20:3020:30, 4 February 2024diffhist+420
Santos-Dumont 14-bis
"10 milestone flights" reference applies to previous sentence, not the "first powered flight" one which follows and ignores powered "hops"
22:1722:17, 28 December 2023diffhist+8
American Civil War
No, you are misrepresenting the whole article and the "cause of the war" article by implying in the lede that slavery was the SOLE reason. If "principal" is not acceptable wording then "central" should be as it is used in this article; "central reason", "central source", etc., not SOLE reason. The lede should summarise not reinterpret. If there were genuinely no other reasons then these two articles need to be rewritten in full.
21:2221:22, 28 December 2023diffhist+10
American Civil War
"Principal" added per this article and the linked origins article's wording "The principal political battle leading to Southern secession was over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the Western territories destined to become states". As summarised at present this is stated to be the one and only "cause of the war" which contradicts the body of both these Wikipedia articles.Tag: Reverted
01:3801:38, 16 October 2023diffhist+249
Walt Disney
→Early life: Ancestors didn't "settle in Norton Disney" as the village didn't exist at that date. Clarify as "area of" and refer to estate as detailed in BBC News article today.
21:4721:47, 16 July 2023diffhist+1,495
Edward Bruce
Insert missing conflict/campaigning in Scotland against the Comyns and clarify none of this or the subsequent actions were "Early Years" (former section title)
27 June 2023
16:2316:23, 27 June 2023diffhist+124
Collateral adjective
clarify collateral adjective for cow/cattle, as the first example provided in this article: vaccine rarely used nowadays, for obvious reasons, but an interesting historical oddity... : )
22 June 2023
12:3612:36, 22 June 2023diffhist+19 m
British African-Caribbean people
→The "Windrush generation": ((Citation needed)) for "encourage mass immigration from mainland Europe" (1946/7?) when POWs were being actively repatriated in the opposite direction. "By the end of 1947, around 250,000 German POWs had been repatriated, but 24,000 decided to stay in Britain" (only "decided", no active campaign to encourage remaining?)
00:2400:24, 24 March 2023diffhist−96
Caesarean section
→History: - repetition in section + no evidence for "low mortality" or understanding of antiseptic cleaning; original source has "So far as I know, Uganda is the only country in Central Africa where abdominal section is practised with the hope of saving both mother and child. The operation is performed by men, and is sometimes successful; at any rate, one case came under my observation in which both survived"
06:0706:07, 4 January 2023diffhist+222
Forestry in the United Kingdom
update to use current (2020) source for other European countries. Previous sources also inexplicably had UK stated as being far less forested than all other European countries
06:2806:28, 22 November 2022diffhist+108
Kwame Nkrumah
→Cultural depictions: - pushing the borders of "notability" citing an interview with someone who wasn't there giving a personal opinion then adding further personal interpretations on top of that, but will add further details to help clarify rather than expect readers to check the source
11 November 2022
00:2600:26, 11 November 2022diffhist+2
Silbury Hill
Clarify as "volume" comparison - which is correct, and useful for visualisation - as "size" can be misinterpreted as height per confusion noted on talk page.
08:5708:57, 22 March 2022diffhist+152
Yugoslav Wars
Serbian-held territory map is meaningless without the recent majority population distribution given the stated Greater Serbia motivation. (as also presented in context in that article)
12:0412:04, 19 December 2021diffhist+125
Mint stamp
Inconsistent as described in following Variations paragraph. "Unused, without gum" should not be described as "Mint" without qualifier.