User contributions for 73.110.70.75

14 December 2024

• 21:4721:47, 14 December 2024 diff hist +18 Wren Building →Uses of the building: Separated content into a new section. The early history content can now be expanded (without being on coflict with its section heading), and the Uses section is now more on-point.
• 21:4221:42, 14 December 2024 diff hist +579 Wren Building CITATIONS 1-7 NOT FORMATTED AND CHECKED. Made first appearing citation consistent in format, and functional with regard to taking readers to the information suggested. Copyedit, removed ".." appearences.
• 21:2021:20, 14 December 2024 diff hist +967 User talk:Pbritti →Glad to have your support...: Reply Tag: Reply
• 21:1021:10, 14 December 2024 diff hist +233 User talk:Rodw →Thank you.: new section Tag: New topic
• 21:0821:08, 14 December 2024 diff hist +7,217 Wren Building Sourced one lead statement, removed a 2020 {{cn}} tag. Completed "spotswoodsociety" PLACARD, other early citations; updated those URLs. Corrected text to source (by elaboration/quotation). Temp. kept/expanded placard citation use/work—temp. bec. BETTER SOURCES needed for arguments. Made article constr. end-dates consistent (DHR, Guy citns.)—cornerstone set 1695, constr. completed "four years later"/1699; So ALL 1700s out, changed to 1699—so too, now consistent with other bldg. use statements.

13 December 2024

• 22:1422:14, 13 December 2024 diff hist +1,587 Ed Dobson Added Dobson's UVA dissertation to Further reading and to article citations, correcting PhD to EdD, per the record. Corrected DOB to a reliable source; if a source can be found saying 30 December, we can deal with the uncertainty. [At present, it is DOB 29 Dec. (ChristianityToday.com), vs. DOB 30 Dec. (citation needed).]
• 21:1021:10, 13 December 2024 diff hist +3,473 Ed Dobson Changed the {{format citations tag}} to a section tag, and placed it with the reflist (to unburden and focus the article tags on the biggest issues). Adding a hidden Infobox, to open and begin to populate in the next edit. FINISHED CITATION FORMATTING FOR CITATIONS 1-5.
• 20:4920:49, 13 December 2024 diff hist +48 Ed Dobson Added a first pass source to the Grand Rapids residence mention, and made small print the extensive quote in the Zondervan biography (a poor source, but in use)—so that the source is not again misapplied. (The source says nothing more than appears in that quote.)
• 20:4120:41, 13 December 2024 diff hist +712 Ed Dobson →Further reading and viewing: Added two more expansive, seemingly insightful local/regional news pieces to Further reading. Slight copy edits to earlier entries.
• 20:2420:24, 13 December 2024 diff hist +971 Ed Dobson →Career: Placing the disillusionment statement (sourced), to stregthen the decription of Dodson's transition from political to pastoral work, which is weakly sourced. Called for stregthening of the sourcing of the rest of that interpretive, and possibly WP:OR remainder of sentence.
• 20:1720:17, 13 December 2024 diff hist −708 Ed Dobson Moving the disillusionment statement into the main body, so tht the lead summarises the main body rather than introducing new content (per WP:INTRO). Note, this will temporarily introduce a red citation error. Hold fire until after next edit.
• 20:1020:10, 13 December 2024 diff hist +2,071 Ed Dobson Added the PBS Series, "God in America", Episode 6, "Of God and Caesar" transcript—which reatures title subject Dobson—into Further reading.
• 19:4619:46, 13 December 2024 diff hist +1,547 Ed Dobson Completed the second PBS citation, and noted it was a good source, but poor in its placement. Created a Further reading section and also placed it there.
• 19:1119:11, 13 December 2024 diff hist +364 Ed Dobson Revised the lead for depth of content and readability.
• 18:4518:45, 13 December 2024 diff hist +2,739 Ed Dobson Sections. Created Early life and education, Awards and recognition, and Personal life, and placed content into those sections. Added the Route 66 fund raising event to personal life.
• 17:3517:35, 13 December 2024 diff hist +2,327 Ed Dobson →Biography: Summary: Removed plagiarism, restructured section chronologcally, staged some material for move to more relvant sections, and renamed the section, Career. Specifics: Near-to-exactly-quoted (and misquoted) material, some plagiarised, rectified by conversion of all to quote. Removed a "zondervan1" citation appearance from one earlier point, because it supported no actual sentence content (rather, just that the title subject existed). Personal life, Awards… content staged to move.
• 10:3310:33, 13 December 2024 diff hist +118 Failure of imagination →September 11 attacks: Marking two points of clear WP:OR — rather than reporting from sources — on the part of WP editors. current Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 10:2710:27, 13 December 2024 diff hist +48 Failure of imagination Completed and corrected the first (and near only) appearing citation in the article, to set the stage for proper formatting of the remaining citations. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 10:2110:21, 13 December 2024 diff hist +7 Failure of imagination →See also: Removed a link that already appears as a wikilink. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 10:1910:19, 13 December 2024 diff hist +53 Failure of imagination →References: Noting that the citations are largely without consistent format, mostly incomplete, and so not at all encyclopedic. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 10:1710:17, 13 December 2024 diff hist +46 Failure of imagination Made use of appearing black swan citation, to add a sentence to the lead. This is an intermediate step, adds a citation, inferring the original editors intent for including the source. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 10:0810:08, 13 December 2024 diff hist −11 Failure of imagination As before, less is more. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 10:0710:07, 13 December 2024 diff hist +38 Failure of imagination Clarified the regional essay-like tag content. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 10:0310:03, 13 December 2024 diff hist +409 Failure of imagination →Other incidents: Noting that 3 of 4 statements in this section are unsourced. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 09:5509:55, 13 December 2024 diff hist +48 Failure of imagination →September 11 attacks: noting that the entire section develops an original perspective/argument based on primary sources,, and is therefore WP:OR. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 09:5109:51, 13 December 2024 diff hist +300 Failure of imagination Clarified inline tag to first appearing citation—more than being a failed verification, it is a misused source (saying nothing directly relevant to the sentence). Read the article, noted that that WP:OR continues throughout, along with repeated failures to provide independent, third-party sources for the material presented. As a consequence, added two article tags to warn readers. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 01:2701:27, 13 December 2024 diff hist 0 User talk:Pbritti →Glad to have your support...
• 01:2301:23, 13 December 2024 diff hist +1 User talk:Pbritti →Glad to have your support...
• 01:1301:13, 13 December 2024 diff hist +684 User talk:Pbritti →Glad to have your support...: Reply Tag: Reply
• 01:0701:07, 13 December 2024 diff hist +1,550 Wren Building Part way through incorporating content from the reliable DHR citation.

12 December 2024

• 22:5022:50, 12 December 2024 diff hist +586 Wren Building Added citation to support "Ancient Campus", but another still needed to fully support sentence. Note, again, VirginiaBirding is not a good citation, rather a placeholder. Also note, web searches won't obviate need for scholarship to improve this article. Google, DuckDuckGo, etc., provide the easy, not the good. What's easy: Hits of Wikipedia content (here, other articles, mirror sites), and of hightly visited W&M pages. That kind of sourcing is not the quality needed here.
• 22:1722:17, 12 December 2024 diff hist −6 Wren Building →Further reading: Copy edit. Removing extraneous space.
• 22:1622:16, 12 December 2024 diff hist +1,440 Wren Building →Further reading: Temporarily adding the DHR entry for the Wren Bldg, to Further reading.
• 22:1122:11, 12 December 2024 diff hist +54 Wren Building →References: Lots of non-stadard, incomplete, and dead web citations, here, unfortunately.
• 22:0722:07, 12 December 2024 diff hist +962 Wren Building Added Seuratten to Further reading, temporarily. Removed a tag, and presented that new citation in three places, in support of existing text. Note, this is not the best source—archtectural statements ought be supported by architectural sources, not non-independent *.edu sources—but it is sufficient to start. Tag: Disambiguation links added
• 21:5121:51, 12 December 2024 diff hist −34 Wren Building Made Novelli citation consistent between Further reading and appearance in the main body, and noted the main body citation needs a narrow page range (as it is a book citation, pp. > 100 pages.
• 21:4421:44, 12 December 2024 diff hist +1,847 Wren Building Added a further reading section to the article, to support the improvement of the article, in particular with respect to compliance with WP:VERIFY and WP:INTRO.
• 21:3721:37, 12 December 2024 diff hist 0 Wren Building Copy edit. Semi-colon for period, to connect two related statements, allowing support by a single citation.
• 21:3521:35, 12 December 2024 diff hist +1,704 User talk:Pbritti →Glad to have your support...: new section Tag: New topic
• 21:0021:00, 12 December 2024 diff hist +437 Wren Building Noting another block of text that should be traceable to citation.
• 20:5520:55, 12 December 2024 diff hist +44 Wren Building →Historic setting: Noting another section nearly entirely without attribution to source. See foreging edit summaries.
• 20:5320:53, 12 December 2024 diff hist +35 Wren Building The lead's "Ancient Campus" statement also appears nowhere else in the article, and is likewise wothout attribution to source. See WP:INTRO and WP:VEROFY.
• 20:5120:51, 12 December 2024 diff hist +3,179 Wren Building Noted sentences in lead NOT supported by citations anywhere in article—it's not a stretch to say **lead is all but wholly unsourced**. Called, ∴, for lead rewrite to make lead compliant with WP:INTRO. Also, duplicated in the main text all article-relevant infobox factual material that heretofore appeared uniquely there, so no infobox material germain to the article only appears there. (This also allows full appearance of citations to be in the article, rather than in the infobox.) Tag: Disambiguation links added
• 19:3919:39, 12 December 2024 diff hist +970 Wren Building →Uses of the building: Completed/repaired 2 citations. As independent source, Crimson's link best of 3 re: sentence claim (which we don't doubt). NOTE however: 1, sources say "standing" not earlier "extant". 2, The 1695-1700 Wren constr. dates are UNSOURCED anywhere in article. Re: {{better source}} we affix tag bec. for architecture matters on very notable Wren, citing univ. / org. promotional webpages and college student newspaper opinion do not constitute scholarly, encyclopedic sourcing.
• 15:4015:40, 12 December 2024 diff hist −954 List of College of William & Mary alumni →Writers: Removed the third David A Price reference, as unnecessary here. See also Business and technology section.
• 15:3615:36, 12 December 2024 diff hist +3,379 List of College of William & Mary alumni →Writers: Made alignments of citation numbers within the column uniform. Called for citations for the few entries missing citations. Added an entry for Richmond Fed economist, author of three award-winning Knopf best sellers (''Love and Hate in Jamestown'', ''The Pixar Touch'', ''Geniuses at War''). Added a call for an expert to get the Notability column in shape. Tag: nowiki added

11 December 2024

• 23:1823:18, 11 December 2024 diff hist +694 Thiel Fellowship Added a citation to Further reading, and returned the redactive, unexplained detletion of the name of the TF Director, Handy, to the infobox. (Returned with citation.)
• 23:0723:07, 11 December 2024 diff hist +483 Thiel Fellowship Added a Further reading section, for potential sources either new to the article, or already cited but not yet fully extracted / utilised.
• 22:5822:58, 11 December 2024 diff hist +492 Thiel Fellowship Moved two opinion perspectives from the history, into this section. Also noting that editor selection of notable recipients sans citations is WP:OR, and called for citations.
• 22:4122:41, 11 December 2024 diff hist −8 Thiel Fellowship →Reception: Removed original sectioning (because persectives in year 1 and 2 are not separable a decade after), removed unnecessary paragraph breaks, and copy edited to tighten up text. (E.g., Thiel's name does not need to appear every time in front of the Fellowship, as context makes clear what F'ship it is.) Added a new section and an {{expand section}} tag, for perspectives from the last decade (currently missing).