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A user with 6,920 edits. Account created on 5 July 2010.
10 June 2024
- 16:3416:34, 10 June 2024 diff hist +37 User:Peter M. Brown/Ordinal suffixes No edit summary current
25 April 2024
- 22:2022:20, 25 April 2024 diff hist +22 Ascension of Jesus →Cosmology: {{cn|date=April 2024}} And who is Matt Nelson? Almost every cited author (and there are l̲o̲t̲s̲ of citations) is prominent enough to have his or her own Wikipedia article. Tag: Reverted
19 April 2024
- 01:5901:59, 19 April 2024 diff hist +46 Hyphen →top: Since the hyphen-minus is far and away the symbol most often called a "hyphen", there needs to be SOME recognition that the symbol labeled "Hyphen" in the infobox is something different.
- 01:3601:36, 19 April 2024 diff hist +129 Hyphen Undid revision 1219567064 by 2001:44C8:4286:52D4:1:1:B70D:9733 (talk) No rationale was provided for deleting the infobox. Tag: Undo
15 April 2024
- 20:0120:01, 15 April 2024 diff hist +5 Galileo affair →Initial controversies: Split out parenthetical notes as independent sentences. Brahe→Tycho in accord with common usage.
12 April 2024
- 19:2219:22, 12 April 2024 diff hist +15 m Hyphen →Nonbreaking hyphens: minor rewording
1 April 2024
- 23:3123:31, 1 April 2024 diff hist −15 m Circumflex →Other articulatory features: ce
30 March 2024
- 23:3023:30, 30 March 2024 diff hist −8 m Holy Spirit in Christianity →Biblical portrayal: The subsection on the Acts of the Apostles should not be subordinate to that on the Synoptic Gospels. It's parallel, so both have four =s on each side of the heading in the Wikitext.
26 March 2024
- 20:1320:13, 26 March 2024 diff hist −6 m Common descent →RNA world: "origin" of life → origin of life, as quotation marks are not appropriate here. The subject really i̲s̲ the origin of life; the term is not meant ironically or sarcastically.
23 March 2024
- 17:1817:18, 23 March 2024 diff hist +864 Talk:Dash The section's flaws should be taken as an invitation for editors to improve it.
19 March 2024
- 22:2922:29, 19 March 2024 diff hist +822 Talk:Ellipsis →Precomposed character: 2024 continuation: Reply to 𝕁𝕄𝔽
18 March 2024
- 22:2522:25, 18 March 2024 diff hist +1,045 Talk:Ellipsis →Precomposed character: 2024 continuation Tag: Disambiguation links added
16 March 2024
- 01:3701:37, 16 March 2024 diff hist −138 Help:Entering special characters →Windows—Alt code: Improved clarity, I hope.
- 00:1300:13, 16 March 2024 diff hist −47 m Help:Entering special characters →Windows—Alt code: Periods should not appear b̲o̲t̲h̲ immediately before and immediately after a parenthesis.
15 March 2024
- 17:4617:46, 15 March 2024 diff hist +12 m Help:Entering special characters →Keyboard code: The hyphen-minus is c̲l̲e̲a̲r̲l̲y wrong in these contexts. The em dash in its Dash§Parenthesis-like use is surely an improvement. Who has a better idea?
14 March 2024
- 23:2523:25, 14 March 2024 diff hist +13 m Help:Entering special characters →Windows - Alt code: Again, Notepad works.
- 23:2123:21, 14 March 2024 diff hist −14 m Help:Entering special characters →Windows - Alt code: In Notepad, typing "3BB" and then holding down the Alt key while typing an "X" works just fine; a "λ" results.
8 March 2024
- 17:0217:02, 8 March 2024 diff hist +5 m Omega Point →top: "thrice" → "three times"; per Wiktionary, "𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 is somewhat dated in American and British usage, sometimes used for a comical or intentionally archaic effect; 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 is the more standard and typical usage".
7 March 2024
- 01:4301:43, 7 March 2024 diff hist +1 m User talk:JMF →The Unicode hyphen: Spelling
- 01:3901:39, 7 March 2024 diff hist +550 User talk:JMF →The Unicode hyphen: Unexplained specialized knowledge c̲a̲n̲ be used in an article's lead!
6 March 2024
- 23:2123:21, 6 March 2024 diff hist +773 User talk:JMF →The Unicode hyphen: Unsure about that "clear conscience". Perhaps we need to edit the Hyphen article, as not everyone looking at that article will have read Hyphen-minus. And maybe edit Plus and minus signs § Minus sign?
- 20:3220:32, 6 March 2024 diff hist +803 User talk:JMF →The Unicode hyphen: New section
- 00:3000:30, 6 March 2024 diff hist −14 m Hyphen-minus →{{code|diff}} output: [[diff |{{code|diff }}]] → diff to make clear that it's a wikilink; the use of {{code}} obscures this.
5 March 2024
- 23:5923:59, 5 March 2024 diff hist −118 m Hyphen-minus →Description: Deleted sentence "Use of the hyphen-minus as a minus sign typically results in an unattractive appearance, as shown on the image above." Opinion is not supported by the image.
2 March 2024
- 01:5901:59, 2 March 2024 diff hist +19 Hyphen Undid revision 1211264490 by Joaopaulo1511 (talk)"‐" does produce the U+2010 character Tag: Undo
28 February 2024
- 21:2021:20, 28 February 2024 diff hist +5 m Panpsychism →Quantum mechanics: "Chalmers believes the tentative variant of panpsychism outlined in ..." → "Chalmers believes t̲h̲a̲t̲ the tentative variant of panpsychism outlined in ..."
26 February 2024
- 23:5423:54, 26 February 2024 diff hist +2 m Think Mutual Bank →top: Eight branches, ten ATMs current
19 February 2024
- 02:1102:11, 19 February 2024 diff hist +8 m Galileo affair →Views on Galileo's scientific arguments: Added Wikilinks to stellar parallax and stellar aberration
18 February 2024
- 21:3021:30, 18 February 2024 diff hist −16 m Ascension of Jesus Undid revision 1208667992 by 203.30.3.108 (talk) Tag: Undo
4 February 2024
- 20:2820:28, 4 February 2024 diff hist −31 Quotation mark Quotations are not drawn from halos. And the Balkans are not in Western Europe. Tag: Manual revert
16 January 2024
- 01:0201:02, 16 January 2024 diff hist 0 m Ascension of Jesus →Islam: Per Template:Cite journal§Title, "For titles containing quotation marks, convert regular quotation marks (") to single quotation marks (')"
31 December 2023
- 20:4720:47, 31 December 2023 diff hist +127 m Logic Undid revision 1192872029 by 104.246.73.130 (talk) Reverted unexplained deletion. Tag: Undo
- 00:3800:38, 31 December 2023 diff hist +148 Filename →Problematic characters: Added that "Except as otherwise stated, the symbols in the 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 column, " and < for example, cannot be used in Windows filenames." When the section was named "In Windows", that perhaps went without saying; with the new section name, it is necessary to be explicit.
30 December 2023
- 23:4223:42, 30 December 2023 diff hist +13 m Filename →Problematic characters: Replaced "*.*" by {{Code|*.*}} and "\\".). by {{Code|\\}}.) Quotation marks were potentially confusing.
24 December 2023
- 21:4821:48, 24 December 2023 diff hist +46 Filename →Problematic characters: The black question mark ornament ❓is permitted in Windows filenames. (In Windows Explorer, it appears as black
23 December 2023
- 20:5720:57, 23 December 2023 diff hist −32 m Filename →Problematic characters: Consistent discussion of spacing modifier letters ˂ (˂) and ˃(˃
20 December 2023
- 02:3302:33, 20 December 2023 diff hist +2 m Apostrophe →top: Okina→ʻOkina
- 00:4600:46, 20 December 2023 diff hist +306 Talk:Check mark →Keyboard entry: Reply to Spitzak
18 December 2023
- 20:2420:24, 18 December 2023 diff hist +34 Check mark →Keyboard entry: Tweak
- 20:2220:22, 18 December 2023 diff hist +194 Check mark New section Keyboard entry
17 December 2023
- 21:1121:11, 17 December 2023 diff hist −127 m Talk:Apostrophe Undid revision 1190306072 by 120.29.78.20 (talk) Spam Tag: Undo
8 December 2023
- 21:0521:05, 8 December 2023 diff hist +171 Talk:Martin Luther →Semi Protected Edit Request Sep. 11 2023: AGREE — Luther's words unambiguously advocated murdering Jews.
- 20:4720:47, 8 December 2023 diff hist +34 Quotation mark Undid revision 1188950980 by 83.60.39.128 (talk) I see no reason why "The Far East angle bracket quotation marks,《…》, are also a development of the in-line angular quotation marks" should not require a citation. Tag: Undo
21 November 2023
- 00:5600:56, 21 November 2023 diff hist +4 m Ballotpedia →Studies: "than in any other year in the past decade"→"than in any other year in the 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 decade" per a 2020 study
18 November 2023
- 01:0101:01, 18 November 2023 diff hist +38 Lord's Prayer →History: Replaced "3 Our Father" by → "3 Our Fathers" and "3 Hail Mary'' by "3 Hail Marys". Where there's more than one, a plural noun is needed. Perhaps, though, these are cases where an apostrophe could legitimately be used in forming a plural: "3 Our Father's"?
8 November 2023
- 18:2518:25, 8 November 2023 diff hist −24 Non-breaking space As WP:NOTGUIDE prohibits use of the imperative mood in articles, reworded an efn note to be in conformity. Also dropped the note from the §Width variation section, because the techniques documented in §Keyboard entry methods don't apply to spaces with nonstandard widths.
- 04:2104:21, 8 November 2023 diff hist +157 Non-breaking space Eliminated the "note" warning against copy/pasting the light blue symbol from the infobox. Put the warning in the lead, where it's less likely to be overlooked; see my discussion on the talk page. Also adjusted the "Width variation" section; a recent editor put a note there which reflected my concern but was inappropriate as it referred the reader to the "Keyboard entry methods" section although the methods described there don't work with nonstandard-width spaces. Tag: Reverted
- 03:3103:31, 8 November 2023 diff hist +34 Talk:Non-breaking space →Warning against copying the Infobox symbol for the no-break space.: I did this on an email in which I wanted the typography to be impeccable, thinking that the blue color would not be transmitted. Alas.
7 November 2023
- 23:4723:47, 7 November 2023 diff hist −150 Talk:Lord's Prayer →Change NRSV to NIV: Modification to my own edit.
- 21:3421:34, 7 November 2023 diff hist +1,713 Talk:Lord's Prayer →Change NRSV to NIV: Another reason to drop the NRSV.