User contributions for JESL2

16 November 2024

• 22:1322:13, 16 November 2024 diff hist +3 m Secret Treaty of Dover →Consequences: Inserted omitted 'of'.

6 November 2024

• 07:3007:30, 6 November 2024 diff hist +8 Baptists →English separatist view: Added a date for the Polish Brethren's expulsion from Poland (sourced from the Wikipedia article) to give more context.
• 00:3400:34, 6 November 2024 diff hist +310 Farnese Hercules →Later copies: improved link, improved and cited Blair Castle copy

2 November 2024

• 14:1414:14, 2 November 2024 diff hist 0 m Lollardy →Representations in art and literature: disambiguated sentence

21 October 2024

• 04:2404:24, 21 October 2024 diff hist +25 m Robert A. Taft →Political positions: Linked to Bretton Woods system

19 October 2024

• 21:5121:51, 19 October 2024 diff hist +1 m Theodore Beza →Humanistic and historical writings: Corrected Abrahm Sacrifiant to Abraham Sacrifiant
• 21:4821:48, 19 October 2024 diff hist +4 m Theodore Beza →Humanistic and historical writings: Italicised ''Abraham Sacrifiant''

17 October 2024

• 04:1904:19, 17 October 2024 diff hist +27 Luther Holden →Biography: Replaced the obsolete 'classic' with 'classical scholar'. The whole article seems to be plagiarized from Plarr's _Lives of the Fellows_, and Plarr uses 'classic' in this sense.

28 September 2024

• 20:5020:50, 28 September 2024 diff hist −23 Georg August Wallin Moved image of Wallin's tombstone to support description of it earlier in the article.

27 September 2024

• 11:5211:52, 27 September 2024 diff hist +40 Ersatz good →World War II: For "Food Providing Ministry", put in inverted commas as not official name, added link to Reichsnährstand in brackets and qualified with 'reportedly' as source may be drawing on wartime propaganda. current

25 September 2024

• 07:4807:48, 25 September 2024 diff hist +70 John Colbatch (apothecary) →Works: Added 'The Doctrine of Acids in the Cure of Diseases' to publications list.

13 September 2024

• 07:3907:39, 13 September 2024 diff hist +3 Custodian helmet →Use in countries outside the Commonwealth: Amended the caption to photo of Cosenza police as unclear which country they were from in a section devoted to various countries' police forces.

1 September 2024

• 20:2220:22, 1 September 2024 diff hist +426 William Edward Hickson →Legacy: Took out Capt. Marryat's ''Children of the New Forest'' (1847) written post-''Singing Master'' (1836) and contextualized Palmer's 1840 book.

18 August 2024

• 20:0520:05, 18 August 2024 diff hist +517 Georg August Wallin →Biography: I've updated spelling of placenames in Saudi Arabia, plus filled in details and dates from the much fuller French Wikipedia page of his three expeditions and of his earlier arrival in Cairo. It would probably be worth translating the Finnish wikipedia page.
• 18:4818:48, 18 August 2024 diff hist −4 m Georg August Wallin "the South-west Asia" -> "South-west Asia"

4 August 2024

• 14:0314:03, 4 August 2024 diff hist +40 Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz →History: Clarified the Volksbühne. current

28 July 2024

• 14:2214:22, 28 July 2024 diff hist 0 m Michel Bataille →Works: standardized French capitalization
• 14:2014:20, 28 July 2024 diff hist +369 Michel Bataille →Works: Added french titles (only one book published in English)
• 13:5313:53, 28 July 2024 diff hist +24 Michel Bataille →Biography: Titles were a mixture of French and English - standardized on French. Added publication dates.
• 13:1913:19, 28 July 2024 diff hist +30 Prix des Deux Magots "The two figurines of China" to the less ambiguous "''The Two Magots'' (a [magot] is a type of Chinese figurine)".

7 July 2024

• 01:2001:20, 7 July 2024 diff hist +270 Azure (heraldry) Corrected Arabic transliteration (citation provided). Added link to Anglo-Norman language current

30 June 2024

• 15:2615:26, 30 June 2024 diff hist +38 Black Worcester pear →Heraldry: fixed link to Worcestershire Yeomanry (was incorrectly Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry as per error in source). current

29 June 2024

• 16:5416:54, 29 June 2024 diff hist +3 Worcester, Massachusetts →Colonial era: Changed "Crown's courts" (referring to as "it") to "the Crown's court" (i.e. the Government's court, not the court of Mr. Crown). For consistency, capitalized "crown" (in the sense "Government) when repeated once in the following paragraphs.
• 11:3111:31, 29 June 2024 diff hist 0 m Adam and the Ants →Formation: Typo correction

7 June 2024

• 23:4823:48, 7 June 2024 diff hist +146 Edda →The Poetic Edda: Changed title to W. G. Collingwood illustration (copied from page 'Poetic Edda'.

6 June 2024

• 09:2709:27, 6 June 2024 diff hist +38 Observer's Books updated link to OPSCS page current

27 May 2024

• 06:1706:17, 27 May 2024 diff hist +25 Shva 'abducted' -> 'abducted vowel' (for tnuʿá ẖatufá). Added citation request.

22 May 2024

• 14:3414:34, 22 May 2024 diff hist +38 Kasrilevka Numerous small corrections (mentsheleh->mentshelekh, Fumen Yarid -> Funem Yarid, etc.)

29 April 2024

• 21:1221:12, 29 April 2024 diff hist +13 m Marwan I →Secretary of Uthman: corrected Hugh N. Kennedy to show as Hugh Kennedy in link.
• 21:0521:05, 29 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri →Life: Fixed typo ("prove temporary" -> "proved temporary" referring to a change of heart)

27 April 2024

• 02:5002:50, 27 April 2024 diff hist +51 Procopius →List of selected works: Corrected Penguin Classics details

14 April 2024

• 23:1823:18, 14 April 2024 diff hist +22 m Kimbra Linked Vincent Fantauzzo

13 April 2024

• 22:0822:08, 13 April 2024 diff hist +7 m Sanskrit →Writing system: closed bracketing em-dash, harmonized number
• 12:3712:37, 13 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Muscular Christianity →Africa: capitalised muscular Christianity 2 times (outside quotations) for consistency

12 April 2024

• 19:0419:04, 12 April 2024 diff hist −67 Abraham Mitrie Rihbany →List of his books: took out link to reprint edition of The Syrian Christ from "List of his books"

10 March 2024

• 07:4307:43, 10 March 2024 diff hist +35 Umar →Death of Muhammad: Added Qur'an citation for ayah quoted by Bukhari

29 January 2024

• 09:3909:39, 29 January 2024 diff hist +8 Ross McWhirter →Assassination: added date of assassins' conviction

20 January 2024

• 11:0311:03, 20 January 2024 diff hist +83 Wael Hallaq →Research and publications: Italicised book titles, linked awards

6 January 2024

• 18:2018:20, 6 January 2024 diff hist +4 Alexander III of Scotland →Fictional portrayals: Linked to Thomas the Rhymer

30 December 2023

• 14:3614:36, 30 December 2023 diff hist +6 Breathe (The Prodigy song) →Critical reception: corrected typo, referring to the Guardian review it quotes.

25 December 2023

• 08:2608:26, 25 December 2023 diff hist 0 m Punch and Judy →Published scripts: Ungarbled a sentence "A transcript […] of the found in [Mayhew]"->"A transcript […] may be found in [Mayhew]"

24 December 2023

• 13:0613:06, 24 December 2023 diff hist +118 Tafas massacre →Background: Unmangled grammar, blockquoted long excerpt from Lawrence's diary, added link to online version of With Lawrence in Arabia.

23 December 2023

• 21:1621:16, 23 December 2023 diff hist +12 Ravensbrück concentration camp →Guards: moved 'Aufseher' before use of 'overseer' and gave the word its translation.

18 December 2023

• 17:2217:22, 18 December 2023 diff hist −7 Black cardamom Took out Indian from 'green Indian cardomom' due to potential for confusion as Indian cardamom refered to earlier as black cardomom

17 December 2023

• 14:5214:52, 17 December 2023 diff hist +306 Serjeant-at-law →Decline and abolition: cited reference to Spink description "rather undistinguished"
• 14:4914:49, 17 December 2023 diff hist +326 Frederick Spinks Cited Polden quotation, took polden name out as no Wiki link current

14 December 2023

• 09:0609:06, 14 December 2023 diff hist +3 Castor oil →Punishment: Changed famous -> notorious for Fascist use of castor oil against enemies.

10 December 2023

• 07:1007:10, 10 December 2023 diff hist +16 Muslim conquest of Persia Regularized spelling of Al-Hira (Hira, Al-Hira, al-Hira). Battle of Hira remains thus as that is the conventional name.
• 04:2204:22, 10 December 2023 diff hist +18 m Lawrence of Arabia (film) →Filming: changed punctuation
• 04:1704:17, 10 December 2023 diff hist +127 Lawrence of Arabia (film) →Filming: Corrected Arabic and corrected citation with link to source