User talk:Marnen
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[edit] Welcome!
Hello there Marnen, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump.
Good comments on the project page for classical music. That issue of languages used in titling works has been a thorny one. Personally, I tend to like titles in the foreign language but many others on Wikipedia don't. Anyway--welcome to Wikipedia from a fellow composer. There's a lot of stuff to be written; we have a small but dedicated group of editors here, and it's always good to see someone new around. Best wishes, Antandrus 21:49, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks (and brownie points for bothering to look at my site)! I've been cleaning stuff up so far, notably the article on Carl Maria von Weber...hopefully I'll contribute more actual content sometime in the future. --Marnen Laibow-Koser 22:07, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Triad
Noticed this one that you marked for cleanup. Started doing a bit of work on this page, but don't know anything about the subject. A lot of it seems to need rewriting from scratch, and/or some severe deleting re-ordering. Jcsutton 01:23, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Looks good. Thanks! --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 16:19, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Question about the origin of Yiddish word schmuck
Doesn't the word actually come from the word for jewel, and is used as a euphemism? Jayjg (talk) 19:27, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, rather like English "family jewels". --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 19:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Return of the Untagged Image project
You were kind enough to contribute to the Wikipedia:Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)
- Did a few, will do more as time permits. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 18:40, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Advice
Thanks for the advice. Am trying mediation first.--SqueakBox 21:17, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
- You're welcome. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 21:22, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] DC trip
Please list all your available dates in the table at Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip#Date. Thanks. --brian0918™ 18:42, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Done. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 19:12, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] DC Meetup will be May 7/8
The DC Meetup date has been finalized to May 7/8. Even if you can only come one of the days, that's still fine. Please watch this page for new details, which will be posted in the next couple days: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip --brian0918™ 16:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Jesus
Care to check out the brewing revert war on Jesus concerning BC/AD -- and the stubborn comments by Arcturus and Rangerdude on Talk:Jesus? I think your input would be valuable. Slrubenstein | Talk 20:40, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
- I looked at the edit history and talk page. I think I'd do more harm than good coming out of nowhere to support a controversial edit. However, you may feel free to quote anything I said elsewhere in support of BCE/CE.
- BTW, if you're interested in a proposal for a Wikipedia-like project where this sort of thing would be drastically reduced, please check out user:Marnen/Pickypedia. I'd welcome your input. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 23:13, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Mind Benders
Hello! I've noticed your past interest in Wikipedia:Mind Benders and wanted to share the following announcement with you! I've taken over the responsibilities of Mind Benders, and the page will now be regularly updated. Right now, the pre-round is open (it's more of a creative artistic competition), and round one will open soon (the questions are done, we just need to wait for the pre-round to begin/finish)! So why not check it out? I'll keep you updated! Thanks, Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 01:43, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
P.S. Feel free to pass this news on to other Wikipedians.
[edit] IPA style
I'm working on IPA-related stuff and noticed in passing that you have a reference to {{IPA fonts}} in your CSS files (here and here). This is no longer necessary now that this situation is handled in mediawiki:common.css and it adds a no-longer-necessary link to this template which I'm hoping to get rid of. Maybe you'd like to take a look at how my CSS adds a little colour to the proceedings (down at the bottom :-). HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 16:56, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- Commented out. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 17:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup Taskforce
I have passed this article (taskforce request Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Algebraic syntax) for cleanup on to you, because you state that you have some expertise in the field of linguistics. A preliminary search for references has come up blank. This from RJFJR:
This one is a problem because we basically need an expert. If you know about linguistics take a look. Or just look at it for style and value. ...I think I'll go and look at it again and see if should just be AFDed. Let me know if you have an opinion on this one.
Good luck... haz (user talk)e 18:14, 23 February 2006
- OK. I'll have a look at the article and see what I can do. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) (desk) 21:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Translations
You wouldn't happen to be interested in the author that shaped most Germans' view of America more than any other? I'm talking of Karl May and since his works are no longer copyrighted I have started a translation. You can find what I have so far here. My problem is that I'm not a native speaker of English. I can comfortably switch to English with a second's notice, but when I have a German text in front of me and try to translate it to English I often commit germanisms. Your input in this project would be really appreciated...
[edit] Tibetan script
I noticed your comments about Tibetan script in the article about the Tibetan language. I am a specialist in Tibetan linguistics --- which doesn't mean I have time to examine and correct everything relevant to that (I did just correct a few things in the phonological history section, though), but I have noticed in general that Tibetan script never displays correctly in any of the Wikipedia articles: in many places, the letters need to stack vertically, but they don't, even if you are using something like Arial Unicode MS, which contains a Tibetan range. The problem is, you must, in a Windows environment, use a font with OpenType coding, such as the freely available "Tibetan Machine Uni", but then Wikipedia's editing language and/or the browser, must be able to interpret the OpenType info in the same way that MS Word does. So, what is the solution? I don't know how to even specify a certain font in Wikiedit (just signalling that it is Unicode won't get you the OpenType features you need), let alone worrying about the browser....Jakob37 06:59, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- It's been a while since I did anything with Tibetan, but my recollection of the situation is something like this. Specifying a specific font (in general a bad idea) won't do a bit of good, since the problem is that even with a properly designed Tibetan font, some Web browsers will not interpret the OpenType or AAT information correctly. For example, I recall viewing Tibetan text in TextEdit on Mac OS X, then looking at the same text -- in the same font -- in Safari. TextEdit stacked letters properly; Safari did not.
- So really all you can do is to encode the Tibetan properly (perhaps specifying particular fonts, which I believe you'd do with CSS properties), and just hope for the best in the browser. I know it sucks, but there's nothing else possible AFAIK. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) (desk) 05:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
