Wikipedia:Comprised of

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This page aggregates links about the use of the phrase "comprised of" on Wikipedia.

• "Comprised of", essay explaining the purpose of the project to delete "comprised of" from Wikipedia.
• Giraffedata talk page
• Bot generated list of instances of "comprised of"

• Comprised of, a mainspace article
• User:Wavelength/About English/Verbs "compose" and "comprise" and "consist" and "constitute"

• McMillen, Andrew (February 3, 2015). "One Man's Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake". Medium: Backchannel.
• Discussion of "One Man's Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake". February 3, 2015, 1:02 PM. Slashdot.
• Brown, Molly (February 3, 2015, 11:13 AM). "Meet the man ridding Wikipedia of 'comprised of,' one edit at a time". GeekWire.
• Smith, Ernie (February 3, 2015). "Tuesday Buzz: Meet a Micro-Volunteering All-Star". Associations Now.
• Alyssa Bereznak (February 4, 2015). "A Wikipedia Editor Has Spent Years Removing 47,000 Incorrect Uses of 'Comprised Of'", Yahoo! News.
• Discussion of "One Man's Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake". February 4, 2015. Hacker News.
• Buckley, Sean (February 4, 2015, 7:00 AM). "Man's Wikipedia Edits Mostly Consist Of Deleting 'Comprised Of'". Gizmodo.
• Price, Rob (February 4, 2015, 8:24 AM). "A Wikipedia editor has made 47,000 edits manually to correct one simple mistake". Business Insider.
• Doctorow, Cory (February 4, 2015, 12:00 PM). "Wikipedian corrects 15,000+ instances of 'comprised of'". Boing Boing.
• Price, Rob (February 4, 2015, 6:54 PM). "A Wikipedia editor has made 47,000 edits manually to correct one simple grammar error". Business Insider India.
• Solon, Olivia (February 4, 2015, 6:36 PM) "Man makes 47,000 Wikipedia edits to fix the same grammatical mistake". The Daily Mirror.
• Gastaldo, Evann (February 4, 2015 2:47 PM CST). "Guy's Mission: Erase Single Error From Wikipedia" Newser.
• Ryssdal, Kai (February 4, 2015, 4:07 PM). "One man's mission to get 'comprised of' off Wikipedia". Marketplace.
• Kinney, Chance·(February 4, 2015). "One Guy Is Not Happy That Wikipedia is Comprised Of Errors". Chip Chick.
• Lusher, Adam (February 4, 2015). "Wikipedia editor has made some 47,000 corrections to online database". The Independent.
• Cuddihy, Tony (February 4, 2015). "The world's most pedantic man has made 47,000 Wikipedia edits to date". JOE.ie.
• Rickman, Dina. (February 4, 2015). "This man is on a Wikipedia mission to eradicate one phrase". i100.
• Bereznak, Alyssa (February 4, 2015). "A Wikipedia Editor Has Spent Years Removing 47,000 Incorrect Uses of 'Comprised of'". Yahoo Tech.
• Discussion of "One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake". February 5, 2015. Reddit.
• McMillen, Andrew (February 5, 2015). "Grammar zealot Bryan Henderson declares war on phrase 'comprised of'". The Sydney Morning Herald.
• McMillen, Andrew (February 5, 2015, 4:13 PM). "Grammar zealot Bryan Henderson declares war on phrase 'comprised of'". Brisbane Times.
• Jackman, David (February 5, 2015, 1:10:41). "This man is on a Wikipedia mission to eradicate one phrase". Full-Time Whistle.
• Cornejo, Juan Paulino (February, 5, 2015, 4:16 AM). "Wikipedia Editor Giraffedata Has Corrected 47,000 Instances Of Phrase 'Comprised Of'". Design & Trend.
• "Man Sets Out To Fix Every Single Instance of Mistake on Wikipedia". February 5, 2015, 6:41 AM UTC +3. Sputnik International.
• Waugh, Rob (February 5, 2015). "Wikipedia pedant has corrected 47,000 of the same tiny grammar mistake". Yahoo News UK.
• Shariatmadari, David (February 5, 2015 7:28 EST). "Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong". The Guardian.
• Charlton, Corey (February 5, 2015, 12:11 PM EST). "Editor extraordinaire: Obsessive software engineer has corrected the same grammar mistake an astonishing 47,000 times on Wikipedia". Daily Mail.
• Molloy, Mark (February 5, 2015, 1:31 PM GMT). "Grammar crusader spends years removing repeated error 47,000 times on Wikipedia". The Telegraph.
• Readhead, Harry (February 5, 2015 3:56 PM). "Meet the Wikipedia pedant who has made 47,000 corrections" Metro.
• Casey, Ruairi (February 5, 2015, 5:07 PM). "Man spends years correcting same grammatical error 47,000 times on Wikipedia" Newstalk.
• Howse, Christopher (February 5, 2015, 8:05 PM GMT). "Pedants of the world, we salute you". The Telegraph.
• "Bryan Henderson a Wikipedia editor makes 47,000 grammatical edits to phrase "comprise of" manually" February 5, 2015. Customs Today.
• Kelner, Simon (February 5, 2015). "He might be a pedantic oddity, but Wikipedia's grammar crusader is my modern-day hero". The Independent.
• "Le justicier grammatical de Wikipédia". February 5, 2015. Le Monde.
• Lusher, Adam (February 6, 2015, 5:42 AM). "Wikipedia editor hates 'comprised of', makes 47,000 edits". Sunshine Coast Daily.
• Samuels, Diana (February 6, 2015, 10:44 AM). "Man spends his spare time fixing one grammatical mistake on Wikipedia: Would you?". The Times-Picayune.
• James, Maddie (February 6, 2015). "Grammar Obsessive Makes 47,000 Edits To Change Incorrect Phrase On Wikipedia; Turns Out He May Have Been Wrong". Junkie.
• Lenbang, Jerry (February 6, 2015). "Meet The Grammarian Who Spent Years Correcting Over 47,000 Repeated Errors On Wikipedia". 360 News.
• Shariatmadari, David (February 5, 2015). "Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong". The Guardian.