User contributions for Oort1
A user with 788 edits. Account created on 4 August 2006.
12 July 2024
- 05:0305:03, 12 July 2024 diff hist +460 List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world Undid revision 1231924925 by Oort1 (talk) Tag: Undo
- 05:0205:02, 12 July 2024 diff hist +185 Talk:List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world →Deletionist approach: Reply Tag: Reply
- 00:5200:52, 12 July 2024 diff hist −16 Federal Aviation Administration →Changes to air traffic controller application process: failed verification current
11 July 2024
- 09:5909:59, 11 July 2024 diff hist +380 Talk:Charles Murray (political scientist) →Phrasing of controversial topics should follows sources and closed RFCs: Reply Tag: Reply
- 08:4008:40, 11 July 2024 diff hist +2,111 Talk:Charles Murray (political scientist) →Phrasing of controversial topics should follows sources and closed RFCs: new section Tag: New topic
- 07:3407:34, 11 July 2024 diff hist +8 Charles Murray (political scientist) Undid good faith revision 1233853723 by Grayfell (talk) there's already been an RFC on this, and several sources listed. Changing the wording away from all of these is WP:EDITORIALizing. If you think the wording should be different there should at least be some sources to support that, maybe a new RFC. Tags: Undo Reverted
- 06:1606:16, 11 July 2024 diff hist +8 Charles Murray (political scientist) reword to better match consensus of RFC on topic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Race_and_intelligence/Archive_103#RfC_on_racial_hereditarianism] and already cited sources Tag: Reverted
- 00:4400:44, 11 July 2024 diff hist +72 m Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard →More examples of misinformation and antisemitism from Al Jazeera
- 00:4400:44, 11 July 2024 diff hist +2,785 Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard →Al Jazeera - factual errors
10 July 2024
- 23:5823:58, 10 July 2024 diff hist +76 m List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world add page number
- 22:5222:52, 10 July 2024 diff hist +765 Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard →Paucity of reliable right-wing sources: Reply Tag: Reply
9 July 2024
- 23:4423:44, 9 July 2024 diff hist +20 Francis Galton →See also current
8 July 2024
- 08:2608:26, 8 July 2024 diff hist −1,314 Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world →Astrolabes: removed failed verification, and added a fv tag to another claim that looks likely true. Also that's not what vested means. current
- 02:0302:03, 8 July 2024 diff hist −105 Timeline of science and engineering in the Muslim world →Modern science: removed Alireza and Maryam Mirzakhani as their religious beliefs are unknown (see the discussion at Talk:Maryam_Mirzakhani#Muslim? also fix typos current
- 01:4401:44, 8 July 2024 diff hist −4 Ibn al-Shatir →Instruments: failed verification; source only says "He also made the large astrolabic clock..." current
- 01:3801:38, 8 July 2024 diff hist −184 Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world failed verification, see WP:Jagged 85 cleanup But as that source makes clear (on that page), the sun is in the "centre" in the sense that it is in the middle of the other spheres (i.e. above the Moon, Mercury and Venus; and below Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), its normal place in the Ptolemaic system, which is entirely geocentric, not heliocentric.
3 July 2024
- 17:2217:22, 3 July 2024 diff hist −164 Celestial globe →17th century: failed verification; Savagae Smith writes of a different workshop "It is always possible that the tech- nique for constructing globes in this manner was developed and perfected much earlier than the other remaining globes would lead one to suspect" p 27 current
1 July 2024
- 23:3223:32, 1 July 2024 diff hist +178 Talk:Al-Biruni →Semi-protected edit request on 1 July 2024 (2): Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:2301:23, 1 July 2024 diff hist −710 List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world →Sultanates: failed verification; source says little about al-Urdi, and nothing about heliometers. Another source only says that he described "the dioptrical ruler of Hipparchus", which of course was previously used by Hipparchus.
- 01:0801:08, 1 July 2024 diff hist −306 List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world →Early caliphates: not an invention
- 00:5800:58, 1 July 2024 diff hist −460 List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world →Al Andalus (Islamic Spain): not an invention Tag: Reverted
- 00:5700:57, 1 July 2024 diff hist −10 m List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world →Mughal Empire: standardize formatting with other regions
- 00:5600:56, 1 July 2024 diff hist −10 m List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world →Sultanates: standardize formatting with other regions
- 00:5500:55, 1 July 2024 diff hist +25 m List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world →Al Andalus (Islamic Spain): add detail, page number
17 June 2024
- 00:1100:11, 17 June 2024 diff hist −1,282 Mirza Ghazi Beg Like other articles created by Sindbad mughal, this is almost entirely unsourced, mostly wrong, violates NPOV, and focused on valorizing people from Thattva. Removing unsourced claims.
16 June 2024
- 11:3711:37, 16 June 2024 diff hist +390 m Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Cleanup3 No edit summary current
- 11:3211:32, 16 June 2024 diff hist −283 Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī →Motion: unsourced since 2017 current
- 10:5810:58, 16 June 2024 diff hist −1,305 History of Mars observation →Orbital models: failed verification, see WP:Jagged 85 cleanup source doesn't say any of this, and it's a fringe pseudoscience source anyway
- 10:3710:37, 16 June 2024 diff hist −14 m Traditional medicine →Classical history: fix link current
- 10:2710:27, 16 June 2024 diff hist +78 m Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Cleanup3 No edit summary
- 10:0110:01, 16 June 2024 diff hist −70 Samuel Alito →Flag display controversy: failed verification, article says nothing about Christian nationalism
- 10:0010:00, 16 June 2024 diff hist −73 Samuel Alito →Long Beach Island residence: failed verification; article says nothing about Christian nationalism
15 June 2024
- 00:5100:51, 15 June 2024 diff hist −720 History of zoology through 1859 →Medieval and Islamic zoology: failed verification. All historians agree he was a creationist and did not believe in evolution; Stott said claims he wrote about evolution are "unconvincing" see Al-Jahiz#Kitāb_al-Ḥayawān_(كتاب_الحيوان)_'book_of_the_animal
- 00:4500:45, 15 June 2024 diff hist −78 Arabs →Science: very misleading; see University#Antecedents modern 'universities' have a mostly independent history from madrassas
- 00:4000:40, 15 June 2024 diff hist +30 m Arabs →Science: page needed
- 00:3400:34, 15 June 2024 diff hist −323 Arabs →Science: this definition comes from Moody, Ernest A. (June 1951). "Galileo and Avempace: The Dynamics of the Leaning Tower Experiment (II)". Journal of the History of Ideas. 12 (3): 375–422. ISSN 0022-5037. JSTOR 2707752. It clarifies "But this truth was imbedded in the erroneous assumption that " being in motion " is always a case of " being moved " by a motive power, and therefore always a case of overcoming material resistance" ie Averroes thought power=speed, unlike later theories of in
- 00:3100:31, 15 June 2024 diff hist −240 Arabs →Science: failed verification, nothing about crankshafts on this page
- 00:2600:26, 15 June 2024 diff hist −318 Arabs →Science: an office management book isn't an appropriate source for a historical claim like this, astrolabes were in use in ancient greece, and the earliest work on universal astrolabes was by Peter of Maricourt
- 00:2200:22, 15 June 2024 diff hist +54 m Arabs →Science: fix link and page number
- 00:1800:18, 15 June 2024 diff hist −342 Arabs →Science: failed verification. Source says "If, therefore, JHbir did inspire the invention of the torquetum-an un- certain premiss-it is likely that the inventor lived in the West in the thir- teenth (or late twelfth) century, and that he read Arabic. Until new evidence appears, it would perhaps be unwise to speculate further."
- 00:1400:14, 15 June 2024 diff hist −108 Arabs →Science: failed verification. pages are only about a solar model, and his lunar model used epicycles like Ptolomeyic theories of the time
6 June 2024
- 11:3311:33, 6 June 2024 diff hist −30 List of Sindhi people →Historical personalities
- 10:5510:55, 6 June 2024 diff hist −2 m Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Cleanup8 move to completed current
- 10:2110:21, 6 June 2024 diff hist +693 m Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Cleanup5 No edit summary current
- 10:1310:13, 6 June 2024 diff hist −89 m Muqaddimah remove unverifiable citation
- 10:0810:08, 6 June 2024 diff hist −22 m List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field →Social sciences: see last edit
- 10:0710:07, 6 June 2024 diff hist −233 List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field →Social sciences: unsourced - cannot find any evidence of this paper or journal
- 09:5109:51, 6 June 2024 diff hist +42 m List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field replace broken link with better cite
- 09:4609:46, 6 June 2024 diff hist −588 Elephant clock unsourced, see WP:Jagged 85 cleanup probably a fake quote https://aljazaribook.com/en/2019/02/01/the-boat-clock-en current
- 09:3709:37, 6 June 2024 diff hist −589 Timeline of cryptography unsourced, see WP:Jagged 85 cleanup current
