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Title

From looking at various covers of the zine and the website, the name Maximum RocknRoll appears to be the form most commonly used. Some entries use the form Maximum Rock 'n Roll - this way of writing the zine's name seems to be much less common and not used by the zine itself. I've changed these to the common form.

MRR and Holocaust Revisionism

The link to the 'Old Punk' website is insufficient as cited evidence for holocaust revisionism at MRR. The only mention I can find on the page is:

"Their acceptance of Holocaust Revisionism back in '90 was beautifully hypocritical and hateful."

Elsewhere on the site I found "in 1991 MaximumRockNRoll started defending holocaust revisionism", written in a rant against "dogmatic socialist propaganda" (http://www.oldpunks.com/oldpunks4.html).

A reference to a specific issue is required, I think. 'Old Punk' does not seem very objective in its criticism, and its vague reference to '1991' provides little more detail on a serious statement.

Mykel Board and MRR merge

It was suggested that Mykel Board be merged with MRR. This would be innapropriate because Mykel Board has done more that is significant, than just write for MRR.

Ahndhi

Maximum Rocknroll merge

Clearly this and Maximum Rocknroll are overlapping articles about the same magazine. I don't know which spelling is considered correct, so I don't know which way the merge should go. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:50, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

well, in the latest issue issue its all one word, Maximumrocknroll. i'm honestly not quite sure it matters as it seems to change over time. it does matter that we think up all the variants and make redirects- i know this isn't normal redirect policy, but numerous articles have been created for this magazine because its spaced and capitalized so damn many ways- i know i made one once, and then found this a few days later, and i'm not the only one. --Heah ^talk 03:01, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

MovePage

I moved the page to Maximumrocknroll, that is the name of the fanzine as written on the official website (ref.). {Sirabder87}^{Static age} 20:36, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 4 May 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:55, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Maximumrocknroll → Maximum Rocknroll – Judging by past discussions above, there's been some back-and-forth as to the proper name of this publication. While there are several variants, the best available evidence indicates the title should have a space. E.g.:

The zine's official "about" page renders their name as Maximum Rocknroll, and the same rendering can be seen at the bottom of every page on the site above their address in Oakland, California.
The ISSN Portal gives its proper title as "Maximum rocknroll", with the space. The ISSN page offers four variants—"Maximum rock and roll", "M.R.R.", "MRR", and "Maximum rock 'n' roll"—but does not list "Maximumrocknroll".
As of today's date, Google shows 41,800 results for "Maximumrocknroll" vs. 83,700 results for "Maximum Rocknroll".
Both the original logo (see Commons) and the basically identical current logo (see the MRR website) use really super-tight kerning between letters, making it look like a single word, but I promise if you inspect either logo closely, it's possible to discern that the distance between that "M" and that "R" are distinctly wider than the spacing between the other letters. The one-word variant is at best an (unofficial!) "stylization", but even then it'd be preferable and better-supported to capitalize it as "MaximumRocknroll", which is how AV Club recently rendered it at the time of their 2019 closure (but note that other secondary sources like Spin and ARTnews both went with "Maximum Rocknroll").

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk; let's move it. —blz 2049 ➠ ❏ 01:31, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support - note also, the logo linked above is called "Maximum-Rocknroll.png" casualdejekyll 01:49, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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