User talk:Marumari

I've installed PHPA on the server. It hasn't exploded yet. ;) After it's run for a bit I'll compare load / pages served before and after and see if it's helping. --Brion

why do you use a user name so different from your email name ? That's very confusing :-) What is the history of your user name ? It sounds asian. Mine is there

User:anthere

Ok. That's a nice origin. Tough user name to remember right though :). See ya. Ant

POOF, you're a sysop. --LDC

Rabbit

Suit yourself, remove it if you wish. I had thought that the article could benefit from a photo of the species as it is seen in nature, since such animals are far more common than the relative handful of pets. I try to avoid layout and copy editing because I do not have the talent or the knowledge for them; the photo is one I had in the drawer that I thought could be of some use.

Kat 20:04, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I thought you could ban user accounts? It wasn't the ip address that was a problem. It was the user account "User:67.121.169.17 (Michael)." MB 15:27, Aug 6, 2003 (UTC)

Hi there,

Just noticed your alogia entry (which is great by the way). You might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychopathology which really just involves adding Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychopathology/Review to your watch list and checking out any new entries that get added, or perhaps adding any to the list that you create.

Cheers - Vaughan 21:16, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hello again,

From my talk page:

Should I add the articles I have done to Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychopathology, or just new ones in the future?

Either is fine, and thanks for adding the entries ! I'm away at the moment but I'll look forward to reading them through when I get back and have more wiki time. - Vaughan 15:41, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Minneapolis meetup

Hello Marumari. I'm contacting you since you are listed at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Minnesota. I'm going to be at a conference in Minneapolis and am planning a Wikipedia meetup for October 8. If you are near Minneapolis at that time, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis. Angela . 20:50, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dead External Links

Hi there. I've been contributing to this project and was thinking that it might be time to have a more up-to-date list to work on. It's just an idea though - it's not like we're running out of dead links to fix or anything. --Spondoolicks 17:52, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Totally Unrelated Roller Derby Question

...you coming to the Dust Devil? Onlyemarie 08:14, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't make it this year, sigh. I'm moving to San Francisco in June, and I need to save all the money I can. My league isn't a member of the WFTDA anyways (long story) so I wouldn't be able to skate, anyways. :( But the Bay Area Derby Girls are, so hopefully next year, I'll be able to skate in the tourney. -- Marumari 15:06, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dead external links

Hello there, Do you think you would have time to regenerate the files for the dead external links project? Not that we finished them all, but they are feeling a little stale. Thanks so much Open2universe 12:21, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please help me

If you would please take a few moments and help me understand why you created the ciswoman and cisman redirect pages...

What was the motivation/logic behind creating them? What is the source of a definition for the words that made you link them to cisgender? —Preceding unsigned comment added by FemVoice (talk • contribs) 15:35, 11 June 2006

Further Help Changing a Username

I've had an ongoing issue with changing my username here on Wikipedia and was recently pointed to contact a developer. All of the information about the case can be found here [[1]] and here [[2]] but allow me to quickly summarize. I registered the account user:Mvelinder awhile ago but I failed to associate an email address with the account, taking away the possibility of me being able to retrieve it. I'm hoping a developer can finally resolve this issue for me and allow me to remain consistent with usernames across the internet by reverting back to my old account of user:Mvelinder. So in the end, I'm asking for the username of user:Mvelinder2 to be changed to user:Mvelinder. Thanks for the help. Mvelinder2 21:12, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to contact an admin who resolved the issue for me. Thanks to everyone who helped. Issue resolved, feel free to archive this. Mvelinder 15:33, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedian Rollergirls

I removed the roller derby article from that category, which is just for Wikipedia users who are rollergirls. We could make it a 'See also', though. If you do that, put a colon in front of it, like this: * [[:Category:Wikipedian RollerGirls]]. That will cause it to link to the category rather than making the article be in the category. —mjb 00:56, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I'll think about how I want to approach this a while, and either leave it out or move it elsewhere. -- Marumari 01:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One thing I haven't gotten around to is linking to the various derby related Y! Groups, other than bankedtracknews… do you want to do that? Also, I'm working with Cat O'Ninetails on the DMOZ links. You wouldn't happen to have an editor account on there, would you? We could use some help… before we ask about the right way to set up a regional hierarchy, we need to get the descriptions of each league site updated to indicate what kind of content is on that site. There are a lot of sites to check; I added a ton of them somewhat blindly, just making sure they loaded but not reviewing their content. —mjb 01:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice Photos

Hi Marumari!
Nice to see your addition to FPC, I've had a look through your other pix and they look pretty good! These are my favs: Image:Swallowtail dying.jpg, Image:Pivoting king vulture.jpg, Image:Mexican wolf lounging.jpg (I'd even try feature the mexican wolf one). Well done, but I wonder if I could ask you to upload in higher res? Thanks, --Fir0002 06:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

If I uploaded Image:Floating on water.jpg to the Diffraction article, would you support? BTW, what caption should I add if i were to put it on that article?Nnfolz 22:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flotation devices

Just have to say that that comment brightened up my day. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 11:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Once again, breasts cheer up another person's day. They are such enthusiastic little critters! --Marumari 14:31, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And that was almost better. Have a nice one, although I can't. It's 100F over here... —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 15:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zebra Heliconian

Marumari - I'm getting ready to nominate your Zebra Heliconian image. Given the current tension on the FPC page and my tendency to be a stickler on image quality, I have a feeling any nomination I make will be heavily scrutinized by some of the participants. I have no problem with 1000 pixel images -- all of mine were 1000x667 originally, until I was strongly encouraged to go larger. I just think it would be prudent to go a little bigger with your Zebra Heliconian image prior to nomination, especially given the comments made about the resolution of your Mexican Wolf image.

Also, I'm thinking it could be improved with a bit of edge sharpening. If you'd like, I could give it a go... just supply me with a file to work from. (I can handle pretty much any format, RAW included.) If the thought of somebody else working on your images bothers you, then just let me know if you will be making a bigger version available. Thanks... -- moondigger 22:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I've been moving this week (and for the next week or so.) Let's deal with the Zebra Heliconian thing when I get back. Thanks! --Marumari 13:22, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. Life has been kind of crazy for me lately, and I've only had time to contribute a few comments here and there on the FPC page. I will be away from Wikipedia for a while starting tomorrow (July 29); when I return I'll nominate your photo if it hasn't already been nominated. Again, sorry about the lack of communication. -- Moondigger 14:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Featured Picture

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Mexican wolf lounging.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

Congratulations, and thanks for taking it for us. Raven4x4x 09:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Mexican wolf lounging.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on September 23, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations! howch e ng {chat} 17:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hummingbird Hawk-moth FPC

Hi! You supported the Hummingbird Hawk-moth FPC (like everyone else who commented), but HighInBC uploaded an edit that absolutely no-one commented on. I can't promote the image without knowing which version to promote, so now I have to ask everyone which version they prefer. Would you mind specifying which image you are supporting? Thanks. Raven4x4x 09:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move / Zebra heliconian nom

So, are you around? How did the move go? I'd like to nominate your Zebra heliconian shot as a featured picture soon. As previously mentioned, you're likely to see some resistance to a 1000-pixel wide image. (I'm seeing some resistance to a 1200 pixel image right now.) Any chance you could upload a larger version, maybe with some edge sharpening applied? There's a good page about various sharpening techniques here (scroll almost to the bottom of the page to find the section on edge sharpening): http://www.bythom.com/sharpening.htm -- Moondigger 20:08, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear the move went well. I can handle pretty much any format, PNG, PSD, TIFF, RAW, whatever - so send a file if you want to. My e-mail address registered here works fine. Otherwise I can nominate it later, when you're fully unpacked and set up. I just didn't want you to think I forgot about it. -- Moondigger 00:41, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Dead external links

Hi, I noticed that you seem to have taken a major role in Wikipedia:Dead external links. Are you still involved in this? This project is still working off a database dump from 8 months ago, which is ancient by wikipedia standards, wikipedia has almost doubled in size since then. Any chance of your updating this? I was thinking of doing some work on the dead links, but I'd really rather be working off an up to date list. --Xyzzyplugh 20:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minnesota meetup

A meetup of Wikipedians in Minnesota is proposed: please stop by the discussion page if interested. Jonathunder 02:16, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder: Meetup October 29, one o'clock, Mall of America. Jonathunder 16:45, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the late notice, but there is a change within the mall for the meetup location today: see this page. Jonathunder 15:30, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was good meeting you the other day. I hope we can get together again soon - maybe in a place where it's easier to talk. Your photography is awesome! Appraiser 04:42, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi back!

Hi there! It's so funny you stumbled across my user page; just a few days before I had stumbled across *yours*! It was so nice of you to introduce yourself! It does seem like there aren't many of us. Nice to know there's another Minnesota woman around. :) BTW, I found your page because I LOVE your Mexican wolf featured picture. (I like to check out the MN Zoo pics when I see them.) It is just gorgeous! Thanks again for the greeting; hello back! Estreya 14:12, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was really a pleasure to meet you today! Seemed like a whirlwind meetup and I didn't really have enough time to get to chat with everyone I would have liked to. I hope we can get together again to talk more sometime! Seems like we have a lot in common. ;) Estreya 00:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That Blue Jay Picture Of Yours . . .

Hi Marumari -

This is User: I The Bluejay and I just wanted to ask permission for that bluejay picture you took. I'm rather new and I'm afraid the other admin are out to get me, so I thought asking permission would be a safe route. Thanks and please feel free to talk to me anytime.

I The Bluejay

Discussion about Congress

Would you be so kind as to go here and weigh in on the discussion? Thanks --Appraiser 15:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sidebar redesign

Hello Marumari! Since you're a developer and everything, I was wondering if you could let me know about the feasibility of a sidebar redesign? — Jack · talk · 03:16, Monday, 19 March 2007

FYi

FYI Minnesota RollerGirls got created, and could use some work. -Ravedave 03:31, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'm wondering why you added the notability tag. It clearly seems to qualify to me. --Appraiser 20:51, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minnesota RollerGirls

Wow, nice photo! How fun. -Susanlesch 00:18, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note on my user page. I'll feel free to pillage the article Minnesota RollerGirls at will now. I noticed your user page when there was still a category for rollergirl wikipedians. For an administrator you seem okay.Michael J Swassing 04:44, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note on my user page, too! The MNRG article looks good. You asked for some feedback, so here are a few minor suggestions:

Wikify the dates in the table
Avoid redirects in wikilinks for LLC and city+state combos
Italicize newspaper/magazine names
Use en dash in scores and win-loss records

I suggest changing the Teams section to qualify that it's "as of 2007" (since there are no references). Did they always have 4 teams, or did they start with two and add two later?

Who founded the league? Were there any splits?

For its LLC status you can use this URL as a reference, but the not-for-profit philosophy is more difficult to verify. I'd add a "According to the league's Web site…" to any such claim, if you can't find a reference for 501(c) tax-exempt status or a disclosure of the league's articles of organization, since normally Minnesota Statute 322B.326 would apply, which says that an LLC's profits and losses are distributed among the corporation's members.

The sentence Playing and practicing at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium since 2005, spectator attendance levels average 2000 has a grammar problem: it sounds like the attendance levels were playing and practicing. Also, "levels" is superfluous. I would say Since 2005, the league has played and practiced at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium, where spectator attendance averages around 2,000 per bout.

In the phrase help benefit women, "help" is superfluous.

There are 80 skaters on the roster, and the league "is composed of" four home teams with max. 20 players each, but are there additional Minnesota RollerGirls-in-training who are not on teams? Or is everyone in the organization on a team?

Does the all-star team have a name?

The all-star team's record is given from the beginning of '06, but did they play before that, too? If not, instead of Since the beginning of 2006, I'd say Since the team's formation at the beginning of 2006.

Near the end of the roller derby article, there's a mention of the Right Guard and Aleve commercials. Can you please add the Coca-Cola/NASCAR commercial to that same list item? Thanks!

That should do ya. :) —mjb 18:57, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, here's another issue: the home teams have been playing interleague bouts. The article currently implies that only the interleague team does that.

The ones I know about:

June 16, 2007: Cincinnati Rollergirls All-Stars 140, MNRG Garda Belts 121
October 20, 2007: MNRG Dagger Dolls 80, No Coast Derby Girls Hood Ratz 26
October 20, 2007: Cincinnati Rollergirls All-Stars 119, MNRG Garda Belts 51
November 10, 2007: Denver Roller Dolls Mile High Club 117, MNRG Atomic Bombshells 71
November 10, 2007: Duke City 81, MNRG Rockits 76

You should clarify that the table covers only the interleague games played by the all-star team (is that correct?) or add these other games in. —mjb 18:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article to be deleted

Emily Hagins' article will probably be deleted. Please weigh in here if you are interested. Thanks.--Appraiser 20:50, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup RSVP

Minnesota Meetup

Sunday, 2007-10-07, 1:00 p.m. (13:00)
Pracna on Main
117 Main SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Map

Please pass this on! RSVP here.

Spam delivered by -Susanlesch 15:03, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We missed you at the Meetup; next time we'll have to check your soccer schedule :)--Appraiser 21:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're going to make me blush. A B-class means "A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic." (from Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment) I think it qualifies.--Appraiser 22:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Minnesota

Portal:Minnesota is at Wikipedia:Featured_portal_candidates if you can find a minute to vote. From memory, you are both an administrator (someone with knowledge of Wikipedia), and a member of WikiProject Minnesota (someone on the list of participants). The most recent portal promotions had only a few more votes than Minnesota has now. Thank you kindly. -Susanlesch (talk) 01:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis

How's your soccer schedule looking? It would be good to see. you.--Appraiser (talk) 17:26, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]