User contributions for EightYearBreak

23 May 2024

• 19:0719:07, 23 May 2024diff hist +749‎ Decimation (punishment)‎ →‎Current usage of the word: should not say current usage is "incorrect"; instead, describe and cite articles re: the controversycurrentTag: Visual edit

16 May 2024

• 12:2612:26, 16 May 2024diff hist +7‎ Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990‎ improve lead; use more present tense (this law is still in effect)currentTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

28 April 2024

• 02:2602:26, 28 April 2024diff hist +86‎ Deidre Henderson‎ she went back to school as a senator; she wasn’t Lt Gov yet in 2014Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

2 April 2024

• 16:4516:45, 2 April 2024diff hist +141‎ Destination dispatch‎ clarify introcurrentTag: Visual edit

31 March 2024

• 19:1419:14, 31 March 2024diff hist +1,652‎ African Americans‎ →‎General: added more recent polls on Black vs. AA; added newsroom stylebook decisions to capitalize BlackTag: Visual edit
• 16:3716:37, 31 March 2024diff hist +54‎ African Americans‎ noted that surveys cited for preference in terms are dated (we should find some newer ones)Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

14 March 2024

• 17:0917:09, 14 March 2024diff hist +19‎ mGrace Palmer‎ Fixed link to sister in infoboxcurrentTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

27 February 2024

• 14:1314:13, 27 February 2024diff hist +23‎ Baruch Goldstein‎ changed from “Israeli-American” to “American-Israeli” - he was American by birth and then went to Israel, so this is the correct sequence of wordsTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

26 February 2024

• 18:4418:44, 26 February 2024diff hist +100‎ New York Penn Station‎ →‎Original structure: added note that Penn Central was successor of PRRTag: Visual edit

20 February 2024

• 17:2017:20, 20 February 2024diff hist +1‎ Yazoo lands‎ rephrased confusing description of lands that became modern statescurrentTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

28 January 2024

• 17:0017:00, 28 January 2024diff hist −6‎ Ziff Davis‎ “First founded” is redundantTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

7 January 2024

• 16:1016:10, 7 January 2024diff hist −50‎ Mack Brown‎ removed joke deathTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

1 December 2023

• 13:5813:58, 1 December 2023diff hist +80‎ List of undefeated NCAA Division I football teams‎ →‎Coaches with multiple undefeated seasons: added Petersen, Saban, Meyer - consistent with the table above of undefeated seasonsTag: Visual edit

5 November 2023

• 01:0101:01, 5 November 2023diff hist +12‎ New Belgium Brewing Company‎ NB didn’t acquire all of Constellation, just one brewery facility they ownedTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

25 September 2023

• 11:5611:56, 25 September 2023diff hist +483‎ Norman Mineta‎ added renaming of DOT HQ in his honorTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

16 August 2023

• 12:4912:49, 16 August 2023diff hist +9‎ Rabbinic Judaism‎ changed “redacted” link to correct articleTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

13 August 2023

• 18:2818:28, 13 August 2023diff hist +161‎ Black Hawk (Sauk leader)‎ Rearranged namesakes a bit for prominence, added Univ of Iowa team nameTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

16 July 2023

• 17:2117:21, 16 July 2023diff hist +418‎ mEast Tennessee State University‎ fixed citation - copy paste error maybeTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 17:2017:20, 16 July 2023diff hist +122‎ East Tennessee State University‎ clarified relationship to system and TBRTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

9 July 2023

• 21:4921:49, 9 July 2023diff hist +9‎ The Secret Sisters‎ added Lydia's maiden name to lead (she has gone by that name in her career, and it addresses the obvious question of whether they are actual sisters)Tag: Visual edit

8 July 2023

• 17:3317:33, 8 July 2023diff hist +144‎ Invisible runner rule‎ added hatnote to distinguish MLB extra inning runner usually called ghost runnerTags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

30 June 2023

• 17:2317:23, 30 June 2023diff hist −10‎ Engel's law‎ Engel was quoted in a 1932 book but he didn’t say it in 1932; he was long dead by thenTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

18 June 2023

• 17:3317:33, 18 June 2023diff hist +1‎ Jimmye Laycock‎ Split out naming of facility in his honor; didn’t belong in the footnote but should be in main textTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

14 June 2023

• 13:2513:25, 14 June 2023diff hist +200‎ Irvine Company‎ →‎History: added James II year of birth for context; fixed name of UCI and added note (no "at" because it's named for family, not city); added wiki-linksTag: Visual edit

13 June 2023

• 13:0613:06, 13 June 2023diff hist +26‎ Alexandra Billings‎ reliable secondary sources say she’s the FIRST openly transgender woman to have played a transgender character on television, not second; her personal bio says 2nd, but nobody else seems toTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

29 May 2023

• 19:3919:39, 29 May 2023diff hist +21‎ Howard Ashman‎ →‎Death: explained how survivors were related to him, per cited obituaryTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

26 May 2023

• 19:0519:05, 26 May 2023diff hist +731‎ Supreme Court of Maryland‎ moved History to the top; clarified and expanded regarding 2022 name changeTag: Visual edit

24 May 2023

• 12:5012:50, 24 May 2023diff hist +45‎ Walt Disney World Speedway‎ →‎End of professional racing: clarified that both Homestead and St. Pete are in FloridaTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

18 May 2023

• 12:2012:20, 18 May 2023diff hist +86‎ Louise Fluke‎ Fixed lead sentence, added wiki links, removed redundant text and reorganized to be more chronologicalTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

15 May 2023

• 13:4413:44, 15 May 2023diff hist +92‎ AT&T Corporation‎ →‎Monopoly: noted that Kingsbury Commitment required divesting Western UnionTag: Visual edit
• 13:3613:36, 15 May 2023diff hist +13‎ AT&T Corporation‎ moved "Buildings with AT&T logo" section to a subhead of Nicknames and branding - not sure it belongs on this page at all, but certainly it does not belong at the start of the article, above HistoryTag: Visual edit
• 13:3313:33, 15 May 2023diff hist +166‎ Western Electric‎ →‎History: added note about Nippon Electric Co. becoming NECTag: Visual edit

1 May 2023

• 15:2615:26, 1 May 2023diff hist 0‎ mRobber baron (industrialist)‎ →‎List of businessmen labelled as robber barons: fixed typo for year of publication of JosephsonTag: Visual edit
• 15:2515:25, 1 May 2023diff hist +32‎ Robber baron (industrialist)‎ →‎List of businessmen labelled as robber barons: divided list to separate out those named by Josephson vs. others; in part, to clarify the timeline, as Josephson's list would include RBs in the original sense, which should be separate from attempts at modern applications to people like MuskTag: Visual edit

20 April 2023

• 03:3903:39, 20 April 2023diff hist +145‎ Josh Harris (entrepreneur)‎ add distinguish template for the other Josh Harris in business, who’s currently in the newsTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

10 April 2023

• 18:1918:19, 10 April 2023diff hist +123‎ Yugoslavia‎ →‎Succession, 1992–2003: added FN for renaming of Macedonia, mirroring footnote for change from FR Yugoslavia to Serbia and Mont.Tag: Visual edit

9 April 2023

• 17:2117:21, 9 April 2023diff hist +4‎ Temple Mount entry restrictions‎ →‎Israeli restriction policy: clarifyTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

7 April 2023

• 18:5718:57, 7 April 2023diff hist +11‎ Promus Hotel Corporation‎ →‎History: clarify entity namesTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

6 April 2023

• 17:5617:56, 6 April 2023diff hist +107‎ Rielle Hunter‎ rephrased lead to refer to Story of My Life by name and add EllisTag: Visual edit
• 15:3715:37, 6 April 2023diff hist +416‎ Flag of Missouri‎ added links to Great Seal in addition to generic coat of arms article; clarified/explained how the seal contains 37 stars rather than the obvious 24; stylistic improvementsTag: Visual edit
• 04:1404:14, 6 April 2023diff hist +5‎ Mars Inc.‎ →‎History: corrected name of mother of Forrest Sr.Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

31 March 2023

• 14:0614:06, 31 March 2023diff hist +4,795‎ Alford plea‎ →‎Court and government use: added new section on post-conviction use to describe notable cases of West Memphis Three and Michael PetersonTag: 2017 wikitext editor

30 March 2023

• 13:5613:56, 30 March 2023diff hist +1,026‎ Chief Financial Officers Act‎ added info about which agencies are and are not coveredTag: Visual edit

23 March 2023

• 14:0914:09, 23 March 2023diff hist +945‎ Talk:List of national capitals situated on an international border‎ →‎Montevideo and Buenos Aires: new sectionTag: New topic

9 March 2023

• 16:1916:19, 9 March 2023diff hist +14‎ Tilman Fertitta‎ →‎Personal life: clarify sentenceTag: Visual edit
• 16:1616:16, 9 March 2023diff hist −296‎ Tilman Fertitta‎ →‎Career: removed duplicate, non-chronological sentenceTag: Visual edit

8 March 2023

• 15:5615:56, 8 March 2023diff hist +223‎ Lackawanna, New York‎ clarified that city name came from the steel company, which came from river, which came from Lenape word - this city's name isn't directly from the LenapeTag: Visual edit

1 March 2023

• 14:4414:44, 1 March 2023diff hist +56‎ Drew Rosenhaus‎ →‎Willis McGahee: clarified the McGahee cell phone/draft storyTags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

24 February 2023

• 05:2505:25, 24 February 2023diff hist +121‎ International Cherry Blossom Festival‎ Clarified years; the trees didn’t cancel their bloom in 2020!Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

23 February 2023

• 20:1820:18, 23 February 2023diff hist +521‎ The Gambia‎ →‎Etymology: only two countries use the The - changed text, added cite and quoteTag: Visual edit