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What's in a name?

I'm new here, and wondering if there's a rule governing my issue. There are some things that need clearing up in the early part of the article having to do with Maxwell's transition from the Continent to England and from birth name Ján Hoch, to alias Leslie Du Maurier and finally to Robert Maxwell, the name he eventually adopted legally as a war veteran. Should "Maxwell" be referred to as "Maxwell" from the beginning, rather than as whatever name he wore when he was walking the earth pre-Maxwell? Seems to me he should be placed in time as he would were we talking about his childhood, when we would scarcely want to refer to him yet as "Maxwell." Thanks for any help provided. --Jhoughton1 (talk) 19:30, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

He should be referred as Maxwell, as well in similar other cases are done in Wikipeda, and the article's name is also concluding that.(KIENGIR (talk) 16:29, 25 June 2020 (UTC))

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Robert_Maxwell/Archives/2013#Other_names . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:7C87:4F00:BC0F:F0EB:5A0D:F9 (talk) 12:57, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

For English language tongues the name Jan Hoch does not work because it is pronounced similar to Yan Hokh. If you want to be in business that's not good. For those who wonder where Maxwell had his seed capital from: He was part of the administration by the occupational forces in the West Berlin Sectors. [Attached to the Foreign Office, he served in Berlin during the next two years in the press section.] Paper for newspapers had to be rationed and this made Maxwell powerful person. 2001:8003:A070:7F00:4180:F9F:23F0:4D31 (talk) 05:20, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Nordex

Can information about Maxwell's connection to a Vienna-based company called Nordex be added to this article? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 17:11, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

BRD Roger 8 Roger (talk) 19:05, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Big interviews with Erich Honecker, east german leader in 1981 with R Maxwell

about possibilities of reunification and ties with the western economics. Loong interview https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2F1981%2F09%2Fddr-wiedervereinigung-kein-tabu-mehr 2A03:2260:200F:403:7410:59A3:423C:572E (talk) 21:11, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Argumentative?

‘Maxwell had an argumentative phone call with his son Kevin’

The word ‘argumentative’ is (was once?) used to denote the character traits of an individual human being: someone who enjoyed or at any rate chose to engage in, acrimonious debate. It would appear that the phone-call in question caused both parties to become incensed and disputatious; it seems there was discord and an exchange of conflicting views. Even so, but the word ‘argumentative’ is wrong. Try ‘angry’ phone-call, perhaps.

This would appear to be another contemporary misusage, a word wrested from its proper context by journalistic or political minds of imperfect understanding seeking to persuade by bombast. A similar blight has been placed upon the word ‘secretive’, another word relating to the personality traits of an individual, one who is devious or evasive, who hides their true feelings, but is now used to denote clandestine or undercover organisations like the CIA - ‘a secretive agent’, for example, or a confidential documents - a ‘secretive government report’, for example.

No. 121.44.10.121 (talk) 08:50, 30 October 2022 (UTC)