User contributions for JerryFriedman
A user with 12,632 edits. Account created on 19 December 2003.
5 July 2024
- 03:3903:39, 5 July 2024 diff hist −12 Someday Soon (Ian Tyson song) →Background: Delete additions in brackets that don't improve comprehensibility or grammar current
26 February 2024
- 17:0717:07, 26 February 2024 diff hist +1 Mating type →Evolution: accidentally deleted a bracket in previous edit
- 17:0617:06, 26 February 2024 diff hist −14 m Mating type →Evolution: identify P. starrii and C. reinhardtii as algae, expand abbreviations (please don't use abbreviations on first mention, except maybe for very well-known ones)
21 February 2024
- 22:2422:24, 21 February 2024 diff hist +62 Jerome Bixby SF Hall of Fame Tag: Disambiguation links added
25 January 2024
- 03:0503:05, 25 January 2024 diff hist +1 m Grylloblatta Missed a [
- 03:0303:03, 25 January 2024 diff hist +14 Grylloblatta and Canada
2 January 2024
- 20:0920:09, 2 January 2024 diff hist 0 m Miris striatus Simplify "constitutes" to "is", change "species of bugs" to "species of true bug", fix punctuation and italics in caption
31 December 2023
- 01:4901:49, 31 December 2023 diff hist −1 m Maria Theresa thaler extra comma
- 01:4601:46, 31 December 2023 diff hist −1 Rial delete stray s (singular form is usually used in attributive compounds after numbers)
- 01:3501:35, 31 December 2023 diff hist +337 Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) Early history of "hot diggety dog" with citations, a little restraint on caps and exclamation marks
21 December 2023
- 14:2014:20, 21 December 2023 diff hist +2 m Blue-eyed shag extirpated "from", not "of"
- 14:1514:15, 21 December 2023 diff hist −4 m Imperial shag extra "the"
- 13:5413:54, 21 December 2023 diff hist +2 m Myanmar civil war (2021–present) seiging -> besieging
20 December 2023
- 14:5514:55, 20 December 2023 diff hist −6 m Željko Ivanek oops
- 02:4502:45, 20 December 2023 diff hist +5 m Željko Ivanek Delete stray apostrophe from "series" (or maybe it was supposed to be a plural, but the plural is the same as the singular)
19 December 2023
- 18:5318:53, 19 December 2023 diff hist +60 Lola Leaves for the Ports Machado brothers
16 December 2023
- 01:4801:48, 16 December 2023 diff hist −9 China Miéville Delete "all-time" because it contradicts "in the 20th century"
15 December 2023
- 16:2616:26, 15 December 2023 diff hist +126 Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien →Tolkien's dislike for spiders
- 16:2416:24, 15 December 2023 diff hist +14 Greek alphabet Clarify that Greek letters are used by speakers of other languages as technical symbols
14 December 2023
- 19:5319:53, 14 December 2023 diff hist +189 Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien Time to fix the spider thing?
10 December 2023
- 23:5623:56, 10 December 2023 diff hist +124 Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien →Tolkien's dislike for spiders
9 December 2023
- 16:5216:52, 9 December 2023 diff hist 0 m Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien belated proofread
- 16:2316:23, 9 December 2023 diff hist +1,007 Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien →Tolkien's dislike for spiders: a bit more
8 December 2023
- 17:1517:15, 8 December 2023 diff hist +1,103 Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien →Tolkien's dislike for spiders
- 16:1316:13, 8 December 2023 diff hist +1,683 Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien →Tolkien's dislike for spiders: new section Tag: New topic
- 15:4615:46, 8 December 2023 diff hist +476 J. R. R. Tolkien Add distate for spiders. There's another reference, but I'm not sure how to add it--see Talk. Tags: Reverted harv-error
6 December 2023
- 22:0522:05, 6 December 2023 diff hist +33 A Visit from the Goon Squad →Stories: Fix a couple mistakes I made
28 July 2023
- 01:3001:30, 28 July 2023 diff hist +720 Kudakareta kami, aru fukuinhei no shuki Summarize Dower's description, straighten out "respectively" sentence, tweaks
27 July 2023
- 15:1115:11, 27 July 2023 diff hist +34 Kudakareta kami, aru fukuinhei no shuki Date of publication
29 June 2023
- 21:5021:50, 29 June 2023 diff hist +2,071 A Visit from the Goon Squad More details, mostly in story summaries
23 June 2023
- 02:1502:15, 23 June 2023 diff hist +720 Yes and no OED on the four-form system
18 June 2023
- 15:2915:29, 18 June 2023 diff hist +29 A Visit from the Goon Squad It wasn't a hunting safari--Albert wasn't supposed to have the gun. Also delete unnecessary "essentially", add a few details, other tweaks
1 June 2023
- 01:1401:14, 1 June 2023 diff hist −1 m Deodand →History: typo
30 April 2023
- 18:3618:36, 30 April 2023 diff hist +47 Carl Loewe The words of Loewe's "Edward" are a translation from one of Percy's ballads
27 April 2023
- 14:2214:22, 27 April 2023 diff hist 0 m Surrender of Japan →13–14 August: "Parley" (negotiation), not "parlay" (making a small resource into a big one)
12 April 2023
- 15:4315:43, 12 April 2023 diff hist −1 m Strophostyles umbellata Aid, not aide. An aide is a person. current
5 April 2023
- 13:2713:27, 5 April 2023 diff hist +15 Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid →Textile industry: Separate food from textiles.
25 March 2023
- 13:0513:05, 25 March 2023 diff hist −2 m Tests of relativistic energy and momentum →Nuclear reactions: oops
23 March 2023
- 17:0017:00, 23 March 2023 diff hist −71 Pale Fire remove redundant mention of Timon of Athens as the source of the title
17 March 2023
- 22:1822:18, 17 March 2023 diff hist +7 m Visnea info -> information
- 22:0122:01, 17 March 2023 diff hist −1 m Symplococarpon purpusii remove comma
26 February 2023
- 15:3915:39, 26 February 2023 diff hist +23 Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment →Result: The sentence as written assumed the existence of the ether, contrary to the result of the experiment.
21 February 2023
- 05:2705:27, 21 February 2023 diff hist +4 m Coelopa frigida →Taxonomy: italics for Latin quotation
- 05:2605:26, 21 February 2023 diff hist +281 Coelopa frigida →Taxonomy: Remove funny "frigidaire" etymology, possibly vandalism. A few English corrections.
17 February 2023
- 00:2500:25, 17 February 2023 diff hist −2 Cyan →Gallery: CMYK doesn't produce the full range of colors
16 February 2023
- 03:0803:08, 16 February 2023 diff hist +1 m Mass–energy equivalence Messed up volume too
- 03:0703:07, 16 February 2023 diff hist +1,822 Tests of relativistic energy and momentum Add Oliphant-Rutherford experiments on E=mc^2 in a nuclear reaction
- 02:4602:46, 16 February 2023 diff hist 0 Mass–energy equivalence →Radioactivity and nuclear energy: Oops, wrong url
15 February 2023
- 05:0605:06, 15 February 2023 diff hist +464 Mass–energy equivalence Reference for verification in proton-lithium reaction
14 February 2023
- 00:2100:21, 14 February 2023 diff hist +1,682 Tests of relativistic energy and momentum Add nuclear decay with a recent experiment
