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
[edit]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
Articles created
[edit]- 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
[edit]See my curated redlist for good candidates.
Typos
[edit]tyop typo | This 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
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Last sweep completed: July 16, 2024
Awards
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The Minor Barnstar 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) -
The Barnstar of Good Humor For Amusing (and Racy) edit summaries. The Interior(Talk) 19:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC) -
The Great Arkansas Barnstar 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) -
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar -
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar 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 -
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar 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) -
The Original Barnstar Thanks for fixing up the links to Washington Saldías. It's much appreciated! Diego Grez (talk) 22:33, 1 July 2014 (UTC) -
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar 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) -
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar 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) -
The Rosetta Barnstar 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. originalmesshow u doin that busta rhyme? 20:08, 22 August 2018 (UTC) -
The Wikilink Barnstar 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) -
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar 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) -
Women in Red Women in Latin America contest 27 articles Nick Number Second Place July 2021 Congratulations! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:37, 1 August 2021 (UTC) -
The Photographer's Barnstar 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) -
The Original Barnstar 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) -
Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia 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)
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- Wikipedian typo adopters
- Wikipedians who fix disambiguation pages with links
- WikiProject Women in Red participants
- Wikipedian WikiGnomes
- Wikipedians in Chicago
- Wikipedians who have access to JSTOR
- Wikipedians who have access to Newspaperarchive.com
- Wikipedians who have access to Newspapers.com
- Wikipedians who use Discord