User contributions for Leroyinc

8 April 2011

• 20:5520:55, 8 April 2011 diff hist −35 Andrew Carnegie The lead sentence is hopelessly redundant: "industrialist," "businessman," and "entrepreneur" all denote basically the same thing, so I have changed it to "steel magnate."

8 November 2010

• 06:0506:05, 8 November 2010 diff hist −17 Roc-A-Fella Records No edit summary
• 06:0406:04, 8 November 2010 diff hist −12 Roc-A-Fella Records The word "businessman," as used in the sentence about John D. Rockefeller, is redundant: "magnate" encompasses "businessman," and thus, "businessman" isn't necessary.

16 September 2010

• 01:4701:47, 16 September 2010 diff hist +279 Moon No edit summary

16 July 2010

• 01:2001:20, 16 July 2010 diff hist −14 ESPY Awards →Location: Either it's "New York City" or "New York, New York" -- "New York City, New York" makes you sound like an idiot.

15 July 2010

• 12:2812:28, 15 July 2010 diff hist +1 Andrew Carnegie You immigrate to a country, you emmigrate from a country: Carnegie and his parents immigrated to the United States.
• 06:2806:28, 15 July 2010 diff hist −24 The Love Guru This is absolute nonsense. "The Love Guru" is not an "American/Canadian/British/German" film -- it is an American film. If anybody disagrees, they are a dope.

11 July 2010

• 06:4506:45, 11 July 2010 diff hist −35 Dodger Stadium "Los Angeles, California, United States"? How about "Los Angeles, California, United States, Earth"? Seriously, we don't need to be so specific when talking about global cities.

6 July 2010

• 14:5414:54, 6 July 2010 diff hist +426 Walt Disney →1941–1945: During World War II
• 14:4514:45, 6 July 2010 diff hist +168 Jenna Jameson No edit summary
• 14:3914:39, 6 July 2010 diff hist +113 German Shepherd No edit summary

4 July 2010

• 02:2202:22, 4 July 2010 diff hist −2,198 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien →Mentioning of O'Brien on Leno's Tonight Show: This entire section is trivial and inappropriate in an encyclopedic context.

25 June 2010

• 00:3500:35, 25 June 2010 diff hist −5 Late-night talk show No edit summary
• 00:3000:30, 25 June 2010 diff hist +69 Late-night talk show No edit summary

19 June 2010

• 17:2817:28, 19 June 2010 diff hist +3 The Road Ahead (Gates book) →Publicity: "Late Night with David Letterman" ended in 1993; "The Road Ahead" was published in 1995. The show that Gates appeared on was the "Late Show with David Letterman."

4 June 2010

• 03:1803:18, 4 June 2010 diff hist −57 Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus is not an entrepreneur: she is a product. There is a difference.

27 May 2010

• 01:1801:18, 27 May 2010 diff hist −200 The Chancellor Manuscript The claims about a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Marc Forster are completely unsubstantiated and inappropriate in an encyclopedic context.

23 May 2010

• 07:5007:50, 23 May 2010 diff hist −139 Bob Saget No edit summary

21 May 2010

• 18:0618:06, 21 May 2010 diff hist −1,603 Recovery (Eminem album) No edit summary

18 May 2010

• 22:0722:07, 18 May 2010 diff hist +39 Bill Gates No edit summary

15 May 2010

• 06:5906:59, 15 May 2010 diff hist −16 Craig Ferguson "Scottish and American"? No. Ferguson is Scottish-American. Just because that format is abused to mean ethnicity (e.g., Conan O'Brien is Irish American) doesn't mean we shouldn't use it properly.

12 May 2010

• 00:5100:51, 12 May 2010 diff hist −33 D12 No edit summary

6 May 2010

• 21:0921:09, 6 May 2010 diff hist +10 Condoleezza Rice No edit summary

28 April 2010

• 04:3004:30, 28 April 2010 diff hist 0 Ted Bundy (film) →Differences between film and real events: That which I added to this section is intended to satirize the specific content of the article to which it refers, which is no less inappropriate.
• 04:2704:27, 28 April 2010 diff hist +215 Ted Bundy (film) →Differences between film and real events

20 April 2010

• 08:2208:22, 20 April 2010 diff hist +31 Craig Ferguson Unlike many individuals to whom labels like "Scottish-American" are applied on this site, Craig Ferguson is actually Scottish-American: he was born in Scotland and immigrated to the US.

18 April 2010

• 07:2707:27, 18 April 2010 diff hist −30 The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster No edit summary

15 April 2010

• 23:4823:48, 15 April 2010 diff hist −7 Glenn Beck (TV program) →Exposed: The Extremist Agenda: The special named "Exposed: The Extremist Agenda" did not overview "Islam in the Qur'an," which doesn't make sense, but Islamic extremism.

13 April 2010

• 08:1508:15, 13 April 2010 diff hist +428 N Talk:Late-night talk show ←Created page with 'I propose that somebody post several images throughout this article that illustrate the conventions of the late-night talk show: a picture of Jay Leno doing a monol...'

9 April 2010

• 05:3705:37, 9 April 2010 diff hist +170 Talk:Charles Scorsese No edit summary

8 April 2010

• 08:0108:01, 8 April 2010 diff hist −11 Eminem A rapper is a kind of songwriter; therefore, it is redundant to say that Eminem is a songwriter in addition to a rapper.

4 April 2010

• 18:1318:13, 4 April 2010 diff hist +103 Teabagger No edit summary

24 March 2010

• 07:0907:09, 24 March 2010 diff hist −33 Ed Sullivan Mr. Sullivan's Irish heritage is hardly worth mentioning in the lead sentence.

23 March 2010

• 07:0507:05, 23 March 2010 diff hist −12 The Last Song (2010 film) Los Angeles is a global city, which means that you do not to identify the state in which it is located when referring to it.
• 00:0400:04, 23 March 2010 diff hist −8 Al Sharpton "African-American" denotes an ethnicity. Since the lead sentence of a Wikipedia article usually refers to a person's nationality, we should simply say "American."

18 March 2010

• 20:0520:05, 18 March 2010 diff hist +1,044 Talk:Icons of Evolution No edit summary

17 March 2010

• 06:5306:53, 17 March 2010 diff hist −2 Clay Aiken →Faith and philosophy: Any time you use quotation marks as they are used in the first sentence of this section, you are implying that what you are talking about is not what it is identified as.

16 March 2010

• 04:3804:38, 16 March 2010 diff hist 0 m Click (2006 film) No edit summary
• 04:3704:37, 16 March 2010 diff hist +4 Click (2006 film) Although Although "Click" certainly contains elements of fantasy and science fiction, it is not a fantasy film and it is not a science-fiction film: it is simply a comedy film.

13 March 2010

• 16:1716:17, 13 March 2010 diff hist −916 Encore (Eminem album) →Reception: Most of the statements in this section, though I agree with them, are matters of opinion and do not belong in an encyclopedia.

11 March 2010

• 21:1121:11, 11 March 2010 diff hist −450 T. D. Jakes If Jakes has said that he does not believe in or preach the prosperity gospel, how can we say that he subscribes to prosperity theology? I have deleted that second statement.

9 March 2010

• 17:4117:41, 9 March 2010 diff hist +563 Talk:The Beatles No edit summary
• 17:0917:09, 9 March 2010 diff hist −214 Elizabeth (film) →Claims of anti-Catholicism: The Catholic League did not misquote the "Times": the "Times" did refer to the film as "resolutely anti-Catholic" and to a "scheming pope."
• 06:0706:07, 9 March 2010 diff hist +10 Dan Rather No edit summary

8 March 2010

• 17:0917:09, 8 March 2010 diff hist −20 The Mo'Nique Show No edit summary
• 17:0617:06, 8 March 2010 diff hist +384 User talk:Leroyinc →March 2010
• 06:2506:25, 8 March 2010 diff hist +11 Relapse (Eminem album) No edit summary
• 06:2506:25, 8 March 2010 diff hist +1 Encore (Eminem album) No edit summary
• 06:2406:24, 8 March 2010 diff hist −20 The Marshall Mathers LP No edit summary
• 06:2306:23, 8 March 2010 diff hist −77 Eminem Here's the deal: Wikipedia does not supersede Eminem.com in regard to authority over matters of Eminem's discography. "Infinite" is a studio album, but it does not belong in this list.