User contributions for GrahamAsher

10 February 2010

• 17:3317:33, 10 February 2010 diff hist 0 m Virama fixed typo

9 November 2009

• 19:0919:09, 9 November 2009 diff hist +3 m Ludwig Wittgenstein Alfred North Whitehead is always known as such.

30 September 2009

• 18:3018:30, 30 September 2009 diff hist +9 m The Bacchae minor improvements to language and sense; e.g., changed 'a real' to 'a mode', which seems to be the intended meaning, and corrected eruption to irruption

15 September 2009

• 19:0719:07, 15 September 2009 diff hist −9 Maureen Dunbar deleted 'platonic'; there is no evidence that the relationship with Lewis was platonic, and some (from Lewis's work 'Surprised by Joy') to the contrary

25 August 2009

• 12:1512:15, 25 August 2009 diff hist −2 East India Company changed incomprehensible word 'kunu' (vandalism?) to what I think is the more reasonable 'officers'

20 August 2009

• 09:1509:15, 20 August 2009 diff hist −52 Colin McGinn Fixed punct. error that gave impression that McGinn went to University as soon as he was born; removed unverifiable (and suspiciously clichéd) claim about him being first of his family to go to Univ.

19 August 2009

• 20:3320:33, 19 August 2009 diff hist 0 Medieval Welsh literature fixed typo

12 August 2009

• 20:4520:45, 12 August 2009 diff hist −21 Saint Boniface the term 'Old English' is preferred to the obsolete 'Anglo-Saxon'

4 August 2009

• 19:1719:17, 4 August 2009 diff hist −204 Dunstable Downs Remove

3 August 2009

• 13:2313:23, 3 August 2009 diff hist −13 OpenGL Removed meaningless pairs of letters - probably vandalism.

30 July 2009

• 21:1121:11, 30 July 2009 diff hist +2 m Cultural relationship between the Welsh and the English fixed typo and punctuation
• 20:5920:59, 30 July 2009 diff hist 0 North Wales I think 'rwan' is a typo for 'nawr'. Welsh-speakers please correct if this is wrong.

29 July 2009

• 19:4519:45, 29 July 2009 diff hist 0 John Derbyshire corrected pronunciation t

18 June 2009

• 19:1319:13, 18 June 2009 diff hist −6 m John Benbow Benbow was English and died before the act of Union, so 'British' is incorrect.

4 December 2008

• 17:1717:17, 4 December 2008 diff hist +113 Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode noted that Symbian OS uses SCSU

11 September 2008

• 19:3019:30, 11 September 2008 diff hist −13 Joseph Ducreux removed characterisation of physiognomy as a pseudoscience; breaches NPOV; arguably, also, it is or could be a science because it makes testable predications

27 May 2008

• 20:4720:47, 27 May 2008 diff hist −11 Grace in Christianity removed corrupt transcription of 'Messiah' (presumable from NT Gk) - someone please put correct one in if they know it
• 20:4420:44, 27 May 2008 diff hist +5 Grace in Christianity Fixed mangled transcription of 'pisteus' from Greek. Someone may want to put this into Greek letters but it's probably fine as it is. The word is well known.

26 May 2008

• 22:5522:55, 26 May 2008 diff hist +1 John Shade fixed typo; minor improvement to phrasing
• 22:5422:54, 26 May 2008 diff hist −167 m John Shade removed irrelevant comment that looks as though it got in by mistake

13 May 2008

• 20:2820:28, 13 May 2008 diff hist −11 m South Bank fixed obvious typo

10 April 2008

• 19:1419:14, 10 April 2008 diff hist +2 m Gregory of Tours fixed the plural of 'conundrum'. No, conundrum is not a Latin 2nd-declension neuter noun.

20 March 2008

• 15:4015:40, 20 March 2008 diff hist 0 C. Northcote Parkinson moved 'East and west' from Naval History to Other non-fiction. It is a book of general history, not naval history.

19 March 2008

• 21:0221:02, 19 March 2008 diff hist −18 Utility cycling The phrase 'stark light...' violates NPOV by its pejorative implication.

23 January 2008

• 15:4415:44, 23 January 2008 diff hist −94 Penge Removed irrelevant and obviously incorrect suggestion about etymology of Penge. Danish 'penge' is not a credible candidate (it is a relatively modern form) & there is no evidence for this derivation.
• 15:4115:41, 23 January 2008 diff hist +1 m Penge repaired probable typo (meaningless word 'kak')
• 15:3815:38, 23 January 2008 diff hist +279 DK (publisher) added note on software systems used by DK Multimedia, based on personal recollection

22 January 2008

• 20:5420:54, 22 January 2008 diff hist −97 m Riverworld removed erroneous insertions
• 20:5120:51, 22 January 2008 diff hist +100 m Riverworld ~~~~ King John (and other kings of England with unique names) are never known as 'the first' or suffixed with I.

19 June 2007

• 19:1719:17, 19 June 2007 diff hist +5 m John Harington (writer) changed flag icon from UK to England - Harington lived before the UK existed

7 May 2007

• 11:1311:13, 7 May 2007 diff hist +24 m Valhalla (video game) fixed link
• 11:1111:11, 7 May 2007 diff hist −2 Valhalla (video game) corrected another reference to the non-existent Movisoft
• 11:1011:10, 7 May 2007 diff hist +227 Valhalla (video game) minor corrections based on my memory as one of the developers

27 April 2007

• 19:2519:25, 27 April 2007 diff hist +9 m Bilinear interpolation added vertical space between formulae to improve readability; used non-break space; please change if there is a better way
• 19:1919:19, 27 April 2007 diff hist 0 m Texture mapping fixed typos

31 March 2007

• 20:1920:19, 31 March 2007 diff hist +1 m Lord Randolph Churchill fixed typo

14 March 2007

• 21:5221:52, 14 March 2007 diff hist 0 Santa Cruz Province, Argentina re-fixed duff date
• 21:5121:51, 14 March 2007 diff hist −14 Santa Cruz Province, Argentina fixed duff date; removed 'specially' which violates NPOV (implies Drake was a pirate); another similar change
• 21:4521:45, 14 March 2007 diff hist −4 m Santa Cruz Province, Argentina improved English a little
• 21:2221:22, 14 March 2007 diff hist +16 m Symbian OS fixed some typos; minor clarifications

6 March 2007

• 22:0022:00, 6 March 2007 diff hist −5 m Reconquista corrected translation from Latin - 'Hispaniae' is gen. sing.

6 February 2007

• 21:5321:53, 6 February 2007 diff hist −5 m Walter Scott pleonasm
• 21:4621:46, 6 February 2007 diff hist −2 m John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough punctuation
• 21:4421:44, 6 February 2007 diff hist +2 m Glorious Revolution grammar and capitalisation
• 21:4221:42, 6 February 2007 diff hist +20 m Glorious Revolution Actual motto of the House of Orange is in French.

19 January 2007

• 22:0022:00, 19 January 2007 diff hist −3 m Tcl 'resp.' is not English

18 January 2007

• 18:2718:27, 18 January 2007 diff hist +127 Computer font corrected some inaccuracies in brief description of METAFONT

16 January 2007

• 22:2522:25, 16 January 2007 diff hist +124 m James Bond added ref to The James Bond Dossier by Kingsley Amis
• 21:1621:16, 16 January 2007 diff hist +581 Mount Meru added note on reference in Far, Far the Mountain Peak by John Masters.

2 January 2007

• 12:5112:51, 2 January 2007 diff hist 0 m Punycode →Encoding of non-ASCII character insertions as code numbers