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I just saw a great talk by McKean on TED. I highly recommend it. — Eric Herboso 21:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Logical Inconsistency

So the box on the top asserts this article needs additional sources, while the recently added (12 July 2009) box below asserts there are too many links. Which one? It can't be both. In fact, the two positions being propounded at the same time appears to be an argument for getting rid of both boxes. 174.21.22.18 (talk) 09:29, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External links are not sources. WP:EL versus WP:RS. Read those pages sometime to learn how Wikipedia works. Some of the links may be appropriate as sources, but they'd have to be moved to the statements in the article which they support and not just in a long crazy list at the end. DreamGuy (talk) 15:34, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lexicographer, n. A person of some lexigraphic competence who thinks about the meaning of words, whatever they mean, or whether that though has much meaning or not. ~ DrearyGuv (talk) 9:53, 25 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.192.174 (talk)

Married

Not sure if it is worth including but she is or was at least married per her Google talk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.23.35.66 (talk) 04:16, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request on 20 October 2012

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Replace reference to "Murphy's Law" with "Muphry's Law" as it is this latter which closely resembles McKean's Law 82.65.82.215 (talk) 16:46, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: provide a source please. gwickwire | Leave a message 16:59, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law Danchall (talk) 03:32, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]