User contributions for MinnesotanUser
A user with 4,319 edits. Account created on 12 May 2016.
9 October 2024
- 02:2202:22, 9 October 2024 diff hist −589 Talk:United States Declaration of Independence No need to retain a silly exchange when the stuff eventually archives. current
30 September 2024
- 03:4603:46, 30 September 2024 diff hist −72 Northern Kentucky Striking the claim that land values "quadrupled overnight": editorializing, grandiose local community boosting, un-specific... current
20 September 2024
- 06:5806:58, 20 September 2024 diff hist −11 The Designers Republic The animal(s) themselves were probably not clients. If someone wants to redirect to a business of the same name... current
23 August 2024
- 17:3417:34, 23 August 2024 diff hist +807 The Killing (film) Rewrite plot, keeping wordcount well under 700. Basic details of the heist are pertinent, and the Marvin/Johnny relationship and the horseshoe detail are also significant. The players have enough complexity that stating some of their names seems appropriate. No need for "sexpot", "inveigles/(inveighs)", and it isn't at all clear that the shooter is a weak link (any more than the others), so his death is not especially "fortuitous".
20 August 2024
- 21:2021:20, 20 August 2024 diff hist +468 Killer's Kiss Rewrite plot. No neet for flowery language like " 'til " and "wheedle", just describe the film's events in plain language. Davey doesn't actually meet up with his manager, the whole point of the middle. The manager's name is unimportant. The villain's name is spelled "Rapallo". The mannequin whse is not abandoned, there was a guy working in there. The (otherwise undeveloped) details about Gloria's family and especially the frequent shots on rooftops have significance, so expand on those.
14 August 2024
- 00:3600:36, 14 August 2024 diff hist −13 List of busiest airports by passenger traffic lead pic caption: just state the fact that Atlanta is the busiest, in plain language. Even if supported by sources, "far and away" still comes off as editorializing/bragging language.
9 August 2024
- 03:1803:18, 9 August 2024 diff hist +153 Mitch Hedberg Adding photo of gravesite and basic info on same.
31 July 2024
- 00:5000:50, 31 July 2024 diff hist −44 Copayment No need for the 3 See also terms when all 3 are named and linked in 1st graph. To complete last comment, "effectively uninsured" was a very poor (and apparently unsourced) way of trying to describe the problem. If you have a policy, you have a policy. If you don't, you don't. What the language was really trying to say is that a high copay defeats the purpose of insurance from the individual point of view, financially speaking. But if someone wants to add back, we can phrase more precisely. current
- 00:4300:43, 31 July 2024 diff hist −106 Copayment Lead, prune final sentence. "Effectively uninsured" is a very poor way
28 July 2024
- 03:3303:33, 28 July 2024 diff hist −1 Maróczy Bind Undo last. Hm, what's "Creak Sicilian"? I've never heard of that. Is there a source using that phrase? current Tag: Undo
27 July 2024
- 03:0403:04, 27 July 2024 diff hist +1 Dogberry The character's allegiance is to some fictionalized version of Messina, whether city-state or otherwise (it doesn't matter). "Verges" is just one of his bumbling buddies. The "affiliation" bit in the fictional character box is meant to point to larger political allegiance, not so much personal relationships. current
- 02:5702:57, 27 July 2024 diff hist 0 Much Ado About Nothing Unfortunately, the annotation on the source artwork is itself incorrect. The blunt "Kill Claudio" line occurs at Ac IV Sc.I, not what the annotation said.
14 July 2024
- 04:3404:34, 14 July 2024 diff hist −63 Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania add template
11 July 2024
- 01:0101:01, 11 July 2024 diff hist −42 Southern Hemisphere Remove "coordinate" argument appearing at top of article (and at bottom of code). It was misleading and unhelpful to identify an entire hemisphere with a single point on it (one arbitrary point in the south Atlantic). One point on the hemisphere is not the same thing as the article's subject—the entire thing. The coordinate template is generally (and best) used for specific places, coordinates representing towns, cities, markers etc.
- 00:5800:58, 11 July 2024 diff hist −42 Northern Hemisphere Remove "coordinate" argument appearing at top of article (and at bottom of code). It was misleading and unhelpful to identify an entire hemisphere with a single point on it (the north pole). One point on the hemisphere is not the same thing as the article's subject—the entire thing. The coordinate template is generally (and best) used for specific places, coordinates representing towns, cities, markers etc.
30 June 2024
- 02:3102:31, 30 June 2024 diff hist −86 Modular arithmetic Although we want to suggest areas for growth via redlinks (to non-existent material etc), in situations like this empty section, it's better to have nothing at all rather than an empty titled section with a "write me" complaint. If someone wants to take a stab later, the deletion is in the history.
- 02:2802:28, 30 June 2024 diff hist −6 m Anti-Irish sentiment "coercive force" was redundant.
20 June 2024
- 01:1001:10, 20 June 2024 diff hist −326 Gaganyaan-4 If it is not yet known who will actually fly the mission, it is better to have no crew table at all, not a "blank" table with empty cells.
10 March 2024
- 09:0809:08, 10 March 2024 diff hist −355 Glove compartment Wholesale elimination of small section without sources. In my part of the world, I've never come across those usages. If others know of ones just deleted, please provide sources. current
9 February 2024
- 08:4308:43, 9 February 2024 diff hist +31 The Backrooms The article's subject and its most popular renderings are really just a new take on the labyrinth and the minotaur. At the same time, this (obvious) connection is not currently mentioned in the article. Making this sort of basic comparison is exactly what the "See also" section is for. See (also!) WP:SEEALSO
31 January 2024
- 03:4603:46, 31 January 2024 diff hist +64 Bibliography of Bobby Fischer Undo last, it created an incomplete sentence. More importantly, have a look at MOS:LEADSENTENCE and MOS:REDUNDANCY on this. It's better to give a grammatically correct sentence that describes the article's subject in a way that isn't clumsy and isn't of the form "This list of (X) is a list of X." Tag: Undo
21 January 2024
- 04:5904:59, 21 January 2024 diff hist −322 Sneeze lead image caption: waaay too much detail. No one cares that the photo was taken in 2009, and "dramatically" was needless editorializing. For health concerns and the rest, let the article text do the telling. Show, don't tell (as far as the image goes).
30 December 2023
- 02:4402:44, 30 December 2023 diff hist +7,849 Maurizio Lazzarato Punching up a section on subject's recent work.
29 November 2023
- 22:1622:16, 29 November 2023 diff hist −2,096 User talk:MinnesotanUser blanking annual arbcom message. current Tags: Blanking Manual revert
22 October 2023
- 01:3301:33, 22 October 2023 diff hist −450 User talk:MinnesotanUser Blanking talk. I may reply at the Bourbaki article at some point, but it's a very minor issue. Tags: Blanking Manual revert
15 October 2023
- 03:5403:54, 15 October 2023 diff hist 0 m Carrie (novel) lead, grammar.
13 October 2023
- 02:4502:45, 13 October 2023 diff hist −10 Hans-Jürgen Krahl "endlessly" in "endlessly fractious" is a fancy, grandiose, editorializing word. We don't do that here.
10 October 2023
- 01:1601:16, 10 October 2023 diff hist +14 DMX The condition of dying without a will is known as intestacy. This has its own article, and so a bluelink is helpful.
11 September 2023
- 05:4005:40, 11 September 2023 diff hist −130 User talk:MinnesotanUser Undoing unexplained test edit comment by an IP user with no other apparent history. Tags: Undo Reverted
10 September 2023
- 05:3205:32, 10 September 2023 diff hist −4 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Undo good faith edit which attempted to reduce ambiguity, but which contextually re-introduces ambiguity, by confusing the two old houses shown. The first "old Franklin" (Hardesty) house is the truly abandoned one, and the second "other" house is not at all abandoned. It has signs of life (the generators), and is later populated by the villains. Tag: Undo
29 August 2023
- 03:1003:10, 29 August 2023 diff hist −397 Operant conditioning chamber Undo last edit. The ideas in the section are very reasonable and sound right. I also agree that the article could use a section on ethics. However, there's no citations here. Please look up some sources about the ethics of the skinner box and cite them if you'd like to put the section back. Tag: Undo
22 August 2023
- 16:4916:49, 22 August 2023 diff hist −91 The Exorcist Plot: undo IP edit for reason recently explained. Tag: Undo
- 05:1405:14, 22 August 2023 diff hist +268 Immortal Game The blanket statement that Anderssen moved first with the black pieces is also wrong. Kieseritzsky's original report indicates that Anderssen moved first as White, per the modern norm. There do exist conflicting historical reports, so the right thing to do is to explain and contextualize these as a note, siding with Kieseritzky as an exemplar-agreeing-with-modern-norm.
- 03:5503:55, 22 August 2023 diff hist −208 Immortal Game cutting two redundant external links, these are used as citations.
18 August 2023
- 04:3004:30, 18 August 2023 diff hist +434 State (polity) An edition of Webster's gives three senses of the word which justify the first sentence. Nor is this an America-centric rendering; the general concept is given reasonably well in the three bits cited.
- 03:2903:29, 18 August 2023 diff hist +19 Statelessness We should bluelink the central (negated) concept right at the very top, for reference.
9 August 2023
- 01:4401:44, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,368 Glossary of chess Also, the starting position itself certainly warrants an entry—consider that the concept and equivalent phrases (initial position/array) are invoked multiple times throughout the glossary. It is a concept so elementary, yet so commonly repeated at the front of every primer (and thus germane), that it has been taken for granted. If we want to mention the uncommon "array" usage in the article (I slightly favor this), this is also a better place to do it.
8 August 2023
- 03:0403:04, 8 August 2023 diff hist −119 The Exorcist Plot, undo recent IP edit with plot coda. This language doesn't really add anything critical to the story. Tag: Undo
6 August 2023
- 02:2102:21, 6 August 2023 diff hist +1,078 Glossary of chess The term frontier line was introduced by Nimzowitsch right at the top (of his work), it stuck, and has been repeated by several others. It's also a simple and intuitive concept, so it seems to warrant an entry.
1 August 2023
- 04:1104:11, 1 August 2023 diff hist +27 Arthur Koestler Lead: per MOS:EUPHEMISM we avoid "took their lives", "passed away" etc in favor of more clinical, precise language like "committed suicide", "died". Also, regardless of the private details of their relationship (and whatever pressures he may have exerted), all evidence indicates that in any event, they agreed to kill themselves together, so a bluelink to the pact-topic article is germane since this is a historical example of the concept.
17 July 2023
- 03:3303:33, 17 July 2023 diff hist +196 User talk:MinnesotanUser Reply Tags: Reverted Reply
14 July 2023
- 03:4603:46, 14 July 2023 diff hist +62 Nicolas Bourbaki No, it does reasonably reduce to "sets vs. cats". Historical sources, taken together, contradict assertion. One could argue that "sets (and: entailed 'structures') versus categories" is a simplification, but at bottom it's not a misrepresentation of the issue-the point. Groth. and others wanted cat. "start-over", but they'd already committed to sets/"structures", and this is why Groth. left. Agree that announced Cat. book changes things in very interesting way. Happy to discuss in talk.
14 June 2023
- 22:3722:37, 14 June 2023 diff hist +2 m Talk:Karpov–Kasparov rivalry →Possible scope duplication: fix para.
- 22:3422:34, 14 June 2023 diff hist +60 Karpov–Kasparov rivalry "Sofixit": easy fix, a little punchup on the bare link. (Legitimately) remove that minor complaint tag, now.
- 03:1103:11, 14 June 2023 diff hist +821 Talk:Karpov–Kasparov rivalry →Possible scope duplication: two cents
- 03:0403:04, 14 June 2023 diff hist +79 Karpov–Kasparov rivalry No, the article's scope is still dubious as it's largely a re-hash of the various championship articles with nothing real or unique to itself. I myself like to remove "complaint tags" where I don't agree with them, and I don't like to drive-by edit, but in this case I think my scope complaint is right and still needs addressing here.. See talk. The bare link thing is an easy fix. Tag: Undo
- 02:5902:59, 14 June 2023 diff hist −91 Voice type Striking the highly dubious and unsourced claim that ANY (read: all) humans can perform within one-ish two-ish octaves, assuming that they have a voice and are capable of speaking/singing. Sounds more like an expected norm in classical musical performance than a general human fact.
4 June 2023
- 05:3105:31, 4 June 2023 diff hist −1,784 User talk:MinnesotanUser blanking a well-meaning greeting. Tags: Blanking Manual revert
1 June 2023
- 07:0407:04, 1 June 2023 diff hist −34 Tracy's Rock No need for this ancient and vague complaint tag about a minor article, the article is reasonably well developed as-is.
29 May 2023
- 04:2304:23, 29 May 2023 diff hist +1,509 User talk:MinnesotanUser →cool name: Reply Tags: Reverted Reply
