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My archives can be found here.
I'm an admin; I can delete pages, protect them, and block users. Those actions are all reversible.
If you need help, feel free to ask me. WP:HOCKEY members, if you need help with merges, renames, or other admin chorse, or advice how to proceed with a certain article, for example, in regards to deletion, especially feel free to ask me. I've experienced in this field, and I'd be more than glad to help you.
If you start a thread here, I will reply here. If I started a thread on your talkpage, I'll follow your "rules".

Restoring Images

Can you restore the following images that you wrongly deleted:

Rather than just deleting them, you could have just put in the boiler template for the fair use rationale. That is what wikipedia is suppose to be about...

Thanks.

Apavlo (talk) 14:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't wrongly delete them. It's not my responsibility to fix image. And with that tone, I don't feel like doing it. --Maxim_(talk) 21:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See this is what drives me crazy about Wikipedia. It was obvious that the images are fair usage, it is just that they were just missing "Fair Use Rationale" and got tagged by a bot or whatever happened to them. Nobody saw the message so then they get wiped out. It would have have taken you 30 seconds to put in whatever template the image needed, rather than just hacking it out. Apavlo (talk) 21:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored them to give you a chance to fix them. Cheers! Maxim_(talk) 01:53, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. These image removals were far too quickly made without sufficiant notice or time given to correct any percieved mistakes. As per correct Wikipedia rational, a warning tag should have been given with enough time to correct any errors. Please do not jump the gun in the future. Artemisboy (talk) 00:36, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, you have seven days to fix it, and I waited for seven days. There was a warning tag as well. The creator also gets a messages at his/her talkpage about it. I didn't jump the gun, but I appreciate your concern and suggest you go here to try to fix the policy if you don't like it; personally, I feel that seven days is more than enough to fix it.

Thanks! Can you check that I fixed them correctly? One of the problems is that there isn't a template or easy way to put this information in. I thought that just by selecting that the image is a screenshot, that's all you need. At least that's what I've done when I've uploaded other files, I wasn't the original uploader of these.

Oh, sorry but can you also restore File:Phantasy Star Gaiden.jpg? Thanks! Apavlo (talk) 04:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:The Webb Schools

May I ask, why did you delete Talk:The Webb Schools back in July? You said "(Non-notable (A7) (talk))", but the article itself wasn't deleted or even proposed for deletion. Someone has recreated it since then, and I'm inclined to undelete the old edits. Is there a reason the hsitory shoulnd'tbe restored? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 09:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That was my first day as admin, my deletion summaries were quite poor. That was basically deleted per CSD G8. Feel free to restore the history. Cheers! Maxim_(talk) 01:53, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well done!

Well done on all the bad-image deletions tonight! Recent Changes is full of your edits! :D

Cf38 (talk) 21:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image got deleted?

Why the Image:Ubi.jpg was deleted? I've followed the instructions to add at the image page the reason why it was used in the only article where it was used, so I don't understand why it was deleted... Crazy Murdoc (talk) 21:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, my bad.

Thanks for the fix Crazy Murdoc (talk) 22:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

signature

Hi - may I ask how you created your signature? I would like to change mine but I don't know how to. Shiva Evolved (talk) 23:17, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Go to your preferences, and on the first page you see you should find the signature. Paste what you want in there (in my case, '''[[Special:Contributions/Maxim|Maxim]][[User talk:Maxim|(talk)]]'''). Feel free to "steal" it, but remember to change my names to yours. Maxim_(talk) 01:53, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Shiva, if you do customize your signature, do not forget you will need to click the "raw signatures" checkmark, or they will not work. Cheers! Ariel♥Gold 01:59, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks to both! Shiva Evolved (talk) 02:06, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Cliffjumper-moviedeluxe.jpg

Greetings. I see you closed the Image:Cliffjumper-moviedeluxe.jpg replaceability concern with {{rk}}. Could you comment on Image talk:Cliffjumper-moviedeluxe.jpg as to your reasoning? Thanks, – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 23:18, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that was an error of judgment on my part. ;-) I've restored. BTW, good to see you back. :-) Maxim_(talk) 01:53, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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A peek in Special:Undelete?

Hi Maxim,

I'm an administrator on Commons and I was wondering if this image you deleted some time ago had any valid source here. You can answer here or on my talk page on Commons, I'll read any of them. Thanks in advance :). PatríciaR ^msg 10:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Well, another one bites the dust then, I'm afraid. Regards, PatríciaR ^msg 21:09, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2007-08 St. John's Fog Devils season

Good day. In closing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007-08 St. John's Fog Devils season, you were good enough to explain your reasoning for the decision. (I hate when it just says "The decision was keep/delete" without any mention of how they evaluated the arguments.) I am perplexed, however, by how your decision seems contradictory to your explanation.

You stated that you felt "the arguments based in policy and guidelines are much stronger than the ones based on pure opinion without basis in policy nor guideline". My argument to keep was based on WP:V and WP:DP policies as well as WP:NOTE guideline. The arguments for delete were that there was too much detail, the subject was not important, and there were no NCAA hockey season articles.

Could you please point me to what exact policies and guidelines showed this to be a deletion. Thanks DoubleBlue (Talk) 22:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:N, and WP:HOCKEY's guideline, which are, IMHO, are more important, as they are specialist guidelines, and I feel the WP:HOCKEY is most applicable hear. It clearly didn't meet it. Maxim_(talk) 01:58, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've searched WP:HOCKEY but, being unfamiliar with the project, cannot find the guideline. Can you give me a more precise link? DoubleBlue (Talk) 02:36, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IP range unblock request

Hi Maxim. I got an e-mail recently from Robert Young (User:Ryoung122), concerning an IP block you did:

"21:41, 12 November 2007 Maxim (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "131.96.70.128/26 (Talk)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 3 months ‎ (Abusing sock puppet accounts: sockpuppet IP range of User:Ryoung122) "

Quoting from his e-mail: "a large range of blocks for Georgia State University remain in place" and "Given that I haven't edited even though my home IP address is free, suggests that there is no longer a reason to have this 'collateral' block.". Would you be able to have a look and see what need to be done? Carcharoth (talk) 23:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've courtesy unblock the range as it blocks off many users, but I'm not unblocking Robert. Hope that clears up some stuff, --Maxim_(talk) 02:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I wasn't going to bring up Robert's block, but since you mentioned it... Robert did say earlier that he would back off for a while, and does seem to have calmed down. May I ask whether you want to give him longer, or whether you need more than just time for a possible unblock? My feeling, the way things are going, is that in future admins will have to give clearer reasons for an indefinite block, either giving a definite length of time, or going all the way to a full community ban. In this case, the discussion that led to the indefinite block should have been noted somewhere. Can you remember where the discussion took place? My view, while not condoning the disruption Robert caused, is still that jumping all the way to indefinite was not needed here. Carcharoth (talk) 08:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion was on WP:AN/I; no member of the community objected to my block, so yes, it's a community ban, and I'd prefer Robert to not be a member of the community for longer. Maxim_(talk) 21:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you re-read the discussion here, you will see that I did object to the type of block, if not to the block itself. I certainly didn't support a community ban. You might not want Robert to be a member of the community, but it's the community that decides things like that, not you. For the record, I've said before that I'd be willing to mentor Robert, mainly because I was in the process of starting to mentor and advise him (and trying to calm him down) when the block took place, and that offer remains open. See also User talk:Ryoung122#Mentoring. For now, my question is whether you think this indefinite block was sufficiently reviewed by the community at the time, or whether you think the decision to make the block indefinite (rather than a few months long) was taken in the heat of the moment? Carcharoth (talk) 00:25, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 13 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fred Higginbotham, 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.

--EncycloPetey (talk) 12:28, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox Ice Hockey Player

I was just wondering if it would possible to add an optional field to the hockey player infobox for WHA Draft information. I have been creating articles on some WHA players in the last couple days and the only draft info I've been able to add to their infoboxes is the NHL info. That really isn't relevant for a player who never played in the NHL, but did play for the team that drafted him into the WHA. Let me know if this is possible. Thanks. Skudrafan1 (talk) 20:05, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is. I accidentally salted it, serves me right for editing at 9 at night. =p Do you want to do it, or should I. I've unsalted it. Maxim_(talk) 21:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like I was able to figure it out myself. Thanks for unsalting! Skudrafan1 (talk) 22:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there

I was intending to create an article on Neil Clark (writer) but I see that such an article used to exist but you deleted it after a prod. I think he is fairly notable. Could you please restore the article so I can see what the details were before and such? Thanks very much! juicifer (talk) 04:44, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Yes, it is. I accidentally salted it, serves me right for editing at 9 at night. =p Do you want to do it, or should I. I've unsalted it. '''<font face="Arial">[[Special:Contributions/Maxim|<font color="#FF7133">Maxim</font>]]<sub><small>[[User talk:Maxim|<font color="blue">(talk)</font>]]</small></sub></font>''' 21:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 ::Looks like I was able to figure it out myself.  Thanks for unsalting! [[User:Skudrafan1|Skudrafan1]] ([[User talk:Skudrafan1|talk]]) 22:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
+== Hi there ==
+I was intending to create an article on [[Neil Clark (writer)]] but I see that such an article used to exist but you deleted it after a prod. I think he is fairly notable. Could you please restore the article so I can see what the details were before and such? Thanks very much! [[User:Juicifer|juicifer]] ([[User talk:Juicifer|talk]]) 04:44, 14 December 2007 (UTC)