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The Minor Barnstar

		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)

Thanks for touching visit on Jaunpuri page

Thanks a lot for your ingenious correction on Muhammad Jaunpuri page. The erstwhile Afghanistan is rightly retyped as Khorasan. Thanks. --Azgs (talk • contribs) 19:12, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations

Sir, I take my hat off to you.

		The Disambiguator's Barnstar
		The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators. For a fantastic run in the DAB Challenge in October.

Really, I had you pegged for 5th place. And then you exploded! That was really impressive, especially considering so many of your fixes were at the end of the month, when most of the "doable" disambigs were already played out. Well done!

Hope to see you in November! Cheers, --JaGa^talk 00:59, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the honor. I was just fortunate enough to have a spell of free time at the right time. I'm sure you will have one of those top spots this month. Nick Number (talk) 03:43, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Top Engineering School

Yes, feelf ree to delete Top Engineering School because it's definitely a bias definition; thanks for pointing that out. MITBeaverRocks —Preceding undated comment added 10:13, 3 November 2010 (UTC).

Work-related

I suppose since we are using all this server space on yucks, we should correspond on something productive: which tools, if any, do use use for disambiguation? I'm still doing it the slow way, and while a nice stress reliever, its an eye-killer when I get to a long page, or a bizarrely obsessive list. Any tips, Hall-of-Famer? The Interior(Talk) 09:07, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

For all my love of scripting in my day job, I don't use much in the way of tools here. Part of it is that I do a lot of editing on machines where I can't (or at least shouldn't) install third-party software. It's also, as you put it, more of a stress reliever to do things manually.

One thing I have recently made use of is the Clippings extension for Firefox. It holds commonly-used phrases which can be quickly pasted into articles or edit summaries. So if I'm disambiguating something, I'll add the pipe-links to the most common articles to my Clippings list. Then I remove them when I'm done. Before finding it I was keeping a document open in Notepad++ and going back and forth to copy and paste. This is much easier. Nick Number (talk) 17:35, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

I've started using that add-on now, and it does help. Actually, its helpful for quite a few WP tasks. Merci for les tips. The Interior(Talk) 06:17, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm glad it was of use. You might want to ask Woohookitty and R'n'B what they use. I have no idea how they rack up disambiguations so quickly. Nick Number (talk) 07:32, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Maybe they practice when they're off-wiki. The Interior(Talk) 09:37, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

That can get sort of tiresome in conversation. People don't like it when you keep asking, "what do you really mean by that?" Nick Number (talk) 17:54, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

List of largest empires

Hi there. We're having a content dispute at the article above - the list of empires has a large 216 entries, and currently the article sees fit to repeat this list 6 times! Clearly a waste of storage and bandwidth. A better solution (saving at least 30% and making it much easier to read and use) would be a table with a column for each attribute, sortable, as used in many other articles (see the discussion). However, a silent editor keeps reverting attempts to clean up the article, without explanation. Please see the discussion (currently nobody disagrees). Your comments would be welcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.18.207 (talk) 21:19, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Spell correction suggestion

Thanks for your "periodic pogroms" against bad spelling, as described on your user page. Since you do proper nouns (e.g., "Mitterrand", have you ever considered a campaign to correct this common typo:

Ghandi > Gandhi

? I just corrected one (DIFF). WP is better than many places on the internet (and in print), but I see it still has a few cases. I suspect periodic campaigns, if not already done, could be beneficial. The trick would be to separate the mis-spellings of the Mahatma's name from possible genuine uses for other things (perhaps in Persian??). Regards -- Health Researcher (talk) 00:48, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing, and for the suggestion. That is a misspelling that bothers me as well. I've just corrected several instances, though as you mention, there are several others where the "Gh" spelling may be correct. I'll put it on my list for further attention later. Nick Number (talk) 23:14, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

LGBT articles of Brazil

Hello! I am Brazilian and I need of you to correct my translation edits, because you are from an english speaking-country, please help me in the Same-sex adoption in Brazil, Changing legal gender assignment in Brazil, LGBT rights in Brazil, Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil, Age of consent in Brazil, and Criminalization of homophobia in Brazil. 23 December 2010 (UTC)

That sounds like a worthy cause. I will take a look at those articles, but it's a lot of material and will take a while. Also, my Portuguese consists of about ten words (mostly pertaining to Jiu-Jitsu), so clarifications may be difficult. In addition, you neglected to sign your post with four tildes, so I don't know to whom I'm speaking. Nick Number (talk) 02:07, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Never mind the last part; I got it from the history. I made a first pass at Same-sex adoption in Brazil and removed the RoughTranslation tag. Nick Number (talk) 22:43, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

It's true! I am User:Hentzer (see about me). Thank you for your edits in the article "Same-sex adoption in Brazil." You are a Great Person! The Wikipedia needs of more people like you. I need your help now to address the other articles, I sent to you. I study English since my 7 years old, even more so is not enough to please the standard wikipedia. And I have not met an English speaking country, only I visited Argentina, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and many cities of Brazil (Portuguese language). But in 2011 I will go to the U.S. (NYC and Miami) and England (London) to improve my English. In March I will ensure my U.S. visa in the U.S. consulate in Rio de Janeiro. Hentzer (talk) 22:27, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. I hope you enjoy your trip to the U.S., and that the customs agents aren't too mean. Manhattan is a unique experience. There is a feeling of electricity in the air, as you can sense there are things constantly happening. I don't know how it compares with other huge cities like Rio and São Paulo. I'd like to visit Brazil someday, but so far I've only made it to Canada, Mexico, and the UK.

I just copyedited Changing legal gender assignment in Brazil. I changed the wording of the Nancy Andrighi quotation. Please check it to verify that it is still an accurate translation. I also removed the {{Brazilian LGBT nightclubs and events}} template, as it doesn't pertain to the article. Nick Number (talk) 15:49, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Congrats

I think you have the disam contest won for the month. I ran out of links and time. Darn holidays! :) --User:Woohookitty ^{Disamming fool!} 05:52, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, but I'm not going to celebrate just yet. I had some time out of town with relatives and now R'n'B is closing the gap fast. There's plenty of month left, so we'll see what happens. Nick Number (talk) 02:07, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Lena

http://www.amazon.com/Lena-Horne/dp/B000JDV0Z2 isbn 9780385080347 clearly gives Lena co-author credit to Horne on the cover. I could find no reliable references for any of Preferred Brand's other edits. 75.202.231.200 (talk) 16:09, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

This point would be better to discuss on Talk:Lena Horne, where Preferred Brand has already posted comments. My only contribution to the article was to correct the spelling of the word "Cemetary". Nick Number (talk) 16:20, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: Jungle music link

Yep you are correct. We should find some way to link Amen break though or just not have it there. --User:Woohookitty ^{Disamming fool!} 15:21, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

How about a separate line with 'A style of music prominently featuring the "Amen break"'? Nick Number (talk) 15:30, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

That would work. --User:Woohookitty ^{Disamming fool!} 01:12, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Ok, done. Nick Number (talk) 01:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Random Smiley Award

For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award.
(Explanation and Disclaimer)

♠TomasBat 19:53, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the smiley. It is, indeed, pretty random. Nick Number (talk) 20:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

LGBT articles in Brazil

Hello Nick! Brazilian people love U.S. citizens. Many flights from TX, CA, FL, NY, and GE to Brazil exists. You are very welcome. In FEBRUARY, in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil will be aproved the *SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL* ([1]), and the pages LGBT rights in Brazil and Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil need of you. Because will generate a heavy traffic on these pages, and we need you to help in the English spelling of these pages, are you understand me? Please help me. Hentzer (talk) 8:00, 02 February 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for the unexpected rights increase. There doesn't seem to be much of a backlog of pending changes at the moment, but I'll try to make judicious use of this feature from time to time. Nick Number (talk) 19:33, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

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Changing "1885-99" to "1885 to 1899"

In WP:YEAR it states: "Ranges expressed using prepositions (from 1881 to 1886 or between 1881 and 1886) should not use en dashes (not from 1881–1886 or between 1881–1886)." Happy editing! Chris the speller (talk) 18:54, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the clarification. Nick Number (talk) 19:29, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Salish/Salishan

Noting your series of disambiguations, please note that " [[Salishan languages|Salish]] language" should simply be [[Salishan languages|Salishan language]]. "Salish language family" sounds awkward and is not the correct usage. Also please note on some pages you have dabbed to Coast Salish peoples when it's an Interior Salish group that's the context. I don't have time to go through all your edits to fix these, but please use discernment and also, as noted, that "Salish" is usually in that form a reference to the peoples, "Salishan" to the languages.Skookum1 (talk) 05:25, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

The first point would be better directed toward the articles' previous editors, as I was concentrating on repairing links. I tend to leave changes in wording to those with more knowledge of the subject. As for the Coast/Interior issue, there doesn't appear to be an article for Interior Salish peoples. There is one for Interior Salish languages, but it didn't seem appropriate to link to that when referring to peoples. Would you recommend redlinking to Interior Salish peoples in these cases? Nick Number (talk) 14:49, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Really needs an article, if only a stub; Interior Salish redirects to Interior Salish languages. There is an Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau article but it includes Sahaptian and Ktunaxa etc. But for now link to the language article when the context is either Interior or as in the lede of the FN in BC article refers to both; it's totally inappropriate to redirect the dual context, or an Interior context, to the Coast.Skookum1 (talk) 17:08, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Ok, for the meantime I've created a redirect at Interior Salish peoples which points to Interior Salish languages#Peoples speaking an Interior Salish language. This can readily be changed to its own article in the future. I've revisited all of my Salish disambiguations and re-pointed ones which were clearly Interior. Ones which weren't clear from context I re-pointed to Salish people. This currently redirects to Coast Salish peoples, but the links won't have to be re-pointed if it is ever turned into an overarching article. Alternatively someone with more knowledge of the subject can re-point them to the Coast or Interior articles as appropriate. Nick Number (talk) 19:26, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Salish people should redirect to Bitterroot Salish. See my recent changes to SalishSkookum1 (talk) 20:14, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm moving on to other topics, so do what you think best. But please note that, stylewise, your changes at Salish don't conform very closely to WP:MOSDAB. The link to Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation there is also broken. Nick Number (talk) 20:24, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

It was late and I guess I didn't check the work....yeah needs total rewording but I'm in mid-moving so will reconsider how to put it once the dust settles; also altered the Wiktionary article accordingly but both need work; one of the semi-retired editors is Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish) so I'll ask for his input/help....Skookum1 (talk) 23:01, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in a pilot study

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