00:0500:05, 2 February 2024diffhist+198
ALGOL
Combined various further reading sources into one place, and edited them stylistically, using ((cite book markup, to more similar formats.
1 February 2024
23:3223:32, 1 February 2024diffhist+659
ALGOL
Adding the first og the O'Hearn volumes to further reading, as they are thoroughly under-utilized.
20:3920:39, 1 February 2024diffhist+1,281
ALGOL
→ALGOL and programming language research: Finished annotating why the earlier citation of O'Hearn & Tennent's edited volume fails as a single source for this paragraph. In short, see markup, it's impossible to tell what came from whom (of the 20 authors writing in 10 chapters in this book).
17:4217:42, 1 February 2024diffhist+702
ALGOL
Our personal experiences/understandings aren't to be basis for WP content. I'm not a fan of tags, but less of unsourced content, or editor views presented as fact. WP:VERIFY applies to us, not just humanities, etc. This isn't sky-is-blue content—please find/add citations nearly supporting, and edit text to them, throughout! (Besides, recounting history of ALGOL is a humanities effort informed by technical understanding.) And when heaping praise, it better be stated, published praise of others.
30 January 2024
06:1506:15, 30 January 2024diffhist+7
Michael Barrett (theologian)
Hiding the Converts category until it can be reviewed—arguably a misapplication of the standard connotation of the term, which implies conversion from something, to something (and not the initial acceptance of a thing, at first), in this case of an adult's recounting their coming to faith as a child. In any case, the statement in question is unsourced as of this date.
05:1705:17, 30 January 2024diffhist+2,541
Michael Barrett (theologian)
Created standard academic BLP sections, in part to allow separation and clarification of unsourced and sourced content. Converting sources to standard markup, and beginning to fill empty source fields. By far and away, most material in this article is either unsourced, or poorly sourced.Tags: possible unreferenced addition to BLPnowiki addedreferences removed
21:0421:04, 27 January 2024diffhist+1,314
William Mitchell Ramsay
Formatted book citations appearing in the "Published works" section, using ((cite book... markup. Noted incomplete nature of most entries, and the need for citations for other attributed articles.Tag: references removed
17:3217:32, 27 January 2024diffhist+564
William Mitchell Ramsay
Added subsectioning to give structure to amorphous Career section. Moved text of misplaced section—its content similar to other in article, and does not justify a separate section. Moreover, it is half finished with regard to sourcing. So, that block was moved to a position with similar material, but the section heading was kept—because legacy is an important consideration for such an important historical scholar—until such time that material germane to the section heading can be placed.
06:1006:10, 21 January 2024diffhist+49
Zal Batmanglij
→Career: Section containing significant non-"Sky is blue" content is marked as needing citations to allow verification, so it no longer violates WP:VERIFY.
06:0306:03, 21 January 2024diffhist+31
Brit Marling
Formally calling for an update. The citation for the 2023 series ("Murder...") was just added by us. Emphasis of the article (and sources) clusters around the period of 2011-2014. The period during and following the OA (through today) appears lean in comparison.
05:5905:59, 21 January 2024diffhist+985
Brit Marling
Citation added to support previously unsupported lead sentence. Otherwise, article needs an update based on sources. (Adding content just as editors become personally aware devolves into WP:OR, and violates WP:VERIFY.)
05:4805:48, 21 January 2024diffhist+398
A Murder at the End of the World
Article is generally superbly done, but noting some material in lead is unique, violating WP:INTRO, and same material is therefore unsourced. Also noting that clustering citations 1-4 at end of an internal paragraph is not helpful vis-a-vis WP:VERIFY. Citations should appear with content derived therefrom.
20 January 2024
21:4621:46, 20 January 2024diffhist+234
Sex at Dawn
→Scholarly reception: Made clear why the opening paragraph is unsourced, and called for a timestamp to complete the audio blog/interview citation. Reorderd the subsections that follow, because the emphasis of the opening summary is negative, and so the argument flows naturally into the negative reviews to open the article. NOTE: it is possible that the subsection headings might actually be removed. Purported positive reviews are not very much so–rather relatively descriptive, negative.