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. Since 2016 I've made a focus of translating articles from Spanish Wikipedia into English.
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 - humorous narratives I've assembled from the many nonconstructive edits which have been made to Wikipedia articles over the years (contains NSFW language)
My comic at stripcreator - a silly webcomic, using canned graphics to compensate for my utter inability to draw
Mashups at SingSnap - listen to me sing mixed-up versions of various songs
Paneclecticon - my Tumblr, containing links to new content from the sites above, as well as random thoughts and links
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
- 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
- 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
- Street Justice (film)
- Terror at Black Falls
- Lois Testa
- Leila Usher
- Sally Victor
Translations[edit]
Typos[edit]
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I conduct periodic sweeps to clean up a number of spelling errors.
My adopted typos
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Last sweep completed: November 16, 2019
Awards[edit]
![]() This editor is a Grandmaster Editor and is entitled to display this Lapis Philosophorum Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar. |
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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)