User contributions for Mucketymuck
A user with 5,048 edits. Account created on 21 April 2018.
21 July 2024
- 19:1719:17, 21 July 2024 diff hist +16 m Aiken Drum Translations embracketed; internal link added. current
- 05:3805:38, 21 July 2024 diff hist −2 m Songbird Preposition improved; “from” would befit in speaking, say, of a species’ spread from its source. current
- 05:3505:35, 21 July 2024 diff hist +4 m New Zealand wren Adjective misused as preposition. current
- 03:3603:36, 21 July 2024 diff hist +1 m Cædmon Non-restrictive clause. current
20 July 2024
- 21:5421:54, 20 July 2024 diff hist −2 m Mayflower Adjective misused three times as preposition; closing quote marks excised at end of "First winter" section, as the preceding lines had no opening ones. current
- 21:2221:22, 20 July 2024 diff hist +1 m Marshall Field's No edit summary current
- 05:0505:05, 20 July 2024 diff hist −6 m Mallet finger Sentence's subject altered to match modifier. current
- 04:4404:44, 20 July 2024 diff hist +1 m Gaius Caesar →Background current
- 04:3504:35, 20 July 2024 diff hist −2 m Reduviidae List made parallel (i.e., let an article precede the entire list or each member of it). current
19 July 2024
- 07:2707:27, 19 July 2024 diff hist +18 m Fall of the Western Roman Empire Comma inserted to render phrase parallel. current
- 06:2006:20, 19 July 2024 diff hist +6 m Mayflower Saxon genitives standardized.
- 05:1205:12, 19 July 2024 diff hist −7 m Cary Grant Prose altered slightly to reduce dull repetition of sentences beginning, “He was...” current
16 July 2024
- 05:5905:59, 16 July 2024 diff hist +4 m John Steinbeck →Tortilla Flat: Long artwork's name belongs in italics.
13 July 2024
- 21:0521:05, 13 July 2024 diff hist +9 m Pregnancy over age 50 →Cases of pregnancy over age 50: No need for a link that merely redirects reader to same WP page. current
- 20:5220:52, 13 July 2024 diff hist −5 m Pregnancy over age 50 Prose improved. (As used here, “12 consecutive months without having had any menstrual flow” actually means the months have had no menstrual flow, not the woman, and “the oldest living mother who gave birth at the age of 73” still reads incorrect even if the the relative clause be set off with a comma and so treated as non-restrictive.)
12 July 2024
- 07:5407:54, 12 July 2024 diff hist −196 Cranioplasty Style improved; internal link added. No need to define “contraindication” here, or to repeat internal links to autografts and allografts in same section. current
- 06:5606:56, 12 July 2024 diff hist −27 m Cranioplasty →Development of modern materials: Style improved; internal link added. No need for abbreviation WWI, as it appears in this article only once.
10 July 2024
- 05:2305:23, 10 July 2024 diff hist 0 m Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. List made parallel. current
- 04:4404:44, 10 July 2024 diff hist +7 m Albert Ferdinand Shore “Shore was a metallurgist who invented the Shore durometer” implies there was more than one inventor. Close variations (“a metallurgist, who invented the Shore durometer,” or in context “the metallurgist who invented the Shore durometer”) are awkward. current
- 04:3204:32, 10 July 2024 diff hist −4 m Linear elasticity Adjective misused as preposition. current
- 04:3104:31, 10 July 2024 diff hist +1 m Young's modulus Non-restrictive clause. current
- 03:5603:56, 10 July 2024 diff hist +74 James Jones (author) →Adaptations: Passage simplified. WP article on '53 film notes that it won the Best Picture Oscar (inter alia), and article on TV miniseries notes that the ensuing TV series was a soap opera. current
9 July 2024
- 17:0817:08, 9 July 2024 diff hist +106 Jim Croce Prose touched up a bit for style and formal grammar; internal links added. I’ve added a link to Zurich, which is less populous than Dublin, which was already linked to here. Tommy West’s WP page says he was a Villanova alum. “Positive,” in “positive reviews,” is trite.
- 17:0217:02, 9 July 2024 diff hist +5 m Sensory illusions in aviation "Inflight" isn't really a word.
- 16:2916:29, 9 July 2024 diff hist +4 m Rock and roll No edit summary
- 07:2907:29, 9 July 2024 diff hist +5 m Viscoelasticity Clarification, as “strain” might be taken in quick reading as a verb: they resist shear flow and they strain linearly under stress. current
8 July 2024
- 20:4420:44, 8 July 2024 diff hist +10 m Ferrari 308 GTB/GTS Compound adjective. current
6 July 2024
- 18:5918:59, 6 July 2024 diff hist 0 m Space frame Compound adjective. current
- 18:5818:58, 6 July 2024 diff hist 0 Costume Summary simplified and clarified a bit; internal links added.
- 18:5218:52, 6 July 2024 diff hist +145 Elvin Bale Named closed website deleted; links added. current
- 18:4718:47, 6 July 2024 diff hist −15 m Clown No edit summary
- 18:4518:45, 6 July 2024 diff hist +15 m Clown No edit summary
- 18:4118:41, 6 July 2024 diff hist +55 Clown Text simplified and clarified a bit; links added.
- 07:5807:58, 6 July 2024 diff hist −25 m Wild boar →Description: Prose touched up and simplified a bit for sake of style and formal grammar. current
- 06:5106:51, 6 July 2024 diff hist +29 m Archaeoindris Formal grammar (including adjective “based” misused as preposition) and style improved a bit. current
5 July 2024
- 07:3607:36, 5 July 2024 diff hist +27 m Glockenspiel Point added. Tag: Reverted
- 06:4306:43, 5 July 2024 diff hist 0 m Polar body →Twinning: More appropriate verb. current
- 06:2306:23, 5 July 2024 diff hist +510 Cattle →Etymology: Points added; sources cited. Also, non-restrictive clause punctuated.
3 July 2024
- 22:0322:03, 3 July 2024 diff hist +6 m Bleb (cell biology) Subject added, as second predicate is not modified by leading adverb. current
- 22:0022:00, 3 July 2024 diff hist +2 m Polar body →Twinning: Tense corrected.
- 06:3506:35, 3 July 2024 diff hist −4 m Jimmy McGriff →1990s–2000s: Adjective misused as preposition. current
30 June 2024
- 18:3718:37, 30 June 2024 diff hist +4 m Saint Jack (film) No edit summary
- 18:3018:30, 30 June 2024 diff hist +1 m Peter Bogdanovich Non-restrictive complement.
- 18:2818:28, 30 June 2024 diff hist +1 m A Child Is Waiting No edit summary current
- 05:2605:26, 30 June 2024 diff hist −35 m I'm No Angel Prose improved; FDR's public name generally included his middle initial. current
29 June 2024
- 05:5205:52, 29 June 2024 diff hist 0 m Power pop Compound adjective. current
- 05:5005:50, 29 June 2024 diff hist +1 m Kurt Russell No edit summary
28 June 2024
- 05:3305:33, 28 June 2024 diff hist +10 m Historical revisionism Formal grmmar improved.
- 05:2105:21, 28 June 2024 diff hist +3 m The Aeronauts (film) →Streaming: It's unclear whether "Head" is Salke's actual job title. current
27 June 2024
- 06:0106:01, 27 June 2024 diff hist +9 Coalition government →Coalition agreement: This paragraph contained awkward prose and even an incomplete sentence; it was was hard to make sense of and may been the result of a bad translation to English. I’ve tried to clarify it. “If both parties agree in an issue, it is not the case” seems superfluous.