A user with 50 edits. Account created on 6 January 2005.
23 May 2024
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Andrews' career spans eight decades: (1) 1950s, (2) 1960s, (3) 1970s, (4) 1980s, (5) 1990s, (6) 2000s, (7) 2010s, (8) 2020s. Technically it spans nine, because she started in 1948 in the West End, but since the overall number (as of 2024) is 76 years total, eight is the more appropriate descriptor when considering "decades." If the measure were years, as of 2024 it would be 76, but since the sentence uses decades, it should say eight decades.
01:4201:42, 10 December 2023diffhist+618
Hedy Lamarr
→Inventor: removed a fact not in the cited source about Antheil being introduced to Mackeown, also serving to undermine Lamarr. In reality Antheil's biography (the delightfully named "Bad Boy of Music") reveals she was the brains behind the operation. He described her bookcases in her "drawing room" as "filled both with unreadable books and very usable drawing boards that look as if they are in constant use." (https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/68520/how-did-hedy-lamarr-acquire-scie
00:0300:03, 10 December 2023diffhist+445
Hedy Lamarr
→Inventor: various changes replacing "married name" with "legal name"; correcting major factual inaccuracies regarding how Lamarr learned of the need for remote-controlled torpedos and thus a non-jammable way to do that using radio signals (from the Naval Historical Society of Australia). Removed more language functioning to undermine Ms. Lamarr and Mr. Antheil's contributions.
9 December 2023
23:2323:23, 9 December 2023diffhist+337
Hedy Lamarr
→Inventor: replaced "tinkering" (which fails the NPOV because it is a word that minimises one's actual ability in a craft) with the neutral "she invested her spare time, including on set between takes, in designing and drafting inventions", also drawing attention to a detail showing her dedication to invention, rather than mere "tinkering" suggests.
23:1823:18, 9 December 2023diffhist+9
Hedy Lamarr
→Inventor: removed editorial language suggesting Lamarr and Antheil didn't really invent the tech ("actually implement") when a quote from the cited article is both more than sufficient and a better way to convey the information, without editorializing ("actually") and thus breaking the NPOV.
23:1523:15, 9 December 2023diffhist−6,180
Hedy Lamarr
removing sections atrociously inappropriate here but which would be appropriate on a page called "Reasons For Why We Shouldn't Say Hedy Lamarr Was Smart" or something. Making one-sided transparently bad-faith arguments with the obvious function of undermining the achievements of the subject of a biographical article shouldn't be allowed. Especially not on a page about a woman, where Wikipedia has been shown to be misogynist many times in the past.
23:0223:02, 6 January 2005diffhist+55
Daily Kos
added link to "rationalization" part for NPOV purposes, otherwise rationalization comment is editorializing