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Talk:Bloc Party

Universal?
I can't find a source referncing Universal, on their CD's and albums listed here, nor on http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/ so I'm removing the reference in the artist info box. -VirianFlux

Band name
I dispute this sentence, “... names such as Superheroes of BMX, The Angel Range, Diet, and Union, before settling on Bloc Party”.

I happen to know that they were officially the Angel Range, then Union, then Bloc Party. The names Superheroes of BMX and Diet can only have been unofficial, or perhaps suggested, from the days before the band officially formed as a unit. More likely they are fabricated. I feel the text should be amended to reflect this, or these non-names removed - unless someone provides a valid reference to back this up, presumably as working titles for the embryonic group pre-2001. (signed no-name)
 * Well, I'm not sure about Superheroes or BMX, but here you can see that "Diet" was also their official name, what d'you think about that? It would be great if you rememberd to sign your posts :) Eyesglare 20:36, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I am inclined to dispute that particular information, but at the very least would suggest that this ‘short-lived’ name was surely unofficial. If anyone has more info I would be happy to hear it. Thanks for replying. (signed no-name)

This article now says, "They bumped into each other again in 1999 at the Reading Festival and soon after formed the band Union." As I have stated, they were officially the Angel Range, then Union, then Bloc Party. Union was only a short-term interim name, which was dropped because another band was also using it, between the Angel Range and Bloc Party. This period came well after 1999, when the current unit of members had assembled - I think around 2002. This whole name issue is still incredibly misleading, guys. (signed no-name)

On a separate point, the name "Bloc Party" might not be a play on "Block Party" but could be referring to the word "Bloc" itself, which is "a group of persons, businesses, etc., united for a particular purpose." as dictionary.com puts it (amongst others) - and certainly sounds like something Bloc would do... Kudasai 23:34, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes of course, but they've already explained in an interview where the name comes from, hence I think it's more appropriate to rely on what they stated ;-) --Eyesglare 08:47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Period on name?
Yeah, I've got a question. Is it Bloc Party, period, or Bloc Party? 'Cause some magazines added one.
 * Was it at the end of a sentence? :> BabuBhatt 22:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, not just magazines. On the cover of their album its Bloc Party., with a dot.

 * Yes, would someone please answer this. Is the name of the band , or  ??? - I would go with the latter since the album covers include the full stop.--Macca7174 14:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

It's just Bloc Party is period a full stop?

iTunes has it as Bloc Party without the full stop, so I'm inclined to think it is —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.234.157 (talk) 16:37, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

iTunes also doesn't understand proper song capitalization (at least not the gracenote cddb lookup it uses), so I wouldn't really rely on that argument. At the very least I think there should be something at the top of the article that says "often/always typefaced 'Bloc Party.'" since the period is on all of their album covers and I've seen a few band articles with similar notes. Or whatever; it really doesn't affect me all that much. Jay Bones (talk) 10:28, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

"The name was not intended to be an allusion to the Soviet Bloc; the absence of a 'k' was purely for aesthetics."

bullshit. have you seen the cover of the banquet ep? their old names? what's the source for this?

Question: Is "Bloc Party" the name really a play on words of block party? Or were they using a play on words, but literally trying to say "a party in a block of flats (bloc)?" Thank you. --Jeff Supodsson 08:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

"Bloc Party is Friends with David Searston" even if true this isn't the right place. Redkaty
 * But I think it should be mentioned that he was a past member of the group.

Anyone want to add something about the appearant Anti-Bush sentiment on the album?

Kele Okereke has mentioned that at least the song "Helicopter" is not about Bush (see http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/b/bloc-party-05/), so I'm thinking its not appropriate to mention this. Wikipedia brown 20:57, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Kele Okereke (Voice and Guitar)Gay - currently dating Russell Lissack

Russell Lissack (Lead Guitar) Gay - currently dating Kele Okereke

Is that necessary?

Andrew T: I didn't know that, but it's probably not that relevant.

I don't even know that it's true...it would probably be on other websites if it were. So I took it out.

It is true, or at least very likely too be true. http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/preciously-private/2005/07/14/1120934357864.html?oneclick=true

i dont think it is true though i think that kele is just shy and he thinks that all of this is irrevelant to what he does and that is make music why should we care so much about who they are dating or what they are wearing or what car they drive when we should be more focused on the music which in most cases is the reason why we listen to certain band because we like their music.

 * Please sign edits to Talk pages. That article wasn't accessible unless I went through Google News, but it didn't have much to say except that Okereke guards his privacy, and this has only heightened fan rumors about such things as his sexual orientation. Doesn't say anything about Lissack other than that they co-founded the band. --Dhartung | Talk 20:13, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure if the name is Bloc Party. or just Bloc Party without a period. I made a redirect from Bloc Party. to Bloc Party. – SilverBulletx3talkcontributions 16:24, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Just a question? what do you care if Kele is gay? Surely, in a day of such openmindedness as today, you shouldn't care at all. Oh, and by the way, the band's website has no period/dot at the end of their name, and i think the band itself is the highest authority on this issue.

I agree, but the lack of signatures on the comment and the fact that this isn't even in a heading of its own in this discussion just leads me to back the argument that we really shouldn't care even more. It'd also seem a little dubious to post something which is still rumour on the main article. Sinnyo 18:17, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree also. It is noones business but his and he may even be ashamed for it to be placed on Wikipedia. elevenzeroone 19:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

It seems that Kele is now prepared to be more open (but still a bit confused) about his sexuality and that there are songs on the new album whivh refer to it (see http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,1984350,00.html). It's not a big deal IMHO but may help and understanding of lyrical intent.Redkaty 15:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Headline text
The Angel Range!!!

The time when the band was called 'The Angel Range' has beeb missed out from the article.

Hey Gordon's link is screwed. It is annoying. I don't know how to fix it.

Trivia section
This section is without citation from reliable sources. Can any be provided? - brenneman  color="000000" title="Admin actions">{L} 00:25, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Trivia added

Thats not why you said you removed it. If you want to delete unreferenced trivia that you don't think is correct, go ahead. And the unreferenced tag you've added is fine. I'll have a look now for some references. Iorek85 01:38, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

There you go, most of it is now referenced. I deleted the first one, not because it was incorrect, but just not notable. --Iorek85 02:08, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well done. - brenneman  color="000000" title="Admin actions">{L} 02:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Now it's tagged by Machchunk for cleanup. Can we have some more details, please? You've just said 'trivia section needs severe help', which isn't helpful in the slightest.--Iorek85 00:39, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Needs Citations
Some facts in the trivia section need citations. The statement of just "Their largest show so far was played at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on August 4, 2006 with Mew, The Two Gallants, and Broken Social Scene opening. Songs from their new upcoming album were played." is vague on the main concept of being their "largest show" because it gives no proof or numbers to prove that it was their biggest show. Joely08 Sunday, August 6, 2006 05:50 UTC

2005 Mercury Award Nominee for Album of the Year: Silent Alarm
You might want to add this honor. And thanks for omitting rumours from an encyclopedia. -joanjettson 8/06/2006

Connect Sets?
One of my reasons for dropping by was to find out a little more about Connect Sets, presumably a demo only released in the US if this shopping page is anything to go by. As it sounds much like Bloc Party's style, only more punkish and disconnected, can I presume this is a genuine anomaly that might be worth adding? Somehow I ended up with 'The Answer' from it as an MP3, hence my query. I'm afraid I know next to nothing about the band's history, so I'm in no position to research it myself.

Sinnyo 23:14, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

"Biggest show" date
The article currently lists it as Aug 3 and Aug 4 in different sections. Can someone work out which it is please?--Eyetie 11:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thrasher claims?
in the November 2006 issue of Thrasher, they say that this page once said the band had a biography from Amazon. Is this true, or are they just making things up to ruin Wiki's reputation? I don't have the time to look through the history, so someone else post here if they found a revision that did. --Machchunk | make some noise at me 22:48, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Leak
I know this is also being discussed on the Weekend in the City page but I do not understand why certain people are determined to remove this information from the article. Although leaked albums are becoming commonplace now in the music industry these are also reported on the band's wikipedia pages. In this case the leak is shockingly early and I don't think there are any other example of high profile bands having an album leaked a whole three months early. It's just speculation but you might argue it has the potential to impact of the eventual sales of the album. The point being that having their album leak this early is a part of the history of the band and shouldn't be airbrushed out. 87.81.110.119 23:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Big Break section is inaccurate
Read these interviews with Kele Okereke, in them Okekere's telling of what their big break was is different from what is said in the current version of the article which is that Franz Ferdinand was their big break. Alex Mauger (2006), Drowned In Sound (2003) and The Times (2005). For one thing, it's obvious that Kele never even thrusted a copy of their single into Alex Kapranos' hands. Franz Ferdinand got to know of Bloc Party when Kele sent them their demo tape. I think a rewrite is necessary. - kollision 12:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Genre
The genre of the band should be descriptive of the music that they play, as after all, this is an encyclopedia and not a fansite. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.47.122.57 (talk • contribs).

pop rock? what the fuck... and who keepes removing 'art rock' from the genres? STOP IT list a reason why it should be removed before anything

God Bless Bloc Party DVD
Someone who knows more about it should ad some info on this DVD.--Jimmyjrg 02:06, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

The Prayer Single UK
Released Mon - 29th 2007, got to UK #4. Not #13.

The Prayer Single Australia
Is at #20 not #12. :| Edited. 211.30.195.154 12:25, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Bloc Party Featured in...
I swear there used to be a section on what games, movies, and television programs Bloc Party songs were featured in. I know there are several games and television shows. Where did that go? I ask because a song was featured on tonight's episode of FOX's "The OC"--These7enthprophet 04:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I moved most of it to the Silent Alarm article because it was getting to big and because it relates more to the album. If it's a song from another release you can add it to its relevant article. - kollision 07:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

 * The O.C. information has already been added to the "I Still Remember" article. - kollision 09:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Right on, thank you! --These7enthprophet 02:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

American definitive
"Bloc Party are an English indie rock band" seems correct, but I notice that sometimes Americans will say "U2 is touring at the moment" as opposed to "are touring".

An example of it (from the article under discussion) is here:

"Bloc Party has been together since 2002"

To me, that should read "have been together since 2002".

Is it just me, or is this an American thing?

And why was this comment removed?

Would it be 'is' or 'are'? I guess it would depend on if you were refering to the band as a group of people or just the band as an entity unto itself ;D 65.167.69.231 19:01, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

-- The dispute has to do with the whether one considers a group to be a singular or plural entity. In British spelling, a group such as a band is plural, while in American spelling a band would be singular.

I.E.: British: Bloc Party are my favourite. American: Bloc Party is my favorite.

I think as Bloc Party are British it should be "Bloc Party are"...

 * Yes, I think you're right, I've just edited the first line.

P.S. Remember to sign your posts --Eyesglare 07:34, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

"Bloc Party are an English rock band" makes it sound like each member is Bloc Party and they come together to still make Bloc Party. It's like saying "Voltron are a robot." ChesterG (talk) 08:09, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

FA status
What can we make to improve this article to FA status? --ometzit<col> 01:42, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Art Rock?
On the individual pages for the members art rock is stated as one of the genres.

So why isnt it used for the band?

If all four members are "Art Rock" musicians then why shouldnt the band be?

honestly...

88.106.207.226 19:52, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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Singles
There is a helicopter US single, kinda like the Tulips one. That should be added. I added it a long time ago before I had a wiki account. Why was it taken off? Second, we do not know what the next single is, so I took off that it is waiting for the 7.18. (LAz17 23:47, 28 July 2007 (UTC)).

I fixed up some stuff... so now there is a "Banquet/Staying Fat" single. And also, I made a page for the Little Thoughts signle - the previous link used to send the page to the EP, not the single. I will do more work on this and post updates on here. (LAz17 00:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)).

The Two More Years single was separated from the Two More Years EP. There's still work to be done on the singles though. We could use some fixing up of Little Thoughts as well as Banquet/Staying Fat, and maybe some more info could be added to Two More Years. (LAz17 17:02, 23 September 2007 (UTC)).

Tours: Reading 907
when stating that kele dedicated a track to people from tilehurst a source must be given since i'm fairly certain it was the bassist who was from tilehurst. Is this really necessary though, since in 6 months time will anypone care about these unremarkable dedications? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.194.189.183 (talk) 02:09, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

rename Use of music in television/film
We should rename the use of music in television/film to Miscellaneous Use of music they where featured on the NHL 2K8 (video game) and theres no need to make another section —Preceding unsigned comment added by Warmachine021 (talk • contribs) 10:11, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

anti american sentiment?
the "anti american sentiment" seems awfully biased...am i the only one thinking this? 68.115.104.27 (talk) 20:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Nope, I've removed it. It was added only recently. Feel free to remove unreferenced POV when you see it. :) Iorek (talk) 22:50, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Post punk revival?
The genre doesn't seem right. I personally go for "alternative rock".  WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN it seems the winds have stopped...  20:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Alternative Rock can be misleading, I think just Rock, with Electronic and Punk elements i think would be more appropriate. Indie Rock is also misleading as well i think. (86.157.94.172 (talk) 21:29, 22 February 2008 (UTC))

 * How is indie rock misleading? Bloc Party are text book indie rock/post-punk revival. They couldn't be any more "indie" in DIY ethics, sound, image, and fanbase, if they tried. Please listen to a few post-punk bands like Gang of Four, Public Image Ltd, The Fall, Joy Division, and Talking Heads; Bloc Party's similarities and influences are unquestionable. The genres are fine as they are. Ezenden (talk) 00:53, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

GAN on hold
Leave me a note when done. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 04:26, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * "This article is about the English alternative rock band. For the Canadian political party, see Bloc Québécois." - is it possible to get the 2 confused?
 * IMO, yes, although I'm not Canadian...=P
 * Lead needs expansion; look at Taxiride (recent article by me) for an example
 * Done
 * NME needs italics throughout
 * Done
 * "All the songs on Silent Alarm" - italics for album title
 * Done
 * "political events happening previously" - pretty ambiguous...
 * Removed, I think that's OR, and it's been there for ages
 * "made by the Shoreditch based Minivegas design agency[20] was number one in the NME video charts for 4 weeks." - need a comma under the ref, and change "in the NME" to "on the NME" (and add italics)
 * Done
 * "and includes remixes from" - keep paste tense
 * Removed by kollision
 * "though it leaked on the internet as early as November 2006" - reword -- "though it had been leaked previously, as early as November 2006"
 * Done
 * A few short stubby sentences early in the A Weekend in the City (2006–present) section...try and improve the flow
 * Done
 * "with a high of #24" --> "peaking at #24", perhaps
 * Done
 * "the release of AWITC" - just use the full name
 * Done
 * "The set included songs from both Silent Alarm and A Weekend In The City along with the first UK performance of their new single "Flux"" - wlinks here not needed
 * Done
 * ""rawness" of Silent Alarm, but the "experience" of A Weekend in the City" - italics for albums. ANd wlink dates in next sentence per WP:DATE
 * Done
 * "To achieve their unique guitar style, delay effects pedals are implemented and this is particularly apparent on the track "Like Eating Glass"." - fact
 * Removed that bit at the end and added a citation
 * Ref 32 is not a reliable source. Ref 36 needs formatting. The rest look fine, I think
 * Done

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Merger proposal
Proposed Merger: List of awards and nominations received by Bloc Party → Bloc Party.

I feel that the above article should be merged into the band's main article. The reasons for this are that the article is no more than a list of nominations which the band have received, some for non-notable ceremonies and only including a total of TWO winning awards. Inluding this, the article's leading paragraph is nothing but a copy of what is already written in the band's leading paragraph in their main article, with all pictures and sources copied straight. The only difference is the sentence "Bloc Party have received two awards from 18 nominations."

I am not doing this out of anger at the band, as they are one of my favourite. I am doing this in an effort to improve articles on Wikipedia, as i am sure everyone else will commit to. Thanks, SteelersFanUK06  ReplyOnMine!   18:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Oppose Here's exactly what I said at Talk:List of awards and nominations received by Bloc Party: "This article meets the unofficial requirement of a minimum of 10 items, and it meets the minimum requirement of a minimum of two awards won (otherwise the plural "awards" would be incorrect). It's similar to my other featured list, List of Rage Against the Machine awards, in both categories. Gary King ( talk ) 18:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)"
 * Comment: In addition, the lead and other content can easily be fixed, just like the other awards page I mentioned above. Gary King ( talk ) 18:44, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Can you source this statement? --SteelersFanUK06  ReplyOnMine!   22:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Just because the list is short doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. That page is very useful and merging will have no positive effect in this article.  weburiedoursecretsinthegarden  18:53, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: I don't understand how it could cause negative effects. It would cause positive effects, since it could be summed up in one line: "Bloc Party have won X and Y awards, and nominated for Z". A lot of these nominations are non-notable, with the exception of a few, say, NME, BRIT Awards, and possibly The Q Awards. --SteelersFanUK06  ReplyOnMine!   22:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't say it would cause negative effects - just no positives. Having a random list of awards shoved into an article both looks bad and is difficult to navigate.  See List of The Killers awards and List of Arctic Monkeys awards.  weburiedoursecretsinthegarden  17:29, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Oppose Non-notable? On what basis? At any rate, rudimentary googling suggests otherwise. This list succinctly and tidily lists all the factors relating to their awards and nominations. Whether something exists/has been expanded or not is continually false premises in a deletion discussion: it simply might not have been made yet. To argue on an a) erroneous basis that a) essentially 72 contentions can be presented in one sentence is a somewhat bizarre proposition to say the least. WilliamH (talk) 14:28, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Concur there. Both PLUG Awards and GLAAD Media Awards have articles, which makes them notable in my book.  weburiedoursecretsinthegarden  17:31, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's pretty much the method I use to verify notability, too :) Gary King ( talk ) 23:23, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Oppose per the above. Giggy (talk) 22:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Can the statement given by Gary King be sourced? Regarding minimal criteria. --SteelersFanUK06  ReplyOnMine!   20:53, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Here: Wikipedia_talk:Featured_list_candidates/Archive_4 Gary King ( talk ) 02:11, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I can see that that article talks about minimum number of items in a list, and that this article meets that. I'm more thinking along the lines of winning awards in comparision to nominations, as it is so few compared to how many nominations. Also that i still feel that these award nominations are altogether not very notable. I mean, if you go on List of Arctic Monkeys awards, they have Ivor Novello's, Brits, NME Awards. I just don't think that the GLAAD awards and the mtvU's have quite the same significance. --SteelersFanUK06  ReplyOnMine!   03:59, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Support as the list is a classic example of a content fork from the main article.--Gavin Collins (talk) 08:44, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: The above is the first comment which has not came from an immediate editor of the article. --SteelersFanUK06  ReplyOnMine!   00:34, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That doesn't mean anything here. It sounds like you're trying to emphasize this support above the opposes. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden  20:32, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * And @Gavin.collins'... does that mean that List of The Killers awards, List of Arctic Monkeys awards and all other "awards" articles are POV forks, as well? Should we just be rid of numerous FLs because they are "POV forks", as you claim?  I don't see how this benefits the Wikipedia, myself.  <font color=#33cc33>weburiedoursecretsinthegarden  20:35, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Reply (Both Comments): Firstly, no i wasn't emphasising the supports, i was pointing out that this is only the second editor who has shown opinion from a neutral point of view. You may think that this is not important in this discussion, but it is actually very relevant. Most other users above are all recent editors of the article, and therefore the user's opinions will be more inclined to oppose deletion of their own work. This is true for most deletion/merger proposals, hence why it is included in Wikiprojects and other areas in order to gain opinion from others who are not biased towards the article. Secondly, I would say that Gavin meaning behind "content fork" was that it is opinion what is a notable award and what is not, there is no guidline / MOS / notability list of what should and should not be included. I've actually spent time trying to find what is considered notable, as you will see here, and here. If we found out what is then we will know for sure and the debate can be resolved and closed. I don't think this is the same for articles such as List of Arctic Monkeys awards, as they have received awards from BRITS, Mercury and NME amongst others. These are awards which i would consider notable without debate. Obviously I couldn't say this is exactly what Gavin meant, and I wouldn't mind hearing him comment further? --SteelersFanUK06  ReplyOnMine!   00:12, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support I'd understand it if there was some brief (satisfactory) explanation on this page regarding the nominations and awards. But alas, no, there is not. Additionally, the list itself is contained within two screens (two of my screens, at least, which is 1280 × 1020), possibly less if alternate formatting is employed. --JB Adder | Talk 07:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose - rst20xx (talk) 12:11, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose - current article appears both notable and reference-able. PS a content fork does not describe the relationship between these two articles. Content forking describes a situation where a difference of opinion is presented as two separate articles instead of one – essentially presenting two biased articles. Former versions of Armenian Genocide and Denial of Armenian Genocide spring to mind. Having a daughter article (which is what has happened here) is entirely different. See John McCain for example. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 23:21, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Deleted tag
Deleted FUTURE ALBUM tag from "Intimacy" section. The album was released in MP3 format in August 2008.
 * NB, I moved this topic from the top of the page and added the header. Thanks to the IP, too.  <font color=#000000>weburiedoursecretsinthegarden  09:30, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Banquet video
I have a vague recollection of there having been a video for banquet run on MTV2, featuring just the lead singer, shot in black and white with yellow distortion overlaid, does anyone happen to have a record of this first video? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.24.241.9 (talk) 04:52, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Live At Reading 2005
This was a download album release (not a bootleg) that came out in November 2005 but there's no mention of it... any reason?

Links:   Crashandspin  (talk) 04:08, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, we cannot mention every single thing as per WP:SUMMARYSTYLE, especially in biographies. But I'll see if I can put it in Silent Alarm track list. Rafablu88  04:16, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Ok, another link from The Guardian Crashandspin (talk) 04:18, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

fan talk
The art is too technical, too based on details of interest to fans. It needs a general introduction - what do they sing about, how and why ? If they got good reviews that's excellent, but it's only really interesting or encyclopedic if we say what they brought which was new 90.11.72.140 (talk) 10:01, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Questionable photos
I'm sure i'm not the only one who's noticed that the faces of the band members are not visible in any of the photos in this article. This seems a little silly to me. It would be nice to see photos of the band not standing in the dark or behind clouds of theatrical fog. Just a suggestion. --Tom dl (talk) 23:47, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Yeah, but thats the thing about Bloc Party. They're very publicity shy and there aren't a lot of photos available of them where you can see their faces. But if you or anyone can locate any that are available for use, that would definitely be appreciated. --Pritoolmachine2806 (talk) 23:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Hiatus

following this tour they are going to take a sabbatical? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dienkonig (talk • contribs) 16:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

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Container format

A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually along with metadata for identifying and further detailing those streams. Notable examples of container formats include archive files (such as the ZIP format) and formats used for multimedia playback (such as Matroska, MP4, and AVI). Among the earliest cross-platform container formats were Distinguished Encoding Rules and the 1985 Interchange File Format.

Design
Although containers may identify how data or metadata is encoded, they do not actually provide instructions about how to decode that data. A program that can open a container must also use an appropriate codec to decode its contents. If the program doesn't have the required algorithm, it can't use the contained data. In these cases, programs usually emit an error message that complains of a missing codec, which users may be able to acquire.

Container formats can be made to wrap any kind of data. Though there are some examples of such file formats (e.g. Microsoft Windows's DLL files), most container formats are specialized for specific data requirements. For example, since audio and video streams can be coded and decoded with many different algorithms, a container format may be used to provide the appearance of a single file format to users of multimedia playback software.

Considerations
The differences between various container formats arise from five main issues:
 * 1) Popularity; how widely supported a container is.
 * 2) Overhead.  This is the difference in file-size between two files with the same content in a different container.
 * 3) Support for advanced codec functionality.  Older formats such as AVI do not support new codec features like B-frames, VBR audio or VFR video natively. The format may be "hacked" to add support, but this creates compatibility problems.
 * 4) Support for advanced content, such as chapters, subtitles, meta-tags, user-data.
 * 5) Support of streaming media.

Single coding formats
In addition to pure container formats, which specify only the wrapper but not the coding, a number of file formats specify both a storage layer and the coding, as part of modular design and forward compatibility.

Examples include JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) for containing JPEG data, and Portable Network Graphics (PNG).

In principle, coding can be changed while the storage layer is retained; for example, Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) uses the PNG container format but provides animation, while JPEG Network Graphics (JNG) puts JPEG encoded data in a PNG container; in both cases however, the different formats have different magic numbers – the format specifies the coding, though a MNG can contain both PNG-encoded images and JPEG-encoded images.

Multimedia container formats
The container file is used to identify and interleave different data types. Simpler container formats can contain different types of audio formats, while more advanced container formats can support multiple audio and video streams, subtitles, chapter-information, and meta-data (tags) — along with the synchronization information needed to play back the various streams together. In most cases, the file header, most of the metadata and the synchro chunks are specified by the container format. For example, container formats exist for optimized, low-quality, internet video streaming which differs from high-quality Blu-ray streaming requirements.

Container format parts have various names: "chunks" as in RIFF and PNG, "atoms" in QuickTime/MP4, "packets" in MPEG-TS (from the communications term), and "segments" in JPEG. The main content of a chunk is called the "data" or "payload". Most container formats have chunks in sequence, each with a header, while TIFF instead stores offsets. Modular chunks make it easy to recover other chunks in case of file corruption or dropped frames or bit slip, while offsets result in framing errors in cases of bit slip.

Some containers are exclusive to audio:
 * AIFF (IFF file format, widely used on the macOS platform)
 * WAV (RIFF file format, widely used on Windows platform)
 * XMF (Extensible Music Format)

Other containers are exclusive to still images:
 * FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) still images, raw data, and associated metadata.
 * TIFF (Tag Image File Format) still images and associated metadata.
 * Macintosh PICT resource (PICT), superseded by PDF in Mac OS X
 * Windows Metafile (WMF) = (EMF) Enhanced Metafile
 * Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
 * Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
 * Portable Document Format (PDF)
 * Corel Draw File (CDR)
 * Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
 * Rich Text Format file (RTF)

Other flexible containers can hold many types of audio and video, as well as other media. The most popular multi-media containers are:
 * 3GP (used by many mobile phones; based on the ISO base media file format)
 * ASF (container for Microsoft WMA and WMV, which today usually do not use a container)
 * AVI (the standard Microsoft Windows container, also based on RIFF)
 * DVR-MS ("Microsoft Digital Video Recording", proprietary video container format developed by Microsoft based on ASF)
 * Flash Video (FLV, F4V) (container for video and audio from Adobe Systems)
 * IFF (first platform-independent container format)
 * Matroska (MKV) (not limited to any coding format, as it can hold virtually anything; it is an open standard container format)
 * MJ2 - Motion JPEG 2000 file format, based on the ISO base media file format which is defined in MPEG-4 Part 12 and JPEG 2000 Part 12
 * QuickTime File Format (standard QuickTime video container from Apple Inc.)
 * MPEG program stream (standard container for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 elementary streams on reasonably reliable media such as disks; used also on DVD-Video discs)
 * MPEG-2 transport stream (a.k.a. MPEG-TS) (standard container for digital broadcasting and for transportation over unreliable media; used also on Blu-ray Disc video; typically contains multiple video and audio streams, and an electronic program guide)
 * MP4 (standard audio and video container for the MPEG-4 multimedia portfolio, based on the ISO base media file format defined in MPEG-4 Part 12 and JPEG 2000 Part 12) which in turn was based on the QuickTime file format.
 * Ogg (standard container for Xiph.org audio formats Vorbis and Opus and video format Theora)
 * RM (RealMedia; standard container for RealVideo and RealAudio)
 * WebM (subset of Matroska, used for web-based media distribution on online platforms; container for royalty-free audio formats Vorbis/Opus and video formats VP8/VP9/AV1)

There are many other container formats, such as NUT, MXF, GXF, ratDVD, SVI, VOB and DivX Media Format

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Problem shaping

Problem shaping means revising a question so that the solution process can begin or continue. It is part of the larger problem process that includes problem finding and problem solving. Problem shaping (or problem framing) often involves the application of critical thinking.

Algorithmic approach to technical problems reformulation was introduced by G. S. Altshuller in ARIZ.

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Mirrors?
Does anyone seriously believe that the fact that there are no mirrors or reflective surfaces in Zork except for in the one place where there are mirrors actually has anything to do with the lack of identity of the player? Isn't it overwhelmingly likely that it's just because there was no reason for the game designers to add any mirrors? There are many other computer games which are entirely void of mirrors, for no reason other than that there was no reason to put mirrors in them.

 * Zork III has a mirror anyway. 131.111.8.98 01:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree, you rarely find mirrors in game, especially in first person games. Not even in games such as Half-Life 2 there is working mirrors that reflect player models.

First or Second person?
I just noticed that somebody changed the paragraph about "second-person" games into one about "first-person." I don't think that the new version is right at all. While it's true that most graphical games or this sort use the first-person perspective, it's also true that the old Zork games were literally written in the second person ("you are standing in a field...") and not the first person... The first person was sometimes used by the text parser itself ("I don't know the word "help") but that's not really what we're talking about here.

Not to mention, "first person games" is always used to describe games which visually use the first-person perspective, despite having plots that use, in this context, the "third person." You know what I'm saying? "2nd Person" is appropriate for games like Zork.

Anybody have a source to cite for this? Luigihann 00:59, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

How about Second person narrative? TV4Fun 00:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

No source, but logic only dictates that: "First person" is the appropriate one here because it is the player perspective that matters! Don't confuse the game character with the game's narrator.

The player is still acting from a first-person perspective (e.g. "I am picking up this object"). How other characters or a narrator (or "the game") address the player is irrelevant, because every character (i.e. player characters and non-player characters) is – when spoken to directly – addressed in the second person, in both first and third person perspectives.

Second person would only be appropriate if the game character is reporting to the player in the first person (e.g. "I cannot open that door") and then the player would order the game character in the second person (e.g. "(You) Use a key on the door"). --85.176.2.104 (talk) 20:56, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Notability
I know it was a funny little bit of adventure game satire, but considering that it was a one line joke in Zork: Grand Inquisitor, and never mentioned again, do we really need an entire article dedicated to it? TV4Fun (talk) 08:29, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth (and it's not worth much), I found it helpful, although working this into the article for Zork: Grand Inquisitor and sticking a redirect here is a very viable option. --Roman à clef (talk) 16:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Topic referred to psychologists
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Psychology for a suggestion to psychologist-editors that they address the concept underlying this early video-gaming meme from a historical perspective. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 00:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

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John Player & Sons

John Player & Sons, most often known simply as Player's, was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer based in Nottingham, England. In 1901, the company merged with other companies to form The Imperial Tobacco Company to face competition from US manufacturers. The company also released several series of association football trading cards in the 1930s under the Player's brand.

Nowadays the brands "Player" and "John Player Special" are owned and commercialised by Imperial Brands.

History
In March 1820, William Wright set up a small tobacco factory in Craigshill, Livingston, West Lothian. This business expanded and earned Wright a comfortable fortune. John Player bought the business in 1877. He had the Castle Tobacco Factories built in Radford, Nottingham, just west of the city centre. He had three large factory blocks built, but initially only one was used to process and pack tobacco. The other two blocks were loaned out to lace manufacturers until the business had expanded enough to use the additional space.

John Player died in December 1884 and for the next nine years, the business was run by a small group of family friends until W G and J D Player were ready to take over the firm in 1893. The business became a private limited company in 1895, with a share capital of £200,000.

The business was run later by Player's sons John Dane Player and William Goodacre Player.

In 1901, in response to competitive threats from the US, Player's merged with the Imperial Tobacco Group. The largest constituent of Imperial Tobacco was W. D. & H. O. Wills and the new group was run from Wills' head office in Bristol. Player's retained its own identity with cigarette brands such as Navy Cut, No. 9, John Player Special, and Gold Leaf; loose tobacco brands such as No Name; and its distinctive logo of a smoking sailor in a navy-cut cap.

Player's Medium Navy Cut was the most popular by far of the three Navy Cut brands (there was also Mild and Gold Leaf, mild being today's rich flavour). Two-thirds of all the cigarettes sold in Britain were Player's and two-thirds of these were branded as Player's Medium Navy Cut. In January 1937, Player's sold nearly 3.5 million cigarettes (which included 1.34 million in London). The popularity of the brand was mostly amongst the middle class and in the South of England. It was smoked in the north but other brands were locally more popular.

Production continued to grow until at its peak in the late 1950s, Player's was employing 11,000 workers (compared to 5,000 in 1926) and producing 15 brands of pipe tobacco and 11 brands of cigarettes.

In the UK in 1968, in response to an increase in tobacco duty in the budget, Player's launched a new, cheaper brand, "Player's No.10". Priced at 3 s 2 d (16 p) for 20, it was the cheapest cigarette on the British market.

A new factory (the 'Horizon' factory) was opened in the early 1970s on Nottingham's industrial outskirts, with better road access and more effective floor space, next to the headquarters of Boots the Chemists. On 15 April 2014, Imperial Tobacco announced that the Horizon factory would close in early 2016, bringing an end to cigarette and tobacco manufacture in Nottingham after over 130 years.

The old factories in Radford, especially the cavernous No. 1 Factory which occupied the whole area between Radford Boulevard and Alfreton Road, bordered by Player Street and Beckenham Road, were gradually run down. The No. 2 Factory, facing onto Radford Boulevard with its distinctive clock (now plinthed in the retail park on the site) and the No. 3 factory (which faced onto Churchfield lane) with its rooftop 'John Player & Sons' sign, were demolished in the late 1980s. The iron railings and gates onto Radford Boulevard from the present retail park are the ones that surrounded No. 2 Factory – the large gates (present vehicle access) were the entrance to the factory yard between No. 2 and No. 3 factories and the smaller gates were the pedestrian entrances to No. 2 factory itself.

Manufacture
Player's still trades, but with a much-reduced workforce (down to about 700 employees due to increased efficiency) compared to the 20th century, when it was one of the Big Three employers associated with Nottingham, along with Boots the Chemists and the Raleigh Bicycle Company. Player's workforce peaked in the 1960s: subsequently the company's fortunes declined as awareness of the health effects of tobacco increased, and during the 1980s five of the firm's Nottingham factories closed with the loss of 3,000 jobs. Its current workforce is eclipsed by larger service sector employers in the city, such as Experian and Queen's Medical Centre.

As of 2020, the Player's Navy Cut, Players and John Player Special (JPS) brands are manufactured by Imperial Brands in the UK, whereas John Player Gold Leaf is manufactured by British American Tobacco (in some countries), and ranks as one of the best selling and most popular tobacco products in Pakistan. It is also present in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Arab States of the Persian Gulf. In South Asia, it is one of the biggest brands in the High category brand list.

The JPS brand has also been re-positioned in the last several years and is now a UK mid-price cigarette brand.

United Kingdom
As of 2020, John Player Special (JPS) sell the following cigarettes in the UK:

 * JPS Black King Size
 * JPS Real Blue King Size and Superkings
 * JPS Silver Stream King Size and Superkings
 * JPS Crushball King Size (discontinued as of 20 May 2020)
 * JPS Green Edge King Size and Superkings (discontinued as of 20 May 2020)
 * JPS Triple Flow King Size

They also sell a lower-cost product marketed under the JPS Players Brand:

 * JPS Players Real Red King Size and Superkings
 * JPS Players Bright Blue King Size and Superkings
 * JPS Players Crushball King Size and Superkings (discontinued as of 20 May 2020)
 * JPS Players Green Superkings (discontinued as of 20 May 2020)

Also the following rolling tobacco in 30g and 50g pouches:

 * JPS Hand Rolling Tobacco
 * JPS Players Tobacco
 * Gold Leaf JPS Quality Blend Tobacco

Canada
In Canada, Player's is manufactured by Imperial Tobacco Canada and is available in the following varieties, in both regular and king size:

 * Player's Original Flavour
 * Player's Rich Flavour
 * Player's Smooth Flavour
 * Player's Plain
 * Player's Black & Red
 * Player's Black & Gold
 * Player's Black & Silver
 * John Player Smooth
 * John Player Special
 * John Player Standard Blue
 * John Player Standard Silver
 * John Player Choice (discontinued)
 * Player's Special Blend

Besides cigarettes, John Player & Sons also markets a line of rolling tobacco in Canada, the UK, and several European countries. The rolling tobacco is typically portioned into 12.5, 25, and 50-gram bags.

Rolling tobacco is available in the following varieties:

 * John Player Special Red
 * John Player Special Blue
 * John Player Special Silver
 * John Player Halfzware Shag
 * Player's Gold Leaf

Ireland
In Ireland, Imperial Brands trade as John Player. The following John Player products are on the market in Ireland.

 * John Player Blue King Size
 * John Player Blue King Size 24s
 * John Player Blue King Size 27s
 * John Player Blue 100s
 * John Player Blue Compact
 * JPS Blue King Size
 * JPS Blue King Size 23s
 * JPS Blue King Size 28s
 * JPS Blue King Size 34s
 * JPS Blue 100s
 * JPS Red King Size
 * JPS Red King Size 23s
 * JPS Red 100s
 * JPS Silver Stream King Size
 * JPS Silvet Stream 100s
 * JPS Bright King Size
 * JPS Cool Green King Size (replaced JPS Crush Ball)
 * JPS Cool Green 100s (replaced JPS Green 100s)
 * Superkings Black
 * Superkings Bright (previously Blue)
 * Lambert & Butler Silver King Size
 * Regel King Size
 * Players Navy Cut
 * Drum The Original Tobacco
 * Drum Bright Blue
 * Golden Virginia Original
 * Golden Virginia Yellow
 * Riverstone Rolling Tobacco
 * John Player Blue Volume Tobacco
 * JPS Blue Volume Tobacco
 * JPS Silver Volume Tobacco

Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, Player's is manufactured by Ceylon Tobacco Company and is available in the following varieties.

 * John Player Gold Leaf
 * John Player Gold
 * John Player Navy Cut

Sponsorship & marketing
John Player's brands are well known in motor racing from their long association with the Lotus Formula One team, the Forsythe Racing Champ Car team, and Norton motorcycle racing team.

Ford introduced the John Player Special limited edition Capri, (known as the JPS) in March 1975. Available only in black or white, the JPS featured yards of gold pinstriping to mimic the Formula 1 livery, gold-coloured wheels, and a bespoke upgraded interior of beige cloth and carpet trimmed with black.

Car racing
John Player's sponsorship of Team Lotus began with the Lotus 49 in Gold Leaf colours in the 1968 Tasman Series. It continued with the Lotus 49 and Lotus 72 in Formula One, changed to the black and gold John Player Special colours in 1972, and ended in 1986 with the Lotus 98T, as the team switched to the Camel-sponsored yellow livery the following season.

In Australia, JPS Team BMW competed in the Australian Touring Car Championship between 1981 and 1987, with Jim Richards winning the series in 1985 and 1987. In 1981, BMW released a limited-edition road version of its 323i touring car in JPS colours to the Australian market and another in 1984.

North America
Imperial Tobacco Canada's Player's brands also sponsored Canadian auto racing for decades. After a blanket tobacco advertising ban was instituted in the Canadian Tobacco Act in 1988, Imperial created a new corporation, Player's Racing Ltd., that was strictly an auto racing promotion company. This took advantage of an exemption in the Act that allowed tobacco companies to sponsor "cultural events" using the company's proper name instead of a brand name. Player's Ltd. advertising looked nearly identical to Player's cigarette packs, and given that it was one of the few legal outlets for advertising, the company was extensively promoted both during race weekends and at other sporting events.

Player's Racing promoted a number of Canadian drivers, including 1995 Indianapolis 500 and IndyCar champion Jacques Villeneuve, whose Forsythe-Green Racing team carried a Player's Ltd livery. The team would later carry on in CART as Player's Forsythe Racing, which after the Tobacco Act was struck down as violating the Charter of Rights, was able to use Player's branding. The team was competitive and featured Canadian drivers Greg Moore, Patrick Carpentier, Alex Tagliani, and in 2003, Paul Tracy. Tracy would win the championship in 2003, just as a new Tobacco Act ban took full effect for auto racing in October 2003. The team would use a "GOODBYE, CANADA" theme for Tracy and Carpentier's final races and not have explicit Player's branding.

Motorcycle racing
John Player began sponsoring Norton motorcycle racing in November 1971. The racing was successful and Norton produced a version of the Norton Commando in John Player colours to exploit it. However, Norton's NVT parent company commercially declined and John Player withdrew sponsorship in 1974.

In the 1980s, Norton Motorcycles was revived and in 1988 John Player resumed racing sponsorship. The racing succeeded again and in 1990–91 Norton produced a road-going version of its RCW588 racer, the Norton F1. In 1991 Norton again commercially declined and John Player withdrew sponsorship for a second time.

Other events
The company also sponsored an influential series of celebrity lectures at the National Film Theatre between 1968 and 1973. Well over 100 international film stars took the stage to introduce screenings and discuss their career. The series was revived at the end of the 1970s as the Guardian Lectures.

In the 1970s Player's operated a steamboat, Hero, for promotional purposes.

Player's sponsored the Canadian Open tennis championship in the 1980s.

From 1969 to 1987 John Player sponsored the John Player Sunday League for English county cricket clubs.

Cigarette cards
Player's were one of the first UK tobacco companies to include sets of general interest cards in their packs of cigarettes. One of the first sets, produced in 1893, was Castles and Abbeys. These cards were generally produced in sets of 50 and have since become highly collectable. Other sets produced include Street Cries (cries of street vendors) in 1913 and 1916; Footballers (1926); Civil Aircraft (1935); Motor Cars (1936) and a Coronation Series in 1937. John Player & Sons issued more than 200 sets of cards and some were reprinted in the 1990s.

In sports, Player's released several cards series, mostly association football collections. One of them was the "Cup Winners" series, featuring FA Cup winning teams and the illustrated "Hints on association football" in 1934, where some football movements (kicks, passes, defensive tactics, etc.) were shown. Player's also released a rugby union series in 1926, and a cricket series in 1934.

In popular culture

 * The cover art for Procol Harum's 1969 album A Salty Dog and Haruomi Hosono's 1973 album Tropical Dandy are pastiches of the Player's Navy Cut sailor logo. The subject depicted there was the band's lyricist Keith Reid and was painted by "Dickinson", his wife by then.
 * In Ian Fleming's 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball, Bond's love interest Domino Vitali fantasises at length about the sailor depicted on the Player's Navy Cut logo.

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Citronellal

Citronellal or rhodinal (C10H18O) is a monoterpenoid aldehyde, the main component in the mixture of terpenoid chemical compounds that give citronella oil its distinctive lemon scent.

Citronellal is a main isolate in distilled oils from the plants Cymbopogon (excepting C. citratus, culinary lemongrass), lemon-scented gum, and lemon-scented teatree. The (S)-(−)-enantiomer of citronellal makes up to 80% of the oil from kaffir lime leaves and is the compound responsible for its characteristic aroma.

Citronellal has insect repellent properties, and research shows high repellent effectiveness against mosquitoes. Another research shows that citronellal has strong antifungal qualities.

Compendial status

 * British Pharmacopoeia

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Thottbot

Thottbot was a website originally launched in 2001 as a news aggregator for various online role-playing games. In August 2004, the site was re-written into a searchable database exclusively for the MMORPG World of Warcraft, as well as a plug-in that could be used in the game itself to gather additional data. The website was discontinued on November 30, 2010 when its parent company, ZAM Network (now Fanbyte), merged it with its similar database website Wowhead.

Since the launch of World of Warcraft Classic, Thottbot is now redirected to the Classic version of Wowhead, with a "Thottbot theme" available.

History
The original Thottbot was a news aggregator created by Bill "Aftathott" Dyess, founder of the EverQuest guild "Afterlife", in March 2001. Its purpose was to comb various video game websites for news and information on a number of MMORPGs with a focus on EverQuest, and later grew to include other games such as PlanetSide, Meridian 59, Dark Age of Camelot, and World of Warcraft. In August 2004, Thottbot was re-written to become a searchable database that focused exclusively on World of Warcraft three months prior to the game's retail release. Thottbot would also become affiliated with Cosmos, a popular collection of user-interface modifications.

The associated World of Warcraft plug-in, which is programmed in the Lua programming language, collected information while a person is playing the game. Users could then upload the information to the website's database. The information on the website only came from players using the plug-in and who took the time to upload the data. Information contained on Thottbot included descriptions of items, weapons and armor pieces which web users could browse and search. Users could also create a profile, so others could search and view different players. This required the user to run the plug-in, and since not every player had the plug-in, not every player was represented on the database.

In June 2007, Thottbot's parent company ZAM Network acquired the World of Warcraft website Wowhead for $1 million. Thottbot continued to run alongside Wowhead for over 3 years before it was discontinued on November 30, 2010; the website's URL now redirecting to Wowhead itself. While some pages of Thottbot were still accessible through Wowhead, these were completely removed on November 16, 2016 with all Thottbot URLs forwarding to their equivalent Wowhead pages. With the launch of World of Warcraft Classic in 2019, Thottbot.com now redirects to Wowhead's Classic version with an optional Thottbot visual theme.

Popularity and reputation
Simon Carless of Gamasutra described Thottbot as a "major item listing site". As of March 9, 2008, web traffic company Alexa reported that Thottbot.com was the 250th most visited site on the internet.

During the 2006 Austin Game Conference, World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo spoke of the hardcore market and casual market for World of Warcraft, saying "The people that don't go to ThottBot are the casual players, and they're the ones you need to hold the hand of." A January 2007 article in the Detroit Free Press named the site as a good place to find jewelcrafting designs discovered during the beta test of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

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Cru

Cru or CRU may refer to:

 * The constellation Crux
 * Cru (wine), term for a vineyard

Institutions

 * Civil Resettlement Unit, for repatriated WWII  British POWs
 * Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK

Music

 * Cru (group), an American hip hop group
 * Cru (album), an album by Seu Jorge
 * CRU (EP), an EP by Gnarwolves

Organizations

 * Amsterdam Crusaders, an American football team in the Netherlands
 * CRU Group, a business intelligence company
 * Cru (Christian organization)
 * The Crusader Union of Australia
 * Commission for Regulation of Utilities, Ireland

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Manchuria Airplane Manufacturing Company

The Manchuria Airplane Manufacturing Company (traditional:滿洲國飛行機製造株式會社; shinjitai: 満州国飛行機製造株式会社 Japanese Hepburn: Manshū Koku Hikōki Seizō Kabushiki Kaisha; Chinese ) was an aircraft company in Manchukuo in the 1930s and 1940s, producing a variety of mostly military aircraft and aircraft components. It was named Manshū or Mansyuu in short.

History
The Manchuria Airplane Manufacturing Company was established in late 1938 under the supervision of the Japanese government as a subsidiary of the Nakajima Aircraft Company of Japan. Its main plant was located in Harbin, Manchukuo.

From 1941 to 1945, Manshū produced a total of 2,196 airframes (eighth among Japanese airframe manufacturers), of which 798 were combat aircraft. The company also produced 2,168 aircraft engines (sixth among Japanese aircraft engine manufacturers). In addition, Manshū provided repair services for a variety of aircraft in the Manchukuo Air Force and for Imperial Japanese Army Air Force units stationed in Manchukuo.

Licensed production
Manshū produced a variety of Japanese aircraft under license production agreements:

 * Kawasaki Ki-10 (World War II Allied reporting name "Perry") fighter
 * Kawasaki Ki-32 (Allied reporting name "Mary") light bomber
 * Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu (Allied reporting name "Nick") twin-engined fighter
 * Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (Allied reporting name "Tony") fighter
 * Kawasaki Type 88 (KDA-2) light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft
 * Mitsubishi Ki-15 (Allied reporting name "Babs") reconnaissance aircraft
 * Mitsubishi Ki-30 (Allied reporting name "Ann") light bomber
 * Mitsubishi Ki-46 (Allied reporting name "Dinah") reconnaissance aircraft
 * Manshū Super Universal (license built Fokker Super Universal)
 * Nakajima Ki-27 (Allied reporting name "Nate") light fighter (1,379 units)
 * Nakajima Ki-34 (Allied reporting name "Thora") transport
 * Nakajima Ki-43Ia Hayabusa (Allied reporting name "Oscar") fighter
 * Nakajima Ki-44Ia Shoki (Allied reporting name "Tojo") fighter
 * Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (Allied reporting name "Frank") advanced fighter (94 units)
 * Nakajima Ki-116 advanced fighter, also known as Manshū Ki-116
 * Nakajima Type 91 (NC) fighter
 * Tachikawa Ki-9 (Allied reporting name "Spruce") intermediate trainer
 * Tachikawa Ki-54 (Allied reporting name "Hickory") advanced trainer
 * Tachikawa Ki-55 (Allied reporting name "Ida") advanced trainer

Independent designs
Manshū also developed a number of aircraft independently:

 * Manshū Hayabusa I, II, and III airliner (30 units)
 * Manshū Ki-79 advanced trainer version of Nakajima Ki-27
 * Manshū Ki-71 dive bomber prototype (Allied reporting name "Edna")
 * Mansyū Ki-98 advanced twin-boom high-altitude interceptor project

Among the Manshū independent designs, however, only the Ki-79 advanced trainer reached mass production, as the Army Type 2 Advanced Trainer.


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If anyone wants to contribute a bit, please do. I figured this should be here so I made it an article.KanjiNinja 21:48, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Why have you created a page about Thottbot? Could you give your reasons why you feel it should be on Wikipedia?

- I think it's deserving of a page; It's a popular resource for a MMORPG with a population in the millions. I also think it needs fleshed out significantly.

Thottbot is notable because of the way in which it gathers stats (discussed on Terra Nova), which is so far unique among MMORPG information sites. 82.27.226.117 21:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Thottbot is THE website for WoW information. WoW is the biggest MMO there is. Seems pretty important to me. -OOPSIE- 09:00, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Millions of people use the information on Thottbot, as well as the other data-gathering websites for MMORPGs. Surely that warrants a small amount of information on Wikipedia. I would personally love to read more about the relationship these websites have regarding their parent companies, there has been enough drama in that area that I expected to find some real facts here. Rogdor 05:41, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Alright, if it's notable, let's find some reliable sources to prove it, people. "Thottbot is notable because WP:ILIKEIT" isn't going to cut it if someone sends this to AfD. (To be honest, I think thottbot/alla/wowace/etc should probably be on a list somewhere, or merged to a WoW Addons article, or something, but that's just my POV. spazure  (contribs) (review) 09:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Further, yes, I looked for sources on my own via google, I found nothing but wowwiki references and a bunch of forum posts, but nothing that meets WP:V or WP:RS. spazure  (contribs) (review) 09:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Just another person saying they use thottbot on nearly a daily basis, and nearly everyone I know knows of the site and has used it. It constantly suprises me that wikipedia has references to unbelievably obscure things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) The whitespace programming language, but constantly puts articles that are concise and to the point on tools or places that millions of people use... as "Oh this article needs to get more attention". Hell thottbot is the answer to millions of questions. Where do I find Item x... Thottbot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.216.32.184 (talk) 18:41, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Move to a new article suggestion
Thottbot isn't unique (it may be the first tho) but WoWhead and Allakhazam use similar techniques to essentially do the same thing: extract data from the game by collecting data from players during play. I suggest a new article "MMO item database" (or something like that), with an introduction section explaining the purpose of these sites (to provide players with specific info on mobs, drops and quests etc), the technique used (plugin within the gameclient), pro's (collects items that can really be found in the game) and con's (droprates might be inaccurate for newly introduced items or items that drop under certain conditions). Then a list of each site could be given with strengths, weaknesses or features; Thottbot for being first, WoWhead for it's advanced filter features. It would then also be possible to include a section other MMO (as in not World of Warcraft) datacollection sites. What do you think? Felsir (talk) 11:12, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Removing the Prod
I'm removing the proposed deletion. This article survived an afd just a few weeks ago Don't game the system: give it a bit of time. Watchsmart (talk) 04:30, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Be nice if some of the "articles by established scholars" mentioned in the AfD discussion would be referenced in the article..? --Stormie (talk) 07:04, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Does anyone else think there should be new classes in WoW?
I think a PIRATE class would be awesome. There's more than enough ocean out there and coastal cities to visit or plunder...both alliance and horde. Ideas?

Dryder —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.130.8.8 (talk) 16:56, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm still holding out for Monk as a class, a Tank in Cloth, who wouldn't like this idea?

-Gnaught (Level 73 Prot Pally Dwarf, Farstriders server) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.37.171.164 (talk) 23:31, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi all is it possible to move my char from frostmane "free server" to a retail server? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.186.23.243 (talk) 18:41, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

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Tamiya

Tamiya may refer to:

 * Tamiya Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of plastic model kits, radio-controlled cars and related products
 * Tamiya-ryū (disambiguation), several iaijutsu ryūgi
 * Tamiya connector, a type of DC power connector

Places

 * Tamiya, Egypt, a town in Egypt

People with the surname

 * Hiroshi Tamiya (1903–1984), Japanese botanist
 * Kenjiro Tamiya (1928 - 2010), Japanese baseball player
 * Tomoe Tamiyasu aka Tomoe Tamiya, Japanese voice actress

Fictional characters

 * Toraichi Tamiya, a character from Ah! Megami-sama

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Millersville, Maryland

Millersville is an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. Population was 20,965 in 2015 based on American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau) data.

Geography
Millersville is located at 39.05944°N, -76.64806°W (39.0596, -76.6480).

History
Millersville, named for the first Postmaster, George Miller, was the first Post Office to be established, on July 24, 1841, along the Annapolis & Elkridge Railroad (the A & E). Completed in 1840, the A & E was one of the earliest rail lines in the U.S., connecting Annapolis with the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Today, Millersville is largely suburban, but the core of the historic village remains. The Childs Residence, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, is a focal point of the new bike trail that passes through the historic core.

Secondary schools

 * Elvaton Christian Academy
 * Old Mill High School
 * Rockbridge Academy
 * Olde Mill Christian Academy
 * Old Mill Middle North
 * Old Mill Middle South
 * Severna Park Middle School (serves Millersville students residing in Shipley’s Choice and Brittingham)
 * Severna Park High School (serves Millersville students residing in Shipley’s Choice and Brittingham)

Colleges and universities

 * Anne Arundel Community College

288-acre park

Parks and recreation

 * Baltimore & Annapolis Trail
 * Kinder Farm Park
 * Southgate/Old Mill Park

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The Secret Life of Machines

The Secret Life of Machines is an educational television series presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod, in which the two explain the inner workings and history of common household and office machinery. According to Hunkin, the show's creator, the programme was developed from his comic strip The Rudiments of Wisdom, which he researched and drew for the Observer newspaper over a period of 14 years. Three separate groupings of the broadcast were produced and originally shown between 1988 and 1993 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, with the production subsequently broadcast on The Learning Channel and the Discovery Channel in the U.S.

In 2021, Hunkin made "remastered" versions of all episodes available online, on his YouTube channel. Each episode has a short reminiscence appended to it.

Contents
Each of the Secret Life's individual series covers a particular set of machines. The first addresses household appliances, while the second includes devices used outside the home, such as the car. The third series examines the contraptions and gadgets used in a modern office.

Each episode was given an individual title, such as The Secret Life of the Vacuum Cleaner. Although ostensibly about a specific appliance or piece of technology, the scope of each episode was often widened to cover related technologies as well. For example, the video recorder episode looked at magnetic recording from its origins, and featured Hunkin and Garrod recording their voices on a crude home-made "audio tape" consisting of rust-coated sticky tape.

Another aspect of the programmes was their use of humorous animations based on Hunkin's own drawings. These cartoons were often based around the historical figures involved in the development of a particular technology. Furthermore, the illustrations were an artistic commentary on modern society, including segments on lift fantasies (as shown in the episode "The Lift") and corporate disregard for individuals' rights (featured in many episodes, including "The Radio" and "The Car").

Each programme concluded with an epilogue consisting of an elaborate installation, which resembled an aspect of the machine or technology under discussion. One example was a giant statue resembling a robot, which had been built from scrap computer monitors, printers and other parts, which was blown up using pyrotechnics. Hunkin described the destruction as an allegorical point that computers are just a collection of transistors and lack "superhuman intelligence".

Production
All the series used a combination of mechanical models and animation to help explain various aspect of how the subject devices function. The animation for the series was done by Hunkin himself in a uniquely recognisable format.

Series 1 (1988)
The first series covers household appliances.

Series 2 (1991)
In the second group of programmes, devices used outside the home are investigated. The first two episodes are closely related, both dealing with the car and similar vehicles.

Series 3 - The Secret Life of the Office (1993)
The third and final series concentrated on office-related technology. It also introduced an animated set of fictional characters who worked in the offices of the fictional Utopia Services company.

The Secret Life of Components
Coinciding with the release of the remastered original episodes of The Secret Life Of Machines (see below), Tim Hunkin began a self-produced spiritual successor called The Secret Life of Components. It explored some of the individual parts that so often make up the appliances and machines that were the focus of the original series. The 8 weekly episodes included what Hunkin has learned through his experience with the component, along with many models for demonstration and examples from his amusement machines and other works. It premiered March 3, 2021 on Hunkin's YouTube channel with an episode on chain and belts. In the last episode of series 1, Hunkin commented that he may make another series the following winter. A 5 episode second series then debuted in spring 2022. On March 27, 2023, a third series of four episodes was announced on Hunkin's YouTube channel.

Creative uses
Hunkin and Garrod used the series to show some of their devices they built from parts of machines featured on their programme. The creations, some of which were decorative, others functional, show the potential uses of broken machinery. An extreme example is the giant clock powered by steam. In the epilogue for the remastered version of the episode, Hunkin mentions that the clock has been non functional for a long time.

Availability
In March 2021, Hunkin began posting remastered versions of the episodes to YouTube. These were upscaled from an analogue video source to improve the image quality and include a short, recently filmed reminiscence by Hunkin at the end of each episode. The first 6 remastered episodes, comprising the complete first series, were posted to YouTube on Saturday, March 13, 2021. Starting on Thursday, May 6, 2021, Tim started posting episodes from Series 2 at a rate of one a week (give or take a day). As of June 12, 2021, all 6 remastered episodes from this series have been posted on his channel. Series 3 followed a similar weekly schedule, with the Fax Machine episode being posted on June 18, 2021. All of the six episodes have been posted, with the final episode released on July 22, 2021.

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Birt (disambiguation)

Birt is a surname.

Birt may also refer to:

 * Birt Acres (1854–1918), photographer and film pioneer
 * Birt (crater), a lunar impact crater named after William Radcliffe Birt
 * Birt, a member of the flatfish family Scophthalmidae, related to the turbot and brill

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Heaðolaf

Heaðolaf (Proto-Norse *Haþulaibaz) was a member of a Scandinavian clan named the Wulfings, which according to the Germanic heroic legend of Beowulf ruled the Geatish petty kingdom of Östergötland.

All that is known of Heaðolaf is that he was slain by Ecgþeow, the father of Beowulf. Reportedly, his powerful family demanded too high a weregild from Ecgþeow's clan, the Wægmundings, so Ecgþeow was banished and had to seek refuge with the Danes. The Danish king Hroðgar paid the weregild and the matter was settled.

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Vasant Valley School

Vasant Valley School is a co-educational private high school in Vasant Kunj, Delhi, India.

After its inception, the school accepted students in July 1990, up to class 4. The school added a new grade each year as the classes graduated to the next level.

The first graduating class of Vasant Valley completed 12 grades under the CBSE syllabus in May 1999. The school began with Arun Kapur as its Director, a former housemaster at The Doon School and an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

The school offers CBSE and IGCSE curriculum. The IGSCE curriculum was introduced in 2022 for classes 9 and 10, and AS and A levels for 11 and 12.

History
The school was founded by Aroon Purie and Rekha Purie.

Principals and Headmasters
Below are the names of some of the principals of the school:

 * Current : Ms. Rekha Krishnan (Principal)
 * 2000 - 2006 : Ms. Peilu Oberoi (Principal)
 * 1998 - 1999 : Ms. Ranu Dattagupta (Principal)
 * 1990 - 2020 : Mr. Arun Kapur (Headmaster)

Infrastructure
The school is spread across eight acres of land in Vasant Kunj. It has two main buildings - senior school and junior school. Senior School consists of classrooms for classes 6 to 12. Junior School consists of classrooms for Foundation to 5. Some of the major facilities in the school include-

 * Alcoves - The areas in front of every grade. It is utilized to serve food and for inter-section activities and competitions.
 * Centre Stage - The central stage used for joint assemblies and major performances.
 * Class Act area - The area for the junior school class act.
 * Conference Rooms - The place for important meetings, talks and student council work. The school has one conference room which can be divided into two separate rooms.
 * Design Centre - The hub for all Visual Arts lessons and senior school dispersal.
 * Jhoola Badis - A playground for all kids from Foundation to 2nd grade.
 * Sports Infrastructure - This includes the facilities for the following sports : Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Softball, Squash, Table Tennis, and Tennis.
 * Vasant Manch - The air-conditioned auditorium used for senior school acts and other activities.
 * Quadrangles - The open area in each building used for assemblies, performances and as a place for children to roam around during breaks.

Apart from these the school includes two sick rooms, five staff rooms, five labs, and a playroom. The school infrastructure has been supported by various alumni and parents. In 2023, the squash courts were renovated and air-conditioning was installed in all classrooms with contributions from alumni and parents.

Student governance
The student body in the school is organized in the following ways-

 * 1) Houses - The students and teachers are divided in four houses : Blue, Green, Red and Yellow. These houses compete in various inter-house competitions, such as Mathematics, Dance, and  Football, throughout the year.
 * 2) Councils - The school has councils for environment, library, outreach, areas of development, arts, and sports. The councils organize various events and competitions in their respective areas. The members of each council are selected by the head of the council.
 * 3) Prefect Council - This includes prefects of each house, council heads, and school captains of classes 5 and 12. All prefects, and school captains are chosen by teachers.

From classes 3 onwards each class has a class representative. Class representatives make the student council.

Notable alumni

 * Tanvi Hans - ex-player at Tottenham Hotspur L.F.C. and poster-girl for Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham the Musical
 * Roshni Nadar - Executive Director and CEO of HCL Technologies
 * Prayaag Akbar — Journalist and academic
 * Mira Rajput Kapoor - Actress

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Tim Wheeler

Timothy James Arthur Wheeler (born 4 January 1977) is a singer, songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland. He is the lead vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Ash. He has written nearly all of Ash's notable works, such as "Oh Yeah", "Shining Light", "Girl from Mars", "Kung Fu", and "Goldfinger". In November 2014, he released his debut solo album Lost Domain.

Early life
Timothy James Arthur Wheeler was born in Downpatrick on 4 January 1977, the son of Rosalind E. M. (née Dickson), the daughter of a Northern Bank manager, and George Bomfforde Wheeler (1932–2011), a solicitor and later judge. He is a great-great-grandson of Rev. George Bomfforde Wheeler, who was editor of The Irish Times from 1859 to 1877. He attended Down High School with his fellow band members Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray.

Ash
Wheeler won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Pop Song in 2001 for "Shining Light".

Other work
In 1999, Wheeler contributed guitar and backing vocals on The Rentals' album Seven More Minutes. He has also contributed backing vocals Bob Geldof's Band Aid 20 2004 single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and on Arthur Baker's song, "Glow".

As part of Channel 4's program The JD Set, Wheeler worked with Emmy The Great, The Crookes, And So I Watch You From Afar, and Ma Mentor, joining each band in covering songs by Pixies, and then performing at London's XOYO on 24 March 2011.

Wheeler has also been involved with film and TV soundtrack work, most notably Ashes (2012), Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (2014) and the Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015).

Emmy the Great
Wheeler has collaborated frequently in recent years with Emma-Lee Moss, AKA Emmy The Great, the duo have performed Ash track "Tracers" on several occasions, and in 2011 Tim, Emma and Euan Hinshelwood covered Robert Manning's song "Washington Parks", the cover was released as part of a collection of covers to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis. The pair acoustically performed a set of Ash and Emmy The Great songs, as well as some covers at Willowstone Festival on 1 July 2011.

In November 2011 the pair released a Christmas album, entitled This Is Christmas (Infectious, 2011).

Lost Domain
In September 2014, Wheeler announced the release of his first solo album, Lost Domain, a heartfelt and emotional response to the loss of his father George to dementia. Lost Domain was released on Sony Red on 3 November 2014, with a portion of the proceeds being donated to The Alzheimer's Society, a charity Wheeler has worked closely with since his father's death in 2011.

Lost Domain is an album in which Wheeler battles to come to terms with his loss, charting his father's rapid decline into illness, his death and the tumultuous effect that it had on his life over the course of 11 songs. As Wheeler explains: “After losing my father to dementia, I felt the need to personally do something to fight Alzheimer’s. My friend Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy's father also has Alzheimer's so we put on a concert in Belfast in November 2011 with The Divine Comedy, The Undertones and Ash to raise funds and awareness for the Alzheimer's Society. Since then I've had close links with The Alzheimer's Society and this year was involved with the Dementia Friends campaign. I'm proud to continue to support them and raise more awareness with the album Lost Domain."

Recorded in Ash's New York studio, Wheeler played almost everything himself, roping in musician friends when he needed a hand: Andy Burrows formerly of Razorlight and Fred Aspelin (Alberta Cross) each played some drums; Ilan Eshkeri and Oliver Kraus helped with the string and brass arrangements performed by the London Metropolitan Orchestra; Leanne Macomber from Ejecta and Neon Indian sang; and Moon Hooch's Wenzl McGowen played saxophone. There is even a sample of Wheeler's father's piano playing on the album's epic centerpiece "Medicine".

The album track "The First Sign of Spring" is available to listen to on YouTube now.

Wheeler announced his first solo dates to support the release of the album on 4–7 November. He played Bush Hall – London, Night & Day- Manchester, ABC2 – Glasgow and Oh Yeah Centre – Belfast. In addition, he supported Andy Burrows in Amsterdam and Brussels.

Equipment
Wheeler is perhaps most recognised for using a Gibson Flying V, which he has frequently used live since 1998 onwards. His Flying V has a 1950s Zebra Coil PAF pickup, and has also been modified in the past for pyrotechnics; the Flaming Flying V acts as a flamethrower, firing from between the V part of the guitar body. Prior to this, Wheeler mainly used various Gibson Les Paul models. He also plays a Gibson SG and Gretsch Silver Jet, which was frequently used both live and in the studio since Ash's album Twilight of the Innocents. For heavier tracks such as "The Dead Disciples", Wheeler has used a Fender Telecaster. In 2011, he purchased a Gretsch 1966 Sal Fabrio, for work in the studio and rehearsals. He also uses a Gibson Custom Inspired By Kiefer Sutherland Semi-Hollow KS-336 guitar on a number of tracks live, including songs such as "Walking Barefoot". He used an Elliot Easton signature model Gibson Firebird on a number of songs during the Kablammo! tour.

Wheeler predominately uses a Mesa Boogie Road King Series II amplifier, and also sometimes uses a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier amplifier. He uses numerous effects pedals which are housed in a rack and controlled via MIDI. His effects pedals include; an Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer, a Dunlop Crybaby 95Q Wah pedal, a Death By Audio Fuzz War, a Carl Martin HeadRoom Reverb, an Electro-Harmonix Poly Chorus, a Morpheus Droptune, a Catalinbread Karma Suture Fuzz, a Mesa Boogie Tone Burst, a Coloursound Tonebender, a Moog Moogerfooger Phaser, an ADA Flanger pedal, and a Nocto Loco octave pedal which replaced a Korg synthesiser in his effects rack. Wheeler controls his pedals in his effects rack using a Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro MIDI foot controller.

The Flying V guitar that Wheeler set on fire on the Ash Meltdown tour is now on display at the Oh Yeah centre in Belfast. The Oh Yeah centre is dedicated to the music of Northern Ireland and was named after the song "Oh Yeah" by Ash.

Lyrical themes and writing
With the release of the band's fifth studio record Twilight of the Innocents, in 2007, Wheeler spoke of how if the group hadn't toured so heavily they would have been more prolific, that: "It would have been cool to have twice as many songs by now. I definitely could have done it, but if I go on tour I have to stop writing. Writing needs to be a relaxing process and you need peace and quiet and the right stuff around you. Whenever we take a break I could write a song every day, pretty much."

Personal life
Wheeler is an Arsenal FC fan, which began during his nine-year stint living in Highbury. He has been dating French model and art director Julia Restoin Roitfeld since 2018. On September 9, 2021, they announced via Instagram that they were expecting a baby together. In February 2022, they announced the birth of their son George.

In 2016 the Open University awarded Wheeler an honorary Doctor of the university, citing his "exceptional contribution to education and culture".

Discography
Studio albums
 * This Is Christmas (with Emmy the Great; 2011)
 * Lost Domain (2014)

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Mark Hamilton

Mark Hamilton may refer to:

 * Mark Hamilton (canoeist) (born 1961), American sprint canoer
 * Mark Hamilton (doctor) (born 1970), British doctor and radio show host
 * Mark Hamilton (baseball) (born 1984), American baseball player
 * Mark Hamilton (bassist), bass guitarist for the Northern Irish alternative rock band Ash
 * Mark Hamilton (guitarist), with UK rock band Quench
 * Mark Hamilton (singer), Canadian indie rock musician with Woodpigeon
 * Mark Hamilton (writer), publisher of Neo-Tech literature
 * Mark R. Hamilton (born 1940s), American academic and former president of the University of Alaska
 * Mark Hamilton (politician) (born 1956), American politician in the Georgia House of Representatives
 * Friar Mark Hamilton, Scottish Dominican and author
 * Mark Hamilton (police officer), British policeman

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Talk:Honnō-ji

Isn't Honno-ji Temple pleonastic, if ji already means "temple"? --Wetman 21:40, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It is. For that reason I moved the article. Fg2 21:52, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

I would love to see more links and maybe more explanation on why and how these is referenced in the way it is (besides just a link to 'Incident at Honno-ji' I made the edit of adding Samurai Warriors to places this temple was referenced. Jastha08 (talk) 16:44, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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