User contributions for RetiredRuby

27 March 2026

• 15:1615:16, 27 March 2026 diff hist 0 m Li Qiang Year of birth changed from 1958 to 1959 in accordance with the Chinese version of this article and the sources thereon. Tag: Visual edit

12 February 2026

• 17:2017:20, 12 February 2026 diff hist +302 Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd Date when Hereditary peerage began updated in side bar, 'Political career' section and lower box, correcting 1954 to 1955. A citation has been added to justify this change, linked to the UK Parliament website which clearly gives the Lord's peerage as 1955 not 1954. Tags: Reverted Visual edit

13 September 2025

• 19:5119:51, 13 September 2025 diff hist −249 m Derek Boorman Date of birth changed from 30 to 13 of the month. Source: Who’s Who. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 18:3418:34, 13 September 2025 diff hist 0 m Kan Yuet-keung Date of death updated from 14 to 19 of the month. Source: Who’s Who. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 18:3318:33, 13 September 2025 diff hist +278 m Kan Yuet-keung Date of death updated from 14 to 19 of the month. Source: Who’s Who. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

28 August 2025

• 19:1519:15, 28 August 2025 diff hist −142 Denny Huang →Transfer of sovereignty: Deleted "In the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in December 1984, many of Dr. Huang's ideas were put into it." as is completely unsubstantiated. "Huang was subsequently co-opted by Beijing to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" changed to "Huang subsequently accepted an invitation to the..." to make neutral.
• 16:4916:49, 28 August 2025 diff hist −40 Urban Council →Demise: Clarification was sought over "The post-Handover Provisional Executive Council met in May 1997"; there was no provisional Executive Council, must refer to the provisional Legislative Council (SCMP source checked - has to be a typo in source) current

27 August 2025

• 10:5810:58, 27 August 2025 diff hist +9 m 1985 Hong Kong electoral reform In the 'Background' section: The page initially said that the Green Paper was published in July 1984 before the Sino-British negotiations over sovereignty "began". This is not true - the negotiations began in 1983. Page has been amended to say before the negotiations were "concluded". Also, commas added for clarity.

18 August 2025

• 17:5917:59, 18 August 2025 diff hist 0 m First United Front Typo amended: intro said that the First United Front was formed in 1924 yet the dates in the date box give it as 1923 (checked also against Zarrow, 'China in War and Revolution', p. 199)

10 August 2025

• 08:0408:04, 10 August 2025 diff hist −2 m Huang Hua Changed formatting of dates of birth and death from MMM DD YYYY to DD MMM YYYY

22 July 2025

• 09:3309:33, 22 July 2025 diff hist −6 m Better Man (film) Changed sentence from “No other character comments on his appearance” to “No character comments on his appearance”, to correct ambiguity introduced by “other”. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

19 July 2025

• 15:3615:36, 19 July 2025 diff hist +80 m Foreign and Commonwealth Office Migrated Archives The number of British colonies and territories from which files were migrated was previously understood to be 37; this number has since increased to 41, so appropriate adjustments have been made to reflect this.
• 15:1015:10, 19 July 2025 diff hist +2 m Simon Chu 'Archive Action Group' amended to 'Archives Action Group' (with an 's' on 'Archives') in two places.

12 July 2025

• 09:2409:24, 12 July 2025 diff hist +2 m Made in the A.M. Semi-colons added to the list of descriptions of the album, to aid readability. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

13 May 2025

• 07:1307:13, 13 May 2025 diff hist +38 m Hong Kong Federation of Students →1980s and 1990s: Added 2x citation needed flags, one at the end of each paragraph in '1980s and 1990s' section Tag: Visual edit: Switched

10 March 2025

• 21:4121:41, 10 March 2025 diff hist +2 m David Menkin Grammatical change: “His best known” changed to “He is best known” Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

8 February 2025

• 13:2113:21, 8 February 2025 diff hist −80 m Simon Li The first sentence in 'Politics' mistakenly said Li was appointed to the Assessment Office Monitoring Team after the Joint Declaration was *signed*; this is a mistake - Li was appointed after the JD was *initialled* Tag: Visual edit

20 January 2025

• 18:1818:18, 20 January 2025 diff hist −8 Joseph Wong Changed 'Hong Kong language' to 'Cantonese'. Tag: Visual edit

3 December 2024

• 18:2718:27, 3 December 2024 diff hist −413 m Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London Removed citation [3] to a Westminster City Council webpage about libraries because it was not supporting evidence for the sentence on previous address Tag: Visual edit

9 October 2024

• 07:3307:33, 9 October 2024 diff hist −5 m Hong Kong People's Association Changed 'signage' to 'signing' and deleted 'then' from 'and then British Foreign...' for clarity. Tag: Visual edit

26 September 2024

• 13:0413:04, 26 September 2024 diff hist −12 m Xu Chongde Deleted 'well-known' from opening line - this cannot be evidenced. Deleted Oxford comma. Tag: Visual edit

12 August 2024

• 15:0215:02, 12 August 2024 diff hist +1 m Lee Chik-yuet Amended typo: 3rd paragraph "After graduated" changed to "After graduating" Tag: Visual edit

8 August 2024

• 15:1715:17, 8 August 2024 diff hist +4 m Haydon Warren-Gash Linked 'lepidopterist' in intro to Wiki page Tag: Visual edit

5 August 2024

• 08:0908:09, 5 August 2024 diff hist −4 m Government Secretariat →1989 reorganisation: Removed infinite loop (hyperlink from 'Administrative Services and Information Branch' redirects to 'Government Secretariat (Hong Kong)' - i.e. same page.) Tag: Visual edit

2 August 2024

• 16:4416:44, 2 August 2024 diff hist −242 Tung Chee-hwa →Early business and political career: Sentence "At the time of the Sino-British negotiation over Hong Kong's sovereignty, Beijing was enforcing the "United Front" strategy to gather the widest possible range of allies together and gradually isolate opponents." removed because (1) it is without a source and contentious, and (2) is not relevant. Tag: Visual edit

16 July 2024

• 14:4214:42, 16 July 2024 diff hist +44 m Hubert Carey Trowell Added and linked spouse, Margaret Trowell Tag: Visual edit
• 14:4114:41, 16 July 2024 diff hist +4 m Margaret Trowell Linked spouse to existing page Tag: Visual edit
• 14:3914:39, 16 July 2024 diff hist +1 m Margaret Trowell Corrected minor typographical errors in 'Alma matter' Tag: Visual edit

10 July 2024

• 15:2515:25, 10 July 2024 diff hist −139 List of British political memoirs Jeremy Bray's autobiography was entered twice; one instance deleted. The year of publication was incorrectly down as 1994; changed to 2004. His list of constituencies was incomplete; now complete. Tag: Visual edit

29 May 2024

• 17:1817:18, 29 May 2024 diff hist +32 m Unofficial Member Amended all mentions of 'unofficial member', 'official member' and similar to have first letter capitalised. Added that Unofficials sat alongside both ex officio AND Official Members. Corrected dates of the UMELCO office. Lastly, the Tsang quote had open quote marks but no close quote marks - ambiguous; as I was unable to find the quote, I rephrased the whole sentence and removed the quote marks. Tag: Visual edit

24 May 2024

• 09:1409:14, 24 May 2024 diff hist +152 m Standing Committee on Pressure Groups A third citation added (Legislative Council Hansard) to evidence to date of establishment as 1977. Tag: Visual edit
• 09:1209:12, 24 May 2024 diff hist +638 Standing Committee on Pressure Groups Date of establishment changed from 1978 to 1977 and given two academic citations. The Ng citation is especially robust because Ng points to a primary source - a memo at Hong Kong's Public Records Office. Tag: Visual edit

29 January 2024

• 17:2217:22, 29 January 2024 diff hist +15 m Paul Lin Ta-kuang →Youth in Canada: Minor grammatical/typo corrections. Tag: Visual edit

23 January 2024

• 17:0717:07, 23 January 2024 diff hist +678 m Yau Ma Tei boat people →Sources: Davies et al. added to 'Sources' section. Tag: Visual edit
• 17:0617:06, 23 January 2024 diff hist +2,065 Yau Ma Tei boat people Details of the protest and its consequences enlarged with recently published material from Davies et al. Tag: Visual edit

13 January 2024

• 12:0512:05, 13 January 2024 diff hist +1 m Richard Charles Lee →Career: Amended "he was also directors of more than" for grammar. Tag: Visual edit

9 January 2024

• 13:2213:22, 9 January 2024 diff hist +6 m Woo Pak-foo Added 'being' to "He kept being re-elected" for grammatical purporses. Tag: Visual edit

3 August 2023

• 14:2014:20, 3 August 2023 diff hist +348 Lee Wing-tat Reference 1 replaced: previously pointed to a YouTube video that has since been removed or account deactivated; replacement citation is to the Financial Times, a broadsheet Tag: Visual edit

26 June 2023

• 17:5617:56, 26 June 2023 diff hist +3 m Tsin Sai-nin Corrected grammatical error by adding 'by' between 'appointed' and 'the' in the final substantive sentence. Tag: Visual edit
• 17:4617:46, 26 June 2023 diff hist +19 m Denny Huang 'Citation needed' added to the end of the second paragraph, which makes an assertion/claim without citation. Tag: Visual edit
• 17:4417:44, 26 June 2023 diff hist +20 m Denny Huang →Transfer of sovereignty: Citation needed added to first paragraph Tag: Visual edit

12 October 2022

• 16:1216:12, 12 October 2022 diff hist +158 m Roger Lobo Added reference 4, which links to the Hansard from which the quote cited in reference 5 is lifted Tag: Visual edit

26 August 2022

• 12:0812:08, 26 August 2022 diff hist +7 Arthur Creech Jones →Early life: First sentence of 'Early life' section mistakenly referred to Creech Jones as just Jones, implying that Creech was a middle name rather than a double-barrelled family name Tag: Visual edit

23 August 2022

• 17:1617:16, 23 August 2022 diff hist 0 m 1994 Hong Kong electoral reform →Legislative voting: Amended typo: had stated that the Legislative Council (Electoral Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 1994 was passed on 30 June 1994, but instead was passed on 29 June 1994 (see LegCo bills database for confirmation: http://app.legco.gov.hk/Bills/English/billdetail.aspx?internalKey=03699%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&gazette=25/02/1994) Tag: Visual edit
• 17:0417:04, 23 August 2022 diff hist +299 m 1994 Hong Kong electoral reform →Background: Added citation to 'citation needed' regarding post-1989 concerns in Hong Kong. Tag: Visual edit

21 August 2022

• 15:3915:39, 21 August 2022 diff hist 0 m 1985 Hong Kong electoral reform →Green Paper: Corrected date from June 1984 to July 1984. Source: https://archive.org/details/greenpaperfurthe00hong Tag: Visual edit
• 15:1615:16, 21 August 2022 diff hist −13 m White Paper on District Administration in Hong Kong Corrected typo: in the White Paper section, "in Hong Kong" was duplicated in the title of the White Paper. Tag: Visual edit

18 June 2022

• 06:1906:19, 18 June 2022 diff hist +3 Suzanne Pepper First book in references linked to a page that was not the book (Mao Zedong) - potentially misleading. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

8 June 2022

• 06:1606:16, 8 June 2022 diff hist −89 Taiping Rebellion Edited the first sentence of the 'Origins' section. This section had said that "famine, natural disasters, economic problems and defeats at the hands of foreign powers" came to be known at China's "century of humiliations". This is misleading: only humiliations at the hands of foreign powers were/are part of the century of humiliations; famine, natural disasters and economic problems (where self-inflicted rather than caused by foreign agents/wars) are nothing to do with it. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

12 May 2022

• 14:4814:48, 12 May 2022 diff hist −71 Hong Kong Royal Instructions Removed 1922 Additional Instructions. The idea of a (10th January) 1922 amendment appears to come from a mistake in the publication 'Letters Patent & Royal Instructions to the Governor of Hong Kong' published by the (British) Colonial Office in 1946. No such set of amendments exists. Tag: Visual edit