Bryan (51) has directed the same Wikipedia errors 47,000 times – TV 2

California man Bryan Henderson (51) fights a one-man war against something special.

Since December 2007 he has directed the same error in Wikipedia entire 47,000 times . It reports The Guardian.

Data engineer, who calls himself Giraffedata online and which is called “Wikpedias superstar” of Medium, is very concerned that the term “comprised of”, meaning “posed of “being used properly.

– He is the most steadfast and annoying man online, writes The Independent.

While most who edit Wikipedia articles editing factual, Henderson very concerned only one expression.

He has corrected “comprised of” errors so many times, that he is on the list of Wikipedia’s 1000 most avid editors.

List of writing rules

To make sure everything goes correctly, the 51-year-old made a special computer program that alerts him when it pops up misuse “comprised of” on Wikipedia.

So much tired he is of misuse of the term, that he has created a special page on Wikipedia called “The correctness problem “to explain the common user how to use it properly:

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PROBLEM SOLVER: Bryan has created list of wrong use of the term “comprised of”. Photo: From Wikipedia

Sunday funday?

Every Sunday evening he runs the homemade program that asks Wikipedia servers on pages that contain “comprised of”. Then run the program through any encoding on these pages, so to be aligned with the content he has directed over the past half year.

Finally he gets up a list of Wikipedia pages that contain incorrect use of “comprised of” so that he can rectify what he thinks is serious mistakes. He says he gets an average up between 70 and 80 pages which he must fix.

Faced Yahoo! he says that he spends around 10 seconds to fix spelling errors. Sometimes he uses minutes.

Facing a Wikipedia user who recently asked if he have nothing better to do than to correct such errors, he answered this:

– I have a full time job and a lot of other hobbies.