User contributions for Cloyd11

4 July 2024

• 16:3916:39, 4 July 2024 diff hist +68 Pierre Chompré This article seems to have been translated, poorly, from the article in French. I've tried to clarify a few points and write it in a more natural style. current

28 June 2024

• 16:3716:37, 28 June 2024 diff hist −13 m Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy I changed spelling and made the diction less awkward. current

23 June 2024

• 21:3121:31, 23 June 2024 diff hist −173 Charles Rollin I deleted a statement from the introduction. The statement was both unclear and too specific to be a good part of the introduction. Why would being forgotten contribute to having one's name being used as an epithet? If this is true and interesting information, it should be placed later in the article and referenced with a citation.

17 April 2023

• 16:4916:49, 17 April 2023 diff hist +14 m Jane Bowles No edit summary
• 16:2816:28, 17 April 2023 diff hist −120 m Jean-Baptiste Colbert I tried to improve the awkward writing.
• 14:5014:50, 17 April 2023 diff hist −38 m Jean-Baptiste Colbert I made minor changes, trying to make the English less forced and stiff, among other things.

22 March 2023

• 16:3116:31, 22 March 2023 diff hist +39 Louis-Sébastien Mercier Beyond minor editing, I added some needed qualification to the assertion that Mercier believed the earth was flat.

17 March 2023

• 20:1820:18, 17 March 2023 diff hist −38 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon I eliminated the false claim that Buffon was an "encyclopedist." Diderot claimed to have received a promise from Buffon to write the article "Nature," but the promised article never appeared, nor any other article signed by Buffon.

15 March 2023

• 21:4721:47, 15 March 2023 diff hist −1 m Edmé-François Mallet I found two typos in my work.
• 21:4321:43, 15 March 2023 diff hist +297 Edmé-François Mallet Another major edit. I've added details and documentation. I also deleted the details on one of his famous pupils. This seems excessive in a short biography.
• 21:1521:15, 15 March 2023 diff hist +1,548 Edmé-François Mallet This is part of a major edit. I'm presenting more detail on the "controversy" at the end and updating the material.

14 March 2023

• 23:1223:12, 14 March 2023 diff hist +15 Edmé-François Mallet Partly I have tried to clear up the cumbersome English. I'm guessing this article started out as a translation. But I also tried to clear up the logic, and I tried to express more balance in the Rex-Kafker controversy in the final paragraph. For the future, I would like to change the spelling to "Edme" (no accent), since this is now standard in scholarship. But I don't know how to change the title of an article.

6 March 2023

• 17:4117:41, 6 March 2023 diff hist +3 m Hiram R. Revels I corrected two errors of punctuation.

7 April 2017

• 02:3502:35, 7 April 2017 diff hist +4 m Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana No edit summary
• 02:2602:26, 7 April 2017 diff hist +8 m Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana No edit summary
• 02:2502:25, 7 April 2017 diff hist +6 m Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana No edit summary
• 02:2402:24, 7 April 2017 diff hist −842 Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana I eliminated the undocumented assertion that it's a bibliographic rarity. World Cat lists more than a dozen libraries with complete sets.
• 02:1702:17, 7 April 2017 diff hist +63 Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana I've changed the wording a bit.
• 02:1102:11, 7 April 2017 diff hist −56 Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana I changed some details and removed the suggestion of bringing in material from the Polish article.
• 02:0502:05, 7 April 2017 diff hist +6 Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana No edit summary
• 02:0402:04, 7 April 2017 diff hist +2,992 Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana I've added the bibliographic list from the Polish article as someone suggested.
• 01:5301:53, 7 April 2017 diff hist +270 Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana I've added a new reference and material.

6 April 2017

• 18:2218:22, 6 April 2017 diff hist 0 m An Universal History of Arts and Sciences Adding italics.
• 18:2118:21, 6 April 2017 diff hist +4 m An Universal History of Arts and Sciences Adding italics.

22 March 2017

• 19:2419:24, 22 March 2017 diff hist −1 m Dictionnaire universel No edit summary
• 19:2319:23, 22 March 2017 diff hist +227 Dictionnaire universel I added a source on the Jesuit authors.
• 19:0719:07, 22 March 2017 diff hist +379 Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard I changed the section on inoculation and added a source.
• 13:5613:56, 22 March 2017 diff hist −211 Dictionnaire universel I deleted an unsourced statement that strikes me as wrong.
• 13:4013:40, 22 March 2017 diff hist +234 Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard I've added material and a source.
• 12:0912:09, 22 March 2017 diff hist −3 m Dictionnaire universel No edit summary
• 12:0712:07, 22 March 2017 diff hist −751 Dictionnaire universel I've added some information and cut some information that belongs in the article on the Dictionnaire de Trevoux, not here.
• 11:3911:39, 22 March 2017 diff hist −260 Dictionnaire universel I added a reference to Behnke on the Essais. She gives more editions than are currently in the article, and she disagrees about the place of publication.
• 11:2211:22, 22 March 2017 diff hist +262 Dictionnaire universel I added a source.
• 02:4602:46, 22 March 2017 diff hist +175 Dictionnaire universel I've started adding references and correcting information, but the second half of the article still needs work.
• 02:3702:37, 22 March 2017 diff hist +1 m Antoine Furetière No edit summary
• 02:3602:36, 22 March 2017 diff hist −4,131 Antoine Furetière I've taken out the material on publication and piracy of the Dictionnaire. It made the article unbalanced and will fit better in a separate article on the encyclopedia.
• 02:3202:32, 22 March 2017 diff hist +5,569 Dictionnaire universel I've taken information out of the article on Antoine Furetiere and put it here. It seems to me that the article on Antoine Furetiere was unbalanced by that material.
• 02:2202:22, 22 March 2017 diff hist +222 N Dictionnaire universel I've put up the basic summary. Next I will add information ....
• 02:1102:11, 22 March 2017 diff hist +286 Antoine Furetière I've added information and sources.
• 01:4801:48, 22 March 2017 diff hist −2 m Antoine Furetière No edit summary
• 01:4701:47, 22 March 2017 diff hist +470 Antoine Furetière This article has some errors and old-fashioned, British language. I've rearranged things and started to source facts. For the record, F did NOT die in the Netherlands.
• 01:2001:20, 22 March 2017 diff hist +11 m Dictionnaire Historique et Critique No edit summary

21 March 2017

• 11:2211:22, 21 March 2017 diff hist −4 m Dictionnaire Historique et Critique I took out an ambiguous hyperlink; it was redundant anyway.
• 02:4802:48, 21 March 2017 diff hist −3 Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard I removed "ornithologist" again.
• 02:4602:46, 21 March 2017 diff hist +115 Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard I added information on inoculating his son.
• 02:3502:35, 21 March 2017 diff hist +361 Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard I've added some information and corrected some things. Gueneau did work on birds, but he also dealt with other kinds of natural history, especially insects, and I don't think it's right to call him an ornithologist.
• 02:0702:07, 21 March 2017 diff hist +77 An Universal History of Arts and Sciences I fixed a hyperlink.
• 02:0402:04, 21 March 2017 diff hist +142 An Universal History of Arts and Sciences I added a source.
• 02:0302:03, 21 March 2017 diff hist +907 N An Universal History of Arts and Sciences I've put in some basic information.
• 01:4501:45, 21 March 2017 diff hist +525 Dictionnaire Historique et Critique I added material and a source on the origins of the project, and I tried to smooth the writing throughout.