User contributions for Mason.Jones

23 November 2024

• 23:4723:47, 23 November 2024 diff hist −28 Pittsfield, Massachusetts Fix piped link. current
• 22:3722:37, 23 November 2024 diff hist +35 Toronto →Toponymy current
• 22:3522:35, 23 November 2024 diff hist +35 Name of Toronto →History: Continuity: The "most frequent", "default" (etc.) spelling, but the mention of just one of these spellings (after listing all the others) must be clarified in a reference book. current
• 22:2622:26, 23 November 2024 diff hist −1 Toronto WP style (and throughout article): freestanding; hyphenate temporary compound.
• 20:2620:26, 23 November 2024 diff hist −30 Chicago metropolitan area Chicago is ranked 4th in N. America, not 5th, comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges: Chicago's Metropolitan Statistical Area of 9.6 million versus metro Toronto's 6.3 million, and Chicago's Combined Statistical Area of 9.8 million versus entire Toronto Region population of 9.7 million. current
• 20:2120:21, 23 November 2024 diff hist 0 Chicago metropolitan area WP style: hyphenated as a temporary compound
• 20:1320:13, 23 November 2024 diff hist +24 Yo-Yo Ma Per history below: family moved to Boston first, then New York City. Lead should match. current
• 20:0220:02, 23 November 2024 diff hist +3 Yo-Yo Ma Correct error in birthplace. It's Paris, France.
• 20:0120:01, 23 November 2024 diff hist −56 Yo-Yo Ma Recast to rmove incomplete (and repetitive) sentence; same details in next sentence suffice.
• 17:4617:46, 23 November 2024 diff hist +97 Talk:United States →Constitution
• 17:3817:38, 23 November 2024 diff hist −1 Talk:United States →Constitution
• 17:3817:38, 23 November 2024 diff hist +2 Talk:United States →Constitution
• 17:3717:37, 23 November 2024 diff hist +665 Talk:United States →Constitution
• 16:5516:55, 23 November 2024 diff hist +8 United States →Etymology: Per the online source: This term is cited sinply as part of speech. "Locative" is a specialized term of grammatical case (often abbreviated as loc.), and more jarring and odd than "adjective" and "adverb". current Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

22 November 2024

• 23:5323:53, 22 November 2024 diff hist −2 Talk:United States →Lead
• 23:5223:52, 22 November 2024 diff hist +288 Talk:United States →Lead
• 23:4423:44, 22 November 2024 diff hist +56 Talk:United States →Lead
• 23:4023:40, 22 November 2024 diff hist +232 Talk:United States →Lead
• 23:3223:32, 22 November 2024 diff hist +994 Talk:United States →Lead
• 21:4321:43, 22 November 2024 diff hist −11 Carole King →Early life and education: Fix WP link current
• 21:4021:40, 22 November 2024 diff hist +68 Carole King /* Early life and education -- Reword: the actual move by King's parents from Manhattan to Brooklyn should be clear. Also, she attended high school in Midwood section of Brooklyn.
• 20:3820:38, 22 November 2024 diff hist +53 Mid-Atlantic accent Clarify, and avoid run-on sentence. current
• 20:1320:13, 22 November 2024 diff hist −58 United States →Subdivisions: Fix wording. Federal district is an "administrative division"; the territories have a different status.
• 19:5619:56, 22 November 2024 diff hist +1 United States Undid revision 1258986621 by Shoreranger (talk) "Country" is the synonym, not "nation", a term that has a different context. Tag: Undo
• 19:5219:52, 22 November 2024 diff hist −34 United States Undid revision 1258984082 by Shoreranger (talk) RV -- Federal districts are not "unique" to the U.S. -- see Brazil and others. Also, D.C. is not treated as an equivalent state, which is what you are doing with the nonstandard callout "Columbia." It is never, EVER worded that way in reference works. Tag: Undo
• 19:4519:45, 22 November 2024 diff hist +911 Talk:United States →Lead
• 18:5318:53, 22 November 2024 diff hist +222 United States Undid revision 1258894480 by JacktheBrown (talk) RV -- The U.S. political culture is unique among advanced Western countries, and this was the consensus choice of wording. Take this to Talk page if you don't like it. Tag: Undo

21 November 2024

• 20:2520:25, 21 November 2024 diff hist −1 Languages of the United States →German (857,000 speakers; 1.29 million including Yiddish and Pennsylvania German dialects): Correction: typo in German American chart code
• 20:2320:23, 21 November 2024 diff hist 0 Languages of the United States →German (857,000 speakers; 1.29 million including Yiddish and Pennsylvania German dialects): Clear WP link.
• 20:2020:20, 21 November 2024 diff hist −6 Languages of the United States →German (857,000 speakers; 1.29 million including Yiddish and Pennsylvania German dialects): Typo
• 20:1820:18, 21 November 2024 diff hist +4 Languages of the United States →French (1.18 million speakers; 2.07 speakers incl. Haitian Creole): Spell out
• 20:1820:18, 21 November 2024 diff hist +248 Languages of the United States →German (857,000 speakers; 1.29 million including Yiddish and Pennsylvania German dialects): German must be explained. Editors shouldn't try to reinterpret sources (here, ACS figures and rankings) without an explanation. See WP:OR.
• 20:0520:05, 21 November 2024 diff hist +95 Languages of the United States →French (1.18 million speakers): Added for clarity
• 19:5419:54, 21 November 2024 diff hist +60 Languages of the United States →German (1.29 million speakers): At very least, both German and French stats must be qualified if editors are going to attempt original research and "interpret" the main ACS source. This is a violation of WP:OR.
• 00:0500:05, 21 November 2024 diff hist −2 United States →Government and politics: Mention of "oldest national constitution" should come later, following primary mention of the U.S. Constitution.

20 November 2024

• 17:0717:07, 20 November 2024 diff hist +23 United States →Government and politics: GRAMMAR: fix dangling participle. "Federation" and "U.S. Constitution" are two separate things.
• 16:5616:56, 20 November 2024 diff hist −116 United States →Government and politics: RESTORE original wording. "A federal district, Columbia" is nonstandard usage and unnecessary verbiage. "National capitol" is a misspelling.
• 16:3616:36, 20 November 2024 diff hist 0 United States →National government: RESTORE -- Again, there is no such thing as a "national capitol," and it is an egregious error. Washington, D.C. was already IDed above as a federal capital (with an "a").

19 November 2024

• 17:3417:34, 19 November 2024 diff hist 0 Denver Too trivial a factoid for the lede paragraph. Moved below, or should appear in a subsection.
• 17:2517:25, 19 November 2024 diff hist +26 United States A pat theoretical term like "manifest destiny" should NOT be piped in to "explain" the broader 19th-cent. migration westward. The term describes the right (and willfulness) of some early settlers and some politicians to occupy the entire N. American continent, but the migration was due to many factors and forces.
• 00:4200:42, 19 November 2024 diff hist +33 United States →Economy: The location of the HQ of world's biggest company should appear in caption.

18 November 2024

• 21:5321:53, 18 November 2024 diff hist +4 Denver Missing word
• 21:4621:46, 18 November 2024 diff hist +8 Denver Syntax: Per all WP city articles, city's location in the U.S. should come in very first paragraph (not the second). Also fix faulty dangling participle ("Located in the western United States, Denver's downtown..."). The entire state of Colorado is located in the western United States.
• 17:4817:48, 18 November 2024 diff hist −25 Template:Official languages of U.S. states and territories Correcting typos in source current
• 17:4617:46, 18 November 2024 diff hist −104 Template:Official languages of U.S. states and territories Correcting typos in source
• 17:3417:34, 18 November 2024 diff hist +256 Template:Official languages of U.S. states and territories The language case is Commonwealth v. Olivo 1975 (not Commonwealth v. Olivo in 2015, a criminal case, a different Olivo, and dealing with constitutional issues). Details for 1975 language case added + source.
• 16:5616:56, 18 November 2024 diff hist +2 Gertrude Stein Style fixes current
• 01:4201:42, 18 November 2024 diff hist +2 Languages of the United States →Spanish (41.25 million speakers): WP style Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

17 November 2024

• 22:0822:08, 17 November 2024 diff hist −90 Languages of the United States →Spanish (41.25 million speakers): Delete 2012 entry in order to follow chart's decennial format.
• 17:0917:09, 17 November 2024 diff hist −381 Languages of the United States Updating and correcting inconsistent language statistics taken from several ACS surveys. There should be only one survey source (latest ACS 2021 survey, covering 2020), and figures should match in both text and infobox.