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26 November 2008

• 17:3417:34, 26 November 2008 diff hist −3 John Pickering (judge) Pickering attended Harvard College; Harvard was not called Harvard University until the 19th century

25 November 2008

• 14:5814:58, 25 November 2008 diff hist +1 Quantum of Solace →Plot: Grammer

18 November 2008

• 14:1814:18, 18 November 2008 diff hist +13 Jeb Bush →Business experience in Texas and abroad

3 November 2008

• 02:0502:05, 3 November 2008 diff hist 0 Rogers Hornsby →Playing career: Clarify that the end of the season was disappointing for Hornsby -- obviously, not for the Athletics!
• 02:0402:04, 3 November 2008 diff hist −343 Rogers Hornsby →Playing career: Anecdotes and information about Hornsby as a manager is in a separate section of article and does not belong here, which is about Hornsby as player.

13 October 2008

• 01:1001:10, 13 October 2008 diff hist 0 Present perfect →English: correction of typo

30 August 2008

• 15:4415:44, 30 August 2008 diff hist +10 Jaws (film) Correction of run-on sentence
• 15:3915:39, 30 August 2008 diff hist −658 D.C. sniper attacks →Military Reconnaissance Called In: Removal of information that is (a) misplaced and (b) already found elsewhere in the article
• 05:5905:59, 30 August 2008 diff hist −28 Stardust Memories Calling it "semi-autobiographical" is subjective and contrary to Allen's own description of the piece and thus presumptuous.
• 04:5904:59, 30 August 2008 diff hist −3 Shark attack →Reasons for attacks: Correction of misspelling and bad punctuation.
• 04:5804:58, 30 August 2008 diff hist −288 Shark attack →Reasons for attacks: Removal of incoherent, ungrammatical, and inappropriately casual language.

27 August 2008

• 03:3803:38, 27 August 2008 diff hist −1 The Ashes →The quest to "recover those ashes": "England" is not a plural noun

26 August 2008

• 03:5903:59, 26 August 2008 diff hist 0 Lyndon B. Johnson →Death and funeral: Correction of run-on sentence. Who writes this stuff!?!
• 03:5503:55, 26 August 2008 diff hist −97 Lyndon B. Johnson →Early years: reference to previous location of Baylor University irrelevant and confusing
• 03:5403:54, 26 August 2008 diff hist +36 Lyndon B. Johnson Incorrect to say that Medicare and Medicaid create health care -- they just cause it to be funded by the govenment

25 August 2008

• 22:5522:55, 25 August 2008 diff hist −115 Curtis LeMay →World War II: Removal of unsubstantiated and appallingly written sentence.
• 22:5322:53, 25 August 2008 diff hist −4 Curtis LeMay →World War II: Removal of unnecessary and unexplained acronym.
• 22:5122:51, 25 August 2008 diff hist −39 Curtis LeMay →World War II: Say in three words what the text pevious said in ten.
• 22:4922:49, 25 August 2008 diff hist −2 Curtis LeMay →World War II: List shows that LeMay was a major in December 1941.
• 22:4822:48, 25 August 2008 diff hist −11 Curtis LeMay →World War II: Amazingly, text directly contradicted itself in subsequent sentences. This fixes that.

13 August 2008

• 04:1904:19, 13 August 2008 diff hist −5,328 George S. Patton →Attitude on race
• 04:1804:18, 13 August 2008 diff hist +17 Babe Ruth Accurate statement about Ruth's dominance considering that he led his league in several of the most important offensive cateogires more times than anyone else.

10 August 2008

• 23:1923:19, 10 August 2008 diff hist −2 SS Edmund Fitzgerald →Final voyage and wreck: pronoun agreement
• 03:3203:32, 10 August 2008 diff hist −5,328 George S. Patton →Attitude on race: section is unremarkable and irrelevant; Patton's views no different from most contemporaries
• 01:5501:55, 10 August 2008 diff hist −6 Rogers Hornsby →Trivia: "Goes on to say" construction confusing because there's no previous statement indicated

6 August 2008

• 12:3112:31, 6 August 2008 diff hist −265 General of the Air Force Undid revision 227760810 by Montgomery '39 (talk)Header inaccurate and unnecessary

28 July 2008

• 03:2903:29, 28 July 2008 diff hist −631 Daniel Craig →James Bond (2005–present): Removal of excessive about support for Craig that is redundant with previous sentence and contains a reference to a movie that has not yet been identified in the text.
• 03:2603:26, 28 July 2008 diff hist −311 Daniel Craig →James Bond (2005–present): Removal of unsubstantiated rumor information and unspecified references to a "film" and a "website."
• 03:2403:24, 28 July 2008 diff hist −680 Daniel Craig →James Bond (2005–present): Removal of trivial and uncited information about rumos.
• 03:2003:20, 28 July 2008 diff hist −127 Daniel Craig Removal of minor information that is already provided in biographical section.
• 03:1903:19, 28 July 2008 diff hist −31 Daniel Craig "Poplar Farm" is not a commonly recognized entity; the reference to it should be explained or removed.

25 July 2008

• 02:4602:46, 25 July 2008 diff hist −28 General officers in the United States →American Civil War era: Correction of wrong verb tense
• 02:3802:38, 25 July 2008 diff hist −14 Admiral (United States) →Statutory limits: Removal of redundant language
• 02:3402:34, 25 July 2008 diff hist −265 General of the Air Force →Modern use: Removal of text that is redundant and inaccurate

24 July 2008

• 04:4404:44, 24 July 2008 diff hist −438 Battle of Midway →Attacks on the Japanese fleet: Removal of sentences that repeat exactly what comes before

23 July 2008

• 00:2200:22, 23 July 2008 diff hist −54 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Hoaxes: Removal of irrelevant information
• 00:2100:21, 23 July 2008 diff hist −4 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Hoaxes: Correction of unexplained acronym
• 00:1900:19, 23 July 2008 diff hist 0 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Capitalization correction
• 00:1900:19, 23 July 2008 diff hist −4 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Removal of unexplained acronym
• 00:1800:18, 23 July 2008 diff hist −85 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Correction of bad sentence structure, incorrect noun use, and removal of POV.
• 00:1500:15, 23 July 2008 diff hist −30 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Correction of run-on sentence and removal of POV.
• 00:1300:13, 23 July 2008 diff hist −3 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Correction of run-on sentence and removal of rhetorical language.
• 00:1100:11, 23 July 2008 diff hist −295 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Correction of confusing exposition and removal of irrelevant information.
• 00:0600:06, 23 July 2008 diff hist −73 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Correction of bad verb tense, run-on sentence, redundant exposition, and bad hyphen use.
• 00:0300:03, 23 July 2008 diff hist −153 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Correction of confusing exposition and repeated information
• 00:0100:01, 23 July 2008 diff hist −16 Helios Airways Flight 522 →Flight and crash: Correction of inaccurate characterization

20 July 2008

• 04:2904:29, 20 July 2008 diff hist −29 The Seventh Seal →Synopsis: Removal of repeated information
• 04:2704:27, 20 July 2008 diff hist −166 The Seventh Seal →Synopsis: Removal of embarrarsingly bad sentence in which black is described as the color of "darkness." No kidding!
• 04:2404:24, 20 July 2008 diff hist +42 The Seventh Seal →Historical accuracy: Clarification; otherwise information about queen makes no sense
• 04:2004:20, 20 July 2008 diff hist −20 Ingmar Bergman →Family life: Removal of repeated information; it already says right there in the table that von Rosen was his last wife.