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

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