User talk:Maximus Rex

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History of the Czech Republic makes no sense at all, if you start in year 600. History of Czechia is not perfect, but better. History of Bohemia, limits scope to 1 province of Czech Republic. Cautious 23:52, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Next try: History of Czechs History of Czech nation History of Bohemia and Moravia History of Saint Wencelaos country?? Cautious 00:22, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you from User:Husnock for your grammar and spelling checks. It's made the articles look much better!

A copyright question

Hi,

You're a experienced user and you post frequently on the Wikipedia:Copyright problems page, so I have a question for you. Most of the text from the Joe Biden article is taken from here (http://www.dsc.edu/advancement/pr/2003/07may03.htm), which is in turn copied from here (http://biden.senate.gov/bio.html). Does this constitute a copyright violation, and if so what is the best way to deal with it?

Sincerely,

Acegikmo1 20:14, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I've responded on your talk page. Maximus Rex

apologies

Sorry to give you so much work on a such a continual basis. I'm dreadfully unable to locate my own typos, as you can see. I try, however, to limit it to one and only one per article. :) -- Decumanus 02:42, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

No problem. Maximus Rex

A copyright question

Hi,

I also have a copyright question. It is related to images. You seem to know a bit about them so, I want to know if I can consider the following my intellectual propery: I got an image from Microsoft Encarta Atlas, copied it and pasted into Paint to edit it. I changed most if not all the rivers that appeared and also added a lot of urban areas (colour) which show a more accurate map. I also changed the colour of the roads, but kept the same colour scheme as Microsoft encarta. I did change the topography lines to some extent. etc... So can I upload this into Wikipedia? I assume it is more than ok, based on UK definition, which I was only told about, which is supposed to say that if I change 1 street in a city map (ie delete it), that is allready yours. I couldn't find the copyright for Encarta atlas in Microsoft.com so I wonder if you would know. I grately appreciate your help. Yours, Kurogawa 21:47, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I've responded on your talk page. Maximus Rex

Adminship advice request

From what I've seen, you are very active at keeping WP free from garbage, and no one questions your actions. According to the posted guidelines, I don't think Orlando Web Design is a speedy delete candidate. However, I believe many admins would kill such a blatant advert anyway. So, my question is, in your opinion, can it go buh-bye speedy, or do I need to list it on VfD? Niteowlneils 17:37, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. For some time I had been leaning towards deleting obvious nonsense myself, and just tagging borderline cases, so, between those two things I tagged it speedy and added "blatant advert for non-notable company hogging overly broad title", and it did go away. I can understand arguments to not add just "blatant advert" to the speedy candidate list (I've converted at least one company that was put on VfD as an advert into a viable stub), but is seems like articles with a combination like that had should be candidates, as there's nothing that can be done for them to survive VfD, so why drag it out an extra 5 days. Niteowlneils 04:17, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Monobook

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong - can you help me out? Thanks for the help, Mark Richards 21:36, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Yes - thank you! What was it?

Also, I posted the message on your page about 20 minutes ago. Came back to look, and couldn't see it. Refreshed my browser cache, still nothing. Went to the history, there was my edit. I re-edited it, and there it was. Ever seen that before? I think it may have happend to me on VfD as well. Thanks for the help. Mark Richards 22:22, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Cheers! Where can I find out about this 'feature'? Are there other commands like that I might need? Thanks! Mark Richards 22:25, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User:Mäximus Rex is pretending to be you and adding a Racist template to articles

I have blocked User:Mäximus Rex for 24 hours for vandalism. He has mirrored your user page and created a Template:Racist to add to articles. I thought it was you until I looked at his contributions. Be warned. You are going to have angry people coming to you if he tries more of this. - Tεxτurε 22:27, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I thought the contributions were odd -- especially so when I noticed that while the user pages proclaimed considerable activity, the history showed they were recently created. Very strange type of vandalism. Glad to know it was not you. older≠wiser 17:57, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I just wanted to let you know that on behalf, of the contibutors to Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, we know that Mäximus Rex is an imposter and that you did not vadalize the page. I have always found you to be an excellent contibutor, and though I do not believe we have had any converations, that I have apreciated your contributions to the articles that we have both worked on. I would have posted sooner but I was on a wikiholiday when the vandalism occured. Just wanted to let you know that you have my apprecation and support. Hopefully the name stealing jerk won't come back any time soon! :)

-JCarriker 05:38, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

Question about posting and deletion

Dear Maximus Rex,

I have recently been trying to add an article called Synthesis (newspaper). Now I have encountered some problems I would like to discuss and work out. The newspaper Synthesis is a valid newspaper and an actual organization. The article on Synthesis from what I see really doesn't conflict with any of Wikipedia's posting guidelines. All of the questionable material that has put it onto VFD has been taken out and I believe the VFD no longer applies. I guess please comment back and tell me what exactly is wrong with the article because I feel that the article is valid and informative.

- A7Zulu

P.S. There are a lot of people that read the newspaper and would find it beneficial to know something about the beginnings of the newspaper through an online free encyclopedia.

RFA cleanup mess

Wow, there's been a lot of ugly stuff going on on that page. I didn't realize it entirely... I kept trying to save my edit and it kept saying there was a conflict and then it was all garbled and so I reloaded it and tried to save it again and it wasn't until I had already clicked Save that I noticed the message about it being locked... so I wanted to apologize for just adding a vote while you were trying to clean things up. Erk--hmmm, now I see that your page is also locked except to sys admins. Guess there's an advantage to that... Is everything locked? (Rhetorical question.) Guess I'll go look... Elf | Talk 02:10, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I redirected your new Nueromuscular junction to the existing Neuromuscular junction. You'll find lots of content there.

Thanks. I actually only formatted that entry, I didn't write it. Maximus Rex 11:50, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying Johnny's status....let us hope he is "getting better" and feels like "going for a walk" soon. :-) Jwrosenzweig 23:55, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Log

Hi Maximus, I notice you deleted a page I created by mistake (it was supposed to be a sub-heading in a different article - I'm new.) Could you please delete the numbers in your note "Content was..." in the deletion log, or ask a bureaucrat/ etc to change it? Thanks. Simonides 17:32, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

m:User:Francs2000

Just to let you know that yes I would like to adopt that user name on meta. I've not edited meta before, it is completely new to me, having mainly just stayed on en.wikipedia.org so I'll probably need a pointer or two. -- Graham :) | Talk 18:13, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit to Robert Torricelli I still am trying to figure out some of the formats for wikipedia. The link I provided is the only official source of biographical information I could find, any contributions would be appreciated.Arminius 20:39, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Get those typos!

Nice Work. Cheers. Burgundavia 17:42, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Maximus Rex 17:48, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for helping me with my numerous spelling errors on all my articles. "Avail-able" – I'm bound to get it right someday :) – PlatinumX 20:18, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Ah, the unhappy realization that one has misspelled "existence" about a dozen times! Thanks! --Fastfission 18:35, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Same here - many thanks! OrigInal...goverNMent...I will try to remember that :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 12:52, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Deleted redirects

Geez, man, thanks a bunch for deleting all those districts redirects I spent several hours creating! I, of course, realize, that a broken redirect should be fixed, and this is exactly the reason I stopped creating more of them when I realized that I can't keep up with creating the content which they are supposed to redirect to. Still, I've been working on the ones you deleted (slowly, yes, but I was working on them), and now I have to create them a-new! That really really sucks, especially considering that they were listed here as the ones that will be taken care of eventually.

Ohh, I hope you are a good duellist. The choice of weapons is yours.--Ezhiki 19:47, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

The spelling corrections

You didn't notice the misspelling of "diphthong" in Linux was from a quote ... please watch that! - David Gerard 22:41, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Whoops. Thanks for catching that. Maximus Rex 07:57, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

first things

Max, It's apparant initally, that my fingers can't spell. Thanks for the corrections of inital in several articels. :) And liason as well. Sad when the mind begins to go isn't it. Thanks for your support in my fingers senior years. ww 15:01, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Glad to help. Thanks for noticing. Maximus Rex 23:47, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Chemics

Hi, being a chemistry-interested type, have you ever come across the term Chemics before? I have never heard of it, and I can't find anything related on google. I suspect that this is a figment of somebody's imagination, or some buzzword used in one lab in the world or something. I've not had to deal with this kind of issue before, but I've tagged it as disputed accuracy, and now prostrate myself before the wise gods of the wiki who will know how to handle it :-) Iridium77 22:55, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

anon block

You blocked an anon for taking part in a flame war on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jeffrey T. Nomura. I appreciate the sentiment (if I had my way, I'd block Cody as well *shrug*) but I feel I have to point out that this isn't really something we admins should be doing. I won't unblock - just saying how I feel.

Anyway, I edited the page to remove both the trolling, and the flames. Would this have been a better way to handle it? You the jury... Martin 00:39, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Great Mosque of Djenné

I have been working all month on Great Mosque of Djenné, trying to get it up to a featured worthy status and your contibutions have helped bringing it closer to that goal. I was hoping you could review the article for accuracy and POV. Once any problems you find have been corrected I'm going to nominate it for featured status.

-JCarriker 08:25, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your help at Great Mosque of Djenné! I have now nominated it for featured article status.

-JCarriker 03:04, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

Copyediting

Hi, it seems you have found a fruitful area of fixes: spell checking all the stuff I've written. Are you actually running through all of my edits or is it coincidence that you are fixing so many of the typos I've made? Unfortunately I like to type to get my ideas out and I haven't done a good job of spell checking. Thanks for your work. - Taxman 13:21, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)

It's coincidence. I am working alphabetically through a list of commonly misspelled words. I am currently at 'p'. Maximus Rex 13:31, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Origin of the name Maximus Rex

Hi! I just stopped by to say hello. I'd like to get to know you a little better. What is the origin of your username, Maximus Rex? --Marcus2 13:45, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

It's just a silly username, nothing more. Maximus Rex 13:59, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you so much for reverting the vandalism on my pages. Marcus2 16:32, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Merci

Thanks for tidying up my series of articles on the players banned as a result of the Black Sox scandal. I didn't know I misspelled so much! :-P blankfaze | •• (http://www.livejournal.com/users/blankfaze) | •• 01:50, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

American English on the Czech Republic Pages

You've replaced all the occurencies of the word refered with referred in the article on the Moravian-Silesian Region. I used the form refered as I'm more familiar with American English and in the whole article I stuck to it. One would need to replace many other expressions, which are more typical in American English, in this article (which I wrote) with their British counterparts to make the English of the article fully British. As I'm planning to extend the text as well as submit articles on other Czech regions (when the time allows) I would like to revert the text to the previous version. But because I'm rather new on Wikipedia, I don't want to do that without discussing it first. I know that it's recommended to use British English in articles on Europe but one of the general guidelines on Wikipedia also says "consider following the spelling style preferred by the first major contributor".

Thanks. Before being clever next time I'll check anything first.Caroig

Sp

All right, I admit it, I can't spell "separate"! I'm sorry! I'm just...it...*sobs*... -- Cyrius|✎ 20:13, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi Maximus

Why did you go through and delete all of our contributions to articles today, such as the guitar accessory?

They were spam promoting the products of a small webcompany. Maximus Rex 04:08, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Excuse me? If you believe our company to be unfit to be represented in fields where we have patented technology, you need to check your power trip at the door.

Wikipedia is not a vehicle to promote your company's wares. Have a nice day. Maximus Rex 04:46, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Looks like you need to re-read what Wikipedia is not, so I will paste the following: "But of course an article can report objectively on what advocates say, as long as an attempt is made to approach a neutral point of view." That's why an external link to our company among all the other external links to all the other companies is appropriate. If you want to delete product references, please annoy everyone equally. Thanks.

Wikipedia is not "a vehicle for advertising and self-promotion" nor is it a "collections of external links". By your own admission you are trying to insert commercial links to your own company's products. Maximus Rex 13:28, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes, external links to support valid material in the Wikipedia entry in the same "External Links" area as other such supporting material. Readers of this discussion may be interested in the following excerpt:

"In 2002, Gibson announced the first digital guitar, which performs analog-to-digital conversion internally. The resulting digital signal is delivered over a standard Ethernet cable, eliminating cable-induced line noise. The guitar also provides independent signal processing for each individual string.

"In 2003, Kaleidosound announced the Kaleidosound guitar effects controller, which performs sensory value to effect level value conversions. The result is that a user can adjust volume, stereo panning, distortion, and other effects simply by moving the guitar."

Maximus saw fit to delete the latter paragraph but not the former.

Yet more promotion of your products. The Kaleidosound (http://www.inventerprise.com/kaleidosound/) is yet another product you have a financial interest in promoting. A google search on 'kaleidosound' returns 93 hits, most of them unrelated to the guitar system. Maximus Rex 14:12, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hamburger Lady

Hi. I noticed that you deleted the Hamburger Lady article, and I wanted to know why. Yes it was a sub-stub with little information, but I think that it could've been expanded to a perfectly worthy article. I would've put it on the cleanup list. Thanks -Frazzydee 02:33, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed your vote in the previous VfD on Poland's betrayal by the Western Allies and wanted to let you know that I have reopened the issue and wish for you to please cast your vote at VfD--naryathegreat 23:43, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)

redirects

Hi Maximus,

I was looking for a frequent user on line at the moment and noticed you were. I am currently working on athletics (started with IAAF World Champs and written quite a few rtcls on athletes) and have come across a problem with the female athletes who get married or change their name for other reasons. example 1, Gail Devers who there is an article about medalled at the world champs in 1991 whilst called Gail Devers-Roberts for which there is no rtcl. not really a problem as I can use a pipe or better still create a redirect in case people with less knowledge of athletics try to find Devers-Roberts but

example 2, Tatyana Dorovskikh medalled at the 1991 worlds under this name and went onto win medals named Tatyana Samolenko. as there is no rtcl about her yet do I create a redirect from Dorovskikh to her more widely known name of Samolenko? I can quickly write a couple of lines to create a stub but wondered what the correct wiki-way should be for future use???

any advice greatfully received20:53, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC) forgot name User:Scraggy4

Thanks Maximus it was the bit about redirecting to non-existent pages that I wondered about. I suppose the best thing is to just create a stub rtcl under her wore widely know name and redirect the other to it until I get time to write a better rtcl. many thanks User:Scraggy4

Just curious

You've corrected single words of my edits on several separate occasions. That's all well and good, of course, but it's gotten me wondering how you came upon them. By looking for common mispellings with the search function, by actually going through my contributions list, plain randomly, or what? If it's the second one, I should start keeping a better eye on my English... --Kizor 22:35, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Style

Um, yeah. I knew that :)

Out of practice, I guess. Thanks. Tualha 23:43, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Edit summary field

Hi! Just some advise from a co-wikipedian with common interests: it would be super-nice if everybody took a couple of seconds to fill in the summary field after editing articles (e.g. fixing typos -- in fact, especially then), so all the watchlist users didn't have to check the diff to find out what has changed. Saves us all a little annoyance and some time. No need for a doctoral thesis in the summary, just some short abbrevs will do, like "typo" etc. --Wernher 15:42, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

User:67.127.159.38

I was going to add this to Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress, but I assume that you've got it handled. Hmmm...I must work on Joe Biden

Acegikmo1 06:20, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Haiti

Dear Maximus,

could you please explain why did you remove Jillant's link related to history of Haiti?

[[User:Drbug| Dr Bug  (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Drbug&action=edit&section=new)]] 10:11, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for explanation. You are right of course! [[User:Drbug| Dr Bug  (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Drbug&action=edit&section=new)]] 10:22, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I've responded on your talk page. Maximus Rex 10:22, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Kiribati

Just curious, why did you revert the last changes? "the trussel page on Kiribati" is not exactly a link, and you removed the link to the history of Pacific Islands. Why? --Golbez 15:38, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Never mind. I actually took a look, it's just a list of history pages, useless to link from Kiribati (or any of the other articles you reverted). Sorry for the mixup. :) However, I still question leaving 'the trussel page on Kiribati' but since it was a straight revert I can understand that. --Golbez 17:50, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Consummermismum

Yeah, thanks, I had a brain melt. I fixed it. Mark Richards 22:32, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

License

Hi, you had uploaded the picture Image:Wolframite.jpg without giving its license. Is it GFDL ? Please let me know. Thanks in advance. Tipiac 01:05, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Are all of your pictures, especially Image:Maximinus_denarius.jpg under the GFDL (if nothing else is mentiond) ? --de:Benutzer:RobertLechner

Thanks

Thanks for reverting my userpage; I appreciate it. Neutrality 02:46, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks also (for talk page). Hyacinth 05:03, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I posted a reply to your argument against substubs here. [[User:Mike Storm|Mike Storm (Talk) ]] 13:54, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Mortarshellimpact Image

I saw your edit on the mortarshellimpact picture on the siege of Sarajevo page. I'm not very knowledgeable in the details of copyright, so I'm not sure what exactly I should write on the image page. However I'll tell you how/where I got it, so that maybe you could tell me what I should put? That'd be great. The picture of the mortarshellimpact, and a cuople of others come from http://www.brhphoto.com/photo/sarajevo/10. "Content, images and photos ©2004 Ben Hays, brhphoto, All Rights Reserved". I e-mailed Mr.Hays, and he said:

"Using the pictures from Sarajevo would be fine, and having the credit listed as "courtesy of Mr. Ben Hays, brhphoto.com" would be great.

I am familiar with the Wikipedia and I'm glad that I can help."

I've seen a couple of other "courtesy of" pictures on wikipedia. Would I just have to put the copyright info on there ("Content, images and photos ©2004 Ben Hays, brhphoto, All Rights Reserved") under the courtesy line? Asim Led 16:40, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Bruce Lee

Hi- You made an edit to List of multiracial people a long time ago that says that Bruce Lee is 1/4 Russian (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_multiracial_people&diff=1594726&oldid=1594711) . I am having difficulty verifying this fact on Google. Can you cite your source for this? We are having some difficulty rationalizing the Hapa article as well. Thanks! -- DropDeadGorgias (talk) 18:44, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)

Oh, weird, someone changed it to "Russian" somewhere between your edit and the present. My bad. I'll fix that on the current list and at the Hapa article. Thanks! - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 18:56, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)

Great wikisleuthing there. A quick look at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=219.76.64.4 shows a couple other vandalism entries. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 19:05, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)

categories

Hi Maximus,

Just wondered if you could do me a favour. When I click on the category link at the top of pages such as Category:English athletes or Category:Athletes I am not seeing the lis of people. Could you try to see if this is just me or has something changed since last night???

Scraggy4 19:34, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Many Thanks. I've now found it mentioned at the Village Pump. Looks like its been broke for a few hours.

Would be so much better if they put a comment on the main page or all logged in users talk pages when something like that happens as I imagine it could be off-putting for newcomers.Scraggy4

Please delete this page

Hi. I noticed you were a sysop, so I'd like to request that you delete Howard Wales. As you can see on the article's talk page, the author was not comfortable with wikipedia using the information. I would, however, advise that the talk page not be deleted to avoid future problems, and for archival purposes. Thanks in advance. -Frazzydee 16:49, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Done. Maximus Rex 17:02, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Naming wars

Since you were either directly or indirectly once involved into edits revolving around "proper" naming of cities like Gdansk/Danzig etc i thought you may be interested in my proposition in User:Szopen/NamingWar. I would want to create a way aimed at stopping the revert wars in future - through creating something like a msg (in see also list or header) explaining that's there is compromise and why, and by linking to the article explaining changes of the statuses of the Royal Prussia province (I would prefer it ot have it as separate article, not scatter it in plethora other articles). I would be happy to hear from you. Szopen 09:20, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Substubs

Since you participated in the discussion on this subject, could you express your opinion on what to do with the substub template at Template talk:Substub? Thanks. --Michael Snow 21:24, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Gene Poole

Gene Poole is up to his usual flaming on my talk page and the discussion page for "List of Micronations" again. Sigh oh Sigh. Samboy 08:42, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Copyright violation

Five weeks ago I posted on Wikipedia:Copyright Problems about the Jules Dassin article being a copyright violation. Nothing's been done about it. I'm not sure what I should do at this point, if anything (see the entries at WP:CP for more info). - dcljr 04:52, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Deleted Userpage

Perhaps I am undereducated about current matters, but why did you delete your userpage? — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 02:33, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 -- geez, sorry, I just realized I read the edit log incorrectly, you weren't the editor in question.

Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonian without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people possibly from the other side of the story. I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies.