User:Chuck Carroll

Joined Wikipedia on June 2, 2005, after making several anonymous edits over the prior year.

Formal education

B.S. Chemistry, University of Illinois, 1993
B.S. Biochemistry, University of Illinois, 1993
M.A. Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin, 1998

Memberships

Morphy Number

My Morphy number is (at most) 6, by virtue of a game I played in an online simul against Alexandra Kosteniuk. She has played at least once against Anatoly Karpov, who has a Morphy Number of (at most) 4.

Collection of long-lived misinformation in Wikipedia

While I find much of value in Wikipedia, I remain skeptical that errors are usually quickly caught, as alleged in Wikipedia:Replies to common objections. As a demonstration, I am cataloging misinformation which persists for a lengthy time (say, 30 days or more) in Wikipedia. If you have additions, please mention them on my talk page. However, I am excluding misinformation which was deliberately added as misinformation (possibly, but not necessarily, to test how quickly it's discovered) as that is contrary to the spirit of Wikipedia, unethical, and I will not encourage it.

Article	Misinformation	Entered	Correction	Corrected	Days	Ref.
Bible	Catholic Bible has 76 books	December 27, 2001 [1]	Catholic Bible has 73 books	January 3, 2005 [2]	1103	[3]
Chrome yellow	Lead chromate is PbO₄	May 16, 2005 [4]	Lead chromate is PbCrO₄	July 14, 2005 [5]	59	[6]
Nobel Prize	When awarded to multiple winners, prize money is split evenly	March 2, 2005 [7]	When awarded to three winners, prize may be split 50/25/25	October 12, 2005 [8]	224	[9]
Palindromic number	If stripping the first and last digit of a number leaves a palindromic number, the original number is palindromic	July 14, 2005 [10]	Only if the first and last digits are equal	October 14, 2005 [11]	92	Other defs in Palindromic number
Plutonium	Ions in aqueous solution are Pu³⁺, Pu⁴⁺, PuO²⁺, and PuO⁺.	March 9, 2004 [12]	Pu³⁺, Pu⁴⁺, PuO₂²⁺, and PuO₂⁺	February 15, 2006 [13]	708	[14]
Howard Martin Temin	Reverse transcriptase important to PCR	June 1, 2005 [15]	Only in RT-PCR; not used in ordinary PCR	October 11, 2007 [16]	862	polymerase chain reaction

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