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Young Gunz

Young Gunz is an American hip hop duo from Philadelphia, composed of rappers Young Chris (born Chris Ries in 1983) and Neef Buck (born Hanif Muhammad in 1983). The group is part of Beanie Sigel's State Property collective and were signed to Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records. Young Gunz' 2003 debut single, "Can't Stop, Won't Stop", reached the top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.

State Property
Ries and Muhammad had been friends since they were youths on the block (C-Ave). On "Takeover", a track from his 2001 album The Blueprint, Jay-Z announced the duo as "Chris & Neef".

In 2002, the duo performed on the State Property soundtrack album. Chris and Neef starred in the titular movie. Also during this period of their career, Young Chris appeared throughout Dame Dash's Dream Team compilation, and Beanie Sigel's The Reason. The duo performed together on guest appearances for albums like Jay-Z's The Blueprint 2, Freeway's Philadelphia Freeway, State Property's The Chain Gang Vol. 2, and Memphis Bleek's M.A.D.E.; all while recording their album.

The Young Gunz scored their first hit with "Can't Stop, Won't Stop", the lead-off single from the Chain Gang, Vol. 2 album. Its song and video received major airplay on hip-hop radio, MTV2, and BET and reached #14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #6 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart.

As a group
After the success of their single, "Can't Stop, Won't Stop", the label jumped and was ready to release their debut album, Tough Luv. It included the remix to "Can't Stop, Won't Stop", which featured St. Louis rapper Chingy. Singles included "No Better Love" featuring former Roc-A-Fella Records crooner Rell and the Just Blaze-produced "Friday Night". Tough Luv debuted on the Billboard 200 at #3 after selling 128,000 copies in its first week. That week, the album at #2 was labelmate Kanye West's debut album The College Dropout, which was released just two weeks earlier.

After a brief hiatus, the duo returned with Swizz Beatz produced "Set It Off" from their second album, Brothers from Another. This albums, which was released May, 24th 2005, sales were somewhat of a disappointment compared to the first, despite the decent exposure of the lead single, promotion from Jay-Z himself, TV, radio & magazine appearances. It was the second release from the "new" Roc-A-Fella Records, referencing when Jay-Z became president of Def Jam Records, the first being Memphis Bleek's 534. The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at #15, and included guest features from Kanye West, Swizz Beatz, Slim of 112 (Marvin Scandrick III) and John Legend.

Disputes with other rap artists
The Young Gunz were part of a public beef and a war of words with West Coast rapper, The Game. The feud stems from The Game's beef with Memphis Bleek, which escalated into a beef with the entire Roc-A-Fella camp with the exception of Kanye West, Jay-Z and Just Blaze. The Game dissed Bleek and The Young Gunz on his 15-minute freestyle track "300 Bars and Runnin'". The Young Gunz, along with Pooda Brown, responded with a freestyle of their own. Surprisingly, Chris & Neef started a beef with actor, comedian and rapper, Katt Williams. This beef stemmed from "Set It Off" by the Young Gunz, in which they called a character from a movie that Katt Williams played as, a "fake ass pimp." This beef was encouraged by The Game as he and Katt dissed the two on a Freestyle over their own "Set It Off" beat.

Young Chris solo work
As early as March 2006, Young Chris thought about recording a solo album. He initially titled it Now or Never. He stated to XXL magazine that he wanted to release a solo album by the end of 2008 and had been "95 percent done" by June 2008. In this article, Chris also states that he feels himself up there with Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana. Since this time, Chris has taken to the internet to solidify himself as a top solo artist, with his YoungChris.com Social Network, hitting the remix circuit, and his much anticipated "The Network" Mixtape series, hosted by DJ Don Cannon. Later in 2010 signed with Division 1, a label started by Rico Love, under the Universal/Motown umbrella. Rico considers Young Chris his flagship artist, working closely with Chris on his debut album and pre-album/mixtape. The mixtape, called "The Re-Introduction", was released on November 20, 2010. The aptly titled mixtape gives the spotlight to a newly signed Young Chris, as a solo artist, and also, re-introduces the combination of DJ Drama and Don Cannon, the former "Affiliates" partners, hosting their first mixtape together, in several years.

On January 28, a song called "Philly Shit (Mega Mix)" featuring Eve, Black Thought, Money Malc, Fat Joe, Fred the Godson, Diggy Simmons, Jermaine Dupri & Game was leaked.

Solo albums

 * Tough Luv (2004)
 * Brothers from Another (2005)

Collaboration albums

 * State Property (with State Property) (2002)
 * The Chain Gang Vol. 2 (with State Property) (2003)

Filmography

 * State Property (2002)
 * Fade to Black (2004)
 * State Property 2 (2005)

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Talk:Ancient Egyptian funerary practices

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Cleanup
Alright, this page DOES need some serious cleanup. The intro paragraph particularly looks disorganized. Some sentences sound very unencyclopedic or unprofessional. Also, a lot of information is repeated from Egyptian mythology, or should not conflict with that article. I'm putting a cleanup tag. 216.175.112.139 06:20, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I added a little bit of info here and there. Will do more later. This time it genuinely isn't vandalism... 144.131.139.111 03:38, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Howdy folks, after taking a look through the article, I saw a few good pieces but a lot of crap that needed to go away. I did a huge rewrite, and please don't take offense if I removed something of yours, because I really want to keep the article focused on the main point.

 * Specifically, I removed the list of all the parts of the Egyptian soul. There is already an article (Egyptian soul) devoted to that which covers all these aspects in better detail. I removed a lot of the language that seemed stereotypical (e.g. "They devoted all of their entire lives to the afterlife") and which also isn't true. And I removed the stuff about "The Imperishables." I understand the concept you are trying to convey, but the section is badly written, some of it of suspicious academic merit, and mostly off topic. In my revision, I have presented the need for burial rituals etc. in a few, clear sentences in the intro.

 * I don't pretend that the editing work is finished. My major rewrite still needs a lot of work, which I will chip away at for awhile. I think this is a very important article, so please help in whatever way you can! Jeff Dahl 04:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I am taking my time

 * Added why they believe in what they believed in. -- Cat chi? 01:51, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I did a bit...
I am fairly new to Wikipedia, but I changed a few grammatical errors in the article. Even with the changes I have made, there are still major issues that need to be addressed. - P!3r(3

Merger proposal
I believe that Death in ancient Egypt should be merged into this article, because that article is quite clearly about Egyptian funerary practices, and therefore overlaps in subject with this one. In addition, the "Death in…" title format is atypical for Wikipedia; there don't seem to be equivalent articles for "death in" any other culture. The specific title "burial customs" might not seem broad enough to encompass everything about Egyptian funerary practices, but I think this article could eventually be renamed "Ancient Egyptian funerary practices" to encompass the whole post-death process. In any case, the material should be here, and not at "Death in ancient Egypt". A. Parrot (talk) 02:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * With no objections, I went ahead and merged the two. I split out a "Funerary texts" section, in which I combined material from this article and from "Death in ancient Egypt"; I also created a "History" section in which to put some "Death in ancient Egypt" material that seemed to fit into that heading. Not all of "Death in ancient Egypt" went into this article, though, as I cut out some material that seemed dubious. A. Parrot (talk) 22:24, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Social class
I see this text deals with the upper class, and should be expanded to include detail of burials of those lower is the social structure, farmers, slaves etc. Enlil Ninlil (talk) 23:59, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

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Maybe someone should create an section or article on the Egyptian mummification process, because it seems kinda important to the article. York12321 (talk) 22:01, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Revision of lead section
The mention of preparation for judgement by the gods in the lead section seems irrelevant to the article as a whole. This idea is only mentioned towards the very end in the short Damnation section. More important and relevant information should be emphasized in the lead section, such as burial rituals and mummification. Knl18 (talk) 18:45, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Planning Edits
Hi everyone! I'm planning a few edits here and there, specifically in the sections regarding burial rituals, burial goods, mummification, as well as making clearer sections on judgement, the afterlife, and damnation/the underworld. Here is a list of sources that I'm planning to use to make my contributions. Let me know what you all think! Cheers. Knl18 (talk) 00:19, 3 March 2018 (UTC)


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pronunciation
The pronunciation has not been confirmed. However, standard stress rules would place the stress on the antepenult, and I expect this name is too rare to be irregular. --kwami 01:52, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Ruah

Ruah may refer to:

 * Daniela Ruah (born 1983), Portuguese-American actress from the NCIS Los Angeles TV series
 * Maurice Ruah (born 1971), Venezuelan tennis player
 * Rûaħ or ruach, a Hebrew word meaning ‘breath, spirit’

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TM Net

TM Net is an Internet service provider in Malaysia. As of 2009, it was the only fixed line broadband provider in Malaysia It also provides Internet Protocol television and other multimedia services. TM Net is a wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysia's main telecommunication provider, TM Bhd.

TM Net was established in 1995 by Telekom Malaysia as part of Malaysia National Broadband Plan. On 1 November 1996, TM Net launched its dial up service under short code 1515, as the second national ISP. TMNET has been serving its customer for more than 20 years. On 10 August 2017, TM discontinued its Dial-Up and ISDN services.

DSL was initially deployed on a trial basis. The first commercial trial of ADSL by TM was done through a service known as HiS that was deployed together with Ericsson in 1999.

The original Streamyx broadband service was launched in April 2001 at the speed of 384 kbit/s has been discontinued. In June 2007, TM Net launched its 4 Mbit/s service at selected locations. On 8 January 2013, TM Net launched its 8 Mbit/s service at selected locations and extended the IPTV services HyppTV to Streamyx customers.

On 24 March 2010, TM launched its fiber optic broadband service, Unifi.

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Talk:Advertising agency

Semi-protected edit request on 15 September 2020
aQuantive should be removed (acquired in 2007 by Microsoft and no longer operating as an agency) BKV should be removed (acquired by DRUM Agency in 2018 and subsequently closed without notice or explanation in April, 2020 Add MightyRoar, Atlanta, Georgia within North America Google should be removed from the list as it is not an advertising agency. JWT should be removed, or changed to Wunderman Thompson (merged in 2018) Sapient should be Publicis Sapient Kevcsmi31 (talk) 21:28, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It's probably all right to keep defunct ones in this list since they're still notable enough to have a Wikipedia article. – Thjarkur (talk) 22:30, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Review for accuracy needed
The sections on 'agencies' and 'creativity' need substantial revision.

It is no longer true that agencies are paid by the media owners. Agencies are predominantly paid by their clients to plan and buy media, on either a fee or commission basis. Other services are paid for in the same way. The section as currently written describes how agencies worked about a hundred years ago. The major services delivered by a modern agency are creative communications, media planning and buying, design, production, and marketing data and technology services.

The 'creativity' section is borderline meaningless. It's attempting to describe how creativity contributes to advertising effectiveness (by making brands distinctive, memorable and noticeable) but does a very odd job of this.

I've avoided editing as I have a potential conflict of interest (I work for an advertising agency)... but this is an inaccurate reflection of how agencies work as businesses. Alex Steer (talk) 11:58, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Incorrect date for founding of Volney B. Palmer's advertising agency
In the History section, the page states the following:

Volney B. Palmer opened the first American advertising agency, in Philadelphia in 1850. This agency placed ads produced by its clients in various newspapers.

However, the cited source states that the agency was founded in 1841. Indeed, the History of Advertising page states "In the United States around 1840, Volney B. Palmer set up the first advertising agency in Philadelphia." This should be corrected. Hbmonk (talk) 19:07, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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User:Venerable Bede

--Venerable Bede 01:56, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)Hey there! My birth name is Matthew but I go by my tag Venerable Bede here on wikipedia. I have a great love for all types of history, and am currently studying for a Bachelors (and eventually Masters, God Willing) so that I might become a Teacher or Professor. A die-hard Catholic, my historical and literary interests comprise everything from classical, biblical, pre-biblical, pre-historic and medieval history and literature. I'm especially interested in ancient near-eastern, roman, greek and medieval catholic studies. I'm a big fan of the works of St. Benedict and the Doctors of the Church.

In my spare time I enjoy reading, video games (Specifically of the strategy, RPG, or FPS types), some Soccer (Arsenal, Celtic, the upcoming St. Louis United FC in the MLS), as well as fencing, art, camping and outdoors activites (I love nature), and quality time with the family.

My contributions:

Puabi As part of my love of all things Sumerian, I recently reformatted this article and added a host of new info, as well as a pic of the famed headdress of Pu-Abi

Toshiro Mifune

My all time fav actor. Added a significant amount of info, I pretty much doubled the size of the existing article.

Nanban Period

My interest in japanese history naturally follows my appreciation of the works of Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura, and Toshiro Mifune. I've added a bit of info into this, and heavily edited it for NPOV. The article itself is excellent, and the people who have devoted time to creating/editing the Japanese History articles must be congratulated.

Epictetus

In honor of my ongoing love affair with Stoic Philosophy, I have edited and added significant amounts of new info on Epictetus

Peter the Venerable

My Second foray in to Article Authorship

Hei matau

I originally authored this article but then it was heavily edited nearly two days later :)

Maori

A minor edit, I simply added a bit of information about Maori art Collectives.

Hashashin

The dreaded assassins themselves. I've studied the Nizari Ismailies (and Isma'ilism in general) for a very long time, so I'm going to restructure practically every Isma'ili article on wikipedia, starting with this one. Stay tuned, it's going to be a long effort; I have a lot of info to add.

I've copy-edited and made barely mentionable changes to probably about 3 dozen articles by now, but all so minor I won't bother to list them here.

My political Standing:
Economic Left/Right: -5.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15

Political Compass The results are set up on a standard x,y axis graph. I wound up smack in the middle of the liberal left side, side by side with Mohandas Ghandi and right next door to Nelson Mandela.

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91st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 91st Air Landing Division (German 91. Luftlande-Infanterie-Division) was a German Army infantry division in World War II.

History
The division was originally formed as an air landing division (Luftlandedivision) trained and equipped to be transported by aircraft (i.e. having only light artillery and few heavy support weapons) to take part in Operation Tanne Ost, an aborted airborne operation in Scandinavia. Despite its name, the 91st in practice was a regular Heer unit and spent its entire existence as a conventional infantry division.

Formed in the Baumholder area from replacement center personnel in January 1944 under the command of Generalleutnant Bruno Ortner, its command was transferred to Generalleutnant Wilhelm Falley and moved to the Cotentin peninsula with von der Heydte's 6th Parachute Regiment and 100th Panzer Replacement and Training Battalion, armed with captured French light tanks, attached as part of the German 7th Army.

Located within the landing zones of both the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, it saw heavy fighting around Sainte-Mere-Eglise and Neuville-au-Plain. Falley, the divisional commander, was killed when he drove into an ambush.

On June 7th, 1944, D-Day + 1, the German 1058th Grenadier regiment of the 91st Luftlande Division, which was tasked with seizing the area of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, launched a fierce counterattack from the north towards Sainte-Mere-Eglise, which were defended by the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. The Germans attacked with intense mortar fire and StuGIII assault guns, and came very close to entering the town, before they were pushed back, and at least two assault guns was knocked out on the northern road just outside of the town.

Placed under the temporary command of Generalmajor Bernard Klosterkemper, It attempted to block the U.S. 4th Infantry Division's advance off Utah Beach. After the second week of the Allied invasion of Normandy the 91st had suffered so many casualties it was no longer considered combat effective as a unit.

Now at battle group strength, it was attached to the 77th Infantry Division then to the 243rd Infantry Division in Corps von Schlieban defending Cherbourg where most of its remaining forces were captured by the Americans. Remnants of the division under the command of Colonel Eugen Konig escaped to the south. Despite recommendation the unit be dissolved the Army High Command (Oberkommando des Heer, OKH) chose to rebuild it adding replacement battalions and sending it back to the front in early August.

Defending Rennes from Lieutenant General George S. Patton's U.S. Third Army, it again suffered heavy casualties and was reduced to battle group strength. It followed the German retreat to the Siegfried Line and was later consolidated with the remains of the 275th and 344th Infantry Divisions to form the 344th Volksgrenadier Division.

Commanders

 * Generalleutnant Bruno Ortner (10 February 1944 – 25 April 1944)
 * Generalleutnant Wilhelm Falley (25 April 1944 – 6 June 1944) KIA
 * Generalmajor Bernhard Klosterkemper (6 June 1944 – 10 June 1944)
 * Generalleutnant Eugen König (10 June 1944 – 10 August 1944)

Order of battle (June 1944)

 * Command
 * 1057th Grenadier Regiment
 * 1058th Grenadier Regiment
 * 191st Mountain Artillery Regiment
 * 191st Engineer Battalion
 * 191st Anti-tank Company
 * 191st Field Replacement Battalion
 * 191st Anti-aircraft Company
 * 191st Signals Battalion
 * 6th Parachute Regiment (attached from the 2nd Parachute Division)
 * 100th Panzer Replacement and Training Battalion (attached)

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Eric Erlandson

Eric Theodore Erlandson (born January 9, 1963) is an American musician, guitarist, and writer, primarily known as founding member, songwriter and lead guitarist of alternative rock band Hole from 1989 to 2002. He has also had several musical side projects, including Rodney & the Tube Tops, which he formed with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and RRIICCEE with Vincent Gallo.

While studying creative writing, Erlandson published a book titled Letters to Kurt in 2012, consisting of free-form and stream-of-consciousness poetry.

Early life
Erlandson was born January 9, 1963 in Los Angeles, one of seven children in a Roman Catholic family. He is of Swedish, German, and Irish descent. Erlandson and his siblings were raised in the Los Angeles community of San Pedro.

Erlandson studied economics with a minor in marketing at Loyola Marymount University, where his father, Theodore Erlandson, served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree. During his college years, he worked for the now-defunct Licorice Pizza record store chain.

In the late-1980s, Erlandson was working as an accountant for Capitol Records, where he managed Paul McCartney's, Tina Turner's, and various other artists' royalties. In 1988, Erlandson traveled Europe for a number of months "trying to decide what he wanted to do with his life."

1989–2002: Hole
In 1989, Erlandson responded to an advertisement placed by Courtney Love in Recycler, a local classified ad paper. Erlandson describes the band's first rehearsal session, which featured original bassist Lisa Roberts, as: "These two girls show up dressed completely crazy, we set up and they said, 'okay, just start playing something.' I started playing and they started screaming at the top of their lungs for two or three hours. Crazy lyrics and screaming. I said to myself, 'most people would just run away from this really fast.' But I heard something in Courtney's voice and lyrics."

Love, Erlandson and Roberts were later joined by drummer Caroline Rue and third guitarist Mike Geisbrecht, and this line-up performed Hole's first live performances. A new line-up, with new bassist Jill Emery and without Geisbrecht, recorded their debut album, Pretty on the Inside, in 1991. After achieving underground success in the United Kingdom, Emery left the band in February and Rue in April 1992. With new members Patty Schemel and Kristen Pfaff, Hole signed a contract with their new label DGC in 1992 and, a year later, began touring and recording for their sophomore and major label debut, Live Through This. The album, ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 albums of all time, received unanimous critical acclaim and is Hole's most successful record to date.

During Hole's hiatus in 1996, Erlandson formed a short-lived side project, Rodney & the Tube Tops, with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, various other musicians and DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. The project dissolved shortly after releasing the single "I Hate the '90's". He also co-produced the Sympathy for the Record Industry release "Milk Carton" by The Grown Ups, a raw riot of an album by a group of 14-year-old girls from Santa Monica, California.

Hole released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, in 1998, with Erlandson co-producing the record. More pop-oriented than their previous albums, the album was a commercial success and was the last material by Hole to feature Erlandson. Auf der Maur left the group in 1999 to pursue other musical projects and on May 22, 2002, Erlandson and Love disbanded Hole through their official website noting that they would "no longer record or tour together".

2003–2008: White Flag and RRIICCEE
Following Hole's disbandment, Erlandson contributed to Melissa Auf der Maur's debut solo album Auf der Maur, playing guitar on the track "Would If I Could". He toured with his friend Bill Bartell's band, White Flag, and wrote, produced and performed two shows with a group including singer/songwriter John Wolfington and drummer Blackie Onassis from Urge Overkill.

In 2007, Erlandson formed an improvisational music project, RRIICCEE, with Corey Lee Granet, and Vincent Gallo. The band toured the United States and Canada between 2007 and 2008, and performed at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan before its dissolution.

2009–present: Other projects
In 2009, Love announced that her upcoming solo album, Nobody's Daughter, was being released under the name Hole and described the band's reunion, which included Love's guitarist Micko Larkin replacing Erlandson. Auf der Maur was first to respond to the news, describing it as "jeopardis[ing] a real Hole reunion" and Erlandson stated that he and Love "have a contract", which was later revealed to be a contract preventing either from reforming Hole without mutual involvement. In a later interview, just days before the expected release of Hole's Nobody's Daughter, Erlandson explained how "[Courtney's] management convinced me that it was all hot air and that she would never be able to finish her album. Now I'm left in an uncomfortable position." Neither Love nor Erlandson have commented on the reunion further. In 2010, he noted that he has "new musical projects in the works".

In April 2012, Courtney Love joined Erlandson, bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, and drummer Patty Schemel onstage for the first time in 15 years at the after party for the premiere of Schemel's documentary entitled Hit So Hard. The band played two songs that evening, "Miss World" from the band's hit album Live Through This and a cover of The Wipers song "Over the Edge".

In April 2014, Love confirmed that she had been rehearsing new material with Erlandson, Schemel, and Auf der Maur, and that a reunion of the 1994 lineup of the band was being prepared.

In May 2019, Love confirmed that all the members are definitely "talking about it", in reference to regrouping and reforming the band. In October 2019, Love posted a since-deleted photo of the group together, rehearsing songs in Los Angeles.

Personal life
Erlandson has practiced Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism since 1992. During his tenure in Hole in the 1990s, Erlandson was romantically involved with the group's bassist Kristen Pfaff, until her death in June 1994 as well as actress Drew Barrymore. He had also previously dated Courtney Love.

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Talk:Alucard (Castlevania)

Kid Dracula
I never understood this, but why do people even consider Kid Dracula to be a game in the series' canon, and more importantly, consider the character to be a childhood incarnation of Alucard? I doubt the original designers meant to have the game taken seriously in the first place.
 * This is because The Castlevania Dungeon claims it to be so. Just scroll down until you find Kid Dracula.
 * EliasAlucard|Talk 11:44, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Even if that's the case, just because a popular website claims (more like theorize, since it doesn't state that they're the same character), doesnt make it neccesarily true. There's alot of fanon stuff in there that aren't supported by the original Japanese titles. Jonny2x4 05:47, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I never implied it justified it, all I said was, if it were not for the fact that Alucard is considered to be Kid Dracula according to the Castlevania Dungeon, then he most likely wouldn't have been considered Kid Dracula in this article either.
 * EliasAlucard|Talk 17:03, 11 Jun, 2005 (UTC)

Name
Look, DreamGuy, I'm getting really tired and pissed off at your behaviour. This Alucard is the most common user of this name. This article should be named simply Alucard. The rest will be linked on the disambiguation page. This is according to Wikipedia's policy. Stop reverting, or I'll file another 3RR on you. No one calls Dracula "Alucard." As much as you think Alucard isn't used often, it's even less used for Dracula. And of all the fictional people called Alucard, this one is the most famous one. EliasAlucard|Talk 04:21, 09 Aug, 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but Naming Conventions policy is for most common usage of all people, not just kids playing a certain video game. Alucard being an alias for Dracula and his minions is well-established in movies and clearly has precendence over a single videogame series. Just because you wrote this article doesn;t mean it's the most important. Rather it is quite trivial. And your stubborn insistence of only allowing your way on articles you contribute to is horribly bad faith agains Wikipedia standards. You just violated 3RR on Dhampir and you obviously intend to do so on every article just blind undoing whatever I did to get it back to your preferred version. You are a problem editor and you need to knock it off. DreamGuy 03:00, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * "You are a problem editor and you need to knock it off." I can say the exact same thing about you, and I know that a lot more editors will agree with me than vice versa. For the record, I didn't write this article. Sure, this name has been used before this fictional character came to existence. But the fact is, people will not associate this name with a movie from the 70s, or something else of minor prominence. And they will certainly not associate it with Dracula. Alucard in this game, is the most famous bearer of this name today. Next to him, it's Alucard from the hellsing series. EliasAlucard|Talk 05:15, 09 Aug, 2005 (UTC)

 * Whoever said Alucard is Dracula? That makes no sense. Several characters from several different works share the name Alucard (the most famous ones, in my opinion, are from Castlevania and Hellsing, but not all of them end up being Dracula. Saying Alucard is Dracula is a personal opinion. It makes no sense to do this. About Dreamguy, yes, he is a problem user. I've seen him pushing his ideas on people on the Succubus article. I also see his name constantly popping up on my watchlist. I guess the biggest case right now is Vampire. He only brings chaos, and only goes against other people. I advise you to stop this revert war here, or you will have problems. More than you already do, actually.--Kaonashi 04:37, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, no. Not all of them have to be Dracula, it's just most common that they are, or are a minion of his, hence the redirect to Dracula. And I am not a problem user, at all, and if you knew what you were talking about you'd know that. My biggest problem here is I go head to head with problem users who complain a lot and do bad things. I STOP problem users, get sockpuppets identified, track down anonymous users, and prevent people from trying to hold articles hostage to the exact version they want. I'm sorry you only glanced at what was going on and didn;t take the time to investigate it. Please do take the time to look into it further. Lots of people complain to admins, but admins routinely ignore them as having no case and then turn around and discover the people complaining were in the wrong. Much like EliasAlucard here. DreamGuy 06:01, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * I am an admin. I don't need to go check on things. I'm already seeing them.--Kaonashi 06:20, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but admins don't have any special powers over content here. I'm sorry you feel the way you do, but then your conclusion doesn't mean anything more than anyone else jumping in without looking at the situation fairly and accurately. If you would look at EliasAlucard's history here you'd find him doing far worse than anything I've done... ever. He's currently doing the very things you falsely claim I am doing, but for real instead of just in your mind. He also has made multiple violations of 3RR in the last 24 hours. You say you are an admin... aren;t you supposed to block peopple for that? Or do you only pull out the "I'm an admin" talk when you want to use it to ignore what someone else is saying and just declare yourself right without having to justify it? You call me a problem editor, but as you have not blocked the other guy here it's looking like you may be a problem admin (and before you try to claim that was uncivil, I am saying the exact same thing about yuo that you claim about me, so if you think it wasn't right then you shouldn;t have done it yourself). DreamGuy 12:08, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * OH, and I went back to look at the Succubus history... I remember you! You kept putting a factual dispute tag on the article when there was no factual dispute at all... And you still are mad at me over that? Have you read up on what the tags mean since then? You might want to. It might help you to admit you were wrong so you can learn to work with people who are doing things the right way instead of justifying yourself against the evidence. And, again, I mean that in only the most objective and factual civil way, you were clearly wrong there, and in order to get past personal conflicts you need to be able to admit it when you make errors instead of blaming the guy who pointed them out. DreamGuy 12:22, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * Kaonashi, well spoken. I rest my case. That's all I have to say, really. But to further prove my point, I'll say some more. DreamGuy is constantly getting into revert wars and stuff with people. And over extremely lame and silly issues; if that's not a problem user, then I don't know what is. Alucard is like you said, as of now, most famous for his Castlevania character. The Hellsing character has gained quite some notability too, but to my knowledge, this character is more associated with the name. Therefore, this article should be named Alucard and nothing more. And redirecting Alucard to Dracula is completely ridiculous; it's not like Dracula needs more attention than he already has gotten. Since Wikipedia was created, until now, never has Alucard redirected to Dracula, and there's a very good reason for that: it is not supposed to! A search on Google for Alucard Dracula, and the first hit (and most hits) is Alucard from Castlevania. That proves my point completely.
 * EliasAlucard|Talk 12:40, 09 Aug, 2005 (UTC)

 * DreamGuy, what good reason do you have for me not to block you right now, instead of anyone else? You are always involved in a billion zillion disputes, always going against everyone's opinion, and always breaking the stability of several articles? Who are you to tell me how I should do my job? I said I'm an admin because you went like "Oh, admins blah blah", so I just wanted to make sure you are talking to one of them, and not at the back of them.

 * I don't hold a "personal grudgue" against you, like you're letting everybody know on your very friendly edit summaries. What I am saying here is just what is happening. I am a fan of Castlevania and Hellsing. As soon as I saw stuff going on this article via my watchlist, I noticed something was going on. I wasn't tracking you down, or anything you might be thinking.

 * Regarding the Succubus article, on that case, you brought up something that didn't make much sense, everybody disagreed with you, the page was protected, a consensus was reached, and when you noticed what happened, you ran away. Plain and simple. I guess that if I were "clearly wrong" there, I wouldn't have every other person involved in the dispute disagreeing with you, instead of me, the wrong guy. I think it's about time for you to understand you are minority, and most importantly, to understand you should be trying to be more constructive instead of trying to transform this site into your personal utopia.

 * About the problem itself, I'm not understanding. I think there used to be a disambiguation page mentioning several Alucards, some time ago. Where is it, or am I getting confused? Anyway, what I think that shouldn't be happening is having Alucard redirected to Dracula. That's all. There are other Alucards around, and that is sure different from Dracula. People must keep those two things in mind. I think it should be some kind of disambiguation page. I'm pretty sure I've seen that in the past, but there is nothing in the histories. I don't think anyone deleted that. It makes no sense to me.--Kaonashi 13:06, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

 * "DreamGuy, what good reason do you have for me not to block you right now, instead of anyone else?"

 * Well, if nothing else, the fact that I didn't do anything wrong and from that statement and your actions it's clear you are continuing your own personal grudge, and if you did just decide to block me you'd only be proving my point about you and likely have another admin overturn it while we went to some sort of mediation or something.

 * "You are always involved in a billion zillion disputes, always going against everyone's opinion, and always breaking the stability of several articles?"

 * That's your opinion, but again, if you'd bother to research the controversies I get into are clearly with people who are themselves breaking the rules and the conflict comes from me trying to bring some sanity back. For example, while you were all pissed off at me, EliasAlucard violated the 3RR three times! Someone finally did come in and block him for 24 hours, not that you lifted a finger to do anything about it. The people I have gotten into wars with are ones who simply blind revert any changes they deem to radical and who don't discuss it fairly. I do what a lot of other people are afraid to do: When someone is being ultra protective of an article, especially one that really needs some major improvements, I follow the be bold guidelines and try to fix it. Of course people who are ultraprotective of their edits are gong to be upset. Of course problem users are going to complain and try to escalate things. That doesn't mean that I'm doing something wrong, that just means I'm not afraid of doing the right thing when people are stubbornly trying to do the wrong thing. About the only thing I would say I should improve on there (as many admins have told me) is to get other editors involved in the process earlier and helping out against these people instead of doing it myself so it doesn't look so much like I'm the bad one. IF you hop around and take a look at the other conflicts I've been in and actually read them, you will see that in the end when experienced editors come in, the abusers are blocked and the sockpuppets are cleared out, I am standing quite pretty with a lot of support. It's just my nature though to go ahead and do what I can by myself without calling for help when I hink I have something well under control.

 * "Who are you to tell me how I should do my job?"

 * An editor here, who knows the rules and policies, who was watching you support someone blatantly breaking policies while you made rude comments to me. Don't try to get all superior like someone can't tell you how to do your job. You'd just once again be proving me right that you are too emotional and not htinking clearly.

 * "I said I'm an admin because you went like "Oh, admins blah blah", so I just wanted to make sure you are talking to one of them, and not at the back of them."

 * Uhhh, OK. No idea what you are referring to there.

 * ''"I don't hold a "personal grudgue" against you"

 * I'm sorry, it seems pretty apparent that you do. Your claims that I cause probelms instead of solving them defintiely looks o be more grudge based than reality based.

 * "I am a fan of Castlevania and Hellsing."

 * OK, fine, but what you have to realize is that the use of the term Alucard in those two references are not the sole or even primary use of the word Alucard.

 * "Regarding the Succubus article, on that case, you brought up something that didn't make much sense"

 * Again, that's your opinion, and the fact that you state it that way shows the grudge I was talking about.

 * "everybody disagreed with you"

 * Everybody who showed up on that one article... mainly because EliasAlucard used it as a rallying point to get all the people who stuffed articles about nonfiction topics with nonnotable subcruft fictional details so much that they were about to burst and so they could argue for their right to push fiction over nonfiction on the nonfiction articles. If you take a look at the other articles with a number of experienced and respected editors you'd see that those things are typically very abbreviated or moved to their own page. Certainly when it moves away from being a discussion about information and becomes a long list it should be moved to a page for the list instead of taking over the article. That was my argument. That's how things are done elsewhere. That's the right way for an encyclopedia to work. My problem was that I didn't go and bother editors everywhere else and drag them in and instead the fictioncruft kiddies took over.

 * "you ran away"

 * See, and look at your negative wording here. What about your civility... Or what about acknowledging the simply fact that I could see that some bad editors were rallied and they had managed to find an admin who would place the incorrect tag on an article simply to be contrary and not follow policy and I realized that I couldn't prevail even if I did go and gather a bunch of editors at that point. So I gave that article up. I had lots on my list.

 * "Plain and simple."

 * Well, actually, I;d call your view simplistic, biased and incorrect, so it's clearly not plain and simple at all.

 * "I guess that if I were "clearly wrong" there, I wouldn't have every other person involved in the dispute disagreeing with you, instead of me, the wrong guy."

 * And the other way to look at that is that if people like USer:EliasAlucard and others like him were the ones supporting you, you happened to luck out in having a group of very bad editors there all at once.

 * "I think it's about time for you to understand you are minority, and most importantly, to understand you should be trying to be more constructive instead of trying to transform this site into your personal utopia."

 * And I suggest you realize that being in the minority among certain editors is actually a good thing, as it shows class, and that whose in a minority or not can change quite rapidly. And, actually, I would say that I was and am being quite constructiv, giving peoplpe a clear compromise to do something to get their poorly written nonnotable sections about trivial fiction topics highlighted in an area of its own instead of mucking up main articles. OF course they couldn't agree to that either. They tried to argue that mythology is fiction. (It's not.) Or that video games that happened to come out recently but will likely be forgotten in another year or two are more important that the beliefs of topics that were around for thousands of years. (They are clearly not.)

 * ":About the problem itself, I'm not understanding. I think there used to be a disambiguation page mentioning several Alucards, some time ago."

 * You're thinking of Alucard (disambiguation) It's still there. And I was linked a disambiguation section on Dracula straight to it.

 * "Anyway, what I think that shouldn't be happening is having Alucard redirected to Dracula. That's all."

 * Well, already you gave a more reasoned and civil argument for that than Elias did, he was just blind reverting and making personal attacks.

 * "There are other Alucards around, and that is sure different from Dracula."

 * Some of the Alucards are somewhat different from Dracula, others refer specifically to Dracula, but all are at least Dracula based.

 * "People must keep those two things in mind. I think it should be some kind of disambiguation page."

 * You want Alucard to go to a disambiguation page? I can agree to that. What I mainly objected to was the idea that it'd go to the Castlevania page when that is so specific and so minor out of all the various versions. I thought Dracula made the most sense because that's what some of the most classic references in horror cinema use the name for, which would be more notable than some game system. But if we agree the game system shouldn't be there then we are most likely united in disagreeing with Elias there, as he was dead set breathing mad insisting that only the game system should go there.

 * "I'm pretty sure I've seen that in the past, but there is nothing in the histories. I don't think anyone deleted that. It makes no sense to me."

 * I haven't dug back, but if Elias had the page moved the page histories would have moved with it and then he could have taken over the redirect and turned it into his video game article. I don't know. But if you want the disambig here I can redirect it to there and then go and add some of the more explicit Dracula Alucard references there when I have time. And then sometime later we can maybe file to have the disambig page moved here.

 * That's all cool and groovy. Wonder what Elias will have to say about it when he's unblocked 22 or so hours from now? He's always been completely unwilling to discuss things, and the only time he tries is when he thinks he has someone on his side so the "discussion" is him telling his way to do things and you either agree with him or he blind reverts everything you do. Check out his recent history on Dhampir, Talk:Vampire, the 3RR noticeboard (both under sections with my name and his name, and note that I was not blocked), and so forth. I think it'll probably be an eye opener for you. DreamGuy 13:57, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * You don't know anything about me. I suggest that you should leave this article to people who actually know something about it; it's pretty evident from your writing that you don't know anything about Alucard, and everything related to the name. About me being blocked: get over it; you've been blocked a lot more than me, so if anything, you're worse. Also, don't write 5000 words next time, because no one cares about reading it all. EliasAlucard|Talk 15:39, 12 Sept, 2005 (UTC)

Ţepeş
I had an idea about what to do regarding the Romanian characters on Alucard's name. It's actually pretty simple, and it might work well. Take a look on the article about Zangief. Since he's a Russian character in the Street Fighter series, you can see his name in cyrillics right there, between parentheses. I think we can do just the same with Alucard. That'd solve the problem.

Still on the topic of Street Fighter, we have other examples. Take Chun-Li or Ryu, for example. Those characters are Chinese and Japanese (respectively), yet you don't see Chinese and Japanese characters scattered all over their articles, replacing their names. It wouldn't even make sense, but those cases and this one are the same. Think about that. Instead, they have that kind of info inside parentheses.

I'll go ahead and fix the article. If anyone thinks that was a dumb idea, please tell us about it here. Before reverting the article again. Thanks.--Kaonashi 03:23, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Great idea. EliasAlucard|Talk 15:39, 12 Sept, 2005 (UTC)

Dawn of Sorrow
I edited the Dawn of Sorrow page a few days ago. As I am new to Wikipedia, I would greatly appreciate any grievances, concerns, or comments you wish to add to this. Also, could anyone post a picture of Genya Arikado from DoS (his talk image, not his sprite) and Alucard (again, the talk image, not the sprite) in Julius Mode? Thanks!
 * Sephiroth BCR|Talk 18:30, Dec 1 2005 (US Pacific Time)

Genya Arikado
Inhumanly attractive face? Please. Someone please fix this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.111.227.118 (talk) 19:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

Taking his father's place?
I was just wondering about the comment that stated that, however unlikely, what Alucard says at the end of Dawn of Sorrow indicates that he would take on his father's role. Why does it suggest that? HayashiKun 9:44, 09 March, 2007 (UTC)

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GAN
Some things: -- David Fuchs ( talk ) 01:02, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * "...but he is best known for his role in the critically acclaimed Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, where he was designed by Ayami Kojima and had a voice actor, both firsts for the series." First off, awkwardly worded. Secondly, when was this critically acclaimed title released?
 * "In the series, Alucard is the son of Dracula, the titular antagonist of the Castlevania series, but due to his human mother, Lisa, Alucard is a dhampir, a half-human, half-vampire. " - awkward too, like you're trying to cram too much into a sentence.
 * "His seiyū was Ryōtarō Okiayu, and his English voice actor was Robert Belgrade." Fictional characters don't have anything.
 * The English voice actors for Symphony of the Night, including Robert Belgrade, the voice of Alucard, were criticized, with GameSpot calling it "horribly melodramatic," and 1UP.com claimed it "isn't anything special." We don't care about the other voice actors and who the voice of Alucard was, because we're focused on Alucard and Belgrade was mentioned before.
 * The last sentence about merchandise seems tacked on and doesn't flow.
 * Fixes made. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 02:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't it be useful to have an abilities section? The character is also missing several categories. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 04:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * An abilities section is only necessary when the abilities are relevant to the plot to such a degree that mentioning them becomes necessary. For instance, mentioning Superman's abilities or Batman's skills and abilities is needed because of how integral it is to the plot. In the case of video game characters, this is rarely the case, as neither are abilities that centrally important to the plot or extensive enough to warrant an entire section devoted to them. Where you are taking this from is likely shōnen anime and manga characters (i.e. Sasuke Uchiha, Ichigo Kurosaki, Son Goku), where their abilities are varied enough and important enough to the plot that a substantive section that increases reader comprehension of the article can be written. For the case of Alucard, this isn't necessary or warranted. As for the categories, feel free to add them yourself if you think any are missing. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 04:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, I was thinking of Ganon's powers since the subject is video game-related. Thought such a section would be necessary in order to support the categories I plan to add, which happen to be the ability ones. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 04:25, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Again, there's nothing really to mention for Alucard since it's not relevant to the plot or understanding the character. Ganon has also been around quite a bit more than Alucard also. Most of what would compose an abilities section for Alucard would be almost entirely game guide information or original research anyways. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 04:33, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Exactly why I'm afraid of placing the categories, because of WP:OR. I know what you're saying but I need something to support my addition or I risk getting reverted. Are there any reliable websites that reference Alucard, including things like his powers and abilities? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 04:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It's not necessary for greater viewer understanding of the topic, per what I've stated above. Due to the problems outlined in making such a section as well, there's no reason to. If reliable sites made major note of his abilities, then a section would exist on it. It's unimportant. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 04:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * So, drop it? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 05:04, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * More or less. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 05:06, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice talking to you I guess. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 05:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * BTW, are there categories at Dracula or Hellsing`s Alucard that apply for this character? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 15:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Video game bosses I suppose. Note that you don't need my approval for what you want to do. Feel free to be bold and make your edits, and I'll bring up discussion if I disagree with them. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 06:00, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * One last thing before I add the categories: would there happen to be any incidental features of Alucard I should know of so I don't overcategorize? I don't really know the games enough so I could be wrong on somethings. Reply? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 17:37, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Again, be bold and make your edits. I'll make corrections if I think something is wrong or otherwise inappropriate. If we sat around discussing everything before doing anything, then nothing would get done. Fire away. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 02:52, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * My concerns have been addressed, and I am passing. David Fuchs ( talk  ) 21:40, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

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LGBT category
Alucard (Castlevania) is an article about the character's appearance in the Castlevania franchise, and not exclusively the video games he first appeared in. The character was confirmed to be bisexual in the animated series by the producers, Sam Deats. Reliable source: https://x.com/SamuelDeats/status/1237933897687740417

User:CastlevaniaWriter has consistently removed the categories Fictional LGBT characters and Fictional bisexuals from the article, their argument being that Alucard is not LGBT+ in the original video games. I reiterated the article covers Alucard in all media, even in the lead summary. When they said Iron Man from Marvel was not tagged as such, despite being bisexual in a spinoff, I thought the category Fictional LGBT characters in animation was still warranted - Alucard was confirmed as such in the animated show.

I noticed from User:CastlevaniaWriter's edit history they have a fixation with what they personally believe to be fraudulent categorizations for LGBT+ characters. I posted a warning on their talk page because I at least find their edits to the Alucard article to be disruptive.

Why? Correct me if I am wrong, but none of these categories were invalid, and they are backed up by a reliable source. At the very least, the category Fictional LGBT characters in animation cannot be disputed, because it was confirmed by Sam Deats. I also know Wikipedia generally allows these tags in articles about fictional characters, even when their original incarnation is not LGBT+. Harley Quinn is a noted example.

This is an attempt at an open discussion. If the impasse continues, I will request a Third opinion or Requests for comment.MailleWanda (talk) 21:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

 * I agree it should be noted but at least with who since I think the Netflix part is kinda short. I remember symphony could end with him and María (mentioned only in creation) and who knows how Nocturne would treat Alucard's future. Tintor2 (talk) 23:03, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

At the very least, the category Fictional LGBT characters in animation cannot be disputed It absolutely can be disputed. Personally, I'd oppose adding the category for two reasons: 1) it's inaccurate (or at a minimum unverifiable) for the vast majority of Alucard's portrayals covered under the article, and 2) it's undue weight, given that it's only applicable to a specific portrayal within a specific medium (that wasn't even the original). We already mention it in-line in the article appropriately: This version of Alucard was later confirmed as bisexual on Twitter by Sam Deats, one of the series directors. The attribution of "This version" there is very important -- your category edit cannot achieve the same level of granularity. I'll also note that the sentences immediately preceding that quote note that portrayal as "deviating from the franchise's common narrative elements", which further implies that the amount of weight given to it should be limited. Either way, you should not be warning users for being "disruptive" simply because they do not agree with your chosen POV and reverted a controversial change. ⇒  SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 23:52, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I still believe a medium-specific category, which is "Fictional LGBT characters in animation", is appropriate. This category does not imply the character's sexuality across all media but specifically acknowledges their portrayal in a particular series. Categorizing Alucard in "Fictional LGBT characters in animation" does not give undue weight to this aspect of his character, as it is specifically tied to a notable, sourced portrayal within that medium.MailleWanda (talk) 01:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * "Alucard is bisexual" is not a contradictory claim for any depiction of Alucard. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 02:14, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Guys, please. Avoid doing those edits. Admins could easily block both of you. If possible, how about expanding at least the commentary of Alucard's sexuality in prose where it is the most notable part of the article?Tintor2 (talk) 17:05, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Lords of Shadow image
Since there is some notable coverage of Alucard's portrayal in the Lords of Shadow alternate timeline, I've been wondering if there is need of adding an image from his portrayal there since there is commentary from the artist and the style is different kinda like Ninja Theory's take on Dante from Devil May Cry or other rebooted characters.Tintor2 (talk) 17:05, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

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Wragge is an Ogre, so if you ignore him he might go away, but beware: he can raise a WikiGnome army by tactical spelling errors & non-compliance.

He's pedantic, but not to the brilliance of [|"Visible Sage"]. He once knew secrets and Dragons (like User:Bluemoose) and was bold. He still thinks that the unreliability of Wikipedia is a virtue, but has lost the energy required to challenge concencus.

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Anders Nilsen Wiborg

Anders Nilsen Wiborg (c. 1655 – 1718) was the fourth commander of the Christiansfjeld Fortress in Norway. He commanded from 15 January 1717 until his death at Kongsvinger during the Great Northern War on 10 October 1718.

He became a second lieutenant (Fähnrich) in the Oppland National Infantry Regiment in 1678. This would place his birth about 1655. He became a Sekondløytnanat in the Fåbergske Company in 1682. He became a First Lieutenant in 1685. In 1697 he became a Lieutenant Captain in the South Hedemark National Guard Company. Later that year he became Captain and commander of the Osterdal Company, which was sent to Denmark in 1714 under orders of the Danish King.

Charles XII of Sweden attacked Norway in the summer of 1716; the attack had been expected for a long time. On 15 January 1717 Wiborg returned to Norway, was promoted to Major and made Commandant of Christiansfjeld. His death at Kongsvinger on 10 October 1718 occurred only shortly before Charles XII's death on 30 November 1718, in the siege trenches of the Swedish assault on the Norwegian fortress at Fredriksten.

Anders Wiborg was married twice. His first marriage was to Margrethe Petersdatter Skridshol of Ringsaker Parish, Hedmark County, who bore him eight children. His second marriage was to Margrethe Madfeldt of Romedal Parish who bore his seven children. He also maintained a mistress.

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Marcos Carvajal

Marcos José Carvajal (August 19, 1984 – January 24, 2018) was a Venezuelan relief pitcher who played for the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball. Listed at 6' 4", (1.93 m), 175 lb. (79 k), Carvajal batted and threw right-handed.

Career
Carvajal was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2000.

On May 3, 2004, for the Single-A Columbus Catfish, Carvajal combined with starter Chuck Tiffany for a seven-inning no-hitter. Tiffany pitched the first five innings followed by Carvajal, who threw the final two innings. He then was selected in the Rule 5 draft by the Milwaukee Brewers on December 13, 2004. On that same day, the Colorado Rockies acquired him for cash or a player to be named later.

Carvajal made his major league debut on April 6, 2005, with the Colorado Rockies, as he became the youngest player in Rockies history at 20 years and 230 days old, beating Jamey Wright's previous record of 21 years and 191 days old. He then spent the whole 2005 season with the Rockies because he was a Rule 5 draft choice; if he had been taken off the roster, the Dodgers would have had the right to claim him back.

On December 7, 2005, Carvajal was traded to the Seattle Mariners for catcher Yorvit Torrealba. On April 6, 2006, he was sent to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in exchange for a minor leaguer. He would then spend the whole 2006 season with the Double-A Montgomery Biscuits, posting a 3.86 ERA in 72.1 innings.

On February 16, 2007, Carvajal was claimed off waivers by the New York Mets. He began the year for the Double-A Binghamton Mets, where he was converted to a starter.

On September 7, 2007, the Mets designated him for assignment and on September 12, and he was claimed off waivers by the Florida Marlins. He was released by the Marlins on July 6, 2008. After that Carvajal pitched until 2011 in the Minors, Italian Baseball, Mexican League, and the Venezuelan Winter League.

Death
Carvajal died on January 24, 2018, in Ciudad Bolívar at the age of 33 of pneumonia due to medicine shortages in Venezuela.

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Technology Park Malaysia

Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) is a science park located in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for research and development of knowledge-based industries. Its total land area of 750 acre, comprises 13 buildings each with specific functions. It is in phase 1 of implementation.

Since its establishment, it provides support services, technology and R&D capability to stimulate the growth of science, technology and innovation. This includes rental of incubator premises to scientist, researchers, technopreneurs and SMEs, and lease of land parcels for technology knowledge-based companies. TPM also provides technology and business incubation programs including business mentoring and coaching services, marketing and financial consulting, technology and business forums, workshops and business matching.

Other services include technology commercialization assistance to support to the commercialization of technology, including advisory and consultancy of technology transfer, project management, strategic management counsel, market research and opportunity analysis, and professional development programs.

Subsidiaries

 * TPM Engineering Sdn Bhd
 * TPM Nexus Sdn Bhd
 * TPM IT Sdn Bhd

List of companies in TPM

 * Astro All Asia Networks
 * Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation
 * MIMOS
 * IRIS Corporation Berhad
 * HexoSys SDN BHD
 * HCL Axon Malaysia SDN BHD
 * Software International Corporation SDN BHD
 * ACE Training Malaysia
 * Synergy Log In Systems Sdn Bhd

Facilities & Services

 * Co-working space
 * Conference Area
 * Small to medium scale meeting rooms
 * Auditoriums
 * Multi-function exhibition area
 * Gymnasium
 * Indoor and outdoor game facilities
 * Technoflex (Recreation Centre)
 * High speed internet
 * Cafes and food court
 * Auxiliary Police surveillance
 * Ample parking space
 * Medical clinics

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David P. Bushnell

David Pearsall Bushnell (1913–2005) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Bushnell optics company in 1948. Bushnell made precision binoculars affordable to middle-class Americans for the first time through a strategy of importing from manufacturers who provided optics to his patented specifications.

Early life and education
Bushnell was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on March 31, 1913, and raised in Los Angeles, California. From 1930 to 1933, he studied engineering at California Institute of Technology, paying for his tuition by selling newspapers. He then dropped out to travel around the world. Bushnell returned after 8 months and attended the University of Southern California where he earned an undergraduate degree in foreign trade in 1936.

Bushnell was related to David Bushnell, designer of The Turtle, a Revolutionary War submarine.

Career
After graduation, Bushnell began an import-export business, which included importing Belgian cement and Iranian bracelets, and exporting asbestos and old Salvation Army shoes to China. During World War II, Bushnell worked for Lockheed in administration. In 1948, on an extended honeymoon with his second wife who was also in foreign trade, he bought some binoculars in Japan. When he and his wife returned to California, his success selling 400 pair in otherwise awkward circumstances put him in the optical business. Bushnell Optical was soon founded. Binoculars were soon joined by riflescopes and various other optical equipment such as spotting scopes and telescopes. Bushnell Optical was granted patents for numerous inventions that made its products lighter and more precise. Bushnell Optical later moved on to working with factories in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Half of a pair of Bushnell Custom Compact binoculars served as part of the backup navigation system in a Gemini space flight.

Bushnell sold his company to Bausch & Lomb (B&L) in 1971 and retired in 1974 as a vice-president of B&L. The company was renamed to Bushnell Performance Optics by B&L.

Family and death
In 2005, Bushnell died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Laguna Beach, California, a week before his 92nd birthday. Bushnell's first wife, Frances Elizabeth Krug, died in 1947. His second marriage, to Nina Gmirkin, ended in divorce. Bushnell was survived by his third wife, Nancy. He had two sons, David Alan Bushnell and Steven Ensign Bushnell, and two daughters, Natasha Bushnell Suter and Jean Bushnell Salfen.

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1878 papal conclave

The papal conclave held from 18 to 20 February 1878 saw the election of Vincenzo Pecci, who took the name Leo XIII as pope. Held after the death of Pius IX, who had had the longest pontificate since Saint Peter, it was the first election of a pope who would not rule the Papal States. It was the first to meet in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican because the venue used earlier in the 19th century, the Quirinal Palace, was now the palace of the king of Italy, Umberto I.

Questions facing the cardinals
When the cardinals assembled, they faced a dilemma. Should they choose a pope who would continue to espouse Pius IX's reactionary religious and political views, and would continue to refuse to accept Italy's Law of Guarantees guaranteeing the pope religious liberty in the Kingdom of Italy? Or should they turn away from the policies of Pius IX and choose a more liberal pope who could work for reconciliation with the king of Italy? Would choosing such a policy be seen as a betrayal of Pius IX, the self-proclaimed "prisoner in the Vatican"?

Other broader issues included Church-State relations in Italy, the Third French Republic, Ireland and the United States; the heresy Leo XIII later called Americanism; divisions in the Church caused by the proclamation of papal infallibility by the First Vatican Council; and the status of the First Vatican Council, which had been halted suddenly and never concluded. The length of Pius IX's reign suggested the cardinals give special consideration to the age and health of the man they elected.

Conclave
Some 61 of 64 cardinals entered the conclave. Two others arrived too late from New York and Dublin to participate and one did not attend for health reasons. Three of the 61 had participated in the previous conclave in 1846: Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Fabio Maria Asquini, and Domenico Carafa della Spina di Traetto.

With what many churchmen believed was the "unstable" and "anti-Catholic" situation in a Rome that was no longer controlled by the Church, some cardinals, notably Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, urged that the conclave be moved outside Rome, perhaps even to Malta. However the Camerlengo, Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, advocated otherwise, and an initial vote among cardinals to move to Spain was overturned in a later vote. The conclave finally assembled in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on 18 February 1878.

Going into the conclave, Cardinal Pecci was the one candidate favored to be elected, in part because many of the cardinals who headed to Rome had already decided to elect him. In addition to Pecci's competent administration as Camerlengo during the brief sede vacante period up to the conclave, Pecci was seen as the opposite of Pope Pius IX in terms of manner and temperament, and had also had a successful diplomatic career prior to being Archbishop-Bishop of Perugia. Pecci's election was also facilitated in that Alessandro Franchi, the candidate favored by the conservatives, urged his supporters to switch their support to the Camerlengo.

One account reported the voting tabulations without providing its source.

Ballot 1 (morning 19 February)
On the first ballot, held on the morning of 19 February the votes were

 * Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci 19 votes
 * Luigi Bilio 6 votes
 * Alessandro Franchi 4 votes

This ballot was ruled invalid because at least one cardinal did not mark his ballot properly.

Ballot 2 (afternoon 19 February)

 * Pecci 26
 * Bilio 7
 * Franchi 2

Ballot 3 (morning 20 February)

 * Pecci 44 – elected

Result, implications, and aftermath
The election of Cardinal Pecci, who took the name of Leo XIII, was a victory for the liberals. Pecci had been an effective bishop whose diocese had moved from the Papal States to the Kingdom of Italy successfully, without Church problems. He was seen as a diplomatic pragmatist with the tact and flexibility opponents of the previous pope believed Pius IX lacked. At 68 Leo was also young enough to do the job without hindrance of health problems, but old enough to offer the prospect of a relatively short reign of ten to fifteen years. Whereas Pius IX was seen as having isolated the Church from international opinion (his confining Jews in ghettos and his treatment of minorities had been condemned by world leaders such as Gladstone), Leo was seen as an "internationalist" who could earn back the Vatican some international respect.

Though always seemingly in poor health and delicate condition, Leo reigned for 25 years. He had the third longest reign of any pope until that time. When he died on 20 July 1903 at the age of 93 he had lived to be older than any of his known predecessors.

Participants

 * Arrived too late to participate
 * Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin (Primate of Ireland)
 * John McCloskey, Archbishop of New York (United States)
 * Unavailable through ill-health
 * Godefroy Brossais-Saint-Marc, Archbishop of Rennes (France)
 * Present
 * Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Dean of the College of Cardinals, cardinal-bishop of Ostia and Velletri
 * Camillo di Pietro, cardinal-bishop of Porto e Santa Ruffina
 * Carlo Sacconi, cardinal-bishop of Palestrina
 * Filippo Maria Guidi, cardinal-bishop of Frascati
 * Luigi Bilio, cardinal-bishop of Sabina
 * Carlo Luigi Morichini, cardinal-bishop of Albano
 * Friedrich Johannes Jacob Celestin von Schwarzenberg, Prince-Archbishop of Prague (Bohemia, part of Austria-Hungary)
 * Fabio Maria Asquini, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics
 * Domenico Carafa della Spina di Traetto, Archbishop of Benevento
 * Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet, Bordeaux
 * Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, Camerlengo (Papal Chamberlain), Archbishop-Bishop of Perugia (Italy)
 * Antonio Benedetto Antonucci, Ancona
 * Antonio Maria Panebianco, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Indulgences and Sacred Relics
 * Antonio Saverio De Luca, prefect of the Pontifical Congregation for Studies
 * Jean Baptiste François Pitra, librarian of the Vatican Library
 * Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose, Rouen
 * Gustav Adolph von Hohenlohe, archpriest of Santa Maria Maggiore
 * Lucien-Louis-Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte, cardinal of Santa Pudenziana
 * Innocenzo Ferrieri, Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals
 * Giuseppe Berardi, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano
 * Juan Ignacio Moreno, Toledo
 * Raffaele Monaco La Valletta, Cardinal Vicar General of Rome
 * Inácio do Nascimento de Morais Cardoso, Patriarch of Lisbon
 * René-François Régnier, Archbishop of Cambrai (France)
 * Flavio Chigi, Grand Prior of Rome of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
 * Alessandro Franchi, Prefect of Propagande Fide
 * Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, Archbishop of Paris (France)
 * Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Relics
 * János Simor, Esztergom
 * Tommaso Martinelli, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
 * Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei
 * Pietro Giannelli, cardinal-priest of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura
 * Mieczyslaw Halka Ledóchowski, Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, (Poland, part of the German Empire).
 * Henry Edward Manning, Archbishop of Westminster (Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales).
 * Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps, Archbishop of Mechelen (Belgium).
 * Giovanni Simeoni, Secretary of State of the Holy See
 * Domenico Bartolini, Cardinal-Priest of San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio
 * Bartolomeo d'Avanzo, Bishop of Calvi e Teano (Italy)
 * Johann Baptist Franzelin, Jesuit theologian, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio
 * Francisco de Paula Benavides y Navarrete, Patriarch of the West Indies
 * Francesco Saverio Apuzzo, Archbishop of Capua
 * Emmanuele Garcia Gil, Zaragoza
 * Edward Henry Howard, Protector of the English College at Rome
 * Miguel Payá y Rico, Santiago de Compostella
 * Louis-Marie Caverot, Lyon
 * Luigi di Canossa, Verona
 * Luigi Serafini, Viterbo
 * Josip Mihalovic, Zagreb
 * Johann Rudolf Kutschker, Archbishop of Vienna, Austria-Hungary
 * Lucido Parocchi, Bologna
 * Vincenzo Moretti, Ravenna
 * Antonio Pellegrini, cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria in Aquiro
 * Prospero Caterini, Protodeacon, Secretary of the Inquisition.
 * Teodolfo Mertel, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura; the last cardinal to not be ordained to the priesthood
 * Domenico Consolini, Prefect of the Pontifical Roman Seminary of Sts. Peter and Paul for the Foreign Missions
 * Edoardo Borromeo, President of the Fabric of Saint Peter
 * Lorenzo Ilarione Randi, Vice-Camerlengo of the Apostolic Camera
 * Bartolomeo Pacca il Giovane, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Campitelli
 * Lorenzo Nina, Prefect of the Congregation for Studies
 * Enea Sbarretti, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria dei Martiri (the Pantheon)
 * Frédéric de Falloux du Coudray, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Agata de' Goti

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Lord Chamberlain's Office

The Lord Chamberlain's Office is a department within the British Royal Household. It is concerned with matters such as protocol, state visits, investitures, garden parties, royal weddings and funerals. For example, in April 2005 it organised the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles. It is also responsible for authorising use of the Royal Arms and other royal symbols.

As the Lord Chamberlain is a part-time position the day-to-day work of the Office is conducted by the Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office.

List of comptrollers

 * Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane GCB ISO (1857–1901)
 * Major-General Sir Arthur Ellis, GCVO MC (1901–1907)
 * Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Dawson, GCVO KCB CMG (1907–1920)
 * Colonel the Honourable Sir George Crichton, GCVO DL (1920–1936)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Terence Nugent, GCVO MC (1936–1960)
 * Brigadier Sir Norman Gwatkin, GCVO DSO (1960–1964)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Eric Penn, GCVO OBE MC (1964–1981)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnston, GCVO MC (1981–1987)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel George Alston-Roberts-West, CVO DL (1987–1990)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross, GCVO OBE (1991–2005)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Ford, GCVO (2006–2018)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Vernon (2019–present)

Theatre censorship
The Lord Chamberlain's Office had a more significant role (under the Theatres Act 1843) in British society prior to 1968, as it was the official censor for virtually all theatre performed in Britain. Commercial theatre owners were generally satisfied by the safety this arrangement gave them; so long as they presented only licensed plays they were effectively immune from prosecution for any offence a play might cause. There were campaigns by playwrights, however, in opposition to the Lord Chamberlain's censorship, such as those involving J. M. Barrie in 1909 and 1911. Some plays were not licensed in the 1930s, during the period of appeasement, because they were critical of the German Nazi regime and it was feared that allowing certain plays to be performed might alienate what was still thought of as a friendly government. This included Terence Rattigan's Follow My Leader, which was submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's office in 1938 but was not granted a license due to its farcical depiction of the German government "not being in the best interests of the country". It was not granted a license until 1940 following the end of appeasement. Lord Cromer, then Lord Chamberlain, regularly consulted the Foreign Office and sometimes, the German Embassy. In the latter case, the submissions were intended to be read by a "friendly German".

By the 1960s, there were many playwrights and producers who wished to produce controversial works such as Lady Chatterley's Lover. Theatre companies such as the Royal Court Theatre came into open conflict with the Lord Chamberlain's Office. Sometimes they would resort to such measures as declaring themselves private clubs for the performance of certain plays. Edward Bond's Saved and John Osborne's A Patriot for Me played a large role in the build up to the Theatres Act 1968. The Lord Chamberlain's Office technically had jurisdiction over private performances, but had generally avoided getting involved with bona-fide private clubs until Saved. While they had cause for prosecution, there was a fear that this would call into question theatre censorship as a whole. This is precisely what happened after the Royal Court Theatre was prosecuted. Director William Gaskill was discharged and the company were fined but the publicity surrounding the case called into question the necessity of the Lord Chamberlain's role in theatre. The 1966 Joint Select Committee was set up to discuss possible changes to the Theatres Act following the dissatisfaction with how theatre censorship was being handled. It included eight representatives of the House of Lords, eight commoners, and witnesses of varying theatrical backgrounds, including Peter Hall. The committee met between 1966 and 1967 over the course of sixteen meetings and it eventually resulted in the abolition of the role of official censor in the Theatres Act 1968.

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Menswear (band)

Menswear (sometimes styled Menswe@r) were a Britpop band formed in October 1994 from Camden in London. They released a number of singles and an album, Nuisance, on the short-lived London Records subsidiary Laurel. A second album followed, which was released only in Japan; the group broke up in 1998. Menswear, made up of a new line-up in addition to frontman Johnny Dean, played their first show in 15 years in August 2013.

According to AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Menswear met with numerous detractors, being "charming, handsome young men that wanted to be in a pop group more than they wanted to play music". They nevertheless became "one of the most popular Brit-pop bands of 1995".

Formation and overnight success (1993–1996)
The beginnings of the band were a feature in a Select article about a supposed London mod revival led by Graham Coxon. Two individuals closely associated with the burgeoning Britpop scene, Chris Gentry and Johnny Dean, made references to a "top new unsigned band" (Menswear), an act which did not yet exist. They later appeared on the cover of Melody Maker before they had released any material. Their dress sense was Mod (tight-fitting suits etc.) whilst their music was influenced by both Blur's second album Modern Life Is Rubbish and Elastica. Gentry and Dean had a single song - called "Daydreamer" - but soon recruited friend Simon White, who contributed "I'll Manage Somehow" to add to the setlist necessary for their upcoming debut gig at a Britpop-oriented club on Regent Street called Smashing. The music press reviewed their performance enthusiastically, with NME comparing them to a "Tarantino film... totally derivative but totally brilliant", increasing the record labels' interest.

After a frantic race between record companies, they signed to London Records for £90,000 and a lucrative 18.5% gross revenues after just their fifth gig. Shortly afterwards, they signed a £500,000 publishing deal despite having just seven songs in their repertoire - working out at around £70,000 per song.

They appeared on Top of the Pops a week before their first single had even been released. Their first single was "I'll Manage Somehow". Their second single "Daydreamer" peaked at number 14 in the UK Singles Chart, but saw the band accused of plagiarising Wire; AllMusic describes the track as sounding "more like Wire than Elastica, only funnier, even if it may be unintentional".

The band released their debut album Nuisance in 1995, described by AllMusic as "the perfect product from a band that is better known for being seen than being heard". Menswear did, however, play at the Glastonbury Festival in June 1995 at the peak of Britpop's popularity and were second on the bill to Pulp at the Heineken Festival in Leeds in July that year. Similar to other bands of the Britpop era, such as Oasis, the album made use of familiar riffs from 1960s and 1970s British rock, such as on the tracks "Stardust" and "Stardust (Reprise)" which tapped the intro from the Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter".

Including "Stardust", a total of five singles were released from the Nuisance album; the last, "Being Brave" (released in early 1996), gave the band their first and only top ten hit. However, drummer Matt Everitt would soon leave Menswear due to personality differences with the other members, a decision that Dean would later call one of his biggest regrets because "Matt was always the sensible one, and it was the first sign to the record company that we were beginning to lose it, which I agree with."

A non-album single "We Love You", was released in late 1996, stalled at number 22 in UK charts and marked a change in the band's musical direction.

Break-up and personal projects (1997–2013)
The band parted company with Laurel in 1997, after delivering their country-rock-tinged second album Hay Tiempo!. The record was released in Japan in 1998, but did not get a release anywhere else in the world. They played their last live show at London's Camden Palace the same year. Hints at causes towards the breakup have been mentioned in Johnny Dean's blog.

Stuart Black formed a new band, Messiah, that lasted until 2000. Guitarist Chris Gentry went on to play with the band, Vatican DC. Simon White played as a touring and studio musician for various artists including Finley Quaye. After leaving in 1996, drummer Matt Everitt later joined The Montrose Avenue, and is now on staff at radio station 6Music. Drummer Todd Parmenter left the band to play in his main band Heck. He went on to play with Lungleg, The Beal, Evan Dando and The Beatings. Stuart Black is now in the band Bella Echoes with former Messiah member Barnsey.

Lead singer Johnny Dean was finally diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 2008 and has started campaigning on behalf of the National Autistic Society. In recent interviews Dean has expressed the torment he experienced before his diagnosis and his desire to raise awareness of the Autistic syndrome spectrum. On Friday 7 June 2013 Dean made his first sold out live appearance in 15 years with the Nuis@nce Band performing the songs of David Bowie which raised thousands of pounds for The National Autistic Society in London.

Revival (2013–2016)
A new Menswear line-up played their first show in 15 years on 16 August 2013. Original member Johnny Dean was joined by members of The Nuisance Band as a different Menswear line-up. The sold-out event was in aid of the mental health charity PMA Sport's Academy and #TimeToChange campaign which Johnny Dean was invited to promote alongside The Saturdays' Frankie Sandford, Uri Geller and Ruby Wax.

On 26 March 2014, the new line-up of Menswear performed their first sold-out gig at London's Bush Hall, debuting the new single "Crash '14" amongst the set-list. It was released on 26 May that year via Nuisance Recordings & POST/POP Records on limited edition 7" single and cassette as well as download.

Menswear played as part of the line-up at the Shiiine On Weekender festival (6–9 November 2015), playing alongside acts such as Happy Mondays, Peter Hook, The Wedding Present, 808 State and The Orb. This was to be the last gig the revamped line-up played, celebrating 20 years since the release of debut album Nuisance. A statement on the band's Twitter account in August 2016 announced there would be no more Menswear.

In 2020, Dean disowned the new line-up of Menswear, saying, "I was manipulated into something I wasn’t comfortable with by people who were being opportunistic. I thought it’d be fun, but it looked weird, as I’m not that same person."

Dean has since started a new band, Fxxk Explosion.

The Menswear Collection (2020)
On 3 June 2020, Menswear announced the 23 October release of The Menswear Collection, a 4-CD box set spanning their entire career. Its contents include remastered versions of both Nuisance and ¡Hay Tiempo! (released for the first time outside of Japan), plus b-sides, demos and other rarities. As a precursor to the box set, the band also released “Wait for the Sun” from ¡Hay Tiempo! as a digital single.

Regarding how he felt about the box set, Johnny Dean remarked, "Strange, as I wouldn’t have put the words ‘Menswear’ and ‘box set’ together. But I'm happy about it, because it'll surprise people how much music we actually recorded. I thought all those demos for ¡Hay Tiempo! were lost in an attic in Camden somewhere, but London Records had kept them all, even though they belonged to us." Dean also said although the original line-up of Menswear were all friends again, it would be unlikely for them to reform due to everyone having proper jobs, and that "that first Menswear album was about sounding like a teenage meltdown. It looks very different doing that in your ’40s."

Band members

 * Johnny Dean (born John Hutchinson Dean, 12 December 1971, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) - vocals (1994-1998, 2013–2015)
 * Chris Gentry (born 23 February 1977, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England) - guitar (1994-1998)
 * Simon White (born 10 July 1974, Moseley, Birmingham, England) - guitar (1994-1998)
 * Stuart Black (born Stuart Lee Black, 1 April 1974, Walthamstow, London, England) - bass (1994-1998)
 * Todd Parmenter - drums (1994)
 * Matt Everitt (born Matthew Stephen Everitt, 13 Sept 1972, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England) - drums (1994-1996)
 * Darren "Tud" Tudgay - drums (1996-1998)
 * Paul Fletcher - keyboards (1996-1998)

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