User contributions for Johnwcowan

23 February 2024

• 19:0719:07, 23 February 2024 diff hist 118 Autorotation Clarifies that distance record given applies to helicopters only

27 January 2024

• 00:0200:02, 27 January 2024 diff hist 9 Jean Cocteau Repertory Named the company that split off from Cocteau

4 October 2023

• 19:5419:54, 4 October 2023 diff hist 237 Bigger Than Worlds Added brief explanations of aegagropilous topopolis and aegagropilous galactopolis. current

1 September 2023

• 01:2901:29, 1 September 2023 diff hist −7 Monboddo House American English is rather more than a vernacular. current

5 August 2023

• 20:4520:45, 5 August 2023 diff hist 293 Talk:Chung Ling Soo Added a notice that the Chinese name 程連蘇 has been removed.
• 20:4220:42, 5 August 2023 diff hist −44 Chung Ling Soo Removed Chinese name 程連蘇, as there is no evidence that Robinson ever used it Tag: Reverted

8 January 2022

• 14:3614:36, 8 January 2022 diff hist 63 Sunstorm (novel) →Connections to other Clarke works: Clavius is an obvious place for a lunar base

9 October 2021

• 19:4819:48, 9 October 2021 diff hist 0 m List of heresies in the Catholic Church Typo: cf Barallot article

15 June 2021

• 22:0322:03, 15 June 2021 diff hist 378 Talk:Richard Schanck →Personal life citations: new section

20 February 2021

• 04:4104:41, 20 February 2021 diff hist 64 Tangsa language →Lann (2018): Explain superscript digits as tone marks
• 04:3904:39, 20 February 2021 diff hist 838 Talk:Tangsa language →What do the superscript numbers mean?: They are toneme marks

27 October 2020

• 13:5513:55, 27 October 2020 diff hist 570 Oscan language Added standard transliteration conventions

1 September 2020

• 18:0918:09, 1 September 2020 diff hist 65 m Henry Baker (computer scientist) External link broken; redirecting to IA

23 July 2020

• 01:5701:57, 23 July 2020 diff hist 1 m Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language →Kripkenstein: Kripke's skeptical Wittgenstein: Missing space

24 June 2020

• 11:3611:36, 24 June 2020 diff hist 113 Shivers (surname) Adding Olin Shivers, who has no article, but scsh does. current

4 June 2020

• 22:3822:38, 4 June 2020 diff hist 42 Sum and Product Puzzle Need to specify that Sue and Pete are telling the truth

7 May 2020

• 19:2619:26, 7 May 2020 diff hist 1 Finnegans Wake FW has a well-recognized genre, and even already appears on that page.

18 April 2020

• 14:3814:38, 18 April 2020 diff hist 271 Mosquito-borne disease Removed unsourced claim that COVID-19 is mosquito-borne, added contrary claim for public health reasons

14 March 2020

• 03:0303:03, 14 March 2020 diff hist 34 Egbert B. Gebstadter Clarified status and origin of Éditions Noitide

11 March 2020

• 00:5600:56, 11 March 2020 diff hist −54 CJK Unified Ideographs →CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G: Now part of Unicode

11 February 2020

• 14:3614:36, 11 February 2020 diff hist 28 General Chinese Changed "going tone" to standard term "departing tone"

3 December 2019

• 23:1523:15, 3 December 2019 diff hist 823 User talk:TTN/Archive 17 →Deprodding of Duke of Denver: Scott-Giles is a secondary source

27 November 2019

• 03:0903:09, 27 November 2019 diff hist 300 Talk:Orbis (journal) Noted removal of POV language from article
• 03:0703:07, 27 November 2019 diff hist −126 Orbis (journal) Removed POV language

14 November 2019

• 22:3022:30, 14 November 2019 diff hist −20 Talk:Punxsutawney Phil →Species confusion: Oops, wasn't logged in

28 October 2019

• 18:3118:31, 28 October 2019 diff hist −4 Plan 9 from Bell Labs "was to be" in 2nd graf implies failure of the design, so changed to "is"; also, P9 still available under the Lucent PL

13 October 2019

• 12:5312:53, 13 October 2019 diff hist −623 Null coalescing operator Removed Scheme section as incorrect and irrelevant: see my note on Talk page
• 12:5212:52, 13 October 2019 diff hist 0 Talk:Null coalescing operator typo
• 12:5012:50, 13 October 2019 diff hist 362 Talk:Null coalescing operator No null-like object in Common Lisp or Scheme

7 October 2019

• 21:4321:43, 7 October 2019 diff hist 327 Talk:Flann O'Brien Another example of people not known by their birth certificate names

6 October 2019

• 03:5203:52, 6 October 2019 diff hist 510 Talk:Flann O'Brien →Brian Ó Nualláin or Brian O'Nolan: Comparison with Conrad

1 October 2019

• 12:0412:04, 1 October 2019 diff hist 0 m Richard Schanck Fixed the spelling of my mother's name

21 September 2019

• 13:4313:43, 21 September 2019 diff hist 18 Tag soup As the author of the TagSoup written in Java, I am correcting a factual error

5 May 2019

• 04:4804:48, 5 May 2019 diff hist −65 Church arson Undid revision 893461873 by 130.45.123.176 (talk), rv vandalism Tag: Undo

26 February 2019

• 15:0515:05, 26 February 2019 diff hist −156 Ideophone →English: Removed non-ideophones with an explanation

6 January 2019

• 01:3101:31, 6 January 2019 diff hist 318 Talk:Albanian language →Non Indo-European traces: Vigesimal systems not unique to Albanian in IE

9 November 2018

• 13:5713:57, 9 November 2018 diff hist −18 List of countries and territories where Tamil is an official language Removed impossible claim to be oldest (all languages are equally old). Changed "the classical language" to "a classical language".

7 November 2018

• 02:0402:04, 7 November 2018 diff hist −42 Tamil loanwords in other languages →In English: I checked the OED and removed all words with known non-Dravidian origins. I also removed the irrelevant statements about James and the OED.
• 02:0202:02, 7 November 2018 diff hist −1,136 Tamil loanwords in other languages →In English: I checked the OED and removed all words with known non-Dravidian origins. I also removed the irrelevant statements about James and the OED.

26 July 2018

• 17:1417:14, 26 July 2018 diff hist −181 Talk:John W. Cowan Updating the main page and requesting a picture takedown
• 17:0717:07, 26 July 2018 diff hist −42 John W. Cowan Removing "American computer scientists" category: I am not a computer scientist.

10 April 2018

• 14:2214:22, 10 April 2018 diff hist −143 m John W. Cowan Updated dead link to new location; removed archival link

12 February 2018

• 18:2518:25, 12 February 2018 diff hist 0 m Homophonic translation →Examples: Fixed typo in transliteration

4 January 2018

• 21:5021:50, 4 January 2018 diff hist −14 m Interpol Changed "piracy" to "copyright infringement", as "piracy" could be understood to mean the seagoing kind.

20 October 2017

• 01:1701:17, 20 October 2017 diff hist 57 Regularized Inglish Corrected attribution of the Whittington story

26 November 2016

• 19:3119:31, 26 November 2016 diff hist 212 Northeast Corridor Undid revision 751599773 by TimothyDexter (talk) Although the LIRR does not serve stations on the NEC other than NYP, it does use the NEC to get in and out of NYP

31 October 2016

• 15:2415:24, 31 October 2016 diff hist 0 Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Fixed typo (probable OCR error)

26 October 2016

• 21:2621:26, 26 October 2016 diff hist 394 Talk:Argumentum a fortiori Explanation of change
• 21:2121:21, 26 October 2016 diff hist −28 Argumentum a fortiori Removed unsourced claim that Garner is an authority on usage

25 May 2016

• 21:2121:21, 25 May 2016 diff hist −35 Solomon W. Golomb Removing BLP warning