User contributions for Jimknows

30 October 2019

• 14:2514:25, 30 October 2019 diff hist −2‎ m Gadsden Purchase ‎ 2 more misspellings of Santa Ana corrected
• 14:2314:23, 30 October 2019 diff hist −1‎ m Gadsden Purchase ‎ correcting the spelling of Santa Ana

25 September 2019

• 14:5514:55, 25 September 2019 diff hist 0‎ m Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ‎ →Final illness and death: poor sentence structure in this sentence with a comma

11 September 2019

• 01:4601:46, 11 September 2019 diff hist −3‎ m Providence, Rhode Island ‎ →Demographics: "Portugal" and "Cape Verde" are countries, but "Brazilian" is a nationality.

8 August 2019

• 14:2914:29, 8 August 2019 diff hist +4‎ m El Paso, Texas ‎ "the" is needed to have this sentence make sense.

5 July 2019

• 14:4414:44, 5 July 2019 diff hist −5‎ m Knighty Knight Bugs ‎ →Plot: We don't say about things; we talk about them.

30 June 2019

• 23:3623:36, 30 June 2019 diff hist 0‎ m Climate of Illinois ‎ →Cold: capital letter doesn't belong here.

19 May 2019

• 00:0300:03, 19 May 2019 diff hist 0‎ m Grand L. Bush ‎ →Career: typo--misspelled

7 May 2019

• 23:3523:35, 7 May 2019 diff hist +3‎ m Geography of Alaska ‎ The phrase needs "is" to make sense.

3 April 2019

• 15:2415:24, 3 April 2019 diff hist +42‎ m Hononegah ‎ clarification was needed
• 15:2115:21, 3 April 2019 diff hist +3‎ m Hononegah ‎ →Biography: Without the missing word 'of', the sentence makes no sense.

21 March 2019

• 15:5215:52, 21 March 2019 diff hist +1‎ m List of international airports by country ‎ →United States: The airport (RFD) is located 75 to 90 miles NW of Chicago in Rockford.

26 February 2019

• 14:4614:46, 26 February 2019 diff hist +4‎ m Waubay, South Dakota ‎ The word "the" was left out.

27 September 2018

• 19:2519:25, 27 September 2018 diff hist −2‎ m Plutino ‎ There's no such word, according to my dictionary, as "dynamical".

6 August 2018

• 16:5716:57, 6 August 2018 diff hist +5‎ m James Gammon ‎ →Early life: "bounced around home to home" doesn't sound right without "from"

21 July 2018

• 01:2501:25, 21 July 2018 diff hist −1‎ m Daniel Boone (1964 TV series) ‎ →Background: "story lines runs . . " is poor grammar

2 July 2018

• 21:0121:01, 2 July 2018 diff hist −5‎ m David Duke ‎ →Early life: 500 feet feet is a bit redundant

24 June 2018

• 17:5417:54, 24 June 2018 diff hist +2‎ m Crowder (musician) ‎ →Background: changed 'release' to 'released'//'access date' was run together

15 June 2018

• 21:3021:30, 15 June 2018 diff hist +6‎ m Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States ‎ →A: "contraction" means there are letters missing, so advert is not a contraction of advertisement
• 21:1621:16, 15 June 2018 diff hist +10‎ m Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States ‎ →O: an additional meaning, maybe more often used than "enlisted rank"

2 June 2018

• 01:5901:59, 2 June 2018 diff hist −3‎ m Battle of San Jacinto ‎ →Santa Ana takes the Alamo
• 01:5601:56, 2 June 2018 diff hist −1‎ m Battle of San Jacinto ‎ Santa Ana was misspelled Santa Anna.

26 March 2018

• 17:5417:54, 26 March 2018 diff hist −1‎ m Meisterschwanden ‎ →History: typo from original publishing corrected--changed "at" to 'a'

15 March 2018

• 15:4315:43, 15 March 2018 diff hist +1‎ m Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale ‎ "two parts were", not "two parts was"

12 March 2018

• 17:3017:30, 12 March 2018 diff hist +23‎ m The Rare Breed ‎ →Plot: plot slightly off here

27 February 2018

• 22:5522:55, 27 February 2018 diff hist +3‎ m Denali State Park ‎ →Wildlife: "of" was missing.
• 22:5222:52, 27 February 2018 diff hist −3‎ m Denali State Park ‎ →Attractions: "is" is an unnecessary word here.
• 22:5022:50, 27 February 2018 diff hist −5‎ m Denali State Park ‎ →Overview / Nearby: "both" is superfluous, as it makes not only good sense, but better, without it.

23 February 2018

• 16:1916:19, 23 February 2018 diff hist +1‎ m Iceland at the Olympics ‎ Not enough space was left during edit.
• 16:1816:18, 23 February 2018 diff hist +44‎ m Iceland at the Olympics ‎ In the USA, the term used for "athletics" is "track & field", since everything at the Olympics is athletic in nature.

21 February 2018

• 23:0223:02, 21 February 2018 diff hist −5‎ m Rebecca Lowe ‎ →Setanta Sports: 1 too many "that"s.

25 January 2018

• 15:5515:55, 25 January 2018 diff hist +2‎ m Fuentes Brotantes de Tlalpan National Park ‎ Without 'a', the sentence makes no sense.
• 15:5315:53, 25 January 2018 diff hist 0‎ m Desierto de los Leones National Park ‎ Since the sentence entered is a run-on sentence, it needs to fixed with either a semicolon, or by turning it into 2 sentences.

9 January 2018

• 00:4700:47, 9 January 2018 diff hist +4‎ m Bhutanese Americans ‎ →Bhutanese Lhotshampa: ". . population of country . ." makes no sense.
• 00:4300:43, 9 January 2018 diff hist +3‎ m Bhutanese Americans ‎ →Suicide: "According a report" makes no sense.

14 October 2017

• 15:0015:00, 14 October 2017 diff hist +1‎ m Louisiana ‎ In the table this is linked to, it's listed as #31, not 32.
• 14:5314:53, 14 October 2017 diff hist −7‎ m Louisiana ‎ 31st. in size is clearer than 31st. most extensive

12 October 2017

• 02:2802:28, 12 October 2017 diff hist +2‎ m Hanover Park, Cape Town ‎ At 97% Cape Coloured, and 45,000/sq. mi., it's a slum like Johannesburg's Soweto, not a suburb in the American sense, thus a township..

10 September 2017

• 19:1619:16, 10 September 2017 diff hist −7‎ m Anthony Bourdain ‎ The word "both" is correctly paired with "and", rather than "as well as".

29 August 2017

• 20:1820:18, 29 August 2017 diff hist +6‎ m Tokelau ‎ corrected to read that Tokelau is a New Zealand territory, rather than a country

8 August 2017

• 14:3214:32, 8 August 2017 diff hist 0‎ m Floating cities and islands in fiction ‎ →Venus: The word for "of Venus" is "Venusian", not "Venerian".

5 August 2017

• 02:0902:09, 5 August 2017 diff hist −1‎ m Promiscuity ‎ 'judgment' was misspelled 'judgement'

21 July 2017

• 20:2120:21, 21 July 2017 diff hist −1‎ m Monte Cristi National Park ‎ The words "off shore" are properly 1 word.
• 20:2020:20, 21 July 2017 diff hist −1‎ m Monte Cristi National Park ‎ "Its contains . ." makes no sense.
• 20:1520:15, 21 July 2017 diff hist +1‎ m Los Haitises National Park ‎ →History: "it area" needed to be changed to "its area"
• 20:0920:09, 21 July 2017 diff hist +3‎ m Parque Nacional Del Este ‎ The sentence is not complete without the word 'of'.

19 July 2017

• 18:3118:31, 19 July 2017 diff hist −8‎ m Brazilian Americans ‎ →Brazilian American communities: The word "between" is superfluous to the sentence's meaning.
• 18:2518:25, 19 July 2017 diff hist −4‎ m Haitian diaspora ‎ →Present status in the U.S.A.: The word "One" is superfluous to the meaning of the sentence.

15 July 2017

• 02:5102:51, 15 July 2017 diff hist 0‎ m United States ‎ →Cinema: Americans refers to all of us, so its possessive form should be as changed--Americans'.
• 00:1900:19, 15 July 2017 diff hist 0‎ m United States ‎ →Wildlife: On 1/10/13, Pinnacles became #59.