Wikipedia contributions by Gnomon42

Initial article

Initial Version of this page

A disambiguation page

/* Lafcadio Hearn Historical Center */ Added note about temporary closure

/* Legacy */ Third time fixing link

/* Museums */ Fixed link again

/* Museums */ Fixed link

/* Museums */ Changed "Lefkada town" to "city of Lefkada" and added link. Corrected my own misspelling of Lafcadio.

/* Museums */ Added location. Added note about temporary closure.

/* Lafcadio Hearn Historical Center */ Added location of the Lafcadio Hearn center

/* */ Fixed bad link

/* */ Included details of which verses are traditional and who wrote the rest of the song.

Book name in italics

Not the only title without word Asterix.

/* Imperial */Corrected the abbreviation of millilitre to ml

Changed "child" to "person"

Typo

Changed an ambiguous sentence.

/* Contents */Arranger of Lute book lullaby was Geoffrey Shaw, not Martin

/* Personal life */Added name of husband

/* Structure */Explained the terms CV and CVC which were used without explanation.

Added description "windswept" and some punctuation.

Separated the descriptions of the other two sculptures of the same name.

Some detail about the church

/* Paternoster theory */ grammatical changes - using "however" as a conjunction, mistaken use of "alternate" instead of "alternative"

Added Sakis Matsikas, bouzouki manufacturer and reference to Sakis instruments

/* Spiders */ note about spider names being re-used

/* Personal life */

/* Recordings */ moved "Ó Riada's Farewell" from the Ceoltóirí Chualann category, as it is a solo album

Although the Hotel says Lord Bagenal Hotel on the front, the website lists it as the Lord Bagenal Inn

Clarified name of hotel

Fixed to include Brittany as part of France

/* Early history */Clochafarmore is to west, not east

/* Playing */ Split into two a sentence that had two unrelated sections and removed word 'also'.

/* The Mask Strips */Fixed typo: "is" changed to "in"

/* Background and life */ Corrected link to Mo Ling article

Changed "majuscule" to plainer and more accurate "upper case"

/* Polities located on Ireland */Put the name of the country, Ireland, before the descriptive phrase Republic of Ireland since it is its name.

/* Location and access */Typo

/* Guitar family */Example is written an octave higher than it sounds

Incorrectly classified as a high cross

/* Performing a Multiplication */ diagrams

/* Performing a Multiplication */ sorting out diagrams

/* The Mask Strips */ typo

/* Number Strips */ sorting out diagrams

/* The Mask Strips */ making diagrams smaller

Centering diagrams

Changing the titles to make the sections and subsections correct

Added a description of the parts of the promptuary, and instructions on how to multiply numbers, along with diagrams

/* References */Removing duplicate citation

Improving the citation details

Cited Rabdolgiae book

Added rough breathing mark to rabdos in Greek and h in Roman transliteration

/* References */ cited Rabdologiae

Expanded the description in the introduction slightly

Promptuary was described in First Edition of “Rabdologiae”

Moved the Promptuary / Card Abacus section to the article about the Promptuary.

Removed duplicate of Rabdology index

Moved the section about the promptuary ("card abacus") from the Napier's Bones article to here.

/* Notation and terminology */ United Kingdom officially uses "period" for multiplication and middle dot for decimal point

Added inline citation of Rabdologiæ

/* Example 3 - multiplication by a multi-digit number */ no need to write down the original numbers in this process - I've removed them

/* Multiplication */ Added a brief introduction to the multiplication section summarising what is going on before presenting the examples

Explained the need for 40 multiplication tables and also explained how numbers with repeated digits are handled

/* Example 1 */ removed the comments about leaving a space between rods for 0. The set of rods includes four copies of the 0 multiplication table which is used the same as any other digit

A lot more detail in the introductory section, to make the design clear

Note about the word Rabdology

Amended title of main photo to point out that it is atypical

Tallest cross is not the Muiredach Cross, it is the “Tall Cross” at the same location

/* Construction */ added number of frets

/* Etymology */ Changed 3-string and 4-string to 3-course and 4-course. Also Chiotis made the 4-course popular rather than introducing it

Restructured first paragraph to give a more detailed description of what a bouzouki is before explaining where it came from

Typo

/* In The Silver Chair */ typo

/* External links */ Corrected external link to "Mosney Memories"

Fixed infobox which wasn't displaying correctly

Corrected Nat Grid Ref to same as one given in main text, which is correct

/* Uses */ changed "plectra" to "plectrums". This is an English word so its plural is formed by adding s.

/* Tyrone */ description of Beaghmore

/* Creation and destruction */Grammar

/* Alternative names */Corrected misuse of 'alternate' in title

/* Third line-up */Corrected name of country to correct name in English language

/* First line-up */Removed duplication of name Milltown Malbay

/* Background and context */Linked Siegfried to the opera rather than to the man's name

Changed reference to future novels in the series

/* Content */Corrected spelling Compact Disc

/* United Kingdom and Ireland */Explanation of first album having no number

/* In popular culture */ punctuation

/* Tara's significance */Removed description of the Hill of Ward, which is a separate site in a different location with its own entry.

/* Tara's significance */Corrected calculation of cross-quarter days.

Corrected grammar. The sentence said the opposite of what it intended

/* History */Fixed citation

/* History */Reference for arrival in Dublin

Ship has now arrived in Dublin

/* Film */ typo

Removed more duplicates

Removed duplicate sentences

Added link to Margaret Burke-Sheridan

/* Notable Bernese Mountain Dogs */ Updated reference to Higgins's current dogs

/* Notable Bernese Mountain Dogs */Corrected Name of President Higgins's dog Síoda

/* Operation */ announcement of new name of airport

Removing word "contemporary" in description of report on state of walls - I may have misinterpreted the original statement.