User contributions for GrahamAsher

30 October 2023

• 16:1716:17, 30 October 2023 diff hist 0 m Cartographic generalization fixed typo: corrected spelling of Siedlungsbild

29 October 2023

• 21:2221:22, 29 October 2023 diff hist +91 Sartor Resartus corrected translation of Greek Diogenes from 'God-born' to the correct 'Zeus-descended' Tag: Reverted

22 February 2023

• 17:2017:20, 22 February 2023 diff hist +1 m Earth-centered inertial fixed typo Tag: Manual revert

19 December 2022

• 17:2917:29, 19 December 2022 diff hist −17 St Bartholomew's School removed the description of the school song as 'very Victorian'; a comment of uncertain meaning and possibly deprecatory

10 June 2022

• 08:0408:04, 10 June 2022 diff hist 0 Vedic accent the Vedic svarita seems to me to correspond not with the Latin circumflex (there is no such thing except in some schoolbooks) but the Greek circumflex

5 January 2022

• 09:5209:52, 5 January 2022 diff hist 0 m Nirmal Purja fixed typo: Britain has a Ministry of Defence, not a Ministry of Defense

9 October 2021

• 14:0014:00, 9 October 2021 diff hist +69 Medieval weights and measures added 'kvadratfamn' to the Swedish area units and fixed misspelt word; see <ref>https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famn</ref>
• 13:5413:54, 9 October 2021 diff hist +129 Medieval weights and measures fixed incorrect spellings and definitions of some Swedish units of volume; see <ref>https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famn</ref>
• 13:3613:36, 9 October 2021 diff hist +2 m Medieval weights and measures fixed incorrect translation: smør in Danish means 'butter', not 'corn'

3 May 2021

• 21:0721:07, 3 May 2021 diff hist −5 m Mediterranean–Dead Sea Canal minor grammatical fix: changed perfect tense to preterite

7 April 2021

• 16:2416:24, 7 April 2021 diff hist −5 m Michael Psellos changed Ludg. Batav. to Leiden, which is the modern name

8 March 2021

• 14:0114:01, 8 March 2021 diff hist +63 Claude Lancelot changed publication date of the Jardin des Racines Greques to 1657, based on information on the title page of the 1822 edition in my possession, and gave its original name; fixed unidiomatic translation of title

3 February 2021

• 15:5515:55, 3 February 2021 diff hist −1 Panspermia fixed minor grammatical error

29 October 2020

• 09:5409:54, 29 October 2020 diff hist +22 Boggs eumorphic projection clarified unusual English of 'goodly shaped' by noting that the phrase is Boggs's own
• 09:5009:50, 29 October 2020 diff hist −20 m George Saintsbury changed slightly confusing and ambiguous phrase 'at the turn of the century' to 1901, date of publication of the work referred to

28 October 2020

• 16:0416:04, 28 October 2020 diff hist −2 m Boggs eumorphic projection fixed minor error in English usage Tag: Reverted

28 August 2020

• 15:0115:01, 28 August 2020 diff hist 0 m Urbs Iudeu corrected Ludeu to Judeu (alternative to Iudeu) and to Iudeu; I believe both instances of Ludeu are mistakes

14 May 2020

• 17:1117:11, 14 May 2020 diff hist −2 m Travail, famille, patrie fixed minor error in English usage

2 May 2020

• 10:4710:47, 2 May 2020 diff hist −10 Stockport Viaduct removed word 'Victorian' which distorts meaning and adds nothing; the viaduct was just a major feat of engineering at the time; nobody at the time talked about 'Victorian engineering'

20 April 2020

• 10:5810:58, 20 April 2020 diff hist −57 m Purple Heart removed a sentence which doesn't seem to have any clear meaning

27 January 2020

• 17:3017:30, 27 January 2020 diff hist −43 Android Studio fixed slightly incorrect grammar and misleading wording in note on Kotlin replacing Java as the preferred development language

12 December 2019

• 14:5514:55, 12 December 2019 diff hist −1 Canton of Zug fixed pronunciation of Zug - final 'g' is not voiced and is therefore 'k' in IPA

25 October 2019

• 10:4110:41, 25 October 2019 diff hist +2 m Henry VII of England improved awkward grammar
• 10:3910:39, 25 October 2019 diff hist −9 m Henry VII of England fixed anachronistic references to British Isles and British economy; Henry VII was King of England

30 May 2019

• 09:2109:21, 30 May 2019 diff hist −9 m Flashman at the Charge deleted 'infamous' before 'Charge of the Light Brigade' - violates NPOV and is an unnecessary and irrelevant judgemental adjective

5 May 2019

• 17:1917:19, 5 May 2019 diff hist −32 m History of the British farthing clarified etymology and removed the obsolete term 'Anglo-Saxon' for the Old English language
• 17:1317:13, 5 May 2019 diff hist +48 Farthing (British coin) corrected the etymology of 'farthing'; it is not from the non-existent word 'fourthing'

28 February 2019

• 16:0416:04, 28 February 2019 diff hist −1 m Ludlow fixed spelling; no need for pseudo-antique spelling in the section header

16 January 2019

• 23:0223:02, 16 January 2019 diff hist +1 m Julia Domna fixed a typo: mater castorum -> mater castrorum

10 December 2018

• 17:3717:37, 10 December 2018 diff hist −27 Mercia replaced the inaccurate and misleading term Viking with Danes and Danish

8 November 2018

• 14:1514:15, 8 November 2018 diff hist +5 m Gustaf Fröding fixed an obvious typo

8 May 2018

• 19:5519:55, 8 May 2018 diff hist −35 Ford Model T removed clause that seems either to be meaningless or to contradict the remainder of the section

1 February 2018

• 11:4011:40, 1 February 2018 diff hist −73 m Roger Bacon removed incorrect description of plaque and irrelevant sneer about dog excrement

9 August 2017

• 10:2410:24, 9 August 2017 diff hist −17 Apley Hall fixed link to architectural Wyatt family, which went to the wrong place

30 May 2017

• 10:5010:50, 30 May 2017 diff hist +69 Sgùrr na Lapaich clarified the fact that the gate west of Struy prevents access by vehicles only; walkers and cyclists can go through freely

26 September 2016

• 19:5019:50, 26 September 2016 diff hist +1 m Lovely Seat fixed typo

30 April 2016

• 19:5319:53, 30 April 2016 diff hist +6 m Mercantilism replaced 'moot' (which means different things in US and UK English) with 'irrelevant'

9 February 2016

• 18:1818:18, 9 February 2016 diff hist −7 One-upmanship removed 'stuffy' (applied to 'traditional British conventions'); breaks NPOV and has almost no meaning apart from being vaguely derogatory

30 December 2015

• 21:5321:53, 30 December 2015 diff hist −1 Vidkun Quisling corrected the IPA transcription of the pronunciation of the name Vidkun Quisling

18 December 2015

• 14:1714:17, 18 December 2015 diff hist +446 Talk:Irish Transverse Mercator asked for reasoning behind a statement

2 December 2015

• 20:2920:29, 2 December 2015 diff hist +1 Great Red Spot fixed a typo: changed 'latitude' to 'longitude'; there are different systems for defining the longitude, not the latitude, which is unambiguous

21 May 2015

• 20:3520:35, 21 May 2015 diff hist −1 m Any Human Heart changed Boyd's nationality from Scottish to British; he was born in the Gold Coast, lives in England, and has an English accent; there is no evidence he is Scottish in any real sense

8 August 2013

• 20:5020:50, 8 August 2013 diff hist −1 m Cromartyshire fixed broken link to 'scattered counties of Cromarty' article

21 May 2013

• 14:2314:23, 21 May 2013 diff hist −6 m Christopher Pitt he was English

14 December 2012

• 18:5918:59, 14 December 2012 diff hist −24 Cartography removed 'charax' which means a pointed stick, and is not a transliteration of Χάρτης - so why was it there? Corrected transliteration, etc.

23 November 2012

• 22:2622:26, 23 November 2012 diff hist −7 m FreeBSD improved language: 'slurred' and 'phonetic pronunciation' are imprecise and the latter is pleonastic

26 April 2012

• 11:1611:16, 26 April 2012 diff hist −26 m Epidermis (skin) removed apparent vandalism defining Malphigian layer as a 'unit of plastic toys'

22 March 2012

• 10:1910:19, 22 March 2012 diff hist 0 m Smiley corrected notation of Unicode codepoints from C language to U+NNNN

18 February 2012

• 16:2616:26, 18 February 2012 diff hist −3 m Grande Prairie changed confusing 'boasts' to 'has'

10 December 2011

• 18:4618:46, 10 December 2011 diff hist −5 m Doha changed ornamental use of 'features' to 'has'