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I still get a good feeling going to the Wikipedia page for smallpox and seeing the first two words of the entry: "Smallpox was"
by da_chicken 8y ago
I still get a good feeling going to the Wikipedia page for smallpox and seeing the first two words of the entry:
"Smallpox was"
- nkoren 8y agoDon't mean to brag, but making this edit to Wikipedia felt damn good: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rinderpest&type=revision&diff=431414310&oldid=430846052 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rinderpest&type=r...
- 3pt14159 8y agoI love knowing that I was the person to create the first Wikipedia article on resilience. I didn't have an account at the time, but the IP address is there forever. It's since been disambiguated, which makes it look only 10 years old, but the first edit was me and it was in the material science sense of the word, though now I like to think it says something more generally about me, even if I know that that type of magical thinking is hogwash. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resilience_(materials_science)&oldid=8321705 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resilience_(mater...
- sgustard 8y agoThere's a whole "Is vs Was" discussion on the Talk page, for anyone tempted to re-litigate the matter. I'll just point out that other extinct items are often worded like "The dodo is an extinct bird..." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Smallpox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Smallpox [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
- hinkley 8y agoCheck your sentence diagram. The extinctness of the dodo is present tense. Therefore, it is an extinct bird. The dodo was a ground nesting bird that inhabited the island of Mauritius. But it's still extinct.