User talk:Maximus Rex
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)
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, which is in turn copied from here. 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)
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)
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)
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)