User contributions for 69.230.120.39

3 February 2008

• 20:3220:32, 3 February 2008 diff hist −5 Abe Reles →Accident or murder: Changing to more appropriate title. Such a statement needs sourcing.
• 20:1520:15, 3 February 2008 diff hist 8 Cimarron (novel) Despite it being thought worthy of mention in the opener, there is nothing more said about it in the remainder of the article.
• 20:0420:04, 3 February 2008 diff hist 40 State of Kanawha Correcting misleading opener. I question whether this should be a separate article - Kanawha was just one of many alternative names for what ended up as WV.
• 19:4719:47, 3 February 2008 diff hist 26 Vermont Republic Fake title, according to the linked page itself. This strengthens my doubts about the validity of this article's POV.
• 19:4419:44, 3 February 2008 diff hist 16 Vermont Republic This article reeks of some amateur's original research. If it was never called the Vermont Republic, what is Wikipedia doing calling it that?
• 19:2519:25, 3 February 2008 diff hist 8 Indian Territory Maybe so, but I'd like to see a reference.

29 January 2008

• 17:4417:44, 29 January 2008 diff hist 944 Talk:Nathan Hale No edit summary
• 17:3017:30, 29 January 2008 diff hist 2 Nathan Hale →Espionage: Richmond was only 13 years old! This version sounds a little more reasonable

27 January 2008

• 17:2917:29, 27 January 2008 diff hist 8 Anthropocene Huh? The *Holocene* began only 11,000 years ago. Isn't this an argument against the concept of the "Anthropocene" epoch?
• 17:2217:22, 27 January 2008 diff hist 8 Holocene →Impact events: What's the actual topic here, floods or impact events? If floods are what changed history, then that shd be the main topic with impacts listed as a possible trigger w/ the rest
• 17:1117:11, 27 January 2008 diff hist −117 Holocene →Impact events: This material was ungrammatical and almost indecipherable; this is my attempt at working it up into coherent English.
• 17:0217:02, 27 January 2008 diff hist 5 Holocene →Impact events: Style, clarification regarding Siberia (from the context I assume the seafloor near Siberia is meant, not Siberia itself)
• 15:1715:17, 27 January 2008 diff hist −84 Val Kilmer →Personal life: I could not tell what Davis was defending him against, so I cut out that phrase. The note about Kilmer's role in another Davis film seems irrelevant.
• 07:5307:53, 27 January 2008 diff hist 14 Young Brothers massacre Correcting statement per link, which mentions another (non-gunbattle) incident in 1917 in which 9 officers were killed.

26 January 2008

• 14:2414:24, 26 January 2008 diff hist 386 User talk:Modernist No edit summary
• 14:1214:12, 26 January 2008 diff hist −212 Hudson River School Undoing baseless revert.
• 06:0106:01, 26 January 2008 diff hist −212 Hudson River School RV - Same problems, unanswered.
• 05:5805:58, 26 January 2008 diff hist −182 Bronson Howard This is absurd. There's a hundred years of American dramatists preceding him, from Tyler and Dunlap to Bird and Paulding and Mowatt and Aitken
• 05:2405:24, 26 January 2008 diff hist −243 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater On second thought, since it's a recent addition and not at all well-founded, I'm deleting it.
• 05:2105:21, 26 January 2008 diff hist 8 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater This is hard to believe, given the prior existence of Shakespeare's tragic creations like Iago, Marlowe's Faustus, Milton's Paradise Lost, or Gothic fiction.
• 05:1705:17, 26 January 2008 diff hist −48 List of autobiographies Walden is not really an autobiography.
• 04:5704:57, 26 January 2008 diff hist −86 Edward Braddock Since the identity of the other officer is apparently not known, why bother to speculate? It's not an important detail.
• 04:5504:55, 26 January 2008 diff hist −17 Joseph Coulon de Jumonville NPOV - not necessary to editorialize.
• 03:4303:43, 26 January 2008 diff hist 16 William Cullen Bryant →Legacy: What book? Why isn't it mentioned or cited?
• 03:4303:43, 26 January 2008 diff hist 16 William Cullen Bryant →Legacy: I don't believe this. Bryant has been a fairly well-respected poet for many years, and poems like "Thanatopsis" have been anthologized and included in textbooks regularly.
• 03:3903:39, 26 January 2008 diff hist −92 William Cullen Bryant →Legacy: I suspect that if you made the effort you'd find stuff. Focus on what he actually did and leave out inflated statements that are far easier to say than demonstrate.
• 03:3703:37, 26 January 2008 diff hist 6 William Cullen Bryant →Legacy: He is?
• 03:3603:36, 26 January 2008 diff hist −1 William Cullen Bryant →Later years: Misspelling
• 03:3403:34, 26 January 2008 diff hist 8 William Cullen Bryant →Poetry: Confusing. What errors? The misattribution wouldn't have anything to do with how well-liked the poem was.
• 03:3203:32, 26 January 2008 diff hist 8 William Cullen Bryant →Poetry: Any argumentative sentence needs a citation.
• 03:3103:31, 26 January 2008 diff hist 6 William Cullen Bryant For the opener, let's keep an eye on what he was truly notable for. Might as well say he was a lawyer and a hog reeve too if we're going to clutter all that other stuff.
• 03:0303:03, 26 January 2008 diff hist −212 Hudson River School →Thomas Cole: Comment really doesn't relate to what precedes it, and whatever connection there may be is original research. Nothing said about it at the link cited in support of the comment.
• 01:5801:58, 26 January 2008 diff hist 0 Arthur Koestler Not capitalized

24 January 2008

• 23:0123:01, 24 January 2008 diff hist −113 Eurasia →History and culture: False claim; Nordenskiold only navigated the Northeast Passage in that voyage.
• 19:2519:25, 24 January 2008 diff hist −1,633 Charles Farrar Browne Deleting self-indulgent section that is pointedly not about Browne
• 16:5416:54, 24 January 2008 diff hist −42 Home! Sweet Home! Several erroneous statements. Bishop composed the melody in 1823, concurrent with the song's original performance. The lyrics, not just the two opening lines, are Payne's
• 14:3914:39, 24 January 2008 diff hist −1,217 Patricia Nelson Limerick Reverting big edit from Dec 07. "Personal knowledge" is not an acceptable source at Wikipedia, and anyway, I suspect it was all a big headfake for the Clown College bit at the end.
• 10:0210:02, 24 January 2008 diff hist −68 Metacomet →King Philip's War: Neither did most of the others; Benet's traditional villains are mostly from colonial times.

22 January 2008

• 23:1723:17, 22 January 2008 diff hist 16 John Neal (writer) →Life back in Portland: Two of these men are still mired in obscurity, and a cite is needed for his responsibility for Poe
• 23:1423:14, 22 January 2008 diff hist 8 John Neal (writer) →English stint: Was his mission actually accomplished? His goals, according to this article, seem a pretty tall order, and no evidence is provided to show that he succeeded
• 23:1223:12, 22 January 2008 diff hist −5 John Neal (writer) →Boyhood, Young Adulthood, and Early Business: Style
• 23:1123:11, 22 January 2008 diff hist 1 John Neal (writer) →Boyhood, Young Adulthood, and Early Business: missing the rightward parenthetical
• 23:1023:10, 22 January 2008 diff hist −2 John Neal (writer) misuse of the plural
• 23:1023:10, 22 January 2008 diff hist 8 John Neal (writer) What, exactly, is a "writing American style"?