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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

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Science and technology, including Wikipedia itself

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Film, literature, and music

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Culture and politics

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  • 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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Committed identity: 28ec9f80140e62f9aa8c8644cf30122b110f0e925c4f816289b4c4c991c5ccaa361e906fbca1d8f9a828d42dabb32f68523bc9e05981775d7dc636383e83fdf3 is an SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

Notes

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  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.