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A barnstar for you!

		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 5431 links in the challenge of December, 2011. {{{4}}}

You did well. You're also here. :) Rcsprinter (talk to me) 15:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

I second that. Fantastic month! --JaGa^talk 18:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks very much to both of you. Taking a run at the top spot was an enjoyable challenge. I will probably spend the next month or two catching up on other things. Nick Number (talk) 23:26, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Re: Jean de Venette

devasting typo??????????????????? I am glad you caught it but "devasting"? A bit dramatic isn't it? Mugginsx (talk) 21:36, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I find reading "devasting" to be fairly devastating. Pedantry is something of a curse at times. Nick Number (talk) 21:43, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

OK. You got me. Mugginsx (talk) 21:46, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

The right Hume?

Hi, Nick!

Some months ago, here, you noted and partially tried to fix some ambiguity in Not proven. You disambiguated Hume as David Hume, but could not find the right Arnot.

I succeeded to find Arnot by a two stage >Google search: "Not Proven" provided references to "Arnot's 'Scottish Trials'", and the latter after some work provided the name Hugo Arnot. It turned out that we did have an article about this Arnot, but (as so often, alas) no link to this from the Arnot disambiguation page.

What I'd like to know, just to be sure: How did you determine that David was the right Hume? Is there some reference somewhere to any of his writings mentioning this?

Best, JoergenB (talk) 13:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

As you say, it has been a number of months, and I don't remember my reasoning behind this particular disambiguation. It may have just been the combination of factors that he was a prominent Scottish historian of the correct period and is the person most often referred to as just "Hume". If you have found evidence of a different Hume who fits into this scenario then I certainly wouldn't oppose changing the link. Nick Number (talk) 15:37, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

No, I have no real evidence one way or the other. The references I found only mentioned Arnot.

I now have found some explicit references to David Hume. In other words, your gut feeling was correct. (Added 22:39, 2 February 2012 (UTC))

Oh good. I do so hate to misdisambiguate. Nick Number (talk) 05:41, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I suspect that the best would be to check that reference to Ian Douglas Willock, which anyhow is lacking, since he ought to have referred to his precessors. JoergenB (talk) 15:50, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Modest Barnstar
		Thanks for your recent contributions! 66.87.0.115 (talk) 20:20, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

On its face, a barnstar is a nice gesture. But when you give out 42 of them in the same day, without specifying why, it does make them feel a little less special. Nick Number (talk) 21:46, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Move request

Hi Nick, please note [1]. Present-day RS usage is against us, unfortunately. Cheers, --JN466 00:35, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

That would have been an excellent point to bring up about a week ago. As it is, I support the decision which was made since it gave the article a much better title than the ugly, redundant parenthetical which it had before. Nick Number (talk) 12:52, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, not having brackets does not compensate us for having an article title that fails WP:COMMONNAME. I agree with you about the brackets; I was never in favour of them. The article should be called Osho, because almost anyone who searches for the term or places an incoming link to Osho has that article in mind. The previous name is mentioned in the first sentence, and I've never quite understood why we had to have it in the article title, given that parentheticals like that go against our naming policy. If you like, we can leave it like that for now, but it's a suboptimal solution that I don't think will stand the test of time. Cheers, --JN466 14:13, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	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)

Many thanks. I really do appreciate when someone notices. Nick Number (talk) 13:17, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Your filemove request

Has been completed. Cheers, Nikthestoned 14:58, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Cool, thank you. Nick Number (talk) 15:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Your Filemove Request

Hello, and thank you for your request to rename File:Mirror Dinghy on Combs Reservoir.jpg! The file has been renamed. Regards, WheresTristan 20:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for your request to rename File:Errwood Reservoir Derbyshire UK.JPG! The file has been renamed. Regards, WheresTristan 20:58, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Tropical Families and tropical genera, I thank you your collaboration.

Hi, I thank you your help in tropical flora. I hope your help again in the future. Best regards Curritocurrito (talk) 09:28, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Krishna Desai

This is about your edit to the Krishna Desai page, I created the page and thus am watching it. I had seen the edit and had tried without success to find sources that could verify it. I however didn't edit it out. Your deletion of the same is justifiable. I was wondering about your interest in the subject. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 01:43, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

I found it on the latest of my periodic typo sweeps. In this case, "chief" was misspelled as "cheif". I would normally just correct the spelling, but the entire paragraph was a garbled personal recollection of non-notable details and didn't seem salvageable. Nick Number (talk) 01:49, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Oh was just curious. Thanks. Actually the details are not non-notable, however they are not supported by citations from reliable sources, so we ought not to miss them. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 01:53, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Mr. Late Krishna Desai was a secretary of Mr. K. G. Malkani (Advocate High Court) who was residing at 31, Khairuddin Masjid Chaal, Dr. Ambedkar Road, Opposite Kala Chaunki Post Office, Bombay - 400012. Mr. K. G. Malkani if I can recollect held a very high position with Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI). Various leaders like Mr. E M S Namudripaad, Mr. S. A. Daange, Mr. Jyoti Basu, Mr. K. L. Bajaj, Mr. A. B. Nair (Editor in Cheif - FREE PRESS JOURNAL) often held meetings at Mr. Malkani's residence. Mr. K. G. Malkani devoted his entire life to the upliftment of the labor class and never took a brief from the employers. Today he is 94 years old and nostalgically remembers his past. The list of "leaders" reads like a who's who of India's communist movement. Some of them are not spelt (Romanised) the more common way. One just hopes the editor who performed the edit puts it back and then we can ask him to provide citations in support. See Robert Jackson Alexander (1991). International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. Duke University Press. pp. 529–532. ISBN 978-0-8223-1066-2. Retrieved 17 June 2012. for information on RCP (I). Yogesh Khandke (talk) 02:03, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Party

Sorry, where can I find the administrator? --90.155.142.140 (talk) 20:41, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Michael Yuan

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Michael Yuan, which you proposed for deletion, because the page you proposed for deletion was not an article. If you still think the page should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to it, as proposed deletion is only for articles. Instead, consider using Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion for this page. In some cases, a speedy deletion criterion may apply. Thanks! KTC (talk) 00:01, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

List of Suits characters deletion

No problem. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:34, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Boclair Academy

Many thanks for correcting my typo and other errors on Boclair Academy! As a bit of a grammar nazi myself I was rather upset to see my mistakes! Thanks again --OrangeM16 (talk) 09:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force

. —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 11:04, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

First Person We comment

Hi Nick, from the history looks as if you are the editor who added the template about "first person we" to Manned Mission to Mars page.

Please seem my reply here: Talk:Manned_mission_to_Mars#Criticism. It seems to be a situation where use of inclusive we is permissible according to the Wikipedia guidelines on Tone, and the we pronoun is also used in the same way in the scholarly articles quoted. It's also hard to think of any better way to do it in a readable way when you want to talk in an inclusive way about possible actions for humanity as a whole. Do you agree? If not, then can you please say a bit more and point out an example of inappropriate use on the page so I can understand better. Thanks Robert Walker (talk) 22:38, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I've gone back and re-read the article. Here are some phrases which caught my attention:

• "tantalising possibility"
• "You wouldn't want experimenters in laboratory evolutionary radiation to release the results of their experiments into the wild."
• "It's not something we should let happen by accident."
• " it clearly has to be an international effort. We have a good precedent to follow though..."
• "you can get all the materials you need"

In my view these lend the article a tone of "proposing theories and solutions" as discouraged under WP:NOT#ESSAY. It seems like a case is being built for various positions, rather than a neutral reporting of published views.

Some of the questionable language is second-person rather than first-person, which I neglected to mention in the tag.

I will admit I am unfamiliar with scholarly work on the topic, and it's possible I am mistaken about the tone. If you'd like to remove the Inappropriate person tag, I won't oppose it. I do think there could be some improvements made, though. Nick Number (talk) 14:40, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your insightful comments. I'll take a careful look, I think I understand now though. It will take some care to do it in a way that keeps the style fluent and readable, while changing the tone in this way. Bear in mind that as a Critique, it is necessary to present a case, the thing I have to do is to make sure it is clear that it's reporting cases made by published sources. For instance, the "It clearly has to be an international effort .." sentence and the use of the Antarctic Treaty as a precedent summarizes the conclusions in this paper here: PREPARING COMPREHENSIVE SPACE LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF MARTIAN RESOURCES - so I just need to make the connection with that source clearer, possibly with a quote from it or some such. I will give it some thought. Thanks! Robert Walker (talk) 18:36, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

I've now fixed most of those particular issues, it was easier than I expected, and it still reads well I think. Hopefully they are okay now, will take another more thorough look through the article later on. Also removed the tag. Thanks for your help with improving the article! Robert Walker (talk)

Ok. Incidentally, I also don't notice any references in the article for how much atmospheric pressure zombies need to function. Nick Number (talk) 00:37, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

:) Robert Walker (talk) 22:43, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for cleaning up the wikilinks in Jimmy Cozier (jazz musician)‎.

Cheers! Stella ^BATPHONE_GROOVES 21:58, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the kitten. I made a few more miscellaneous fixes to the article. Nick Number (talk) 23:45, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up after me on the Jyotir Math article!-- — Keithbob • Talk • 19:03, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Mmm, chocolate. Nick Number (talk) 06:09, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Nick Number. You have new messages at Talk:Oak_(disambiguation).
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Some bubble tea for you!

Thanks for correcting the my spelling. DistributorScientiae 09:40, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I haven't tried bubble tea yet, but I'm moving to a bigger metro area shortly. Maybe I will find a good place there that serves it. Nick Number (talk) 20:16, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

WP:MMA

Thanks for helping to make MMA articles on wikipedia better! In September 168 people made a total of 956 edits to MMA articles. I noticed you havn't listed yourself on the WikiProject Mixed martial arts Participants page. Take a look, sign up, and don't forget to say hi on the talk page. Kevlar (talk) 04:13, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation. I don't know though...my striking is nonexistent and my BJJ is highly suspect. Nick Number (talk) 14:56, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

User talk:Nick Number/Flycatcher

Hey, this is probably a dumb question, but did you want this page's talk page deleted too? I saw that you marked the original for deletion and did that, I assume this one goes too but figured I'd check first. Peace, delldot ∇. 23:05, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes please. Thanks for checking. Nick Number (talk) 23:06, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Done, and I did the same with the other pages. Thanks for the quick reply! delldot ∇. 23:08, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

use of indefinite article on dab pages

Hi Nick, first of all, thank you for your recent editions to Ville (name). I went through through all the changes you made, and I wanted to you ask you about one of them, since you seem to have a lot more experience than me with dab pages.

What do the policies say about the use of the indefinite article ("a") in dab pages? Does it say anywhere that the article should be avoided? I'm asking because if that is true, then there are quite a few pages that I need to fix.

Thanks, Azylber (talk) 12:15, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Hello. Yes, the relevant guideline is at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages#People, and reads "Do not include a, an or the before the description of the person's occupation or role." In the grand scheme of things, this is a fairly minor point of style, so I wouldn't stress about going back and changing it. It's just one of the little things I adjust if I see it.

Keep up the good work, and happy holidays. Nick Number (talk) 13:41, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Ah ok. Cool. Thank you! Azylber (talk) 15:47, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

December's champion

		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. Your achievment will be recorded at the Hall of Fame. 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 (UTC)