08:1108:11, 9 June 2024diffhist0
Dave Mason (Australian musician)
→Biography: adding the fact that Paul Mason was a member of the Reels' road crew seemed to be suggesting that this was another feather in Dave Mason's cap alongside writing or co-writing many album tracks. In fact, it's an almost irrelevant detail, but I've kept it in as a separate sentence since it clearly mattered to someone.
07:5307:53, 9 June 2024diffhist+195
Dave Mason (Australian musician)
→Biography: It seemed slightly strange to say the song wasn't a hit 'However...' it was listed as Top Australian Song. The unspoken implication was, people didn't buy it but industry people liked it. I think the situation is more complicated than that, for instance, it had been covered by quite a few people (I listed two that I know of). Also, moved this section for chronology.
05:1905:19, 1 June 2024diffhist+14
Alan Voorhees
'designed many large public works in the United States' - just added the obvious (canvassed elsewhere in the entry) fact that he worked outside the US as well.
31 May 2024
13:3513:35, 31 May 2024diffhist+12
Frederick Oswald Barnett
→Career: 'a woman, Frances Pennington' - she wasn't there because she was a woman. She was there as a social worker. Shall we go through the whole entry and label all the men as 'a man, Oswald Burt' etc?current
06:1606:16, 25 May 2024diffhist+145
Have You Heard the Word
Added a sentence on 'Futting', not because I know anything about it but because it seems weird to ignore it. Hopefully someone else has more information.current
06:1406:14, 25 May 2024diffhist−158
The Fut
The information on a recording called 'Super Duck' was extraneous and apparently false, probably a misunderstanding of information found at https://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/69.htmlcurrent
06:0806:08, 25 May 2024diffhist−13 m
The Fut
'This was the first time since the formation of the Bee Gees that Gibb, who was still in the group, had performed with another group without them.' The 'without them' is superfluous.
05:5505:55, 25 May 2024diffhist−2
Have You Heard the Word
Rewritten so as not to be extremely badly written. Billy Lawrie was mentioned as 'Lawrie' with no further explanation. Other elements were also poorly expressed, eg that Maurice Gibb 'gave his vocals... to tape', etc.
09:4609:46, 29 April 2024diffhist−62 m
Tim Finn
→1981–present: Solo work: If Tim Finn and Phil Manzanera made an album together under any name other than ''Tim Finn & Phil Manzanera'', it'd be worthy of note, but as that is what they called themselves, well, that is who they are.
09:4009:40, 29 April 2024diffhist−409
Phil Judd
→Mr Phudd: The description of Judd's solo work was fragmented and limited, singling out two releases from seven; created separate section for visual art.
05:2505:25, 27 April 2024diffhist−31
Duolingo
'less commonly studied languages such as Welsh, Irish, and Swahili.' - It's farcical to put these three together; 72 million people speak Swahili, 16 million as their first language. More people speak Swahili than speak Italian. It's not a 'less commonly studied language', is my point. Welsh and Irish have a tiny number of speakers by comparison. Rewritten.