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Reverted edits 3 (0.8%)
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Major edits · 197 (51.3%)
(Semi-)automated edits · 7 (1.8%)
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Reverted edits · 3 (0.8%)
Unreverted edits · 381 (99.2%)
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Diff · History -166 In media portrayals and popular culture: agree with previous comment that this political caricature, while it shows "burking", is likely to mislead
Diff · History 1 Murders: more appropriate tense for context
Diff · History -3 Undid revision 623613929 by 109.76.9.51 (talk) I appreciate point you're trying to make, but all contemp lit described them as Irish = from Ireland (geographical, not political)
Diff · History 0 In media portrayals and popular culture: reorganising position of two entries
Diff · History 0 In media portrayals and popular culture: another move for same reason (see last edit)
Diff · History 0 In media portrayals and popular culture: moving entry to maintain chronology after addition from last edit
Diff · History 10 Historical background: added adjective
Diff · History 6 Historical background: grammar tweak
Diff · History 1 Aftermath: slight rewording
Diff · History 4 Further reading: ditto
Diff · History 1 Further reading: small corrections
Diff · History -1 Further reading: removing linespace
Diff · History -12 Summary of victims: occupation unproven; assumed at the time; she was an inmate of the Magdalene Asylum in the Canongate
Diff · History 17 Aftermath: small add to coffins para
Diff · History 24 Aftermath: coffins info add
Diff · History 187 Aftermath: adding coffins reference
Diff · History 78 Summary of victims: adding info to list of victims
Diff · History -2 Trial and execution: removing two commas
Diff · History -5 Trial and execution: style tweak
Diff · History -2 Trial and execution: placing citation after punctuation
Diff · History -1 Trial and execution: noun to pronoun
Diff · History -1 Trial and execution: some reequencing
Diff · History 49 Trial and execution: more precise location and link
Diff · History 12 Trial and execution: more precise link to phrenologists
Diff · History -82 Trial and execution: tidying up passage; removing Brogan as his involvement has not been explained
Diff · History 36 Trial and execution: adding link to Edinburgh Phrenological Society
Diff · History -6 Trial and execution: grammar tweak
Diff · History 51 Murders: adding info for clarity
Diff · History -3 Murders: one word changed for improvement
Diff · History -7 Murders: stylistic rephrasing
Diff · History -4 Murders: small tense change
Diff · History -4 updating information
Diff · History -29 In media portrayals and popular culture: removing outdated location info in caption
Diff · History 0 In media portrayals and popular culture: slight repositioning of image
Diff · History -156 Trial and execution: removing image as per reason given in previous edit - not as good a photo of calling card itself
Diff · History -19 Trial and execution: name to pronoun
Diff · History 9 retaining point but rephrasing; the suggestion is Roughead's (cited) and may not be shared by others
Diff · History 1 In media portrayals and popular culture: missing character space
Diff · History 10 In media portrayals and popular culture: inserting date for Stevenson story
Diff · History 0 In media portrayals and popular culture: moving Stevenson story info into chronological position
Diff · History -1 In media portrayals and popular culture: preposition tweaked
Diff · History 464 In media portrayals and popular culture: 1948 film is a valuable addition to article, but not sure why the Stevenson story info has to be deleted; so reinstating
Diff · History 26 Trial and execution: resequencing (splitting sentences) and resequencing; is Piercy a typo for Percy?
Diff · History 1 Trial and execution: missing character space after footnote
Diff · History 2 Summary of victims: longer hyphen within bracket
Diff · History -10 Undid revision 557824466 by 24.99.11.170 (talk) can't understand reason for this change; no need for bold type; out of keeping with normal page style
Diff · History -10 some reorganisation of apparatus (Howard was left in isolation after major revision of page; now incorporated into Further Reading list)
Diff · History -3 Undid revision 553862599 by 74.83.72.154 (talk) undoing bunching up of images; skeleton suits "bogey man" aspect of poem
Diff · History 0 Aftermath: correcting error in image caption
Diff · History 7 In media portrayals and popular culture: moving new info to position in chronological sequence
Diff · History 2 Undid revision 543654318 by 78.150.24.139 (talk) undoing: best to retain original spellings, otherwise quotation is inconsistent
Diff · History -2 Summary of victims: minor style tweak
Diff · History 0 Summary of victims: position of bracket
Diff · History 0 Summary of victims: punctuation tweak
Diff · History 32 Summary of victims: adding sentence re no. of female victims
Diff · History 2 Summary of victims: replacing short with long hyphen
Diff · History -46 Undid revision 542618214 by 2.102.87.148 (talk) undoing as incorrect note added (see list of victims)
Diff · History 1 Historical background: adding brackets
Diff · History 53 Historical background: amending image caption (other side of this building remains unchanged)
Diff · History -8 Burke and Hare: improved wording
Diff · History -2 correct expression
Diff · History -6 Undid revision 535526951 by 109.149.196.52 (talk) Can't see reason for this change. Scotland had its own separate legal jurisdiction; Burke was hanged under a verdict in Scots law.
Diff · History 14 Burke and Hare: tweak for accuracy
Diff · History 81 adding new image and reposition existing images, plus one caption amended
Diff · History -1 Aftermath: removing comma
Diff · History -7 trying to reformat last edit - finding I am unable to do this correctly and hope it will be picked by a bot
Diff · History 273 Anatomy Act 1832: adding info
Diff · History 1,304 Trial and execution: reference note on death sentence
Diff · History 5 Murders: minor tweak
Diff · History 18 adding date of Courant in footnote
Diff · History 0 Murders: punctuation typo
Diff · History 553 Murders: adding info on Burke's state of mind
Diff · History 8 reverting previous edit; double-checked - Burke states "son or grandson" (Roughead changed to just 'grandson')
Diff · History -28 Murders: removing possessions (hare took a brass snuff box and Burke took a spoon)
Diff · History 249 Murders: adding info
Diff · History -6 original article stated son or grandson; Roughhead and Burke confession state 'grandson', so making appropriate changes
Diff · History -6 Murders: tweak (she may have been boy's mother)
Diff · History 53 Murders: change for clearer explanation
Diff · History 9,521 replacing article section inadvertently lost after recent edit
Diff · History -28 another change; date of Jospeh the miller's death unknown, probably January 1828 at earliest
Diff · History -9,490 amending because period of murders starts in Feb, not in Nov 1827 when first body sold
Diff · History 14 External links: tweaking title of link to reflect content
Diff · History 15 link for felo de se explanation in reference note
Diff · History 24 fine-tuning of reference note
Diff · History -1 Historical background: reverting to Britain, as developments both and south of border seem to have run parallel (see external link on Anatomy Act)
Diff · History 157 External links: adding external link
Diff · History 0 transferring Scotland link top intro para
Diff · History -11 Historical background: Scotland and England had separate laws, university rules and medical education, ergo use of “British” is inaccurate
Diff · History -11 removing until further check, as later text states they were married
Diff · History 4 Aftermath: link to naggin explanation
Diff · History -1 Aftermath: rogue character space deleted
Diff · History 23 Aftermath: caption add to make more sense - KS Road lies directly behind the Castle
Diff · History 0 Aftermath: correcting silly name error in caption
Diff · History 0 Aftermath: slight repositioning of image
Diff · History 29 Aftermath: amending image caption
Diff · History 236 Aftermath: adding image
Diff · History 0 repositioning image for improved layout
Diff · History 92 Aftermath: adding image
Diff · History -3 Aftermath: avoiding repeated number
Diff · History 471 Aftermath: adding Arthur's Seat coffins
Diff · History -4 Murders: further tweak re last edit (to avoid a later repeat of phrase)
Diff · History -5 Murders: rephrasing: can't use 'next' when order of victims is not known precisely
Diff · History 0 Summary of victims: correcting bracketed item in list - amount unknown
Diff · History 95 External links: addng item
Diff · History -4 Murders: tweaking link
Diff · History 24 Murders: amending link
Diff · History -53 Murders: supplying direct link to lectures bill rather than reference
Diff · History 21 Historical background: change for greater accuracy
Diff · History 5 Historical background: syntax
Diff · History -3 Historical background: grammar tweak
Diff · History 15 Historical background: some more fine-tuning for readability
Diff · History 18 Historical background: some more rewording on paragraph
Diff · History 1 Historical background: fine-tuning
Diff · History 4 Historical background: comma removed
Diff · History 78 Historical background: trying to resequence paragraph more effectively
Diff · History -13 Historical background: joining sentences to avoid feel of repeated idea in paragraph
Diff · History -19 change for accuracy; accused of murder, not the sales
Diff · History 11 Summary of victims: grammar tweak
Diff · History -1 Murders: grammar style tweak
Diff · History -13 Summary of victims: word removed
Diff · History 0 Summary of victims: moving asterisk
Diff · History 6 Summary of victims: another rewording to improve style
Diff · History -2 Summary of victims: grammar style
Diff · History 3 Summary of victims: some rewording - style
Diff · History -9 Summary of victims: fine-tuning
Diff · History -1 Summary of victims: change from Courant to trial transcript spelling
Diff · History 35 Summary of victims: amending list (Donald was not a murder victim - found the missing person)
Diff · History 28 Summary of victims: amending list after double-check of B's confessions
Diff · History -1 Aftermath: word substitution
Diff · History 56 Murders: adding to caption image
Diff · History 2 Murders: delicate rephrasing
Diff · History 47 Trial and execution: adding W.S. link
Diff · History -3 Trial and execution: image caption grammar tweak
Diff · History 2 Aftermath: tweak (same mob)
Diff · History 1 reverting (this is the name in the trial transcript)
Diff · History 1 External links: correcting external link title
Diff · History 4 Aftermath: Loughbrickland link
Diff · History 3 Aftermath: missing preposition
Diff · History -9 changing name for consistency (I believe Campbell was her alternative surname, not a middle name, but will check
Diff · History 9 Aftermath: another image caption tweak
Diff · History -6 Aftermath: image caption shortened
Diff · History -2 Aftermath: word removed
Diff · History -1 Aftermath: minor grammar tweak
Diff · History -9 Anatomy Act 1832: phrase tweak
Diff · History 1 Aftermath: preposition change
Diff · History 6 Murders: minor rephrasing
Diff · History -3 removing some isolated rogue quotation mark typos
Diff · History -14 Murders: tweak (repetition of phrase in intro)
Diff · History -5 Murders: style tweak
Diff · History -18 Burke and Hare: reverting (as unnecessary)
Diff · History 18 (reverted)  Burke and Hare: putting name in image caption to introduce it before mention in following paragraph
Diff · History 12 small add 'beggars'
Diff · History -19 syntax changes to eliminate repetition
Diff · History -15 Burke and Hare: removing excessive detail
Diff · History -4 Burke and Hare: some changes re dates
Diff · History 85 Aftermath: adding info to image caption
Diff · History 13 Trial and execution: changing image caption
Diff · History 7 Trial and execution: reverting: apparently death mask
Diff · History -7 (reverted)  Trial and execution: checking whether death mask ever made (after hanging?); mask probably made by phrenologist Geroge Combe
Diff · History -4 Trial and execution: style tweaks
Diff · History 0 Trial and execution: syntax
Diff · History -4 Trial and execution: reverting a word
Diff · History 8 Trial and execution: inserting to make more sense of sentence
Diff · History 1 Aftermath: small typo
Diff · History 64 Mrs Hare spotted on the Bridges
Diff · History 63 Aftermath: effigy info
Diff · History 13 changing Knox's escape for accuracy
Diff · History 3 Aftermath: syntax
Diff · History 23 Aftermath: some rewording
Diff · History 7 Detection: tweak
Diff · History -3 Historical background: style tweak
Diff · History -9 further tweak of last edit
Diff · History 16 another tweak for 'burking'
Diff · History -7 style changes for 'burking'
Diff · History 3 adding date in intro
Diff · History 233 adding note on Jamie's clothing
Diff · History -3 some rewording
Diff · History 0 Burke and Hare: resizing image
Diff · History 94 Murders: fixing typo and adding location note
Diff · History 0 Trial and execution: initial capital
Diff · History 0 Aftermath: tense change
Diff · History 1 Aftermath: further tweak
Diff · History -5 Aftermath: caption tweak
Diff · History 169 Aftermath: sizing image
Diff · History 21 Aftermath: Carlisle link
Diff · History -5 Aftermath: tweak
Diff · History 11 Aftermath: minor rewording
Diff · History 116 reference added plus some rewording
Diff · History 201 Summary of victims: adding sentence for which reference will be supplied soon
Diff · History 0 Summary of victims: changing question mark in list because of course no money was collected on her
Diff · History 81 Summary of victims: details added to list
Diff · History 0 Trial and execution: syntax
Diff · History 0 Murders: tweaking image size
Diff · History -18 Murders: shortening image caption
Diff · History 0 Murders: reducing image size
Diff · History 117 Murders: adding image (if person who previously changed Jamie's image to 'restored colours' cares to do the same to these three, all good and well
Diff · History 248 Murders: small note re numbers of students
Diff · History 0 Trial and execution: tweak
Diff · History -5 Trial and execution: tweak
Diff · History 71 Trial and execution: Old College riot
Diff · History 8 newspaper name
Diff · History 221 Trial and execution: cost to spectators
Diff · History 112 In media portrayals and popular culture: adding image
Diff · History -5 Murders: tweak
Diff · History 39 amending display of reference
Diff · History 56 Murders: referencing bill held on Commons
Diff · History -4 Murders: slight rewording
Diff · History 9 Murders: character space and tweak
Diff · History -1 Trial and execution: fixing display error last edit
Diff · History -1 Trial and execution: removing date from image caption (now given in main text)
Diff · History -6 Summary of victims: tweak
Diff · History 307 Summary of victims: adding info on locations
Diff · History -11 Trial and execution: grammar tweak
Diff · History 31 Summary of victims: grammar tweak
Diff · History 195 info re Knox lectures
Diff · History -28 amending intro and placing Medical School link later
Diff · History 1 Trial and execution: small typo
Diff · History 25 quote format
Diff · History 675 Summary of victims: adding Scott's comment
Diff · History 50 Trial and execution: adding links
Diff · History 0 Trial and execution: lowering gallows image
Diff · History 67 Trial and execution: amending image caption
Diff · History 268 moving execution image to new position after adding text and adding Hares at trial image
Diff · History 743 Trial and execution: dissection lecture info plus lowering image
Diff · History 1,674 Trial and execution: Lord Justice-Clerk quote
Diff · History 945 Trial and execution: courtroom scene
Diff · History 17 Trial and execution: tweak
Diff · History 445 Trial and execution: adding info on Wilson petititon
Diff · History 1 Trial and execution: punctuation and typo
Diff · History 27 Trial and execution: adding some more explanation
Diff · History 151 Trial and execution: more explanation
Diff · History 56 Trial and execution: more info re perceptions
Diff · History 146 Trial and execution: add re Docherty likelihood of conviction
Diff · History 85 rewording section
Diff · History -10 In media portrayals and popular culture: some minor style tweaks
Diff · History -2 In media portrayals and popular culture: one of several
Diff · History 12 Summary of victims: Haldane descriptor
Diff · History 4 Aftermath: Dumfries link
Diff · History -7 Aftermath: rephrasing
Diff · History 327 Anatomy Act 1832: explanation added
Diff · History 61 Aftermath: some rewording
Diff · History -7 Aftermath: some rewording of Hare paragraph
Diff · History 28 Summary of victims: some tweaks to list descriptions (temporary)
Diff · History 1,248 Aftermath: Hare's story
Diff · History 1 Aftermath: some rewording
Diff · History 244 Aftermath: references for last two edits
Diff · History 466 Aftermath: Mrs Hare's story
Diff · History 608 McDougal's story
Diff · History 0 Detection: repositioning execution image
Diff · History 25 Summary of victims: adding phrase to make sense of sequencing
Diff · History 0 Having to change position of list because of narrative (Hare confessing has to come before Burke's confessions)
Diff · History 1 Summary of victims: character space
Diff · History -4 spelling change: Patterson to Paterson
Diff · History -7 Summary of victims: some rewording
Diff · History 0 changing number of victims in infobox to agree with main text (16 is definitely correct) and repositioning image to improve layout after last edit
Diff · History 910 inserting list of victims
Diff · History 18 Murders: style change
Diff · History 27 Murders: adding info
Diff · History 121 improving description on "bigger" woman
Diff · History 7 change to eliminate ambiguity
Diff · History -22 Murders: simplifying and streamlining
Diff · History 445 Murders: adding more info and correcting name spelling to Hostler
Diff · History -5 Murders: correcting name as per that given in Wm Roughead, Burke and Hare, Notable British Trials
Diff · History 23 change for accuracy
Diff · History 0 Undid revision 530342156 by Kim Traynor (talk) reverting in light of exact date given later in article
Diff · History 0 (reverted)  Burke's confession places first death at "about Christmas"
Diff · History 125 Murders: sourced date for Burkes' arrival
Diff · History 14 changing for increased accuracy
Diff · History 26 factual correction
Diff · History 160 adding image and repositioning existing
Diff · History 165 expanding note (left out because of strange use of 'opposed', but without this, it sounds as if he's saying it is pure superstition to oppose dissection)
Diff · History -11 removing superfluous word
Diff · History 1 Aftermath: tweak of last edit
Diff · History 64 Aftermath: adding bracketed explanation
Diff · History -4 Murders: tweaking last edit
Diff · History 336 Murders: adding info re element of chance and to make it clearer that Knox never dealt directly with them
Diff · History 3 Detection: style change (a prosecution would have likely returned the verdict "not proven")
Diff · History -1 In media portrayals and popular culture: amending rhyme (as this version seems more common and is the one printed by Roughead who had studied all the popular broadsheets etc.)
Diff · History 87 providing webpage title for reference on last edit
Diff · History 3 replacing last posted reference with one which gives more detail on Knox (unsure how to correct error formatting)
Diff · History -2 correcting last edit format
Diff · History 14 Aftermath: reference
Diff · History 47 Aftermath: reverting name but keeping same link
Diff · History 58 Aftermath: amending to historic hospital names as per Robert Knox page;
Diff · History -27 Murders: cutting part of sentence because of last edit
Diff · History 32 Murders: rewording to split long sentence
Diff · History 4 some rewording
Diff · History 50 minor formatting (Roughhead)
Diff · History 13 Murders: further rewording of last edit
Diff · History 11 Murders: tweaking last edit
Diff · History 43 Murders: rewording last edit
Diff · History 72 Murders: more Knox info
Diff · History -3 Aftermath: typo
Diff · History -271 Aftermath: removing part-duplicated info
Diff · History 625 Aftermath: Knox info
Diff · History -10 Detection: minor changesand resequencing to clean up paragraph
Diff · History 53 Detection: rewording for greater clarity of context
Diff · History -6 Detection: one style change and one change for accurate name of museum
Diff · History 6 Burke and Hare: better still (see last edit)
Diff · History 0 Burke and Hare: more appropriate preposition after last edit
Diff · History -4 Burke and Hare: amending link because of repeated 'the'
Diff · History 53 Burke and Hare: stylistic rephrasing
Diff · History -37 Detection: rewording after posting image (caption explains where life casts are to be seen)
Diff · History 148 Detection: adding image and repositioning existing
Diff · History 40 Detection: changes for accuracy
Diff · History -9 Detection: changes for accuracy
Diff · History 5 Detection: new paragraph split
Diff · History -2 Detection: joining sentences into a paragraph
Diff · History 1 Detection: improved explanation
Diff · History -4 Detection: tweak
Diff · History -1 Detection: minor typo
Diff · History 12 Detection: punctuation tweaks
Diff · History 865 Detection: including Christopher North sketches
Diff · History 0 Murders: movie Jamie back
Diff · History 303 Murders: adding more info and moving Jamie image
Diff · History 1 Detection: some style tweaks; one for accuracy
Diff · History 64 Murders: additional info
Diff · History 37 Murders: additional phrase
Diff · History 227 Murders: more detail
Diff · History -1 Murders: removing an additional character space
Diff · History 19 Murders: tweak for increased accuracy
Diff · History -14 Murders: removing date (as no consistency with other murders for which dates not given)
Diff · History 49 Murders: adding a phrase
Diff · History -25 Murders: removing £8 reference, as another source quotes porter as saying £10, hence confusion
Diff · History 73 Murders: more dtail on Mary P
Diff · History 13 adding vagrants, but no WP link for explanation
Diff · History 234 Murders: adding info
Diff · History 14 Murders: supplying date
Diff · History 274 Murders: adding detail
Diff · History 45 Murders: rephrasing
Diff · History 3 Murders: tweak for accuracy
Diff · History 0 In media portrayals and popular culture: enlarging image
Diff · History -729 Murders: removing apparently duplicated passage
Diff · History 19 Murders: rewording for accuracy
Diff · History -1 small typo fixed
Diff · History 133 Murders: amending and referencing Peggy Haldane mention
Diff · History 23 Murders: rewording and supplying citation
Diff · History 806 supplying reference
Diff · History 1 In media portrayals and popular culture: British spelling as per request at head of article
Diff · History 0 In media portrayals and popular culture: amending comment, obviously taken from a populist tourist publication, not to be taken seriously
Diff · History -88 Murders: This change gets round the dubious date problem
Diff · History 11 insert: Hares not married
Diff · History -44 Aftermath: there's no evidence for this statement, hence removing
Diff · History -276 Splitting Newry Telegraph source in two and placing appropriately; removing material e.g. last sighting in Carlisle (uncited) which it clearly contradicts
Diff · History 380 Historical background: adding reference to existing text
Diff · History 695 Historical background: rewriting for accuracy (see ref footnote for reason for change
Diff · History 19 another rewording
Diff · History 19 rewording to improve
Diff · History 5 amending (modern U.S. definition may be useful, thus retaining link, but label is essentially anachronistic)
Diff · History -8 deleting rogue 'the' and change for accuracy ('included' suggests there were others, but no others charged)
Diff · History 15 repeating B&H names after pronoun separated from subjects after last edit
Diff · History 5 tweak for accuracy
Diff · History 27 greater accuracy
Diff · History 8 rewording to split over-long sentence
Diff · History 52 this is a more accurate description of the prevailing relationships at the time
Diff · History -515 External links: Removing three defunct external links
Diff · History 24 changing from 'College' to customary name: Edinburgh Medical School
Diff · History 3 Detection: better wording
Diff · History 56 Detection: supplying phrase of the time
Diff · History -1 Murders: Corner? Unfamiliar from the literature; please revert if known from a source, but confusing coming right after Tanner's Close
Diff · History 115 Burke and Hare: providing new intro to source (to put in time context)
Diff · History -1 Burke and Hare: preposition change
Diff · History -34 Historical background: changed because English law has nothing to do with Scotland; reason for reduction usually put down to juries unwilling to convict if minor offence meant capital punishment
Diff · History 17 'West Port Murders' isn't really a nickname; also 16 is the normal figure given for the number of murders
Diff · History -3 tweaking last edit for consistency (is this section necessary? Why is it not just part of the Aftermath section?)
Diff · History -3 Political consequences: changing section title ( from political??? consequences)
Diff · History 364 Just happened to spot major gap had appeared on page - result of vandalism? Restoring lost section title and image.
Diff · History 1 Murders: two minor rewordings
Diff · History 33 Murders: altering again as per info in Notable British Trials (1921); I believe the replaced gruesome detail is in Own Dudle Edwards' book on the duo
Diff · History 1 Murders: knee to knees (I'll try to follow up soon with reference to trial transcript)
Diff · History 39 Murders: no point in sparing people the full horror of what this pair perpetrated
Diff · History -1 Detection: repositioning image for improved page layout
Diff · History 46 Murders: adding image
Diff · History 0 minor correction
Diff · History 2 correcting error on last edit
Diff · History -8 the words normally quoted for the rhyme
Diff · History 0 resizing image
Diff · History -4 change to British English (checked jump-rope page first and seems interchangeable)
Diff · History 82 adding image
Diff · History 84 adding photo
Diff · History 0 Murders:
Diff · History 35 Murders:
Diff · History -1 Murders:
Diff · History 47 Detection:
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