12 August 2024
- 16:4916:49, 12 August 2024 diff hist +1 m Nancy Pelosi →Early House of Representatives tenure: correct typo: "Pelosi became a prominent congressional advocate on behalf of this impacted by HIV/AIDS" to "...of those impacted..."
11 August 2024
- 15:0015:00, 11 August 2024 diff hist +34 m Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges →The new footbridges: Changed archive date of Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands document from 20210801112711 to 20170415205300. For some reason, none of the archives from 2018 to 2021 inclusive load (maybe depending on a broken link) and after 2021 they show the page is dead. current
15 July 2024
- 03:3303:33, 15 July 2024 diff hist +45 m List of bridges in Cambridge →Clare College Bridge (1640): updated Clare College Bridge; wikified Great Bridge current
14 July 2024
- 23:2523:25, 14 July 2024 diff hist +25 N Durolipons Created to match lead in Duroliponte, which starts "'''Duroliponte''' or '''Durolipons''' was..." current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
- 22:4622:46, 14 July 2024 diff hist +699 User talk:Rwood128 →Why did you revert me?: new section Tag: New topic
- 21:0921:09, 14 July 2024 diff hist +1 m George Meredith →Literary style: corrected typo in Cambridge University Press ref current
4 July 2024
- 02:3202:32, 4 July 2024 diff hist +42 Christopher Robin Milne →Early life: After "11 Mallord Street, Chelsea, London" added (renumbered as 13 Mallord Street in 1924) -- info taken from Mallord Street page (or look for the blue plaque on Google Streetview if you want to check)
3 July 2024
- 03:4703:47, 3 July 2024 diff hist −1 m American literature In head, corrected '''Clockwise from top left:''' footer of multi-image -- Hemingway was 3rd; moved to 6th Tag: Reverted
29 June 2024
- 22:3722:37, 29 June 2024 diff hist −1 m Table Alphabeticall →Details: Forgotten from last edit changed wrong local transliteration of "vſe" from "read" to "use" (correct in 2nd para)
- 22:3322:33, 29 June 2024 diff hist −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.)
- 19:1119:11, 29 June 2024 diff hist +7 m Lord Randolph Churchill In Note a, changed barrelled surname to double-barrelled surname: assumed miskeying -- the word is "double-barrelled"; "barrelled" alone is not used and would be etymologically meaningless
28 June 2024
- 00:3700:37, 28 June 2024 diff hist −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
25 June 2024
- 23:2623:26, 25 June 2024 diff hist +72 m Mayday →History: Added: "(M'aidez is non-standard French; the phrase ''aidez moi'' is standard.)" current
11 June 2024
- 01:3401:34, 11 June 2024 diff hist −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 2024 diff hist +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 ..."
5 June 2024
- 16:2616:26, 5 June 2024 diff hist −4 m Liberty of the Savoy changed the Strand to Strand. Although often called ''the Strand'', the correct usage is ''Strand''. current
2 June 2024
- 23:2423:24, 2 June 2024 diff hist 0 m Wells, Somerset →Wells Cathedral: typo CWT > cwt
- 06:0806:08, 2 June 2024 diff hist −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 residence current
28 May 2024
- 23:0823:08, 28 May 2024 diff hist +92 m Talk:London →Status as Capital of the World: Agree with Moxy
- 23:0423:04, 28 May 2024 diff hist +307 Talk:London →london bridge: London Bridge is not tall. You seem to be thinking of Tower Bridge.
27 May 2024
- 07:4607:46, 27 May 2024 diff hist +21 m City of London →Governance: piped corporate city
- 05:2505:25, 27 May 2024 diff hist +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 2024 diff hist +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 2024 diff hist +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.
26 May 2024
- 20:2320:23, 26 May 2024 diff hist +29 m Directly elected mayors in England →Local Government Act 2000: Updated "Following the passing of the Elections Act 2022 future mayoral elections will be run..." to "...Elections Act 2022, the 2024 election was, and future..."
- 20:0920:09, 26 May 2024 diff hist +6 m Greater London →Greater London Authority: Changed "The 2016 and 2021 elections were won by Sadiq Khan" to "The 2016, 2021 and 2024 elections..."
20 May 2024
- 21:4221:42, 20 May 2024 diff hist +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
19 May 2024
- 19:1019:10, 19 May 2024 diff hist +375 Lots Road Power Station →History: To "Since 2002, all power for the London Underground has been supplied from the National Grid" added "(except that Greenwich Power Station is kept on standby, in case of National Grid failure)" + cite current
13 May 2024
- 17:2617:26, 13 May 2024 diff hist −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
12 May 2024
- 18:3918:39, 12 May 2024 diff hist 0 m St Mary-le-Bow →Exterior: typo principle facades > principal ...
4 May 2024
- 20:4820:48, 4 May 2024 diff hist −3 m Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 →Box office: removed spurious "in"
- 18:0718:07, 4 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Goliath GD750 →Technical description: typo ( current
- 18:0618:06, 4 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Goliath GD750 →Technical description: typo 60 V > 60 W
29 April 2024
- 04:2504:25, 29 April 2024 diff hist +20 m Antarctic Circumpolar Current →Formation: changed first occurrence of "Ma" to "million years ago (Ma)"
23 April 2024
- 05:0605:06, 23 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Land Rover 101 Forward Control →History: typos: changed "Land-Rovers" to "Land Rovers"; changed "winch fitted 101" to "winch-fitted 101" in two places current
2 April 2024
- 01:2301:23, 2 April 2024 diff hist +10 m SUV →Safety: wikified electronic stability control
1 April 2024
- 03:3803:38, 1 April 2024 diff hist −8 m Wanlockhead →Robert Burns: Changed piped link poste-chaise leading to Chaise which article had a link to post chaise, to direct link post chaise
31 March 2024
- 23:4523:45, 31 March 2024 diff hist +2 m The Boat Race 1925 →Race: Corrected 3 different mistakes in spelling "stake boats"! current
- 23:0623:06, 31 March 2024 diff hist +18 m King's College School Boat Club →Other Uses: Added " of the boat house" to the section title - since the article is about the club, rather than the boat house. Also de-capitalised "Uses" to match 'pedia's house style current
30 March 2024
- 20:2320:23, 30 March 2024 diff hist +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.
- 19:1119:11, 30 March 2024 diff hist +3 m Winscombe Street →Design: dash typo
- 16:4816:48, 30 March 2024 diff hist −1 m Neave Brown →Work: typo expenddability > expendability
11 March 2024
- 00:3000:30, 11 March 2024 diff hist −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 2024 diff hist +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 2024 diff hist +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 2024 diff hist +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 2024 diff hist 0 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.
26 February 2024
- 17:0417:04, 26 February 2024 diff hist +384 Hall Barn →History: Noted that since the 6th Baron's death it has been the home of his sister, Jenefer Farncombe (nee Lawson) current
6 February 2024
- 10:0410:04, 6 February 2024 diff hist +314 King Canute and the tide →Historicity and possible location: Added alternative tradition of attempting to stop the Trent aegir at Gainsborough + cite
4 February 2024
- 21:1921:19, 4 February 2024 diff hist +249 User talk:Enginear →Diff where most of the useful info re PrivateEye was removed: new section current Tag: New topic
