User contributions for GrahamAsher

10 December 2011

• 18:4518:45, 10 December 2011 diff hist −21 m Doha Changed 'turn of the century' which is ambiguous and ought to be rooted out everywhere, to 'about 1900'.

8 October 2011

• 11:5811:58, 8 October 2011 diff hist +412 Doxygen clarified and simplified the initial example by not using leading asterisks on each comment line and pointing out that it is unnecessary to do that

12 April 2011

• 22:0122:01, 12 April 2011 diff hist −3 m William I, German Emperor fixed probable typos: 'outside of his reign' -> 'outside his realm'
• 20:5920:59, 12 April 2011 diff hist 0 Henry de Bracton improved and corrected language
• 20:5820:58, 12 April 2011 diff hist −13 Henry de Bracton the criminal was not sent to a shipyard, which is where ships are built, but to a seaport, where he could board a ship; and he could go anywhere outside the realm, not just to Europe
• 20:5520:55, 12 April 2011 diff hist −4 m Henry de Bracton fixed incongruity of usage
• 20:5120:51, 12 April 2011 diff hist 0 m Henry de Bracton fixed typo: 'Ridardus Rex Alemanniae' surely must be 'Ricardus...
• 20:3820:38, 12 April 2011 diff hist +1 m Statutes of Mortmain fixed grammar
• 20:3820:38, 12 April 2011 diff hist 0 m Statutes of Mortmain fixed typo

17 March 2011

• 12:4312:43, 17 March 2011 diff hist +131 OpenStreetMap added mention of CartoType as a map renderer for mobile OSs
• 12:4112:41, 17 March 2011 diff hist +121 OpenStreetMap added mention of CartoType as a desktop mapping application able to use OSM data

27 January 2011

• 12:3012:30, 27 January 2011 diff hist −859 Scylla removed an illiterate and incomprehensible section (Project Scylla) that appears to be advertising, or at any rate nothing to do with the subject

29 August 2010

• 18:2718:27, 29 August 2010 diff hist −10 m Eurasian hobby Small improvements to readability.
• 18:2318:23, 29 August 2010 diff hist −519 Eurasian hobby Removed irrelevant section about a board game called Subbuteo. Trivia like this is discouraged.

1 June 2010

• 16:5216:52, 1 June 2010 diff hist −121 John Nicholson (East India Company officer) Deleted attribution of the phrase 'in the nick of time' to abbreviation for Nicholson's name. This is certainly incorrect, as the phrase predates him (e.g., used in 1727: see OED).

28 March 2010

• 21:0821:08, 28 March 2010 diff hist −313 Vltava Removed a slightly irrelevant and ungrammatical section. Can probably be restored if made comprehensible.

7 March 2010

• 16:1816:18, 7 March 2010 diff hist 0 m Berkhamsted Fixed pronunciation. Berkhamsted lies in a non-rhotic area; r after a vowel and before a consonant is not pronounced as 'r'.

3 March 2010

• 17:5417:54, 3 March 2010 diff hist −1 m Pippi Longstocking fixed another erroneous 'f'
• 17:5217:52, 3 March 2010 diff hist +1 m Pippi Longstocking fixed error introduced by last change
• 17:5117:51, 3 March 2010 diff hist −5 m Pippi Longstocking corrected Swedish spelling

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