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)