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22:1722:17, 12 November 2013diffhist0
Bob Marley
→Early life and career: ref formatting - not a fan of the Chicago citation format - don't see any point in italics in refs and having the author first (I prefer article title - newspaper - date - author) but feel free to change ref to Chicago format
22:0522:05, 12 November 2013diffhist+303
Bob Marley
moved Leslie Kong recordings (1962) to Early Years and changed title form 1963-1972 to 1962-1972 - Reason: Higgs article gives 1959 as the year that Marley started to work with him (New York Times ref)
16:3916:39, 12 November 2013diffhist+8 m
Bob Marley
→Early life and career: just a minor change - I'm not entirely happy with the sentence on Higgs and may rewrite later but it will suffice for now - it was previously open ended as to what Higgs imparted to Marley - at least now it has details
16:2416:24, 12 November 2013diffhist+7
John Coltrane
Undid revision 581341729 by TheOldJacobite - see post on your Talk Page - the burden of proof falls on you - scholars agree the works are ascribed to Aristotle - do not revert until you have won a Nobel prize for proving a 1,000 years of scholarship wrong
15:5415:54, 12 November 2013diffhist+538
Bob Marley
→Early life and career: adding details - Chuck Foster ref (author of Roots Rock Reggae) - teaching Marley guitar is probably of more importance than the vocal training - great song with a bad singer can still be a hit but the reverse is rarely true
01:2901:29, 12 November 2013diffhist+2
John Coltrane
"historical black saints" to "historical African saints" - see Bob Marley Talk Page: "Do not use the word black" and Broonzy Talk Page for transposed sentences on Shankar using "brown" to show how the terms fall apart (or fail in use) under scrutiny
22:4922:49, 11 November 2013diffhist−10
National Congress for the Defence of the People
changed: "Nkunda was arrested by his ostensible backers, Rwanda" to "Nkunda was arrested by the Rwanda government" - ostensible means "Represented or appearing as such" - either they did or did not back him - no ref so changed
22:2622:26, 11 November 2013diffhist+4
March 23 Movement
→Late 2012 offensive: changed: "leaders of 11 African nations" to "leaders of eleven African nations" - there are many numerals in this article so its best to follow the Chicago MoS guidelines on spelling numerals below one hundred - its not a Maths
22:1122:11, 11 November 2013diffhist+6
March 23 Movement
→Late 2012 offensive: changed: "20 shipping containers...as well as 6 artillery pieces" to "twenty shipping containers...as well as six artillery" - Chicago MoS: in nontechnical contexts spell out numerals below one hundred
21:2221:22, 11 November 2013diffhist+40
Bangladesh Rifles revolt
I had a look at the opening sentence of the Paris Commune article and it opens with "The Paris Commune or Fourth French Revolution..." - so rewrote opening sentence with bold font: "The Bangladesh Rifles revolt was a...." -
21:0221:02, 11 November 2013diffhist−8
Bangladesh Rifles revolt
→Trials and sentencing: changed: "and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment varying from four months to" to "and sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from four months to" - Reason: the sentence is not wrong - varying and various not needed
20:3120:31, 11 November 2013diffhist+8
Bangladesh Rifles revolt
changed image caption from "armed forces and common people waiting anxiously nearby" to "armed forces and members of the public waiting anxiously nearby" - Reason: common people is suggestive of status - who are the uncommon people?
23:4823:48, 10 November 2013diffhist−373
Henry Morton Stanley
→Modern culture: removed: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. of Japan, uses Stanley's family name in honour of his discoveries "that have brought light into many spots of the world undiscovered" - Reason: more a catchy company name and slogan than legacy
23:4223:42, 10 November 2013diffhist−181
Henry Morton Stanley
→Further reading: removed: Several medical schools in the USA (e.g. Johns Hopkins, UW Madison) have these volumes still in the stack and readers can read for themselves the accounts of this famous expedition. - Reason: informal