the text of that paragraph.

26 April 2024

  • 18:3718:37, 26 April 2024 diff hist +47‎ m Joseph Silk ‎ →‎top: Make some MINOR corrections to [the template instance in] the "ref" tag for footnote number "[1]", close to the value of the only entry in the "Doctoral students" field of the "{{Infobox}}" near the top of this article. The value of the "title" field was changed to be "Max Tegmark / Professor of Physics", since that name is displayed in a large, *bold*, RED font. The character string "MIT Department of Physics" was kept as -- instead -- the value of the [newly added] "publisher" field. current

25 April 2024

24 April 2024

22 April 2024

  • 04:4504:45, 22 April 2024 diff hist −6‎ m Hy Gardner ‎ →‎top: Correct a minor TYPO in which the {{cite news}} template instance in the "ref" tag for footnote number 2 had some incorrect content -- about half a word of cosmic dust (perhaps from the last half of the third-to-last word of the URL in the "url" field?) -- appearing [until now] before the first *correct* word, at the beginning of the value of the "title" field. current

21 April 2024

  • 11:3211:32, 21 April 2024 diff hist +1‎ m Lauren Sánchez ‎ →‎External links: CORRECT a minor TYPO in the spelling of a name. The name ("Laura Sánchez") did not match the spelling ["Lauren Sánchez"] that was contained in the * * * domain name * * * ("laurensanchez.com") in the URL that was nearby ... in the same "External links" entry.
  • 10:2610:26, 21 April 2024 diff hist −9‎ m Radiative forcing ‎ →‎The second sentence of this article: REMOVE the single (unnecessary) tag "<nowiki/>" which was added -- [for no good reason?] -- circa [the "Revision"] "as of 04:05, 19 April 2024". This tag is un-paired, and is ^H^H *was* the ONLY occurrence of "nowiki" in this entire article. Yet another "picayune nitpick" that does not have to remain on the "to do" list. [Also, this tiny change will have no effect -- that I know of -- on the way in which that paragraph will be *displayed* to the reader.]
  • 09:4609:46, 21 April 2024 diff hist −1‎ m Radiative forcing ‎ →‎top: MINOR [ONE character] change, to correct a grammatical error. ("can independently measured it" --> "can independently measure it"). This might have been due to a TYPO. Explanation: as you can see from the preceding [parenthetical] presentation of the "before" and "after" versions, the verb [to] "measure" is preceded by the word "can" ['!']; so it should be an 'infinitive' verb form, not a past tense -- nor a past participle -- verb form. Now there is one less "picayune nitpick" to fix.

18 April 2024

  • 08:2008:20, 18 April 2024 diff hist +1,348‎ Louis Jacobs ‎ →‎top: Add a footnote, linking to an online explanation (an article posted on the website of 'The Times of Israel') with the title "The Jacobs Affair: A Theological Storm from Within". Put that footnote right at the exact place (in the lede paragraph) where the phrase << what became known as the "Jacobs Affair" >> was already appearing in the final sentence of the first paragraph of this article.

14 April 2024

10 April 2024

  • 01:3401:34, 10 April 2024 diff hist +39‎ Allomorph ‎ →‎Past tense allomorphs: Include an explanatory phrase -- "(that is, listed in order of priority)" -- to clarify the meaning of the last word -- ["ordered"] -- of the phrase "together with the fact that the environments are ordered". Some readers might not *need* this "clarification", (for example, if they have already read the last word, i.e. "priority", of the *following* sentence, while they are still trying to parse *this* sentence); but otherwise, having this "clarification" should help. current

7 April 2024

  • 05:1805:18, 7 April 2024 diff hist +843‎ Six degrees of separation ‎ →‎Small world: Fix a dead link in the "url" field of the {{cite web}} for the "ref" tag for footnote number '[11]'... "mainly" by adding an "archive-url" field, etc. Rather than [only] updating the OLD {{cite web}} template instance, it seemed to be better to also include -- as a separate {{cite web}} -- a link to the place (found via a "search") to which the 'old' web page [apparently] got MOVED ["!"]. I hope that is correct.
  • 03:5103:51, 7 April 2024 diff hist −2‎ m Six degrees of separation ‎ →‎Small world: Change the word "attributed" to "credited" one place. Note that ... the word "attributed" is used 2 other places in this article, and ... THOSE 2 places ... it was already [before now] being used correctly.
  • 03:4603:46, 7 April 2024 diff hist +6‎ Six degrees of separation ‎ →‎John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation: INCLUDE a copy of [what is now] footnote number "[11]", at the other place [in this article] where it mentions this idea being "attributed [...] to Marconi". (The first such place in this article, did already have an instance of footnote number "[11]".) Also, REMOVE a "[citation needed]" tag -- (apparently, dating back to "July 2016" [!]) -- at that second place, which now has -- (it does now but it did not before) -- a copy of footnote number "[11]".
  • 03:1703:17, 7 April 2024 diff hist +125‎ Clustering coefficient ‎ →‎top: Slight TWEAK to the wording of some of the last 4 to 7 words of the lede. (the embeddedness of single nodes --> the extent of "clustering" of a single node); . . . Also, insert a wikilink to the "Local clustering coefficient" section of this article, where the last few words -- that is, the words << extent of "clustering" of a single node >> -- now appear. Also add a similar wikilink for the phrase "the clustering in the network". current

4 April 2024

  • 02:0602:06, 4 April 2024 diff hist +46‎ Max Polyakov ‎ →‎EOS Data Analytics: At the first occurrence [other than the section name or "title"!] in this section, where the entity EOS Data Analytics [which, btw, is now still a 'red link'] gets mentioned, insert a source "ref" containing a link to the entity's own web site, https://eos.com/. That entity may or may not be notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article, but that does not stop it from having a website. Also, insert a (red) link to that [future?] article.

2 April 2024

31 March 2024

27 March 2024

  • 06:2206:22, 27 March 2024 diff hist +7‎ Cardiopulmonary bypass ‎ →‎Uses: Fix a TYPO (or other mistake) introduced during THIS edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cardiopulmonary_bypass&diff=1214400660&oldid=1214400322 . The LARGE number of changes made (apparently during the space of just 3 minutes of wall time!) between that edit and the previous one, left little time for proof reading. Maybe the two "extra" [?] words - "of the" - should have been deleted? (If so ...'C U' on the "Talk:" page!) This solution inserts the word "degree", instead.
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