User contributions for Wsjacobs
A user with 362 edits. Account created on 23 September 2010.
12 May 2024
- 05:5605:56, 12 May 2024 diff hist +1 Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car →Sources current
- 05:5505:55, 12 May 2024 diff hist +223 m Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car →Sources: Add additional reference to Michael Novack essay on this short story and corrected formatting.
22 April 2024
- 20:2720:27, 22 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Lida →Imperial Russia: "di" => "did"
- 20:2720:27, 22 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Lida →Imperial Russia: "After two-year school opened, a parish school with a department for girls opened and a Jewish school." => "After a two-year school opened, so di a parish school with a department for girls and a Jewish school."
- 20:2520:25, 22 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Lida →Imperial Russia: "a parish school with adepartment for girls opened" => "a parish school with a department for girls opened"
29 January 2024
- 03:3203:32, 29 January 2024 diff hist +157 m Umwelt Inserted a reference link to Joseph Piepers' article "Welt und Umwelt"
4 January 2024
- 02:0102:01, 4 January 2024 diff hist +13 m Italia (airship) →Popular culture
- 01:5901:59, 4 January 2024 diff hist +138 Italia (airship) →Popular culture: Added a reference to Saul Bellow's novel Humboldt's Gift
16 November 2023
- 22:2922:29, 16 November 2023 diff hist −2 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations: Relocate footnote to the end of the paragraph.
15 November 2023
- 06:4106:41, 15 November 2023 diff hist 0 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations: Improve English by relocating a sentence
- 06:4006:40, 15 November 2023 diff hist −1 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations
- 06:4006:40, 15 November 2023 diff hist −57 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations: Clean up English
- 06:3706:37, 15 November 2023 diff hist −93 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations
- 06:3306:33, 15 November 2023 diff hist −41 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations: The quotation from the German article on Cornelius Rost simply summarizes Dittelman's work. It is not a circular reference.
11 November 2023
- 23:4623:46, 11 November 2023 diff hist +507 N User talk:2607:FEA8:D841:B700:831:8098:2797:9FC8 Restoration of assertion that Rost's story "is not true" current Tag: New topic
- 23:3123:31, 11 November 2023 diff hist +9 Cornelius Rost Undid revision 1183515525 by 2607:FEA8:D841:B700:831:8098:2797:9FC8 (talk) Tag: Undo
29 October 2023
- 01:2501:25, 29 October 2023 diff hist −3 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations
- 01:2301:23, 29 October 2023 diff hist +12 Cornelius Rost →Book: Added "In doing so" to improve the connectivity to the preceding sentence.
28 October 2023
- 16:1416:14, 28 October 2023 diff hist −6 Cornelius Rost →Book: Remove "word" novel. The Rost / Bauer work commonly is sold as "The extraordinary true story of one man's escape from a Siberian labour camp and his 3-year trek to freedom." It is not sold as a novel.
- 16:0716:07, 28 October 2023 diff hist +752 Talk:Cornelius Rost →Who is being questioned?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:5415:54, 28 October 2023 diff hist +10 Cornelius Rost →Book: Insert "Allegedly." Given that this happened in the early 1950s, a backlash from the postwar Allied authorities was unlikely.
- 15:5215:52, 28 October 2023 diff hist +326 Cornelius Rost →Add: We cannot allow readers to think that the Rost story is true. So I added a sentence telling them in the opening paragraph that his story is probably false.
- 05:5605:56, 28 October 2023 diff hist +730 Cornelius Rost →Book: Insert a long footnote regarding Rost's eight hours of tapes.
27 October 2023
- 21:4721:47, 27 October 2023 diff hist +7 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations: Change "ein Betrug" to "eine Fälschung"
- 21:2321:23, 27 October 2023 diff hist −10 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations Tag: Manual revert
- 21:2021:20, 27 October 2023 diff hist +4 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations: Insert "KGB Gulag" Tag: Reverted
- 21:2021:20, 27 October 2023 diff hist +6 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations Tag: Reverted
- 21:1621:16, 27 October 2023 diff hist −1 Cornelius Rost →Minor stylistic improvement: "the supposed existence of a lead mine in the Chukchi Peninsula" = "the supposed lead mine in the Chukchi Peninsula never existed"
- 20:5320:53, 27 October 2023 diff hist +966 Cornelius Rost →Fraud Allegations: Years ago I edited the article to show that Rost's claims were fraudulent. Someone deleted those edits. This is unacceptable. Rost was a provable fraud and the article must reflect that. Tag: use of deprecated (unreliable) source
- 20:3120:31, 27 October 2023 diff hist +9 Cornelius Rost →The article must make clear that Rost's story may not be true: "His experiences were the basis for a book, a television series, and a film." => "His supposed experiences were the basis for a book, a television series, and a film."
- 20:2920:29, 27 October 2023 diff hist +10 Cornelius Rost →Rost's claim to be an escapee is fraudulent: "Cornelius Rost ... escaped from a Soviet Gulag camp in Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia." => "Cornelius Rost ... allegedly escaped from a Soviet Gulag camp in Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia."
17 September 2023
- 22:4222:42, 17 September 2023 diff hist +14 m Paula Reimers Added the dates of Rabbi Reimers birth and death.
- 22:4022:40, 17 September 2023 diff hist +45 m Paula Reimers →Biography: Added information concerning Rabbi Reimers' death. "Rabbi Reimers passed away on June 14, 2023."
- 22:3922:39, 17 September 2023 diff hist +1 Paula Reimers "Paula Reimers is an American rabbi" => "Paula Reimers was an American rabbi" . Rabbi Reimers passed away on June 14, 2023.
17 July 2023
- 02:2002:20, 17 July 2023 diff hist +115 m Parmenides (dialogue) →Further reading: Add an additional book devoted to Plato's Parmenides.
- 01:1201:12, 17 July 2023 diff hist +9 m Harold F. Cherniss →A crucial year in Germany: "included the left-wing and anti-semitic German National People's Party" => "included both the left-wing and the anti-semitic German National People's Party"
19 April 2023
- 23:4123:41, 19 April 2023 diff hist +1 m Ilan Shor →2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal: "that Shor has links to benefited" => "to which Shor has links"
20 March 2023
- 20:2220:22, 20 March 2023 diff hist 0 Thomas L. Hisgen →Biography: Correct misspelling. "Four Brothers Axel Grease Company" => "Four Brothers Axle Grease Company"
- 20:2020:20, 20 March 2023 diff hist −1 m Thomas L. Hisgen →Biography: Correct two misspellings. "a new and improved axel grease compound which could be pantented and marketed." => "a new and improved axle grease compound which could be patented and marketed."
- 00:2400:24, 20 March 2023 diff hist +427 Talk:Reinhold Glière →Gliere complete works
8 February 2023
- 06:2606:26, 8 February 2023 diff hist −1 How Much Land Does a Man Need? No edit summary Tag: Manual revert
1 January 2023
- 00:0600:06, 1 January 2023 diff hist +1 m Iguvine Tablets Correct minor misspelling. "which included English transltions" => "which included English translations"
30 November 2022
- 00:0100:01, 30 November 2022 diff hist +18 m Eddie Lampert →Career: "Five hundred stores remain in operation; the remainder are in liquidation." => "In early 2019, five hundred stores remained in operation; the remainder were in liquidation." As written, the original statement is no longer true. In November, 2022 news reports indicate that only 15 Sears stores remain open. So the original statement requires a time qualification.
1 October 2022
- 19:0119:01, 1 October 2022 diff hist −1 m Poor rate →Reform: No change in content, just an improvement in grammar. "During the 19th century a number of anomalies in the parish system were corrected, for example where parishes were divided into chapelries each acting much like a distinct parish, were corrected." => "During the 19th century a number of anomalies in the parish system were corrected, for example where parishes were divided into chapelries each acting much like a distinct parish."
- 18:5718:57, 1 October 2022 diff hist +9 m Poor rate Improve grammar. "such as excluding property outside of the parish a rate was paid." => "such as excluding property outside of the parish in which a rate was paid."
5 July 2022
- 23:1123:11, 5 July 2022 diff hist +260 m Menstrual synchrony Add reference to Jeffrey C. Schrank's "Do human menstrual-cycle pheromones exist? " Human Nature v. 50 n. 4 (2006) p. 448 - 47-.
21 May 2022
- 00:0800:08, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3 m Newfoundland and Labrador →British Dominion: "for the utilisation peat beds for fuel" => "for the utilisation of peat beds for fuel"
20 May 2022
- 20:2820:28, 20 May 2022 diff hist +43 m List of people from Newfoundland and Labrador →N: Add Calvin Normore
- 19:5319:53, 20 May 2022 diff hist +73 m List of unincorporated communities in Newfoundland and Labrador →C: Add Corner Brook to the list of Newfoundland towns.
- 19:4919:49, 20 May 2022 diff hist +47 m Calvin Normore Add Calvin Normore to the People from Newfoundland list.
