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{{RfD|This... is interesting. I feel like many people may be slightly biased towards keeping this, in the sense that we are Wikipedia, so this event is a big deal for us. But I'm not sure it is in a broader sense. Maybe I'm reaching, but this feels like a case of WP:ONEEVENT, in that the subjects only claim to notability is doing one thing repeatedly. Perhaps the debate on what is technically grammatically correct is an important topic, however I'm not sure this user is.}}
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|birth_date= 1966
|birth_place= [[Olympia, Washington]], [[U.S.]]
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|residence = [[San Jose, California]], U.S.
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'''Bryan Henderson''' is an [[Americans|American]] [[Wikipedia editor]]. He is known for changing "[[wikt:comprised of|comprised of]]" on the [[English Wikipedia]]. On Wikipedia, his [[user name]] is "Giraffedata". In February 2015, his edits for changing "comprised of" became national news in the US. Most media coverage liked his edits as a "[[wikt:unique|unique]] effort for correctness",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/he-might-be-a-pedantic-oddity-but-wikipedias-grammar-crusader-is-my-modernday-hero-10026420.html|title=He might be a pedantic oddity, but Wikipedia's grammar crusader is my modern-day hero|author=Simon Kelner|authorlink=Simon Kelner|newspaper=The Independent|date=5 February 2015|accessdate=7 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://gizmodo.com/mans-wikipedia-edits-mostly-consist-of-deleting-compris-1683631156|title=Man's Wikipedia edits mostly consist of deleting 'comprised of'|author=Sean Buckley|publisher=Gizmodo|date=4 February 2015|accessdate=7 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-comprised-of-bryan-henderson-wikignome-2015-2|title=Wikipedia editor has made 47,000 edits manually to correct one simple mistake|author=Rob Price|publisher=Business Insider|date=4 February 2015|accessdate=7 February 2015
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://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]]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=https://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 continues to monitor new content for instances of "comprised of" and removes them, except when occurring within a quotation. As per Wikipedia logs, he has made over 47,000 edits to the English Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://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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