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07:3707:37, 8 January 2025 diff hist +63 Madoff investment scandal →The Innocence Project: CORRECT the hyperlink at the end of this sub-section, by having it point [correctly] to the "Norman F. Levy" (sub-) section of the article [about] "Participants in the Madoff investment scandal". In case anyone cares (this is unimportant), preserve the way the "parenthetical" contents [after and "except for", the italicized word "See"] are displayed. A colon and a blank (instead of a # character) are displayed between the article name and the sub-section name.

16:3116:31, 7 January 2025 diff hist +83 Lady Godiva →Historical figure: Change the wording of the second paragraph to be less confusing ... partly by dividing the first sentence into two shorter sentences. Also, partly by expanding the noun phrase "this act" to "this act of generosity", since otherwise the word "act" could mean a law [it might "refer to" a certain law].

07:1007:10, 6 January 2025 diff hist −10 m Talk:Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom →Where that link is: remove a word that was typed in (and / or ... not deleted) BY MISTAKE.
07:0707:07, 6 January 2025 diff hist +2,006 Talk:Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom →Which section of this article should (a certain link) point to?: new section Tag: New topic

21:2221:22, 5 January 2025 diff hist +55 Isotropy →Pharmacology: Correct a TYPO in (the "Title" portion of) the contents of the "ref" tag for footnote number "[5]". Although this "ref" tag does not include (it does not use) a "{{cite ***}}" template instance, it does contain -- (in an informal way) -- fields that are "like" the fields for author, title, publisher, and [the "year' portion of the] date. The "title" had a minor TYPO or misspelling. (()). The actual source says: "Liposomes". current
21:1121:11, 5 January 2025 diff hist +1 Isotropy →Pharmacology: Correct a TYPO in (the "Title" portion of) the contents of the "

07:4707:47, 2 January 2025 diff hist +681 Hashgacha Pratit (organization) →Background: Update the "ref" tag for footnote number "[1]". The only URL shown in the previous version of that "ref" tag (for that footnote) pointed to a web page on the "en.idi.org.il" website, which -- (as now noted in a "quote" field value) -- was a reprinting (or republishing), from the original publisher. The original publisher (which is now correctly stated in the updated version of that "ref" tag) was: "The Forward". current

16:5516:55, 30 December 2024 diff hist +106 m Moshe Vardi →Personal life: Change the part about where Vardi lives -- in order to be more consistent with what it actually SAYS in the reliable source if/when you click on the link from footnote number "[17]". The city of Bellaire, Texas is sometimes informally regarded -- and talked about -- as if it were "part of" Houston, since it is surrounded by Houston. However, technically, the city of Bellaire is a separate legal entity, located in the same county, but not part of the city of "Houston". current
15:3715:37, 30 December 2024 diff hist +8 The Twist (song) →Chubby Checker version: A couple of paragraphs before the sub-section about "Weekly Charts", in the sentence about the sixth episode [entitled "Good Morning, Peoria"] "of the second season of the TV series Quantum Leap", add a wikilink cross-reference to [the article about] "Scott Bakula", right where that name was already appearing (in parentheses, but without a hyperlink). Do the same for the name "Dean Stockwell", which was also already appearing in that sentence.

16:0316:03, 26 December 2024 diff hist +36 m Sherman, Texas →History: In the sentence ending with "and in 1911 purchased the Denison and Sherman Railway", add a hyperlink pointing to "Northern Texas Traction Company". Note that the company's name is displayed [the same as before] as just "[T]he Texas Traction Company", (without the word "Northern"). Both versions of that name (with and without the word "Northern") probably refer to the same company, since there is no *hat note*, at the top of the article about that (Northern Texas) "Company". current
07:0707:07, 26 December 2024 diff hist +15 m Jewish Museum (Manhattan) →History: (Bypass a #REDIRECT, and) make it more clear to readers, that the "See also" reference {{See also|Jews in New York City}} was already pointing to the article "History of the Jews in New York City" -- [via a redirect, if not directly] -- even when it was coded (and shown) as "{{See also|Jews in New York City}}". By changing the template instance to "{{See also|History of the Jews in New York City}}", it is clear that the article pointed to, is "History of the Jews in New York City". current
06:5606:56, 26 December 2024 diff hist +23 History of the Jews in New York City →top: Where it says "In 2012, the largest Jewish denominations [...]", add "in New York City" after "denominations", to be in better agreement with what it actually SAYS in the source for footnote no. [7], and to reduce [the risk of] any possible ambiguity. Also, in the sentence that mentions that "the Jewish population of New York City has" increased "in the 21st century", add the word "other" right before "Orthodox", in order to avoid implying that *any* "Hasidic" Jews are "non-" Orthodox. current
04:5204:52, 26 December 2024 diff hist +24 m Jewish Museum (Manhattan) →the second sentence of the first paragraph of this article's lede: A *slight* change to the wording. Modify the third word of the phrase "the oldest existing Jewish museum in the world" to say "extant" instead of "existing". (Also, include a hyperlink pointing to the "Wiktionary" entry for 'extant' (that is, "wikt:extant#Adjective") for the convenience of any reader who wants to look up the meaning of [the adjective] "extant".)

21:3621:36, 18 December 2024 diff hist +138 Bernard Museum of Judaica →footnote number [1]: FIX a "dead link" situation, by adding "|url-status=dead", and [a value for] the "archive-url" field of the {{cite web}} template instance for footnote number [1] -- (which has the name << name="Gotham Joe" >>.) current
21:1521:15, 18 December 2024 diff hist +33 Congregation Emanu-El of New York →top: Small changes to the wording of the last sentence of the first paragraph. The use of the word "synagogue" to refer to a building is not the only sense of that word. Sometimes the word "synagogue" is used to refer to a congregation. In addition, the use of a phrase such as "temple <name of the temple>" is not limited to talking about a temple * * * building; * * * sometimes, that phrase is used -- at least, in informal conversation -- when talking about [="referring to"] a congregation.

20:1720:17, 16 December 2024 diff hist +236 m Catfishing →Etymology: Modify the "ref" tag for footnote number "[7]". Add a "date" field; and 'also' add an archive-url field -- (and an archive-date field) -- even though "|url-status=live".
19:0519:05, 16 December 2024 diff hist +1 m WebKit →Origins: In the sentence that begins with "KHTML and KJS [...]", change the verb that appears right after after that, from "was" [singular] to "were" [plural]. See, e.g., the SERP <--[that is, 'search engine results page'] https://www.google.com/search?q=subject-predicate+agreement+in+number ... including the "Search Labs | AI Overview" (which has an entry about << Compound subjects joined by "and" >> !) and [the first ordinary "hit" on that SERP] https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/sub-verb.htm

17:4517:45, 15 December 2024 diff hist +548 China →Foreign relations: In the sentence that includes "the last six years" and "as of April 2020", change the wording since the "six years" beginning with 2013 is no longer "the last six years" (it is now properly called "the next six years"); and change the tense of the verb right after "as of April 2020" from "It has expanded" (present perfect) to "It expanded" (simple past). The use of the present perfect would (and it did) imply that the events mentioned were "ongoing or recently completed".
07:0107:01, 15 December 2024 diff hist +262 The Emerging Democratic Majority →footnote number [1]: Modify the "ref" tag for footnote number [1]. Change the value of the "title" field (of the {{cite web}} template instance) to be more in agreement with what it actually says [for the "title"] on the web page that is pointed to by that footnote. Also add values for new fields such as "access-date" and "author". Also do the same for an "archive-url" field (and the related fields that are required to go with it) even though the "| url-status" value is: (currently) "live".

06:4106:41, 8 December 2024 diff hist +4,035 Talk:Xenoestrogen →A problem with the grammar or the wording of *part of* one sentence: new section current Tag: New topic

21:5421:54, 5 December 2024 diff hist +102 Ruth Simmons →top: Update footnote number "[6]" by making some additions and changes to its "ref" tag (such as: by adding "|last=Bell |first=Andrew" and "|date=February 14, 2023" to the {{Cite web}} template instance). Also (based on the 'QUOTE': "She plans to begin in the role April 1." from the "reliable source" web page that is "linked to" from that footnote), change "As of 2023" to "As of April 2023", at the beginning of the sentence that includes (and relies upon, and is supported by) that footnote.

20:4220:42, 4 December 2024 diff hist +8 Multivesicular body →(The "TARGET" field of the #REDIRECT command): Modify the "#fragment" portion of the (URL-like) wikilink that points to the section (which has apparently been moved AND been re-named ...YEARS AGO), that explains how the term "exosome" relates to the way that MVBs -- (Multivesicular bodies) -- affect the way things happen (e.g., the timing) ...in certain phases of the functioning of cells. The section that "WAS" called "#Multivesicular body" does not exist any more. Best guess re the change. current Tag: Redirect target changed
18:0618:06, 4 December 2024 diff hist +106 Christopher A. Wray →Early life and education: UPDATE the "ref" tag for footnote number "[13]" to allow the addition of "| url-status = dead" (among other things). NOTE that doing so required changing the "ref" tag to use [something like] a "{{cite web}}" template instance, hence having to add -- (in most cases, "partially") -- some other fields, ... such as "publisher", where the field VALUE was already there, (in the "ref" tag), but the field NAME was absent -- (even from the wikitext) -- before this update.

18:2818:28, 1 December 2024 diff hist +19 Moralistic therapeutic deism →Criticism: Include a cross-reference to [the article about] Endonym and exonym, in order to explain the situation in which a certain 'example' person (e.g. a teenager) might well be a "Moralistic Therapeutic Deist [as a xenonym, at least] -- (that is, in the words of others) -- even if that 'example' person would never actually use that term at all ... neither to refer to him/her self, *nor* to refer to someone else. In such a case, "Moralistic Therapeutic Deist" could be a xenonym.

09:5809:58, 27 November 2024 diff hist +60 Tenting effect →("#REDIRECT" command): Update the #REDIRECT command, because the destination that used to be named "Vagina#Sexual activity" has been re-named, and is now a sub-section called "Vagina#Sexual stimulation". This change is consistent with the original intent of the "#REDIRECT" command, even though the precise phrase "tenting effect" may not exactly appear in the destination sub-section [new or old]. The phrase "tenting or ballooning effect" does appear there. That's close enough. "QED". Tag: Removed redirect
04:4204:42, 27 November 2024 diff hist +8 m Trump–Ukraine scandal →Naftogaz: For the photo "File:Volodymyr Zelensky 2019 presidential inauguration 45 (cropped).jpg", add "(R)" and "(L)" to the caption, [which will now say "Former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R) with Zelenskyy (L) at Zelenskyy's inauguration, May 2019"], in order to make it more [abundantly] clear who in the photo is Former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, and who is [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy.

16:1616:16, 18 November 2024 diff hist −14 Virtual community →top: SOME, (maybe most) of the changes made "13:53, 24 November 2023" (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual_community&diff=prev&oldid=1186682424 the DIFF] have already been reverted; but (imho) ALL of them were of little or no (or, ... NEGATIVE!) value, and today I found TWO that still had not been restored to the status quo ante. Even if the damage was not "intentional" vandalism, THAT EDIT did not add (IMHO, it subtracted!) value. Hence, this belated (partial) "revert"!

04:5304:53, 17 November 2024 diff hist +500 m Justin Welby →Food banks: The previous "edit comment" had a mistake. It should have said << change the last 3 words from "a decade ago" to "a decade before" >>.This edit does NOT affect the "as displayed" text of the article. This edit only adds a comment, which [a] does NOT affect the displayed text of the article, but it [b] does allow this 'explanation' to be added to the list of 'edit comments', ... those comments which appear -- (under "Compare selected revisions") when one clicks on "View history".
04:2504:25, 17 November 2024 diff hist +3 Justin Welby →Food banks: In the sentence starting "In December 2014", change the last 3 words from "a decade before" to "a decade ago". Even though some readers MIGHT be able to figure out that the appropriate interpretation of the words "a decade ago" would probably be relative to the time when that sentence was *written* (namely ... probably some time close to "December 2014"), there is some potential for confusion; especially now, when "December 2014" and "a decade ago" are soon to become synonymous.

14:4114:41, 13 November 2024 diff hist +1,014 Palantir Technologies →top: In the sentence that mentions "IL5", (which is part of the explanation about "Palantir Gotham", one of Palantir's four main projects), add a footnote -- (including an "archive-url" value, even though "| url-status = live") -- that points the reader to a (reliable source) web page -- ["What Is an IL5 Certification?"] -- that explains, (both at a simple level and in more detail), what the term "IL5" means. The footnote has a "QUOTE" field, that might even obviate going to the web page.
06:3806:38, 13 November 2024 diff hist +17 Palantir Technologies →top: Add "Joe Lonsdale" to the list of "Founders" in the "{{Infobox company}}" template instance (for this company) at the top of this article.

17:4217:42, 12 November 2024 diff hist +43 University of Austin →History: Modify [the "ref" tag for] footnote number "[21]" to include [a value for] a "date" field ("|date=November 19, 2021"). Also, modify the sentence that includes that footnote, to add the words "as of November 2021".
15:0915:09, 12 November 2024 diff hist +8 University of Austin →History: Two changes to the wording in the sentence that mentions "not clarifying" [and] "what their advisory roles entailed". It was not intentional to imply, in that sentence. that the clarifying did not (eventually) occur. As for the change of prepositions (from "for" to "by"), a check of the reliable source [see the footnote at the end of that sentence] will show that "by" is what was meant. The word "for" does appear (correctly) a few words away, which may have led to a [pseudo?] TYPO.

19:3819:38, 11 November 2024 diff hist +292 Wendy Shalit →External links: REMEDY a dead link situation (as in, a "{{dead link}}") by inserting an "archive-url" field (with a value for that field) in the entry that used to contain [only] a link that was displayed as "GirlsGoneMild.com" and that pointed to the [old] URL "http://www.girlsgonemild.com/". That old URL does not seem to work now, but apparently it did still work, "as of" March 8, 2022, so point to a web page that has been preserved courtesy of the 'archive.org' "Wayback machine". current
12:4012:40, 11 November 2024 diff hist −1 Lomo saltado →Description: Change the verb "are" to "is". The noun which serves as the "subject" for this "predicate" is the word "use". The noun "use" is not plural; so ... the verb should not be plural. The linguistic rule that causes this to be the grammatically correct wording is called "subject / predicate agreement in number" -- where the word "number", there, has a meaning that involves a subject or a predicate being singular or plural. [A "mass" noun (which is neither) goes with a singular verb].

04:2204:22, 10 November 2024 diff hist +15 m Political correctness →1970s: Replace the single-word name "Mao" by a hyperlink ... still *displayed* as the single-word name "Mao", but now 'linking' or "pointing" to, [the article about] "Mao Zedong". Even though many readers may already know that "Mao" means "Mao Zedong", it might be helpful to have this quick and easy way to [a] confirm that suspicion, and/or to [b] read up on "Chairman Mao" without having to find the article about him via the use of a "search results page".

20:5520:55, 8 November 2024 diff hist +168 Jonathan Chait →Positions: Make some changes to the contents of the "ref" tag for footnote number "[14]". The only "important" change here and now, is the ONE change: to add "| url-status = dead" to this "ref" tag. Most of [the rest of] the changes in this edit are un-important, and those 'other' changes are made necessary only by the need to use a "{{cite web}}" template instance, IN ORDER TO [be able to] insert the one important change, (the addition of "| url-status = dead").

18:4918:49, 6 November 2024 diff hist 0 m Hong Kong flu →top: Correction of a minor TYPO. Where it said "|title=1986 flu pandemic" in the "ref" tag for footnote "[2]", the year 1986 was a TYPO, and it *should* have said "1968" instead. This is obvious from (among other things) the part of the exact same "{{cite web}}" template instance, that said (and it still says): << "|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Hong-Kong-flu-of-1968" >>; and: the fact that it clearly states "1968 flu pandemic" -- (as the title) -- on that "britannica.com" web page.
18:2118:21, 6 November 2024 diff hist +33 The Galleria →History: In the sentence that mentions "the end of the government lockdown", add "during the COVID-19_pandemic". That might be optional now, since knowledge about the COVID-19_pandemic and about the lockdowns at that time, is widespread and is fresh in our minds. However, in the future, *other* government lockdowns might occur ...and they might be [more] familiar to some readers. That might lead to some ambiguity, or even to some incorrect assumptions. Hence this clarification.
17:0417:04, 6 November 2024 diff hist +129 Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) →Small mistake -- room for improvement: Reply (to a reply) : ("Thank you."). Tag: Reply
17:0017:00, 6 November 2024 diff hist +269 Talk:Leslie Winkle →"Oops" #REDIRECT: its destination [anchor] has apparently been re-named: Reply: THANKS, and ... add: "{{resolved|case closed}}" current Tag: Reply
16:2016:20, 6 November 2024 diff hist +1,447 Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) →Small mistake -- room for improvement: new section Tag: New topic
15:2315:23, 6 November 2024 diff hist +1,659 Talk:Leslie Winkle →"Oops" #REDIRECT: its destination [anchor] has apparently been re-named: new section Tag: New topic

23:0423:04, 5 November 2024 diff hist +1,240 Memetics →History: Modify footnote number "[14]" to include a suggestion for (an idea for ... a 'work-around' for) a way to find the [third] chapter online ... the one called "'''On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures'''". This was done as [a suggestion for] a ['partial'?] "remedy" for the "dead link" situation that is mentioned or "indicated" by a "{{dead link}}" template instance -- [dated "August 2023"] -- near [or "in"] footnote number "[14]".
22:0222:02, 5 November 2024 diff hist −296 m Memetics →History: Combine footnotes "[14]" and "[15]" since they are identical. ALSO, replace the "shortened" [sub-] title "questing for the ...", ending with three dots ["..."] (an ellipsis) -- and not all capitalized -- by the actual subtitle of the book ['Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern'], which is more complete and more completely (/slash 'correctly') capitalized. Also, correct the values of the [author 'name]' fields "first" and "last" in footnote number "[12]".

05:3005:30, 31 October 2024 diff hist 0 m Laying on of hands →Jewish tradition: "Combine" footnotes "[5]" and "[7]", because they were basically identical ... (except [for the minor difference] that, one of them -- [5] -- did not have a hyperlink pointing to [the article about] "Hagigah"); *and* [the even MORE minor difference, that] one of them -- [7] -- was expressing the letter 'b' in the 'daf' number ["10b"] as a superscript, and the other was not.) Now, they -- (those 2 footnotes) -- are identical, because now one is a copy of the other.

05:1605:16, 20 October 2024 diff hist +262 m Talk:Structure of the United States Air Force →Suggestion: 'collapse' identical footnotes using feature: Add "Done. [...]"; and...: "{{resolved|case closed}}" current
03:1003:10, 20 October 2024 diff hist −47 Structure of the United States Air Force Collapse identical footnotes. For more details, see (the "Talk:" page entry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Structure_of_the_United_States_Air_Force#Suggestion:_'collapse'_identical_footnotes_using_%3Cref_name=%22something%22%3E_feature or... (if that is hard to find, e.g., due to having been "archived", or something) then [instead] see (the 'edit' DIFF listing, at) "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AStructure_of_the_United_States_Air_Force&diff=1252158050&oldid=1202139929".) current
02:3102:31, 20 October 2024 diff hist +625 Talk:Structure of the United States Air Force →Suggestion: 'collapse' identical footnotes using <ref name="something"> feature: new section Tag: New topic

12:5112:51, 13 October 2024 diff hist −7 m 2024 Major League Baseball season →Rule changes: Remove the use of the future tense in the sentence about the "rule changes" that were scheduled to take effect as of the start of the 2024 season. As of "before" (and maybe even 'during') spring training, those "rule changes" may not have "taken effect" [completely]; but once the 2024 regular season had started, those "rule changes" were definitely in use -- 100%. So, now, it is not appropriate to use the future tense in that sentence.

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