User talk:Merkurix

Welcome!

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Ontario

Thanks for sourcing and restoring the info on Ontario's famous people. Happy wiki-ing, --Rockero 20:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheonggukjang

Thanks for mr help at Cheonggukjang. However, shouldn't the third syllable start with a "ch," not a "j"? And the second syllable start with a "k," not a "g"? Badagnani 17:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was talking specifically about M-R, not RR -- you have Ch'ŏnggukjang but according to the Wiktionary entries for the hanja it should be spelled Ch'ŏngkukchang (with initial "k" for second syllable and initial "ch" for third syllable). Badagnani 18:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. Wow, that is complicated. Glad you have that reference book handy. I'm learning both systems via Wikipedia and didn't realize about all the exceptions. I thought you could just look on Wiktionary under the hanja and follow whatever it says for the romanization there. But the hyphenations, apostrophes, changes of letter depending on where it occurs in the word, etc. is complicated. I've found only one such exception in RR, the use of final "k" instead of "g" as in "gagok" (should be "gagog," but it isn't). Badagnani 18:34, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Caló

Thanks for your additions to the list. But in case you haven't seen the discussion on the associated talkpages, we are trying to keep the list to words and phrases used by the historical Pachuco subculture (that is, we are trying to avoid slangs words and expressions that are found in normal Mexican Spanish or today's Spanglish). I realize that the list is not in the best shape at the moment, but I may have to remove some of your additions (and some others) to keep items on the list within its agreed-upon scope.--Rockero 17:19, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image talk:4 1000peso 2.jpg

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Korean wine

Thank you for your contributions to Korean wine. Badagnani 16:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a pleasure to be of help always my friend--Merkurix 11:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome

Glad to help. :-) By the way, you should be able to move pages by clicking the "move" tab at the top of the page.

Do you ever come to the Daegu KOTESOL meetings at KNU? -- Visviva 10:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I missed the Cheonan conference but plan to make it to the International. Maybe I'll see you there. Daegu's one of the best and most stable KOTESOL chapters. I would definitely recommend dropping by, whenever you have a chance. Cheers, -- Visviva 14:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Surasang수라상

If you are familiar with Surasang, please expand the article.--Hairwizard91 15:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A fixer-upper; I'll help out soon. --Merkur IX 10:08, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Cuisine group

Hi again,

Just wanted to invite you to join the cuisine working group, since that's an area of interest & expertise for you. Thanks for all your contributions! Cheers, -- Visviva 04:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bugs

Hi Merkurix,

I do have some bug books, but am away from them presently; will check back in a few days. Cheers, -- Visviva 16:47, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, to my eyes this looks a lot like Riptortus clavatus Thunberg, a species of bean bug in the family Alydidae. See Google images. Note the saw-toothed hind legs, from which it takes its Korean name 톱다리개미허리노린재 ("saw-legged ant-waisted bug"). It favors the flowers and fruits of legumes, is 1.4-1.7 cm long, and is usually found in late spring, summer, or fall.

If that doesn't seem quite right, my bug book* notes that Megalotomis costalis Stal looks very similar, but is somewhat darker and shorter (1.2-1.5 cm). See image results for M. costalis.

Hope that's helpful, -- Visviva 08:30, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

쉽게 찾는 우리 곤충 by 김진일, available in finer Korean bookstores. ;-)

Hi, the Laboratory of Insect Biosystematics at Seoul National University runs a message board where you can ask insect ID questions. --Kjoonlee 02:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Suspicions

See anything familiar about these edits? Might be the same person, as the other account was created shortly after I temporarily blocked this one. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 04:34, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Christianity

Hello Merkurix!

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You are receiving this invitation because you are a member of one of the related Christianity Projects and I thought that you might be interested in this project also - Tinucherian (talk) 04:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The Latin-American Wikipedia Meeting

"Latin-American Wikipedians,unite us!"

Hi wikipedian!Today I'm going to talk you about a new proposal that can to advantage you and many other users of Latin America.

You,that is from Latin America (second your userbox),already shall to have observed the importance of the Wikimedia Frojects in the region.Only Wikipedia represent 40% of the internet access^[1].With every this importance,why don't we make a big meeting?

Of this idea,was borned the proposal for a Latin-American Wikipedian Meeting.Various Wikipedists has Latin-American users and this is a proposal of a culture and ideas interchange,that can be help all projects.Above this,comtemplate to help in the formation of new WMF chapters in Latin America.

The main page and the talk page is originally in English,with translations in Dutch,French,Portuguese and Spanish(NOT YET).

Help!

Hello Merkurix,

Can you help editing Gotjawal Forest?

I'have spent lots of time to wikify the article, but the messeges of cleanup, orphan, and wikify are still there on the head of the article.

I tried, but it is very difficult for me to understand how I can do it.

One more thing is, it is very difficult for me to make an infobox. I tried several times, but continued to fail.

Can you help me?

Yongchangjang (talk) 02:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:23, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

^ Comscore tracked 26 million out of 63 million (41% reach) viewed Wikipedia sites in Latin America (June 2008)

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