User:Metaed

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MetaEd is a regular reader of Wikipedia who makes minor contributions once in a while in his areas of expertise. He has no particular plans for future editing activities.

= Contributions =

Science and technology, including ''Wikipedia'' itself

Film, literature, and music

Culture and politics

  • August – let the editors know about possible vandalism (which was reversed)
  • Caresse Crosby – corrected spelling error
  • Ciclovía – added upcoming United States event in Fort Worth, Texas
  • Duclod Man – fixed broken external links
  • Epicurus – added wikilink to Aponia
  • Eruv – flagged unsourced statement
  • Grinnell, Iowa – correct minor errors (spelling and formatting)
  • Hunting season – removed plagiarized claim not based on its source
  • Hutaree – on the basis of Wikipedia policy, argued against deleting the article; flagged unsourced additions
  • Malamanteau – wrote the recursively self-referential “polymetacriticism by MetaEd in metadiscussion section of a metapage which discusses a reference to a source for a metaneologism used to metareference a popular metasource” (see the Talk page archives)
  • Map of Bartholomew County, Indiana – let the artist know about a labeling error (which was fixed)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. – fix markup error
  • Middle English creole hypothesis – removed unsourced claim that agnew is synonymous to mutton
  • Muhammad in the Bible – corrected exact quotation of Genesis 49 to accurately match the quoted source (NASB)
  • Scouts' Day – removed section with no citations, self contradictory facts, and obscure meaning due to poor sentence construction
  • Talk:Phoneword – advised editors of a related page Numeronym
  • The Dozens – corrected markup
  • Western swing – corrected spelling error
  • Westphalian sovereignty – let the editors know about major errors in the article
  • Workweek and weekend – removed original research that wrongly concluded the standard Iran workday is 7.36, not 8, hours long

= User committed identity =

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= Notes =

  1. Sqornshellous, spelling of in the Hitchhiker's series confirmed at Google Books:

:: Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Random House Digital, Inc., 2007.

:: Adams, Douglas. “Life, The Universe and Everything”, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. Crown Publishing Group, 2005.

:: Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Random House Digital, Inc., 2007.

:: Adams, Douglas. Life, The Universe and Everything. Random House Digital, Inc., 2008.

:: Adams, Douglas. “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” and “Life, The Universe and Everything”, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Random House Digital, Inc., 2010.

: Confirmed in a personal copy:

:: Adams, Douglas. Life, The Universe and Everything. New York: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, 1983.

: The misspelling "Squornshellous" confirmed at Google Books only in one edition of the radio plays and in Eoin Colfer's sequel And Another Thing.