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Welcome to the English Wikipedia. The only problem was that you made a page at Maxim pouska:Example/draft article on Georg Nees. Since that did not start with "User:" it was an article in the main encyclopedia space. If you want to make draft articles in your own user space, they need to start with "User:Maxim Pouska/". You can make one by clicking on Help:Userspace draft and filling in the title.

However, on English Wikipedia we now have a Draft namespace for draft articles, and another user has moved your page to Draft:Georg Nees where you can work on it.

One comment on what you wrote on the talk page: "all the text is copyright by --Maxim Pouska". You cannot say that: everything you contribute to Wikipedia is released under CC-BY-SA, see the notice immediately above the "Save page" button.

Since there is already an article Georg Nees, it is important that the article history is maintained, so that contributions by other users are properly attributed. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:46, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your information. I corrected my text on the talk page. I take care to proberly attribut all contribution. I use the information on this site WP:COPYWITHIN - to do it. Regards, --Maxim Pouska (talk) 05:15, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Hello, now I study the The Manual of Style (often abbreviated within Wikipedia as MoS or MOS). I need more time to correct the text in this styles - I work on it.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 20:22, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Why I write for Wikipedia

Some time ago, I used Wikipedia for research about computer art. What struck me that in secondary literature sometimes information’s are not correct. This I found also in "peer reviewed" books which are listed in the references. I have access to a private library by a collector with books and magazines on computer art. These books are primary source (original source) or early secondary literature about computer art.

On the Internet, you can find now many new primary sources that were unknown a few years or weeks ago. As an example I mention, the documents relating to the first experiments by A. Michael Noll in 1962. The library with books printed on paper and more research via the Internet I use now to improve articles on Wikipedia DE and EN. I am aware that previous authors often had no opportunity to use these new or old sources. I also realize that later authors will come to correct my text of today. These authors have then access to resources that are currently unknown to me. My thanks and respect goes but nevertheless to all who started article already on this subject.

PS – I know about the preference for secondary sources at Wikipedia – but if a mistake is spreading like a virus – I look in an old book too.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 18:53, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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		For your excellent contributions in writing, expanding and adding to articles about computer graphics and biographies related to that. Keep up the good work! w.carter-Talk 20:23, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Uffff - merci, thanks, danke.--80.141.15.244 (talk) 21:33, 7 November 2015 (UTC) - PS- but you helped too!.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 21:41, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

I hope you are not in a hurry...

Hello Maxim! I'm sorry that it's taking such a long time for me to finish the copy editing. I wish I could work faster, but since neither German or English is my first language, I have to thing four or five times before I get the sentences right. ;) The main problem is that the two languages build sentences in such completely different order. I will take a break for tonight, but I'll continue again tomorrow. I hope you have understood some of the things I have written in the edit summaries, otherwise just ask. Cheers, w.carter-Talk 20:06, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello W.Carter - no problem - take your time. I know what you mean and I correct it just. In German it will not be read sone too. My mentor has many mentees - like me - and now is an admin too. Meaning: much, much more work for him. You can take all the time. Thanks a lot. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 20:17, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done Hi Maxim, I've done as much copy editing as I can now and it's time for you to start fixing up the references. From what I can see you have not used the full and correct way of writing the refs before. I fixed one for you (the last one) so you can see how it's supposed to look. You should not leave just bare urls like you have done in many of the refs. I know that some editors disregard the use of templates in the refs, but you wanted to learn how edit the right way, and this is it. There are two good help pages where you can learn about how this is done: Help:Referencing for beginners (which includes a video tutorial) and User:Yunshui/References for beginners (more easy-going). I will take a look now and then at the draft and see how you are getting along with it and help and correct if necessary. :) Cheers, w.carter-Talk 22:41, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello and thanks a lot. I dit know about the refs. Because I working not every day or week at Wiki I have some problems with this stuff. But I look at your links and the I copy past the infos in a word doc with the tipps and tricks at wiki. It's then saved for the next time. I contact you if the job finished. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 22:59, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello W.carter, with exactly this problem I had to fight on Wikipedia DE too. You're doing it differently as in WP-de ... name=martens>{{cite web|last1=Martens|first1=Bob|title=A ... I saved it as a demo in my doc. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 09:00, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

The difference is that by "naming" the ref and writing for example <ref name=martens> instead of just <ref>, you can use the ref several times without having to write all of it more than one time. If you want to use the ref multiple times, you just add <ref name=martens /> as you can see I did at the second use of it. The rest inside the {{}} is called a citation template. Cheers, w.carter-Talk 11:35, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello @W.carter: I start to work today and the next at the references. My Mentor at WP:de is to busy which some other work and because of this, the article is not finished for the article namespace at WP:de, yet. To send this article to the article namespace here at WP:en I still need the special No. from WP:de for the translation.

References – I don’t use the templates (too much work). I use the more easy way (like in WP:de too) and in WP:en: ref author, article_link "article_name", publisher, publication_date.ref. The same for the name of people. I prefer at this time to write it like: ref Patricia Sabatini, … etc. But with „Retrieved retrieved_date.</“ I have a problem . Some of the links I retrieved back in 2014 or 2013 and so I prefer not to write this in this article. In the Futur I can take care of this if I do new research. This as information and have a happy new year. PS I dit cut here < and [ --Maxim Pouska (talk) 18:05, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Maxim, a very Happy New Year to you too. Sorry to hear that you don't want to use templates for the refs, I think you should always strive towards excellence when writing articles. It gets easier if you practice doing it, "too much work" sounds a bit lazy and the standards are very different on Wikis in different languages. As for the accessdate, if a source is on the internet and still available, you should use today's date. If not, but you have the exact date you retrieved it, you should use that even if it's from 2013 or 2014. If it's in a written publication, you don't need it since such a source doesn't change with time.

Since you are working on the same article in both Wikis, it doesn't matter which one is published first. You can publish first on the en-wiki and put the tag on the de-wiki article instead, especially in this case since you are the writer on both of them. The tag doesn't say that it is an exact translation, only that one article contains material taken from the other article.

As for moving the article to main space, it would have to be a merge with the existing article Architectural endoscopy. Although, as I said before, that article is a stub that could be used as a lead for the new expanded article. I have never done a merger of two articles (or a complete draft like yours with an article) so I don't know how to transfer/merge all the articles' history. This may have to be done by an admin, perhaps Philg88 could give us some pointers on what to do.

Sorry, but I don't quite understand what you mean by "PS I dit cut here < and [". If you are referring to that you cut and pasted those symbols into the text, you should take a look at the line just immediately below the editing window. There, to the left, you will find a small box that might say "Insert". If you click on that it will expand and you should find "Wiki markup" to click on. This will give you all the markup you need. You can just click on the different symbols and they will be inserted into the text where the place marker is. Best, w.carter-Talk 19:32, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello W.carter - thanks for your answer. You're right that you are paying attention to the quality of article. I'll follow your advice. I will do the references like the template - but without the template. I try to get the same result. The merger is best via Philg88 I think too. I have different jobs at this time and I was a litel upsite down what is the first priority - now it is this article. The last point ignore, please. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 20:07, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

I've moved your draft to Architectural endoscopy/tmp so that it's in mainspace. What you need to do now is to merge any usable existing content/references (if any) from Architectural endoscopy to the new article. Once that's done, ping me - I will carry out a WP:HISTMERGE and move the article to its proper place. Cheers,  Philg88 ^♦talk 07:06, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello @Philg88: The two references in Architectural endoscopy are in my article too - EAEA in European Architectural Endoscopy Association (EAEA) and Bob Martens in Renaissance of endoscopy. I added and edited the contend: An endoscope connected to a video camera allows for the creation of walkthroughs, allowing the architect to develop the first draft further, and the public to share and critique the architect's vision of proposed buildings and cities. Ceers, --Maxim Pouska (talk) 07:50, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

PS the article is on the WP:de not in the article namensspace, yet. only at my user page. What do I do with the translatio info box at the talk page?--Maxim Pouska (talk) 07:56, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

OK, the history merge is done and your article moved to the proper title. I should wait until the de article is in mainspace before adding the translated template to the en talk page. Cheers,  Philg88 ^♦talk 08:39, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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Kevin Carter

@Martinevans123: Hello the story about Kevin Carter is not fun. I think about to write it complete new first on my user space. I like biographies and wrote some in German and translated the articles into English. First the kid survived . The source is in Spanish and by journalist from El Monde. The stories from the early days are all somehow negative against Kevin. Maybe most of the journalist at this time (include from The Time) were more or less jealous of his Pulitzer. I found a lot new citation for a neutral and more personal biography. Also more information about the kid and the situation at the time and the place of the photo. All sources are OK – valid. Maybe at the end – in some time – I would like to ask you to take a look at the new article. After this I have to ask an admin to merge the old and the new article. I did this for the articles Georg Nees and William Fetter. The other article I wrote first in German and with the help of an admin and a mentor it was put on en:wp.

Other articles I wrote: Alex Kempkens, Tony de Peltrie and Architectural endoscopy. Best regards.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 14:09, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello again. You've entirely re-written the article based on different sources? That's quite an ambitious move. I strongly suggest that you spell out your intentions at the Talk:Kevin Carter page. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:45, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello, yes I know and like it. I always discuse my intentions on the talk pages first. The changes are then filled with citation and quotations. I am writing the text plus the citation on my user page to get a correct WP styl - special for the references. But this still takes some time. Only when I'm satisfied with it I'll start the discussion on the talk page. Editing I start after the discussions. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 03:40, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

@Martinevans123: Hello I did buy the book "The Bang Bang Club", first edition 2000. It was easy via abebooks and not expensiv, and it is now on my desk. I can write the article now as a real biography and a lot of inline citation will help. But I take my time. Maybe I'm only ready in Decembre or January. RL is very strong. The book is a teamwork by Greg Marinovich and Joa Silva - the writer is only Greg. Some of the wording at WP is from the booK: chasing, trip, etc. I take care of this. Study "Wikipedia:When to cite" for this again.

But a question too. The critic by - do-gooder, starry-eyed idealists, international do-gooder and bleeding-heart libertarians/republicans - in German Gutmensch is something. How I write that this people dont have no idea about the job of a reporter to the job of a paramedic, nurse, doctor in a situation like in Sudan is a special question for me. What would be the best word for this people of the stupid commentaries against Kevin? Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 20:49, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

@Martinevans123: Hello - I started the updates for all articles around the Bang-Bang Club and the members with Greg_Marinovich. Please take a look. My idea is first to update some articles and the last article is then Kevin Carter. This includes the article about the Girl - no the Boy! wich survived and the vulture. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 18:23, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

@Martinevans123: Hello please take a look at Joao Silva and special the part about the Sudan. I have two editors als helper for my german-france-english und W.carter is helping for the right formating of the references - crazy stuff :-) - but I learn it too. This part I plan to put in the article about Kevin tomorrow. The other updates following in some weeks too. The article was a mess and I found the right WP-wort for this after longresearch. :-) It was like a coatrack article - Coatrack_articles.

PS I worked also on The Bang Bang club film and Book - reviews by respectable reviewers. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 16:15, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

I guess you mean this one. But please take care to remember that Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:18, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I know - I wrote this text completly new - the reliable sources are from the book by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva - I put in all the in-line references to the page x to xx. I don't use wiki as source. I will explan it on the talk page too. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 17:57, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Looks very good. Well done! Martinevans123 (talk) 18:07, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Maxim and also Martinevans123. I managed to track down the sources at the end of João Silva (photographer) and also moved them up into the text in some appropriate places. Since all those sources can contain more facts that may be useful, or refs mentioned in other places, I have given them all ref names. If you want to take a closer look at them, they are easy to access via the diff before I moved them up into the text. I'll continue to potter about and fix things I find in these articles, as and when I feel like it. cart-Talk 20:12, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Bang-Bang Club update

@Werldwayd: Hello I working on an update of the articles about the Bang-Bang club and also the members. I take my time and maybe next year the job is finished. Because I did find your name as first author for some of this article I contact you. The theme I found via the photo of the Boy (girl) and the Vulture by Kevin Carter. My first impression was: something is wrong with the article about Kevin. Started my research and now I see: first I have to correct and update the other articles about this "club" and the other members. Only after this I can write an artikle about Kevin like my artikels about Georg Nees, William Fetter or Alex Kempkens (hi was in Biafra). I appreciate if you take a look at my updates. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 07:21, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

@Werldwayd: Hello, I started with the article about Greg Marinovich. Please take a look. If you can help with the formatting of the citation I would appreciate this very much. Best. --Maxim Pouska (talk) 09:10, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Maxim for your great work on covering of Greg Marinovich and Bang-Bang Club. As you notice I have made some important review of the page and obviously the very much needed clean-up of the page. I've left the contents practically intact, but had to correct language, grammar extensively and the way referencing was done which was very much lacking. Now I think it is more in line with an encyclopedic presentation although it may need further review by other editors as well. When I started the Bang Bang Club page on Wikipedia, I was fascinated by the subject immensely. The fascination has not gone away after all this time despite editing thousands of other Wikipedia pages. This particular subject and page still hits me home to a great extent every time. What an amazing and remarkable work these journalists did, each and every one of them. Again thanks to your valuable contributions. werldwayd (talk) 15:05, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you too werldwayd. I am also fascinated by the stories about this club. Special about Kevin Carter plus the Kid and vulture. I found much more new information as I researched all of this. More is coming. But at this moment RL is now again first priority for the next 4 or 6 weeks. Your cleaning I like, because I don't have the routine for this. I will first working on the other articles and the kid - only after this I start with Kevin. Thanks again too.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 15:45, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

@Werldwayd: Hello, please have a look at my edits of the last days. thanks.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 17:18, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits. I have done some minor changes as well. werldwayd (talk) 19:15, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello - Thanks - Now I start with Joao Silva - please take a look at the Talk page - I wait now some days and then I insert it in the article. On the other points I'm working too. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 18:06, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

@Werldwayd: Hello, next article The Bang-Bang Club (book). I stated with the review. More about the book is coming - but later. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 08:45, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Update at João_Silva_(photographer), too.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 09:15, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello @Werldwayd: I added some more to the artikel Joao Silva. Please take a look. The next step is the sektion "João Silva and Kevin Carter in Sudan". I have to rewrite this completly. Maybe I need for this part two weeks or more - real complicated, but I have the sources and the refs- refs for it. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 22:03, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

I have made some more edits correcting your most recent contributions for which I thank you immensely. werldwayd (talk) 00:01, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello @Werldwayd: take a look: The_Bang_Bang_Club_(film)#Reception - and I appreciate if you correcte my text. But don't ask how I find all the infos. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 23:26, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Next steps: Sudan -Joao and kevin the girl change to boy

Hello @Werldwayd: - do you kow some editor fluend in Japanese language? I researched the source by Shogo Fujiwara - book: The Boy who Became a Postcard (絵葉書にされた少年 - Ehagaki ni sareta shōnen). I found a rewiew in japanese, translated via google - not to bad - into germany. The boy in this book is not the kid Kevin Carter photographed in Sudan. Its a kid from Lesotho maybe 70 years ago. (Königreichs Lesotho / Kingdom of Lesotho)

Because of this I use only the information in the book by Marinovich and Silva, first edition, US, for the new text. Plus some other valuable source – reliable sources. I have to delede the old text completly but I take care that Silva get a fair credit in this story. Because it was his idea to go to Sudan. Beside what writers, journalist etc. invented years ago in this part is some times pure imagination - today accepted as valuable secondary sources. Just life :-).

After this job I start with the girl and the vulture. At this point I prefer to put the information - The girl was a Boy, directly at the top of this article - like in a disclaimer - after the introduction. (for this I have all the sources) How we can do this best - I don't know. In this article are more editors involved like Martinevans123 and AKS.9955 (AKS started the article). I would like if we all work well together. My job I see as researcher and writer - your job and from the other editor I see as "controler", that I get it right.

Only after this work is OK I start to upgrad the article about Kevin Carter. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 21:40, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

I would sure like to help, but I don't know how to proceed. You have all the materials and all I've seen is the movie. I don't know a Japanese editor but a good try would be the Wikipedia Embassy Wikipedia:Local Embassy#日本語 (ja). There are many language helpers on the page. By the way, you are doing great job with these related articles. But the language is lacking. So always do inform me so that at least we could fix some of the language issues. werldwayd (talk) 23:19, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello @Werldwayd: new text Sudan and --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Silva_(photographer)#Jo.C3.A3o_Silva_and_Kevin_Carter_in_Sudan

PS User:W.carter is helping too. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 16:03, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

the book is more a bad source from 2005 - then a valid source

Hello @Martinevans123: and W.carter please take a look at the talk page by Kevin Carter for the book from Japan. I don't think it is covered by the roules at WP for to be a valide source. Nobody can find an English text of the book, for example I did not found a English text. What is the point, that the book is in the Bibliogaphy? The titel is "Postcard boy" and not [The Boy who Became a Postcard]. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 09:39, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

You might want to take a look at these sources. A source is just as valid in any language. They don't have to be in English.

• The book on Amazon
• Article mentioning Fujiwara's book
• Another article discussing Fujiwara's story
• Or, if you can read Indonesian. :-)

I have fixed the translation in the Biography sections. It is the same result I get from Google translate, glad to get it confirmed. cart-Talk 10:16, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello - I see it differend.

I'm ok with amazon, but the two other article are based on the early wikipedia article only. wp ist not a valuable source - also this two article are not valuable too.

What did Silva told - maybe 10 years later - and what excactely wrote the autor - nobody no, becaus nobody can check this story about the wings, 20 minutes, etc. The old text at wikipedia is in the other sources just rewritten - copie past. It is based on a story by a witness which was not a eye witness at all for the photo of the kid. How I wrote the old story and special this part (alternativ record) is a coatrack text - with no real references.

The book is OK in a Bibliogaphy listing - but today it can never be used as reference.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 11:13, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

The vulture and the little girl

Hello - @Werldwayd: , @Martinevans123: and W.carter - I see that some IP started to edit in this article. I will edit now more and longer text today too. The question about my sandbox is correct. But in the styl I do the edits I need the consensus of the others. This I can only receive via the talkpage - I think. After my edits today I star wiht the "Reception": bad/critic, positiv and reception from academic studies. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 10:06, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

PS the link to the new text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_vulture_and_the_little_girl#More_text_and_information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxim Pouska (talk • contribs) 10:33, 24 October 2017

Bang-Bang Club

Hi, Maxim. I haven't been on Wikipedia for a few days because of the American holiday of Thanksgiving. It looks as if an admin took care of the edit-war, I am happy to see. --Tenebrae (talk) 19:50, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello Tenebrae, yes - I asked for help. This was realy something, but I know: to be nice and friendly to the players is allway the best strategy.  :-).--Maxim Pouska (talk) 20:26, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Maxim. You asked me to take a look at this draft for you, so I had a quick glance at it... formatting-wise there are still some issues, but you're already aware of them. My main concern is that the article seems to be about the wrong subject - most of the content is about the BCD Cybernetic Art team, and given the sources, it might make rather more sense to re-write the draft as an article on the team itself, rather than on one individual member. Separately the three members of the team are on the borderline of notability, but the team itself almost certainly meets the notability criteria. Yunshui ^雲_水 06:46, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Yunshui:. I am somehow aware of this with the team and its three members. Vladimir is an artist of the new tendencies movment from 1968 - since 1967, Miro has been the software designer, team partner and the chef programmer. I have no problem to prove the notability.

The men then needed a graphic designer for the future projects - this would become Dunja. My idea was that dunja gets her own article, so her name in the bcd-team article is a blue link. Ladies first. Later I wanted to write an article about Vlademir, Dunja again with the blue link. Then also a separate article for Miro.

An example are the articles for the members of the Bang-Bang Club.

OK - I will reserve more time now to produce this on the basis of your proposal. This can then be a Christmas present for Dunja and Miro. Thank you for your answer.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 14:00, 3 September 2019 (UTC) PS do I need to ping you or is this not needed?--Maxim Pouska (talk) 15:24, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

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Generative art

Dear Maxim, thank you very much for giving me info on what i did wrong by adding Ingrid Hornef. I sometimes find the various articles on chance and art or mathematical art quite difficult and to decide whether she belongs to this or that section. So, it helped that you explained your work. Thanks again! Naomi Hennig (talk) 22:09, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Hello Naomi - I am very old and know this stuff - ask me if you need help. I own a collection about this back to bevor 1960 :-) - I am a German, meet some the pioniers in rl. best Maxim Maxim Pouska (talk) 22:45, 15 March 2023 (UTC)