User talk:Maxim/Archives/5

Enjoy your holiday

Enjoy your holiday. ;) Anthøny 16:39, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Have a good holiday! Rudget 19:05, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Your deletion of WT:CAMBOX

Hi Maxim. You deleted Wikipedia talk:CAMBOX with the deletion comment: "Deleted because 'G8: Orphaned talkpage'. using TW"

Before deleting pages you should always check "What links here". If you had checked "What links here" for that page you would have discovered that it is a talk page shortcut for Template talk:Cmbox. Also, when you see "Wikipedia:" or "Wikipedia talk:" pages with names in all upper case it is likely they are shortcuts. You can learn more about shortcuts at Wikipedia:Shortcut.

I restored the page.

--David Göthberg (talk) 17:31, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

"Orphaned" in reference to CSD G8 means that the subject-space page does not exist. I've created a subject-space redirect to avoid the issue in the future. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:20, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Your deletion of Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles

Hi Maxim. You deleted the above referenced page saying that notability is not inheritable from the ODY production, and that the WP:PROD expired. Could you please link me to the AFD discussion please as I can't seem to find it. Also, I would like to suggest that if the article is not notable enough to stand on its own, it has enough that it could be merged with the Star Trek: Odyssey article as it is considered a 'sister series' and that this would be an acceptable compromise. Please let me know what you think.

Thanks. 69.231.49.82 (talk) 22:04, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

I think you may have mis-read the deletion summary. The article was prodded by Allemandtando (talk · contribs), who gave the reason you see in the deletion summary. To my knowledge, the article never went to Articles for deletion, however, you're of course free to ask Allemandtando about his views regarding notability. As for the specific article, I suppose it can be restored if you would like to improve it. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Working Group Final Report

As a reminder, the Working Group's deadline to post a final report, occurs on August 7. A draft final report is now on EN, at Wikipedia:Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars/Draft report. Could you please review it, and either edit it, post comments at the talkpage, and/or post your endorsement at the bottom of the report? Thanks, Nishkid (talk) 23:25, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Heya, we're planning on making the report final tomorrow (August 7, the 6-month mark). If you get a chance, could you please review and/or endorse? Thanks, --Elonka 14:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

From the note at the top of the page, it would seem that he's on vacation. ;-) --MZMcBride (talk) 14:59, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Images for Colonel Phillip Green

Hey Maxim, would you be able to restore the images Image:Green (Colonel).jpg (restore) and Image:Colonel Green.jpg (restore) so that I can add a fair-use rationale for use in Colonel Phillip Green? I think only one image will be necessary, but I'd like to see both of them to choose which one to use. I will CSD any unused image. Thanks! — OranL (talk) 00:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Done. And your restore links were borked. ;-) --MZMcBride (talk) 01:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Blast! Well I couldn't test them, since I'm not an admin! Sorry. — OranL (talk) 02:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

You can kill Image:Green (Colonel).jpg. I used the other one, and that should be enough. Thanks! — OranL (talk) 02:43, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Your deletion of FrenchPod article

Hi Maxim. You deleted FrenchPod page saying that "this article fails to assert why this podcast is notable, lacks 3rd party references". I didn't see the WP:PROD status on the page and I could have add 3rd party references. The Podcast was ned when I wrote the article, but now it's mature, has thousands of free users and references on notable blogs ... Can we revert the deletion and give me some time to add these references ? Thanks, Christophe —Preceding unsigned comment added by FrenchPod (talk • contribs) 03:55, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Restored. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 14:57, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks MZMcBride, I added 3 references, and I'll try to keep teh page up to date —Preceding unsigned comment added by FrenchPod (talk • contribs) 04:06, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Image Water Club Image

I noticed that thewaterclub.jpg was removed, however I have permission from Borgata to use this photo. If you could please give me more information about how to get this photo accepted and up, that would be great. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eswiki (talk • contribs) 21:17, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

You'll have to send the permission to use the image to permissions-en@wikimedia.org to get approved; images for use on Wikipedia must be free to use commercially and to make derivatives of them. Maxim_(talk) 20:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Picked username

I replied at WP:CHU/U, and chose "A". Thanks, Sυρєrıor ^{(Reply!,Contribs)} 20:45, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't want Conqueror.Sυρєrıor ^{(Reply!,Contribs)} 21:04, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

That's what I noted... Maxim_(talk) 21:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:CHICAGO

According to my records, you have nominated at least one article (Pete Muldoon) that includes a category at WP:CHIBOTCATS and that has been promoted to WP:FA, WP:FL or WP:GA. You are not signed up as an active member of WP:CHICAGO. If you consider yourself either an active or semi-active member of the project please sign up as such at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/members. Also, if you are a member, be aware of Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago 3 and be advised that the project is now trying to keep all the project's WP:PR, WP:FAC, WP:FAR, WP:GAR, WP:GAC WP:FLC, WP:FLRC, WP:FTC, WP:FPOC, WP:FPC, and WP:AFD discussion pages in one location at the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Review page. Please help add any discussion you are aware of at this location.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:57, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

My hockey work overlaps with the Chicago wikiproject's scope, but I do not consider myself to be an active nor semi-active member. As for the meetup, there are distance concerns so I'm a definite no. However, thanks for the note anyways. Maxim_(talk) 20:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Rescaled fair use images

Is there some bot that removes fair use reduced tags from images? I noticed a bunch you deleted are still tagged.[1] —Wknight94 (talk) 01:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I asked East718 to run a sekrit bot to save me the trouble of cleaning up. He certainly did a chunk of work, perhaps he has run it once more, as I took a break. Maxim_(talk) 01:46, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

And now it should be done. Maxim_(talk) 01:59, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Still need help restoring a deleted page

In July, I asked what I had done to prompt deletion of a new page I posted, "DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance," and was advised to check the deletion log. I did, but the only reference to the deletion I can find is:

18:49, 28 July 2008 Maxim (Talk | contribs) deleted "DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance" - (Speedy deleted per (CSD G6), non-controversial housekeeping deletion. using TW)

Following the CSD G6 link didn't provide any additional information (other than it was a "technical deletion"). Another admin indicated a problem wtih the categories I chose, and I just deleted one that appears not to exist. In any case, can anyone clarify what exactly was wrong with the original post and what else I need to do to reinstate it? Again, I'm new to this so apologies in advance if I'm missing something obvious here. Thanks. Cgrazian (talk) 23:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

The page was restored and moved to your userspace. The content can be found at User:Cgrazian/DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Now how do I move it from my userspace to the regular public area? Cgrazian (talk) 01:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

The move tab at the top of the page? :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 01:50, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation request

Greetings. Here [2] my usurpation request was miscategorized as having been withdrawn. I think if one reads what I wrote it's clear that I did not withdraw the request. Can you tell me how may I proceed? Thanks. - House of Scandal (talk) 17:49, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I resubmitted the request, and a bureaucrat should push the buttons soon. Since archiving is done by a bot, it can't read objections. The request's back in the Aug 6 section. Maxim_(talk) 21:29, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Apparently you were trying to get my attention earlier. Sorry to have missed you. What's up? — Dan | talk 18:54, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I saw you in IRC and since you're a 'crat, I thought you'd be able to speedily help out HouseOfScandal above. ;-) Maxim_(talk) 21:30, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks both of you for your efforts. I figured a bot archived it. - House of Scandal (talk) 02:25, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Long time

Hi, a long time ago you deleted an image I put on an article. I am sorry not to get back but I lost interest in the project. There is a point where it becomes futile to do work for nothing that is just going to be trashed by others who either have a clear agenda and/or know nothing about the topic. (I am not talking about you here).

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Lewend.jpg

The image was good and right for the topics it was one. Important from a British motorcycling point of view.

What do I need to provide to reinstate this image? I can get permission from the company as it still exists if you can let me know clearly what I have to do.

Thank you. --Mitsu (talk) 04:40, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

I restored it, so you can add the fair-use rationale. Maxim_(talk) 14:24, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Maxim, thank you for your contribution to the discussion at my recent RfA. If ever you have any concerns about my actions, adminly or otherwise, don't hesitate to let me know. Best wishes, Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 23:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Your deletion of P. Shane Mitchell

I'm not sure what TW considers "notable", but just because it isn't Broadway or Hollywood, doesn't mean it -isn't-.

It would have been -courteous- if you had notified me when you flagged it for deletion, as I'm not often online here. I would really like the article to be restored, so that a proper discussion on the "merits for deletion" can take place, i.e., from people within the actual geographic area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ak hepcat (talk • contribs) 18:07, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ak hepcat! TW is an a script that facilitates in deleting articles or files; all the judgment in the deletion rests with the deleting admin. I deleted the page per the proposed deletion policy. Since you disagree with deletion, I'll simply restore, as is the norm when doing deletions of such a nature. Maxim_(talk) 14:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Eugene Victor Tooms

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Eugene Victor Tooms. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. CyberGhostface (talk) 00:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Restored at DRV already; I would've done the same had I been available and seen the DRV in time. Next time, it would be much easier to drop me a note and ask me to undelete for you. :-) Maxim_(talk) 14:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Your changes to Twinklespeedy.js . . .

This edit seems to have broken CSD-i9 functionality. It no longer prompts for an URL when the case is imagecopyvio (i9). Q ^{T C} 04:31, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

The previous version, as I can recall, had even more bugs in it; while I'm decent at finding a bug in TW, being familiar with it, I'm not the best at fixing it, so if it really messes up the script, I just revert it back to a good revision. I suggest you talk to AzaToth about it. Maxim_(talk) 14:10, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for SDF-4 Izumo

An editor has asked for a deletion review of SDF-4 Izumo. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. 1-54-24 (talk) 07:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Restored at DRV already; I would've done the same had I been available and seen the DRV in time. Next time, it would be much easier to drop me a note and ask me to undelete for you. :-) Maxim_(talk) 14:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

mega-zine

Hi there... I saw you deleted the page mega-zine. Was there an AFD for this page? Because the reason for deletion seems to suggest that it was a non-notable website, which was never the case - it was a section on UK teletext for over 15 years. Take a look at the article on Digitiser - I'm not saying that just because wiki has a page on digitiser there should be one on Megazine, but I think megazine is definately notable. If there was an AFD, could you let me know where it is? Cheers Bradley10 (talk) 10:39, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I deleted the page per the proposed deletion policy. Since you disagree with deletion, I'll simply restore, as is the norm when doing deletions of such a nature. --Maxim_(talk) 14:12, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

"please don't template the regulars"

Thanks, but I did leave "胡子春" as my edit summary to Foo Choo Choon and should be expected to play by the same rules as noobies! - Boston (talk) 14:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Have a Pie!

		Have a Pie!
		You are hereby awarded ONE PIE for beating me to countless vandal reverts today!

Arakunem^Talk 15:29, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Jon

I see you deleted the article Jon as a redirect to a nonexistent page. When I worked on it a couple of days ago it was not a redirect at all. It was a stub about the name Jon. Can you look at the history of the article and see what happened? Thanks Jons63 (talk) 06:00, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Really strange, I was using a php tool to find them. This appears to be a false positive, and I have restored it. Sorry for the hassle, Maxim_(talk) 14:11, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:Orange snow in Siberia.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Orange snow in Siberia.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Damiens.rf 14:13, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to report User:Damiens.rf. Such mass nomination of adequate fair uses image is potentially very destructive for wikipedia and he needs to learn what is generally acceptable on here. The Bald One ^{White cat} 14:52, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, I haven't looked throughly at your cases, but in my cases, I do agree with Howcheng, and I've deleted the file. Maxim_(talk) 19:24, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Flag of Mexico

Um, something happened here: [3] You might want to change your deletion script to avoid this sort of situation in the future. Gimmetrow 09:55, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

That's really strange. What I think happened is that a database query picked up that it was temporarily deleted to remove a revision, so it came out as having the talkpage orphaned. I always scan the list of pages to make sure there's no such blatant errors, but I must have missed that as well. Thanks for the note and the restore. Maxim_(talk) 12:52, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Script

You should see a purple "delete revision" link on history, diff, and contribution pages after you add this to your monobook.js and perform a full-refresh (Ctrl + F5). Feel free to notify me of any problems. Best, —Animum (talk) 01:35, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot !!!! (I've removed thescript to unclutter my talk ;-) ) Maxim_(talk) 02:04, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

da Vinci Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For all your often-unnoticed admin/sysop tasks, and all the help they are to the project. J. Atkins (talk - contribs) 11:29, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot!! Maxim_(talk) 13:28, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Response

Well, in my time zone it's the wrong time of day to drink tea. Further, having a six-month old daughter means that I have to work to find time for Wikipedia -- stepping away from the computer is not a problem. However, I got angry enough to do this several days ago, when I protected both my user page & my talk page. It was either that, or start indef blocking people for being stupid. (I'm still trying to find a way to explain my frustration with some amazingly unhelpful behavior without showing everyone just what kind of offensive language I am truly capable of.) I had already expressed just how frustrated I was at one point, & no one thought to even acknowledge my feelings, let alone respond to my argument.

So I tried to be civil, & found that it got me nothing. No one noticed what I had done until I was bitter in my edit comments today. And I did that because it appears that unless an editor either has a lot of influential friends, or decides to leave Wikipedia in a dramatic & disruptive manner, no one frankly gives a damn. Apparently we're all newbies, trolls, & vandals here -- unless, it seems, a person does things like argue policy, AfDs, who should get the Admin bit & other things that do not add a single word to Wikipedia's content. I'm amazed that people will spend so much effort arguing to allow various mediocrities, who cause far more harm than good, to continue to edit Wikipedia, yet never take the time to see how they could encourage truly valuable contributors to continue their work.

I know I haven't expressed myself well here; I will make my criticism with Wikipedia's dysfunctional culture clear at another time & another place. Let me conclude with something for you to consider: one day you will encounter the same series of encounters with unbelievable stupidity, & you will know exactly how I feel now. I only hope you will be better able to handle it. -- llywrch (talk) 04:40, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Twinkle speedy

Commons:User:Kanonkas/twinklespeedy.js Can I get some help, now that you're back? ;) Regards, --Kanonkas :  Talk  10:45, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Why not? I'd seen that it was available for non-admins now, but hadn't got round to applying for it. Many thanks, JRawle (Talk) 13:25, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 24 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Charlie Gardiner (ice hockey), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Nice work, congrats on your GA! - Mailer Diablo 19:26, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much!! Maxim_(talk) 20:37, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

All Hope Is Gone

Thank you for protecting the page. Jakisbak (talk) 20:44, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Maxim_(talk) 20:45, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Image deletion question

This isn't a typical "ZOMG, you deleted my image, WTFBBQ?!?!" kind of question. I noticed the wikipedia page for a commons image title Periscope Depth.jpg was deleted (log). I saw the speedy tag before I left for the day but I didn't see what was wrong with the image. Clearly something was wrong. If you don't remember this image precisely, it's cool, but I guess I would like to know how I2 CSD's are found, nominated and deleted and what happens that allows the page or image to remain following the deletion (As I clicked on pages that previously linked to the image and the page seems just as it was before the deletion). Sorry for the long question but I am curious. Thanks for any help you can offer. Protonk (talk) 23:59, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

What happened is that a user nominated the image for featured status. Since the image is stored at Commons, the user added the {{FPC}} tag here. It created an image page here without a file. The candidacy failed, the empty image page was no longer needed, so it was tagged as an I2, an image page with the file missing. It's simple housekeeping, but people use a more specific criteria (albeit confusing to some ). Hope that clears everything up. Maxim_(talk) 00:09, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks so much! that makes sense. Protonk (talk) 14:07, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Image Repost

Bonjour!!!!

Yesterday I nominated File:SudipGurung.jpg for speedy and you did delete it. However, i just dropped by to request that that very image has been re-posted here Sudip Gurung's Album Cover.jpg, may you give a look to it. I am not good at images guidelines so I am not nominating it this time.

Thank you

Hitro 10:57, 25 August 2008 (UTC)Hitrohit2001

Hola! The difference this time is that the album cover was uploaded under a claim of fair use, which is perfectly acceptable. When it was uploaded yesterday, the uploader licensed it under the GFDL, which is blatantly not true. So I'm no going to delete it a second time. Thanks for asking. Maxim_(talk) 12:53, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Destination Void (band)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Destination Void (band). Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Destination void (talk) 17:47, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

History of the National Hockey League (1942–1967)

Well, peer review turned out to be a big bowl of Fail, as it so often is. Since you did such an excellent job on the first article, would you be willing to copyedit History of the National Hockey League (1942–1967) for me before I take it to FAC? Figured I'd pester you beforehand so that you can take your time. ;o) I'll nominate it when you are done. Thanks! Resolute 01:28, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to pick up the majority of the books you used in that article and the later ones tomorrow, and I'll gladly copyedit it (and maybe put some tweaks here in there). I'm planning to work on the 67-92 one afterwards. Cheers! Maxim_(talk) 01:47, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

By all means, and take your time. FAC will still be there when the articles are ready, heh. And glad for the assistance with the third (and probably the fourth) article as well. 67-92 is a mighty heavy period of history. Much appreciated, Resolute 02:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Category:Db-i8

Hi
You might want to think about renaming the category Category:Db-i8 to conform to simliar categories, e.g.

• Category:Redundant images for speedy deletion
• Category:Attack pages for speedy deletion
• Category:Copyright violations for speedy deletion

Admittedly Category:Images available as identical copies on the Wikimedia Commons for speedy deletion is a little long.
Also note that {{NowCommons}} already uses Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons—maybe the same one can be used in {{db-i8}}?
Amalthea^Talk 21:04, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

To be honest, I created the category to help me sort some images when there was a pretty backlog... I don't think this category is very useful, as it seems that it's going to be empty most of the time. Perhaps it would be better to delete it? Maxim_(talk) 21:17, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Your call, I just stumbled across it. If it's usually gonna be empty though and serves no purpose anymore then I agree, delete it. Cheers, Amalthea^Talk 21:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I deleted it, then. Maxim_(talk) 21:56, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, I removed it from {{db-i8}}, too. --Amalthea^Talk 22:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! :-) Maxim_(talk) 22:15, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

← Sure. One last thing: If you are ever again looking for all images with that tag, you can probably use the What links here feature with only searching the Image-namespace: [4]. That is, if it weren't transcluded in other CSD templates. :\ --Amalthea^Talk 22:49, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Please undelete Bev Oke

Hi Maxim You're pretty quick on the draw!  :-) I can't "create this page" for Bev Oke (whose target now exists). Would you please undelete it. Thanks. Saintrain (talk) 22:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Maxim_(talk) 22:08, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Chris Brandon GA pass

Hey, thanks for the review. Yeah, those two sections are a bit short. But I've added them in the hope they may be expanded in the future, or if I can find any more info. As for the picture, unfortunately he wasn't at the club last season so not on that picture. If I finally get to a game where I turn up in time and can snap a few pictures, then hopefully we'll see one soon. Thanks again for the review. Peanut4 (talk) 15:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Boris Johnson

I'm curious as to why you deleted this article and then restored it a few minutes later? Paste (talk) 20:22, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

There was a threat of violence. I've contacted oversight. Maxim_(talk) 20:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Your deletion of Kimia Ravangar

I think you shouldn't have deleted it before making sure of what you think it was.The References were quite Right and the article WAS NOT a joke based on "So you think you can dance" pages and I think it's not Right to delete an article about the best dancer in a countrie's History.I'll try rebuild that page again.And I ask you to be more sure about the reasons you give for deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Solino (talk • contribs) 21:40, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

It was deleted per the proposed deletion policy. Elonka (talk · contribs) proposed it for deletion, and I gave her reason in the deletion summary. Maxim_(talk) 21:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Rob Wells

An article that you have been involved in editing, Rob Wells, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Wells. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Movingboxes (talk) 05:25, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Replied. Maxim_(talk) 02:35, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Dibang

hi maxim, have a great holiday.. you deleted 'dibang'.. 23:30, 26 August 2008 Maxim (Talk | contribs) deleted "Dibang" ‎ (Deleted because expired WP:PROD; Reason given: no sources to indicate this person meets the notability requirements of WP:BIO. using TW) had come to this page to update that he has recently won two more awards for his documentaries on draught in central india and one on the special economic zone and its impact on villages.. These awards are News and Television awards given by indiantelevision.com.. he is one of the most well known hindi anchors of india. would you consider restoring him.. Times of India, Hindustan times and several hindi newspapers have profiled him.. thank you.. narendrapal singh, delhi.

Restored as contested per the proposed deletion policy. Maxim_(talk) 02:35, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

NHL history

Looks like we are both writing this article at the same time, lol. At least we were writing different sections. ;o) I'm leaning towards keeping the article in chronological order, thus breaking the founding of the WHA and it's later demise around the Summit Series. Seem like a good idea? Resolute 16:06, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm just doing it in separate chunks, and I intend to keep it in chronological order. But as for Summit Series, does it relate so much to the NHL as to merit its inclusion in the NHL history article? Maxim_(talk) 16:09, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and I add the prose and refs separately, so they'll be up soon. Maxim_(talk) 16:11, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm using four books as primary sources, and all four make significant mention of the Summit Series. Ostensively, the Summit Series was a creation of the NHLPA, specifically Eagleson, and it wasn't so much Canada vs. the Soviet Union as it was Canada's NHLers against the Soviet Union, especially considering the Bobby Hull controversy. Depending on how large this article gets, I might pare down the game descriptions a little though. Resolute 16:25, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm caught up to where you started. Look forward to seeing how your coverage of the 1980s turns out. In the meantime, I'll be out hunting for a book or two that doesn't end at 1992 like three of mine do. Resolute 18:15, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Question for you

I was wondering if you could take a looksee at the Seattle Metropolitans PCHA team page when you have a chance and offer some pointers in the discussion to improving the article. Im a bit new to the game, but i have an interest at expanding and developing this page. Thanks Ottawa4ever (talk) 00:58, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I think you need to expand (a lot) it and add refs. Take a look at featured team page pages like Calgary Flames, Nottingham Panthers, or New Jersey Devils, or any other well-developed team pages. --Maxim_(talk) 01:31, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK!

On 31 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tiny Thompson, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations on your Good Article as well! - Mailer Diablo 08:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum

Greetings...how do I fnd the discussion on this deleted page? Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 16:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

The page was proposed for deletion, thus no discussion exists. Maxim_(talk) 01:34, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Is there a way to undelete so a discussion can be made? I'm not familiar with the process. Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 12:26, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Maxim_(talk) 22:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 12:06, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Rongorongo

Hi,

Would you please restore Image:Rongorongo F-a Stephen-Chauvet (color).jpg onto wiki-en? It will likely be deleted from Commons (because it's an image of a non-2D object, it's a photograph, it's less than 100 yrs old, etc), and it would be good to have a backup here when that happens. (I've tried restoring it, but that doesn't seem to be working.)

Thanks, kwami (talk) 06:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Done, file-restoring is possible now (and I think it's been so since mid-2006, I think. :-) Maxim_(talk) 22:05, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! kwami (talk) 23:09, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Rationale in AFD closure

Can you explain your rational behind chosing a result of delete on WP:Articles for deletion/List of Austin City Limits performers_(2nd nomination) ? there appeared a clear Keep consensus. Russeasby (talk) 21:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I did, in the AfD itself. Maxim_(talk) 22:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I saw what you wrote. But I am asking for a more clear and detailed explaination. Most of the policy based delete votes you mention, are clearly misunderstanding of misapplication of cited policies. Note my responses to a few of them and note how when I asked questions NONE of the voters returned to bother answering them at all, this alone questions how valid their vote is. I beleive I made a clear argument in favor against each of the delete votes, that coupled with the fact that far more of the votes were keep, makes it seem very iffy to close it as delete. To me it seems clearly a keep, but in closing if you feel that it isnt so clear, it should perhaps have been closed no consensus or relisted. In no way it is a clear delete though and I firmly disagree with your choice. Which is why I am asking here, before listing for deletion review. Russeasby (talk) 22:08, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Note furthur that of the two delete votes, one voted delete citing that the list was not verifiable, which is absurb since the list was entirely verified. The second delete vote did not cite any WP policy or guideline at all, but cited an essay. I think you were a bit hasty in your closure. Russeasby (talk) 22:14, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I admit not fully reading DGG's comment, for one. I'm getting more and more uncertian with this close. I want to mull this over for a bit more... Maxim_(talk) 22:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I've reclosed it as no-consensus, please see the AfD. Maxim_(talk) 22:59, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reconsidering this! Russeasby (talk) 23:47, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

and thanks for the understanding. DGG (talk) 01:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Sugar packet deletion

It's clear that you have adopted a policy of deletion for less than momentous articles. Just why is not clear to me, despite citations of WP policies of various sorts. The cost of having articles about such topics is some space on the servers, and even after deletion, that space is still occupied. In this case, you have deleted a minor artilce that several editors have worked on, which has connections to a recently published book about the company founded by the inventor.

Furthermore the proposal to delete was opposed by at least myself so that it cannot be said the consensus had been achieved.

I invite some discussion of these points. ww (talk) 22:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I missed your talkpage note; I've restored this article as a contested proposed deletion. To avoid such a mixup again, you can remove the proposed deletion template from the article; it cannot be reinstated once removed, and an AfD discussion would be necessary to get the article deleted. Maxim_(talk) 22:48, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually the talk page has been restored at this time. since I never learned enough about the machinery to repair the article deletion, I'm forced to ask you to have at it again. ww (talk) 00:33, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Oops, I forgot to remove the proposed deletion template... :o) I've fixed this once more. Maxim_(talk) 00:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Polyvios Kossivas

Thanks for the relisting! As you might suspect, this was my first AfD, and I generally found the procedure instructions not clear enough (for me). CapnZapp (talk) 11:21, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Vivian Fung Deletion

Please explain why you deleted my Vivian Fung article. You allege that it was a blatant copyright infringement but that is incorrect. I used the material from vivianfung.net with the express permission of Vivian Fung herself. She owns the copyright in the material on her website. It is axiomatic that one cannot infringe a copyright if one makes a copy with the express permission of the copyright owner. I should know, I am an intellectual property attorney. If possible, please restore the article you deleted. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IA Finance Type (talk • contribs) 22:31, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Simple verbal permission is not enough—Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission is a very important read. To summarize the most important part, you have to e-mail Vivian Fung's permission to use it (please make sure it meets the conditions out lined at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission#For text) to OTRS, at permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org. There are some more details at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission#When permission is confirmed you might like to review. When an OTRS agent confirms the permission, the article will be restored. Maxim_(talk) 23:46, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

You have now changed the basis for having deleted the article. You are way too trigger happy with the speedy deletion button. I put a "hangon" tag next to the copyright notice, yet you deleted the article anyway, and characterized it as a blatant copyright violation which, apparently, you now concede it was not. In the future, you should give authorized content users like me a reasonable opportunity to file with Wiki the consents and permissions as required by policy. Thank you for the links. I am working on getting the permissions filed with Wiki and would appreciate the article being restored once I have done that. --IA Finance Type (talk) 14:35, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!!!

Thanks for unblocking the IP address!!! I really appreciate it.Miagirljmw14 Miagirljmw_talk 00:21, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleted image

If you're going to delete an image, could you check the usage of the image and fix the things that break? You said there's an identical image on the commons, but I can't find it or I'd have fixed it myself. — PhilHibbs | talk 14:24, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I've restored the image, I think there was some glitch with naming issue. Hopefully it'll be sorted out and the move to Commons will be re-done. Maxim_(talk) 20:46, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I added spaces when moving it to Commons, which I think confused things. It resulted in an early deletion here and a duplicate upload at Commons (Commons:Image:Deaf Students In Baghdad.jpg is identical to Commons:Image:Deaf Girls In Baghdad.jpg. We should be almost set now, though. I made sure Deaf culture included the Commons version. Now Commons:Image:Deaf Girls In Baghdad.jpg and Image:DeafGirlsInBaghdad.jpg can be deleted any time. Superm401 - Talk 22:38, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Fabric (band) Deletion

Why was the page deleted for the band Fabric? MisterSitter 4th September 2008

It was proposed for deletion as it failed the music notability guideline. Hope that helps, Maxim_(talk) 21:04, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

User talk:71.7.160.26

Hiya! I noticed that you recently reverted some edits from this user and gave him a couple of warnings. This seems to be yet another incarnation of a long-term vandal who targets articles related to country-western music and The Dukes of Hazzard tv show. There are many associated IP addresses that all trace back to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Other articles under repeated attack include Shooter Jennings, Tom Wopat, and Johnny Cash. This vandal returns immediately after blocks expire, as if there's an alarm clock ringing somewhere, so I've started blocking for a month at a time, and watchlisting the talk page so I'll notice if a legitimate user requests an unblock. This hasn't happened yet. Other related IPs include [5], [6], and [7]. Would you mind looking over those contributions and adding a few of their targeted articles to your watchlist? I keep hoping that we'll just wear them down a month at a time. Joyous! | Talk 02:23, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Maxim_(talk) 19:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

possible sockpuppet Liner32

User:Liner32 contacted me on my talkpage after I had welcomed them to wikipedia. They said that they have been here before and want to start again. Below is a copy of what was said on my talkpage, it sounds a little fishy but should I WP:AGF?

'thank you for the kind welcoming. ive done this before with not a lot of luck so any advice other than the welcoming info you can share would be kindly appreciated. i find that links are often pulled down here for no reason and it can be on the tad- frustrating but i need to learn about the usage part of it more. are you adopting users? is there someone i can run my links by before posting?--Liner32 (talk) 14:37, 7 September 2008 (UTC)'

I'd say AGF. Users, in the majority of cases, have the right to switch accounts, and/or start anew. Since there doesn't seem to be any disruption coming from the account, they're most likely good-faith contributer. Maxim_(talk) 19:17, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Just thought that I would get it checked out and make sure that I wasnt letting myself get into trouble by welcoming the new user under my wing and finding out that they are a sockpuppet. Many Thanks. BountyHunter2008 (talk) 19:30, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Shining Star (band)

You deleted this. I think it should be restored because the band is notable, as they have 3 full length releases as well as a member, Lance King who is in other notable acts.--E tac (talk) 20:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Restored as a contested prod. Maxim_(talk) 21:07, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

HI (sorry 'bout the spammy note),

HI (sorry 'bout the spammy note), DYK updates have been a bit slow and there's a bit of a shortage of admins actively involved. We are asking folks who listed themselves on Wikipedia:Did you know/Admins to update details on this page - User:Olaf Davis/DYKadmins, so we can grade everyone's involvement (and who, knows, someone may want to get involved more :) ).Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:23, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Mohsin to Tangomaan

Hi there I would like to change my username right now please if you could, I have requested to the Change username page, would you be able to do that, because it seems like you are the only one active, please could you? Thanks! Mohsin (talk) 21:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I would gladly rename you; however, I can't as I'm not a bureaucrat. Your request should be fulfilled pretty soon, as soon a we get a 'crat that's around. Maxim_(talk) 21:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Undelete Thirty Days Of Night Records

are you able to restore the thirty days of night records page or sand-box the code on my page so that i may edit it to meet requirements?

thankyou Winter.skin (talk) 11:16, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

I restored it as a contested prod. Sorry for the delay—I've been busy IRL. Maxim_(talk) 01:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

provide source?

hi can you please provide me with the source of 22:14, 30 August 2008 Maxim (Talk | contribs) deleted "War By Other Means" ‎ (Deleted because expired WP:PROD; Reason given: non-notable film, no IMDB listing, no references provided. using TW)

since I do not remember what I had written?

thanks, Kaaskop6666 (talk) 19:13, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

I restored it as a contested prod. Sorry for the delay—I've been busy IRL. Maxim_(talk) 01:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

American Information Exchange

Why did you delete this article? As far as I can tell, AMIX was the first attempt to create an online marketplace. It appears to be a pre-cursor for Amazon. Thanks. Never been to spain (talk) 05:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I deleted it per WP:CSD#A7. It looks salvageable from a second glance 10 months later, so I've restored it. Sorry for the delay—I've been busy IRL. Maxim_(talk) 01:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Restore Jumeau Dolls page please

Bebe Jumeau (talk) 08:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Was restored via DRV. Maxim_(talk) 01:16, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Image page for Image:Coquina variation3.jpg

Hi. The page logs show that you deleted the image, along with its image page, using Twinkle, per CSD I8 last November. The image, however, was a Featured Picture and obviously the image page held essential information regarding its promotion etc. Requesting undeletion of image page (per CSD I8), and perhaps you would want to review if any other such images are affected? --Paul_012 ^(talk) 11:03, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Oops, my bad. Restored. Maxim_(talk) 01:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

You seem to have deleted a heap of stuff just now which still has links to the local file name, for example Image:NamadgiTree.jpg, Image:Namadgi Walk trail.jpg, Image:Lesotho, Washington.JPG, and everything else I looked at that was in Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons. Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:19, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Since MetsBot passed it, I assumed the links were updates, according to MetsBot's "manual". I can batch-undelete this; would this be better than combing one-by-one through my deletion log? Maxim_(talk) 13:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

If you have been relying on MetsBot, it isn't just today that's a problem. I've gone through today's stuff and undeleted the ones that need work. I suppose we cannot do anything about yesterday or last month or last year, but please don't pay any attention to MetsBot in the future. Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:30, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Lesson learned, albeit a hard way no one should have. :/ Maxim_(talk) 14:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks very much! Fr33kman^{talk APW} 01:35, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (166/43/7). I appreciate your comments and in my actions as an administrator I will endeavor to maintain the trust you have placed in me. I am honored by your trust and your support. Thank you, Cirt (talk) 01:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Admin bots

Hello, I have recently had an encounter with an unapproved admin bot, and despite an extremely clear dictate by policy that these bots should be blocked, have been discouraged from doing so. Depending how this situation resolves, I will likely file an arbitration request to hopefully resolve this issue once and for all. You commented on Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Adminbots, stating that you ran an admin bot. To help get an idea of how widespread admin bots are, as well as get a uniform decision, I would like to ask: Do you still operate this bot, and does it operate when you are not present? Please reply on my talk page, thanks, Prodego ^talk 00:39, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Quick image question

Check out Talk:Lolcat#Removal of Image:Cat-cheezburgur-bird-2.jpg. My assessment is that this image probably should be deleted. Would that be a speedy candidate, or is IfD the better route to go? Resolute 00:43, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Replied. BTW, take a look at User:Maxim/Sandbox. I think it should be cut down to 4 paras. Maxim_(talk) 00:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Ahaha. The new history section for the National Hockey League article? Resolute 02:35, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Why was TTDPatch deleted?

I see TTDPatch was deleted by you on 23 July 2008. Summary is Deleted because expired WP:PROD; Reason given: Fails to meet TW. I think the end of the sentence got cut off, and TW refers to Twinkle, right? So, why was it deleted? For notability? If there was no special reason other then expired PROD, could you undelete it so I can take a look? --Apoc2400 (talk) 08:05, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Maxim_(talk) 23:08, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

why did you delete the image

why did you maxim delete the bfg9000sprite image. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ourhero in doom2 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm not Maxim, but I was going to try to answer this for him. However, I can't find the image that you're talking about. Can you provide a link to the exact image? EVula // talk // ☯ // 18:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

No, I have looked extensively through Maxim's deletion logs (the last 5000), and can find nothing that seems relevant to bfg, 9000, or sprite. Perhaps you could tell us more about the image, or provide a link to where it used to be (if you can), to allow us to properly process your request to have the matter reviewed?

As an alternative, you may wish to review the speedy deletion criterion, which will probably explain the precise reason for the image's deletion. Regards, and apologies for invading your talk page, Maxim, Anthøny ✉ 21:25, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

( , I have pinged Ourhero in doom2 on his talk page. Anthøny ✉ 21:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC))

Ahh hell, I'll join this party too. The "BFG9000" was a weapon in the Doom series of video games. And, of course, a sprite is a computer graphic. Based on the name this editor gave, along with their username, I would conclude that Maxim deleted a screenshot from an incarnation of a Doom video game. I'd further guess then that the most likely reasons for the image's deletion were either a missing or invalid fair use rationale, or it had been orphaned and deleted as an unused fair use image. Resolute 00:30, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Found it! Image:Bfg9000sprite.gif Deleted because "CSD I7 - Invalid fair use rationale; all non-free media require a fair use rationale; per WP:NFCC#10c, the rationale requires a link to the article the media is used in". using TW --Apoc2400 (talk) 12:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Do you want it restored for the rationale to be fixed? Maxim_(talk) 23:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

pls provide source of deleted articles?

assuming you are an admin, can you please provide me with the text from the following deleted articles?

1. AIDS Inc. (Talk)
2. The Other Side of AIDS (Talk)

Perhaps you did so already, but then... where?

thanks, Kaaskop6666 (talk) 11:19, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I restored them as contested. Sorry for delay, Maxim_(talk) 00:00, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK update

Hi Maxim, are you available to do the update? It's over 3 hours late. Thanks! Jamie^☆S93 00:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done Maxim_(talk) 00:40, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Jamie^☆S93 00:54, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

(←) Hi. Thanks for doing the update. I've reverted one of the your edits while you were doing the credits since the user had already received the credit. Just wanted to notify you about it. Yours truly, RyRy (talk) 01:35, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Gah; I use popups>new section, so I haev no clue if there's a premature credit given. Plus I set it up in tabs (that's why I went so fast). Thanks for the note, though. Maxim_(talk) 01:39, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Hui'an maidens

You added this item to the main page template but it appears to contain several chunks that are a copyright violation from [8]. I don't want to blank it and slap it with copyvio while it is on the main page. But I don't want to remove the only DYK with a picture from the template and start messing around with DYK stuff that I am unfamiliar with. But continuing to highlight a copyvio is also a problem. Can you sort out the DYK issue so I can list this at copyvio?--BirgitteSB 03:03, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

It's already off DYK; I was AFK when you posted this note. Maxim_(talk) 13:15, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

InfiltrationMod deletion

Hello Maxim. I'm looking for info about why the InfiltrationMod article was deleted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiltrationMod Was it tagged for deletion and then no one challenged it ? What does "Fails to meet TW" mean ? DJ Barney (talk) 14:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

The script I use to speed up the button-pressing was buggy at that time... the actual reason was that it "Fails to meet Wikipedia's General Notability Guideline. No reliable sources to assert notability within the article, or were found via web search or news archive.". Apologies for the confusion, Maxim_(talk) 14:35, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, no problem. I'll have to study the notability thing but I think there's a case for restoring it. Infiltration still has an active forum (with low traffic but it's still there). A community download was produced in 2006 making it easy to get the latest update of the mod and many of the levels. An article that was originally published in UK PC Gamer was recently updated citing Infiltration as the origin of a lot of FPS innovations that appear in more recent games. Of course I can prove all this. DJ Barney (talk) 17:26, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Per the proposed deletion policy, I can restore it if you wish so (known as contesting the deletion). Maxim_(talk) 17:48, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, restore it, That would be great. I'll put in the references to show recent notability when I can. Thanks DJ Barney (talk) 06:50, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Maxim_(talk) 12:37, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers

Noticed this article that I wrote was a DYK today. Perhaps you also meant to notify me, however accidently forgot in your busy schedule. Did you mean to put it on my talk page also? --Doug Coldwell ^talk 15:56, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry—I must have accidentally skipped you; according to my contibs, it seems like I simply forgot to open one tab, or to click save, or something similar to that. I've given you the template (albeit half a day late...). Maxim_(talk) 16:19, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

No problem, figured something like that happened. I'm working toward 100 DYK's. Thanks for template. --Doug Coldwell ^talk 21:02, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Mail chute

I recently wrote this article. Can I upload this photo from Flicker and use it on the article? Does it have the appropriate copyright tags where we can use it? Will look back here for an answer, thanks. --Doug Coldwell ^talk 23:47, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

It's acceptable—all images license CC-BY and CC-BY-SA can be upload to Wikimedia Commons. I've uploaded this one via Flickr upload bot to Commons; it's at Image:Mail Chute.jpg. commons:Commons:Flickr images is a useful guide; the least you need to know is in the box at the top. You can easily uploaded the file via this tool. Maxim_(talk) 23:57, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, that helps a lot. Changed image in article because this one looks better. --Doug Coldwell ^talk 00:11, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

History of the National Hockey League

I added the headings with lead-ins to the various other articles. According the to the MOS, don't we put headings, then use the "main" template to redirect to subsidiary articles? Alaney2k (talk) 22:43, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

The idea is to start with a lead and add in section; but if you want to this differently, you might as well do it—this is a wiki, after all. :-) Maxim_(talk) 00:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Splice fix of Talk:Legal disputes over Harry Potter

Hiya, cheers for fixing the splice fix at Talk:Legal disputes over Harry Potter. Minor thing it may be, as a talk page, but good work resolving it cleanly, as it would be easy to be confused by the moves/reverse moves. In case you saw this independently, I did raise this at WP:SPLICE, feel free to mark this as resolved there. Regards, MartinRe (talk) 00:36, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, I commented there, but I have no clue how to format requests there; this was brought to my attention via IRC. Maxim_(talk) 00:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

S-protection of Toronto

When you made this protection, did you intend it to be forever? Ten months is an awful long time, can we try relaxing it? (Nawlin added move-prot, but that was apparently Grawp related). See also the talk page, some would like to leave it s-protected, but to me, that's not the natural state of a wiki article. Franamax (talk) 07:15, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Caulde (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) unprotected it. Maxim_(talk) 19:20, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleted Myst image

I noticed that you deleted Image:Voltaic Age.jpg a while back. Is it possible to restore this image, since it is now covered under {{Attribution-Ubisoft}}? Please let me know if you have any questions/comments! — OranL (talk) 16:35, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I have another one for you: Image:Lakiahn Age.jpg. As before, please let me know if there are any issues with restoring these images. — OranL (talk) 16:42, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Both  Done. Maxim_(talk) 19:33, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your quick response! — OranL (talk) 20:42, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Cydebot

I was about to approve it when I saw your comment (just checking to be sure there no objections anywhere on the whatlinkshere!). I certainly see a strong consensus there, with no BAGers raising objections (though not many have commented, which was odd). Anyway, fire when ready... good luck ;-) Giggy (talk) 09:45, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for closing my AFD for Tekken theories before it collapsed under the weight of a million sockpuppets. Rob Banzai (talk) 22:03, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleted Star Trek image

It seems we meet again! Would you be able to restore (I hope that link works!) "Image:TNG combadge.JPG", so that I may update its fair-use rationale for inclusion in Communicator (Star Trek)? Please let me know if any problems arise. — OranL (talk) 00:10, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done, I'm considering making User talk:Maxim/OranL. ;-) (Oh and don't forget the archives for that subpage :p Maxim_(talk) 00:16, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if the servers could handle that large of an archive…. Thanks for restoring the image! — OranL (talk) 01:55, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Major League Baseball

Hi, I did everything you requested in MLBs GA review. Cheers.--LAAFan^sign _review 01:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

It's very good, ideally we should eliminate the see also. See my comments and two edits to the article. Maxim_(talk) 12:53, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I decided to remove the see also. Cheers.--LAAFan^sign _review 17:01, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Good; I passed it. Maxim_(talk) 17:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Leila Shenna

Why couldn't you bring it upon yourself to request me to try to expand it? Did you notify me of the PROD? The Bald One ^{White cat} 16:04, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not the one putting the PROD tag; I deleted it after Stormbay (talk · contribs) proposed it for deletion. Maxim_(talk) 16:06, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

• I don't see anything wrong procedurally but based on a quick Google search and the fact that she is a Bond girl, I dispute the rationale for the PROD (i.e. alleged lack of notability) and request the article be restored. I may even be able to add some reference material. Thanks.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 01:23, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Maxim_(talk) 01:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Notice

Thanks for the offer, but I don't feel I have enough time to do this. Thanks anyways, Maxim_(talk) 23:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

You got a thank you card!

A Thank You Card!

Dear Maxim, thank you so much for your words of support, kindness, and your trust in me. My request for Adminship has been closed, and the support the community has shown will be with me forever. I have no way to properly express how grateful I am, and all I can tell you is this: I shall try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, please tell me! :) If you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you are welcome to ask, and I shall do my very best. Please take care. G.A.S 05:59, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA

While I agree with your opinions, watch your tone. You don't want to badger the opposers because it could reflect on Krm500. -Djsasso (talk) 19:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Moran

Sorry, I hadn't realised you'd finished with the updates. Do you have any other info to expand the article. I'm just a bit concerned it's too short and hence not comprehensive enough, hence failing/passing criteria 3. Peanut4 (talk) 21:20, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Paulo Cesar Leite dos Santos

Hiya could you clarify what the reason for deletion was as the summary of "no TW" doesn't mean much. --Nate1481 16:16, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

The script (TW) that I use to help me out with deleting article when proposed for deletion was buggy at a time; it didn't like links in the reason. The actual reason was "no independent reliable source proves his notability". Hope that helps, Maxim_(talk) 22:21, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Labourhome

Hi. Back in December you "deleted Labourhome (Deleted because expired WP:PROD; Non notable blog. using TW)", probably following an uncontested prod.

It is notable (now anyway), for example doing a google news search shows it mentioned in the Fincial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg. UK lawmakers write on the blog, and it has recently had a five-figure investment by a mainstream media owner.[9] It is clearly notable now.

Any chance you could undelete it to save having to rewrite the initial content for a new article? Thanks. Rwendland (talk) 19:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Certainly, I've restored it. --Maxim_(talk) 22:20, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks muchly. Rwendland (talk) 11:03, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Gilbert Perreault

Thanks for finding a lot of the citations for Gilbert Perreault.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:56, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem. BTW, the article passed GAR. Maxim_(talk) 12:45, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Tiny Thompson

Copy edit complete, sir! Risker (talk) 03:57, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much, ma'am. Maxim_(talk) 12:48, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

It shouldn't be too hard for me to find some information for you. I've been spending a lot of time at the library researching history on the Calgary Tigers, so I'm already going through reels of newspapers from that era. I'll keep an eye out out for his name when I head back on Wednesday or Thursday. Also, having died in Calgary, there would certainly be an obituary in both papers, and if we're lucky, articles about his passing. From that I should be able to get you his next of kin, at the very least. Give me a few days, and I'll see what I can come up with. Resolute 00:16, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I was able to check papers around the time Thompson died, and while I haven't found a ton of info, I will be able to add the name of his wife and daughter, at least, along with the fact that he had two grandchildren when he died. There was a memorial article in the Calgary Sun, but it was more an opinion piece without significant encyclopedic content. I might go digging around articles from the 42-43 Calgary RCAF Mustangs season - apparently he was in the Air Force, which was just glossed over in the obituaries. Have you any idea when they would have announced the HHOF class in 1959? The papers might have written stories about him given he would only have been the 2nd or 3rd Calgarian in the HHOF. Resolute 04:46, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

National Hockey League awards featured topic

I've looked into this some more and the audited articles in this topic should have been required to get peer reviews done for the 3 audited articles back when the featured topic criteria were changed. Since it was an oversight, the National Hockey League awards featured topic has 3 months from now to satisfy criterion 3.c. by getting peer reviews done for the 3 audited articles in the topic: Mark Messier Leadership Award, Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award, and NHL Foundation Player Award. Rreagan007 (talk) 04:26, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Audited does not mean "A-Class", it means "Has had a full listing at WP:Peer review" - rst20xx (talk) 00:37, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I absolutely fail to see point of peer reviewing those three articles. They were labeled A-Class 11 to 12 months ago (I think the system was a different, but the point is, for each of those articles, either I or Scorpion04222 looked at them). I don't see what formally Peer reviewing will accomplish in this, and I do not wish to put those articles through such needless bureaucracy. If you choose to remove the featured topic status in three months, that's your choice, but the lack of a peer review for articles in a topic that passed 11 months is a very poor, indeed horrible reason, to remove its featured status. --Maxim_(talk) 00:43, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree that this is a waste of time in this case. I'll throw the lists up for PR myself if that is deemed necessary, but I'll also predict the complete outcome right here: Someone will come by and run a script generating an automated response, and then a couple weeks later, the PRs will be closed. But hey, it'll only waste about 5 minutes of my time to set the PRs up, so why not, eh? Resolute 16:35, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Well I don't want to do it for two reasons, firstly, I'm opposed to this on principle, secondly, I'm much too lazy to actually try to understand the seemingly never-ending instructions on how to file/remove a PR. Maxim_(talk) 19:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll do it then. They've actually made the PR process pretty easy: post the template, click it, add your text and let bots handle the rest. Lets see if my prediction comes true... Resolute 02:23, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Gilbert Perreault

The Red Maple Leaf Award I award you this award, which is awarded for work on WP:CANADA-related work, for rapid and effective work saving the WP:GA status of Gilbert Perreault, an article I took to GA status and which was at risk under a WP:GAR procedure.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Maxim_(talk) 19:28, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Restore PROD-ed page - Inertial Compensators

Hi there,

Just wondering if you would care to re-instate (for now) the page Inertial compensators. I feel one should be able to have a sensible article on this subject - indeed I came looking for detail on Wikipedia. From viewing the deleted edits I now at least am aware of the uses in fiction beyond just Star Trek. Certainly the previous content could have done with improvement (although the final versions were perhaps worse than some earlier ones). However, it's a lot more likely that folks will improve existing content, rather than create sensible new content on a page previously deleted.

I am quite frankly opposed to the entire concept of PROD, 5 days is a rather arbitrary figure, and the concept merely exacerbates the existing problems of deletion on Wikipedia - that debate is limited to the handful of people keeping careful tabs on what is going on.

zoney ♣ talk 09:22, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Done, in lieu of Maxim, who seems to be away.
I'm assuming you mean Inertial compensator (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views); I've restored that article. (70+ revisions.)
Anthøny (talk) 12:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

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Image:WheresWaldo.jpg

I was wondering, what was the fair use rationalle given? Where did the picture come from? And why did you not remove the picture from the articles using that picture? Thanks. Fresheneesz (talk) 01:59, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Rationale present:

{{di-disputed fair use rationale|concern=invalid rationale per [[WP:NFCC#10c]] The name of each article in which fair use is claimed for the item, and a separate fair-use rationale for each use of the item, as explained at [[Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline]]. The rationale is presented in clear, plain language, and is relevant to each use.|date=February 12 2008}}
== Summary ==
Waldo from comic by Martin Handford, http://www.thegreatpicturehunt.com/ circa 1997.

== Licensing ==
{{Non-free comic}}

The source was specified. And as to why I didn't not remove it, either my deletion script which I used to assist with the deletion did not remove it and/or the unlinking bot did not remove it. Maxim_(talk) 20:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

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Why did you delete my image?

Err... why did you delete my image, Image:Goodmansllplogo.gif? Please answer on my talk page. --Marshall T. Williams (talk) 00:24, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Goodman's

Yes, I would like you to restore it. I will be able to change the copyright thing, right? Because it was tagged for deletion because it didn't have the summary. --Marshall T. Williams (talk) 00:01, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Big mistake

I've just made a big mistake- that wasn't me image! I thought it was. Sorry. --Marshall T. Williams (talk) 00:19, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Neutralhomer and Twinkle

Hi Maxim, in the past, you were one who removed User:Neutralhomer's access to Twinkle (see Special:Undelete/User:Neutralhomer/monobook.js) because of his abuse of the tool. I just wanted to let you know that his abuse is being discussed again at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Twinkle_abuse should you care to comment. Thank you, Metros (talk) 12:56, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

PR

I left more comments on the article's PR page. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 18:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

question

you deleted Plattsburgh Pipeline Radio Aug 24

[10]

why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.131.75.47 (talk) 22:21, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, as it did not seem notable, giving the |lack of reliable sources. I can restore it if you wish to work on it. Just poke me again if you want it restored. Maxim_(talk) 23:22, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

You deleted page Vincenzo Manno for copyright, but the text is my own property!! Please put it back —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arancam (talk • contribs) 17:42, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

If so, can you please confirm that by sending an e-mail to permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org? This is done to prevent impersonation. Thank you, Maxim_(talk) 17:58, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your edits to Extreme points of Sweden! :) TheLeftorium 21:36, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Stanley Cup

Hi Maxim, I went to the HHOF today and I got some closeup images of the scratched off name on the cup. Would you like me to upload one of them? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 01:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Niche Science & Technology

Hello Maxim, you deleted the page Niche Science & Technology because: ‎ '(Deleted because expired WP:PROD; Reason given: Article lacks sufficient TW)' please can you explain what TW means and I'll try and remedy it, Many Thanks Mightyhansa

Mightyhansa 11-NOV-2008Mightyhansa (talk) 12:03, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

I use a script to assist with deleting articles proposed for deletion, and at that time, it was having a bug with links, so the actual reason was "Article lacks sufficient Attribution for Verifiability of the WP:CORP notability criteria". Do you wish that I restore the article? Maxim_(talk) 20:12, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes please, what do you recommend?

Mightyhansa (talk) 09:52, 12 November 2008 (UTC)Mightyhansa 12-Nov-2008

I've restored the PROD as contested; I recommend you add sources and assert notability for firmly. The links in the actual reason are helpful. Maxim_(talk) 23:00, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for List of goaltenders who have scored a goal in an NHL game

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History of the National Hockey League (1967–1992)

After finally finding the time to get back to working on articles, I've gone through and run a copyedit on History of the National Hockey League (1967–1992). Since I'm betting its been a while since you've looked at the article as well, I was figuring you might like to give it another once over and see if it is ready before I take it to FAC. Thanks! Resolute 17:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll look over it, but I can't make any promises that it'll be quick, I'll pretty busy IRL. Maxim_(talk) 23:04, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

No worries. There's no rush, and I figured you'd want to give it another look before we go for the gold star. Resolute 01:23, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Template:Anaheim Ducks roster navbox

Hey. I noticed you closed the TfD for the Template:St. Louis Blues roster navbox. Do we need to place Template:Anaheim Ducks roster navbox up for TfD as well, or can it simply be deleted based on the Blues consensus? – Nurmsook! ^talk... 18:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

It's a bit out of process to delete it...but I did anyways, it didn't have a chance at TfD.--Maxim_(talk) 22:56, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Beholder.jpg

Could you undelete Image:Beholder.jpg? It failed to meet the Commons' derivative works policy (which eventually lead to the deletion of the Commons version), and, as such, did not meet I8's requirement that the image have a licence compatible with the Commons' policies. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 07:01, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Are you planning to claim fair use on his image? Since it is a derivative work, it cannot be in the public domain, which is the licensing in the deleted file.--Maxim_(talk) 20:27, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Could the {{Non-free character}} tag be used, since the image is of a copyrighted character? The drawing itself is derivative work, and I don't know if that would need another tag or not. -Drilnoth (talk) 12:43, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

And yes, we are planning on using the image to illustrate the Beholder article, with a fair use claim. BreathingMeat (talk) 21:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Restored.--Maxim_(talk) 21:55, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks! -Drilnoth (talk) 00:09, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

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Commons image

Dear maxim Image:AnthonyWEngland.jpg was incorrectly deleted from the english wikipedia, because it's file history was not properly migrated to Commons. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 02:25, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

The same for Image:Donald Peterson-NASA-file-photo.jpg --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 02:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Done.--Maxim_(talk) 15:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but can you please be more vigilant next time in checking the CSD I8 criteria ? Errors like these cause a lot of frustration among users when the image gets deleted from Commons because there is no source. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:30, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Sheesh, I deleted that image a year ago, and I don't do anymore I8s because of the tediousness and forgetting important, yet seemingly minute details. I really don't need a telling off for a deletion I made a year ago...--Maxim_(talk) 15:33, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I apologize if I insulted you. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 01:02, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:GreatWallOfHanDynasty.png

You have deleted Image:GreatWallOfHanDynasty.png because it was available on Commons. Please tell me if the licence was GFDL with or without disclaimers.
Thanks --D-Kuru (talk) 18:02, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I also need the same information for Image:GreatWallofQinDynasty.png

Thanks --D-Kuru (talk) 18:23, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Done.--Maxim_(talk) 15:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for information

--D-Kuru (talk) 15:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Laeral Silverhand

Hello,

Could you please restore the edit history of Laeral Silverhand for me? If you like, you can redirect it to List of Forgotten Realms characters. Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 07:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Done.--Maxim_(talk) 15:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 15:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Banner kiwi3.gif

Hi Maxim. Can you please undelete this image and leave a note on my talk page when you have done so? I'll add a non-free use rationale once it's back online. Thanks. Richard001 (talk) 03:42, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Done.--Maxim_(talk) 15:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Wmsc logo.jpeg

You improperly deleted this image. Please restore it. It is a logo used just like any other radio station's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Averyisland (talk • contribs) 18:03, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Non-free images, which include the vast majority of logos, require fair-use rationales to meet our non-free content criteria. I'm willing to restore the image, provided you agree to add a rationale for the image's use.--Maxim_(talk) 18:07, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Consider it done. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Averyisland (talk • contribs) 18:40, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Restored.--Maxim_(talk) 20:44, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I've added the appropriate tags. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Averyisland (talk • contribs) 00:01, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I see you've marked the Xiph svg logo (XiphophorusLogoSVG.svg) for deletion. Why is that? Jmvalin (talk) 14:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Non-free images require justification for use per our non-free content criteria.--Maxim_(talk) 02:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Where did you get the idea it was a non-free image? It's the logo of the Xiph.Org Foundation, of which I happen to be a contributor. Jmvalin (talk) 18:09, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

The vast, vast majority of logos are non-free; I just checked xiph.org and it said (c) all right reserved. So it doesn't seem to be free.--Maxim_(talk) 20:18, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Restoring a (pertinent?) article

Hello Maxim, I am a person who looks stuff up on Wikipedia a lot, but have never contributed or involved myself in edits. I created an account today just to talk to you and ask about an article you deleted. Here's a cut/paste of what happened:

01:07, 19 August 2007 Maxim (Talk | contribs) deleted "Urethrostomy" ‎ (Expired prod, concern was: Wow. The entirety of this article is four paragraphs about performing a specific surgery on male cats. I mean, look at it. If I really need to give a specific reason for deleting it, I'll use "lack of context.")

I was on a wiki page about FLUTD, because I have many cats and four males are having intermittent trouble/huge vet bills. I followed a link from that page to Urethrostomy. This surgery is something of specific interest to me, and I was wondering if you would consider restoring it (although maybe its actual content will not be what I need... no way to know). I'll check back later, and Happy Thanksgiving. Gretlbug (talk) 15:22, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Restored (contested prod)

Deleted archive

Hi, I was looking for some information and found Wikipedia:Long term abuse/MascotGuy and discovered Wikipedia talk:Long term abuse/MascotGuy/Archive 1. Now I can read it and found what I sought, but I am not sure why you deleted this, even after reading the MFD. It does seem practical to make this page visible, I do agree with the MFD result though. Garion96 (talk) 20:11, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, should not have deleted that one. Restored.--Maxim_(talk) 02:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I thought as much. Thanks, Garion96 (talk) 22:40, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

i notice you blocked User:Yaneleksklus today

...an editor who has been very troublesome at times. just thought i'd give you a heads-up - User:Z19AK3JH strikes me as a sock of his. have a look at the recent edits to the disco article, as well as very sweeping edits across a large number of music-related articles, and an odd obsession with the colour of infoboxes. i'll leave you make up your own mind :) --Kaini (talk) 21:07, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Reference on Georges Vezina

First off, thanks for adding more information for the Vezina article, and doing the minor fixings that I tend to miss. But as I was going through the article making all the references consistent, I came across something confusing. You added that he was the oldest goaltender to record a shutout in 1924 at the age of 37. However, the next season Vezina had 5 in the regular season and another 1 in the playoffs. Seeing how you have the book cited, I just want to clarify all that. Kaiser matias (talk) 02:26, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Reference on Jean-Claude Scraire

Hi Maxim, in August you have deleted the page of Jean-Claude Scraire for a lack of notability : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Scraire

M. Scraire was president of the Quebec pension Funds for 7 years. http://www.lacaisse.com/fr/Pages/Accueil.aspx

1995-2002 Ces deux postes de direction sont à nouveau réunis et M. Jean-Claude Scraire est nommé président du conseil et directeur général http://www.lacaisse.com/fr/lacaisse/histoire/Pages/dirigeants.aspx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Etienne2007 (talk • contribs) 02:39, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I restored the article as a proposed deletion that was contested. PS: Vous pouvez me parler en français; je comprends le français aussi mal que l'anglais.--Maxim_(talk) 02:50, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks ;-)

Hello, Thanks for the justice with the big J (you ended that crazy war and this counts!). Did you know that edit war everlasting 10 hours? That crazy wacky Yanenklekus doesn't discuss his edit changes (you know, with other editors) and he starts to "devastinating". For example here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ADisco_music-footer&diff=254816822&oldid=254816703 do you ever seen something more scaring and eyes-killering than before? ... and maybe you should know is that old school feather-head user Yanenklekus is famous for vandalising 2-step garage (he permanently adding into the infobox some crazyness like Swing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2-step_garage&diff=250416182&oldid=250415916 ). Yes there is an elements of truth, but these elements is not a primary influence. and please look there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_disco_music horror, huh? besides, his sources are only books and there is a quite little bit of Wikipedia:OR and Wikipedia:V, don't it?

Sincerely, .. and one more.. thanks! ;-) RockandDiscoFanCZ (talk) 17:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

PS. sorry for bad english.

Portal:Schools

Hi Maxim, if you get the chance do you think you could take an objective look at Portal:Schools which is up for featured portal? I haven't received additional input from User:RichardF since August and the only other commentator supported in September. Many thanks, --Jh12 (talk) 18:08, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Wizardman ArbCom

Just letting you know that your oppose is still live at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Vote/Wizardman. GlassCobra 00:53, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

RfB

My standards are fairly loose, but objective. I have not seen anyone else's. Bearian (talk) 02:14, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

ITN

I don't know where to suggest this, so I figured I'd ask you. In the ITN for today, I think we should use this image of Michaëlle Jean, rather than the one of Harper. After all, it is her decision to prorogue parliament that is being reported. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:37, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

File:Hanukiyot.jpg

I can't find this image on commons? Chesdovi (talk) 11:36, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

It was deleted from Commons, since on Flickr (the original source of the image), it did not allow commercial use nor derivatives, which is incompatible with Wikimedia policy. Maxim_(talk) 13:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Yaneleksklus

good evening, maxim - i'm afraid the above user, who you blocked indefinitely for socking, is back again under a number of aliases. you might want to have a look at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Yaneleksklus (3rd) if no-one else does in the meantime. cheers! --Kaini (talk) 20:45, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Ohio State

I still don't completely understand. Why was Beta blocked for an action such as this? Bcspro (talk) 03:23, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

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Addition to interview

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Deletion of Talk:Israeli–Palestinian conflict archives

On 28 July, you deleted the entire archive (five pages) of Talk:Israeli–Palestinian conflict, on the grounds that these were "orphaned talkpages". But they would be; there isn't an article called, for instance, Israeli–Palestinian conflict (archive1). Your action has removed a huge amount of useful (indeed vital) explanatory and discussion material. I assume that this deletion was a mistake, and I request -- indeed, implore -- you to restore these pages. Thanks. RolandR (talk) 22:56, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually, they're located at /Archive #. These "archives" were actually redirects and had no content. Maxim_(talk) 22:59, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

I can't find them. The archive box on the talk page only contains red links; none of them leads to any content. So where have the archives been hidden? RolandR (talk) 00:12, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Maxim_(talk) 00:19, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you; I tried, but couldn't work out what the problem was. RolandR (talk) 11:56, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

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commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Oliver North 2.jpg

Hi Maxim, there is a DR at Commons regarding an image that was moved from en-wp to Commons. Its copy at en-wp was deleted by you. May I kindly ask you whether you could take a look at its description if there is any source information? At the Commons copy there is just a pointer to en-wp. Thanks for your help and regards, AFBorchert (talk) 19:21, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Replied there. Maxim_(talk) 21:12, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Peppersunlimited

Hi Maxim, thank you for helping out. In the course of another deletion request, I found this user talk page at en-wp which consists of advertising only and the associated account did nothing else. I do not know how this is handled best at en-wp. May I leave that to you? Thanks and kind regards, AFBorchert (talk) 23:48, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Page deleted. For spam, {{db-spam}} to request page deletion. Maxim_(talk) 23:52, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

The VSS

Hi, can I have this article unprotected? It looks like you salted it indefinitely after two G12's. Chubbles (talk) 07:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Done. Maxim_(talk) 13:28, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Chubbles (talk) 15:04, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy First Day Of Winter!

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Wishing you a Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa!

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Talk page

Thanks for move protecting the page. Strangely enough he's never once moved it, does the hagger thing or more often the phone number, and then I block. Rinse (delete page) and repeat. In fact it's because they never moved the page that I didn't realise that they were the hagger guy and not just a copycat. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 17:45, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations

[11] Well done! What a fine way to end the year. Risker (talk) 20:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Sweet! Thanks for all your help! Maxim_(talk) 20:23, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Films Category

Maxim, I'm sort of wondering why you deleted an established and evidently necessary category page, without so much as giving a reason, as it usually expected when doing something like that... Such a move is definitely not non-controversial maintenance, nor is the reason readily apparent (to me, at least. Maybe I'm missing something). I'm assuming you just thought that the overall post-apocalyptic fiction category was sufficient, but with the relatively large number of pages linked to this deleted category, and no way of knowing which items were films as opposed to literature, radio, or television content (in the post-apocalyptic fiction category) short of manually clicking each and every item, the page is de facto necessary. I'm sure you're just doing your job, and I certainly don't want to antagonize you in any way, but you need to provide some reasoning for such a MAJOR deletion, as per Wikipedia policy.

If you could, please restore the category page in it's entirety... I'm not even sure all of the articles previously linked to the page are represented in other categories, and even if they are, I'm not sure it's sufficient for users or editors to be able to easily find the articles in question. Thank you in advance! And happy holidays! Kaelus (talk) 06:52, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

The category was renamed, so a bot had tagged it for deletion. I probably should have specified a clearer reason. Apologies for the confusion. ~Maxim 13:45, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

So...

Who were the seven ArbCom candidates you selectively picked? You said that you thought they would work best together. --Dylan620 _Contribs ^Sign! 21:45, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I did. Is there something else you wish to ask me? Maxim_(talk) 21:47, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Who were those seven candidates? --Dylan620 _Contribs ^Sign! 21:48, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

You can go through my contribs to find that out... no offense, but don't you have something better to do, like make an article better, than to quiz me on my arbcom picks? Maxim_(talk) 22:51, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Just curious. --Dylan620 _Contribs ^Sign! 00:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

User talk:J. P. GORDON IS TEH AWESOME ZORS!

It's nice that User:Jpgordon got his account working again, and doesn't need to be unblocked and adminned through this secondary account. It was very helpful of you to remove the extra account now that the problem is solved. :) -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:57, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Good advice

This is your note. Resist the voices. --Moni3 (talk) 23:04, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Soviet Power Gang

Why did you delete that? Soviet Power Gang is a Californian street gang just like Armenian Power, and their page is up here. Why do you have to destroy it for everyone else?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.146.25 (talk) 16:32, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Can you give me the exact article name so I can look at it again? As shown by this log, I haven't deleted any article by that exact name. Maxim_(talk) 17:30, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy holidays

Thanks for making 2008 an interesting and enlightening year for me; at some point, our paths have crossed and I've found your comments amusing, helpful or thought-provoking—I'll let you guess which!

Wishing you and yours a joyous holiday season, and happiness, health and hopefulness in 2009. I trust you'll enjoy this little token, a favourite performance of Baby, it's Cold Outside, for your holiday amusement.
Best, Risker (talk) 00:49, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Page protections

Thank you! --FritzG (talk) 15:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

User talk:72.2.63.189‎

Can you please sysop protect this as they are just continuing to vandalise with that sodding hacked by china crap. Corruptcopper (talk) 15:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

No worries already  Done Corruptcopper (talk) 17:29, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Just so you know

Hi Mazim, when you made this edit to AC/DC (I'm assuming with a script), you also converted the endashes in File:ACDC - Back In Black-sample.ogg and Image:ACDC - Toronto November 7,2008.JPG, which rendered them useless and redlinked for over a week. The later is a free image, so it was left alone, but the sound file was deleted because it was not used for more than a week. You should try to be a little more careful in the future. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 06:13, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Possible Lightbot Problem on ANI

I posted a question the "Possible Lightbot Problem" thread on ANI you perhaps could answer. Thanks...NeutralHomer • Talk • December 31, 2008 @ 18:51

Replied there. --Maxim_(talk) 18:53, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Please do not use rollback for content disputes as you did here. I've removed the tool for now, and if you wish to have it back, please contact me in a week or two. Maxim_(talk) 00:10, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

You're probably right, mea culpa, I'll poke you in a week or two and take this reminder to heart. Sherurcij ^{(speaker for the dead)} 00:12, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Poke Sherurcij ^{(speaker for the dead)} 23:30, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

 Done Maxim_(talk) 23:31, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Bwhahaha Sherurcij ^{(speaker for the dead)} 23:35, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

List of first overall NHL draft picks

Just out of curiosity, I was wondering why you move-protected this article when there wasn't any move warring against me and Djsasso? -- _{signed by} SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24 _{(spell my name backwards) at} 10:46, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

History of the National Hockey League (1967–1992)

I've gone through again and tightened up some of the wording, and am nominating it at FAC. I've added you as a co-nominator. Hopefully we can go 3-for-4 on this series. Resolute 18:52, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of article

I have looked over the "A7" guidelines, and I do not understand why the article is not about a notable person. Devon Hunter has created a blog that is becoming an important resource online for the community it addresses. It is also one of only a few (if not the only) blog of it's kind that deals with its subject material in the way that it does.Jack Kirven 1/3/2009 74.235.45.229 (talk) 04:59, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Many people run popular blogs, and it doesn't mean they should have an article. There were no independent references in that articles, and I can't find any myself via a Google search. --Maxim_(talk) 14:20, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello Maxim, just wondering how Crystal Fountains page should be formatted in order to make it to Wikipedia. I found WET Design page and it's a fountains company as well that was not deleted. What's the difference between our articles? Should we reference more to educational terms and famous projects? Please let is know. Thank you. Crystalfountainsinc (talk) 21:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crystalfountainsinc (talk • contribs) 21:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Eyes Set To Kill

Hi, was hoping I could have this title unprotected and redirected to Eyes Set to Kill. Chubbles (talk) 21:16, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Chubbles (talk) 21:51, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Deletion review for Baritenor

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Baritenor. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedy-deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Stifle (talk) 09:11, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Castrato

Your Featured sound candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured sound status, Image:Alessandro Moreschi.ogg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another sound, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. Xclamation point 21:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Eastfield Cricket Club

Hi, I note you have deleted the article for the Eastfield Cricket Club. The reasons given were "I live in Croydon and have never heard of Benson Oval or the Eastfield Cricket Club and Ringwood is over 100 miles away". Understand that may be the case for the Croydon in the UK, however in Australia these is definately an Eastfield Cricket Club in Croydon (Melbourne Australia) and Croydon and Ringwood are less than 1 Kilometre away from each other. Could you please re-instate the article? thanks Jarrod Bell President Eastfield Cricket Club 08.01.09

Isan article

Hi, I see you've been looking for references for the Isan article. Thanks! As you've noticed, however, it's a bit of a specialist subject. :) It would probably be as well to leave it for now and I'll get round to working on it again eventually, and just let the FAR shenanigans take their course for now.

Cheers, Henry^Flower 09:16, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Thomas D. Brock

13:13, 6 July 2007 Maxim (Talk | contribs) deleted "Thomas D. Brock" ‎ (Non-notable (A7))

If the text is salvageable, could you please restore this? He's a famous biologist. I'm working on what links here. Viriditas (talk) 13:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to recreate a stub. I would appreciate it if you would restore any relevant content to the new talk page. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 14:14, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2009_January_12#Thomas_D._Brock. It's probably as well to start from scratch. --Apoc2400 (talk) 20:02, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

As was supported there. Since the deletion review was over so fast, i do want to protest at am a little troubled by your earlier speedy. an assertion of a named professorship is a clear assertion of importance not just enough to pass speedy, but to pass WP:PROF, now and even in 2007. Why did you not restore it when you were asked, and instead forced the work of deletion review? DGG (talk) 23:01, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Excuse me for butting in here, but why such a combatative tone DGG? Have you not seen Maxim's contributions? He hasn't edited in over a week and I'm sure he didn't see this message to restore it. If he had done then I'm sure he would have restored the text. There's no need to go running off to other other users talk pages saying you're going to be auditing Maxim's deletion log. It was a simple mistake and there's no need to shoot him down because of it. This sort of attitude is why we're losing good admins who donate their spare time. What thanks do they get for that? Misinformed slapped wrists when they haven't even edited since the request to undelete. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 23:58, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Agreeing mostly with what Ryan said, I also wish to protest the fact you expect every admin to provide a response within six hours and not be a human and not have a life and not be burnt out and not be able to take breaks. Maxim_(talk) 21:29, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

my apologies if it sounded unfair, but seeing such articles nominated for speedy two years ago when I came here is what in fact brought me to take an interest in WP process, and I am even less likely to pass over them now. But my tone did need some improvement, and I modified it for the record as I indicated. DGG (talk) 02:01, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Teiji Honma

On January 15, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Teiji Honma, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Dravecky (talk) 23:21, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Restore History

Hello,

Could you restore the history of Red Orchestra: Mare Nostrum that you deleted previously because it did not fit the requirements, but now it does and it has a full page? Thank you.

-PatPeter 03:49, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Certainly.  Done Maxim_(talk) 11:22, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Tug of War

How about restoring PaulMcCartneyalbum - TugOfWar.jpg? I am not sure where it was used that it was invalid, but it was used on the album's page and it's valid there. John Cardinal (talk) 04:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

My bad, of sorts. I got confused when deleting by the missing disambiguation. I've restored and fixed it for you. Maxim_(talk) 11:22, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. John Cardinal (talk) 03:41, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Jupiterpanzergrenadiers.jpg

I have only just noticed there was a post on my userpage about this photo.

I know it states i didnt make an adqueate fair use claim; if you know - what was it missing, what didnt i do right?

Cheers --EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 09:24, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

A non-free image must comply with our non-free content criteria (NFCC). In your case, you were completely missing justification, a requirement of NFCC#10. I've restored the image since you know best why you are using, and I've reset the time limit, so there are seven days remaining to fix it. Maxim_(talk) 11:22, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

File:David Byrne and Brian Eno 2008.jpg and NFCC

Thanks You requested that File:David Byrne and Brian Eno 2008.jpg be made a bit smaller to comply with NFCC #3b. Reviewing that guideline, there isn't a clear criteria of resolution or file-size, so I'm not sure to what extent the image needs to be manipulated. For what it's worth - and this is present in the summary at that file's page - I have already cropped the original image. If you have a more definite guideline, please let me know and I will be happy to comply as best I can. Please post on my talk if you would like to respond. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:54, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Onitsha File

How was my justification not proper? It is an advertising material, a book cover that is in the public domain, especially for the purposes of a non-profit article on the novel. I said that it in my justification, and now you've stripped my article of it's picture. I seriously don't know why I even try here anymore, not with the miles upon miles of bullshit and bureaucratic red tape, people have gradually decided there have to be strict guidelines and codes for everything. Please tell me though how the picture didn't meet the so-called "standards".--Robert Waalk (talk) 02:45, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I strongly dislike bureaucracy; however, you must realise that Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL, a copyleft license. Wikipedia also accepts copyrighted material, under strict conditions. It's a matter of copyright issues here, and to avoid an abuse of these copyrighted materials, the conditions are strictly enforced. I can certainly take another look at your file if you provide me a direct link. Thanks, Maxim_(talk) 02:49, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I'll have to rewrite the whole justification and what not. The whole issue of images is something I don't like to deal with because its so much more trouble than it should be, and more than its worth. I think I'm just going to drop doing them, because I don't like putting as much effort in detail in my proposals as is deemed neccesssary. This is the third picture I've had deleted unfortunately.--Robert Waalk (talk) 22:13, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Polite reminder

Please remember when deleting files to remove links to them, avoiding leaving messy redlinks on articles. Thanks. --John (talk) 05:18, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

A bot, User:ImageRemovalBot usually takes care of removing deleted files. It seems to be working, and maybe it was delayed a bit. --Maxim_(talk) 15:40, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Image:Rice MBA Logo 2.png

Please explain to me what was wrong with the rationale for this image? It's the school's logo. It's used only within the school's article, and I explained this in the rationale. It's pretty standard to include a school's logo in their articles - so what gives? Rklawton (talk) 05:50, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I think you already know when you restored the image. Maxim_(talk) 15:02, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Film

Any chance you could do this again? I spotted an error in the code but have now fixed this in the sandbox. Cheers! PC78 (talk) 15:36, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done. Maxim_(talk) 15:40, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Restoration of images

see [12]. Colud plese restore both images? --jergen (talk) 19:16, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. --jergen (talk) 10:57, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Beatlesong

Username hardblocked? Wut? --MZMcBride (talk) 19:41, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't look like it "16:36, 30 December 2007 Maxim (Talk | contribs | block) blocked Beatlesong (Talk | contribs) (autoblock disabled) with an expiry time of indefinite ‎ ({{UsernameBlocked}}) (unblock | change block)". I unblocked myself. Maxim_(talk) 20:41, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Image deletion

Hello. You deleted File:Flo from Progressive Insurance.jpg without posting any advance warning on my talk page, and without asking me to give a better justification for use of the image. Furthermore, the justification for which I had already given for the image was already well within the proper wikipedia guidelines. Grundle2600 (talk) 01:37, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

You were notified by FairuseBot who flagged the image for deletion. Your rationale was highly deficient, as you just said it was under fair use and not justification as to why its usage was necessary. If you wish to fix the image (I personally don't see why exactly you need it, but as the uploader you likely do), I can restore it. Maxim_(talk) 13:56, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I responded to the notification from FairuseBot by removing the image from the articles where I had not explained a rationale on the image page, and I left the image in the one article where I did put a rationale for use on the image page. And I explined all of this on my talk page right after the posting by FairuseBot, all in less than one hour from when the bot left the message. And yet more than a week after I fixed the problem, you deleted the image. There is no justification for your having deleted the image. If you had actually read my response to FairuseBot, you would know that. I want the image restored. Grundle2600 (talk) 17:10, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

You need to provide actual justification as to why it is fair use to use the image. You can't just say it's fair use and that's it, that's all. You must justify how it meets WP:NFCC (especially #8). Maxim_(talk) 02:32, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I said the image was being used in the article Flo (Progressive insurance girl). That's what the image is. It was the other two uses of the image that caused the bot to tag it, but I deleted the image from those two articles, and I explained so in the same place where the bot left the message. And how can you expect me to fix something that you deleted? Why did you delete it, instead of placing a message on my talk page asking me to fix it? How can you expect me to fix something after you deleted it? And why haven't you resored it yet like you said you would? How can I fix it if it's not there? Please restore it, and please tell me what you think I need to do to fix it. Grundle2600 (talk) 14:22, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

You need justify why that image will significantly increases the understanding of the article (which is a stub). I've restored it, but I honestly don't think you can make a good argument as to why that image should be included. Maxim_(talk) 22:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I added some more information to the image page about why the image is in the article. Grundle2600 (talk) 03:40, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

List of players with 5 or more goals in an NHL game

See WT:HOCKEY#NHL or National Hockey League?. RandySavageFTW (talk) 01:52, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tommy Dunderdale

The article Tommy Dunderdale you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tommy Dunderdale for eventual comments about the article. Well done!

Logo: WNYE FM

Hi Maxim, your deletion of PNG version left an article with no logo. Could you please have a look at this discussion? Thanks, --EnOreg (talk) 15:44, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

The rationale was pretty deficient; should I restore it so it can be fixed? Maxim_(talk) 02:32, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I would hope that this is fair use of a logo as described in the guideline. I don't know what the rationale was and I'm afraid I have no experience how to get a better one. Can you help? Thanks, --EnOreg (talk) 14:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

In any case, yes, please restore it. --EnOreg (talk) 20:41, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Maxim_(talk) 01:51, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks very much! --EnOreg (talk) 06:36, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Darkness Dynamite

Since you declined a speedy deletion on this one, I've sent it to AfD. Your comments are welcome, as usual. -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 03:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Cooling curve.png

Hi, I noticed that the file File:Cooling curve.png at the Commons is missing the author data and a description. The source info says that it was originally transferred from here, the en.wiki, so after looking at the delete logs I found that you deleted. I was just wondering if you could either quickly undelete it or get its author in some other way (and perhaps any English description info) so that I could update it at the Commons. Thanks! Wizard191 (talk) 03:33, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Maxim_(talk) 22:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Wizard191 (talk) 00:12, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

US-Airport Template

I believe that there is a consensus to make the changes, that were suggested when the template was up for deletion, to the US-Airport template. It is being done to remove private party links until guidelines are put in place for third party links.

The only people against the change are people that have not participated in the discussion for months and only appear right as the change is going to be made, Dual Freq being the exception. Dual Freq’s position is that the template should be deleted all together, but since it did not pass I have simply been trying to follow through with the recommendations on the deletion talk page, that private party links be removed until guidelines are formed about how those links are chosen.

If the change is performed with the addition of the FAA government website and the non-profit Aviation Safety Network, it will be in the best interest of Wikipedia, to use these non-commercial websites instead of commercial websites that are for profit and have advertisements on them. -Neilh89 (talk) 15:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

There seems to be no consensus at the talkpage. Have you solicited WP:AIRPORT members to comment? Maxim_(talk) 22:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I have not solicited WP:AIRPORT, however I will do this soon, how is this change not in the best interest to make the template conform to Wikipedia’s policy on External Links Wikipedia:External_links, and provide more reliable government and noncommercial information to Wikipedia users. - Neilh89 (talk) 19:01, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I forgot to include that there has been consensus by the majority to perform this change, though two individuals have prevented it. If you would please reread the talkpage for the past 5 months I think that you would see that, for the most part, there has been a consensus, except for one or two editors.- Neilh89 (talk) 22:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

User:PD's Reply

Good evening to you, I've now got some time to explain to you what happened. As the Wikipedian who constructed the Wikipedia article called the Georgia Centralist Party I only managed to have some time for a brief glance at the article to find that soime users had put several names of the leader of this party and I wanted to ask them where there sources were or why they did it.

However some time ago I found that this article was deleted and didn't know why. Was it because of the various unsourced names those users placed on the infobox beside the word leader? I give that to you as apossibility however I think you feel the article doesn't have enough sources.

I've done a brief search on google and could only find this third party source, is this website a suitable source to support my Wikipedia article on the party which I think is also called the Centralist Party of Georgia? [http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/members/1999/GA99.htm]

Apart from that I've found just now from what is called a cached version of this deleted Wikipedia article on the GCP. [http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cac he:FD-FZ6zlNg8J:en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Georgia_Centralist_Party+Georgia+Centralist+Party&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=be] the names that were placed by the users onto the infobox beside the word ″leader″. They were Barry Panozzo, Bright Moilly, Stark Stain and Bryant Moil. One final comment I want to make is that maybe this weekend when my dads less busy we can send an e-mail to the Georgia Centralist Party asking to send us any third party sources like newpaper articles discussing them or even ask them to send to us any of their policies.

If you want to discuss more about this then please reply here or on my discussion page, thank you. Political Dweeb (talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.235.223.165 (talk) 18:05, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of File:Apple Computer Logo.svg

Quite frankly, this wasn't warranted. Andrew c (talk · contribs) removed the FUR for Apple Inc., which caused the image to be orphaned. Did you not check the image's history before deleting it?

Please restore the image as currently the relevant section looks a bit odd now that it is missing the rainbow Apple logo. ~ Paul^T+/_C 02:02, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I concur. This is one case where determining the justification is trivial by inspection: The justification for the other images in that section applies to this image as well. Adding the missing justification is greatly preferred to deleting the image. Conversely, if you think none of them are justified, treat them as a group and send them all to FFD. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 04:25, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

My apologies, I didn't check the history on that one, probably would've weeded out the problem, so I've restored it. @Davidwr, I was not promoted to admin a week ago, I've been doing fair use issues for well over a year, and I don't need a lengthy lecture about it--in fact, how did you find this discussion and why did you decide that I need a talking-to? Maxim_(talk) 00:32, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

My apologies if my tone was out of line. I came here because this page showed up on the "File links" section of File:Flo from Progressive Insurance.jpg a few days ago and I hadn't got around to de-watchlisting this page. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 00:49, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Deleted File:Bolshevik-meeting.jpg

Hi Maxim, Could you check the description for the deleted en: File:Bolshevik-meeting.jpg for source and author information? The file on Commons just has "en: wiki" as source, obviously that's not really helpful. You can paste info here or in commons file if you want. Thanks! admin on commons doing some cleaning up Deadstar (talk) 09:37, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Why...

Did you delete, then restore, then again delete my talk page and how do I see the OTRS thing. (Moon) and (Sunrise) 02:28, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

To remove some problematic revisions per an OTRS request; the link is a reference for users who have access to OTRS queues. Maxim_(talk) 02:32, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism on Wikispecies

Hi, I'm leaving this message on the talkpage of several of the Wikispecies admins. User:Cheesecracker has spent an hour and a half running riot through Wikispecies. I couldn't find an admin urgently so requested help from the Stewards. A two hour block has been placed while cleanup occurs. Can an indefinite block please be used? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:22, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Batch undelete?

Google led me here... . How does one batch undelete? –xeno (talk) 23:52, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Use User:AzaToth/twinklebatchundelete.js. Maxim_(talk) 02:41, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

(slaps forehead) now that's easy. not sure why internal search and google didn't lead me there. thanks, –xeno (talk) 12:23, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

User page

Nice to see yours back :-) --David Shankbone 04:26, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Doctor and the Medics

Hello Maxim, I noticed that you deleted Doctorandthemedics.jpg on the 10th of January 2008 due to "fair use" concerns. My father managed this band in their peak, and I've spoken to the lead singer of the band today, he's agreed to send me a picture for use on Wikipedia when he returns from his current tour, I'm not certain how would be the best way to add this into the article, or where I need to post proof that he's given permission, etc, could you offer me any feedback on the matter? (Wiki noob.) Revelation13 (talk) 14:22, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

OPPS! I changed your text

Hope you don't mind that I edited some of your post at WP:RFFP (opps, I mean WP:RFPP). Just giving you a heads up, since I'm not in the habit of editing other people's comments. Feel free to revert if you disagree. No harm intended;) -Andrew c ^[talk] 02:20, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

For the copyedit of Nancy Cartwright, it's very appreciated. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 17:16, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Ask and you shall recieve ;-). You're actually the only admin I know of who writes FAs like that Pattont/c 17:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey

Are you still having problems with the table? I was hoping to nominate it tonight and I want to get all of the problems hammered out first. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 22:53, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Rocket Richard

I agree with you that this information ought to be on this article, but the consensus that was reached was that the article is about the trophy, that is, the physical piece of metal and wood and whatnot. We had an extensive discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey/Archive27#Presidents.27_Trophy, where I forcefully argued the contrary, but the consensus that was reached was that the article is only about the actual physical piece of hardware. I agree with you but I also admit when I am defeated, so I am only enforcing the consensus that the group arrived at. If you would like to reopen the discussion on the main talk page of WP:Ice Hockey, go for it. MrArticleOne (talk) 03:58, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Page creator/main editors not notified of intent to delete User profile page, plus lack of consensus

Mr. "Maxim" - to be frank and emotionally honest with you I'm upset that you'd simply deleted my user page without any attempt to express intent, motive, or alternative to deletion: [[13]]

Linking from a User page / profile to an external content management systems (CMS, of which wiki's are one type) for providing additional information about myself, all of which is self-authored, with User page-purpose fulfilling intention is most certainly not "G11: Blatant advertising."

I'm not a hockey expert, I am a web expert. So please allow me to say that in web parlance linking between sites is called a hypertext "network". E.g. not "advertising." I believe you know this, so am left to assume that what you mistakenly presumed was to do with my motives for linking to other self-authored user/profile pages, on other CMSes, not, I think, the actual User page content I'd authored here. Yes?

In sum I am writing to request User page restoral. If, however, some content I'd previously published ABOUT MYSELF seems to accord with WIKIPEDIAS's Deletion Policy, PLEASE CONTACT ME, so at least good faith efforts to reconcile and resolve this dispute, via editing and review, can be attained: mic (a) uxdesign (dot) com

If, on the other hand, no good faith effort is made on your behalf to allow me to fully express compliance with WIKIPEDIAS's Deletion Policy [[14]]--if not also your personal interpretation of it--then I intend to pursue the Dispute resolution process [[15]] in full.

Allow me too to provide you a reminder of what constitutes good Wikipedia Administrator conduct: [[16]], and that Adminship is not a game: "When you are an administrator you don't just block and unblock who you want, delete and undelete what you want, go around editing protected pages when you want or go protecting and unprotecting whatever you want." [[17]].

Thank you for your time and re-consideration,
Michael Cummings: Uxdesign (talk) 19:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Under our criteria for speedy deletion where an administrator can delete a page without prior discussion, your userpage qualifies since it is basically your resumé, which it means it means speedy deletion criteria G11—pages that serve to exclusively promote their subject. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not the place for this type of content. While reasons under the what Wikipedia is not policy are not by themselves reasons for deletion, Wikipedia is not a link repository nor your webhost. I understand you are upset with the deletion, but Wikipedia is simply not the place for this type of content. Tangentially involved to your request, it is best when approaching me, or any other administrator, not to threaten them with removal of access since they may be slow to respond, or outright ignore you; I understand you are not trying to blackmail me, but my first glance at your note made me think that you were doing so. Maxim_(talk) 21:33, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Star gazing

I'm going to begin rewriting Montreal Canadiens and History of the Montreal Canadiens soon to get them up to FA standards in time for their centennial date, and hopefully a main page appearance on Dec 04. As usual, I'm hoping you can lend a hand as your time permits. Also, wrt History of the National Hockey League (1967–1992), have you been able to secure a copyeditor before I/we try again at FAC? Dabomb and Giants2008 both already gave it a good look, so I dont expect a litany of concerns from them the second time around. Cheers, Resolute 00:36, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

They have copyedited both of the GA articles. I think we can ping them for a last minute look before re-nomming. What would be the timeline for the last article, then? I've also started working on the main article; I've trimmed the lead, written a section, and I've outlined two more. The Canadiens history is an interesting choice, as I think it will be very useful to pore over French sources (which I can do with a trip to the library). Oh, and I'm also working on a Triple Gold Club FT (well Scorpion is doing more, but I've done and am doing substantial work), so I am a little bit stretched, but it's nothing I can't handle. PS: I've been looking over the WT:HOCKEY discussion so this project isn't news exactly, but thanks a lot for the special invite. ;-) Maxim_(talk) 00:58, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Indeed. I'm also a tad stretched with some other projects (mainly going back to my junior hockey focus), so I wanted to get an early start on this topic to give enough time to get it done. Your access to some original french sources would be great. I'll be limited to the various books I have and can pick up. I'll contact both of them for a last health check before re-submitting the third history article, and hope to have the fourth follow fairly close behind. I've seen your work on the main article. It will be interesting to figure out how to properly summarize the other four without making it redundant to them, or being too thin. Resolute 01:07, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

I was copy-editing a section, but when I tried to save, I encountered a Wikimedia server error. After suffering through this for about ten more minutes, I left the computer. Obviously, I can finish my work now. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:55, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Excellent. I'll likely put the third article up for a second nomination this weekend then. Your efforts are most appreciated! Resolute 16:05, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of the National Hockey League (1967–1992). I threw you in as a nominator again. Resolute 00:54, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! So you're aware (and I suggest you read/offer comments), Scorion0422 and I have written the History of the National Hockey League article and have submitted it to GAN. Maxim_(talk) 04:08, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories

hi maxim, can you undelete The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories? I wasnt around for the rfd discussion and id like to continue to improve it! log cheers Spencerk (talk) 16:37, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Done. Maxim_(talk) 21:14, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Gus

I have no idea what happened there. I didn't make any of those changes. All I changed was links around calder trophy.... -Djsasso (talk) 19:19, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... I think you probably edited an earlier version. Maxim_(talk) 19:21, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Protection from IP vandals

Please reinstate the protection of the Aspartame article. Every IP edit is vandalism or gross failure to read instructions. It's wasting people's time. -- Fyslee (talk) 14:49, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 5 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Maxim_(talk) 19:36, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. We do have better things to do with our time than undoing vandalism. -- Fyslee (talk) 03:14, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy Maxim/Archives/5's Day!

User:Maxim/Archives/5 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Maxim/Archives/5's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Maxim/Archives/5! Peace, Rlevse ~ A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, someone beat me to it...

Thanks for the LH delete/restore. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:34, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Elmer Lach

On March 6, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Elmer Lach, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

How do you want to handle this?

88.108.237.193 was blocked by you, but take a look at the IP talk page, User talk:88.108.237.193. Not nice at all, IMHO.--Yachtsman1 (talk) 01:13, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I deleted it and disabled talkpage editing. Thanks for letting me know. Maxim_(talk) 01:18, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

No Problem--Yachtsman1 (talk) 01:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

A humble suggestion

I'm making this request of you (and Resolute) as Scorpion0422 suggested you might be inclined to take on this task. I note with some sorrow the passing of Colleen Howe, the one and only "Mrs. Hockey" and now-late wife of Gordie Howe, I also note with some surprise that there only a stub article with Colleen Howe as its subject. Sure, there's a school in School District 34 Abbotsford named for her but just a stub on Wikipedia for this author, pioneering female sports agent, and member in her own right of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame? If you're interested, this would make a fine addition to the encyclopedia and an easy DYK candidate. (I would, of course, have to recuse myself from approving or promoting any such hook.)

Here are a few sources that would get a writer started: Yahoo Sports obit, New York Times obit, USA Today obit, National Post article from 2008, 1974 NYT article by Howe, Corporate Detroit article from 1991, Globe and Mail article from 2003, Washington Post article about HOF induction, NYT article from 1993, [Sports Illustrated article from 1980], and, well, I think you get the idea. There are a jillion good sources out there. - Dravecky (talk) 21:04, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

An excellent job has already been done expanding it. I'll se what I can do. Maxim_(talk) 12:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Malleus Fatuorum

Please can I ask you remove the admin only protection here, as I wished to reply and editing through your protection seems rude. In addition, I'm really not sure it helped anyone, to be honest. Pedro :  Chat  22:46, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

FWIW, I for one think the protection was a very good call. — Aitias // discussion 22:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

You're quick. :) I noticed that tempers have been flying high; Aitias has already received a warning from Coren, Malleus's accusation holds little if no weight to it, and not-well founded accusations are flying all over the place. While I won't call it a storm in a teacup (blocking a contributor like Malleus is not a small matter), I see a hurricane when a gale was forecasted. Maxim_(talk) 22:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Maxim, your protection goes against the protocol for protection and is uncalled for. If you do not unprotect, then other admin will. Ottava Rima (talk) 22:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Dare I say that you've just proven my point, Ottava? Maxim_(talk) 22:56, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Ottava - please don't assume another admin will unprotect. I could if I wanted - but I won't overrule this - heck I'm not even keen to edit through the protection - that should say something. Pedro :  Chat  23:00, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Proven your point that you are violating CoI, protocol, talk page guidelines, and many other points? Perhaps you meant "proven your point" with this disruption? Talk pages are not to be protected in this manner. Ottava Rima (talk) 23:08, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Ottava Rima, your persistent untrue allegations against administrators abusing their rights when they are clearly not are getting unbearable. Stop it. — Aitias // discussion 23:11, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Malleus is currently blocked, and the use of his talkpage by him and other is completely unproductive, and with the socking accusation, plain disruptive. Maxim_(talk) 23:13, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Ottava Rima, your persistent untrue allegations against administrators abusing their rights when they are clearly not are getting unbearable. Stop it. — Aitias // discussion 23:11, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

(ec)Quick, because I was trying to reply on his talk :) I don't wish to process wonkery but WP:PROTECT says User talk pages are usually not semi-protected except in response to severe or continued vandalism of which I see none of. There is no wide scale "disruption", it's (by definition) localised and this now disenfranchices users such as Ottava and Wisdom who were contributing to the discussion. I really think this should be overturned on balance Maxim. Pedro :  Chat  22:58, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I don't think Coren's message was intended to be a warning, Maxim. Anyway, I only commented on some incredible lies, that could not be let passed without comment. — Aitias // discussion 22:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

@Pedro: Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Talk-page_protection: “Administrators may fully protect the user talk page of a blocked user if the page is being used for continued inappropriate editing.”. — Aitias // discussion 23:02, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Okay, fair enough, I don't think we need any admin fall out here, but I was hoping we could manhandle this back to a sensible conversation without taking out editors such as Ottava, Wisdom, Majorly who all do not have the admin bit ...... Pedro :  Chat  23:04, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry, I'm not at all interested in editing it, I'm doing other more important things. Majorly talk 23:15, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Holy batman! This page hasn't been this active since the time I deleted the Main Page. :p @Pedro, it's actually full protection, so the written policy is actually a bit different. I think the biggest concern here is the disenfranchisement of non-admins; however, my intent is so that everyone avoids the situation, and not only the non-admins. If this was still on AN(I), it would have been much more quickly slapped with the archive templates. @Aitias, on second look it's more like friendly advice, so I take my initial comment back. Maxim_(talk) 23:06, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Okay, well, I think it should be unprotected and I've asked, and you don't, and I won't do anything. So WP:WHEEL is avoided and my own spinlessness is revealed. Joy. Pedro :  Chat  23:10, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I realise you wish that it's unprotected, but I'm not really seeing the good that's going to come out of doing this. I'm open to comments/criticism from other parties about this, of course. Maxim_(talk) 23:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Just leave it protected. Malleus, and no one, has any reason to edit it. All that's going on is people bitching about "abusive" admins, unwarranted accusations of various things, and baiting. There is no reason whatsoever for the page to continue to remain open. Majorly talk 23:15, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

It is extremely unfair protecting Malleus' page against editing, when I'm sure a great many Wikipedians (myself included) would probably want to wish him well. This editor is one of the best on Wikipedia - just count his little bronze stars and GAs. Wikipedia without Malleus would be a great deal poorer. Wikipedia without some of the over zealous admins now knocking around - well, potentially, a great deal better.-- Myosotis Scorpioides 23:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

This protection expires in a day, and it is a net positive if the unproductive discussions stop and you wish him well tomorrow. Maxim_(talk) 23:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

It is this kind of tripe I can't stand. So what if he wrote lots of articles? He's not above and beyond being courteous, respectful, and polite to other editors. We have tons of other people who write featured articles, who manage to get by without insulting and attacking everyone they disagree with. If Malleus can't act within community norms (which involves courteous editing) then he very rightly should be blocked. The solution here is simple: he starts acting like a rationale adult, and all this will end. Admins don't block people for no reason. I can't stand this "admin abuse" crap. The block was completely and utterly well deserved. And the latest sock allegations should really mean an extended block, but no doubt one of his buddies will show up and protest with more lame claims of admin abuse. It's utterly pathetic. Majorly talk 23:26, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Tripe? Perhaps, when you have as many FA and GA articles to your name as Malleus does, rather than the handful of DYK and two GA listed on your user page, I will consider your opinion worth listening to.-- Myosotis Scorpioides 23:36, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Please come back when you find the part of WP:CIVIL that says people that write FAs are exempt from it. Until then, consider the fact that poor behaviour is not acceptable on Wikipedia, regardless of how many FAs/GAs/BAs the user has. Majorly talk 23:39, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, if you want to get picky, what part of WP:CIVIL allows someone to say that another editor is talking "tripe"? Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopaedia and, without people like Malleus who create exceptional articles, as well as polish up others to a high standard, Wikipedia wouldn't be held in as high regard as it is.-- Myosotis Scorpioides 23:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Without people like Malleus, administrators will be able to get on with their job, without ridiculous cries of admin abuse left right and centre preventing them from doing so. So what if he wrote a great article? Well done him. There are plenty of other article writers, and there will always be more. Article writing is not a get out of jail free card to use when you frequently violate policies. Though I say that penultimate bit with caution. The way Malleus treats some people, I expect many newcomers would be frightened off the site. Majorly talk 23:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict) You are extremely rude. Extremely. — Aitias // discussion 23:42, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps it's a characteristic that he shares with Malleus, since he seems so keen to be condoning his bad behaviour, with the poor excuse of "he's written some articles". Majorly talk 23:44, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I think that protecting the talkpage would be a better solution than an extended block, but I've looked around Malleus's comments more in depth after my initial comments on the AN/I thread, and I would agree with Majorly's other points, so since I have more FAs and GAs than Malleus, would that mean you will give our partially identical opinions some consideration? Maxim_(talk) 23:40, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Your list of FAs is certainly impressive Maxim. However, they all seem to be on the one general subject and you are not the major contributor/editor of several. Malleus tackles a wide range of topics - an encyclopaedic range you could say. He also helps a great deal of other editors - including newbies - to achieve GA and FAs. I have never found him to be anything but pleasant, professional, extremely helpful, endlessly patient and very knowledgeable about building up FA and GA articles.-- Myosotis Scorpioides 17:05, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

It is clear you are either thinking of a different person entirely, or have not seen Malleus's numerous immature, insulting, and disrespectful comments, made to editors from arbitrator to newbie. Please stay out of this as you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Majorly talk 17:42, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Dear Majorly, I fear you are bordering on, if not teetering over, the WP:CIVIL line when you demand that I "stay out" of things because I "clearly have no idea what I'm talking about." In fact, the only reason I am speaking up is that Malleus has helped me to achieve two FAs in the last year and I feel he is being treated unfairly here. I was a very raw newbie with the first FA I tried for, and he was endlessly patient and encouraging. The same with the second. Please check your facts before making sweeping, and untrue, comments.-- Myosotis Scorpioides 18:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps I am, but I am not nearly as bad as your bestest buddy Malleus. If anyone is violating WP:CIVIL, it is he, not I, so have words with him instead. Actually, unless you want a stick shoved in your eye, I'd advise against it. I personally have found Malleus Fatuorum to be one of the rudest people I have come across in my entire life. I'm currently teaching 4-5 year olds with better manners and etiquette. That you have found different is your luck. Perhaps he likes you better or something. I would certainly say that "patient" and "encouraging" are two of the last words I'd describe such a person to anyone. Majorly talk 23:12, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I find your removal of my comment a disgrace. You may be entitled to remove comments on your talk at will, but I came here because bad manners prevented me from editing throught your protection. I appear to have been greeted with bad manners from you. [18]. Again, a disgrace. Admins hould be above simply removing comments unless they are bad faith - I can only assume you think mine were. Pedro :  Chat  23:26, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

He removed Aitias's as well. I can only assume it was an accident. Majorly talk 23:28, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Pedro, I'm so sorry. I'm completely unaccustomed to posting to a talkpage with so much activity, and in one of the edit conflicts I must wiped your note by accident, but the irony here is that I actually replied to it. I've reinstated your comment back in. (ec--can't find Aitias' comment, I'll try to fix this fixed). Maxim_(talk) 23:29, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Maxim, I had already fixed it. ;-) — Aitias // discussion 23:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, then, I re-fixed it. :) Maxim_(talk) 23:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :) — Aitias // discussion 23:38, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Your Talk Page has been blocked except for comments by admins prepared to edit through the protection

Not really. Me, I'd undo the protection on Malleus' page just to stop the orange bars. I think the above vindicates my position that your protection was ill conceived - it simply shifted the whole debate to another venue (your talk), and this time without Malleus here to "defend" himself. De-centralising the debate is not helpful. The DRAMA's were only partly due to Malleus. Please reconsider, if nothing else to save the orange bar ..... Pedro :  Chat  23:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Yo, can you give his this:{{WikiPint|~~~~}} [[Ferdinadea]] woot! ResMar 00:00, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Looking on the bright side, maybe someone will give feedback on your editor review now!!! Dabomb87 (talk) 00:13, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Malleus Fatuourum, or however you spell it.

Hi.

• Admins.. I probably will try to be one some day, but I tend to disagree with most of them.
• A long, long, time ago, an admin absolutely refused to let me change my talk page into a redirect to my user page. Oh oh, he said, the community must be able to contact you!! <insert more exclamation points>
• Now the community cannot contact Malleus, because you have protected his talk. A number of questions follow logically:

• No offense, and just for my info, how long have you been an admin?

• As I wrote on my ER which you saw, about 19 months, since June 30, 2007. Maxim_(talk) 19:09, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

• No offense, and just for my info, how can you reconcile admins refusing to permit me to change my talk into a redir, but then admins refusing to let me edit malleus' talk? That's a flat contradiction.

• These seem to be two different circumstances: Malleus' talk was protected because unproductive discussion spiraled into disruption; I don't see why you would need to to have your talk redirect to your userpage. Maxim_(talk) 19:09, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

• No offense, and just for my info, what rationale do you have (I saw the edit summary; consider it insufficient) for blocking his talk?

• If you wish me to elaborate a bit more: Malleus wasn't asking for an unblock, and after the socking accusation I'd be highly, highly surprised if there would be consensus to unblock. Secondly, the discussion on his talkpage was unproductive, and started to become disruptive, justifying its cessation through the use of page protection. Maxim_(talk) 19:09, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

• No offense, and just for my info, do you think admins have the right to do things arbitrarily? is power justification for action that suits your fancy? Etc etc. I am open to any reasonable explanation. Ling.Nut.Public (talk) 07:43, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

• Admins are picked for their good judgment, which means they are empowered to take reasonable measures to create a better collaborative environment, which is key if you're trying to build an encyclopedia. Policy is descriptive, and not proscriptive, which gives admins some leeway on choosing the best course of actions. This ability is the reason why standards at RfA are high--we must pick the right people for the job, and consequently--the power that goes along with it. Maxim_(talk) 19:09, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Considering the duration of the protection, I don't think this matters all that much. Yes, it temporarily interfered with the ability of users to communicate with Malleus via his talk page, but, let's face reality here (and I say this as a person who was actively participating in these discussions), the discussions were counter-productive and non-Wiki related (with respect to the actual encyclopedia). Moot now? I think so. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 18:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Not moot. But pointless, in a way.. though not in the same way that you would see it, probably. What I mean is, talking to admins is useless. That's true because admins think they keep the peace blah blah blah. They think they're like Ward Cleaver, dispensing fatherly wisdom blah blah blah. They all agree with themselves in this matter. If no one overturned your block, that wouldn't mean it was right. It would just mean that the admins are agreeing with themselves again. .. I probably sound crazy to you. The point is this: admins, over time, cease being Editors. No matter how much they edit. They could write fifty FAs; wouldn't matter, they are no longer editors. They are Admins. They talk like admins--always framing situations in terms of "I know best, and since other admins agree with me, I'm right." They think like admins. It becomes a role. It becomes a.. power dynamic. It becomes a worldview. And so.. admins take on a view of everything.. that is self-reinforcing (i.e., "because we say so, and we are admins, therefore we represent Wikipedia, it is right when we do it" etc.). But the view is slightly warped. It is a vandal-whacker's view of Us and Them. It's a parental view of Daddy Knows Best. Your block was a Daddy Knows Best move, and perhaps it is true that no other admins would have overturned it.. because they are also daddy. And because they know best. But when dealing with real editors, it's still the wrong way to go to use power to move things in the direction you want them to go. It rests on the Daddy Knows Best assumption.. nay, conviction.. that you are right. It is an abuse.. lower-case "a".. of the privilege (I wouldn't call it an abuse of the editor, or perhaps it is, but it is more an abuse of the privilege than an abuse of the editor.) But whatever! Admins can no longer comprehend this; they are no longer editors. They are inherently and inalienably above editors in the power dynamic and on the wisdom scale. In all truth, though you may not believe me, I am saying this with no more bitterness or emotion than I would say "water is wet." But it is quite useless. So whatever. :-) Ling.Nut.Public (talk) 07:03, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

One star, two star, three star, four star

I've gotten another copy edit from User:Sarcasticidealist on History of the National Hockey League (1992–present). I want to take one more run through it myself tomorrow, then will be nominating it at FAC, with you as a co-nom, of course. After that, if you and Scorpion can get the plus sign on the main article, we might actually get this FT done, only a year after it was started! Resolute 21:53, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of the National Hockey League (1992–present) Resolute 00:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

The Deletion of the article Live Aids by the Rebel (Ben Wallers)

Hello, I wish to contest the deletion of the article Live Aids. It was apparently deleted on the basis of an expired WP:PROD ("Reason given: Non-notable single."). For one, the disc is an EP album, not a single, and belongs in the discography of the band. As for its notability, it brings together two important art punk scenes on a single album, with internationally 'popular' Montreal "weird punk" band, AIDS Wolf, and the London art scene experimentalist Ben Wallers. This album is very notable for the artists involved and I do admit that the article was left a tad sparse. I was awaiting for more online press to bubble up - these things can take time. I do believe some of the major blogs dealing with this particular off-beat music have begun to review the album. Anyway, thank you very much for your time and consideration. Matthew.

mgosse 00:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC) User:Horseytown (talk) 23:47, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Restored. Maxim_(talk) 19:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Dates

Are you joking? What am I supposed to do then? I do one opposite, its wrong, then I do the other opposite and its wrong. Is there anything that can be done right in this situation?

Bort08 00:43, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

There must be SOME format thats right; on explaining how to edit, it said that dates should not be linked.

Bort08 00:50, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Browncollie.jpg

Hi, you deleted this file, but relevant information are missing on Commons. Could you please add source/author information there and check if the license is really ok? (it's PD-self for the Commons uploader "AZOP" at the moment, but I guess PD-user for the original uploader "Pshuttle" would be correct) -- \mu/ 02:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Updated the info. Maxim_(talk) 19:32, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Was there no information about source and author in the original file description? You only updated the PD tag, but the other parts are still missing. If there were no such information the file will have to be deleted (und shouldn't have been transferred to Commons). -- \mu/ 05:11, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :) -- \mu/ 15:46, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of public domain image

Hi, Maxim. I just went to look at the article on the Buster Keaton film Cops and couldn't believe it didn't have an image. A quick check of the edit history confirmed my suspicions, and experience. Their was an image, but it was deleted in this edit. I believe this is a public domain image (pre-1926), and it was mis-tagged as "Fair Use", though actually "Fair Use" would probably be perfectly appropriate in this case, assuming it was a film poster. Would it be asking to much to have the image restored and the image description fixed? Would it be asking too much, further, if you and fellow film-poster-image deleters would fix image descriptions, rather than deleting acceptable images? Buster Keaton fans everywhere would be most appreciative. Thank you. Dekkappai (talk) 02:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Restored as an error. It's PD-1923 actually. ;-) Maxim_(talk) 19:32, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Dekkappai (talk) 19:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Bubble tea!

File:SynergyBubble.jpg

-download | sign! has given you a bubble tea! Bubble teas promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a bubble tea, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy drinking!

Spread the bubbliness of bubble teas by adding {{subst:bubble tea}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

Thanks, I hope it's de-caffeinated. Maxim_(talk) 19:32, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

United Church of God Archive

There should be two archived talk pages deleted as Talk:United Church of God (Archive 1) I think they should be restored to Talk:United Church of God/Archive 1 and 2. You speedy deleted the last one. I can tie together with the article if you want. jbolden1517^Talk 19:09, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Maxim_(talk) 19:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! jbolden1517^Talk 22:25, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Individual is not notable

I am slightly outraged by the comment "Individual is not notable" posted on the following page as a reason for deletion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Youngman

Not that I have any clue who this Andrew Youngman is, only an interested in learning who he is.

Basically I stand highly insulted with such a comment in general. Every person alive or who has ever lived is notable, everybody has some value. Some may be more noteworthy then others, but no one is un noteworthy. In fact, just the fact that someone took the time to 'note' this person, defines the fact, is indeed the mere definition of the word: notable.

jb 14 March 2009 12.192.177.130 (talk) 23:14, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia, being an encyclopedia, is not going to cover every single person. Articles must be verifiable and as a guideline, meet basic notability standards. However, I have restored the article as done in practice for articles deleted via this process and since you obviously want to read it. ;-) Maxim_(talk) 01:21, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Trump Ocean Resort Baja

It makes no sense that you would remove the the article and the Trump name just because the project failed financially. The people who bought properties and lost money have in their possession title to properties at the TRUMP OCEAN RESORT BAJA. Jsut because it failed does not mean it does not exist.

Does Circuit City cease to exist and should we delete articles about them? What about Pacific Southwest Airlines or WAMU or Fedco or KB Toys? I own worthless stock certificates for KB Toys; should i not be allowed to know it existed?

Let the courts decide if Trump is legally liable, but the development carried that name, the investors bought properties in the project and just because there is legal wrangling, it does not mean "Trump" should be erased from this bad deal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bevillan (talk • contribs) 07:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Restored it. Maxim_(talk) 12:58, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Velankani SEZ

>for some reason declined speedy

What do I do when a page looks to me like spam, but the subject might be notable, and there's a chance that people from the WP:INDIA project might be interested in working on the article? Should I speedy it and make a copy available somewhere? (Watchlisting) - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 02:21, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I personally use the WP:CSD page as more a guideline when deleting stuff, so in this case, I would say that that page easily met G11, and of the parts you left, it was still spammy in nature and there was basically no salvageable content, which amounts to a by-the-book speedy. As for recruiting someone from WP:INDIA, with experience with WP:HOCKEY, getting someone to write the article from scratch would probably take the same time to re-write the article (ie a long time), except that there wouldn't be the spammy page. Maxim_(talk) 13:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Okay thanks. I think I'm hearing consensus on where the dividing line is, is this right? If I can pare down to non-spammy stuff, then do it and AfD it (and preferably, put it in the relevant deletion-sort cat or alert the proper Wikiproject, although the deletion-sort people are pretty good about tagging articles at AfD if I don't have time); if I've got nothing after I get rid of the spam, don't bother. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 14:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

ExteNet Systems

Hello - I started a Wiki page and I was sent a message mentioning potential deletion. I went back, edited it to ensure a non-bias view point, and I believe it was still deleted. I am doing this as a first time page about a company of choice. If I am an unbiased writer, and just state facts about the wireless antenna industry, why is that not allowed?

I'll look forward to your response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Extenet (talk • contribs) 18:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Mostly wrong about me, but understandably so

• See this long thread... Ling.Nut.Public (talk) 12:38, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Just curious why my page about one of the world's youngest published authors was deleted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fiery_Fencer_and_the_Ghost_of_Rainia

64.191.170.157 (talk) 15:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey

I have nominated List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey for featured list removal here. I think the names had to be checked. Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 23:58, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Your ER

Hello, I have archived your ER due to your inactivity on Wikipedia, and on that page. Don't hesitate to open another in the future.--Truco 02:56, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

I wish to award this guy a barnstar but...

...I can't, seeing how this page is protected. He has helped me TREMENDOUSLY on the Fort Kent, Maine article, by deleting a copyrighted picture uploaded by user:Fame. If some admin could add this to his main user page, I would be grateful.

The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		For serviced rendered on the Fort Kent, Maine page regarding a copyrighted picture, I award you this barnstar. Wear it proudly! Draconiator (talk) 14:36, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Deletion review for Curtains (song)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Curtains (song). Since you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedy-deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. CarpetCrawler^{message me} 06:48, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Undeletion request

Hi, I would like to put forward an undeletion request for the following files which were deleted by you due to missing fair use rationales.

• Image:ForceThemeSnippet.png
• Image:JabbasTheme.png
• Image:EmperorsThemeSnippet.png

I am prepared to create a valid fair use rationale for these files as I believe they would fall under these terms in its original article. I think they were uploaded by a less experienced editor who failed to provide a rationale. Thanks for your help -- Wikidwitch (talk) 10:42, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Restored all three. Please provide a rationale within seven days. Cheers. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:12, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:FOUR

You may be eligible for some WP:FOUR awards.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:20, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Fred Higginbotham and unnecessary infoboxes for hockey players

Hi, I noticed you removed my request for an infobox for Fred Higginbotham and stated that for a bio of this type, an infobox isn't really necessary. Under what criteria did this page and potentially other hockey-related pages meet for it not to include an infobox? Raphie (talk) 15:41, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind, Djsasso's added it back in, stating that while the standard hockey infobox might not be applicable but there are other types of bio infoboxes, so I suppose it should stay in for that reason. But thanks anyway for your help. Raphie (talk) 16:40, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Main Page

There's been some talk about whether or not Template:User delmain should be deleted, as only a very small number of admins have deleted the main page. I was just curious about your opinion on this userbox, since you did just that. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Many otters • One hammer • HELP)} 14:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't have a userpage at the moment, and I've never been big on userboxes, but thanks for asking anyways. Maxim_(talk) 01:16, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Ryoung122

Hi could I draw your attention to the above user. You have previously blocked him and he continues to edit pages with which he has a COI despite stating in August 2008 that he would not do so [19]. He has been reported to the conflict of interest noticeboard here: Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Longevity_myths.2C_Longevity_claims.2C_etc.. Your experience with this user would be useful in deciding what action to take. Thanks Smartse (talk) 16:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

As the reporter, I would greatly appreciate your advice. JJB 16:26, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I blocked him quite some time ago, and my memory's quite fuzzy about the specifics. I probably don't really have much to add, and I presently don't really enough time to sort out this issue (my last 50 edits span three calendar months). Maxim_(talk) 01:16, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

a quiet word in your shell-like...

...but you placed your comment outside of the !voting area's at my RfA. Cheers, LessHeard vanU (talk) 02:39, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Actually, it's intentional: I haven't used the support/oppose sections since I almost always just prefer to comment (with a few exceptions, I actually vote, if it's numerically close and it would make a difference), and the neutral section's basically the same thing as the discussion, except since that discussion is more far up, there's a bigger chance of it being noticed (oh, and I stick out somewhat doing by doing this, too!). Finally, there would less accusations of badgering if it's in the discussion instead of the neutral, as I'm more than willing discuss comments. Maxim_(talk) 11:45, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay, then. Cheers, LessHeard vanU (talk) 21:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Statement on dates

Greetings, fellow BAGger! FYI, an Arbcom decision will soon be made in which the BAG will likely be prominently mentioned. I've constructed a draft consensus statement at Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group/Draft consensus statement on date delinking to assist the ArbCom. If you could indicate whether or not you approve of the various statements there, it would be very helpful. All the best, – Quadell ^(talk) 12:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

ThankSpam

My RfA Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 12:54, 24 May 2009 (UTC) ~~~~~

Well, back to the office it is...

File:Effie&john.jpg

Please restore the image description page of this image. It was first uploaded to the English Wikipedia some time around 2005-04-29 and two years later only the image was uploaded to Commons in 27 February 2007, but it seems some of the information on the image description page was not copied to the Commons image description page, and the the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages was not copied. See [20]. If the page description and history is restored here I think I can complete the missing information on the Commons image page there. 84user (talk) 11:51, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I added all the information you requested to the image description page at Commons. Maxim_(talk) 14:30, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. 84user (talk) 17:57, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

I do not know if you left a new message on my userpage. Just wanted to clarify that I made no changes to the article on Water Pollution nor have i blanked out any page. My interests are india related profiles of specific topics. I think the prob is bcoz the IP address I use is a shared user one from a common service provider. However, you are free to log in my actual computer IP address. Thanks.

--= No ||| Illusion = 12:57, 14 June 2009 (UTC)Mayasutra —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayasutra (talk • contribs)

Non-free image clean up on AN

I guess we were working on the same list at the same time? My concern is Template:Tourist attractions in Mumbai. I replaced the non-free image with one from the commons. You commented out that image. Perhaps this was a simple mistake based on an edit conflict? I've undid your edit, but thought I'd come here just in case I'm missing something. -Andrew c ^[talk] 01:06, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Ya, it was an edit conflict. Maxim_(talk) 01:29, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Side Note

Put back on the late cyrogean picture. and i got permission. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The spesh man (talk • contribs) 00:45, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Every file needs to be licensed; as for permission, you need to submit permission to WP:OTRS, as outlined here. Maxim_(talk) 00:49, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Ray Emery

Okay, so as I got into the body, I realize the prose needs serious work. From the first sentence of the body on there is room for improvement on wording. Also, the use of "Emery" needs to be cut down significantly. I can work on it more later, but I'm just really not in the mood right now. A bit stressed from RL stuff. But yea, it's not FA quality prose at this point. If you're really concerned about it, as a BLP, you can always send it to FAR. May get the involvement of some editors better with prose than I am. Or just ask a couple FAC editors for some help with it. My FA involved me adding a lot of information with sources and others making it read well. لennavecia 02:13, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar for Hazel

		The Original Barnstar
		Whether or not it passes GA, you're doing what most people within the tropical cyclone project avoid, improving hurricane articles for old storms. Well done. Thegreatdr (talk) 16:47, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Maxim_(talk) 19:48, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Ping

I saw that your pinged me on IRC. I wasn't home, but sorry I missed you. Feel free to send me an email. :) hmwithτ 05:38, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

I pinged you only because someone (Drini I think) needed an arbclerk. Maxim_(talk) 13:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

User rights query

"(User rights log); 19:07 . . Maxim (talk | contribs) changed rights for User:GiantSnowman from (none) to autoreviewer (On User:JVbot/patrol_whitelist, has edited in the past few weeks)" - can you tell me what this means please? Cheers, GiantSnowman 19:13, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

You were added to the mentioned pageto automatically patrol your newly-created pages in Special:NewPages. Maxim_(talk) 19:14, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, you'll have to translate for me...! GiantSnowman 19:25, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, ya ... i got lost mid thought. you were previously added to the patrol whitelist because you had a track record of creating articles, so they didn't need to be patrolled at Special:NewPages. This userright has the same function, except the userright is in the software, while the whitelist was a bot. Maxim_(talk) 19:27, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh, OK, cool, cheers. GiantSnowman 19:40, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey Maxim, can you add that to my user rights? – (iMatthew • talk) at 19:20, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Could you add me to that u/r group as well? Regards, D.M.N. (talk) 19:29, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Photos at List of Chicago Blackhawks head coaches

At Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Chicago Blackhawks head coaches/archive1, I questioned the first two images, which have no evidence of pre-1923 publication (required for PD in the US). The nominator pointed out that you were the uploader, and said I could ask you for assistance. If you get a chance, please take a look at the Pete Muldoon and Hughie Lehman photos in the linked article and see if you know where they came from. Thanks. Giants2008 (17-14) 20:36, 26 June 2009 (UTC)