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Old 10th October 2014, 05:19 PM
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I am an evil Wikipedia editor.

Instead of cleaning something up, I was passively-aggressively snotty about it because it looks funny. See if you can spot it before they clean all of it up at Ellis Island. Hint: it's in the 2nd paragraph of the Geography and Access section.
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Old 10th October 2014, 05:23 PM
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Would be less obvious if you'd capitalize the first letter of your sentence.
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Old 10th October 2014, 05:24 PM
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Ha!
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Old 10th October 2014, 05:26 PM
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Would be less obvious if you'd capitalize the first letter of your sentence.
I didn't actually vandalize it. I added the "Citation Needed" tag. I was thinking of changing it to be capitalized it to make it less obvious the first time you read it, even though I didn't write it, but then I thought if I was assed enough to capitalize it, I should be assed enough to remove it totally, so I didn't.
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Old 10th October 2014, 06:11 PM
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The bridge was formed by a volcano? I would have thought someone would have remarked on that before now. That isn't generally how that works.
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Old 10th October 2014, 06:49 PM
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The bridge was formed by a volcano? I would have thought someone would have remarked on that before now. That isn't generally how that works.
Yeah, it's called the Volcano Narrows Bridge and it connects up with Staten Island.
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Old 10th October 2014, 07:06 PM
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I did not know that. I had only heard it referred to as The Guinea Gangplank.
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Old 10th October 2014, 09:50 PM
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It used to be the Volcano Viaduct but...you know...
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Old 30th October 2014, 05:17 PM
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Three guesses as to the movie reference I want to vandalize this page with.
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Old 30th October 2014, 06:03 PM
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I dunno, they must have corrected the Ellis Island page; I don't see anything wrong with the specified paragraph.
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Old 31st October 2014, 12:55 AM
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It used to read at the end: "it was formed in 1878 by a volcano."

I didn't remove that sentence. I changed it to "it was formed in 1878 by a volcano Citation Needed."
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Old 1st November 2014, 03:16 PM
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I dunno, they must have corrected the Ellis Island page; I don't see anything wrong with the specified paragraph.
Well, there are black-hat editors and white-hat editors.
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