User contributions for Walker Elliott
A user with 67 edits. Account created on 10 January 2024.
16 August 2024
- 00:2900:29, 16 August 2024 diff hist +292 Pearl Added citation from linked page (better one likely needed). Tag: Visual edit
- 00:2400:24, 16 August 2024 diff hist +61 m Pearl →From other species: Deleted "incredible" from "incredible luster" to improve encyclopedic tone. Flagged two paragraphs for missing citations. Tag: Visual edit
11 July 2024
- 16:0716:07, 11 July 2024 diff hist −5 m Thallium poisoning →Others: Replaced disfavored transliteration of capital city of Ukraine. current Tag: Visual edit
2 June 2024
- 16:1016:10, 2 June 2024 diff hist −504 Half dime Deleted final section. There is no reason for a section about a Canadian denomination to be in an article about United States coinage, and its inclusion is strange and confusing. Also, no sources are cited. Tag: Visual edit
29 May 2024
- 18:1718:17, 29 May 2024 diff hist −13 Ramy (TV series) →Season 1 (2019): spelling mistake Tag: Visual edit
26 May 2024
- 15:0515:05, 26 May 2024 diff hist +5 m Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy →History: Replaced archaic "man" with "human." Tag: Visual edit
11 May 2024
- 14:0514:05, 11 May 2024 diff hist +1 m René Vincent Corrected misspelling. current Tag: Visual edit
3 May 2024
- 02:4302:43, 3 May 2024 diff hist +27 m Mario von Bucovich Amended the first sentence to include why the person is relevant. current Tag: Visual edit
26 April 2024
- 19:1319:13, 26 April 2024 diff hist +1,216 Azim Khamisa I added a recent Washington Post article as a secondary-source citation, as well as citations for background information (unfortunately mostly available through primary sources). I also removed non-notable/repetitive sections and claims with missing citations that I couldn't corroborate. I also edited for tone--some sections read like book endorsements to me. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4917:49, 26 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Azim Khamisa Missing period. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:4817:48, 26 April 2024 diff hist −4 m Azim Khamisa Countries are not identified by their continent. One would not write "Mexico, North America" or "the People's Republic of China, Asia." For anyone unfamiliar with Kenya's location, I added a link to the Wikipedia article. Tag: Visual edit
20 April 2024
- 20:2620:26, 20 April 2024 diff hist −61 m Orrm I removed the anachronistic OSA (Order of Saint Augustine) post-nominal. The formal order was founded in 1244, and there's no evidence that Orrm lived past 1200. It seems simpler and less confusing simply to mention that Orrm was an Augustinian canon rather than to imply that he belonged to a specific order. Tag: Visual edit
17 April 2024
- 18:3618:36, 17 April 2024 diff hist +2 m Orrm Italicized title. Tags: Manual revert Visual edit
- 16:4816:48, 17 April 2024 diff hist +29 m Ormulum Corrected the spelling of Orrm's name in line with the recommendations of Dr. Andrew Cooper, director of the Ormulum Project. Tag: Visual edit
- 16:4116:41, 17 April 2024 diff hist −4 m Orm Updated spelling and link. current
- 16:4016:40, 17 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Orm (given name) Spelling correction and updated link. current Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 16:3716:37, 17 April 2024 diff hist +70 N Talk:Ormin Walker Elliott moved page Talk:Ormin to Talk:Orrm: Misspelled: In line with accepted spelling conventions for scholarship on Orrm. See: https://www.english.su.se/ormulum/blog/what-is-the-ormulum-called-and-what-was-the-author-s-name-2nd-sept-2022-1.623525 current Tag: New redirect
- 16:3716:37, 17 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Talk:Orrm Walker Elliott moved page Talk:Ormin to Talk:Orrm: Misspelled: In line with accepted spelling conventions for scholarship on Orrm. See: https://www.english.su.se/ormulum/blog/what-is-the-ormulum-called-and-what-was-the-author-s-name-2nd-sept-2022-1.623525 current
- 16:3716:37, 17 April 2024 diff hist +65 N Ormin Walker Elliott moved page Ormin to Orrm: Misspelled: In line with accepted spelling conventions for scholarship on Orrm. See: https://www.english.su.se/ormulum/blog/what-is-the-ormulum-called-and-what-was-the-author-s-name-2nd-sept-2022-1.623525 current Tag: New redirect
- 16:3716:37, 17 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Orrm Walker Elliott moved page Ormin to Orrm: Misspelled: In line with accepted spelling conventions for scholarship on Orrm. See: https://www.english.su.se/ormulum/blog/what-is-the-ormulum-called-and-what-was-the-author-s-name-2nd-sept-2022-1.623525
- 16:3616:36, 17 April 2024 diff hist +12 Orrm Orrm's most important contribution is his spelling system, which includes doubled consonants after short vowels. He was obsessively consistent about this convention and *very* insistent that any subsequent scribes follow it, so spelling his name with only one R feels wrong. (I have a real soft spot for the little weirdo). I kept the single R in "Ormulum," since it's Latin. Andrew Cooper, a linguist and the director of the Ormulum Project, recommends these spellings. Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- 16:1116:11, 17 April 2024 diff hist +18 Eight Deer Jaguar Claw Corrected inconsistencies in Mixtec names within article: some were rendered with Arabic numerals, some with spelled numbers. Sobriquet elements (e.g., Jaguar Claw) were in single quotes, double quotes, italics, or simply capitalized. I consulted the cited works and Wikipedia's style guide and determined that spelled numerals and simple caps were appropriate. This conforms to the numeral guidelines (spelled zero to nine, etc.) and will not require moving the article (title is in this format). Tag: Visual edit
13 April 2024
- 17:0117:01, 13 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Ewa Kłobukowska →Personal life: Corrected the outdated transliteration of "Kyiv."
12 April 2024
- 21:3321:33, 12 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On →By critics: Corrected missing quotation mark (referenced original source to determine placement).
4 April 2024
- 17:1817:18, 4 April 2024 diff hist −18 m Camel →Textiles: Removed "by whom" tag, since this passive construction describes a general process, not a specific event (the answer to the question would be "by people who use camel hair for textiles.") Changed "are" to "may also be" to better reflect this distinction.
3 April 2024
- 16:5016:50, 3 April 2024 diff hist −2 m 1964–65 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team →Schedule and results: Cobo Arena is in Detroit, not Ann Arbor. I verified (via a Lansing State Journal article) that the game was in fact at Cobo and not UM's then-current on-campus arena, Yost Field House. current
30 March 2024
- 20:0620:06, 30 March 2024 diff hist −14 Orrm Undid revision 1216403552 by Walker Elliott (talk) Tags: Undo Reverted
- 20:0520:05, 30 March 2024 diff hist +14 Orrm Orrm's major contribution was his spelling system, which included doubled consonants after short vowels. He was obsessively consistent about this and *very* insistent that any subsequent scribes follow this convention, so spelling his name with only one R feels kind of weirdly disrespectful to me. (I have a real soft spot for the little weirdo). Even though he uses the spelling "Orrmulum" in English verse, I didn't change that, since the title is Latin. Tag: Reverted
29 March 2024
- 15:3315:33, 29 March 2024 diff hist +12 m Kuperjanov Infantry Battalion →1992–present: English usage.
- 15:2815:28, 29 March 2024 diff hist −6 m Freikorps →Freikorps identity and ideals: Concision.
- 15:2215:22, 29 March 2024 diff hist −2 m Freikorps Removed commas (unnecessary and confusing).
25 March 2024
- 17:5717:57, 25 March 2024 diff hist −24 m United States Army beef scandal →The court of inquiry: Concision and grammar.
- 17:4917:49, 25 March 2024 diff hist −13 m United States Army beef scandal →The scandal: Edited for grammar and tone.
- 16:4516:45, 25 March 2024 diff hist +41 m Tom Radney Incomplete citation for book citation (no author, which made the second citation unclear).
- 16:4216:42, 25 March 2024 diff hist +8 m Tom Radney →Career: Incorrect pages cited.
- 16:4116:41, 25 March 2024 diff hist +168 Tom Radney →Career: Edited confusing language. The apparent death threats were due to Radney's support for Ted Kennedy at the 1968 convention, not John Kennedy, who had been assassinated years earlier.
- 16:2016:20, 25 March 2024 diff hist −30 Tom Radney →Career: The term "progressive" is anachronistic in this context. Self-labeled "progressive" Democrats in the South before WWII supported eugenics, segregation, etc. The present use describes a equally anachronistic left-wing position. "Liberal" is more period-correct, consistent with Cep (cited reference). Radney describes himself as a "liberal Democrat" in contemporary newspaper quotes.
- 15:4915:49, 25 March 2024 diff hist −20 Tom Radney Deleted "civil rights pioneer." Describing Radney as a civil rights "pioneer" is non-neutral language It is also inaccurate, confusing, and potentially offensive: in the US context, that term is almost exclusively used for black people who were among the first to surmount an historical segregation barrier (Radney was white). Further, the claim is unsupported: nothing in the body of the text relates to civil rights law or the Civil Rights Movement.
21 March 2024
- 18:3118:31, 21 March 2024 diff hist +19 m 1923–24 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team Clarified that the game against Navy was canceled. This fact is noted in the source cited. current Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 18:0818:08, 21 March 2024 diff hist +1 m 1923–24 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team →Schedule: Fixed the broken link to the (extant) Wikipedia page for Duke's home basketball venue.
- 17:0817:08, 21 March 2024 diff hist −77 Rocky Graziano →Professional career: Edit for encyclopedic tone. Many sections of this paragraph had been lifted word-for-word from the source document.
20 March 2024
- 22:0522:05, 20 March 2024 diff hist +789 Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics Uploaded, added, cited, and explained the symbols, per the header request (which I am removing). These images are in the public domain (published 1906). I edited the color and contrast of the original images for legibility.
19 March 2024
- 02:1402:14, 19 March 2024 diff hist −71 m Polar Research and Policy Initiative Minor edits for encyclopedic style and neutral tone. Tags: Visual edit Newcomer task Newcomer task: copyedit
- 02:0902:09, 19 March 2024 diff hist −7 m Martine Moïse →Attack: Eliminated redundancy
16 March 2024
- 14:1214:12, 16 March 2024 diff hist −15 Jim Boeheim →Playing: Removed non-standard in-line citation.
15 March 2024
- 16:3816:38, 15 March 2024 diff hist +1 m Catawba language →Orthography: Corrected indefinite article.
- 16:0816:08, 15 March 2024 diff hist +1 m Ruth Dial Woods Past tense for deceased person.
- 15:5915:59, 15 March 2024 diff hist 0 Natalia Yakovenko →Biography: Removed proper-noun capitalization per the usage in the linked source.
- 15:4615:46, 15 March 2024 diff hist +7 Natalia Yakovenko →Biography: Used alternate possessive form to improve readability as a first use introducing an abbreviation (UCU). Linked to appropriate Wikipedia page.
14 March 2024
- 22:2122:21, 14 March 2024 diff hist −562 Victor's justice →Allegations: Removed the linked source, since its inclusion seems to have been based on a misreading, and the linked citation is not germane to the claim (which is evidenced in subsequent citations). I also removed "civilized nations," since that formulation is vague, offensive, dated, and unnecessary. Seemingly, it was a paraphrase of the (irrelevant) source but not rendered as a quote. Also, various style and punctuation edits.
