People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry, S/D C/D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Williams_(comedian)

up until the "Emmit Smith Roast Incident"

PappaWheelie page was deleted ;_;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Uwaifo

"Uwaifo's hobbies include swimming, bodybuilding, gaming, reading, writing, and bringing up children in the fear of God so that they will not depart from God when they grow up."

I hope they're only his own children! Sounds SCARY otherwise.

has already been changed!

The reissue album on Soundways rules BTW

hahahha the first one is hilarious and so obvious.

"Many artists and singers have lauded the young producer for his talent at driving membership at PBS and supporting interest in more obscure types of music, primarily because of his own passion for oldies music."

full of roffles

"When he turned 22, Lubinsky was offered a job to work for PBS in south Florida, and eventually Pittsburgh, often considered the mecca of oldies music."

"He is also notable for bringing to U.S. television several episodes of Doctor Who that were never before screened in the United States"

also check the official portrait

dude reminds me of my hapless cousin

You know, I don't know much about the oldies scene, but Pittsburgh seems as likely a place as any.

can you get a source on that?

okay, who's amended the link at the bottom of the page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Raggett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_Sachs

After Gabe graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts, he made pilots with whatever camera and whatever money he could scrounge.[citation needed] His first attempt was a sketch comedy show which he made on location with friends, an old video camera and about a hundred dollars worth of fast food. This first attempt caught the eye of Jim Abrahams of Airplane/Kentucky Fried Movie /Police Squad fame who told him that if he was able to produce an entire show with only hundred dollars and an old camera, then he should go to the next level and try and borrow better equipment.[citation needed]

PappaWheelie page was deleted ;_;

-- jaymc, Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:53 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

dude, pettiness only goes so far....

email me off list if you got REAL issues: pappawheelie1 at gmail dot com

OMG I never saw those 1p3 Ned vids!!!! :D

You remind me, in mannerisms, of my friend Fred, Ned. RAIINBOW CONNECTION FREDNED LOVER DREAMER & ME. Buuutttt which one is each part of this trinity? And is Ed included? And how much does this mean to you as none of us but yrs truly & my bud thee lurker know Fred?

NED you think Little Orphan Orange is a STUPID NAME?????

Sorry all that I am almost a year behind on these FACTS and VIDEOS.

To be fair, I think some of these are a matter of fans cutting and pasting official bios from people's websites onto Wikipedia.

So that's why the nabisco page is a hagiography.

Is the Ned reading the almanac thing REAL?

i wish that nobody had changed the victor uwaifo page. that's childish.

nabisco may be right in the case of sir victor uwaifo; probably not in the case of TJ lubinsky.

re. mr. lubinsky: his grandpa who he mentions in his wikipedia page is herman lubinsky, boss of savoy records and an infamous shithead.

but seriously can someone with an active wikipedia account mark that lubinsky page as irrelevant or something? there's no reason he should have a wikipedia page.

it's an outrage

THIS WILL NOT STAND

People who have obviously written their own Conservapedia entry, S/D C/D

amtst, please tell about lubinsky the elder being an infamous shithead.

little known r&b/rap producers are the kings of this

i.e.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Taylor_(producer)

# Jonathin Bernstien, Screenwriter (Just My Luck starring Lindsy Lohan, Max Keebles Big Move, The Spy Next Door starring Jackie Chan) and author (hottie, buning embrace, Pretty In Pink)

an artist out of UTAH by the name of SEE-SMOKE, has also recorded a freestyle over the instrumental for two of his mixtapes, Dat Piff and Paranormal Activity.

Marcella started her professional career as an assistant at the Hit Factory in March 2002. After graduating with honors from the Full Sail Production and Recording Program in Orlando, Florida, she was identified as a person with tremendous potential. After only two months, she was working as an assistant engineer in sessions for Timbaland and Missy Elliot. Subsequently, she became a fulltime engineer at the studio, working closely with Timbaland. In 2003, she met Danja who recognised that her potential would take her far. Danja soon involved Marcella in the recording and mixing of all of his records, helping him to achieve “his sound.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Gallery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Bishop

This is combined with a singular, experimental approach to the guitar that takes the guitarist's art into audio realms that are rarely visited.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis_%28artist%29

I feel bad I never responded to Abbott upthread!

You remind me, in mannerisms, of my friend Fred, Ned. RAIINBOW CONNECTION FREDNED LOVER DREAMER & ME. Buuutttt which one is each part of this trinity? And is Ed included? And how much does this mean to you as none of us but yrs truly & my bud thee lurker know Fred?

It's nice to know there are others around who know how to live. As it were.

NED you think Little Orphan Orange is a STUPID NAME?????

Never read right!

And to answer Nick:

Is the Ned reading the almanac thing REAL?

It's very real:

http://tapemountain.com/almanac.html

Hurrah! I (that is Ned) can reveal that my big secret is...

Another single was release in January that featured him. The single is called Can't Sleep by JRandall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Zodiac

"thought to be" yeah right suuuuu-uuuure

another random r&b songwriter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaShawn_Daniels

"The Boy Is Mine" and "Say My Name" random?

yes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Ballinger

so this girl was in my hs grad class, I only noticed it cause she is not listed under famous hs alum and I had no idea she 'made it'.

nobody has heard of this meme, right? sorta impressive that she'd cite 48 sources.

she is now*

That's news to me, but tbh there are plenty of meme-ish link which show up on my facebook page that I completely ignore.

Pretty clear she wrote this all herself, though.

if whiney has heard of this meme I am willing to consider it a meme

nobody has heard of this meme, right?

lol you do not know any singers I guess, because that went around to all of my friends several times starting in 2009, culminating in several of them seeing her perform live with various Broadway casts like Billy Elliot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go5KhjI8_v0

like, every classical/theater singer in the Boston area has likely seen this about a bazillion times

omg I had not seen her "California Gurls"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-Qy3ZXn8g&feature=related

idg how the joke would be funny for longer than 10 seconds

still I am impressed that someone I (vaguely) knew irl is attempting a meme-based career

idg how the joke would be funny for longer than 10 seconds

congratulations, you have just described a successful meme

yeah but why are your friends paying money to see her live

Why are teenaged girls and middle-aged men paying money to see Justin Bieber live?

cause he's hot

I am willing to accept that this meme was not meant for my demographic

anyway I mostly just admire the 48 citations

it was made by this user:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Tcamic

no wait that's just the talk page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm61yavCp-o

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Sauce

In the summer of 2010, Duck Sauce released a track "Barbra Streisand", named after the singer of the same name.

Rather than, say, Rosemary Clooney.

Dayo Gore (Dayo F. Gore) is an African American feminist scholar, former fellow of Harvard's Warren Center for North American History,[1] currently employed as Assistant Professor of History and of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Gore is one of a new generation of young scholars active in preserving and exploring the infrequently chronicled history of 20th century black women's radicalism, in the US and beyond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassnectar

^ Categories: Dubstep musicians

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki_Longfellow

3 A New Voice

Pursuing the concept of a film through Hollywood was an experience that taught Longfellow a great deal about the mainstream movie business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Hendry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Marchant

shhh

Article ranges from untrue to unverifiable. Supposedly a musician. Also supposedly "more notorious as an Internet phenomenon than as a musician". Let's put it this way, a mere 932 Google hits, inflated by Wikipedia mirrors and postings on a message board that is itself barely notable at best (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/I Love Music), does not qualify as an Internet phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination.

new board description imo

oh that is a hilarious page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/I_Love_Music

Delete - content is non-notable, verging on the nonsensical. --Whouk (talk) 18:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I have a relative who clearly did this. She had a relatively impressive career in a couple of different areas but at most might be worthy of a stub-sized entry for one of them, and instead wrote this super long bio detailing everything she's ever done and exaggerating minor accomplishments.

Its content was recently replaced with an unrelated article about trees, which was then vandalized Bill 18:00, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment this vote for keep is from the same ip address that replaced the article with one about pine trees. Must not think its too important.Bill 22:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Keep or Delete, it's up to you, but if you're going to keep, then for god's sake get some better content than that in - none of the names cited are "much-loved internet personalities" they are music writers, apart from the last-named, who is a homophobic nuisance poster on the board (who is also probably responsible for putting the article up in the first place).

Excuse me, but I am that "homophobic nuisance poster". I didn't put up the article in the first place (it was Tuomas, don't you know) and I am an internet personality. Just the other day, someone walked up to me and said "I KNOW YOU FROM THE INTERNET. TO BE SPECIFIC, I LOVE MUSIC!" -- Love, Esteban Buttez

I'm sure the folks at Wikipdeia are fascinated by this, "Esteban".

Whatever that means. Also, I hope you know that I have several gay and lesbian friends. One of them works at Officeworks, and he gets me discounts there now and again. He's such a nice guy. -- Cheers Bigears! Love, Esteban Buttez!

Keep. The content of the article could be improved, but ILM/ILX is of cultural significance.
Delete. As per the above exchange, any entry about "I Love Music" is likely to be persistently changed back and forth for "humorous" purposes by board trolls, such as "Esteban", above. I'm a long-term regular poster on "I Love Music", it's a fun place, but to be honest I really have my doubts about its "cultural significance", despite its appearing in newspapers, and some of the other regulars being published authors etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryder_Ripps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Donnelly

c'mon bruh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Geringas

looks like lag∞n

Not exactly the same, but I can guarantee you that Mitt Romney's Wikipedia article was written by one of his staffers.

e.g.:

"Although the campus was becoming radicalized with the beginnings of 1960s social and political movements, Romney kept a well-groomed appearance and enjoyed traditional campus events.[15]"

"In any case, maximizing the value of acquired companies and the return to Bain's investors, not job creation, was the firm's fundamental goal, as it was for most private equity operations.[61][69]"

"While there have been many biographical parallels between the lives of George Romney and his son Mitt,[nb 23] one particular difference is that while George was willing to defy political trends, Mitt has been much more willing to adapt to them.[13][20] "

"Throughout his business, Olympics, and political career, Romney's instinct has been to apply the "Bain way" towards problems.[173][293][312]"

Keepin' a little BYU spirit on other campuses.

Jonathan Edwards, folk musician

Edwards toured as the lead in the Broadway musical Pumpboys and Dinettes when he met an old friend from the folk circuit, Wendy Waldman, in Nashville. She and Mike Robertson convinced Edwards to come to town and record a country album. "I've been making country-sounding records all my life, but never in Nashville. Yeah, let's do it." Edwards said. So, Natural Thing was produced, recorded, and released on MCA/Curb Records in 1989. "I was crazy about the songs we selected from those great Nashville writers, and the acoustic-based production that Wendy and I put together was just a joy to make and to listen to. I count that as one of the best albums I've ever been involved with."[citation needed]

who did he allegedly "say" this to?

my brother once suggested to me that we create and maintain wikipedia entries about each other, and i looked at him like he'd just said "hey let's cut our thumbs off and drink sewage."

What, out of your thumb holes?

[citation needed]

Brandyn "H*Wood" Bordeaux (born March 6, 1988)[1] is an American born mash-up recording artist. H*Wood is a proud Denver, Colorado musician whose music reflects his elecletic upbringing ranging between electronic, pop, dance and dub-step all while effortlessly rapping the lyrics; the style is considered to be innovative considering electronic and dub-step are generally genres known for its music production rather than its lyrics.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IASrW045ZWE/SZ7FLjVk0PI/AAAAAAAAJDc/BR4yfopKxT4/s400/b9vfl4b63k6im2bnBzeepL2po1_500.jpg

Glenn Alan Medeiros (born June 24, 1970, Lihue - Kaua'i, Hawaii) is an Hawaiian singer and songwriter of Portuguese descent who was a mega-star in the late 80s and 90s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfectly_Imperfect

At age 16, Varner picked up the guitar for the first time. Frustrated that she wasn't instantly as good as Hendrix, she dropped the guitar and became a part of Alexander Hamilton High School's Academy of Music's Vocal Jazz Group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Ray_Joel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Simmons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany_%28band%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surrealist_Group_in_Stockholm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Dawn_(American_band)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Dawn_%28American_band%29

oops

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Carlill

Concerning his writing lyrics, he has stated in one interview, "...it's a connection to the sub-conscious a side-stepping of the rational brain to let what's in you spiritually manifest itself in your creative medium. I mess with words as they come flying out of my brain uninvited. I think it's more like prose-poetry sometimes, hypertext, concentrated meaning in a seemingly abstract construction. It can be a little puzzling but there is a narrative but not in the literal sense we are used to... You have to absorb and translate...";and in another, "...you have to make the words count, but the order in which you put them is the really fun time. It's all code, puzzles, concentrated meaning. It has a surreal coloring but it's much less random than you'd expect."
About how his writing style has changed over the years, he has said, “...I began with a much more structured style of writing that fit the conventional pop song structure, I think within that structure you can create puzzles and language is a beautiful instrument to manipulate in this way. I have tried to move into more abstract , DADA territory with some of the later work, the meaning becomes coded like hypertext. The narrative is back to front or a zig-zag pattern of small movies. Tone Poet is a balance that can be achieved between narrative and nonsense, they’re interchangeable and I really have no idea sometimes what is going to happen until I sing, it’s instinctive mostly but occasionally the words are written down randomly and call to you in a sequence that fits."

Clearly a genius.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Seckbach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Children%27s_School

Professional Children's School was founded by two reform-minded New Yorkers, Jane Harris Hall and Jean Greer Robinson. Ardent theatre-goers, the women learned of the plight of the city's professional children - young people working on the New York stage. Public and private schools of the day did not accommodate the schedules of stage children and, more often than not, children were simply skipping school to work on the stage. Some reformers talked of banning children from the stage entirely. Determined to help these "unknown friends on the other side of the footlights," as Mrs. Robinson would later write, the women decided to found a school especially for New York's professional children. On 6 January 1914, PCS admitted its first two students in borrowed quarters in the Theater District. An immediate success, the school enrolled over 100 students within its first year.[1]

Not written by the founders, obv, but clearly by the school's publicist

This is just a press release disguised as a wiki entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_Sex_Show

Besides singing and songwriting Jizzy has also turned his hand to story writing, writing 3 books to date "I Got More Crickets Than Friends", "Angst For The Memories" - and 2006's, "Unhappy Endings", a collection of short stories, all of which are all slightly twisted, bizarre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Pigalle

(I all in favour of writing their own wikipedia article btw, especially when it is done with the kind of verve and flair on display here. Also the people on the talk page getting butthurt about lack of objectivity on wikipedia's Anne Pigalle page are baffling/hilarious.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish_J._Thakkar

The Mau-Mau's [sic] were started in 1978 by Rick Wilder (formerly the singer of the Berlin Brats)
The original line-up from Hollywood, California was Greg Salva on guitar, Roderick Donahue on bass, and Rick Sherman on drums. They started out playing at The Masque in Hollywood. Greg was replaced by Mike R. Livingston in 1979 after Greg moved to New York and Rod was replaced first by Oscar Harvey and then by Scott Franklin (onetime bassist in The Cramps). Rick had been chosen to be MC of the Penelope Spheeris movie The Decline of Western Civilization but was dumped after he insisted he be able to say what he really thought of every act before their clip (it was probably not going to be too complimentary).
The Mau-Mau's are probably the only one of the original bands from The Masque era that do not appear in The Decline. Wilder’s somewhat eccentric attitude toward the record industry and the generally extreme lifestyle of the band members contributed towards a long period of obscurity despite being well known by most in the early Los Angeles punk rock scene. The Mau-Mau's can be seen briefly in the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School, have appeared the movie "Cocaine and Blue Eyes" starring OJ Simpson and were included in the compilation Hell Comes to Your House II.
The Mau-Mau’s are releasing SCORCHED EARTH POLICIES..THEN AND NOW, featuring Doors guitarist, Robbie Krieger, playing the solo on a cover of the Wilder-Campbell punk classic, "(I'm) Psychotic", as well as Krieger's production work & also that of punk pioneer, Geza X. Gideon.

'FranKo' are a young, pop-rock band from South London UK.[5] Their blistering live style is matched by their unique, savvy songwriting and sharp looks. Having already made their mark, the 4 piece has achieved plenty - playing for London's City Showcase, touring in Thailand, taking their live show to NYC and supporting Elliot Minor on their Solaris UK national tour.
Hard working and naturally charismatic, they are currently putting together the finishing touches for their latest collection of songs, which finds them realising a compelling new sound. They have just completed 2 tours of the UK (supporting ROOM 94, then Dave Giles) and just before that returned from Music Matters in Singapore (and a sold out show in Bangkok) where they were lauded as one of THE bands to see at the festival. During Music Matters, FRANKO contributed performances to international charitable single 'Fix You' by Music Matters For Japan - which is out now.[6] Their international and home-grown fanbases continue to swell as more and more towns and territories latch onto their distinctive sound. Fan pages have been springing up all over, including those in the US, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina - and the guys make sure they service their fans diligently, and with the respect they deserve.
Earlier in the year, FRANKO were nominated as finalists in 2 categories at the inaugural St Helier Cider Online Music Awards: Best Rock Act 2011 & Best International Unsigned - and winning Best Rock Act.
December will see them playing to a potential 100,000 people over 6 days at Birmingham's NEC, where they are the only live band appearing at the Clothes Show Live event, lining up alongside acts like Alexandra Burke and Parade. And January 2012 sees them looking to take their live show to the Asian market, including a slot supporting Incubus in Thailand.
On the 29th March 2013, FranKo announced on their Facebook page they were going on a break to Re-invent themselves. [7]

the entry does not mention the most interesting thing about FranKo, IE that their singer is one of the flatmates from the BT adverts.

also their name makes them sound like they were named after frank kogan, but I think that's just a coincidence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Flett

Wow I love this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Karlgaard

im dying at "Life 2.0"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jacks#Recently

Terry is enjoying Seasons in the Sun living on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada currently working on a new Gospel album with famed guitarist James Burton which should be out later this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_%28band%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Doyle

Between 1998 and 2001, Doyle's band Dum Dums were among a handful of successful guitar bands amongst a glut of all singing, all dancing boy-bands and female pop starlets. While touring the "toilet" circuit[5] (small clubs across the country such as "The Charlotte" in Leicester and "The Camden Monarch" in London) in the UK, they were signed to Wildstar by Ian McAndrew (Arctic Monkeys, Travis) and exploded across the radiowaves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmin_Archer

After two years, Archer felt the time was right to start writing again but was hindered by writer's block. Although this did not prevent her from being initially creative she found it difficult to finish anything musically.[citation needed] However, she did not let this stop her from expressing her creativity in other ways, and she began painting and moulding clay.

In 1999, she bought a Sunderland A.F.C. season-ticket, after attending a match with her musician partner John Hughes.[4]

History[edit]
Digitiser revelled in controversy, inspiring vitriolic criticism both from various external groups, and Teletext's editorial team, who viewed the writers as troublemakers, but were unable to axe them due to the magazine's phenomenal popularity. Pages were often altered without the writers being told, with sub-editors sometimes deleting entire frames of reviews, fearing that they were missing some risque gag which might cost them their job. Digitiser's use of language was such that its writers saw this as a challenge to slip in many more subtle, yet far more risque, gags which - while lost on Teletext staffers - did not get past its audience.

Nevertheless, Teletext's senior staff felt that something was amiss, and often saw controversy where there was none.

On one occasion, a sub-editor, who shortly afterwards was promoted to editorial director of the company, rang Rose to insist he remove a "disgusting" reference to "fingering the index". When Rose pointed out that it was a play on "index finger", and that it had not even dawned on him that it might be considered rude, the up-and-coming sub-editor is alleged to have fallen silent for a few seconds, before insisting that it was still deliberately provocative, and should be deleted. A similar confrontation occurred over a reference to "The three Rs", during which sub-editors believed that - despite Biffo's amused protests to the contrary - the "Rs" part of the phrase was meant to sound a bit like "arse", rather than a reference to the famous educational principle.

Campaigns were even waged to have Digitiser's writing team fired - both within Teletext by its editorial minions, and beyond (by disgruntled Amiga, Sega, Sony, or Nintendo fans, not to mention the staff of Mean Machines and Official Nintendo magazines - whom Digitiser frequently poked fun at). Such reactions merely served to redouble Biffo's resolve to be controversial and edgy, and as he often wrote on the letters pages, Digitiser "hates everyone equally, man".

For every person who hated Digitiser, there were dozens more who loved it, both for its fair and unbiased judgements of games, its informed style, and its unique and often bizarre tone. Doubtless, Biffo's battles with his employers helped to give Digitiser a defiant, anti-establishment air.

Things finally came to a head in 2002, when Teletext gained a new senior editorial team, who lost patience with Biffo's pushing of the envelope of what was acceptable on a mainstream text service. Even though they could not quite bring themselves to get rid of Digitiser and Biffo altogether, they ordered that the magazine be reduced to three days a week, and have all humour and character stripped from the pages. Despite massive evidence to the contrary, and being one of the most popular features sections on Teletext, Biffo has said since that he was told the reason for this was because the humour "excluded people".

It seemed as if the "suits" had finally won, and with Biffo's screenwriting career taking off at the time, he could have chosen to walk away from it all. However, he chose to stay on, writing the pages anonymously, as it only took 45 minutes out of his working day. "Money for old rope," he has said subsequently.

The decision later backfired on Teletext, when Digitiser's viewing figures plummeted to half of what it had been previously, and viewers spent the next nine months inundating the company with letters of complaint, demanding it be restored. After thousands of emails and letters had poured into Teletext they were forced to go back on their previous decision, and asked Biffo to reinstate the humour, and return Digitiser to its daily glory. However, for Biffo the damage had been done, and his last shreds of faith in the company had been shattered. He returned Digitiser to its earlier style for one final, five-month run as a thankyou to the fans - which included a special ten-year anniversary celebration, complete with a glowing eulogy by author Alex Garland - before Biffo handed in his notice in December 2002. The lights finally went out on just over ten years of Digitiser on 9 March 2003.

Digitiser was replaced by GameCentral, which featured the same number of sub-pages, but less of the humour.

The writers[edit]
The founding writers of Digitiser were Mr Biffo (Paul Rose) and Mr Hairs (Tim Moore) who, as Biffo himself says, only began working on it in order to "amuse ourselves and get free games". Hairs was fired by Teletext in May 1996, and Biffo continued to write the bulk of the magazine solo, apart for occasional, part-time contributors, who helped him out with the letters, tips, and charts pages.

These temporary assistants went by the names Mr Cheese, Mr Udders and Mr Toast. Digitiser also ran a weekly opinion column, written by various guest writers, usually prominent members of the games journalist community (such as Violet Berlin and Stuart Campbell).

Recent news[edit]
In their 10 December 2006 episode, videoGaiden inducted Digitiser into their videoGaiden Time Capsule with the aid of Colin Baker in his outlandish Doctor Who outfit, and the song Lavender by Rose's favourite band, Marillion.

Regular characters[edit]
Regular characters appeared on the service both to fill up space left by short reviews and letters, and also to flesh out the content provided by the writers.

The Man With a Long Chin (later just The Man) - The Man kept a regular diary in which he would detail the job he had been doing that week, before (usually) getting fired at the end of the week. One of The Man's jobs saw him working in a burger bar. He was eventually fired when he replaced the toilet paper with gloves from the lost property box, and someone froze to death in the toilet.

The Man's Daddy - a bizarre ant/elephant creature who declared himself to be a famous comedian. His jokes tended to be disjointed, usually relying on a nonsense answer. His jokes included: Question. Why did Superman wear his pants outside his trousers? Answer. Because he was a pervert., Question.: What do you call a dog wearing a policeman's hat? Answer: PC Dog-hat and Question.: What do you say if there is a seed in your pie and a man in your yard? Answer: "Seed pie leave now". Question: What do you call a man who sits on bended knee in a crop field while playing a guitar? Answer: Kneel Farm-Strum(Neil Armstrong).

Mr. T - A take on Mr. T from The A-Team, who would dispense worldly advice, while warning kids to stay away from his bins. His distinctive vocal style was brought across by the use of capitalisation of entire words in a sentence.

Phoning Honey - Would phone up stores in order to make prank calls, and present the transcript for readers' perusal.

Fat Sow - Presented the news page, and began every article with a wild insult, and a demand that the reader stop whatever they are doing to pay attention to the rant. Rose allegedly received a written warning when Teletext's editors deemed Fat Sow's comment "What's the matter lads - too fat and stupid to get into the army?" as "Grossly offensive towards security guards".

Zombie Dave - A reanimated corpse who appeared on the news page and punctuated the items with comments written in the manner of the shambling dead. This was frequently used as an excuse to get rude comments screened on the family-friendly service, such as when he described Tomb Raider's Lara Croft as "thrr brrrd wrrz thrr tttrrrdz".

Insincere Dave - A send-up of fanboys, marketing staff and ultra-positive reviewers; in particular the over enthusiastic Dave Gibbons who at that time was the games reviewer for the BBC Ceefax service. Dave would comment briefly on the news items of the day in an overly optimistic and enthusiastic fashion. Famously, any spare space on the line his comments occupied would be filled with exclamation marks, further emphasising his "sincerity." Example: on a story about a pink casing accessory for the Dreamcast, Dave commented that, "Now your DC can be in the pink!!!!!!!". Very occasionally, a more deadpan Dave would appear: on a story regarding Microsoft's intention to ensure that the Xbox marketing budget outweighed Sony's PS2 expenditure, Dave remarked that, "Money is the most important thing." Dave's comments were usually preceded by a rather acid take on the day's gaming events, adding a further element of juxtaposition to Dave's enthusiasm.

The Snakes - A pair of beatboxing snakes, which would argue in a manner similar to that of Ali G (but pre-dating him by some years). Led to the catchphrase "I Cuss You Bad", along with the use of the word "Skank".[1]

BW - A faceless quizmaster, who was a bizarre parody of Bamber Boozler, quizmaster of Teletext quiz Bamboozle

Gossi the Dog - Perhaps Digitiser '​s most controversial character, Gossi hosted a regular gaming gossip page. On one occasion, the Broadcasting Standards Commission upheld a complaint about the Gossi page, which alluded to Gossi's master thrashing the talking cartoon dog with a belt.[2] Gossi's page also led to the dismissal of Tim Moore, who - while Rose was away on paternity leave - printed an unsubstantiated rumour about a fellow games journalist. Teletext's editors allegedly used Rose's absence (who remained useful to the company for his graphic design abilities), and the journalist's complaint, as an excuse to fire Moore.

Doctor Derek Doctors - A sinister megalomaniac, whom Biffo and Hairs secretly removed from air, after a concerned mother rang to say she found him "Perverted and disgusting".

Chester Fisho - Chester gave views on the news of the day laced with masses of sexual innuendo.

Mock advertisements[edit]
During Teletext's 16-year run, many of its subpages would have adverts inserted on the last page. Digitiser decided to create their own spoof adverts as a result. One of the most notable was for a fictional German music compilation called Rock Meister!, which included stereotypical German words as in "Rock ze nacht mit ROCK MEISTER!!", instead of the official "Rock der nacht!" as the advertisement was poking fun of stereotypes made at the German language, alongside stating the compilation is "Musik fur die LONGHAIRS!". Artists on the compilation were listed as Roxette (although they came from Sweden) and The Scorpions, while "NOT A REAL GERMAN ADVERT" was placed at the top left of the screen instead of the usual "NOT AN ADVERT". This was done as a viewer contacted Teletext over a previous spoof believing it to be real.

Reveal button[edit]
The reveal button was a feature that was made heavy use of on Digitiser. Pressing this key on your television remote made some previously hidden text appear, sometimes with a blinking effect. Typical jokes would tell you to press reveal to see what a certain character thought of your letter, or a news item, and you would be presented with a surreal non-sequitur, such as a man shouting "Swayze!" The weekend edition would often feature a full-length "story," told through "Reveal-O"s (as they were often called - see "Digi-Speak") on every page.

The most controversial "Reveal-O" appeared right at the end of Digitiser's life, on the final page of the final letters section. It purported to be a picture of "the real Turner The Worm (a cartoon character from Teletext also created by Rose) being sick". Pressing the reveal button then uncovered an image that many have likened to a recently ejaculated penis.

The end-of-year quiz featured lizard like creatures pointing to the correct answer with its tongue when the button was pressed.

Digi-Speak[edit]
A further element of Digitiser's other-worldly charm was its unusual take on the English language. Often this amounted to little more than using "the" in unusual places or adding curious suffixes to existing words (including, but not limited to -uss, -O, -ston, -Oh! and -me-do), but occasionally invented whole new sounds using words that never been used in that context, such as "huss" becoming an exclamation of joy.

Another very common Digitiser phrase was the expression "mess up". It was used to mean erring or failing, to rebuke or discredit a person's opinion ("You, sir, have messed up."), as an adjective meaning substandard or faulty ("messed-up animation"), and as a noun meaning any negative thing ("there are several mess-ups"). The phrase, like many others, was embraced by the readers who often used it in their letters. The author Alex Garland was a Digitiser fan and named a chapter in his novel The Beach "Messed Up" in its honour.[citation needed]

Using tramps as similes ("That's like putting lipstick on a dead tramp and calling it a supermodel"), the phrase moc-moc-a-moc and irrelevant sentences which read merely "And!" were all elements of the Digitiser lexicon.

It was common practice for Digitiser to mock the names of contributors to its letters page. Generally, the more obvious the better (for example a reader with the surname "Major" could well find themselves being referred to as "John"). Notable bits of name-calling included Digitiser viewer Matt Gander being rechristened "non-shiny goose", and a Mr. Tedesco being called "Safedeway", alluding to supermarket chains Tesco and Safeway.

Bubblegun.com[edit]
Bubblegun.com is a website that was established by Paul Rose, and featured contributions from several other writers. Touting itself as a Pop Culture version of Digitiser, this site gained popularity around the last few years of Digitiser, being named by Select magazine as one of the UK's top 10 "maverick websites". Though Paul Rose has not written for the site in over a decade, it remains as an archive run by its former designer, Steve Horsley. Though remaining unaffiliated with Rose - who has distanced himself from it - Bubblegun has featured new material from all-new contributors.

Digitiser 2000[edit]
In late 2014, Digitiser received an online revival of sorts with the launch of Digitiser2000.com, a website featuring a mixture of games news and reviews, articles and humour, in the traditional Digitiser offbeat style, and featuring many of the characters and features previously seen in the Teletext era of Digi.[3] The content for the new site is largely written by Paul "Mr Biffo" Rose and was essentially self-funded at launch; Rose has since enabled a crowdfunding page through Patreon to enable readers to contribute towards the site's running costs (though the site's core content will remain freely available for all to view).

needless to say, they had the last laugh

what maudlin night of the soul caused you to look that up

wanna blame swygart somehow

Self-promotion

During the last few days, two users (Lenagroup and GHErik, who exclusively edit this article, and no other Wikipedia articles) have been involved in self-promotion of Gagik Tsarukian. Activities include removal of text cataloging tax-evasion, list of business assets and business partners, as well as the addition of self-promoting, self-referenced claims such as "“Multi Group” ... provides huge amount of money for charity". Some of this text has been removed, although more work is needed for further cleanup of this article. Serouj (talk) 21:34, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

On September 18, 2009, Upsilon performed for a crowd of over 400 at the Gertje Fest 5 at the Landbouwebelang in Maastricht.[16] The Acruces were bestowed uncountable beers during their performance. Lai commented, "it was the most Southern rock we've ever sounded." The next day, Lai took a stroll along the bank of the Meuse river, walking as he often did, alone, pensive and content. Nearby an infirm Dutch senior fell into the water. Lai retrieved the man without hesitation. Once ashore, the local man pulled away and accused Lai of attempted drowning. Unable to communicate in Dutch, Lai was held until the Maastrichtenaar authorities understood Lai's heroism. He was promptly released and given a reward of €500.[17] It is believed that Lai anonymously donated the fund to charity. Lai declines to speak of such matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan-Zico_Black

That's a brilliant one.

During the first season Black left his lodgings abruptly after a controversial bedroom flooding incident.[22]

Amazing.

haha

96 references

s. Grateful if underwhelmed by the money on offer, Black understood the club's rationale: "I suppose it was in case we done well and got snapped up by another club, Morecambe wouldn't get a penny for us."[26]

Black was also forced to change lodgings under inauspicious circumstances for a second time, when the hosts – a lesbian couple in their fifties – pummelled youth team player Carl Stanford.[29]

loooooooooool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_L._Moore

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (March 2015)

aw

During the first season Black left his lodgings abruptly after a controversial bedroom flooding incident.[22]

really disappointed that "bedroom flooding incident" doesn't link to its own wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Borsari

page was created three years after his death, though.

spooooooky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Karp

too incoherent and achronological to be self-spam

Upendra Mahato (Nepali: उपेन्द्र महतो) is a businessman of Nepalese origin living in Russia, where he is the president of the Russia-Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is the Honorary consul General of Nepal in the Republic of Belarus.[1] He was president of Non Resident Nepalese Association, International coordination council (NRNA, ICC) [2]

He introduce spicenepal to teliasonera group (Sweden/Finland)[citation needed].

When there was a dispute between the company spicenepal and the employers he played a vital role to sort out and personally present himself to give more support[citation needed].

Upendra Mahato and business[edit]

He is expanding his fortunes with the help of his relative in the field of real estate[verification needed].

Mr Upendra Mahato has built oldage home at Devghat, a spiritual place located in the riverside of Narayani river near Narayngargh City, Chitwan district of Nepal. Mahato has also built a Kriyaputri Bhawan (mourning place for 13 days after the funeral) within the complex of holiest Pashupati Area for Hindu religious people. He is former president of NRN. He has also been member of many Nepali clubs and is a prestigious person.Recently he has build up a hospital in karjanha in the name of his mother Fulkumari Mahato .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bryant_(lyricist)

Bryant helped Linn to purchase equipment and between them they started from scratch to write music together and work out routines that could be played at live venues. Within a year, Bryant and Linn had become very popular and were packing small music venues across England and Wales. However, Bryant and Linn were never to experience the same degree of success as Jones.

Its cringeworthy to learn that as trite and awful as Howard Jones's lyrics were, he didnt even write half of em - this no-name self help guru schmuck did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jalj_UfQrHs

"Life's Not For You" is v good as well

Duct Taped Goat is recognized Worldwide and regarded as a "patriot in wolf's clothing", appealing primarily instrumental industrial, metal, and punk rock music to disaffected youth and adults.
There is currently no label associated to Duct Taped Goat.
The official reference citation source www.ducttapedgoat.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartz!

In September 2007, the band announced that they were going to take a break from touring to focus on their education, with Maughan studying English Literature at Oxford University and Anderson studying English and Film at Sheffield Hallam.[citation needed] The decision was explained in an article in The Times newspaper entitled "Bands Balancing Uni With Fame", although it was criticised by the NME in the magazine's review of "The Sad History Of The Village Of Alnerique" in September 2008.[citation needed] Dartz have had three videos featured on MTV2, all of which were directed by Teesside University lecturer Marcus T. Diamond. A fourth video, for the track "Cold Holidays", was recorded by Wife Swap cameraman Rob Taylor during the band's tour with I Was A Cub Scout.[citation needed]

this is the only other Dartz! reference I can find on ilx

Michael Crompton wrote this on thread Best Music Torrent Sites That Aren't Oink or IndieTorrents on board I Love Music on Aug 20, 2005

can i please have an invite please
[email redacted]

I have loads of music to share

forward russia, elle milano, alecto, clor, dustins bar mitzvah, los fastidos, louis xiv, the paddingtons, cribs b sides, metro riots, mystery jets, the blood arm, about 15 chalets tracks, the departure, I have every futureheads song ever recorded, the rakes, rgoers sisters, we are scinetists, yeti, vincent vincent and the villains, the rocks, the rifles, dartz etc etc etc

pur-lease

http://i.imgur.com/nCEucPQ.png

lols

Final tally at closing: 1 Keep; 5 Delete; 4 discarded anons/socks. Owen× ☎ 21:35, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/I_Love_Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Music_(forum)

In mid-2011 Hart established a new online presence with the relaunch of the www.CoreyHart.com Web site. Hart also created an official Facebook page to reach his audience. Spurred by popular demand, his Web site was again redesigned and relaunched again in October 2011 and currently features rare photos, live performance video and an online store. He continues to interact with fans on his Facebook page and has conducted interviews via video based on questions submitted online.

Also in Fall 2011 he and wife Julie Masse Hart offered the following limited edition merchandise exclusively online:

Custom designed, handcrafted jewelry by Julie Masse Hart
Original paintings by Corey Hart, with initial net proceeds donated to Project Medishare for Haiti. Additional works by Hart were released in December 2011, May 2012 and December 2012.
New T-shirts and sweatshirts
Six previously unreleased songs: "Sail Away," "Eternally," "She's So Good," "Open Up Your Heart," "Ciao Bella" and "Good Good Lovin." Three previously unreleased demo recordings of "In Your Sweater," "Loving Heart," and "Baby Do I" were offered in December 2011. Hart also released rehearsal recordings of "Sunglasses at Night" and U2's "One" in November 2014.
Marie-Christine's Walk in Beauty CD and MP3 download

maybe there's also room for a "Fans who have obviously written their idols' Wikipedia entry" thread?

come across them ever so often, not sure if this is the perfect 1st candidate but seems to be a bit of glorification going on in this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Scott_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grado_(wrestler)

https://i.imgur.com/agv6WYh.jpg

I listened to Dionne Warwick's Cole Porter tribute album recently, which has some rather dated and inappropriate production. Ended up finding the Wiki bio of "Plex" Barnhart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Barnhart

Barnhart wasted no time in infiltrating and familiarizing himself to club owners and managers as well as club promoters and doormen to eventually be on the A-list, and VIP memberships of some of the cities most coveted nightclubs.

That Kurt Russell entry is hilarious btw.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/politics/kfile-seb-gorka-wikipedia/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Sharpville

that sullen photo is beyond revolting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Haskett

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holy shit you've cracked the code

Feel a little sad posting this as I only checked it because he died on Sunday, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyd_Jarvis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Haggerwood

The period music video was the biggest challenge of the project, but after a long search, Leigh found talented British director, Nick Bartleet, who shared his vision and helped make it a reality. As the plans progressed, American cinematographer John Perez offered his services as Director of Photography, and the extraordinary video was shot at Blists Hill Victorian Town at Ironbridge in Shropshire. The song and video [1] received a public response through social networking websites with many people describing it as a future classic.

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/2f/76/c0/2f76c0cc-43b3-94b1-0af7-dcebf4becb1f/iMessage_App_Icon-1x_U007emarketing-0-0-GLES2_U002c0-512MB-sRGB-0-0-0-85-181-0-0-0-0.png/266x200bb.jpeg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Bobcat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_Force_(musician)

In July 1968 he and friend, Ben Schlossberg Jr., participated in an expedition to swim from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska to Siberia, 50 miles across the Bering Strait. They made it halfway, stopping between Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands.( Life Magazine, September 1968. The Scene/Wales, Alaska, Cold Swim From Here to Tuesday, by John Frook)

In 2010, Bar None Records reissued and released Brute Force's first solo album I, Brute Force – Confections of Love with bonus tracks not contained on the original 1967 vinyl edition. Brute Force's mind-busting single "The King of Fuh" was also included among songs by James Taylor, Badfinger, Mary Hopkin and others on Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records, released in October 2010.

After leaving show business for a period of time and working as a paralegal, Friedland began performing in many comedy venues, and acted in the film Ghostbusters, appeared at a Beatlesfest in New Jersey, performing "King Of Fuh", and subsequently was interviewed by Brett Alan on a Beatles radio show on WNNJ radio, also in New Jersey.

Brute Force traveled to Los Angeles in 2001 to play the Scramarama festival at the historic Palace Theater downtown, and toured England in 2004 with Misty's Big Adventure, playing in Liverpool, Birmingham, London and Nottingham, plus a personal performance of a unique song to thoroughbred mare "Premier Bid" upon the occasion of her 30th birthday in Goole Fields. In honour of Brute Force, the horse's owners named a foal "Special Bru" after the singer in late 2004. He performed with his daughter Lilah, known as Daughter of Force, in the Truck Music Festival, UK.

In June 2006, The King of Fuh, a musical comedy, written by Friedland, was produced at the Players Club, New York City, with Brute Force himself as the King.

Brute Force continues to perform at venues in the 21st century. In 2015 he appeared briefly in the film Birdman, and plays The Director in the English version of the Enrique Iglesias/Nicky Jam music video, Forgiveness.

9/2015, Friedland returns to his birthplace, Jersey City, NJ, as the BRUTE FORCE documentary has a screening at the Golden Door Film Festival with a performance by Brute and Daughter of Force at Brightside Tavern.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reverend_Horton_Heat

Heath decided then and there to form a band and came up with the name Reverend Horton Heat, as an ode to Johnny Horton, using the shortened version of his last name, Heath. Soon, life on the road took its toll on the marriage, and his wife left with their child and dog. Heath's feelings upon the loss of his family are well documented in the song "Where In The Hell Did You go With My Toothbrush?" The Jimi Hendrix poster mentioned in the song was on the back of a door that Heath used for a practice room in the house he shared with his wife and child. The dog's name really was Smokey.

...

In the spring of 1989 Heath met and befriended Charles F. Reid Jr. (aka "Charlie Ray"). Initially a full-time roadie for the band, Reid's role was expanded to include the job of booking agent/manager by the fall of 1989. Touring constantly through the Midwest and the West Coast, RHH quickly became a sellout act everywhere they played. In the fall of 1990 a bidding war to sign RHH developed between Hollywood's XXX Records and Seattle's Sub Pop Records. After moving to Seattle to run The Vogue on 1st Ave, Charlie Ray and attorney Barry Simons secured a two-record deal with an option for three more, with Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman from Sub Pop.

These are all fantastic.

Animal Magic displayed an intelligent collection of slick, soul-influenced, mid-tempo tunes. A couple of ballads offered some diversity: one of them, "I Backed a Winner (in You)", is a heartfelt track, mostly a cappella, with lead singer Dr. Robert, softly playing acoustic guitar while giving the lyrics its perceptive rhythm, where his vocals, and especially those of an aptly named ensemble, The Demon Barbers, acting as a sort of doo wop choir. Amongst the album's many gems is also a duet with Jamaican toaster Eek-A-Mouse on the duet "Sweet Murder".

Radice has self-produced several albums which include a variety of previously unreleased material. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/markradice4

With a catalog of over 3000 songs that are still unreleased, you can expect to see more of such albums. http://users.skynet.be/rockofages/Markradicedisco/

From 2005 to 2011 Radice wrote 160 songs for Sesame Street, including rearranging the Theme in 2008 to reflect a more urban, current sound.

"I basically channeled Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" he says about the rearrangement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_QnYaKbQY

He was nominated for three Emmy Awards for his work "on the street" as Radice puts it. [1].

In 2012 Radice moved to Tennessee and took two years to write 27 songs, one for each letter of the alphabet plus a "new" alphabet

song, for the Sing And Spell Learning Letters project http://www.singandspell.com/

In 2016 Radice won 100 free CDs from Discmakers so taking that cue, he released his first CD in 12 years since "Generation Why"

was released in 2004 https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/markradice3

called "Audio Quicksand" (sampler here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSUO3xq-m7s

The CD comes with a 12x12 20 page booklet, there are only 100 of them, and there are about 5 left.

Radice sold 70 of them the first week directly from Facebook.

The "Audio Quicksand" cover depicts Radice playing a guitar, as all the notes fly out of his head and into a toilet bowl that has

the YouTube logo on it. The record spans 37 years of recordings in 15 songs.

in November 2016 Radice was approached to write an all instrumental "Chill" CD and eventually named it ICEPAK29_TRANCEFUSION

ICEPAK being half Radice (ICE) and half Bill Packard (PAK) and is due for release on July 15th 2017.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Shaheed

Nolan Shaheed (born Nolan Andrew Smith, Jr.;[1][2] July 18, 1949 in Pasadena, California) is an American jazz musician, specializing in the cornet and trumpet, and a world record holding masters athlete. No matter what Nolan does, he does it the best and no one can touch him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Reed_Network

Contents
1 Breathless beginnings
2 A "polished" debut
3 Slam dunks the funk
4 Feeling The Heat
5 Live at Last
6 Reunion
7 Anthology, a crowd funded project
8 The band returns to Fight Another Day
9 Dan Reed
10 Members
11 Discography
11.1 Dan Reed Network
11.2 Singles
11.3 Dan Reed
12 References
13 Sources
14 External links

A+

https://i.imgur.com/y8t2kyO.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Slide

His work as a writer and editor led Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times in to describe Slide as “a one-man publishing phenomenon". However, writing and editing are not his only attributes.

lol @ kaplan kaye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nad_Sylvan

Nad Sylvan has a passion for gardening and is an expert connoisseur of flowers and plants. A skilled horse rider, having ridden since he was eleven years old, Nad loves also swimming and long walks in the woods, where he appreciates contact with nature and animals.

That paragraph can also be used as the 'personal profile' section on his CV/resume, and as part of his online dating profile.

I'd watch this biopic.

That’s when he definitively found the perfect name. When thinking about Nadine, he was asked for his first name and answered “Nad, full name, Nad Sylvan”.

Meanwhile Nad, thanks to his song “Yellow Sky” from “Sylvanite”, became Steve Gilmore’s “Artist of the Year”.

If you're writing your own Wikipedia entry, then you're not famous enough to have a Wikipedia entry.

love this aside

His band, “Avenue”, was influenced by Genesis (band), Yes (band), Gentle Giant and Camel (band). Punk rock arrived also on the scene at this time and in 1980 he formed the “Chris Stewart Band”, writing music in the style of Gino Vannelli and Al Jarreau.

Woo boy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Louie_Bankston

King Louie Bankston (a.k.a. King Louie, born Louis Paul Bankston) is a rock and roll musician from New Orleans. Associated early on with garage punk, he abandoned the genre in 1998 and has focused on Louisiana swamp pop, boogie woogie, boogie rock and power pop. He is best known for his work in the Royal Pendletons, The Persuaders, The Exploding Hearts, and The King Louie One Man Band.[1] Bankston has toured Europe and the United States since the very early 1990s. He has released 53 records in the vinyl format. Louie does not use any outside promotion and uses a strict rule of ATTRACTION AND NOT PROMOTION for his music. Louis currently plays music based out of Oakland CA and lives in a suburb of New Orleans LA. Bankston has lived in New Orleans, Portland, and Memphis.

The rest of the entry definitely confirms he wrote it.

hahahahaha one of my best friends from college is also in that band

I was literally looking at a cartoon of them yesterday

I was also thinking abt this thread because I recently saw this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Crimewave

[David Samuels'] article, entitled "The Pink Panthers," was an idiosyncratic travelogue that detailed the group's cinematic robberies against the backdrop of recent Balkan history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po!

Po! was originally formed by Ruth Miller (vocals and guitar), with Julian Glover (bass) and Mark Fuccio (drums). Usually subsumed under the C86 or twee pop headings - which is not essentially to misrepresent them - they possessed considerable originality. In particular, the themes of misogyny, disappointment, and nostalgia act as a counterpoint to the vocals, melodies, and jangly guitars so characteristic of the genre.

Part of the fanzine scene, Po!'s first release was the flexidisc Hopscotch in the Snow, which a Leicestershire fanzine Samantha produced from locally recorded demos in 1987. Jan Frazer replaced Fuccio on drums for this recording. This was picked up by BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, and provoked some interest. In 1988 Po! released another flexidisc, this time shared with The Originals, who played the backing instruments on 'Glass King'. There followed an album, released on the band's own Rutland Records label, entitled Little Stones, 1000 copies of which were pressed. It cost just £20 to record. The backing tracks were recorded on a Tascam reel-to-reel four-track at MikTon Studios (a former factory at 45 Chatham Street, Leicester; now private flats).The backing musicians for Little Stones were members of The Originals; Yvonne Blair (drums & percussion); Kevin Young (Guitar); Terri Lowe (Guitars, Bass Guitar). Equipment was supplied by Lowe and borrowed from Phil Hudson, the sound engineer at The Princess Charlotte, the premier music venue in Leicester. Bob Dylan, an influence, was represented in the form of a cover version of "All I Really Wanna Do", which featured a black 12-string Rickenbacker guitar.

Ruth continued to play, bringing in Mary Mills (Bass Guitar) and Jan Frazer returned on Drums. Frazer left and Lowe was added on Guitar, with Craig (?) on Drums.

[...]

Miller, who played the character of Bridget in the comedy soap opera "Chez Lester", broadcast on the Cable 7 community TV channel, was married and had two children with Lowe, but is now divorced. Miller works as a deputy headmistress.

;_;

I wish all minor bands who didn't do anything much could be covered by wikipedia in this detail, I have had to fight long and hard to get perfectly notable bands on there because NME and MM archives are not online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phkpLJXuHZA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Horde_(band)

Regarded as some of the few musicians to stick so resolutely to their principles that they arguably did a disservice to their career, nevertheless, the band did attain some commercial success. Yet, that in itself has always been surpassed by the cult underground following The Golden Horde retain to the present day. More significant again is their influence across a variety of alternative musical acts, which continues to propagate further with the digitization of rare, unreleased, and live recordings, and performances.

Simon Carmody now pursues a career in screenwriting.
John Connor is based in New York City. One of his solo music projects is 'messyheads' [23][24]
Sam Steiger now performs with The Sultans of Ping FC.
Peter O'Kennedy now works in sculpture, art and design.[25]
Des O'Byrne is a performing DJ in the US.

Joining the group in 1983, the group had another level of creativity and talent with the presence of the PRINCE OF SOUND himself, who is also known in the group by the moniker the Stetsa-Human Mix Machine provided beatboxing and other human percussion. Also, what many didn't know was that he was the very first Latino human beat box to hit the hip hop scene.

Wise debuted his Human Turntable technique of beatboxing on the band's first single, which was released in 1985. There was also another single from the album in which Wise and Daddy-O collaborated. While Daddy-O performs the vocals, Wise gives his version of "Impeach the President," which happens to be the very first time that a human beatbox was heard adding a song-like rhythm to the beat that was coming out of his mouth on the song "Faye"[citation needed] which was on the group's first album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Dickerson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Adora

The first song the pair wrote was "Friday Night Explodes", which explored their experiences of working all week and getting drunk at Snobs nightclub in the city every Friday night.

The band met manager Mark Chester (who thought King Adora "were like The Clash, they were the perfect band") and gave him a three-track demo, which he circulated amongst A&R representatives

King Adora were heavily publicised by Kerrang! and Melody Maker magazines, though they lost support from the latter publication when it was merged with NME (who took a lukewarm view of the band) in late 2000

King Adora were sent to record their debut album at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall with producer John Cornfield in late 2000, away from record company interference. Pictures of the studio's previous clients (Muse, The Stone Roses, The Verve) on the studio walls provided inspiration during the sessions.

After working on further demos for their second album and leaking them on their official website, King Adora bounced back with a UK tour in October and November 2002, debuting new songs "Kamikaze" and "Maniac Love". Despite low attendances at some gigs, Browne commented that "we’d been away for a year with no singles and no press so you’ve got to expect a degree of that any way.

Lack of label support and changing tastes in the UK guitar music scene led King Adora to split in 2005.

Every one of their singles has its own Wikipedia page, but none of the band members.

changing tastes in the UK guitar music scene

Love that. It's definitely a self-authorship tell.

Crowley often makes an occasional 'supersub' appearances on BBC 6 Music and for a while hosted a weekly programme on Amazing Radio, a digital station dedicated to new and emerging music.

After retiring from basketball in 2018, Benson began painting. Painting was one of the hobbies he took on to fill his new found free time, but he didn't take himself seriously as a fine artist. It wasn't until July 2018 when that began to change. While out one night in Las Vegas, he found himself the victim of racially charged police brutality. The next day, badly shaken, he locked himself in his hotel room and didn't leave. That night, he ordered 3 huge canvases. It was the breaking point that crystallized the purpose of his paintings; he realized he was painting a positive reflection of his own life, one not bound by the biases or expectations of anyone, one that was bigger and brighter than any pair of handcuffs could contain. Rod questions: can we relieve minorities of this burden simply by adding some vibrancy to their identity? He'd like to think the answer is yes. To be dark does not necessitate a need to be represented as dangerous.[14]

He has his debut solo show entitled "Neon Black" in September 2018 and received critical acclaim for his efforts.

People who have obviously written part of someone else's wikipedia

The Milli Vanilli version of "Girl You Know It's True", recorded at Frank Farian's FAR studios in Rosbach, Germany in the spring of 1988, started with only a drum track and two female vocalists, Linda Rocco and Jodie Rocco, American twin sisters living in Germany and successful in the music industry. Frank asked the girls to listen to the Numarx version so they would know what to sing. The record was on a turntable in the studio and Frank played the vocal parts for the girls. There was only the drum track to follow, making the Rocco twins were the first vocals on the track.[citation needed][clarification needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_nudity_places_in_North_America#United_States

Sea Mountain Nude Resort and spa hotel Clothing Optional Resort and Spa in Desert Hot Springs is a popular nudist vacation resort. It is perfect for couples trying nude vacations for the first time. They won the Best of the Palm Springs Valley award in December 2017 for being the best Boutique hotel. Featuring a unique tobacco-free experience, they have one of the highest repeat guest rates in the travel industry.

This is a horrible, horrible masterpiece of the genre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Hoene

That's not a wikipedia entry, that's a CV.

When he started telling us about his partner I completely lost it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1OPsnfPXw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinere

Her popularity is still going strong and has gained fans of younger generations. She is making an effort at crossing over to Jazz music in order to showcase her versatility and range. Trinere recently played at the world famous Santa Fe Springs Art Fest, sponsored by the Santa Fe Springs Heritage Arts Advisory Committee at the beautiful Clarke Estate, on May 6, 2022. The event was attended by world renowned artists, including Italian Chef Henio Iezza, who travels all over the world. There were over 2,500 people from all over the world. The Clarke Estate is a historical site and is open for elegant wedding reservations from May through October.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronwyn_Harch

"Bronwyn Harch (born Bronwyn Christensen in 1969) self identifies as an Australian data scientist who brings digital technology and statistical sciences to sectors like agriculture, environment, health, manufacturing and energy."

I am really fascinated by how people get and stay in Wikipedia.

For example really unimportant baseball players can get in just for being the majors even for only 1 year, even if only 1% of baseball fans know who they are

Wikipedia is supposed to be organically crowd-sourced, but I remember a few years ago my company hired a 'consultant' to burnish our CEO's wikipedia entry, and to monitor it for anything that wasn't glowingly positive

Pages get removed for lacking notability all the time though.

I got the SexArt page changed to a mere redirect to Korn's page

Easy to get a page up, not always easy to keep up

exactly, the wikipedia monks are ferocious and seem to delight in removing things

Preston Sturges's son is very confident in himself, I'm guessing.

Notably

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Wade

i mean i'm not saying definitely but Jeremy John Wade (born 23 March 1956) is a British television presenter, an author of books on angling, a freshwater detective, and a biologist. He is known for his television series River Monsters, Mighty Rivers, and Dark Waters. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished fishermen of all time, having traveled the world and caught a multitude of different species of fresh and saltwater fish.

citation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_and_Deane

The duo performs as caricatures of themselves and consists of Jonathan Frank (lead vocals, guitar, and all other instruments) and Josh Deane (lead vocals, guitar, and all other instruments), and it's been said that it's never quite clear where reality ends and fiction begins. Their music, which Colorado Parent described as "reminiscent of the Beach Boys" is a unique blend of rock, pop, acoustic guitars, tight harmonies, and catchy melodies. Often compared to Pixar because of their content, quality, and presentation, FRANK & DEANE's various works (music, art, videos, shows, and more) are intended to be "enjoyed by a broad audience of every generation of kids, parents, and grandparents." They have devoted fans of all ages.

After selling out a final UK tour, they decided to part ways at the peak of their popularity under a shroud of mystery.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Coats

A subtle job this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen_Hyphen

Hyphen Hyphen is a French electropop band from Nice. Santa sings in English with Line and Adam. Their albums — Times, HH, and C'est La Vie — hyphenate Europe and North America in international tour."

I already thought "sings in English with Line and Adam" was weird, but "their albums hyphenate europe," really now.