User contributions for Polemyx
A user with 359 edits. Account created on 18 November 2008.
28 September 2020
- 03:0003:00, 28 September 2020 diff hist +5 m Sam Smith Changed pronoun back after finding the preferred statement
- 02:5302:53, 28 September 2020 diff hist +31 m Sam Smith Fixed the problem with the first sentence's opening with a preposition with no antecedent, and of the wrong number: "They", and with the original sentence's subsequent ambiguities.
1 January 2020
- 15:5015:50, 1 January 2020 diff hist +5 m Beowulf →Writing: corrected tense of infinitive (use of present infinitive in a perfect context)
2 April 2019
- 01:3401:34, 2 April 2019 diff hist +71 Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center →Organ: Added reference-website link to the C.B. Fisk site detailing the Lay Family organ.
- 01:2901:29, 2 April 2019 diff hist +30 m Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center →Organ: marked an external-site reference in a footnote as a dead link
- 01:2101:21, 2 April 2019 diff hist +29 m Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall →External links: marked reference to external website as a dead link
1 April 2019
- 13:4813:48, 1 April 2019 diff hist +1 m Società Italiana Ernesto Breda →Products: "headquarter" => "headquarters" (There's no such word as "headquarter".)
9 March 2019
- 15:4915:49, 9 March 2019 diff hist 0 m Coburg →Born after 1900: "mother to" => "mother of": The usage with "to" is for a non-biological relationship (which this isn't) and is an ellipsis of the fuller statement, "... was as a mother to ...".
27 February 2019
- 18:4218:42, 27 February 2019 diff hist +24 m Alsace–Lorraine →Geography: Changed Ober- and Unterelsass to -elsaß to match their historical spelling (and the headings on their respective Wikipedia pages)
23 February 2019
- 22:5822:58, 23 February 2019 diff hist −1 m Treaty of Frankfurt (1539) "try and resolve" changed to the formal "try to resolve" ("and" also implies that resolution was achieved, which, unfortunately, wasn't)
10 February 2019
- 15:0515:05, 10 February 2019 diff hist −1 m Tracker action →Advantages: corrected number of noun
17 December 2018
- 17:3617:36, 17 December 2018 diff hist +2,555 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Adding section on the Post-Gazette's shift in editorial stance, expressed in its controversial firing of Rob Rogers and subsequent hiring of Steve Kelley.
6 December 2018
- 16:0516:05, 6 December 2018 diff hist +1 m Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center →Acoustics: "acoustics performance" => "acoustical performance" ("acoustics" is a noun, not an adjective [if used, it would be hyphenated into a [dvandva] noun-phrase])
- 15:5815:58, 6 December 2018 diff hist −3 m Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center →Organ: both Murray and Higgs were the organists (plural)
3 December 2018
- 15:1915:19, 3 December 2018 diff hist −8 m Repeater (horology) removed "audibly" from "audibly chimes" Redundant: there is, simply, no other way to chime.
22 November 2018
- 14:1014:10, 22 November 2018 diff hist +4 m Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland →Career: "until his death" was ambiguous: by 'his' was it the earl's death or that of the king?
- 13:0313:03, 22 November 2018 diff hist +371 French horn →Notable horn players: re-alphabetized list (by last name) and added Sarah Willis (because of her growing, international standing)
9 September 2018
- 13:5213:52, 9 September 2018 diff hist −5 m German honorifics Fixed English spelling (there's no such word as "souvereign" in Imperial or American orthographies.)
15 August 2017
- 17:5817:58, 15 August 2017 diff hist −1 m Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor →Locations for the ceremony: corrected pluralization (in hyphenated titles, only the noun is made plural: emperors-elect, cf. attorneys-general)
17 January 2017
- 20:3020:30, 17 January 2017 diff hist −1 m Auschwitz concentration camp →Evacuation, death marches, and liberation: Corrected now-blocked user's undo of my correction of an improperly translated verb. The verb in the original German must be in the Present Subjunctive, and so should it be in English.
- 20:0720:07, 17 January 2017 diff hist +32 Berlin University of the Arts →Notable teachers: Added Paul Hindemith
- 20:0120:01, 17 January 2017 diff hist 0 m C. William Harwood minimal spelling change
18 March 2016
- 19:0519:05, 18 March 2016 diff hist 0 m Shimizu Shikin →Biography: corrected failure to use object-case pronoun when object of a preposition
13 March 2016
- 23:5923:59, 13 March 2016 diff hist −4 m Victoria of Baden →Queen: removed unneeded 'the'
28 February 2016
- 14:0214:02, 28 February 2016 diff hist +3 m Wilhelm Busch →Frankfurt: inserted missing preposition
16 February 2016
- 20:2820:28, 16 February 2016 diff hist +34 m Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center →Organ: added links to WP articles on inaugural organists Michael Murray and David Higgs.
- 20:2020:20, 16 February 2016 diff hist −11 m Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center →External links: fixed link to CB Fisk instrument page for Op. 100
15 February 2016
- 00:3700:37, 15 February 2016 diff hist −4 m Altstadt (Frankfurt am Main) →Economy: removed errant word
14 February 2016
- 18:4018:40, 14 February 2016 diff hist +33 Cherokee language →Fonts and digital platform support: marked link as dead
- 15:0615:06, 14 February 2016 diff hist −2 m Texas →Republic: corrected pronoun ("Texas" is singular.)
13 February 2016
- 21:5421:54, 13 February 2016 diff hist +19 m Anastasios Polyzoidis minor corrections to prepositions, spelling; clarification of wording
16 January 2016
- 22:0422:04, 16 January 2016 diff hist −3 m Second Schleswig War →August and after: removed unneeded preposition
22 December 2015
- 20:3720:37, 22 December 2015 diff hist +3 m University of Music and Theatre Leipzig →Notable alumni: Changed Kurt Masur's years to reflect his recent death.
10 December 2015
- 07:1107:11, 10 December 2015 diff hist −3 m Gustav Mahler →Hofoper director: 'humorous' => 'humor' (The magazine's topic was "humor"; only the reader could decide if it were "humorous".)
- 06:5706:57, 10 December 2015 diff hist +2,368 Talk:German dialects →Low German is not a dialect of German
25 November 2015
- 14:2514:25, 25 November 2015 diff hist 0 m Katarina Church →Notable Architectural Features: punctuation fixes
6 November 2015
- 17:0317:03, 6 November 2015 diff hist −1 m Sertanejo music →Sertanejo universitário: "musics" => "music" ("Music" has no plural in English.); "in" => "at" (standard usage)
1 October 2015
- 18:1118:11, 1 October 2015 diff hist 0 m China Clipper corrected syntax: it didn't "narrowly fly", but flew "narrowly under"
11 September 2015
- 19:5719:57, 11 September 2015 diff hist −1 m Timber framing →German tradition (Fachwerkhäuser): German 'als' --> English 'as'
- 19:5219:52, 11 September 2015 diff hist −1 m Timber framing Corrected use of "it's" as possessive.
8 April 2015
- 17:0517:05, 8 April 2015 diff hist +1 m Russian Navy fixed misspelling
17 March 2015
- 18:1018:10, 17 March 2015 diff hist +1 m Nights in White Satin →False claim of authorship: inserted space between word and '('
- 18:0918:09, 17 March 2015 diff hist 0 m Nights in White Satin →Production: inserted space between run-on words
- 11:1411:14, 17 March 2015 diff hist +782 N User:Polemyx/Mark Tishman ←Created page with '{{userspace draft}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Mark Tishman | ru_name = Марк Тишман | image = //ru.wikipedia.o...'
16 March 2015
- 16:2816:28, 16 March 2015 diff hist +368 Wikipedia:Help desk →Translations of articles on non-English Wikipedia sites
- 15:4415:44, 16 March 2015 diff hist +161 Wikipedia:Help desk →Translations of articles on non-English Wikipedia sites
- 15:0215:02, 16 March 2015 diff hist +302 Wikipedia:Help desk →Translations of articles on non-English Wikipedia sites: new section
27 February 2015
- 14:5714:57, 27 February 2015 diff hist −7 m A Lesson Before Dying →Plot: fixed "time period" (it's redundant and clichéd ['period' means 'span of time'])
26 February 2015
- 18:1918:19, 26 February 2015 diff hist 0 m Belarusian language →2010s: fixed split infinitive
- 18:0418:04, 26 February 2015 diff hist 0 m One to One! →Judges: spelling fix
