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17 August 2022

• 05:2205:22, 17 August 2022 diff hist +188 Talk:Lydia the Tattooed Lady →Untitled

27 July 2022

• 05:2805:28, 27 July 2022 diff hist 0 Larry Storch →Early life: They were observing Jews, ie, immersed in the festivals, etc, of the religion. Observant Jews are the kind to notice an unoccupied parking space a mile down the road.

25 July 2022

• 05:3005:30, 25 July 2022 diff hist −9 Halloweentown (film series) →Background: Witches aren't fantasy beings, but members of a religion.

5 June 2022

• 04:0004:00, 5 June 2022 diff hist −1 The Most Beautiful →Plot: She's got a virus, but she tries to shake it *off,* not shake it *down*--the latter means grabbing money, usually illegally, from someone else.

4 June 2022

• 04:5504:55, 4 June 2022 diff hist −174 The Wizard of Oz →Music: "Haley spoke with a distinct Boston accent and did not pronounce the R in "wizard". Ebsen, a Midwesterner like Garland, pronounced it clearly." There are several Haley films online on Youtube, earlier than Wizard, in which he uses a straight Midwestern accent. So the removed remark doesn't hold.

11 May 2022

• 05:2905:29, 11 May 2022 diff hist −33 Miracle in Milan Quite the contrary to what I removed, the period critiques of the film center about de Sica's abandoning neo-realism for fantasy. Tag: Reverted
• 01:2101:21, 11 May 2022 diff hist +84 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp →Plot: Simply adding the key point, left out in this very solid plot statement: that Candy is indomitable, facing life with energy and hope. Tag: Reverted

6 May 2022

• 07:3707:37, 6 May 2022 diff hist −209 Marv Newland →Career: The link of Black Hula simply defaults to a Wiki bio fo Marv Newland. Tag: references removed

4 May 2022

• 05:3305:33, 4 May 2022 diff hist −4 Peter Singer →Criticism: The link provided did not go to a page on Anne Stubblefield, but to one discussing Facilitated Communication.

8 April 2022

• 06:4206:42, 8 April 2022 diff hist −34 Viktor Kosenko →Reception: Removed link to Mikhail Sokolovsky, because it's the wrong Sokolovsky, 200 years too early, and there's no link to the 20th century professor of music.

15 January 2022

• 20:1020:10, 15 January 2022 diff hist −355 Sejong the Great "Taejong accessed him that he is a great prince to be the King.[10]" The sentence literally makes no sense.

24 December 2021

• 03:2603:26, 24 December 2021 diff hist −1 The Beaux' Stratagem No edit summary

22 December 2021

• 04:2504:25, 22 December 2021 diff hist +11 David Devriès There are many, many famous lyric tenors in the 20th century, as well--especially in France. Between 1900 and 1960, at least 30 made successful recordings.

19 December 2021

• 06:3506:35, 19 December 2021 diff hist −23 Tanzania "archaic?" Should we suppose that what made a human subspecies archaic was that, for reasons we don't know, they became extinct?

6 December 2021

• 05:5205:52, 6 December 2021 diff hist −26 Anatoly Lyadov →Music: the remark about indolence primarily appears in Rimsky-Korsakov's memoirs. Otherwise, Liadov was often noted for his extreme variety of tasks assumed at once.

3 December 2021

• 22:1722:17, 3 December 2021 diff hist −28 Stefan Themerson →Early life: k a writer "of Jewish descent." So, we'd indicate "a writer of Christian descent?" Isn't religion a matter of ideas one chooses to believe?

30 October 2021

• 04:2104:21, 30 October 2021 diff hist −78 Gogo people →Marriage: In other words, the divorce rate is low because the divorce rate is low. Useless sentence.

25 October 2021

• 20:3420:34, 25 October 2021 diff hist −7 Pyotr Stolypin →Assassination: "Jewish leftist revolutionary." Again, how do his religious views have anything to do with being a revolutionary? There was plenty of Christian revolutionaries, too.
• 20:3220:32, 25 October 2021 diff hist −7 Pyotr Stolypin "Jewish revolutionary"? Since when was his religion relevant to his actions?

10 October 2021

• 20:5220:52, 10 October 2021 diff hist +26 Fredric March →Ku Klux Klan controversy

9 September 2021

• 02:0602:06, 9 September 2021 diff hist 0 George Washington Cable →Response and legacy: In the enotes entry, Nineteenth-Century Social Protest Literature Outside England, the word innocence replaces impotence. That makes more sense, at least.

7 September 2021

• 04:5004:50, 7 September 2021 diff hist +7 George Enescu →Biography: "mature" symphonies, because while studying as an early teen in Vienna, he wrote 4 "student symphonies" that survive.

6 July 2021

• 16:3316:33, 6 July 2021 diff hist −37 George Burns That's not Yiddish, it's Hebrew. And it isn't relevant to list an American name for an American entertainer in a foreigner language.w

6 June 2021

• 07:2307:23, 6 June 2021 diff hist −492 Arte Johnson →Early life: Why does matter if his mother's faith was Jewish? Did he inherit this on his DNA? Tag: references removed

3 June 2021

• 00:3000:30, 3 June 2021 diff hist −131 Damian Hurley →Personal life: "His father is of Jewish background." And if he'd been of Methodist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, or even Buddhist background, would it be worth noting? It doesn't affect his son, who in any case didn't live with him. Tag: references removed