User:Nick Number

I'm happy when life's good, and when it's bad I cry.

I've got values but I don't know how or why.

—"The Seeker"

I am an amateur singer and humorist, with a day job in the Information Technology field.

In the future, at a point when you are not expecting it, I may rock you.

On Wikipedia, I got my start by fixing typos and gradually branched out into style improvements, link repairs, and disambiguation. I still perform these kinds of tasks, but have also been creating articles, particularly for WikiProject Women in Red. In 2016, I began translating articles from Spanish Wikipedia into English. Since 2020, I've been focusing on adding images, references, and metadata to biographical articles.

I enjoy having fine-grained control over editing, so I don't employ any automated tools.

I am often present on the Discord server.

He/him pronouns please.

My works

A Vandal's History of Everything (audio version on Apple Podcasts) - humorous narratives I've assembled from the many nonconstructive edits which have been made to Wikipedia articles over the years

My comic at stripcreator - a silly webcomic, using canned graphics to compensate for my utter inability to draw

My Tumblr

Articles created

• The African Queen (1977 film)
• Carmen de Alonso
• Abraham Aronow
• Arsenic & Old Lace
• Louella Ballerino
• Bill Bond (tennis)
• Boué Soeurs
• Brewster Color
• Café Bustelo
• Caro Crawford Brown
• Clarence H. Cobbs
• Zada Mary Cooper
• James Craig (rugby union, born 1988)
• The Debut of Thomas Cat
• Henrietta Stanley Dull
• Elefante (Mexican band)
• Fear No Evil (1981 film)
• Annie French
• May Futrelle
• Sarah A. Gray
• Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf
• Susan Hayhurst
• Caroline Hazard
• John Holland (actor, 1899–1971)
• John Holland (actor, 1908–1993)
• Michael Johnston (Welsh footballer)
• William Kennedy (painter)
• A Killing Affair (1977 film)
• Dave Kohn
• James Lee (screenwriter)
• Liberty (1986 film)
• Clara Marshall
• Estelle Massey Osborne‎
• Kathleen Rowe McAllen
• Mook (publishing)
• Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story
• One of Our Own (1975 film)
• One of Our Own (2007 film)
• A Polish Vampire in Burbank
• Polingaysi Qöyawayma
• Manuel Ramos (boxer)
• Matthew Rapf
• Mary Curtis Ratcliff
• John Reed (animator)
• Shadow on the Land
• "Sing Sing" (song)
• Jack Smith (footballer, born 1936)
• Snowball Game (1985)
• Street Justice (film)
• Terror at Black Falls
• Lois Testa
• Leila Usher
• Sally Victor

Translations

See my curated redlist for good candidates.

Typos

tyop
typoThis user is a member of the
Wikipedia Typo Team.

This user has adopted a typo to nurture.

I conduct periodic sweeps to clean up a number of spelling errors.

My adopted typos

abstentia → absentia accomodate → accommodate alchohol → alcohol amature → amateur ammend → amend appereance → appearance artisitic → artistic athelete → athlete athiest → atheist Audobon → Audubon bussiness → business camoflage/camoflague → camouflage Carribean/Carribbean → Caribbean cemetary → cemetery cheif → chief commision → commission controvesy → controversy dalmation → dalmatian definate → definite deliquent → delinquent depature → departure elimate → eliminate flourescent → fluorescent geneology → genealogy Ghandi → Gandhi inaugral → inaugural indigeneous → indigenous insciption/incription → inscription inteview → interview it's own → its own jewelery → jewelry/jewellery labratory → laboratory lauched → launched loosing → losing manditory → mandatory Massaschusetts → Massachusetts Mitterand → Mitterrand monastary → monastery Nicholas Cage → Nicolas Cage Ocotober → October offical → official orginal → original Pennsyvlania/Pennslyvania/ Pennsylania/Pennsyvania → Pennsylvania personel → personnel prarie/praire → prairie propery → property resevoir/resevior/reservior → reservoir seige → siege sentinal → sentinel Sepetember/Spetember → September sieze → seize soverign → sovereign succesor/sucessor → successor threated/threating → threatened/threatening tournement → tournament unphased → unfazed

Last sweep completed: July 16, 2024

Awards

This editor is a Senior Vanguard Editor and is entitled to display this Duranium Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar hologram.

195,000 This user has made over 195,000 contributions to Wikipedia This user is in the Disambiguator Hall of Fame. Most new biographies: Women in Red August 2018 achievements 2nd Place: Women in Latin America: WiR Women in Latin America contest, 2021 vn-8This user page has been vandalized 8 times.

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  The Minor Barnstar
  
  

  Nolelover

  I hereby award Nick Number this minor barnstar for his absolutely incredible record of reveting tyops. 99% mainspace edits?!? Out of 8,000?!? Wow! Wikipedia couldn't make it without people like you. Thanks! --Nolelover 14:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Disambiguator's Barnstar
  

  JaGa

  For a fantastic run in the DAB Challenge in October.

  
  
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  The Barnstar of Good Humor
  

  The Interior

  For Amusing (and Racy) edit summaries. The Interior(Talk) 19:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar

  Quinxorin

  This award is presented to Nick Number, for successfully fixing 4615 links in the challenge of December, 2010. Quinxorin (talk) 08:42, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Great Arkansas Barnstar
  

  Damon.cluck

  Thanks for your efforts at cleaning up my alful spelling on 14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's)! I would greatly appreciate your continued assistance in clearning up the rest of my messes! See List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units for a whole page of great Arkansas related articles in need of some TLC! Aleutian06 (talk) 21:52, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar

  Rcsprinter123

  You did well. You're also here. :) Rcsprinter (talk to me) 15:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Copyeditor's Barnstar
  

  Khazar2

  For showing up on my watchlist three times in one day correcting typos. Thanks for all your diligence. Khazar2 (talk) 09:20, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar

  Rcsprinter123

  This award is presented to Nick Number, for successfully fixing 2500 links in the challenge of December 2012. Rcsprinter (constabulary) @ 00:07, 2 January 2013

  
  
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  The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar

  Rcsprinter123

  This award is presented to Nick Number, for successfully fixing 3012 links in the challenge of April 2014. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (push) @ 20:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Original Barnstar
  
  

  Diego Grez

  Thanks for fixing up the links to Washington Saldías. It's much appreciated! Diego Grez (talk) 22:33, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar

  Rcsprinter123

  This award is presented to Nick Number, for successfully fixing 3275 links in the challenge of December 2014. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (babble) @ 17:38, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Original Barnstar
  
  

  Widr

  Thanks for noticing all these typos! Widr (talk) 19:46, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar

  Klbrain

  This award is presented to Nick Number, for successfully fixing 1605 links in the challenge of March 2016. Klbrain (talk) 09:31, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Barnstar of Diligence
  

  Yavarai

  Thanks for viewing my article and making it technically much better. Regards Yavarai (talk) 17:53, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Original Barnstar
  
  

  Vami_IV

  I uhhh... You really pulled the rug out from under me. Here, have this for your contribution to Latin America at The World Contest. Vami_IV✠ 06:17, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Rosetta Barnstar
  
  

  Originalmess

  For excellent and prolific work in translating articles. Seriously, I don't know how you're translating such a high volume of articles without losing quality. originalmess^{how u doin that busta rhyme?} 20:08, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Wikilink Barnstar
  
  

  ThatMontrealIP

  For superior and thorough backlinking. I was clicking "thanks" so many times that I thought I would come here and thank you in person! Thanks for linking Betty Corwin up! ThatMontrealIP (talk) 00:43, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

  
  
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  The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar

  Narky Blert

  This award is presented to Nick Number, for successfully fixing 3814 links in the challenge of October 2020. Narky Blert (talk) 09:30, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
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  Women in Red Women in Latin America contest

  WomenArtistUpdates

  27 articles Nick Number Second Place July 2021 Congratulations! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:37, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
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  The Photographer's Barnstar
  

  Ganesha811

  Thank you for contributing those pictures - they will make Mary Jane Richardson Jones and John Jones into better articles! Ganesha811 (talk) 02:48, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
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  Rosiestep

  I bestow this barnstar to you, Nick Number, with appreciation and thanks for your behind-the-scenes work involving Women in Red's Temperance editathon by ... adding Wikidata items for subjects of the Templars images where there's basic information available [ergo] ... those looking to create articles can make use of the references linked in them. Rosiestep (talk) 20:01, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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  Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
  

  Pichpich

  You scored 2021 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia (ossw). Thanks for helping out! Pichpich (talk) 22:17, 8 July 2024 (UTC)