07:0307:03, 23 November 2011diffhist+249
Linguistic prescription
This article is a total mess. I did some cleanup, removed nonsense and POV (e.g. repeated use of things like "how language is actually used" to differentiate between prescriptive use and general use), etc. More work to be done.Tag: references removed
01:2301:23, 23 November 2011diffhist−11
Begging the question
→Modern usage: The fundamental principle of linguistic study is descriptive observation. A "prescriptive linguist" is an impossibility - it's a self-contradicting term. Replaced with "grammarian."
4 November 2011
00:5400:54, 4 November 2011diffhist+488
DARPA Grand Challenge
→2007 Urban Challenge: Cleanup and removal of POV - the text cited criticizes Tony Tether, but doesn't suggest special treatment from DARPA w.r.t. course maps at all: "The NQE waypoints were apparently post-processed by Tartan Racing [...]"
21:4621:46, 25 September 2011diffhist−5,650
Casey Sherman
cleanup, some wikifying, removed POV and vanispamvertisement, removed refs with pre-wikipedia and pre-article retrieval datesTag: blanking