22:3322:33, 29 June 2024diffhist−26 m
Table Alphabeticall
→Details: In first para, changed mistype, the local transliteration "useful" to "usual" -- it is a transliteration of "uſuall", transliterated correctly in 2nd para. In 1st para, changed assumed autocorrect error "THIRD PARTY PRESENT &company" to "&c". Left various other inconsistencies where it is unclear from Google Books search which was correct (NB picture of title page is from 3rd ed, while this refers to 1st ed.)
00:3700:37, 28 June 2024diffhist−12 m
Visa policy of Svalbard
Replaced "cf." with "see" twice in last para; "cf" is an abbreviation of Latin "confer", which means "compare"; there is nothing here to compare with, so it is incorrect usage; you mean "see"current
01:3401:34, 11 June 2024diffhist−39 m
Rhyming slang
→Mainstream usage: Removed ((according to whom|date=January 2017)) tag from "Most of the words changed by this process are nouns" -- it's immediately apparent to anyone who hears it, let alone tries to use it or looks up a dictionary of it.
10 June 2024
13:4813:48, 10 June 2024diffhist+2 m
Patrick Duffy (British politician)
→Personal life: Corrected book title misprints: "Growing Up Irish in Britain, British in Ireland and in Washington, Moscow, Rome & Sydney" and "From Wigan to Westminster: How Wars, Cold Wars and the Carrier Strike Groups" to "Growing Up ... Rome and Sydney" and "From Wigan to Westminster: Hot Wars, Cold Wars ..."
06:0806:08, 2 June 2024diffhist−26 m
High Sheriff of Greater London
Removed ((which|date=August 2023)) from the monarch((which|date=August 2023))'s representative. "The monarch's xxx" is standard British English referring to whoever is the current monarch. It's not even "the monarch who appointed them" since they continue in post if the monarch dies. There is no other concise way of expressing it. It's like writing "The White House is the US president((which|date=August 2023))'s official residencecurrent
05:2505:25, 27 May 2024diffhist+240
County corporate
→History: Noted "The City of London retained (and as of 2024 still retains) its previous status, including most responsibilities associated with a borough and some normally associated with a county, for example having its own police force and its own education authority"current
00:5100:51, 27 May 2024diffhist+14
River Fleet
Changed "used as a sewer" to "used as a culverted sewer" -- it was already used as a de-facto open sewer before Bazalgette -- Jonathan Swift: "Sweepings from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts and Blood, Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in Mud, Dead Cats and Turnip-Tops come tumbling down the Flood" (already quoted under #Cultural references).
00:2900:29, 27 May 2024diffhist+22 m
City of London
Changed "The City has responsibility for five bridges..." to "The City has responsibility for five bridges across the Thames...). Although the River Fleet/Holborn and the Walbrook, complete with their tributaries, running through the City are now culverted throughout, much of this was done in late 19th/early 20th century, and many prior bridges must remain, most noticeably Holborn Viaduct.
21:4221:42, 20 May 2024diffhist+361 m
Grenfell Tower fire
→Elsewhere: Added cite in Massive Engineering Mistakes video -- 11 min segment; recently added to YouTube on what appears to be one of Banijay's official channels
17:2617:26, 13 May 2024diffhist−2 m
Sherlock Holmes
→((anchor|"Great Hiatus"))The Great Hiatus: in "surprised Doyle very much", changed "Doyle" to "him". The surname is "Conan Doyle", so we must either have that in full or say "him". Since there are a lot of "Conan Doyle"s in the paragraph already, and no obvious confusion can result, "him" is appropriate
20:2320:23, 30 March 2024diffhist+475
Neave Brown
→Life: To "his reputation was nonetheless severely damaged" added " in the UK, and for the rest of his architectural career he worked on prestigious projects elsewhere in Europe." To "After his children had left home, he and his wife then moved to Dunboyne Road Estate, added ", a council estate he had designed"..."Asked "If money were no object, where would you live?" he replied "Here!"", etc and tidied. All supported by existing cites.
00:3000:30, 11 March 2024diffhist−2 m
List of SR V "Schools" class locomotives
typo changed "numberplate" to "nameplate" in 30931 ''King's - Wimbledon'' There is no number on the surviving nameplate! The numbers were on the smokebox, cab sides (& some tenders but not 30931's). The nameplates were heavy arc-shaped castings over the front driving wheels, widened at the centre to say "Schools class" in small type. There is a photo of 30931 here [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2636912] with both number and nameplates, though name barely legible.
9 March 2024
11:0811:08, 9 March 2024diffhist+1 m
Life on the Mississippi
Corrected punctuation of last sentence of head para -- as stated later on the page, both the trips in the 2nd half were "many years after the war", no justth2nd one.
6 March 2024
18:0918:09, 6 March 2024diffhist+16
£sd
→Colloquial terms: Added "ten bob (note)" as UK colloquialism; I left "half a bar" in place, but I have never heard it (or heard "bar" for £1) in London in the 70 years I have (mainly) lived there; perhaps it was regional.
3 March 2024
23:5623:56, 3 March 2024diffhist+245
The Crooked House
→Origins: Changed "Although strengthened by buttresses by the mid-1910s" to "...by 1904" to match the cite given --the cite, from the Express and Star newspaper, features a postcard they claim is from 1904 (also widely attested as such on the web), which clearly shows one of the buttresses (narrower than recently - they were strengthened in 1957/8). I have also added a cite which includes a 1905 news article and a 1906 photo, both mentioning/showing buttresses
20:4320:43, 3 March 2024diffhist0 m
Punch Bowl Inn
→History: typo: changed "The western elevation of the 19th-century addition" to "The eastern elevation..." -- required to match existing cite (English Heritage listing) which describes the building as viewed from the front (road) side, ie looking south, and refers to the wall as "the left-hand return wall". Also obvious on Google Streetview.