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20:5720:57, 14 December 2023 diff hist −8 Solstice "appears" deleted, and "path" changed to "point". The solstice, e.g. 12/22/2023 03.28 UTC, is when the sun actually reaches its its most southerly point.relative to the earth.

21:4021:40, 10 September 2023 diff hist +4 Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay →Sundial: "Exactly accurate" is not defined. The accuracy on the summer solstice is not demonstrated. If you google Sundial Bridge accuracy, you will find my webpage that demonstrates Sundial Bridge accuracy within a few minutes in January and also on 6/20/23.

01:0301:03, 20 January 2023 diff hist +154 m 1872 California-Nevada State Boundary Marker Horizontal distance from the Verdi CA/NV boundary marker to 120 degrees longitude is easy to measure on Google maps, and the distance is only 525 feet.

19:5119:51, 19 April 2021 diff hist +4 m User talk:Rkwiki changed to "in the"
19:4719:47, 19 April 2021 diff hist +407 m User talk:Rkwiki "is claimed give" is changed to "is claimed to give".
19:1819:18, 19 April 2021 diff hist +3 m Jantar Mantar "is claimed give" is changed to "is claimed to give".
19:0319:03, 19 April 2021 diff hist −1 Jantar Mantar, Jaipur The phrase "can be used to tell the time to an accuracy of about two seconds" is changed to "is claimed to tell the time to an accuracy of about two seconds" as no evidence is given that this (or any) sundial can tell time to an accuracy of about two seconds. Reference 13, for this claim, gives a "file not found" error. The website for reference 13, jantarmantar.org is still in existence but no evidence is found there for the claim of the 2" second accuracy.
17:4717:47, 19 April 2021 diff hist +1,062 User talk:Rkwiki →Dealing with implausible and unsourced claims
06:4906:49, 19 April 2021 diff hist +1,449 User talk:Rkwiki No edit summary

23:0623:06, 18 April 2021 diff hist +348 User talk:Rkwiki →Dealing with implausible and unsourced claims
17:2617:26, 18 April 2021 diff hist +7 Jantar Mantar The sentence "The Vrihat Samrat yantra is a sundial that can give the local time to an accuracy of 2 seconds" has been changed to "The Vrihat Samrat Yantra is a sundial that is claimed give the local time to an accuracy of 2 seconds." There is no documentation in this article or in the reference that this (or any sundial) can be read with a two second accuracy.

23:3023:30, 14 December 2018 diff hist +110 List of neighborhoods in San Francisco →Golden Gate Heights: interesting fact about the large number of stairways and stairs in Golden Gate Heights

00:3900:39, 6 September 2018 diff hist 0 m Angela Alioto Grammatical corrections in the first three sentences of this paragraph.
00:3300:33, 6 September 2018 diff hist +3 m Angela Alioto Changed "exact replica" to "78% scale replica" which most sources agree with (some sources says 3/4 scale). This is a significant difference, as a 78% scale is 0.78^3 = 47% of the size of the original.

00:5900:59, 14 June 2012 diff hist −64 m Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park The 26 mile drive from Nevada City is all paved, not 8 miles unpaved as the article had stated. We just drove it a few days ago.