18 March 2022

• 13:1413:14, 18 March 2022 diff hist +427‎ Talk:Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ →‎Recruiting of foreign soldiers
• 12:4812:48, 18 March 2022 diff hist +1‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ A good sentence but in the wrong section. This attack was more than an announcement - it did happen, and the war continues.

6 March 2022

• 12:4312:43, 6 March 2022 diff hist +1‎ Runaway (movie) ‎ ‎ "gone awry" instead of "gone wrong"? Are you SERIOUS? I can't even imagine a more difficult word. But the article is still far from being simple. current
• 12:2612:26, 6 March 2022 diff hist +1‎ Sepsis ‎ "goes awry" instead of "goes wrong"? Are you SERIOUS? I can't even imagine a more difficult word.

3 March 2022

• 12:5912:59, 3 March 2022 diff hist +27‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ "Per" changed to "According to"
• 12:5612:56, 3 March 2022 diff hist −9‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ One "Acc." overlooked
• 12:5412:54, 3 March 2022 diff hist +40‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ Sorry but "Acc." saves only 5 letters at the expense of readability, and readability is crucial in our version of Wikipedia. Even if we linked "Acc." to Wiktionary it would not be a good idea because by this logic we could link any difficult word to Wiktionary or elsewhere.

1 March 2022

• 19:5719:57, 1 March 2022 diff hist 0‎ Bolshevik ‎ So "The government began to falter"? Even the standard Wiki article uses the word "weaken". Do we want to be "better"? Will we be better if we start using less common words? Is this the role of Simple English Wikipedia?
• 17:1517:15, 1 March 2022 diff hist −75‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ good (though redundant) info and in the wrong place at that
• 17:0417:04, 1 March 2022 diff hist −1‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ why use "buildup" when it links to "crisis" anyway
• 16:4216:42, 1 March 2022 diff hist −171‎ Pier Gerlofs Donia ‎ unsourced and non-present in the ordinary Wiki. Besides, when you use Google and check ' "Big Lad" "Cross of the Dutchman" ' you will get only two hits, which link to simple Wiki! "Cross of the Dutchman" separately exists only as a computer game
• 16:2316:23, 1 March 2022 diff hist +437‎ Pier Gerlofs Donia ‎ simpler; "to be taken prisoner" is a very common but very illogical phrase and means simply "to be imprisoned"
• 09:0109:01, 1 March 2022 diff hist +38‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ simpler and more natural; "condemn" is not simple - just the opposite - it deserves a special explanation

28 February 2022

• 11:2911:29, 28 February 2022 diff hist +5‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ Undid revision 8076254 by 89.8.120.51 (talk) Oh please, don't exaggerate "according to" is VERY simple, see: ' "according to" site:https://simple.wikipedia.org/ '. You will get 12ki hits in Tag: Undo

27 February 2022

• 21:5421:54, 27 February 2022 diff hist +90‎ Russian invasion of Ukraine ‎ "Per Russia", "Per Ukraine"? Do we want to confuse the reader? Why not "According to Russia" etc.?

14 February 2022

• 03:3703:37, 14 February 2022 diff hist −1‎ Lassa fever ‎ →‎Diagnosis and treatment: "stand a chance" is a common but illogical idiom, why not use "have a chance"?

13 February 2022

• 16:0016:00, 13 February 2022 diff hist −1‎ Apis cerana indica ‎ "can be READILY distinguished" can be understood as "can be WILLINGLY distinguished" and even though it would not make sense in the context, why not use a more common and precise word: "EASILY"? current
• 15:4415:44, 13 February 2022 diff hist +1‎ Van ‎ I replaced "dwindling" with "decreasing", and would do the same in standard Wiki
• 12:1712:17, 13 February 2022 diff hist −3‎ Learning ‎ "early ON in development"? Do we need the idiomatic "early on"? Besides, when you use Google, you will find that "early in development" is 13 times more common
• 06:4406:44, 13 February 2022 diff hist 0‎ Informal fallacy ‎ typo
• 06:2706:27, 13 February 2022 diff hist −52‎ Informal fallacy ‎ Even simpler. Now, the user has direct access to both meanings.

12 February 2022

• 22:2722:27, 12 February 2022 diff hist +23‎ Informal fallacy ‎ @User:Jim.henderson: Great example, but the adjective "light" is rarely used as "bright". My proposal is "containing a lot of white", in other words "pale", but the latter seems to be not simple enough.

1 February 2022

• 22:2522:25, 1 February 2022 diff hist +118‎ Urinal ‎ (UK /jʊəˈraɪnl/; US/ˈjʊrənəl/) pronunciation is not very obvious
• 22:0722:07, 1 February 2022 diff hist −62‎ Informal fallacy ‎ redundancy. This idea is clearly stated in the first sentence.
• 22:0422:04, 1 February 2022 diff hist −14‎ Informal fallacy ‎ The phrasal verb "come about" is not a good idea here. I remove such things even from standard Wiki :-)
• 21:4821:48, 1 February 2022 diff hist −24‎ Straw man ‎ redundancy removed; BTW there was also a problem with a misplaced modifier which disappeared automatically :-)
• 21:2821:28, 1 February 2022 diff hist +16‎ Polemic ‎ →‎History: If you want "libel laws were not as stringent", please, go to standard Wiki, but here "defamation laws were less strict" is a much better wording. "as they are now" is crucial
• 20:3220:32, 1 February 2022 diff hist +9‎ Straw man ‎ →‎Examples: "primary" is a bit ambiguous and confusing here; emphasis on "extremely hot" and "real"
• 17:4417:44, 1 February 2022 diff hist +251‎ Straw man ‎ precision + clarity, while preserving simplicity, It was hard to avoid the important word "exaggerated". Fortunately it is defined in our Wiki.
• 16:3116:31, 1 February 2022 diff hist +77‎ Straw man ‎ →‎Examples: A discussion is not necessarily a debate to be won, so I replaced it with something more natural.

31 January 2022

• 22:1722:17, 31 January 2022 diff hist +46‎ Straw man ‎ Alice's response explained
• 22:1222:12, 31 January 2022 diff hist −14‎ Straw man ‎ →‎Examples: clarity
• 22:0722:07, 31 January 2022 diff hist +465‎ Straw man ‎ +example
• 21:5321:53, 31 January 2022 diff hist −120‎ Straw man ‎ The standard Wiki article explains the essence of the term in the first sentence. The Simple Wiki does not do it at all, and the first sentence is even harder to understand. Besides, the term is actually very simple. All we need is an example. Unfortunately our article does not provide any. As for the word "trope" - it does not seem so important because there is no such word in the standard Wiki article. Remember - we are in Simple Wiki

29 January 2022

• 02:5202:52, 29 January 2022 diff hist +111‎ Earth ‎ Still simple but much more precise. What exactly is not simple enough? I put a lot of time and effort in every sentence so before you revert please start a discussion and let me know your arguments.. Tags: Manual revert Reverted
• 02:3902:39, 29 January 2022 diff hist −2‎ Teddy bear ‎ Unique means being the ONLY ONE of its kind. Nothing can be MORE or LESS unique. Is your social security number MORE unique than mine? Such a question makes no sense. By the way, this is a very common mistake, made by native speakers of English!

23 January 2022

• 20:5120:51, 23 January 2022 diff hist +111‎ Earth ‎ still simple but more precise (with many internal links to words define here - in Simple English Wikipedia) Tag: Reverted
• 14:3514:35, 23 January 2022 diff hist +198‎ N Template talk:Infobox military conflict ‎ →‎Belligerents?: new section

3 January 2022

• 16:2616:26, 3 January 2022 diff hist +98‎ Earth ‎ more precise and (maybe still simple) Tag: Reverted

29 December 2021

• 16:2416:24, 29 December 2021 diff hist +146‎ Wikipedia talk:Simple News ‎ →‎Hi

19 December 2021

• 17:5717:57, 19 December 2021 diff hist 0‎ Freemasonry ‎ The second sentence could be understood as: "The fact that freemasonry is controversial has been opposed"

17 December 2021

• 17:4117:41, 17 December 2021 diff hist +8‎ Pseudoscience ‎ A sentence deleted - not simple and ungrammatical at that (unclear subject). My proposal: "It is an idea not open to testing, no matter what evidence against it is available."
• 16:3716:37, 17 December 2021 diff hist −63‎ Pseudoscience ‎ It was too wordy and in bad English. My proposal: "Obviously, science is not always right but always open to correction, which makes a clear difference between science and pseudoscience."
• 15:2415:24, 17 December 2021 diff hist −2‎ Pseudoscience ‎ With all due respect to your native knowledge of English I would like to propose a little bit different syntax here. 1. "an" seems more natural than "any", though in plural we would have no choice. 2. A restrictive "that" is better than a nonrestrictive "which" because the latter only add some non-critical information while we need a restrictive condition. So my proposal is: "[...] is not just an idea that [...]"

15 December 2021

• 16:5416:54, 15 December 2021 diff hist −22‎ Pride and Prejudice ‎ Do we need that quote with "no sooner had" + "than"? No sooner had I noticed that quote than I burst into laughter;-) Yes, I know the underlying grammar. So my proposal is simple: "As soon as he made it clear to himself and his friends that her face is not beautiful, he started to understand that she was intelligent"
• 04:4804:48, 15 December 2021 diff hist +1‎ User talk:Jim.henderson ‎ →‎Talk:Interchange (road)
• 04:4704:47, 15 December 2021 diff hist +369‎ User talk:Jim.henderson ‎ →‎Talk:Interchange (road): new section
• 04:4204:42, 15 December 2021 diff hist +133‎ Talk:Interchange (road) ‎No edit summary current

13 December 2021

• 02:2902:29, 13 December 2021 diff hist +1‎ Graduated cylinder ‎ What a negligence. To think that one space did the job ;-) current

2 December 2021

• 14:1714:17, 2 December 2021 diff hist +2‎ Objectivity (science) ‎ simplify; Yes, scientists strive, and we also strive... to make our articles easier to read :-) current