User contributions for Quietbritishjim

19 May 2024

• 22:4522:45, 19 May 2024 diff hist −1‎ IBM Personal Computer ‎ Replace "contemporary" (which, in this context, would mean early 1980s) with "present-day" (which seems to be what was meant) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

14 May 2024

• 03:2503:25, 14 May 2024 diff hist −31‎ VMware VMFS ‎ Remove old test edit current Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

31 March 2024

• 22:1622:16, 31 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The Passion of the Christ ‎ Change "domestically" to "in the USA" since domestically could mean anything depending on the reader’s location. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

25 March 2024

• 21:2221:22, 25 March 2024 diff hist +671‎ User talk:BauhausFan89 ‎ →‎Changes to dog: new section Tag: New topic
• 20:3620:36, 25 March 2024 diff hist −24‎ Dog ‎ Remove outrageous claim from lede that domestication took place in Oberkassel, Bonn (also not in cited source, unsurprisingly)

7 February 2024

• 09:4509:45, 7 February 2024 diff hist −1‎ m Celluloid ‎ Change "contemporary" to "present-day" to avoid impression that the text is about uses contemporary with those in first half of sentence

2 June 2023

• 18:4818:48, 2 June 2023 diff hist −79‎ DoubleTree by Hilton Brighton Metropole ‎ Remove name of manager: doesn't say when it was true, probably isn't still true now (was added in 2017) and lacks citation Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

17 November 2022

• 08:0608:06, 17 November 2022 diff hist −67‎ Playpen ‎ Remove uncited and dubious Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

1 October 2022

• 20:2820:28, 1 October 2022 diff hist −309‎ Rumour Has It (Adele song) ‎ Revert recent bad faith edits Tags: Manual revert Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

26 March 2022

• 22:5122:51, 26 March 2022 diff hist −54‎ Durban City F.C. ‎ Remove reference to essentially unwashed article Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 22:5022:50, 26 March 2022 diff hist −352‎ Durban City F.C. ‎ Delete non notable and possibly non existent future incarnation Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

14 January 2022

• 23:0323:03, 14 January 2022 diff hist +285‎ Talk:Pico de gallo ‎ →‎Effing Cumin: add signature for unsigned comment by Pathawi

12 January 2022

• 19:0519:05, 12 January 2022 diff hist +2‎ Consolidated Edison ‎ Fix picture that I just broke! Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 19:0319:03, 12 January 2022 diff hist −148‎ Consolidated Edison ‎ Remove detail totally irrelevant to article about picture Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

31 October 2021

• 21:4621:46, 31 October 2021 diff hist +41‎ Pan Am ‎ Failed verification: the given citation does not say that it was the second most recognised brand, only that it was generally well recognised Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit

11 August 2021

• 22:0122:01, 11 August 2021 diff hist −612‎ United States Department of War ‎ Restored revision 1036945741 by Imperia X (talk): Revert recent vandalism Tags: Twinkle Undo

6 May 2021

• 06:3806:38, 6 May 2021 diff hist −13‎ Death on the Nile (1978 film) ‎ →‎Critical response: Removed misuse of "contemporary" to mean the present time – at actually means at that time. "contemporary" and "30 years later" are a contradiction in terms! Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

11 February 2021

• 23:2123:21, 11 February 2021 diff hist −1‎ Rabbit (song) ‎ →‎Recording: Grammar correction (you can't have "one fewer" of anything, as fewer is plural) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

27 December 2020

• 05:0205:02, 27 December 2020 diff hist +745‎ User talk:Datwhitearab ‎ →‎Henry Ford change reverted: new section
• 04:5504:55, 27 December 2020 diff hist −53‎ Henry Ford ‎ Revert recently added clause from lede, which is out of place and has poor grammar

19 June 2020

• 08:0108:01, 19 June 2020 diff hist 0‎ Kotlin (programming language) ‎ →‎Functional programming style: Rename section to "procedural programming style", because functional programming is something very different

16 June 2020

• 13:0113:01, 16 June 2020 diff hist −59‎ Tarmacadam ‎ Remove photo which seems to show asphalt (colloquially called "tarmac" in the UK) being laid, not actual tarmacadam which is what this article is about

9 June 2020

• 11:5411:54, 9 June 2020 diff hist +103‎ Talk:Garden-path sentence ‎ →‎"man the boat": Add sig
• 11:5311:53, 9 June 2020 diff hist +480‎ Talk:Garden-path sentence ‎ →‎"man the boat": Explanation still wrong

6 November 2018

• 03:1703:17, 6 November 2018 diff hist 0‎ m Samuel Morse ‎ →‎Telegraph: Fix punctuation placement

21 December 2017

• 11:3811:38, 21 December 2017 diff hist +340‎ Talk:Heaviside step function ‎ →‎Confusing lead section: new section

22 October 2017

• 16:0616:06, 22 October 2017 diff hist +570‎ Talk:Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo ‎ Reply to comment bemoaning lack of "that" or "whom".

13 April 2016

• 15:5815:58, 13 April 2016 diff hist −111‎ Anton Du Beke ‎ Revert changes that definitely need a citation, and in any case should not be in the lead section

5 October 2015

• 20:3720:37, 5 October 2015 diff hist −34‎ Man-in-the-middle attack ‎ Reverted to revision 683793360 by 83.160.88.225 (talk): Test edit. (TW)

20 July 2015

• 06:1706:17, 20 July 2015 diff hist −201‎ SIM card ‎ →‎{{anchor|3FF}}Micro-SIM: Delete some nonsense

16 July 2015

• 06:0706:07, 16 July 2015 diff hist 0‎ m S4C ‎ Punctuation fix.

7 June 2015

• 00:1900:19, 7 June 2015 diff hist +251‎ Tagged pointer ‎ →‎Disadvantages: Clarify that using zero for null pointers is not perfect.

3 June 2015

• 14:1814:18, 3 June 2015 diff hist 0‎ Pyramid ‎ Reverted 1 edit by 23.119.204.117 (talk): Rv: "till" is not informal (it is not a contraction of until). (TW)

1 June 2015

• 08:4008:40, 1 June 2015 diff hist −90‎ MathType ‎ Reverted edits by 199.26.78.10: Support for "live" embedding is discussed just below those edits e.g. in Windows OLE applications the equation *is* editable.

10 May 2015

• 10:2310:23, 10 May 2015 diff hist +22‎ Bullingdon Club ‎ It's bad form to hide information behind a Wikilink; the link should be predictably reflect its text

25 March 2015

• 07:3807:38, 25 March 2015 diff hist +493‎ Talk:Timsort ‎ →‎Stable if strictly descending: new section
• 07:3707:37, 25 March 2015 diff hist −112‎ Timsort ‎ Remove meaningless sentence; see talk page

24 March 2015

• 20:2820:28, 24 March 2015 diff hist −275‎ Dicing ‎ Removed "Technically there are three types of dicing ..." What absolute drivel!

4 March 2015

• 22:0222:02, 4 March 2015 diff hist +954‎ Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics ‎ →‎The use of \text in <math>: Reply
• 16:5816:58, 4 March 2015 diff hist +262‎ Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics ‎ →‎The use of \text in <math>: reply

23 February 2015

• 21:0021:00, 23 February 2015 diff hist +36‎ Heaviside step function ‎ Reverted to revision 648110099 by Quondum (talk): Rv: this is the base, not the exponent, and mathrm for the natural base is a common convention. (TW)

22 February 2015

• 19:2719:27, 22 February 2015 diff hist −98‎ Pan–tilt–zoom camera ‎ Delete advertising

6 February 2015

• 19:5619:56, 6 February 2015 diff hist +109‎ Hölder's inequality ‎ Reverted 1 edit by 99.241.166.168 (talk): Rv: setting bracket sizes by hand is necessary sometimes; LaTeX is not as magical as some seem to assume. (TW)

22 January 2015

• 22:4222:42, 22 January 2015 diff hist +275‎ Morleys Stores ‎ Revert dubious edit, including removal of one of the main references, by User:Davidhordle (preserving the more recent edit)

12 January 2015

• 21:5421:54, 12 January 2015 diff hist +547‎ Big O notation ‎ →‎Declaration of variables: The revert misses the whole point the sentence is making! I can see the confusion though, so have tried to clarify it by adding some extra text (probably too much).

11 January 2015

• 21:1921:19, 11 January 2015 diff hist 0‎ Big O notation ‎ →‎Declaration of variables: Partial revert of edit by User:JoshuaZ made on 19:03, 14 May 2011: The previous order was correct.

7 January 2015

• 21:1121:11, 7 January 2015 diff hist +11‎ m Glossary of pinball terms ‎ →‎S: In "special" definition: fix poor grammar and incorrect abbreviation
• 21:1021:10, 7 January 2015 diff hist −5‎ m Full Tilt! Pinball ‎ →‎3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet: Fix redundancy and poor grammar in one sentence

29 December 2014

• 12:0512:05, 29 December 2014 diff hist 0‎ m NCR Voyix ‎ →‎NCR 5xxx series: fix bad line break
• 11:5911:59, 29 December 2014 diff hist 0‎ NCR Voyix ‎ →‎Small computers: punctuation fix