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6 September 2021

5 September 2021

4 September 2021

  • 23:5423:54, 4 September 2021 diff hist −13 Proper namesReverted to the earlier target: redirect to the entire article (correctly named now), rather than to its section headed "Proper names"; in fact that article concerns proper names throughout, not just that section; most people looking for either "proper noun" or "proper name" are unaware of the contested distinction between these two, but it is fully and lucidly addressed, with useful context, in the lead of the article Tags: Redirect target changed Reverted

3 September 2021

  • 04:1404:14, 3 September 2021 diff hist −36 Proper nounBrand names: Removed OR tag and "dubious" tag applied in February 2021; I made examples more illustrative; the comment in talk got no response, because there was nothing to answer (the example of "Microsoft", intended as a counterexample there, pretty well replicates the very point that is made in the article, which the editor marked as dubious); the source cited twice here (Huddleston and Pullum's highly respected grammar) supports the line taken throughout the section; none of this is OR.

27 August 2021

  • 01:2801:28, 27 August 2021 diff hist +17 ApostropheTidied new text in the lead (unmatched and doubled parentheses, stray quotation mark); later in the article, fixed new wording concerning transliteration (the items mentioned are not themselves "transliterated", but are represented in transliterations by the apostrophe).
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