Metaed

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

• Aerosol – added a wikilink to Sol (colloid)
• Authoritarian personality – fix spelling/grammar error
• Ballistol – helped end a controversy among the editors about whether the mixture is petro-chemical based
• Card security code – added wikilink from "PAN" to the relevant article: Primary account number
• Dark Mailer – let the editors know about a typo I could not correct; flagged unsourced statement (page was subsequently deleted)
• Ecballium elaterium – flag link rot
• Fake blog – suggested a cross reference to Spam blog
• Fraction (mathematics) – reversed very low quality edit
• Fugitive glue – fixed dead link
• Glycolic acid – corrected density for the pure compound
• Google Dictionary – tagged dead link
• Hand sanitizer – removed a promotional, unsupported claim about Bactine; corrected typos
• Harmonized System – corrected spelling errors
• List of file formats – added BAC; added on to BAS; corrected entries to follow style guide MOS:DASH
• NFPA 704 – reversed vandalism
• PDP-11 – added GT42; corrected spelling error
• Pine-Sol – citation needed; formatting
• Puce – added citation
• Red flag warning – reversed vandalism
• Scribd – removed unverifiable claim
• Sodium hypochlorite – asked for clarification of the density given for sodium hypochlorite
• Sodium laureth sulfate – let the editors know about a mistake in the list of chemicals that go into it (which was fixed); warned about an unreliable source; corrected spelling and grammatical errors
• Sodium sesquicarbonate – grammar correction
• SQL – let the editors know about a factual error in the description of IS DISTINCT FROM (which was fixed)
• Syslog - clarified technical terms in discussion
• Talk:LiveJournal – let the editors know about a substantial error in a demographics chart (which was fixed)
• Time – helped research the history and attribution of the adage “time is what keeps everything from happening at once”
• User:Dranilpotti – nominated for speedy deletion as spam (page was subsequently deleted)
• Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) – reported a bug in SineBot, a Wikipedia editing automaton
• Windows file types – helped decide to merge into List of file formats

Film, literature, and music

• Angel Moroni – added missing citation

• Anita Barnard – created page
• Delfeayo Marsalis – added first name pronunciation
• Edwin Arlington Robinson – reversed vandalism
• Famous Players-Lasky – corrected grammatical error
• Home (2009 film) – removed unsourced statements about copyright and licensing status
• Hundred twenty-eighth note, Note value, Two hundred fifty-sixth note, Template:Musical note values, Sixty-fourth note, Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven), List of musical symbols, Musical note – flagged unsourced claims that the 128th note is known by the names "semihemidemisemiquaver" and "quasihemidemisemiquaver"; later, removed unsourced claims (also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Musical_notation)
• Limerick (poetry) – corrected grammatical error
• List of fictional books, List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters, List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Portal:Hitchhiker's/Planets and people, Sqornshellous, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as international phenomenon, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases, Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – corrected spelling of Sqornshellous, sometimes multiple times.¹ (also https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)
• List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters (only) – corrected spelling and grammatical errors; reversed vandalism
• Squornshellous – redirected to Sqornshellous
• Stage name – reversed vandalism
• Swash (typography) – add/improve references
• Bambi Woods – let the editors know about possible vandalism (which was reversed)
• User talk:ReconditeRodent – discussion with HHGG editor about Sqornshellous spelling
• You've Got a Friend – asked the editors to clarify which versions Joni Mitchell sings harmony on

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

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

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.