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22 February 2014

• 00:3600:36, 22 February 2014 diff hist −26 The West Wing →Development: corrected tense, and rm copy-pasted text. Lifting chunks of sources verbatim is absolutely not acceptable and yet it is happening more and more frequently.

21 February 2014

• 10:2110:21, 21 February 2014 diff hist +767 Talk:Lung cancer →Technical terms
• 02:4302:43, 21 February 2014 diff hist −19 Phil Plait →Research: interrupting a sentence like that is really bad writing. citations go after facts, not before or in the middle of them.
• 02:4302:43, 21 February 2014 diff hist −7 In the Shadow of the Moon (2007 film) →Participants: using "all but" implies a very small fraction. might as well just use the number instead of saying "all but a third of them"
• 02:3902:39, 21 February 2014 diff hist 0 In the Shadow of the Moon (2007 film) citations after facts, not before
• 02:3802:38, 21 February 2014 diff hist +248 Talk:Lung cancer →Technical terms

20 February 2014

• 23:3723:37, 20 February 2014 diff hist +22 Stomach cancer parentheses are for asides, not for important relevant information. rewrote sentence for clarity and flow
• 23:3623:36, 20 February 2014 diff hist +847 Talk:Lung cancer →Technical terms
• 23:3123:31, 20 February 2014 diff hist +158 User talk:200.120.73.176 →Maybe join the talk page discussion
• 23:3023:30, 20 February 2014 diff hist −101 List of circulating currencies Undid revision 596399999 by Zntrip (talk) chilean centavo doesn't exist in any form, physical or otherwise
• 23:0423:04, 20 February 2014 diff hist −40 Lung cancer the article itself says that not all lung cancers are sarcomas. If you want to give a technical term, then you'd say "formally known as" or something like that. but a literature search reveals that "lung cancer" is the overwhelmingly used term there too.
• 23:0323:03, 20 February 2014 diff hist +422 User talk:200.120.73.176 →Maybe join the talk page discussion
• 15:3915:39, 20 February 2014 diff hist −40 Lung cancer Undid revision 596349346 by Jmh649 (talk) cursory glance at other cancer articles shows that's not true.
• 15:1815:18, 20 February 2014 diff hist −40 Lung cancer Undid revision 596347331 by Jmh649 (talk) try not reverting for no reason.
• 15:1315:13, 20 February 2014 diff hist −44 Lung cancer common alternative names should be mentioned, obscure and little used medical jargon does not need to be mentioned in the lead.
• 14:1614:16, 20 February 2014 diff hist −14 List of circulating currencies →List of circulating currencies by country or territory: fixed layout
• 14:1314:13, 20 February 2014 diff hist −6 List of circulating currencies there is currently no such thing as a chilean centavo.
• 14:0914:09, 20 February 2014 diff hist −81 List of circulating currencies Two lines for Ecuador is very confusing. One line can clearly indicate that their currency is the US dollar but they mint their own coins
• 12:2512:25, 20 February 2014 diff hist −24 Laws of thermodynamics rm unnecessary bold
• 11:4811:48, 20 February 2014 diff hist −115 Pastime Paradise →Covers, samplings, and parodies: rm pov
• 11:2711:27, 20 February 2014 diff hist −21 Pastime Paradise rm verbosity
• 11:2511:25, 20 February 2014 diff hist −196 Kate Thornton rm pov, rumours, sycophantic tone
• 02:1602:16, 20 February 2014 diff hist +383 User talk:Poeticbent Undid revision 596036671 by Poeticbent (talk)
• 01:3501:35, 20 February 2014 diff hist −610 Lumbar spinal stenosis →History: rm more copying and pasting, and put references after facts, not before
• 01:3301:33, 20 February 2014 diff hist −49 Lumbar spinal stenosis →Medication: rm inappropriate "advice"
• 01:3301:33, 20 February 2014 diff hist −322 Lumbar spinal stenosis →Management: rm yet more copying and pasting
• 01:3101:31, 20 February 2014 diff hist −43 Lumbar spinal stenosis →Bicycle test of van Gelderen: tone
• 01:3001:30, 20 February 2014 diff hist 0 Lumbar spinal stenosis →Bicycle test of van Gelderen: obviously, the place to put a citation is after the fact being cited. Putting it before makes absolutely no sense
• 01:2901:29, 20 February 2014 diff hist −59 Lumbar spinal stenosis →Diagnosis: rm more copying
• 01:2901:29, 20 February 2014 diff hist −914 Lumbar spinal stenosis →Causes: rm more copyright violating copied and pasted text.
• 01:2701:27, 20 February 2014 diff hist −330 Lumbar spinal stenosis →Signs and symptoms: lifting text verbatim from a source is not acceptable. A basic tenet of an encyclopaedia is that it is written, not copied.
• 01:2401:24, 20 February 2014 diff hist −183 Extinction (astronomy) no need to say the same thing in two different ways, and rm verbosity from the lead. improved tone as well, no need to instruct people not to be confused, simply explain that there is a similar term for a distinct concept.
• 01:1801:18, 20 February 2014 diff hist +6 Eric Liddell tone
• 01:1601:16, 20 February 2014 diff hist −1 Eric Liddell →Chariots of Fire: rm unnecessary brackets
• 01:1501:15, 20 February 2014 diff hist −216 Eric Liddell →Memorial: tone
• 01:1101:11, 20 February 2014 diff hist +21 North Pole →Pre-1900: tone
• 01:0201:02, 20 February 2014 diff hist −13 Dirac delta function If you were actually being informal, you'd describe it as "a spike on a line".
• 01:0101:01, 20 February 2014 diff hist −152 White noise rm redundant double explanations, unnecessary formatting, and unnecessarily preachy tone
• 00:5700:57, 20 February 2014 diff hist −66 The Office (British TV series) →Critical reception: tone down hyperbole. Nothing in the history of popular entertainment ever received "unanimous" or "universal" acclaim.
• 00:5600:56, 20 February 2014 diff hist −54 Stirling Gallacher rm absurdly vague language. just state the facts, don't attempt to guess what people might think of them, and especially don't explicitly acknowledge that such a guess is likely to be wrong.

19 February 2014

• 15:4515:45, 19 February 2014 diff hist +358 Talk:The Holocaust in Poland →Opinions presented as if fact
• 15:1815:18, 19 February 2014 diff hist −425 Chinese wall rm inappropriate "advice"
• 15:1615:16, 19 February 2014 diff hist −10 Moonwalk (dance) →History of use: rm redundancy, put citation after facts, not before, and explain who person is rather than just dropping their name into the article
• 15:1315:13, 19 February 2014 diff hist −108 System 7 (band) grammar, formatting, rm copy-pasted text
• 15:1115:11, 19 February 2014 diff hist −12 System 7 (album) rm pov
• 15:0715:07, 19 February 2014 diff hist +2,874 Talk:The Holocaust in Poland →Opinions presented as if fact
• 14:4514:45, 19 February 2014 diff hist −431 Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) →Critical Reception: rm explicit endorsement of source and presentation of opinion as if it is fact.
• 14:3914:39, 19 February 2014 diff hist −274 Eagles (band) →Gallery: Eagles performing in December 2008: not encyclopaedic
• 14:2914:29, 19 February 2014 diff hist +739 Talk:The Holocaust in Poland →Opinions presented as if fact
• 13:3913:39, 19 February 2014 diff hist +745 Talk:The Holocaust in Poland Undid revision 596178747 by Volunteer Marek (talk)