19 March 2024
- 08:3808:38, 19 March 2024 diff hist −1 Icelandic identity card licence = noun, license = verb. This is correctly spelt on the page about Icelandic driving licences, but not here.
12 January 2024
- 10:3810:38, 12 January 2024 diff hist −2 2024 missile strikes in Yemen Removing quotes, as this quote is not mentioned in the FT article. It is implausible to suggest that the British government would have used US English spelling.
26 December 2023
- 16:3716:37, 26 December 2023 diff hist 0 Radio Equipment Directive (2022) Better English
- 16:2816:28, 26 December 2023 diff hist −2 Radio Equipment Directive (2022) The sentence mixses singular verbs with a plural possessive adjective. Apple is singular.
3 November 2023
- 13:0213:02, 3 November 2023 diff hist −9 Access (credit card) The correct name of the UK's currency is Pound sterling. And neither currency needs to be in the plural.
6 April 2023
- 17:2317:23, 6 April 2023 diff hist +170 PARAFE →Availability: I very much doubt that PARAFE is implemented in Eurotunnel terminals, given that vehicle passengers remain in their vehicles. There is a possibility that PARAFE is used for coach passengers, who might have to disembark, but I have seen no evidence of this at either terminal.
- 17:1817:18, 6 April 2023 diff hist −52 PARAFE →Availability: French border controls in France are not juxtaposed. Only French border controls outside France are juxtaposed.
31 March 2023
- 10:4110:41, 31 March 2023 diff hist +1 Evan Gershkovich This was a quote. Edited in error.
- 10:4010:40, 31 March 2023 diff hist −5 m Evan Gershkovich Improved grammar
24 February 2023
- 10:5910:59, 24 February 2023 diff hist −284 Irish passport →Passport Card: Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 more specifically worded
19 February 2023
- 14:0414:04, 19 February 2023 diff hist −663 Irish passport These references say that EU/EEA identity cards can be used to enter each country, not Irish passport card. Timatic at https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/passport-visa-health-travel-document-requirements.htm says that an Irish passport card cannot be used. Airlines refuse boarding if Timatic says the travel document isn't acceptable for entry to the destination country.
3 January 2022
- 12:4712:47, 3 January 2022 diff hist +12 The Tourist (TV series) Northern Irish people have the right to both Irish and British nationality, and Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom. Therefore not necessarily true to state that he's Irish.
30 September 2021
- 08:1508:15, 30 September 2021 diff hist +3 Apple Pay →Usage within public transport systems: improved wording
- 07:2107:21, 30 September 2021 diff hist 0 Apple Pay Moving to correct section
- 07:1607:16, 30 September 2021 diff hist +1,056 Apple Pay →Usage within public transport systems: Visa security flaw on Express Travel/Transit
2 September 2021
- 08:5308:53, 2 September 2021 diff hist 0 Wheely →History: licence (noun), not license (verb) - like advice/advise
4 April 2021
- 17:5117:51, 4 April 2021 diff hist −1 Francis Hodder →WWII service and death: Rheinberg is the place of burial, not the place of the shootdown.
- 17:4617:46, 4 April 2021 diff hist 0 Francis Hodder Corrected another instance of date of birth
- 17:4317:43, 4 April 2021 diff hist −1 Francis Hodder Corrected date of birth and place of death. Place of burial is correct. Correct date of birth is confirmed by existing external link.
16 March 2021
- 11:4211:42, 16 March 2021 diff hist +76 3-D Secure A lot of card issuers, particularly of credit cards, charge cards, payment aggregation cards and prepaid cards, are not banks, for example American Express, Diners Club, Curve and Wise. Only debit cards are almost always issued by banks.
28 February 2021
- 10:0310:03, 28 February 2021 diff hist +70 Three UK →Roaming at domestic prices: Åland Islands
23 February 2021
- 19:2719:27, 23 February 2021 diff hist +4 3 (company) →Roaming packages: 30 EEA countries. Removing EEA countries from list. Adding UK.
21 February 2021
- 18:1718:17, 21 February 2021 diff hist −5 Three UK →Roaming at domestic prices: No longer recent events
- 11:2011:20, 21 February 2021 diff hist +169 Three UK →Roaming at domestic prices: Map of "Go Roam" countries and territories
- 11:1511:15, 21 February 2021 diff hist +569 Three UK →International access: Rephrased to reflect true number of countries and territories.
- 11:0211:02, 21 February 2021 diff hist −353 Three UK →International access: This is no longer true and has nothing to do with roaming anyway.
3 January 2021
- 12:3712:37, 3 January 2021 diff hist +27 IPhone 12 Pro Replacing US-centric vocabulary with more internationally-understood vocabulary as per MOS:COMMONALITY. "Ship" in most varieties of English implies transport by sea.
- 12:3112:31, 3 January 2021 diff hist +3 IPhone 12 →Power adapter & EarPods: Replacing US-centric vocabulary with more internationally-understood vocabulary as per MOS:COMMONALITY. "Ship" in most varieties of English implies transport by sea.
17 December 2020
- 11:0811:08, 17 December 2020 diff hist −248 AirPods Removing all prices pursuant to WP:PRICES. Prices were given only for the United States, and misleadingly omitted to state their country, currency (USD as opposed to CAD, AUD, NZD, SGD, HKD etc) and that the prices exclude tax (which is a peculiarity of prices in the United States). The audience is not only in the United States, and these prices made the page too US-centric.
14 November 2020
- 12:0312:03, 14 November 2020 diff hist +10 IPhone 11 Replacing US-centric vocabulary with more internationally-understood vocabulary as per MOS:COMMONALITY. "Ship" in most varieties of English implies transport by sea.
- 12:0012:00, 14 November 2020 diff hist +5 IPhone 8 →Software: Replacing US-centric vocabulary with more internationally-understood vocabulary as per MOS:COMMONALITY. "Ship" in most varieties of English implies transport by sea.
9 November 2020
- 16:1416:14, 9 November 2020 diff hist +3 IPhone 12 →Power adapter & EarPods: Replacing US-centric vocabulary with more internationally-understood vocabulary as per MOS:COMMONALITY. "Ship" in most varieties of English implies transport by sea.
29 October 2020
- 13:0813:08, 29 October 2020 diff hist +283 IPhone 12 →Hardware: 5G is not supported with dual SIM.
- 12:4912:49, 29 October 2020 diff hist +12 IPhone 12 →Hardware: All iPhones, not only the iPhone 12, are supplied since 13th October without earpods or a wall charger.
- 12:4712:47, 29 October 2020 diff hist −1 IPhone 12 Replacing US-centric vocabulary and grammar with more internationally-understood vocabulary and grammar as per MOS:COMMONALITY
27 October 2020
- 19:2619:26, 27 October 2020 diff hist +6 IPhone SE (2nd generation) More universally-understood vocabulary instead of US-centric vocabulary
15 October 2020
- 16:4416:44, 15 October 2020 diff hist +16 Transatel →MVNE: EE was formed by a 50:50 merger by T-Mobile UK and Orange UK.
8 October 2020
- 21:1421:14, 8 October 2020 diff hist −16 OMON Removing definite article preceding "OMON". Pronounceable acronyms in English don't usually have the definite article, for example "NATO", "NASA" or "FIFA", never "the NATO", "the NASA", "the FIFA". Compare "the UN" and "the UNHCR" (non-acronyms) with "UNESCO" (pronounceable acronym). Contrast this to non-acronym Russian-language organisations, which do have definite articles in English, despite the Russian language not having articles, for example "the KGB", "the FSB" and "the GRU".
- 21:1121:11, 8 October 2020 diff hist −28 OMON (Belarus) Removing definite article preceding "OMON". Pronounceable acronyms in English don't usually have the definite article, for example "NATO", "NASA" or "FIFA", never "the NATO", "the NASA", "the FIFA". Compare "the UN" and "the UNHCR" (non-acronyms) with "UNESCO" (pronounceable acronym). Contrast this to non-acronym Russian-language organisations, which do have definite articles in English, despite the Russian language not having articles, for example "the KGB", "the FSB" and "the GRU".
9 September 2020
- 11:5011:50, 9 September 2020 diff hist +35 Linas Antanas Linkevičius →Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2012–today: Capitalisation and links
11 July 2020
- 18:3418:34, 11 July 2020 diff hist +6 Lazdijai Small town, not a city
8 July 2020
- 21:1921:19, 8 July 2020 diff hist +1 Apple Pay →Express Transit or Express Travel: On TfL, completion of the payment is done only when touching out at the end ot the journey, not when touching in at the beginning.
- 21:1621:16, 8 July 2020 diff hist +4 Apple Pay →Device compatibility: This is about the iPhone 5S, not the plural of iPhone 5.
- 12:5712:57, 8 July 2020 diff hist +2 Apple Pay Undid revision 963067739 by MP1440 (talk) I originally wrote this paragraph with standard English spelling. US English spelling is not established on this page, so the spelling should not have been changed away from standard English. MOS:RETAIN Tag: Undo
- 11:5211:52, 8 July 2020 diff hist +33 Apple Pay →Availability: BOTs are not part of the UK, so "except" is the wrong word. I would usually say that there's no need to mention non-UK British jurisdictions at all, but there might be some merit in doing soin this context because some are part of the UK banking system.
30 June 2020
- 09:4709:47, 30 June 2020 diff hist +26 Chief technology officer These figures apply only to the US. "Make" implies profit for the employer. "Earn" implies remuneration for the employee. The latter is the intended meaning.
28 June 2020
- 13:2713:27, 28 June 2020 diff hist 0 Orange S.A. →Acquisition of Orange and privatisation: spelling correction, consistent with spelling elsewhere in this section. Licence (noun) vs license (verb), like advice/advise.
8 May 2020
- 21:0121:01, 8 May 2020 diff hist +856 Talk:Victory in Europe Day →Time zone discrepancy between Churchill's speech and German Instrument of Surrender: new section
2 February 2020
- 18:1918:19, 2 February 2020 diff hist +411 Talk:Irish passport →Kaliningrad: new section
4 January 2020
- 13:1213:12, 4 January 2020 diff hist +8 Miles & More →Award miles: This has nothing to do with the expiry date on the credit card.
