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A user with 827 edits. Account created on 30 January 2007.
29 April 2024
- 21:1221:12, 29 April 2024 diff hist +13 m Marwan I →Secretary of Uthman: corrected Hugh N. Kennedy to show as Hugh Kennedy in link. current
- 21:0521:05, 29 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri →Life: Fixed typo ("prove temporary" -> "proved temporary" referring to a change of heart) current
27 April 2024
- 02:5002:50, 27 April 2024 diff hist +51 Procopius →List of selected works: Corrected Penguin Classics details
14 April 2024
- 23:1823:18, 14 April 2024 diff hist +22 m Kimbra Linked Vincent Fantauzzo current
13 April 2024
- 22:0822:08, 13 April 2024 diff hist +7 m Sanskrit →Writing system: closed bracketing em-dash, harmonized number
- 12:3712:37, 13 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Muscular Christianity →Africa: capitalised muscular Christianity 2 times (outside quotations) for consistency
12 April 2024
- 19:0419:04, 12 April 2024 diff hist −67 Abraham Mitrie Rihbany →List of his books: took out link to reprint edition of The Syrian Christ from "List of his books" current
10 March 2024
- 07:4307:43, 10 March 2024 diff hist +35 Umar →Death of Muhammad: Added Qur'an citation for ayah quoted by Bukhari
29 January 2024
- 09:3909:39, 29 January 2024 diff hist +8 Ross McWhirter →Assassination: added date of assassins' conviction
20 January 2024
- 11:0311:03, 20 January 2024 diff hist +83 Wael Hallaq →Research and publications: Italicised book titles, linked awards
6 January 2024
- 18:2018:20, 6 January 2024 diff hist +4 Alexander III of Scotland →Fictional portrayals: Linked to Thomas the Rhymer
30 December 2023
- 14:3614:36, 30 December 2023 diff hist +6 Breathe (The Prodigy song) →Critical reception: corrected typo, referring to the Guardian review it quotes.
25 December 2023
- 08:2608:26, 25 December 2023 diff hist 0 m Punch and Judy →Published scripts: Ungarbled a sentence "A transcript […] of the found in [Mayhew]"->"A transcript […] may be found in [Mayhew]"
24 December 2023
- 13:0613:06, 24 December 2023 diff hist +118 Tafas massacre →Background: Unmangled grammar, blockquoted long excerpt from Lawrence's diary, added link to online version of With Lawrence in Arabia.
23 December 2023
- 21:1621:16, 23 December 2023 diff hist +12 Ravensbrück concentration camp →Guards: moved 'Aufseher' before use of 'overseer' and gave the word its translation.
18 December 2023
- 17:2217:22, 18 December 2023 diff hist −7 Black cardamom Took out Indian from 'green Indian cardomom' due to potential for confusion as Indian cardamom refered to earlier as black cardomom
17 December 2023
- 14:5214:52, 17 December 2023 diff hist +306 Serjeant-at-law →Decline and abolition: cited reference to Spink description "rather undistinguished"
- 14:4914:49, 17 December 2023 diff hist +326 Frederick Spinks Cited Polden quotation, took polden name out as no Wiki link current
14 December 2023
- 09:0609:06, 14 December 2023 diff hist +3 Castor oil →Punishment: Changed famous -> notorious for Fascist use of castor oil against enemies.
10 December 2023
- 07:1007:10, 10 December 2023 diff hist +16 Muslim conquest of Persia Regularized spelling of Al-Hira (Hira, Al-Hira, al-Hira). Battle of Hira remains thus as that is the conventional name.
- 04:2204:22, 10 December 2023 diff hist +18 m Lawrence of Arabia (film) →Filming: changed punctuation
- 04:1704:17, 10 December 2023 diff hist +127 Lawrence of Arabia (film) →Filming: Corrected Arabic and corrected citation with link to source
7 December 2023
- 05:2805:28, 7 December 2023 diff hist +14 Alfred the Great →Background: Clarified "succeeded" -> "succeeded to the throne"
3 December 2023
- 05:1305:13, 3 December 2023 diff hist +181 Aleksei Kapler →Personal life: Added dates of marriages and Kapler's second wife from Russian Wikipedia
19 November 2023
- 17:5617:56, 19 November 2023 diff hist +26 Lake Nemi →The emissary: Linked 'emissary' to 'Emissary (hydraulics)'
10 November 2023
- 11:2311:23, 10 November 2023 diff hist 0 m Squirrel →Etymology: "survived into only Middle English" -> "only survived into Middle English"
29 October 2023
- 11:1711:17, 29 October 2023 diff hist +24 Sholem Asch →Bibliography: Added Asch's 1913 novel, Mary
28 October 2023
- 19:3619:36, 28 October 2023 diff hist +159 Robert College →Notable former faculty: Added alumnus, Prof. Dimitri Gutas
22 October 2023
- 09:2909:29, 22 October 2023 diff hist −9 Standard-gauge railway →Origins: Took out 'standard' from 'Robert [Stephenson] was reported to have said that if he had had a second chance to choose a gauge, he would have chosen one wider than {{Track gauge|4ft8.5in}}.as not in original source.
20 October 2023
- 01:5701:57, 20 October 2023 diff hist +505 F. G. Bailey Restored dead links to SOAS and Anthropology News current
8 October 2023
- 07:2107:21, 8 October 2023 diff hist +161 Glanville Williams →Selected works: Formatted titles and journal names, regularized citations
- 06:4606:46, 8 October 2023 diff hist +205 Glanville Williams →Legal career: I have reformatted a long verbatim quotation as a blockquote with citation, and checked the quoted text for edits. Also 'now in its' for a reference outside blockquote replaced with {{as of}}
7 October 2023
- 20:2620:26, 7 October 2023 diff hist +4 Elefant →Survivors: Linked Sturmtiger Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
5 October 2023
- 07:5007:50, 5 October 2023 diff hist +26 Big Brother (Dutch TV series) season 4 →Development: Changed "insisting to uphold Ramadan" to "insisting on observing Ramadan". Linked "fortuyunist" (->"Fortuynist") to page for Fortuynism,
- 07:4007:40, 5 October 2023 diff hist +3 Big Brother (franchise) →Multiple areas and houses: Linked Big Brother (Dutch season 4) directly and changed the ambiguous "continued this concept to its fourth season" to "continued this concept the end of its fourth season".
30 August 2023
- 00:2500:25, 30 August 2023 diff hist +6 Basel →Name: Changed 'fell gradually out of use' to 'has fallen gradually out of use' as is still in use now in British English.
15 August 2023
- 01:0701:07, 15 August 2023 diff hist +314 Inigo Jones →Architecture: Added original purpose of the Queen's Chapel, a chapel for the Catholic Infanta Maria Anna of Spain (source:
- 00:5700:57, 15 August 2023 diff hist +10 Queen's Chapel Amended "Henrietta Maria" to "Henrietta Maria of France"
- 00:5400:54, 15 August 2023 diff hist +68 Queen's Chapel Added initial purpose - a chapel for the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain (source: English Heritage official listing)
- 00:4600:46, 15 August 2023 diff hist 0 Queen's Chapel Undid revision 1169704331 by 85.255.232.3 (talk) Dates reverted to correct dates (1623 to 1625) as per the official English Heritage listing. Tag: Undo
16 July 2023
- 22:4222:42, 16 July 2023 diff hist +364 Old South Arabian →Bibliography: Added volume 2 of Stein's ''Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München''
- 11:4611:46, 16 July 2023 diff hist +82 Birmingham Quran manuscript Standardized mushaf / mus'haf as muṣḥaf outside quotes, and used term with Wiki link at the start of the page. Spelling 'mushaf' not used due to ambiguous pronunciation. Changed 'parchment' to 'sheet of parchment'. Changed Mingana 'collated' the Mingana Collection to 'collected', added trips to Middle East. Cadburys not 'chocolate-manufacturing'.
14 July 2023
- 00:5300:53, 14 July 2023 diff hist +6 Barbara Leonie Picard →Biography: Disambiguation of dangling gerund.
18 June 2023
- 10:4610:46, 18 June 2023 diff hist +141 Siege of San Sebastián →Second siege: "700 French" -> "About 700 French" to avoid sentence initial numerals (and better reflect the source). Rey and his 1800 men now "in the castle" as per Porter (1889) p. 346.
- 10:0510:05, 18 June 2023 diff hist +31 m Sharpe's Gold Grammar corrections (missing verbs etc) current
17 June 2023
- 13:5913:59, 17 June 2023 diff hist +5 Arrack →Philippines: corrected 'the Arabic word "arrak"' to 'the Arabic word ʿraq'
6 June 2023
- 07:1207:12, 6 June 2023 diff hist 0 The Right Honourable →In the House of Commons: captialized the title Prime Minister in address
30 May 2023
- 19:5519:55, 30 May 2023 diff hist +83 The Suppliants (Aeschylus) →Plot: Changed the text for "Io (mythology")" to "Io" and added a brief mythological background to Io.
28 May 2023
- 12:5612:56, 28 May 2023 diff hist +66 Folksbiene Linked the three Yiddish theatres in Bucharest, Warsaw and Tel Aviv directly
19 May 2023
- 15:4315:43, 19 May 2023 diff hist −7 Zabur Corrected a mistaken edit that replaced Zabur with mazmūr. Both mean Psalm, but this article is about the Qur'anic term Zabur, not the Christian and Jewish Psalms directly which would be Mazmūr
