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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.
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Science and technology, including Wikipedia itself
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
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)
Workweek and weekend – removed original research that wrongly concluded the standard Iran workday is 7.36, not 8, hours long
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Committed identity: 28ec9f80140e62f9aa8c8644cf30122b110f0e925c4f816289b4c4c991c5ccaa361e906fbca1d8f9a828d42dabb32f68523bc9e05981775d7dc636383e83fdf3 is an
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Notes Information
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.
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This is a Wikipediauser page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a
mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User: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 Information
Science and technology, including Wikipedia itself
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
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)
Workweek and weekend – removed original research that wrongly concluded the standard Iran workday is 7.36, not 8, hours long
User committed identity Information
Committed identity: 28ec9f80140e62f9aa8c8644cf30122b110f0e925c4f816289b4c4c991c5ccaa361e906fbca1d8f9a828d42dabb32f68523bc9e05981775d7dc636383e83fdf3 is an
SHA-512commitment to this user's real-life identity.
Notes Information
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.