User:Chuck Carroll

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

Formal education[edit]

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[edit]

Morphy Number[edit]

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[edit]

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

Useful (to me) but hard-to-find (to me) links[edit]