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Number was a Mathematics good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
July 9, 2010	Peer review	Reviewed
July 21, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed
Current status: Former good article nominee

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August 2023

I'm updating the caption for the image. D Lazard if you don't like this you can keep reverting me to your own satisfaction. And maybe you will win over me but eventually the truth will prevail. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.223.203 (talk) 10:48, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Title - should it be Numbers rather than Number

Just "Number" feels a bit strange - in the rest of the article, the word "Numbers" is used much more often Jhadden23 (talk) 14:41, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No. Per WP:SINGULAR, the title should not be pluralized. Since there are many such objects (numbers), referring to them in the plural is common.—Anita5192 (talk) 15:33, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar correction

Before reference 4, you have “ (and its combinations with real numbers by adding or subtracting its multiples).” It should be “(and it's combinations with real number by adding or subtracting it's multiples).” PP3CATWSPofficial (talk) 09:24, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No: this text correctly uses the pronoun "its" (meaning "of it"), which does not contain an apostrophe. It's would be an abbreviation for "it is combinations" or possibly "it has combinations", which are not the intended meaning here. Certes (talk) 09:45, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah, you are right. I confused it with another rule, sorry! PP3CATWSPofficial (talk) 10:03, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]