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Spelling Check in "Solid waste policy in the United States"

Nick - Thank you for the spelling edit on our class project page Solid waste policy in the United States. We appreciate it --Brijesh Krishnan 19:58, 4 May 2011 (UTC) (talk)

You're welcome. I do what I can. Nick Number (talk) 20:22, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

USS Sarasota (APA-204)

Gmjensen (talk) 14:47, 6 May 2011 (UTC) Nick Number is EDITING my contributions to Wiki for the USS Sarasota APA-204, saying the work is not correct. I was aboard the Sara' during Jan. 1 1952 through Nov. 1953. I kept ACCURATE logs, and am the Historian for the Sara'. All of my work has been researched, before I post it. I feel I have a right to post the correct and add to the info. I would like to know why he feels he needs to delete my work! Glen Jensen, RM2 of the USS Sarasota APA-204. We are currently going the the USS Sarasota Reunion in Sarasota,FL this coming week. If he would like to join us and discuss this, meet me at the Hyatt Garden Inn. (posted 5/6/11 10:45AM) Gmjensen (talk) 14:47, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for your contributions and your service. My reason for removing your additions to the article USS Sarasota (APA-204) was not that they were inaccurate, but rather that they constitute original research. Please see Wikipedia's policy on the subject for guidelines on how this information should best be referenced in the article.

I appreciate the invitation to your reunion, but I do not live in Florida and won't be able to attend.

As an addendum, please note that when making comments on users' Talk pages, it is customary to use the "New section" button to add topics, then to append subsequent comments below existing ones, indented with colons. This makes it easiest to follow conversations.

Have a pleasant day and an enjoyable reunion. Nick Number (talk) 15:34, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for responding, Nick. I am from Wisconsin, so also do not live in Florida. Being a member of the Crew, I feel it necessary to be there for the Reunion. Are you a Crew Member, if so we would like to have you on our Crew List. Gmjensen (talk) 15:46, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

No, I have no affiliation with the ship or the military. I just edit articles in my spare time.

I noticed that you reverted my changes while I was in the process of replying here. I intend to do a re-revert unless you plan to reference the information in a way which complies with the original research policy.

Once again, this is not a dispute over the accuracy of the material, but rather a matter of presenting it in the correct way for Wikipedia. Hopefully this issue can be resolved through discussion without devolving into an unproductive edit war. Nick Number (talk) 16:21, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Please tell me what I am doing wrong. Tell me where I might find that info. It does not seem to be up front. My info is accurate! Gmjensen (talk) 17:49, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Nick, I have many members of the Crew that wants that information in there. Most of them do not have the computer skills that I have. My being a Radioman during my four years in Service helped tremendously. This re-reverting could go on for a long time. You do not really have the authority to over ride a Crew Members entry. Gmjensen (talk) 17:59, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Nick Number, I want to add that I am the original editor. My work has been and is visible on more Military Sites. You seem to have way too much time on your hands. You are deleting USS Sarasota information that has been supplied by original Crew Members, and from United States Navy Veterans. My Crew Members are not happy about that. Gmjensen (talk) 18:34, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

I reiterate that neither the accuracy nor the importance of your information is the issue here.

In brief, you and your crewmates are primary sources on this topic. In order to present your records in an encyclopedic manner, it would be best to have them published by a third-party source. That source could then be cited in the article.

The policies I've linked to can seem a bit cumbersome, but please review them so that we can work within established guidelines to incorporate your information. Nick Number (talk) 18:46, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

The so called "rules" you quote are cumbersome and are totally unnecessary in this case. It is not necessary for you to enforce, nor for you to be the enforcer. I am 80 years old. The World War II Vets are much older. We served in two different wars. We wish to leave a legacy for our Children, Grand Children, Great Grand Children, etc. They will not be the ones to put this information out there for the World to see. Give us this right to tell out story, now, while we still can. Gmjensen (talk) 20:22, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

I stumbled on your earlier discussion about the Sarasota article. I left a suggestion on User talk:Gmjensen about a place he might record his history. Cloveapple (talk) 09:12, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. I didn't know of a good site to suggest, other than a basic blog. Nick Number (talk) 13:32, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. I thought you handled it really politely. If you ever run into someone again who is just trying to share life experiences, Googling the phrase "oral history" plus a topic sometimes gets you some good sites. Cloveapple (talk) 16:44, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Redirect

Can you explain your redirect of Despair (emotion) to Hope? This seems like a misleading redirect to me. Kansan (talk) 00:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I was disambiguating incoming links to Despair. Several of those links were referring to the emotion rather than any of the other meanings. At the time, the dab's only entry referring to this was "Despair or hopelessness is the loss of hope."

So, rather than point all of those links straight to Hope, I re-pointed them to Despair (emotion) and then created the redirect (and added it to the dab). This way, if someone does decide to write an article about the emotion in the future, all of those links will already be pointing to it. If you'd like to do so, feel free to replace the redirect. Nick Number (talk) 01:25, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Disambiguation Pages With Links Monthly Challenge Winner

		The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar
		The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation Pages With Links monthly challenge, who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links. 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) Note: as per the discussion on the DAB talk page, this award is now given to 1st place DAB challenge winners, and is being given out retroactively to past ones.

Many retroactive thanks. Nick Number (talk) 12:37, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

铁铁的火大了 (talk) 21:54, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

re White City (amusement parks)

This was great work, consolidating those links. Tedious too, I expect, but useful; thank you. Herostratus (talk) 21:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing. It is not too bad once you get into the rhythm of it. Nick Number (talk) 21:41, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Adopt-a-typo

Dear Nick, I am a member of the typo team, and have only been actively editing for a few months. However, when I joined the typo team there seemed to be a need for a collection of adopted typos. Therefore, I have started the adopt-a-typo project. However, I could still use some help getting it off the ground, and any ideas or corrections are welcome. Majestic Pyre^{My Speech Bubble} 22:01, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I think it's good to promote typo adoption, and that is a very cute picture. I went ahead and put the userbox on my page.

One thing I would stay away from is seeming to endorse exclusive ownership of particular typos. For whatever reason, people may slack off on policing theirs, and you don't want to discourage someone else from picking up the ball.

Come to think of it, it's been a few months before I did a full sweep of mine. I've been putting more effort into disambiguating of late. Nick Number (talk) 04:29, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Well you are right, I definately don't want to discourage anyone fixing a typo, but in my mind the whole idea is promote, if not ownership, more like occupation of typo space. While one person is working on a typo, it doesn't neccessarily mean another preson can't, just that there efforts might be better spent on a different typo. Majestic Pyre^{My Speech Bubble} 15:10, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

What do you think of this for the page?

Typo Correction Officers

Typo Correctional Officers, or TCO's, are those people who intentionally help to rear another's typo (i.e. searching for, and correcting, it). It might be that an editor somehow realizes that a supposedly adopted typo has infact been abandoned by his new family. In this case especially, typo apprehension is encouraged. Or it might be that an editor has too much on his plate with his adopted typo, and obvously needs help. Either way, it should be remebered that in the end a typo belongs only to itself. Majestic Pyre^{My Speech Bubble} 15:32, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Maybe simply encourage sharing typos? And if you want to continue the fun metaphors, there's the well known proverb "It takes a village to raise a typo." ;-) Cloveapple (talk) 16:28, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

I LOVE IT!! Majestic Pyre^{My Speech Bubble} 18:19, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Grebbeberg

Thanks for your work at Military War Cemetery Grebbeberg. As you could see, the word "cemetery" and me are not great friends. I have written it wrong for years and now working on it to write is correct. Succesrate is now about 50% :-( Night of the Big Wind _talk 20:06, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. It is one of the more common misspellings. One guy even wrote a book about it, called Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or, Why can’t Anybody Spell?

I found 46 other instances of "cemetary" on my latest sweep, if that makes you feel any better. Nick Number (talk) 21:21, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Just slightly! But at least I have the excuse that English is not my first language... (And even so: I had to learn my English again when I moved to Ireland. At school in Holland I had learned the "Queen's English" and no Irishman or Irishwoman speaks that!) Night of the Big Wind _talk 21:43, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Well, it is very impressive to pick up a language under those conditions. At times it's a challenge just for me to go from American English to some of the varieties spoken in corners of Ireland and the UK. And my Dutch is just about nonexistent. I should probably learn some if I'm ever going to take the Netherlands-Belgium vacation that I've been thinking about for a while. Nick Number (talk) 01:23, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Good idea! Night of the Big Wind _talk 01:44, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks from Cybaris

A typo - how embarrassing! Thanks for the edit. Univremonster (talk) 18:36, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Anytime. I found 19 other articles with the same misspelling on my latest sweep, if that mitigates the embarrassment any. Nick Number (talk) 18:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Ahmed Ressam

Your recent edit to the page Ahmed Ressam. Please use the sandbox for any tests that you wish to make. Do take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. --Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 21:59, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

You seem to have omitted some words from your message, rendering it nigh incomprehensible. It looks like you are indicating a problem with one of my edits. Are you referring to the one from May 17, 2011 or the one from July 26, 2010? And what is your objection? Nick Number (talk) 22:10, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello? Shall I just disregard this then? Nick Number (talk) 21:56, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, you can disregard it --Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 21:59, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok then. Nick Number (talk) 22:07, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

The Great Arkansas Barnstar

		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)

Thank you very much for the recognition. I will see if I can look at some of the other articles when I finish with my current typo sweep. Nick Number (talk) 22:25, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Great Work! I am very appreciative of your work in cleaning up all the Arkansas Confederate Infantry Regiment Histories. That would have taken me months to accomplish! I think this is a great way to honor the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War!

Thanks. I'm glad I could help out. Nick Number (talk) 22:57, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism Notice Received from You

For some reason I received this notice:

Latest revision as of 16:02, 17 October 2011 Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Geoffrey Templeman, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Nick Number (talk) 16:02, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure why this went to my account- I do NOT use a public computer, but my wi-fi network is Public. Best that I can come up with is that someone has hacked into the network. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, all the same. I'm going to have to look in to this. CFLeon (talk) 03:08, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

I am likewise unsure why you would see that notice on your account. It was posted on the talk page of the anonymous IP user 76.115.58.205. How did you receive a notification of it? Nick Number (talk) 03:35, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Paisiello's Barbiere

Hi. My guess is that the disambiguation needed for Cassel is most likely to be the Kassel in Germany which used to be Cassel. Cassel, Nord is a non-starter - only c4,000 inhabitants in the mid C19 - as are the places in America, etc. --GuillaumeTell 20:55, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

That could well be. I didn't find anything with a casual Google search, and neither place's article mentions prominent opera companies. I'll certainly not oppose a change if you feel comfortable re-pointing it. Nick Number (talk) 21:26, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Monday Night NRL results (2007-Present)

Hey Nick, Thank you for contributing to the Monday Night NRL results (2007-Present) article. Much appreciated ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MNF Magician (talk • contribs) 18:28, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. I've just made a few more small changes. I've also added a section for this conversation on this talk page. Nick Number (talk) 19:02, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Typo fix at Mechitza

Thank you for fixing my typo at Mechitza. Unfortunately, my spelling checker does not work with the Wikieditor. I am trying to paste everything into another editor before saving to check. Again, thank you.Mzk1 (talk) 21:22, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for your article contributions. Nick Number (talk) 02:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

"Hugarian" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect "Hugarian". Since you had some involvement with the "Hugarian" redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Thryduulf (talk) 14:04, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

Hi Nick. Since you commented on the move proposal at Talk:Master of Arts (and were the only person to do so), I thought you might want to repeat your comment at the formal move discussion I have initiated at Talk:Master of Arts (postgraduate). Cheers! bd2412 T 16:40, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for help FreshFabrik

Hi Nick! Many thanks for opening my eyes to some written but unseen rules to improve the page FreshFabrik. I hope you also think that it's getting better and better. Byegone ages (talk) 19:43, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. I would say that it has certainly been improved quite a bit. I've just made a few more changes, and removed the Advert and Cleanup tags. As a next step, I'd recommend adding some third-party citations, such as from music magazines. The article also needs more incoming links. One could be added to Sziget Festival, for instance. The band doesn't appear to be mentioned there now. Nick Number (talk) 02:24, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Links to Wiktionary

You have replaced a link for Augusta in the article Aust from Wikipedia to Wiktionary. This practice cannot be good for the WP project, for if it happens on a large scale WP will be superseded, certainly in certain areas. Wiktionary is not a credible source and should not be linked into directly (that's my opinion, I don't know what the official line is). If the Augusta article on WP isn't adequate, perhaps you should have upgraded it yourself before cutting it out as a reference completely. I have changed the wikilink back to the WP article, which is a disambig. page, but also contains a template linking to Wiktionary. (Lobsterthermidor (talk))

Linking to Wiktionary is an appropriate practice in situations such as this, where the etymology of a name is being referenced rather than one particular place. Furthermore, linking to disambiguation pages should be avoided in most cases. I disagree with your decision to change it back. I'd recommend either restoring the Wiktionary link or re-phrasing the article so that it refers to Augustus or one of the specific places named Augusta. Nick Number (talk) 22:51, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll give your remarks proper consideration and see if I can find a better way of avoiding a direct link to Wiktionary, of which I'm no great fan, as you have probably guessed.(Lobsterthermidor (talk))

Merry Christmas

Fair enough.andycjp (talk) 07:19, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

50K

Congrats! I'm surprised there are any disam links left with the rate that you fix 'em. The Interior (Talk) 22:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing. It does feel like a significant milestone. Nick Number (talk) 23:48, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

nazareno Malegarie

Hey , I added the info that Malegarie besides being a national BJJ champion is also a BJJ world Champion in the 2004 Mundials as a blue belt. I added the info and the reference and the link of the Mundial and there is his name problem is it has a tyiping error and his surname is written as "Nalegari" instead of "Malegarie" here is the link http://www.ibjjf.org/results/2004mundial.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.20.0.183 (talk) 02:55, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok, well, thanks for the information, but my only contributions to that article have been a couple of disambiguations. If you have any additional concerns, you might do better to post them to its talk page. Nick Number (talk) 07:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Eternal derby (Slovenia)

Why was this disambiguation page removed? Now it links to the whole international "Eternal derby" disambiguation page despite that it should only cover Slovenia and its "two" eternal derbies (periods).Ratipok (talk) 22:17, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Merging it seemed the simplest thing to do under WP:INCDAB. Is there something inadequate about this solution? People looking for the Slovenian entries should be equally able to find them. Nick Number (talk) 22:21, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

The problem is that the two derbies (period 1962-2004 and 2007-present) are legally not the same, despite that the other team is named Olimpija (the original was dissolved in 2004 and the present one was founded in 2005 under a different name, but they changed it). They do claim they are (thats why its confusing sometimes:) the same club (unofficialy) though and that is why I made a split in the previous article and made the two articles with one disambiguation page. Anyway, merging it made a mess (for example, Maribor GA article has now a link "Eternal derby (Slovenia)" that leads to all eternal derbies of Europe, etc.. Anyway, if you wont changed it back, I will make Eternal derby (Slovenia article as a short summmary of both derbies and then link it to the two matches.Ratipok (talk) 14:19, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Per WP:DABCONCEPT, changing Eternal derby (Slovenia) from a disambiguation page to an article is probably the best solution here. Disambiguation pages are not supposed to be linked to in most cases, and that's how I stumbled across this situation in the first place. Nick Number (talk) 15:30, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Template:Other uses

says When to use: When a page has an ambiguous title, so that readers who searched for that title might have been looking for a different article. This doesn't apply to pre-disambiguated titles. Dicklyon (talk) 18:36, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

thank you

Thank you for fixing Albert Evans' link to Jeu de cartes. — Robert Greer (talk) 19:34, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Anytime. The disambiguation page Jeu de cartes has a few more incoming links which could use some attention from an expert on the subject. Nick Number (talk) 19:38, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

I think all the gremlins have been extirpated. — Robert Greer (talk) 22:39, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. Nick Number (talk) 23:58, 23 December 2011 (UTC)