User contributions for Linguistics72

20 August 2024

• 21:1821:18, 20 August 2024 diff hist +41 m Bendigo TAFE provide explanation of what TAFE stands for

12 April 2024

• 23:2823:28, 12 April 2024 diff hist +11 m Joe Lieberman →Personal life and death: Eshet Khayil is not a song, it is a chapter of Proverbs

4 March 2024

• 04:3404:34, 4 March 2024 diff hist +7 m Catherine Opie →Life: added word 'former' for her partner since they are no longer together

5 November 2023

• 01:0901:09, 5 November 2023 diff hist −5 m Carl Bernstein →After Watergate: deleted word "also" since there was nothing it was also

13 October 2023

• 23:0623:06, 13 October 2023 diff hist +3 m Morton Pumpkin Festival corrected "in 1967" to "since 1967"

30 September 2023

• 04:5304:53, 30 September 2023 diff hist +105 m David F. Swensen →Personal life: update on honoring his memory

22 July 2023

• 00:1500:15, 22 July 2023 diff hist +70 m The Field School →Notable alumni: added Washington Commanders to Josh Harris

9 July 2023

• 10:2010:20, 9 July 2023 diff hist −353 Peter Hermann (actor) Peter Hermann comes up with NO RESULTS in the Yale Alumni Directory online and is not in printed versions Tag: Reverted
• 10:1110:11, 9 July 2023 diff hist +1 m Mariska Hargitay →Philanthropy: corrected the placement of the sentence referrring to "these letters" which must follow, not precede, the mention of the letters

13 January 2023

• 20:3620:36, 13 January 2023 diff hist +1 m Lisa Marie Presley →Charity work and humanitarian efforts: changed is to was

10 October 2022

• 23:5523:55, 10 October 2022 diff hist +18 m David Geffen →Philanthropy: edited caption of photo of old Geffen Hall

18 September 2022

• 19:5019:50, 18 September 2022 diff hist +73 Katalin Karikó →2022: added honorary degree from Yale

12 August 2022

• 23:1523:15, 12 August 2022 diff hist +374 Talk:Anne Heche →Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 August 2022 (2): new section

28 February 2022

• 04:4504:45, 28 February 2022 diff hist +85 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company →The Ritz-Carlton today: Bethesda is not in Chevy Chase. The headquarters is not even near Chevy Chase. Perhaps the Ritz thinks saying Chevy Chase makes it sound ritzier?

12 February 2022

• 04:1304:13, 12 February 2022 diff hist +134 Leonard S. Marcus added information prior to adulthood

12 December 2021

• 23:5123:51, 12 December 2021 diff hist −4 Lorne Michaels →Honors: changed 'will be' to 'was' since Kennedy Center Honors has now happened

1 December 2021

• 06:1606:16, 1 December 2021 diff hist +2 m Rita Moreno →Personal life: changed "Moreno" to "they" since it otherwise seems she moved alone, not with her husband

29 October 2021

• 05:5005:50, 29 October 2021 diff hist +16 m Sarnoff A. Mednick →Personal life: added year of death for Martha

11 October 2021

• 02:2402:24, 11 October 2021 diff hist +1 m Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers →Irène Cahen d’Anvers: maintained usage of "would" for future activity in the past, instead of "will" which illogical future tense.

3 September 2021

• 23:0423:04, 3 September 2021 diff hist +9 m Richard H. Brodhead →Duke lacrosse case: corrected grammar, lack of antecedents for (now deleted) students' surnames, other grammatical issues in the second sentence of the second paragraph
• 22:5922:59, 3 September 2021 diff hist −1 m Richard H. Brodhead →Duke lacrosse case: corrected singular:plural error in "were named as defendants" - not "a defendant"
• 22:5622:56, 3 September 2021 diff hist −2 m Richard H. Brodhead →Career at Duke: corrected tense for career at Duke
• 22:5522:55, 3 September 2021 diff hist −51 m Richard H. Brodhead →Career at Duke: put Duke presidency paragraphs into past tense

12 June 2021

• 03:5803:58, 12 June 2021 diff hist −5 Steve Higgins No edit summary
• 03:5803:58, 12 June 2021 diff hist +1 m Steve Higgins corrected verb in first sentence to present tense, changed recently to currently

15 April 2021

• 02:1402:14, 15 April 2021 diff hist +314 Robin Washington →Career: new position at The Forward

1 April 2021

• 18:0118:01, 1 April 2021 diff hist −7 Kojo Nnamdi →Public Interest and The Kojo Nnamdi Show (1998–present)
• 18:0018:00, 1 April 2021 diff hist +100 Kojo Nnamdi →Public Interest and The Kojo Nnamdi Show (1998–present): daily show ended on April 1

8 February 2021

• 18:5018:50, 8 February 2021 diff hist +141 Michael Atwood Mason →External links
• 18:4518:45, 8 February 2021 diff hist +43 Michael Atwood Mason Mason left his position as Folklife director in February 2021 so I put some verbs into past tense and added Feb 2021 as an end date.

19 January 2021

• 17:2117:21, 19 January 2021 diff hist −29 List of tallest buildings in Washington, D.C. →History: The Cairo is not and was not built as a hotel

17 December 2020

• 08:2008:20, 17 December 2020 diff hist +1 m Christine Hayes →Personal life: corrected Harman to Hartman

10 December 2020

• 05:0605:06, 10 December 2020 diff hist −18 Susan Mikula →Early life and education: removed graduation information. She was a freshman in 1976, not a graduate, at age 18. Note the F in 76F.

6 December 2020

• 23:4423:44, 6 December 2020 diff hist 0 m Anna Shechtman corrected typo: complies > compiles

3 December 2020

• 21:0521:05, 3 December 2020 diff hist −30 Bobbie Thomas →Personal life: Michael Marion died on December 1, 2020.<ref></ref>https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=michael-marion&pid=197208652 Tag: Reverted
• 21:0121:01, 3 December 2020 diff hist +41 Bobbie Thomas →Personal life: added husband's date of death

21 November 2020

• 05:1305:13, 21 November 2020 diff hist −35 m Federated Hermes →History: deleted sentence fragment possibly left over from a prior edit: "they did not purchase this company." Who did not purchase what? and what was that phrase doing at the end of a perfectly good sentence?

20 October 2020

• 05:4305:43, 20 October 2020 diff hist −6 m Cleveland Abbe →Meteorological career: changed 'same year' to 1916 because antecedent was not clear

16 October 2020

• 18:0718:07, 16 October 2020 diff hist +6 m Hilma af Klint added the word "known" before "to" since otherwise "to" is misplaced or wrong

7 May 2020

• 05:0905:09, 7 May 2020 diff hist −8 Jeannette Rankin undid my edit, which was unnecessary since Rankin was in office way before Perkins
• 05:0605:06, 7 May 2020 diff hist +8 Jeannette Rankin added "elected" to "first woman to hold federal office" since Frances Perkins held federal office decades earlier
• 04:3304:33, 7 May 2020 diff hist 0 m Rhodes Preparatory School corrected i.e. to e.g. - an example is given, not a definition

22 April 2020

• 19:4019:40, 22 April 2020 diff hist +2 Masa Israel Journey corrected the amount of grants available to match reality, $500 - $4,500, not "up to $9100" which is rather an exaggeration

1 April 2020

• 01:1101:11, 1 April 2020 diff hist 0 Flemington Racecourse added a hyphen between 3200 and metre in first paragraph

6 January 2020

• 03:4703:47, 6 January 2020 diff hist +13 m Awkwafina →Film: added Golden Globe in Notes for Farewell

3 January 2020

• 19:1519:15, 3 January 2020 diff hist +12 m Jane Wyman →Ronald Reagan: added dates of birth and death, as the other husbands have

25 February 2019

• 03:5303:53, 25 February 2019 diff hist 0 m Rami Malek →Early life and education: changed 'him' to 'his' before the gerund 'becoming'

24 February 2019

• 05:0105:01, 24 February 2019 diff hist −1 m Tatum O'Neal →Autobiography: misplaced comma
• 04:5504:55, 24 February 2019 diff hist −1 m Tatum O'Neal →Autobiography: deleted incorrectly place comma between 'Ryan' and 'denied'

14 February 2019

• 21:1421:14, 14 February 2019 diff hist +33 m Jon Leibowitz →Healthcare: explanation of pay-for-delay had a good deal missing from the sentence, resulting in ungrammatical and nonsensical wording