User talk:Mmerali

Welcome! My name is Michael Merali! I love Wikipedia!!!

Hello, Mmerali, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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bibliomaniac15 00:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

PS: Also, on your edits to September 11, 2001 attacks, make sure they are correct. The planes were aimed for the Eastern US, not the west.

RHS

I like your work on the Radnor High School page which I started. I didn't go there but have lived in Radnor Township since I was 2 years old. I did attend Wayne Elementary and Radnor Middle schools from 1990-1992 though. My grandfather, James F. Merriman was a big supporter of the Radnor High School scholarship fund. Also, I would love to get to know you better... can we meet?

Ship edits

Hello. It's good to see another contributor to ship articles. You may want to take a look at a project under development at Template talk:Infobox Commercial Ship and the related template, which you may find helpful in article creation. Other useful pages are Tonnage and Passenger_Ship#Measures_of_Size_of_Passenger_Ships, which clarify the distinction between gross tonnage (which is volume) and displacement (weight). Thanks. Kablammo 16:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, and good luck editing! Kablammo 23:04, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

P.s. Let me also say that I truely enjoyed the edits you made on the Killer Caterpillar article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.31.182.90 (talk) 17:00, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Liberty of the Seas

Hi, thank you for keeping the pages correct. On the Liberty of the Seas info box, you changed "Freedom of the Seas" to "Liberty of the seas". The previous format was correct and is the standard. The picture is not of Liberty, but Freedom (sistership to Liberty). The way it is currently formatted is confusing and incorrect. Please change or I will. Thanks, Gary Joseph 01:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Understood. No harm done. I wish we could use a picture of Liberty, I have seen two ( one during her floating out and another at her sea trials?.) But we must be mindful of fair-use. Again, thanks for being onboard!Gary Joseph 02:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

RMS

Miguel, gratia pro tu adjuta con iste articulo. Aekos 03:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Freedom Class edits

Hi, I had adjusted the introductory notes for the article for the following reasons: in terms of passenger capacity and overall tonnage.: passenger capacity has never been a criteria for determining "world's largest ship". It is even debatable whether this can even be proven for in the days of steerage, many ships carried far more passengers than they were "designed" for( one reason why it is not really known how many people died on Titanic). Also limiting it to "...in terms of gross tonnage" also intimates that there are other categories that she is not the largest (well the Freedom ships are not the largest ocean liners ever built).

The Queen Mary 2 still hold the title of longest cruise ship worldwide.:this is irrelevant and inaccurate as QM2 is an ocean liner and not a cruise ship. She holds multiple other records, but those are covered in that article. ( I understand the fascination with the QM2, but it does not need to be referred to in every article). (Example: Sears Tower is the tallest building in the US and second tallest in the world. It is the tallest in the city of Chicago. However the Pentagon is the largest office building in the world. The last phrase is irrelevant and could be substituted with the size record that the building does hold).

I am still trying to edit the article and upload a "comparison image (with great difficulty) so we can "coordinate" the wording of the intro.Let me know what you think. Gary Joseph 02:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC) Responses

The Queen Mary 2, to my knowledge, also doubles as a cruise-liner (from Ft. Lauderdale during the winter-time); hence the reason why I inserted the statistic. This is true, but there is the difference of what a ship is designed as and what it is used as. QM2 is an ocean liner that does ocean voyages and cruises. There are performance, structural, and design criteria that goes into designing an ocean liner versus a cruise liner (although both types are passenger ships). Just as there are planes designed to do short trips, versus those that do longer ones, but you can use the longer-trip type to do short trips. Also, the QM2 article, which is pretty good, states all this (after much arguing and editing I might add which some members are still not happy about).

As for the comparison image, couldn't it be easier simply to contact the company/person in question and ask for permissions? I tried that on the Liberty of the Seas article, and it turns out that it worked. The comparison image would be a great addition to the article. I was not clear. I created one on my own, to scale, using a sillouette of a Freedom-class vessel, with some typical other things, a Boeing 767-400, a Hummer H2, a regular 8-car city train, and the Statue of Liberty. There is also a scale bar on it. I am having technical problems as I uploaded it, but then it would not show up on the image page or the article.Gary Joseph 15:17, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

MMerali, that was a good suggestion. I just opened it in another software and resaved it. Please see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Freedom-Class_Comparison.jpg . Please make any suggestions. I wanted to add a person to give a human scale, but could not find any images that did not require alot of editing.Gary Joseph 17:56, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for getting back so late, but I do agree with your suggestion about turning the Staue of Liberty. Although in real life, one never gets to see it like that. That comparison was for height-to-height. I can make a comparison on length-to-height and include Sears, CN Tower, Tapei 101, and ESB.But I am not sure if adding that would be too much.Gary Joseph 05:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Emerald Princess

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Emerald Princess. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. Thank you. -Bbik 03:20, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

I'm writing to inform you that we are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
• Join our mailing list
• Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com

Thanks and I hope you join up! Cbrown1023 talk 03:55, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject recruitment for WikiProjects

Mmerali,

Would you be interested in trying to make your (proposed) WikiProject becoming a succes by actively involving yourself in a recruitment agency aimed at establishing an active base of participants for a WikiProject?--Daanschr 11:31, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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