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Bryan Henderson
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|birth_date= 1966
|birth_place= [[Olympia, Washington]], [[U.S.]]
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/11394066/Pedants-of-the-world-we-salute-you.html|title=Pedants of the world, we salute you|author=Christopher Howse|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=5 February 2015|accessdate=7 February 2015}}</ref> while others [[critic
|critic]]ized]] it as being wrong.<ref>Mark Liberman, "[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17636 Can 50,000 Wikipedia edits be wrong?]", [[Language Log]], 8 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/05/why-wikipedias-grammar-vigilante-is-wrong
|title=Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong
|author=David Shariatmadari
|newspaper=The Guardian
|date=5 February 2015
|accessdate=5 February 2015
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.vox.com/2015/2/10/8013509/comprise-vs-compose
|title=This guy edited 50,000 Wikipedia articles to fix a grammar error that's not even an error
|author=Matthew Yglesias 
|authorlink=Matthew Yglesias
|newspaper=Vox
|date=10 February 2015
|accessdate=10 February 2015}}</ref> By August 2010, Henderson removed all &ndash; around 18,000 &ndash; occurrences of the term. He has since monitors any edits using "comprised of" and removes them. As per Wikipedia logs, he has made over 47,000 edits to the English Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/wikipedia-editor-has-made-some-47000-corrections-to-online-database-10024355.html|title=Wikipedia editor has made some 47,000 corrections to online database|newspaper=The Independent|date=4 February 2015|author=Adam Lusher}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-10508842caad|title=One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake|website=Medium|author=Andrew McMillen|date=3 February 2015}}

==Other websites==
*[[:en:User:Giraffedata/comprised_of|Bryan Henderson's personal page on English Wikipedia explaining the reasons and motivations for his work]]

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