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17 November 2018
- 11:3911:39, 17 November 2018 diff hist +7 m Camp Fire (2018) →Wildland-urban interface discussion: If you're not going to spell out "population", at least put a period after "pop.".
- 11:3811:38, 17 November 2018 diff hist −5 m Camp Fire (2018) →Wildland-urban interface discussion: reword
- 11:3411:34, 17 November 2018 diff hist −13 m Paradise, California →2008 fires: Eliminate clumsy wording ("fire" used 3 times in a short sentence).
- 11:3111:31, 17 November 2018 diff hist +1 m Paradise, California →2008 fires
- 11:3011:30, 17 November 2018 diff hist +5 m Paradise, California →Naming: referred --> referring; is --> can be
- 11:2811:28, 17 November 2018 diff hist −8 m Paradise, California →Naming: Removed coy "yet", which implies that some evidence for "Pair o'Dice" might *yet* be forthcoming.
2 January 2013
- 00:0400:04, 2 January 2013 diff hist −19 Stretto Clarify, remove somewhat breezy "We talk about ...".
29 July 2010
- 04:5404:54, 29 July 2010 diff hist −108 Chris Daly →Controversial demeanor: Removing parenthetical sentence fragment: not sure what was intended here.
- 04:5204:52, 29 July 2010 diff hist −23 Chris Daly Undid revision 375447185 by 72.174.14.37 (talk) Not really relevant that he didn't graduate.
28 July 2010
- 07:0107:01, 28 July 2010 diff hist −115 Cigar Undid revision 375859197 by Cayden Ryan (talk) -- reference was to a commercial "blog", just more SEO-grubbing.
- 06:5106:51, 28 July 2010 diff hist +2 m Music of Hungary →Hardcore, metal: Remove lazy, sloppy usage of "&" instead of "and".
- 06:5006:50, 28 July 2010 diff hist 0 m Music of Hungary →Hardcore, Metal: lc
- 06:4506:45, 28 July 2010 diff hist 0 m Cello →Popular music, Jazz and Neoclassical: Why capitalized?
- 06:4406:44, 28 July 2010 diff hist −28 Cello →Orchestral: Concision; "first chair" is so high-school, not used by orchestra players generally.
- 06:4006:40, 28 July 2010 diff hist +4 m Cello →Sul ponticello/sul tasto: It's customary to set off translations in parentheses.
- 06:1706:17, 28 July 2010 diff hist +89 Violin making and maintenance →Maintenance: Using chalk on pegs to correct slippage
- 06:1506:15, 28 July 2010 diff hist −33 Violin making and maintenance →Sound post adjustment: Reformatting, rephrasing.
- 06:1206:12, 28 July 2010 diff hist −72 m Violin making and maintenance →Sound post adjustment: "Structural sense" = meaningless; "sound is chocked"? WTF?; other cleanup.
22 July 2010
- 00:1400:14, 22 July 2010 diff hist −683 Chris Daly →Political career: How is this (his arrest) in any way relevant to his political career? This may be appropriate elsewhere in the article, but not here.
- 00:1100:11, 22 July 2010 diff hist −85 Chris Daly →Early political activity: This business of never having finished college is neither here nor there for the purposes of this section. Seems just like more mud ...
- 00:0500:05, 22 July 2010 diff hist +27 East Palo Alto, California Tag w/{{cleanup}}; article is full of just plain bad writing.
- 00:0300:03, 22 July 2010 diff hist −277 East Palo Alto, California →Culture: Remove two non-notable sentences (there are many Major Taylor Cycling Clubs around the country).
- 00:0000:00, 22 July 2010 diff hist −190 East Palo Alto, California →Overview: Remove badly-written sentence that doesn't belong in the lead.
21 July 2010
- 23:5723:57, 21 July 2010 diff hist +14 m Rent control in the United States →Purpose and scope: Use actual name of Costa/Hawkins
- 22:2922:29, 21 July 2010 diff hist +85 m Microphone →Condenser microphone: Replace reference, since USD site seemed not to be accessible.
- 22:1722:17, 21 July 2010 diff hist +54 Microphone →Condenser microphone: Make a real reference using {{cite web}}.
- 22:0722:07, 21 July 2010 diff hist +63 Microphone →Carbon microphone: Make a real reference; rephrase stuff re:Boudet microphone.
- 22:0122:01, 21 July 2010 diff hist −110 m Microphone →Carbon microphone: Remove redundant stuff about Boudet microphone.
- 21:5521:55, 21 July 2010 diff hist 0 m Richmond, California refinery: LC
- 21:5021:50, 21 July 2010 diff hist 0 m Talk:Chevron Richmond Refinery moved Talk:Chevron Richmond Refinery to Talk:Chevron Richmond refinery: "Refinery" shouldn't be capitalized.
- 21:5021:50, 21 July 2010 diff hist 0 m Chevron Richmond Refinery moved Chevron Richmond Refinery to Chevron Richmond refinery: "Refinery" shouldn't be capitalized.
- 21:4921:49, 21 July 2010 diff hist 0 m Point Richmond, Richmond, California lc
- 19:4919:49, 21 July 2010 diff hist +14 m Aaron Peskin →Personal life: More proper reference to local news crew; no need to plug local TV station.
- 19:4419:44, 21 July 2010 diff hist +19 Aaron Peskin →Political career: Cite, pleeze?
- 18:5918:59, 21 July 2010 diff hist −7 m Orchestra →Organization: Just a little N.B. in there about "period". Remove needless example.
- 18:5118:51, 21 July 2010 diff hist −1 m Richard Wagner →Early stage (to 1842): Lifetime = 1 word.
- 18:4818:48, 21 July 2010 diff hist +7 m Richard Wagner →Opera: Further copy editing for concision, punctuation (incl. real em dashes w/no spaces around)
12 July 2010
- 04:4804:48, 12 July 2010 diff hist −15 m Martini (cocktail) →Martini origins and mixology: Remove needless "footnote" ref.
- 04:4604:46, 12 July 2010 diff hist +59 m Martini (cocktail) →Martini origins and mixology: Replace pretend reference w/real one
- 04:3404:34, 12 July 2010 diff hist +2 Martini (cocktail) →Martini origins and mixology: Take out incorrect capitalization, restate more succinctly.
- 04:1504:15, 12 July 2010 diff hist −1 m Killing of Oscar Grant No buildings were destroyed that night.
- 01:4801:48, 12 July 2010 diff hist −1,051 Richmond, California Remove business of "roughness", which is an unencyclopedic description, no matter the references.
- 01:3601:36, 12 July 2010 diff hist −72 Oaksterdam, Oakland Mostly formatting; removing some fluff.
- 01:0301:03, 12 July 2010 diff hist +29 N Andre grubacic Create the redirect (for Andre, rather than the proper spelling Andrej)
26 August 2009
- 06:0206:02, 26 August 2009 diff hist +119 m Berkeley, California Better reference formatting.
- 05:5505:55, 26 August 2009 diff hist +11 m Golden Gate, Oakland, California "Announcing"--> marking. Reword sentence (still not happy with it ...).
- 05:3805:38, 26 August 2009 diff hist −84 m Violin No reason to italicize these words. Fix parallel sentence structure. Get rid of "he or she" nonsense.
- 05:3205:32, 26 August 2009 diff hist 0 m Violin →Jazz: Jazz not a proper noun, not capitalized.
- 05:3105:31, 26 August 2009 diff hist −126 Violin →External links: WTF?!?
23 August 2009
- 08:0208:02, 23 August 2009 diff hist +4 m Fire Arts Festival Wrong stub category.
- 08:0008:00, 23 August 2009 diff hist +31 Oakland, California →Annual cultural events: + Fire Arts Festival
- 07:5807:58, 23 August 2009 diff hist +62 Fire Arts Festival Where?
- 07:5107:51, 23 August 2009 diff hist −249 m Oakland, California →Transit, walking and bicycling: Waaaaaay overlong photo caption.
- 07:3407:34, 23 August 2009 diff hist −118 Pittsburg, California →External links: Remove link to suspiciously commercial-appearing site, apparently promoted by local real-estate agent.
- 00:4800:48, 23 August 2009 diff hist −475 Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) →Critical reception: This little factoid has nothing whatever to do with "critical reception". It is simply a bit of trivia.
22 August 2009
- 10:0710:07, 22 August 2009 diff hist 0 m John Burris →Success in court: typo
- 10:0410:04, 22 August 2009 diff hist −25 m Killing of Oscar Grant →Oscar Grant III: Well, if we're gonna unlink dates, might as well be thorough. (Been away a while, didn't realize that date linking for autoformatting is "no longer done".)
- 08:0908:09, 22 August 2009 diff hist −23 m Lombard Street (San Francisco) →See also
- 07:5107:51, 22 August 2009 diff hist −25 m Killing of Oscar Grant →Background: Acronym already explained up above.
- 07:4107:41, 22 August 2009 diff hist +44 Killing of Oscar Grant →Johannes Mehserle: Wikilink dates; here in the U.S. we say "in *the* hospital".
- 07:3407:34, 22 August 2009 diff hist +3 Killing of Oscar Grant →Oscar Grant III: Misplaced comma; no reason to spell out BART (although technically the suit is against the district, BARTD).
- 07:2907:29, 22 August 2009 diff hist +3 Killing of Oscar Grant →Fatally shot: Remove leading quotation mark from quote.
- 07:2407:24, 22 August 2009 diff hist +26 m Killing of Oscar Grant →Background
- 07:1707:17, 22 August 2009 diff hist +11 Killing of Oscar Grant Grant was unarmed, but it's unknown (and may never be known) if Mehserle knew that or not. This statement ("unarmed") should probably be removed from the lede.
- 07:1507:15, 22 August 2009 diff hist +15 Killing of Oscar Grant Add "reports of" a fight. We still don't know anything about a fight, only that the police got reports of one on board a train.
- 07:0807:08, 22 August 2009 diff hist −219 Uptown Oakland Cleanup.
- 06:4506:45, 22 August 2009 diff hist −3 m Oakland, California →2000s: Grant wasn't just a "transit passenger"; he was on the BART platform.
- 06:4306:43, 22 August 2009 diff hist −18 m Oakland, California →2000s: Simplify.
- 06:3906:39, 22 August 2009 diff hist +41 Oakland, California →2000s: At least attempt to explain why Oscar Grant was being detained. (Hopefully not TMI for this article.)
- 06:3506:35, 22 August 2009 diff hist −7 Oakland, California →2000s: More cleanup.
- 06:3006:30, 22 August 2009 diff hist +73 Oakland, California →2000s: Speaking of awkward construction: fix things here and there. Much of the writing in this article still SUCKS, however. (For example: PLEASE don't start sentences with "Also, ...".)
- 06:0906:09, 22 August 2009 diff hist 0 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous No need for bullet here ...
- 06:0506:05, 22 August 2009 diff hist +47 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous/archive 2 No edit summary
- 06:0306:03, 22 August 2009 diff hist −128,711 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous No edit summary
- 06:0206:02, 22 August 2009 diff hist +2 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous/archive 3 No edit summary
- 06:0106:01, 22 August 2009 diff hist +47 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous/archive 3 No edit summary
- 05:5805:58, 22 August 2009 diff hist +128,726 N User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous/archive 3 Created the arkiv
- 05:4805:48, 22 August 2009 diff hist +436 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Hyphens and Key Names
- 05:4405:44, 22 August 2009 diff hist +2 User talk:Justin Tokke →Baritone Horn X Tenor Horn: Fix heading levels
- 05:4105:41, 22 August 2009 diff hist +268 User talk:Justin Tokke →Hyphens in key names: new section
- 05:3905:39, 22 August 2009 diff hist +520 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Hyphens and Key Names
- 00:5800:58, 22 August 2009 diff hist −3 m Amy Goodman →Film: Subtitle separated by colon.
- 00:5100:51, 22 August 2009 diff hist 0 m Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven) →Second movement: + hyphen.
- 00:4900:49, 22 August 2009 diff hist −65 Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven) →Fourth movement: Knock out them weasel words!
- 00:4600:46, 22 August 2009 diff hist −388 Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven) →Composition and premiere: Remove wishy-washy, unencyclopedic (and in any case uncited) fluff.
- 00:4400:44, 22 August 2009 diff hist +7 m Amy Goodman →Other writing: Remove inappropriate italicization. Books are published, not "released".
- 00:3300:33, 22 August 2009 diff hist 0 m Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) Undid revision 309308365 by Justin Tokke (talk) Hyphens not used; check the literature.
- 00:2900:29, 22 August 2009 diff hist 0 Orchestra No, hyphens are not normally used in key names, unless used as adjectives. Check the literature.
- 00:2600:26, 22 August 2009 diff hist +19 m The Miraculous Mandarin →The music: Expand description of opening rising/falling scales; glissandos--> glissandi.
- 00:1200:12, 22 August 2009 diff hist −1 m Romanian Folk Dances →Brâul – Waistband Dance- Peasant Costume: Remove incorrect and standoff-ish colon.
21 August 2009
- 08:0208:02, 21 August 2009 diff hist −71 Fire Arts Festival →2009: Change description from publicity fluff.
- 05:1105:11, 21 August 2009 diff hist +12 m Orchestra →Expanded instrumentation: Remove hyphens in key names, overcapitalization.
- 05:0105:01, 21 August 2009 diff hist +5 m Violin Someone screwed up this link (Maggini)
- 04:5804:58, 21 August 2009 diff hist 0 m Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) →Instrumentation: Remove hyphens from key names
- 04:5604:56, 21 August 2009 diff hist +10 m Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) →Premiere: Fix run-on sentence, etc.
- 04:3804:38, 21 August 2009 diff hist +8 m Time signature →An example: Reformat 6/8 example so it truly illustrates the feeling of "two".
- 04:2704:27, 21 August 2009 diff hist 0 The Outline of History Move section about alleged plagiarism down so it's not unduly prominent in article.
- 04:2504:25, 21 August 2009 diff hist −19 m The Outline of History Correct & expand Postgate quote; reword, simplify.
19 August 2009
- 07:3007:30, 19 August 2009 diff hist −897 Richmond station (California) This (note about suicide @ station) just plain doesn't belong here. Shit happens; not encyclopedic.
- 07:2107:21, 19 August 2009 diff hist +6 m Berkeley, California →History: Clean-up
- 07:1107:11, 19 August 2009 diff hist −86 m East Palo Alto, California →References: Remove misplaced bit-o'-info.
17 August 2009
- 07:4507:45, 17 August 2009 diff hist +12 m Emeryville, California →Business and industry: Reword to make less clunky.
- 05:5305:53, 17 August 2009 diff hist −115 Tonewood →Back and sides: Remove commercial information inserted by editor with apparent conflict of interest. Remove rampant miscapitalization.
- 04:0904:09, 17 August 2009 diff hist +7 m Oakland, California →1920s: One doesn't "found" an ice cream flavor.
- 01:2801:28, 17 August 2009 diff hist −33 m Oakland, California →Neighborhoods: adj--> adv; no need for "AKA downtown".
- 01:2401:24, 17 August 2009 diff hist −67 m Oakland, California →Neighborhoods: This (Piedmont=island within Oakland) can be stated much more simply.
16 August 2009
- 23:4623:46, 16 August 2009 diff hist +571 West Berkeley, Berkeley, California Add stuff re: Bayer.
- 23:2223:22, 16 August 2009 diff hist −685 West Berkeley, Berkeley, California →References: Remove text: misplaced, unencyclopedic, contentious and totally uncited.
- 23:0423:04, 16 August 2009 diff hist −584 m South Berkeley, Berkeley, California South Berkeley not the same as Lorin. Add wikilink to tool lending library; remove snide comment about "fine liquor stores" (i.e., bodegas). Remove excessive, non-encyclopedic stuff re: "Mr. Charles".
- 22:4822:48, 16 August 2009 diff hist +45 m Lorin District, Berkeley, California AKA "Lorin Streetcar District"
- 22:4222:42, 16 August 2009 diff hist +37 m Berkeley, California →Major streets: San Pablo actually hits Oakland first going south ...
- 22:1522:15, 16 August 2009 diff hist −4 m Flagstaff, Arizona →Sports: No need to italicize name of institution.
- 22:1122:11, 16 August 2009 diff hist −53 m Flagstaff, Arizona →Arts and culture: A symphony orchestra "popular among classical music enthusiasts"??? Duh!
- 22:0522:05, 16 August 2009 diff hist +27 m Violin technique →Left hand: producing pitch: Replace "typewriter" sharps w/real ones using {{music|#}}
- 21:5621:56, 16 August 2009 diff hist +40 m Violin →Tuning: Replace "typewriter" sharps w/real sharps using {{music|#}}
- 21:5021:50, 16 August 2009 diff hist −20 m Violin We've been over and over this: double bass is NOT in the violin family (viol family).
- 21:4121:41, 16 August 2009 diff hist −8 m Violin →Classical music: Not a foreign phrase, so no need to italicize.
- 21:4021:40, 16 August 2009 diff hist −626 Violin →Classical music: Remove problematic, multiply-tagged unencyclopedic, subjective paragraph
- 21:3921:39, 16 August 2009 diff hist +8 Violin →Popular music: Tag potentially non-notable overloaded entry.
- 21:3721:37, 16 August 2009 diff hist −13 List of electric violinists Alphabetize, remove link to disambiguation page ("Shankar")
- 21:3621:36, 16 August 2009 diff hist −54 m Shankar →People: Since when does "Shanker" belong here?
- 21:3121:31, 16 August 2009 diff hist +1 m List of Indian violinists Alphabetize
- 21:2621:26, 16 August 2009 diff hist −195 m List of popular music violinists Alphabetize, tag red links, remore superfluous notes.
- 21:1621:16, 16 August 2009 diff hist −52 m List of contemporary classical violinists →Classical violinists: Remove superfluous notes
- 21:1321:13, 16 August 2009 diff hist 0 m List of jazz violinists Whoops ...
- 21:1321:13, 16 August 2009 diff hist −635 List of jazz violinists Alphabetize; remove superfluous statement, stray entry.
- 20:3520:35, 16 August 2009 diff hist −84 Violin →Popular music: Eliminate possibly non-notable performer, who will in any case not be "the newest addition to the scene" when the next yet-another-performer comes along ...
- 20:3020:30, 16 August 2009 diff hist +2 m Chevron Richmond Refinery →Measure T controversy: Reword, formatting.
- 20:2520:25, 16 August 2009 diff hist −1 m Chevron Richmond Refinery Change "refinery" to lc throughout; not a proper name, and certainly not the only refinery in the area.
10 June 2008
- 20:4220:42, 10 June 2008 diff hist 0 m Tonic water lc; not a proper noun.
- 20:4020:40, 10 June 2008 diff hist −120 MacGuffin Remove yet another uncited example.
- 20:3920:39, 10 June 2008 diff hist −213 Romani people Remove semi-literate and uncited addition.
11 May 2008
- 20:5920:59, 11 May 2008 diff hist −330 Twelve-string guitar →Acoustic: Remove non-notables from list (e.g., none of the Beatles belong here); alphabetize.
12 April 2008
- 17:0817:08, 12 April 2008 diff hist 0 m Lists of violinists →Indian violinists (including Carnatic and Hindustani): Put list back into alphabetical order.
- 17:0717:07, 12 April 2008 diff hist −4 m Alameda, California →History: Remove link to disambig. page.
- 17:0517:05, 12 April 2008 diff hist −83 Lists of violinists Remove irrelevant family information.
11 April 2008
- 17:0417:04, 11 April 2008 diff hist −260 Mondegreen Remove example; weak, strained, and above all UNREFERENCED.
- 05:0105:01, 11 April 2008 diff hist +5 m Romani people →Music: Let's be clear here; this is a list of *countries*, not "cultures". Republic of Macedonia takes an article ("the").
- 03:0703:07, 11 April 2008 diff hist +462 Pisgat Ze'ev No "incivility" (just an edit comment, nothing in article content). Undo whitewashing terminology.
- 00:5100:51, 11 April 2008 diff hist −36 m Mondegreen →Role in culture: Remove irrelevant (and some redundant) Wiki-links.
- 00:4500:45, 11 April 2008 diff hist −153 Deus ex machina Remove bogus example; just because something has "deus ex machina" in its name doesn't make it one.
- 00:4400:44, 11 April 2008 diff hist +462 Pisgat Ze'ev Bullshit. Plenty dispute this euphemism ("neigborhood") which is an attempt to conceal the true political nature of this place.
- 00:2500:25, 11 April 2008 diff hist +22 m 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay →San Francisco: + wheelchair.
- 00:2200:22, 11 April 2008 diff hist +325 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay →San Francisco: Add 2 torchbearers who showed Tibetan flags in SF.
- 00:1200:12, 11 April 2008 diff hist −4 m 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay →United States: Place name doesn't take an article ("the").
9 April 2008
- 07:1707:17, 9 April 2008 diff hist −12 m West Side Story →Act I: Article is full of unnecessary Wiki-links.
- 07:1607:16, 9 April 2008 diff hist −8 m West Side Story →Characters: Remove remaining unnecessary Wiki-links (red links).
- 07:1407:14, 9 April 2008 diff hist +20 m Oriented strand board →Manufacturing: No need for all those zeroes.
- 07:1407:14, 9 April 2008 diff hist −70 Oriented strand board →External links: Remove non-English link from English language encyclopedia; not essential.
- 07:1307:13, 9 April 2008 diff hist −734 Oriented strand board →Borate: What do any of these links have to do with OSB? (Besides, they're all bare naked URLs.)
- 06:4406:44, 9 April 2008 diff hist −44 m West Side Story →Characters: There's no reason to have this word ("lead") Wiki-linked, certainly not to a page about a heavy metal. Remove other redundant links (link 1st occurence only).
- 05:1405:14, 9 April 2008 diff hist −1,919 Martini (cocktail) →In popular culture: This stuff--basically a mishmosh of every fictional character who ever hoisted a martini--doesn't belong in an encyclopedia.
- 05:1205:12, 9 April 2008 diff hist −36 Time signature Remove needless and redundant statement.
- 05:1105:11, 9 April 2008 diff hist −78 Martini (cocktail) →In popular culture: Removed "line" which was just another inconsequential bit of flotsam & jetsam.
- 00:0300:03, 9 April 2008 diff hist −28 m Mondegreen →In popular culture: Better punctuation (colons instead of em dashes).
8 April 2008
- 17:2517:25, 8 April 2008 diff hist −150 Mondegreen →Examples in music: Prune another weak, farfetched and unreferenced example.
- 17:2417:24, 8 April 2008 diff hist −373 Mondegreen Remove YET ANOTHER unreferenced example.
- 17:2317:23, 8 April 2008 diff hist −154 Martini (cocktail) Remove trivia not worth mentioning.
- 17:2217:22, 8 April 2008 diff hist −24 Large format Remove name that was placed in list out of alphabetical order.
5 April 2008
- 05:1905:19, 5 April 2008 diff hist +169 Bernal Heights, San Francisco The blog should go, sure, but what, pray tell, is a "canvassed site" and why is that a bad thing?
- 03:4703:47, 5 April 2008 diff hist −90 m Symphonie fantastique →Instrumentation: You were trying to do this the hard way; just append to the Wiki-link, and it magically becomes part of the link.
- 03:4103:41, 5 April 2008 diff hist +24 Lists of violinists →Other notable violinists: Tag dubious (17-year old) red link name w/{{fact}}.
- 03:4003:40, 5 April 2008 diff hist −4 m Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) →Notable recordings: Fix odd capitalization; this isn't German. Remove date overlinking.
- 03:3903:39, 5 April 2008 diff hist −12 m Pitch (music) →Pitch inflation: Remove date overlinking; remove not-very-useful Wiki-links (a link to "Dresden opera house" *might* be useful, if that article existed).
- 03:3703:37, 5 April 2008 diff hist −67 Martini (cocktail) Remove dubious nonsense.
- 03:3403:34, 5 April 2008 diff hist −9 Bernal Heights, San Francisco Remove nonsense PC-speak.
- 03:3303:33, 5 April 2008 diff hist +22 Viola →Playing the viola: Reword, clearer.
4 April 2008
- 17:4717:47, 4 April 2008 diff hist +12 Lists of violinists Again, what's with the UNEXPLAINED removal of the birthdate?
- 17:4417:44, 4 April 2008 diff hist −6 Hurdy-gurdy Undo unexplained undo; the second term is a synonym. Only the name which is the subject of the article should be in boldface.
- 17:4017:40, 4 April 2008 diff hist +265 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Unexplained
- 03:5403:54, 4 April 2008 diff hist +12 Lists of violinists Undo UNEXPLAINED removal of birthdate (???).
3 April 2008
- 05:4805:48, 3 April 2008 diff hist +362 Talk:Fiddle →Playing range: afterthought
- 04:0304:03, 3 April 2008 diff hist −3 m Talk:Fiddle →Playing range: Fixing your markup, free of charge. Wiki doesn't use those"bulletin-board"-style tags.
- 04:0104:01, 3 April 2008 diff hist 0 m Talk:Fiddle →Playing range
- 03:5903:59, 3 April 2008 diff hist +672 Talk:Fiddle →Playing range: Interesting, but ...
- 03:4903:49, 3 April 2008 diff hist +169 Bernal Heights, San Francisco "Spam"? How is that spam? You may have other objections to that link, which we'd be willing to consider. But please don't misuse that term.
- 03:4803:48, 3 April 2008 diff hist +203 Talk:Fiddle →Regardless of what kind of music gets played on it, sometimes a violin is informally called a fiddle.
- 03:4003:40, 3 April 2008 diff hist −6 Hurdy-gurdy Remove inappropriate boldface (not the subject of the article).
2 April 2008
- 00:3400:34, 2 April 2008 diff hist +7 Violin →Folk music and fiddling: Point out that this is part of oral tradition.
- 00:3200:32, 2 April 2008 diff hist −3 m MacGuffin →Films: Around here, the standard is to use Wiki-markup instead of HTML.
- 00:3200:32, 2 April 2008 diff hist +76 Jimi Hendrix Josh Allain's edits can always be safely undone.
- 00:3100:31, 2 April 2008 diff hist −1 Syncopation I don't see how this is an improvement over simply saying "in Dutch".
- 00:2800:28, 2 April 2008 diff hist +246 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Unexplained
1 April 2008
- 03:0303:03, 1 April 2008 diff hist +25 Lists of violinists →Other notable violinists: Tag red link w/{{fact}}
- 02:3702:37, 1 April 2008 diff hist +462 Pisgat Ze'ev No edit summary
31 March 2008
- 22:1922:19, 31 March 2008 diff hist −28 Train horn →AirChime, Ltd.: Remove another unnecessary "reference" (not), which comes close to being promotional.
- 22:1622:16, 31 March 2008 diff hist −43 Train horn →AirChime, Ltd.: This is not a proper reference ("see [bare-naked URL]". Not needed in any case: what fact is being confirmed here?
- 22:1222:12, 31 March 2008 diff hist −4 m Romani people →Latin America: Remove date overlinking.
- 22:1022:10, 31 March 2008 diff hist +38 Microphone →Measurement microphones: Fix typos; tag entire section as devoid of references.
- 18:1118:11, 31 March 2008 diff hist +33 Tanjore veena →Technique: Slightly less terse section title; better description of tuning machines; ask for citation.
- 17:5417:54, 31 March 2008 diff hist +7 Talk:Romani people →Comment from a gypsy point of view: one good turn deserves another ...
- 17:5317:53, 31 March 2008 diff hist +707 Talk:Lincoln Battalion →Abraham Lincoln brigade: Reply, and change title of section to something more meaningful than the name of the article.
- 17:4517:45, 31 March 2008 diff hist −135 Phonograph Undo; unencyclopedic, redundant with following material.
- 17:3617:36, 31 March 2008 diff hist +414 Talk:Romani people →Comment from a gypsy point of view: Annoyed reply.
- 07:5207:52, 31 March 2008 diff hist +162 User talk:Gligan →"Stupid"?: new section
- 07:1707:17, 31 March 2008 diff hist +34 m Talk:Jimi Hendrix + {{unsigned}}; move new section to bottom as is the custom here.
- 05:2805:28, 31 March 2008 diff hist +1 Fiddle Undo unexplained undo by anon IP.
- 04:3604:36, 31 March 2008 diff hist +33 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum →History: Add Hilla Rebay, also central to MoN-OA.
- 04:3304:33, 31 March 2008 diff hist +21 m Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum →History: Correct link.
- 04:3004:30, 31 March 2008 diff hist +18 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum →History: Original museum was devoted exclusively to Bauer's works.
- 04:2604:26, 31 March 2008 diff hist −134 SCSI Undo; overlong, borderline run-on sentence.
- 01:4801:48, 31 March 2008 diff hist +48 Jimi Hendrix Revert all of Josh Allain's recent edits, including a totally UNEXPLAINED removal of valid material.
- 01:4401:44, 31 March 2008 diff hist +79 Carbon microphone →Carbon microphones used as amplifiers: Then you should have written what you meant. This whole thing is uncited, in any case.
- 01:4101:41, 31 March 2008 diff hist −40 m Lincoln Battalion →Miscellaneous information: Date linking, remove newsletter-ish bit of information.
- 01:3901:39, 31 March 2008 diff hist −10 Bernal Heights, San Francisco Undo; remove confusing measure. To what does that refer: the height of the tower? the elevation of the hill?
- 01:3901:39, 31 March 2008 diff hist −174 Lincoln Battalion Undo; unencyclopedic, badly-written and ungrammatic.
30 March 2008
- 19:0919:09, 30 March 2008 diff hist +250 Talk:Romani people →Comment from a gypsy point of view
- 19:0819:08, 30 March 2008 diff hist +20 Plovdiv Undo UNEXPLAINED removal of reference. If there's a valid reason to take this out, please state so in edit summary.
- 19:0219:02, 30 March 2008 diff hist −85 MacGuffin Remove uncited example (+ OR).
- 19:0019:00, 30 March 2008 diff hist +1 Fiddle No reference needed for this long-standing statement; players in every genre call their instruments fiddles (any local variations aside, which don't contradict this overall).
- 04:5704:57, 30 March 2008 diff hist +846 MacGuffin No, it's not just an excuse to introduce "Star Wars"; deleted section points oiut a crucial problem with defining the thing itself.
29 March 2008
- 23:3323:33, 29 March 2008 diff hist +464 Pisgat Ze'ev Undo; 99% of the world recognizes it as a settlement, except for Israel, the US, and their 3 or 4 sycophants at the UN.
- 22:2622:26, 29 March 2008 diff hist −1,403 Plovdiv Undo massive, totally UNEXPLAINED edits wrongly marked as "minor" that were not an improvement.
- 22:2522:25, 29 March 2008 diff hist −129 Gimlet (cocktail) Enough trivia, already!
- 22:2322:23, 29 March 2008 diff hist −1,435 California English Remove uncited OR and unencyclopedic comment about ethnicity.
- 22:2222:22, 29 March 2008 diff hist −37 Hurdy-gurdy Remove from inappropriate red link category.
- 22:2022:20, 29 March 2008 diff hist −281 Mondegreen Remove weak, farfetched and poorly-sourced example.
- 22:2022:20, 29 March 2008 diff hist +1 Fiddle Nope, we meant what we said: it's sometimes called a fiddle *regardless* of what kind of music is played on it.
- 22:1922:19, 29 March 2008 diff hist −45 Emeryville, California Remove name of business: this isn't a business listing directory.
- 17:5917:59, 29 March 2008 diff hist −48 Lists of violinists Remove name that was carelessly placed in list out of alphabetical order.
- 17:5817:58, 29 March 2008 diff hist −53 MacGuffin Remove uncited example.
- 03:1803:18, 29 March 2008 diff hist −4 Chris Daly Undo; it appears that *you* are fervently pushing some kind of agenda here. How is "excitement", etc., remotely encyclopedic?
28 March 2008
- 17:0417:04, 28 March 2008 diff hist 0 Vibrato This section shouldn't be first in the article.
- 17:0217:02, 28 March 2008 diff hist 0 m Vibrato →Vibrato and Tremolo: lc
- 17:0217:02, 28 March 2008 diff hist +24 Jimi Hendrix →The Jimi Hendrix Experience: You're going to have to supply a citation for what sounds like an urban legend.
- 03:1303:13, 28 March 2008 diff hist +10 m Extended play →Jukebox EP: " --> in; use 1/3 character; lc.
- 03:1003:10, 28 March 2008 diff hist +31 m Extended play →The 7" EP in punk rock: " --> in; rpm is lowercase.
- 03:0703:07, 28 March 2008 diff hist −2 m Extended play →Defining "EP": Remove last greengrocer's apostrophes.
- 03:0503:05, 28 March 2008 diff hist −6 m Extended play →Defining "EP"
- 03:0203:02, 28 March 2008 diff hist −13 m Extended play →History: Use "in" instead of double hash marks; rpm is lowercase.
- 02:5902:59, 28 March 2008 diff hist 0 m Phonograph →The dominance of the gramophone record: lc
- 02:5802:58, 28 March 2008 diff hist −1 m Phonograph →The dominance of the gramophone record: Formatting, punctuation, etc.
- 02:5602:56, 28 March 2008 diff hist −11 m Phonograph →Disc versus cylinder as a recording medium: Remove false precision from measurements.
- 02:5302:53, 28 March 2008 diff hist −17 m Phonograph →The phonautograph: Remove date overlinking (don't link years only).
- 01:3001:30, 28 March 2008 diff hist +109 Jimi Hendrix Undo; *again* with the TOTALLY UNEXPLAINED removal of valid material. CUT IT OUT!
- 01:2401:24, 28 March 2008 diff hist −5 Double bass Undo; not an improvement.
27 March 2008
- 16:5716:57, 27 March 2008 diff hist −105 MacGuffin Undo; uncited.
- 16:5716:57, 27 March 2008 diff hist +464 Pisgat Ze'ev Attributed? That's what the references are for.
- 06:0206:02, 27 March 2008 diff hist +4 m Martini (cocktail) Missed one.
- 05:4505:45, 27 March 2008 diff hist +8 m Martini (cocktail) Punctuation; italics for book titles, not quotation marks, and proper em dashes.
- 05:3905:39, 27 March 2008 diff hist −87 Martini (cocktail) This sounds rather ridiculous; it's basically just gin. Needs a citation.
- 02:5502:55, 27 March 2008 diff hist +246 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →And the Violins stopped playing
- 00:5300:53, 27 March 2008 diff hist +179 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Phonograph: reply
- 00:5200:52, 27 March 2008 diff hist +37 And the Violins Stopped Playing The writing here is terrible. (Bulk of aritcle obviously written by non-native English speaker.)
- 00:5000:50, 27 March 2008 diff hist −5 Cigar Only a tobacco-company hack would put it in those terms.
26 March 2008
- 23:0723:07, 26 March 2008 diff hist +15 m Audiophile Define scope of OR & weasel tags.
- 23:0523:05, 26 March 2008 diff hist −80 Audiophile Undo edits by someone who's doing a small amount of "spam-editing", inserting links about a certain product.
- 23:0423:04, 26 March 2008 diff hist −217 Phonograph Revert back to remove all inappropriate comments about how great Thorens turntables are. This isn't an online discussion group.
- 23:0023:00, 26 March 2008 diff hist −149 Phonograph Undo; remove unencyclopedic opinion (which may be true, but doesn't belong here).
- 22:5722:57, 26 March 2008 diff hist −1 Orchestra Undo; ungrammatical.
- 22:5622:56, 26 March 2008 diff hist −23 Clawhammer Undo; remove improper not-really-a-reference, bare-naked URL. If you really feel this deserves a reference, then learn how to create an actual ref. (but probably isn't needed).
- 22:5522:55, 26 March 2008 diff hist −21 Plywood Not always true; some cheap plywood may be glued together with pretty weak adhesive.
- 17:0317:03, 26 March 2008 diff hist −1 m Talk:Romani people →Stupid dispute: sp
- 17:0117:01, 26 March 2008 diff hist +513 Talk:Romani people →Stupid dispute
- 16:5816:58, 26 March 2008 diff hist +463 Pisgat Ze'ev You're simply trying to rationalize your attempts to impart spin to this article.
- 16:5016:50, 26 March 2008 diff hist +54 Pitch (music) →19th and 20th century standards: Clean up edits with missing punctuation; ask for a reference.
- 04:3004:30, 26 March 2008 diff hist −160 MacGuffin Removing example because site given as citation seems not to be a reliable source, but rather one of those domain-squatting, revenue-generating sites.
- 01:2501:25, 26 March 2008 diff hist −36 Pan flute →Notable panflutists: Remove name of someone who's not a notable pan flutist. It's interesting and charming that he does play it, but that doesn't make him worthy of inclusion here.
- 01:2301:23, 26 March 2008 diff hist 0 Pan flute Undo edit that scrambled list that was in alphabetical order.
25 March 2008
- 16:1616:16, 25 March 2008 diff hist +4 Violin Undo unexplained removal of Wiki-link.
- 05:5105:51, 25 March 2008 diff hist −182 California English The observations of a comedian, while amusing, are neither encyclopedic nor relevant here.
- 04:2504:25, 25 March 2008 diff hist −19 m Symphonie fantastique →Fifth movement: "Songe d'une nuit de sabbat"
- 04:2404:24, 25 March 2008 diff hist −20 m Symphonie fantastique →Fourth movement: "Marche au supplice"
- 04:2004:20, 25 March 2008 diff hist −84 Paper recycling →External links: Remove link. 2 strikes against it: 1) in a foreign language, and 2) not directly related to topic of article.
- 03:5303:53, 25 March 2008 diff hist −4 m Mondegreen →History: Remove date overlinking.
- 03:5303:53, 25 March 2008 diff hist −122 Mondegreen Yeah, yeah, everyone wants to put their favorite bit in here. It's UNCITED. Out.
- 03:4303:43, 25 March 2008 diff hist −84 m Symphonie fantastique →Third movement: "Scène aux champs": Can't we just omit the introduction? Readers should see the pattern by now.
- 03:4203:42, 25 March 2008 diff hist −5 m Symphonie fantastique →Second movement: "Un bal": same thing here.
- 03:4103:41, 25 March 2008 diff hist +5 m Symphonie fantastique →First movement: "Rêveries - Passions": Slightly more elegant intro. to quote. Use Wiki-markup ({{quote}}) rather than HTML.
- 03:3703:37, 25 March 2008 diff hist +80 Rakia Undo ungrammatical edit. Please write in idiomatic English.
- 01:0901:09, 25 March 2008 diff hist 0 Deus ex machina Restore status quo ante for example changed without explanation.
24 March 2008
- 23:2723:27, 24 March 2008 diff hist +24 Martini (cocktail) →History of the drink: The name isn't capitalized.
- 23:2323:23, 24 March 2008 diff hist +1 Col legno "Precisely" instead of "properly"; a little less chiding, prescriptive.
- 23:2123:21, 24 March 2008 diff hist −140 Lincoln Battalion Remove unencyclopedic edit, complete with punk spelling.
- 17:2617:26, 24 March 2008 diff hist +433 Talk:Symphonie fantastique →Weak, unencyclopedic writing: OK by me.
- 17:2117:21, 24 March 2008 diff hist −31 Lists of violinists Remove name (admittedly a valid one) that was placed in list out of alphabetical order.
- 05:3305:33, 24 March 2008 diff hist +233 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language →Analysis: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate
- 05:2805:28, 24 March 2008 diff hist +353 Talk:Symphonie fantastique →Weak, unencyclopedic writing
- 05:2405:24, 24 March 2008 diff hist +18 m Metrication in the United States →Mars orbiter: Ironic that these measures were only given in metric here ...
- 05:2105:21, 24 March 2008 diff hist −6 m Metrication in the United States →20th century: lc; not a proper noun.
- 05:1905:19, 24 March 2008 diff hist 0 m Metrication in the United States →Illegal drugs and controlled substances: Phrase is correct, but shouldn't be capitalized.
- 05:1805:18, 24 March 2008 diff hist −20 m Metrication in the United States →Illegal drugs and controlled substances: No spaces around em dash.
- 04:2604:26, 24 March 2008 diff hist +6 m John McLaughlin (musician) →Guitars (selection): drone --> sympathetic.
- 04:1804:18, 24 March 2008 diff hist −24 Tanjore veena Remove name that was placed in list out of alphabetical order.
- 04:1604:16, 24 March 2008 diff hist +11 m Plywood →US plywood grades
- 04:1404:14, 24 March 2008 diff hist −4 m Plywood →History: Remove date overlinking.
- 04:1204:12, 24 March 2008 diff hist −15 m Plywood →Plywood production: Remove low-value red link.
- 03:5303:53, 24 March 2008 diff hist +200 Talk:Romani people →Comment from a gypsy point of view
- 03:5003:50, 24 March 2008 diff hist +452 Talk:Romani people →Comment from a gypsy point of view
- 03:3303:33, 24 March 2008 diff hist +1,622 Talk:Symphonie fantastique →Weak, unencyclopedic writing: new section
- 03:2803:28, 24 March 2008 diff hist +26 Symphonie fantastique →Third movement: "Scène aux champs": Clean up, but this still sounds very much like amateur armchair musical criticism; no citations, and lots of fluff.
- 03:2303:23, 24 March 2008 diff hist 0 m Symphonie fantastique →First movement: "Rêveries - Passions": lc--missed one.
- 03:2203:22, 24 March 2008 diff hist 0 m Symphonie fantastique →First movement: "Rêveries - Passions": lc
- 03:2103:21, 24 March 2008 diff hist 0 m Symphonie fantastique →Outline: lc
- 03:2003:20, 24 March 2008 diff hist +1 m Symphonie fantastique →Outline: While "champs" translates *literally* to "fields", in a broader sense it means "country" (as opposed to an urban setting). And these titles should be lowercase.
- 03:1803:18, 24 March 2008 diff hist +208 Talk:Romani people →Comment from a gypsy point of view
- 03:0503:05, 24 March 2008 diff hist +184 Talk:Romani people →Comment from a gypsy point of view
- 03:0403:04, 24 March 2008 diff hist −1 m Vibraphone →Popular music featuring the vibraphone
- 03:0303:03, 24 March 2008 diff hist +9 m Vibraphone →Popular music featuring the vibraphone: Here would be a place for a "pipe".
- 03:0303:03, 24 March 2008 diff hist +290 Talk:Romani people →How dare you call my people "Gypsy"!!
- 01:0801:08, 24 March 2008 diff hist +1 George Galloway →Political views: Your section titles were somewhat ambiguous: are those Galloway's views on Bush & Blair, or *their* views? While against style guidelines, but "Galloway as orator" is cleaner.
- 00:5400:54, 24 March 2008 diff hist +1 m User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →=Roma people
- 00:5400:54, 24 March 2008 diff hist −154 Michael Moore Remove comments that aren't really necessary, as most people don't confuse Moore with Hollywood directors; he's clearly working in a different genre.
23 March 2008
- 19:2119:21, 23 March 2008 diff hist +471 Talk:Romani people →Roma people in Hungary: 8-10%
- 19:1819:18, 23 March 2008 diff hist +205 Talk:Romani people →Vote: reply; move on.
- 19:1519:15, 23 March 2008 diff hist +2 m Lists of violinists →Electric violinists: Un-jam names.
- 19:1419:14, 23 March 2008 diff hist +24 m Lists of violinists →Popular music violinists (including fiddlers): Tag red link, capitalize "Celtic"
- 19:0119:01, 23 March 2008 diff hist +166 Talk:Romani people →Vote
- 18:5818:58, 23 March 2008 diff hist −57 Time signature Undo; this section, which is supposed to be a SHORT LIST of EXAMPLES, is already overloaded. Put it in that bloated list-of-all-pieces-in-weird-times article.
- 18:5418:54, 23 March 2008 diff hist −25 m Whac-A-Mole ... except that two of these items weren't references at all. Removing all non-inline references to External links section.
- 18:4818:48, 23 March 2008 diff hist +402 Talk:Romani people →Requested move: Vote: NO.
- 18:4318:43, 23 March 2008 diff hist −24 m Viola →Violists: Remove redundant author's name from book title.
- 18:4118:41, 23 March 2008 diff hist −99 m Viola →Violists: Remove unused paramaters from template, and point out that this work is in a foreign language.
- 18:2818:28, 23 March 2008 diff hist +1 m Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language →how do you get a job as a court translator
- 18:2518:25, 23 March 2008 diff hist +419 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language →how do you get a job as a court translator
- 07:0607:06, 23 March 2008 diff hist +392 Wikipedia talk:Suspected sock puppets/Boomgaylove Another one (Carritotito).
- 06:5006:50, 23 March 2008 diff hist +271 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language →how do you get a job as a court translator
- 06:4806:48, 23 March 2008 diff hist −1 m Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language →how do you get a job as a court translator
- 06:4706:47, 23 March 2008 diff hist +47 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language →how do you get a job as a court translator: + {{unsigned}}
- 06:4206:42, 23 March 2008 diff hist +517 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language →how do you get a job as a court translator
- 04:2504:25, 23 March 2008 diff hist −17 m Jimi Hendrix →Early life: punctuation.
- 01:4401:44, 23 March 2008 diff hist +76 m Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) →Ninth symphony since the 19th century: Convert bare-naked URL to a real reference.
- 01:4001:40, 23 March 2008 diff hist −29 Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) →Horn and trumpet alterations: Remove meaningless preface.
- 01:3401:34, 23 March 2008 diff hist −5 Tucson, Arizona Undo; not an improvement, and arguably false, unless you have a reference showing that these were the first quarter horse races anywhere in the world.
- 01:2501:25, 23 March 2008 diff hist +2 m Metrication in the United States →Metrication efforts: whoops.
- 01:2301:23, 23 March 2008 diff hist +92 m Metrication in the United States →Metrication efforts: Make a real reference using {{cite web}}.
- 01:1301:13, 23 March 2008 diff hist +4 m George Galloway →Daily Telegraph: Unroll citation template.
- 01:1101:11, 23 March 2008 diff hist +10 m George Galloway →Daily Telegraph: Fix odd, incorrect capitalization.
- 01:0901:09, 23 March 2008 diff hist +1 m George Galloway →Mariam Appeal: "Single child"??? What do you mean, not married?
- 01:0001:00, 23 March 2008 diff hist −4 m George Galloway →Labour Party organiser: more apt preposition.
- 00:5400:54, 23 March 2008 diff hist −42 Steel-string acoustic guitar →Steel-string guitar music and players: De-garbleize paragraph, eliminate dreaded, bogus "and/or" construct (almost always replaceable w/"or").
- 00:4800:48, 23 March 2008 diff hist −4 m George Galloway →Political views and characteristics: "and characteristics"? WTF? Better section titles.
- 00:4400:44, 23 March 2008 diff hist −12 Steel-string acoustic guitar SInce you can't be bothered to properly space your entry, it doesn't get to stay in what's supposed to be a SHORT LIST of EXAMPLES.
22 March 2008
- 22:0822:08, 22 March 2008 diff hist −16 m Time signature →Interpreting compound time signatures: A little less prescriptive-sounding, please, and reduce use of italics for emphasis.
- 22:0522:05, 22 March 2008 diff hist +17 m Time signature →Compound time signatures: Clarify representation of compound time.
- 22:0322:03, 22 March 2008 diff hist −25 m Virus →Viruses and disease: I missed the nearby link to herpes simplex, which renders this Wiki-link superfluous.
- 22:0122:01, 22 March 2008 diff hist +20 m Glued laminated timber AKA.
- 22:0022:00, 22 March 2008 diff hist +36 N Gluelam Create the redirect. current
- 22:0022:00, 22 March 2008 diff hist −427 Martini (cocktail) Yeah, right.
- 21:5921:59, 22 March 2008 diff hist +42 m Virus →Viruses and disease: Avoid redirect.
- 17:2517:25, 22 March 2008 diff hist −249 Glued laminated timber Remove irrelevant trivia; correct formatting of lead (boldface for term); stubify.
- 16:3416:34, 22 March 2008 diff hist −80 Pálinka Remove improper "See also"; this should be linked as an inter-Wiki link.
- 16:3416:34, 22 March 2008 diff hist −57 Violin Undo; this is how "listcruft" accumulates here. Someone innocently adds their favorite band to the SHORT LIST; then someone else comes along and does likewise. Nipping this in the bud.
- 05:4305:43, 22 March 2008 diff hist −50 Blunt →Other: Remove incorrect description.
- 05:4205:42, 22 March 2008 diff hist +12 m Cigar →Popular culture: Please don't link to a disambiguation page. Quotation marks, not italics, for slang term.
- 01:0601:06, 22 March 2008 diff hist −94 Alameda, California Undo; date overlinking, and irrelevant info inside a reference.
21 March 2008
- 20:4820:48, 21 March 2008 diff hist +7 m Guitar chord →Seventh and extended: Please don't use lazy, sloppy "/" construct in an encyclopedia; there's a perfectly good conjunction, "or", for this purpose.
- 19:3619:36, 21 March 2008 diff hist −14 m SCSI →SCSI command protocol: Fix badly-formatted item.
- 19:3219:32, 21 March 2008 diff hist −30 SCSI That's true, but your edit misleadingly implies that DAT & Exabyte are the same thing, which they certainly are not; DAT is 4mm, Exabyte 8mm.
- 18:5718:57, 21 March 2008 diff hist +235 Microphone After re-reading article, it's OK. Notice how you can make a "real" reference using citation templates ({{cite journal}} here).
- 18:4618:46, 21 March 2008 diff hist +30 Temescal, Oakland, California Undo unexplained removal of IPA pronunciation guide.
- 18:4118:41, 21 March 2008 diff hist −166 Microphone Undo; citation given has nothing at all to do w/ribbon microphones. Wrong link, perhaps?
- 17:5017:50, 21 March 2008 diff hist −16 m Alameda, California →Attractions: Since this is a generic term, not capitalized. Remove date overlinking.
- 17:4017:40, 21 March 2008 diff hist −8 m Diode →Voltage-current characteristics: "Zener" not capitalized; more weird non-standard quote characters.
- 17:3517:35, 21 March 2008 diff hist +338 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Persian violin tuning: reply
- 17:3317:33, 21 March 2008 diff hist −23 m Diode →Voltage-Current characteristics: Quotation marks (including getting rid of some weird non-standard word-processing glyphs).
- 17:2917:29, 21 March 2008 diff hist +463 Pisgat Ze'ev No, I don't accept that. Within the context of an internationally-disputed area, which this inescapibly is, it's a settlement *first*, an "neighborhood" second.
- 17:2517:25, 21 March 2008 diff hist −27 m Diode →History: Remove date overlinking; quotation marks.
- 17:2217:22, 21 March 2008 diff hist +12 m Diode Judgement call, but in this context "current flow" is actually a little more clear.
- 17:2017:20, 21 March 2008 diff hist +184 SCSI This statement is true: notice it says earlier devices *tended to be* fixed-block, not that they always were. SCSI supports both fixed and var. blocks, and always has.
- 03:2403:24, 21 March 2008 diff hist −227 Violin Undo; what is "distinctively Persian tuning"? The instrument is tuned the same in practically all genres world-wide.
- 00:4100:41, 21 March 2008 diff hist −166 Jimi Hendrix Remove sloppy TMI (regarding Hendrix's sartorial appearance) from lead.
- 00:3700:37, 21 March 2008 diff hist +50 Jimi Hendrix Undo unexplained removal from valid category.
20 March 2008
- 23:1123:11, 20 March 2008 diff hist −103 San Francisco Symphony →Concert Halls: Remove sloppy, irrelevant sentence by editor who couldn't be bothered to use capital letters where needed.
- 23:0923:09, 20 March 2008 diff hist +115 West Side Story →Recordings: + S.F. Symph/Ozawa.
- 21:5021:50, 20 March 2008 diff hist +630 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Pisgat Zeev II
- 21:2821:28, 20 March 2008 diff hist −59 Drill bit →Coatings: lc; remove inappopriate meta-note about search-engine results.
- 21:2521:25, 20 March 2008 diff hist +102 Drill bit →Holesaw: Describe WHAT IT IS.
- 21:2321:23, 20 March 2008 diff hist −19 Drill bit →Wood drills: Remove unnecessary HTML markup.
- 21:2121:21, 20 March 2008 diff hist −54 Drill bit →Diamond core bit: Clean up, fix misspelling, remove irrelevant patent stuff. And you got the speed exactly wrong: they're used at low speed, not high "rpms", whatever those are.
- 18:1318:13, 20 March 2008 diff hist 0 m CBS Radio Mystery Theater →Notable performers: Put list back into alphabetical order.
- 18:1218:12, 20 March 2008 diff hist +424 Talk:Paco de Lucía →Roma not gypsy
- 18:1018:10, 20 March 2008 diff hist −35 CBS Radio Mystery Theater →Notable performers: No good reason to cite a particular show for this one person only.
- 18:0618:06, 20 March 2008 diff hist −1 Microphone Fix un-euphonious edit. Nobody says "an unidirectional".
- 18:0618:06, 20 March 2008 diff hist +7 m Jimi Hendrix →Amplifiers and effects: Fix another wrong "spelling correction".
- 18:0418:04, 20 March 2008 diff hist −306 Deus ex machina Removing material having nothing to do w/subject of article. Just because something is *called* "deus ex machina" doesn't make it one.
- 18:0318:03, 20 March 2008 diff hist +463 Pisgat Ze'ev Yes, I quite agree: "neighborhood" is a disputed euphemism and shouldn't be used.
- 18:0118:01, 20 March 2008 diff hist +10 m Jimi Hendrix →Fender Stratocaster: Whoops, missed one.
- 17:5817:58, 20 March 2008 diff hist −31 Jimi Hendrix →Fender Stratocaster: Please be more careful when using spelling checkers: in this case, "Strat" is correct, while "start" is not.
- 17:5417:54, 20 March 2008 diff hist −70 Violin →History: Fix citation templates; fix non-idiomatic English (articles, like "the", are required before certain nouns and noun phrases).
- 06:0806:08, 20 March 2008 diff hist +6 m Virus →Origins: Unroll citation templates.
- 06:0506:05, 20 March 2008 diff hist +44 m Virus →Discovery of viruses: Unroll citation templates.
- 05:5805:58, 20 March 2008 diff hist +1 m Virus →Etymology: Unroll citation templates.
- 01:2101:21, 20 March 2008 diff hist −49 Classical music Remove inconsequential observation.
- 01:2001:20, 20 March 2008 diff hist −511 Classical music Remove paragraph that did more harm than good, containing an absurd apples-to-oranges comparison.
- 01:0901:09, 20 March 2008 diff hist −10 Classical music Revert: "traditions" shouldn't be used, as it implies folk or other types of music. The original was better.
- 00:5800:58, 20 March 2008 diff hist −18 m Scientific pitch notation →Similar systems: I'm not sure this is what was meant; in any case, let's simplify this and just say "software and hardware" and leave documentation out of it.
- 00:5600:56, 20 March 2008 diff hist +24 Lists of violinists →Other notable violinists: Tag suspicious-looking red link (15-year old "notable" violinist? I doubt it ...)
19 March 2008
- 19:1719:17, 19 March 2008 diff hist −80 Jimi Hendrix Restore lead to long-standing status quo ante, by removing superfluous "bandleader" and "producer", functions which were subsidiary to the things he is known for.
- 18:0318:03, 19 March 2008 diff hist +75 m Martinez, California →Beaver controversy: Last reference.
- 18:0118:01, 19 March 2008 diff hist +127 m Martinez, California →Beaver controversy: Another real reference.
- 17:5917:59, 19 March 2008 diff hist +128 Martinez, California →Beaver controversy: Now here's how we make a proper reference, using the {{cite news}} template. No bare-naked URLs!
- 17:5617:56, 19 March 2008 diff hist −140 Martinez, California →Beaver controversy: Removing video link improperly used as reference. Find a text link or none at all.
- 17:5417:54, 19 March 2008 diff hist −88 Martinez, California →Beaver controversy: Clean ujp; remove improper in-line external links (change to references). Remove last sentence; this is not a newspaper or newsletter.
- 17:3717:37, 19 March 2008 diff hist −13 m Missa in tempore belli →Compositional sections: Replace unnecessarily vague and academic-sounding title.
- 17:3517:35, 19 March 2008 diff hist −1 m Pitch (music) →Perception of pitch: Remove odd space between digit and percent sign.
- 17:3317:33, 19 March 2008 diff hist +1 Deus ex machina Remove unencyclopedic abbreviation (totally not needed) and bogus "slash" formation.
- 17:3217:32, 19 March 2008 diff hist +45 Time signature →Simple and compound time signatures: The signature consists of two *numbers*, not two *notes*.
- 04:0204:02, 19 March 2008 diff hist +313 Talk:Paco de Lucía →Roma not gypsy
- 03:5803:58, 19 March 2008 diff hist −34 m Metrication opposition Simplify wording.
- 03:1203:12, 19 March 2008 diff hist −2 Guitar chord Undo; 6 strings = 5 intervals.
- 03:1103:11, 19 March 2008 diff hist +47 Martinez, California Undo mysterious title and unwarranted removal of tag.
18 March 2008
- 23:5423:54, 18 March 2008 diff hist −10 Cello Remove name from list that's already far too long.
- 23:5423:54, 18 March 2008 diff hist −169 Deus ex machina Get rid of Donnie Darko and some other random crap.
- 23:5323:53, 18 March 2008 diff hist +1 Symphonie fantastique Undo misspelled edit.
- 23:5223:52, 18 March 2008 diff hist +43 Martinez, California What does "reference material" have to do with it? Your edits are unencyclopedic. Besides, everything's in the main article; check it.
- 21:5621:56, 18 March 2008 diff hist −681 Martinez, California Please don't keep substituting your version, which is unencyclopedic, badly capitalized, and uncited (YouTube is not a valid reference).
- 21:5221:52, 18 March 2008 diff hist −15 Jimi Hendrix Undo; the fact that he was a studio owner is marginal and doesn't belong in the lead.
- 17:3417:34, 18 March 2008 diff hist +166 Wikipedia talk:Suspected sock puppets/Boomgaylove →New Checkuser results
- 17:2817:28, 18 March 2008 diff hist +389 Wikipedia talk:Suspected sock puppets/Boomgaylove →New Checkuser results
- 17:2317:23, 18 March 2008 diff hist −680 Martinez, California Undo; unencyclopedic writing, not an improvement.
- 17:2017:20, 18 March 2008 diff hist +1 m Violin in music →Modern jazz, 1961-present: whoops
- 17:1917:19, 18 March 2008 diff hist 0 m Wikipedia talk:Suspected sock puppets/Boomgaylove →New Checkuser results: Correct gender of sockpuppetteer/sockpuppets; hope you don't mind.
- 17:1817:18, 18 March 2008 diff hist −28 m Violin in music →Modern Jazz, 1961-date: clean up.
- 17:1617:16, 18 March 2008 diff hist +280 Wikipedia talk:Suspected sock puppets/Boomgaylove →New Checkuser results
- 17:1417:14, 18 March 2008 diff hist −24 Violin in music Remove name from already-overloaded list.
- 17:1317:13, 18 March 2008 diff hist −124 Lists of violinists →Indian violinists (including Carnatic and Hindustani): Remove names placed in list out of alphabetical order.
- 17:1217:12, 18 March 2008 diff hist +58 m Scientific pitch notation →External links: Please don't just plunk down bare-naked URLs as external links; how hard is it to come up with a decent description?
- 17:0617:06, 18 March 2008 diff hist −21 m Scientific pitch notation →Similar systems: Reword, remove italics used for emphasis.
- 17:0217:02, 18 March 2008 diff hist +351 Talk:Virus →Unrolling citations for ease of editing: reply
- 05:5305:53, 18 March 2008 diff hist −129 Martini (cocktail) Undid revision 199013238 by 74.64.117.105 (talk)
- 05:5305:53, 18 March 2008 diff hist −7 Guitar amplifier Since this is uncited, it's all speculative.
- 02:0802:08, 18 March 2008 diff hist +1,324 Talk:Virus →Unrolling citations for ease of editing: new section
- 01:5601:56, 18 March 2008 diff hist +210 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Unrolling citation templates in virus: reply
- 01:4301:43, 18 March 2008 diff hist +453 User talk:ILike2BeAnonymous →Unrolling citation templates in virus
- 01:4001:40, 18 March 2008 diff hist −2 m Virus →History and discovery of viruses: lc; section is about the discovery (and the history thereof), not the history of viruses themselves.
- 01:3601:36, 18 March 2008 diff hist +20 m Virus →Structure: Quotation marks; unroll citation templates.
- 01:3101:31, 18 March 2008 diff hist 0 Virus You're absolutely correct. For consistency's sake, changing all verb forms to "-ize"; there were more -izes than -ises.
17 March 2008
- 22:3722:37, 17 March 2008 diff hist +15 E Clampus Vitus →History: Remove italics used inappropriately for emphasis; ask for attribution (who says?); remove date overlinking.
- 22:3622:36, 17 March 2008 diff hist −97 m ECV →Other: Remove item, which now links to a disambiguation page.
- 22:3522:35, 17 March 2008 diff hist +1 m Clipping (signal processing) →Analog circuitry: whoops.
- 22:3422:34, 17 March 2008 diff hist +14 m Clamper (Electronics) Fix link, which is now a disambiguation page.
- 22:3322:33, 17 March 2008 diff hist +21 m Clipping (signal processing) →Analog circuitry: Fix link, which now goes to a disambig. page.
- 22:3222:32, 17 March 2008 diff hist +14 m Clipper (electronics) →See also: Fix link, which is now a disambig. page.
- 22:3122:31, 17 March 2008 diff hist +14 m Diode clamp Fix link, which is now a disambiguation page. current
- 22:3022:30, 17 March 2008 diff hist −15 m E Clampus Vitus →History: Remove unnecessary link to disambig. page; remove date overlinking.
- 22:2622:26, 17 March 2008 diff hist +13 m Schottky diode Fix link which now goes to disambig. page.
- 22:2622:26, 17 March 2008 diff hist +10 m Diode →Types of semiconductor diode: Fix link that now goes to disambig. page; remove odd spaces around slashes.
- 22:2322:23, 17 March 2008 diff hist +12 Jimi Hendrix Remove meaningless, euphemistic term ("European"), replace with plain, meaningful "white".
- 22:2222:22, 17 March 2008 diff hist −749 Clamper Make this a disambiguation page.
- 22:1822:18, 17 March 2008 diff hist +576 Clamper (electronics) Changing this from a redirect (to "Clamper") to article proper; "Clamper" will be a disambiguation page.
- 22:1222:12, 17 March 2008 diff hist −12 E Clampus Vitus Remove totally irrelevant link to electronic circuit.
- 22:0922:09, 17 March 2008 diff hist 0 m West Oakland, Oakland, California →Housing Projects: lc
- 19:5419:54, 17 March 2008 diff hist +544 Talk:Romani people →"Roma\Romani people" vs "Gypsies": reply
- 04:1204:12, 17 March 2008 diff hist −41 California English Remove unnecessary item from list; this is only supposed to be a short list of examples, not an exhaustive list of every city in the East Bay.
- 04:0604:06, 17 March 2008 diff hist +3 m Microphone →Blimps: Remove unencyclopedic use of slash.
- 02:3202:32, 17 March 2008 diff hist −10 m Jig →References: Article has only 1 reference; move other link to External links.
- 02:2902:29, 17 March 2008 diff hist +71 m Jig Replace needlessly anachronistic-sounding "treble" w/"triple"; lc; make a real reference using {{cite web}}.
- 02:1502:15, 17 March 2008 diff hist −7 m Microphone →Microphone covers
- 02:1502:15, 17 March 2008 diff hist −4 Drill bit →Use in spotting hole centers: Tone down prescriptive ("should do", how-to) tone; punctuation.
- 02:1102:11, 17 March 2008 diff hist −19 Microphone →Microphone windscreens: Not all who use mics are "artists"; disambiguate "plosive"; remove excess verbiage ("In design, ..."); "shock absorber" not right term.
- 00:4700:47, 17 March 2008 diff hist +26 m Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) →Premiere and history: Date linking; people have birthdays, cities and such have anniversaries.
- 00:4500:45, 17 March 2008 diff hist −2 m Compact disc bronzing lc; word order.
- 00:4200:42, 17 March 2008 diff hist 0 m Compact disc →See also: lc
- 00:3500:35, 17 March 2008 diff hist +15 m Microphone →Microphone windscreens: Avoid redirect.
- 00:3400:34, 17 March 2008 diff hist −7 Microphone →Microphone windscreens: Explain plosives; clean up. Remove totally bogus and never-needed "and/or" construct. Cut down excess verbiage.
16 March 2008
- 08:0208:02, 16 March 2008 diff hist −378 Mondegreen Remove another unreferenced example.
- 04:3104:31, 16 March 2008 diff hist −132 Gimlet (cocktail) This is unencyclopedic trivia that doesn't belong in the article.
- 01:0901:09, 16 March 2008 diff hist −234 Metrication opposition Remove unencyclopedic (and sophomoric) aside.
15 March 2008
- 18:1718:17, 15 March 2008 diff hist −8 Cigar Undid revision 198398934 by 203.122.110.244 (talk)
- 18:0218:02, 15 March 2008 diff hist −21 MacGuffin Undo; while what you're trying to do is appreciated, this is a meta-comment that doesn't belong in the article text. We'll just have to put up with improper examples, I guess.
- 17:5717:57, 15 March 2008 diff hist −15 m Coated paper Compounds not a useful link in this context.
- 06:0906:09, 15 March 2008 diff hist −13 Cigar →Little cigars: Remove synonym not worth mentioning.
14 March 2008
- 22:1722:17, 14 March 2008 diff hist −21 Jimi Hendrix →The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Wiki-link "camp" (disambiguated), clean up.
- 22:0922:09, 14 March 2008 diff hist −132 Gimlet (cocktail) Remove ridiculous reference to fictional TV character's drink preference.
- 22:0722:07, 14 March 2008 diff hist −138 Deus ex machina Removing Donnie Darko crap, again.
- 22:0722:07, 14 March 2008 diff hist −1 m Jimi Hendrix Corrrect number.
- 22:0622:06, 14 March 2008 diff hist −373 Mondegreen Remove weak, undocumented example.
- 18:0818:08, 14 March 2008 diff hist −3 Stephen Jay Gould →As a scientist: Better section title; unroll citation templates.
- 18:0218:02, 14 March 2008 diff hist −103 Stephen Jay Gould →Personal life: Remove "Duh!" statement re:divorce; unroll citation templates; italics for publication title; remove trivia.
- 03:4503:45, 14 March 2008 diff hist −21 m Michael Moore →Biography: There's absolutely no reason for this top-level heading.
- 00:4600:46, 14 March 2008 diff hist −30 9-track tape →Typical Operation: Replace typewriter em dashes w/real ones.
- 00:2900:29, 14 March 2008 diff hist −78 Bernal Heights, San Francisco Remove god-damned commercial real-estate link.
- 00:0000:00, 14 March 2008 diff hist +186 Rockwell Kent →External links: This is a good link; better link description & correct URL.
13 March 2008
- 23:5523:55, 13 March 2008 diff hist −10 m Fingerstyle guitar →Ragtime guitar: Might as well let the capitalization he uses stand, even though it looks REALLY weird ...
- 23:5323:53, 13 March 2008 diff hist −1 m Jimi Hendrix →Early life: reword
- 23:5123:51, 13 March 2008 diff hist +3 m Jimi Hendrix →Early life: Broomstick=1 word; substitute real em dashes for "typewriter" ones.
- 23:4823:48, 13 March 2008 diff hist −919 Mondegreen Remove weak example (the lyrics to that song could be heard as just about *anything*), and YouTube is not a valid source for references.
- 23:3923:39, 13 March 2008 diff hist −19 Oakland, California Remove ZIP code from infobox, which is totally inappropriate and meaningless, as the city has many of them.
- 23:3823:38, 13 March 2008 diff hist +312 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moodswinger Annoyed reply.
- 23:3523:35, 13 March 2008 diff hist −4 Martini (cocktail) →Preparation: Remove red link, to an article that should never be created here.
- 23:3423:34, 13 March 2008 diff hist −16 Gimlet (cocktail) Remove red link; no article on this should ever be created (it'd be down there in the noise with all the other trivia around here).
- 04:4704:47, 13 March 2008 diff hist +7 m Jimi Hendrix →Army: Section title a bit terse.
- 04:4604:46, 13 March 2008 diff hist +27 m Jimi Hendrix →Early life: Unroll citation templates; remove unnecessary quotes around names; he was named what he was named, not "Quote" name.
- 04:4204:42, 13 March 2008 diff hist −206 Jimi Hendrix Remove badly-written trivia.
- 04:3504:35, 13 March 2008 diff hist −10 m Cigar →United States embargo against Cuba: Unroll citation template; remove completely unnecessary dating ("As of 2008").
- 04:3004:30, 13 March 2008 diff hist −6 m Colma, California →Colma: The Musical: Remove unnecessary boldface.
- 04:2804:28, 13 March 2008 diff hist −22 Colma, California →History: Remove date overlinking; formatting.
- 03:1703:17, 13 March 2008 diff hist −95 MacGuffin No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
- 00:0500:05, 13 March 2008 diff hist −81 Martini (cocktail) Remove unencyclopdic link to useless, commericial, domain-sitting site.
12 March 2008
- 23:5923:59, 12 March 2008 diff hist −743 Martinez, California Remove uncited and somewhat unencyclopedic material on beaver controversy. Not an improvement over what was already here.
- 23:5823:58, 12 March 2008 diff hist +24 Brentwood, California →Name origin: Not disputing this; it would just be nice to see some confirmation.
- 23:5823:58, 12 March 2008 diff hist −142 Tucson, Arizona Remove some cruft from this trivia section.
- 21:5421:54, 12 March 2008 diff hist −329 Deus ex machina Remove the ridiculous god-damned Donnie Darko example, AGAIN.
- 20:5320:53, 12 March 2008 diff hist −101 Deus ex machina Remove example: undocumented, trivial.
- 20:5120:51, 12 March 2008 diff hist +475 Talk:Positron emission tomography →Brand names in illustration: new section
- 20:4820:48, 12 March 2008 diff hist +884 User talk:YuriLandman →Small note on language: new section
- 20:4320:43, 12 March 2008 diff hist −14 m Microphone →Connectors: Why not just use the link as-is, since it fits?
- 20:4120:41, 12 March 2008 diff hist −34 Lists of violinists Remove name that was placed in list out of alphabetical order.
- 20:3520:35, 12 March 2008 diff hist −9 m Tomography →Modern tomography: Eliminate redirect, find correct link.