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Page 2023 Chinese balloon incident (Log · Page History)
User Bsherr (Edit Counter· Top Edits)
Total edits 210
Minor edits 13 (6.2%)
(Semi-)automated edits 18 (8.6%)
Reverted edits 4 (1.9%)
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Added (bytes)2 13,253
Deleted (bytes) -11,129
Minor edits · 13 (6.2%)
Major edits · 197 (93.8%)
(Semi-)automated edits · 18 (8.6%)
Manual edits · 192 (91.4%)
Reverted edits · 4 (1.9%)
Unreverted edits · 206 (98.1%)
1 Average time between edits (days)
2 Added text is any positive addition that wasn't reverted (approximate)
Date Links Size Edit summary
Diff · History 5 U.S. monitoring and counterintelligence: spelling
Diff · History 1,037 Undid revision 1138589788 by Amigao (talk) restoring references
Diff · History 764 Previous sightings: restoring
Diff · History -2,248 consolidating references
Diff · History -6 Balloon: conciseness
Diff · History 1 History of spy balloons: comma
Diff · History -490 this reference has some errors in it
Diff · History 55 Technology used by China: improving citation
Diff · History -9 Previous sightings: abbreviating
Diff · History -9 Previous sightings: abbreviating
Diff · History 5 Debris recovery: linking
Diff · History -2 improving citation
Diff · History -6 Technology used by China: abbreviation unused in this article
Diff · History -9 abbreviating
Diff · History -10 improving link
Diff · History 1 code error
Diff · History 53 fixing my mistake
Diff · History 1 code error
Diff · History 1,694 reverting removal of citations, replacement of work with publisher and agency (see previous edit citing guidelines), certain delinking
Diff · History 464 Balloon: adding reference, improving citation
Diff · History -3 Federal government: improving link, capitalization
Diff · History 9 Federal government: linking
Diff · History 10 Federal government: improving citation
Diff · History 536 Monitoring and counterintelligence: repairing broken reference link
Diff · History -421 moving paragraph about response to detection up to detection section, adding content about House resolution
Diff · History 961 Undid revision 1138403730 by Amigao (talk) "Citation spamming is a subtle form of spam and should not be confused with legitimate good-faith additions intended to verify article content and help build the encyclopedia." WP:CITESPAM
Diff · History 63 Previous sightings: adding citations
Diff · History 44 top: adding citations
Diff · History 30 Downing: adding reference names
Diff · History -18 clean up
Diff · History 324 clean up; improving citations; Fox and CBS articles lack specifics on equipment, adding reference that covers
Diff · History -106 Downing: repairing dead link, improving citation
Diff · History -1 Previous sightings: simplifying
Diff · History 13 Previous sightings: improving links
Diff · History 310 Debris recovery: adding reference
Diff · History -20 Debris recovery: improving citation
Diff · History 27 Debris recovery: improving citation
Diff · History 645 adding content regarding China's demand for return of balloon
Diff · History 271 adding reference
Diff · History 13 removed Category:Aircraft shootdown incidents; added Category:21st-century aircraft shootdown incidents using HotCat
Diff · History -44 removed Category:Individual balloons (aircraft) using HotCat article is about the incident, not the balloon
Diff · History -55 Second balloon over Latin America: conciseness, correcting quote
Diff · History -29 Debris recovery: subsequent mention
Diff · History -92 the flight path is well covered above and below
Diff · History 35 adding citation
Diff · History 36 clarifying, adding citation
Diff · History -19 Previous sightings: conciseness
Diff · History 4 Detection: linking
Diff · History 8 Previous sightings: consistency
Diff · History -18 linking (the positions are relevant to the roles played during the incident), conciseness
Diff · History 21 Flight path: expanding
Diff · History 1 Flight path: further to last
Diff · History -32 Flight path: the source does not indicate this information is disputed
Diff · History 49 Media analysis: improving citation
Diff · History 8 Federal government: consistency
Diff · History 17 Federal government: improving citation
Diff · History 117 Federal government: correcting briefing date, improving citations, breaking paragraph
Diff · History 0 (reverted)  Revert to revision 1138129024 dated 2023-02-08 04:36:48 by Bsherr using popups: unsourced changes
Diff · History -46 top: conciseness
Diff · History -46 Previous sightings: conciseness
Diff · History 1 top: comma
Diff · History 8 top: linking
Diff · History 36 improving citations
Diff · History -731 clean up
Diff · History -143 Template:Cite web#Publisher: "Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a website, book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.)."; regarding agency parameter: "Do not use for sources published on the agency's own website"
Diff · History -49 these seem a bit too unrelated
Diff · History -714 Federal government: improving citation, removing information duplicative of impact section
Diff · History -29 Monitoring and counterintelligence: subsequent mention
Diff · History 23 Monitoring and counterintelligence: reducing acronym
Diff · History 38 Monitoring and counterintelligence: improving citation
Diff · History 25 adding url access
Diff · History 11 correcting spelling in category sort keys
Diff · History 520 Undid revision 1138053634 by Vacosea (talk) this seems related, and doesn't appear to be OR or related to the NWS; could you explain on the talk page?
Diff · History 19 Other countries: improving citation
Diff · History 10 Structure: clarifying that these are US weather balloons, improving citation
Diff · History 16 Flight path: improving citation
Diff · History -26 Cleaned up using AutoEd, restoring Current to default text
Diff · History -553 Flight path: source contains no relevant information
Diff · History -17 Other countries: dash, improving link
Diff · History 0 Downing: the Newsweek article only discusses the ground stops
Diff · History 0 Response and reactions: reordering sections
Diff · History 411 Response and reactions: adding back in Venezuela response
Diff · History -11 MOS:SURNAME and MOS:REPEATLINK
Diff · History 29 Detection: adding location and link
Diff · History 49 Altitude: improving citation
Diff · History 75 Structure: expanding quote, improving citation
Diff · History 0 Undid revision 1137951407 by Bsherr (talk)
Diff · History 0 (reverted)  Debris recovery: improving link
Diff · History 23 Structure: improving citation
Diff · History -1,029 Altitude: since helicopters generally fly below airplanes, and airplanes generally fly below the altitude of the balloon, the comparison to helicopters is a bit off topic, and the sources appear unreliable
Diff · History -17 linking first mention, delinking and improving subsequent mentions
Diff · History 409 Previous sightings: expanding, adding reference
Diff · History 4 Altitude: adding article
Diff · History 4 Detection: linking
Diff · History 4 Detection: linking
Diff · History 8 top: linking
Diff · History -37 top: conciseness; the source does not say what date the debris was recovered; the date of the article isn't really significant to the topic
Diff · History 4 top: linking
Diff · History 5 top: specifying per WP:NPOV
Diff · History -18 Incident: moving link to first instance
Diff · History -88 clean up; removing redundant links and improving subsequent mentions
Diff · History 18 Second balloon over Latin America: adding citation
Diff · History 35 top: adding citation, adding reference name
Diff · History 17 Second balloon over Latin America: adding reference name
Diff · History -6 top: conciseness
Diff · History -415 Undid revision 1137943141 by 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) that's the same article as the AP News article cited before it; Time republished it
Diff · History 23 Downing and debris recovery: improving citation
Diff · History 46 Downing and debris recovery: improving citation
Diff · History 2 typo(s) fixed: February 4, 2023 → February 4, 2023,, manuvering → maneuvering
Diff · History 2 China: abbreviation format
Diff · History -9 Cleaned up using AutoEd, removing extraneous white space
Diff · History 225 improving citations
Diff · History 0 Structure: updating access date
Diff · History 48 top: adding citation
Diff · History -10 improving citation
Diff · History -19 Undid revision 1137937173 by Fgnievinski (talk) I think this might be too off topic
Diff · History -74 top: these arbitrary milestones are more detailed than needed for the lede
Diff · History 17 Federal government: reversing myself, the prior link was to his presidency
Diff · History 7 Previous sightings: first mention
Diff · History -28 Federal government: again, it's a redundant link, and a subsequent mention of the name, so MOS:REPEATLINK and MOS:SURNAME apply
Diff · History 478 Undid revision 1137905329 by M.Bitton (talk) breaks the reference link, and the reference should be retained in the caption even if in commons
Diff · History -17 Undid revision 1137906795 by InvadingInvader (talk) see MOS:REPEATLINK and MOS:SURNAME
Diff · History -46 (reverted)  If you are saying that the event is not a current event, then you are saying it should not have Template:Current. But manipulating the text of the banner to defeat its very purpose is not appropriate.
Diff · History -27 Undid revision 1137903059 by Knightoftheswords281 (talk) if you are intending to remove Template:Current, this doesn't accomplish that
Diff · History 74 United States: improving citation
Diff · History -13 Undid revision 1137899918 by Voyager 1 Low Battery Alert (talk) see MOS:REPEATLINK
Diff · History -1 United States: plural agreement
Diff · History -27 (reverted)  default txt for current is sufficient
Diff · History 28 improving citation
Diff · History 31 improving citation
Diff · History 14 China: improving citation
Diff · History 38 improving citations
Diff · History 19 Flight path: improving citation
Diff · History 0 Previous sightings: improving link
Diff · History -27 United States: subsequent mention
Diff · History -30 Response and reactions: improving quotation
Diff · History 5 Second balloon over Latin America: improving link
Diff · History -55 Second balloon over Latin America: redundant link
Diff · History 86 Second balloon over Latin America: improving citation
Diff · History -852 relocating to new section, adding citation, improving conciseness; this information was reported at a press conference, not a scoop of the previously identified journalists; consolidating references; subsequent mentions of name, punctuation before q
Diff · History 2 code error
Diff · History -11 top: adding citation, replacing publisher with website name
Diff · History 30 Downing and debris recovery: improving citation
Diff · History -9 Downing and debris recovery: improving citation, fixing abbreviation
Diff · History 33 China: improving citation
Diff · History 26 replacing apostrophe, reordering references, updating access dates, improving citation
Diff · History -93 Incident: conciseness
Diff · History 407 Structure: adding reference
Diff · History 0 top: capitalization
Diff · History 36 unexplained deletion of references
Diff · History 461 Undid revision 1137709407 by Zaathras (talk) the reaction of other countries to the incident is relevant, particularly with the involvement of another balloon over S. American airspace
Diff · History -294 top: restoring to prior version; no reason identified why original AP sources removed in favor of republishers
Diff · History 134 History of surveillance balloons: improving citations
Diff · History -4 Downing and debris recovery: improving citation, replacing quotation marks, adding comma, reducing acronym
Diff · History -11 Downing and debris recovery: improving citation
Diff · History 0 Structure: capitalization
Diff · History -13 History of surveillance balloons: redundant link
Diff · History 9 top: specifying, adding link
Diff · History 527 Previous sightings: restoring removed text; it was removed with the assertion that Trump is lying; if so, it would be even more significant to the subject; there is no source for that contention regardless
Diff · History 97 improving citations
Diff · History 1 white space consistency
Diff · History -190 top: since this is disputed and the mention in the lede doesn't address that, it may be better to leave it to the rest of the article to cover
Diff · History 0 Technology used by China: correcting access date
Diff · History 53 improving citation, linking, changing subsequent mention
Diff · History 18 Previous sightings: adding citation
Diff · History 92 found a reference
Diff · History -54 Undid revision 1137694125 by 144.130.166.10 (talk) this isn't supported by the cited source, so it needs its own reference to be included
Diff · History 8 top: linking
Diff · History -44 Canada: subsequent mention
Diff · History 20 top: specifying
Diff · History -33 top: i.e. BBC News, CBS News; name of website, not name of publisher / adding link
Diff · History -2 Canada: changing conjunction
Diff · History 8 United States: linking
Diff · History -5 top: linking
Diff · History -9 Detection: consistency
Diff · History -13 Detection: redundant link
Diff · History 11 top: specifying
Diff · History -14 Cleaned up using AutoEd, setting external media to default size, removing extraneous white space
Diff · History 25 United States: improving citation
Diff · History -42 top: infobox can pull title directly from page name; correcting link in notice
Diff · History 0 top: updating url access dates
Diff · History 0 top: moving to correct sentence
Diff · History 79 adding citations
Diff · History -30 sources do not meaningfully differentiate between postponement and cancellation, adding additional citation
Diff · History -402 moving references to supported text, consolidating
Diff · History 9 Detection: improving link
Diff · History 90 Detection: improving citation
Diff · History -10 top: noun form is better
Diff · History 0 top: capitalization
Diff · History 1 comma
Diff · History -13 Previous sightings: active voice
Diff · History -1 Previous sightings: punctuation
Diff · History -31 Previous sightings: copy editing, redundant link
Diff · History -28 top: piped link not needed
Diff · History 7 top: first mention
Diff · History -4 Detection: consistency
Diff · History 17 Detection: reducing acronyms, flight levels usually converted to meters
Diff · History -9 Detection: abbreviation okay in parenthetical
Diff · History 122 Detection: reducing acronyms
Diff · History 17 Detection: adding url status
Diff · History 2 Detection: fixing code error
Diff · History 120 Detection: improving citation
Diff · History 5 top: specifying
Diff · History -28 United States: subsequent mentions
Diff · History -5 improving citation
Diff · History 14 improving citations
Diff · History -895 Downing: sources don't support this statement and having trouble finding a reliable source that does
Diff · History 195 Detection: improving citation
Diff · History -7 Previous sightings: improving citation
Diff · History -41 clean up, typo(s) fixed: U.S → U.S., improving citations
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