One Man Corrected A Grammatical Error On Wikipedia 47,000 Times — buzzfeed.com

Many people do not accept “comprised of” as a valid English phrase for any meaning. The argument goes that “to comprise” means to include, as in “The 9th district comprises all of Centerville and parts of Easton and Weston.” And thus, “the 9th district is comprised of …” is gibberish. By 2010 only 150 remained, in quotation marks. But a further 70 appeared every week, so at that point Henderson “entered a mode of editing the new occurrences as they were introduced”, he writes.

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