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International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella

The International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA), originally the National Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (NCCA, a play on NCAA), is an international competition run by Varsity Vocals, that attracts hundreds of college a cappella groups each year.

The competition sees groups from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom compete across 9 regions, culminating in the ICCA Finals in New York City.

History
Founded in 1996 by former Tufts University Beelzebubs music director Deke Sharon and former Brown University Derbies member Adam Farb, the ICCA tournament takes place from January through April in nine regions: West, Southwest, Midwest, Great Lakes, Central, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, South, and United Kingdom.

The ICCA has been presented by Varsity Vocals since 1999, when the competition was purchased by Don Gooding (Contemporary A Cappella Publishing). The success of the ICCA produced two spin-off competitions: the International Championship of High School A Cappella (ICHSA), starting in 2005; and the International Championship of A Cappella Open (The Open), starting in 2017. Amanda Newman became owner of Varsity Vocals in 2008 and has since produced the events.

The 2006–2007 competition season was a focus of the book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory, which followed three groups vying to win the Championship. The book later became the basis for the Pitch Perfect film series, the first of which featured the protagonists competing in the ICCA.

The ICCA was also featured in the reality TV series Sing It On, which aired for two seasons (2015-2016) on POP TV. The series, which was executive produced by singer John Legend, premiered on May 13, 2015 and over the course of sixteen episodes followed groups such as the Nor'easters from Northeastern University, All-Night Yahtzee from Florida State University, Faux Paz from the University of Maryland, and S#arp Attitude from the University of Massachusetts as they advanced through the competition.

1999
The 1999 National Championship of Collegiate A Cappella tournament was never held due to financial difficulties. It was resumed in 2000 and renamed the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella after its purchase by Don Gooding.

2020
The 2020 ICCA tournament was cut short in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One quarterfinal, seven semifinals, the wild card round, and the 2020 ICCA Finals were cancelled.

2021
The 2021 ICCA tournament was held entirely virtually to compensate for COVID-19 safety guidelines. It was the first time the entire tournament was free to watch.

Guidelines
There are five or six quarterfinal events held in each of the eight American regions (Central, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, South, Southwest, West), while the United Kingdom region holds four. Generally, the top two college groups at each quarterfinal advance to the semifinals in their respective regions. The winner of each semifinal is invited to participate in finals, currently held at The Town Hall in New York City, (the event has also been held in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, PlayStation Theatre, and the Beacon Theatre), where they compete for coveted title of International Champion.

Each group prepares a short 10 minute performance (usually three songs) that best show the group's strengths. Primary focus is on a group's musical performance, but presentation and choreography are scored as well. Groups generally range in size from 8-20. A panel of three to five trained judges evaluates the group's performance.

Vocal performance
According to official Varsity Vocals documents, the aspects of vocal performance that are integral to a high-scoring ICCA performance include balance and blend, quality and inventiveness of arrangement, rhythmic accuracy, interpretation of song, intonation, solo interpretation, tone quality, dynamic precision, and diction. The first six of these concepts are graded on a 1-10 scale, while the last three are graded on a 1-5 scale. These numbers are added up, then added to the number for the next section, Visual Performance. The total possible score for this section is 75.

Visual performance
Visual performance is, while not as highly weighted as vocal performance, still an integral aspect of any ICCA performance. The various aspects of visual performance include visual cohesiveness, effectiveness of presentation, energy/stage presence, appropriateness of movement, creativity of movement, transitioning/blocking, and professionalism. The first three categories are graded on a 1-10 scale, while the last four are graded on a 1-5 scale. The purpose of visual presentation is to present, not unlike a show choir, the emotiveness of a performance through body movement. While oftentimes a group may value Vocal Performance over Visual Performance, high marks and Semifinal award-winning performances have relied equally on the strength of their movement with that of their sound.

Subjective ranking
Finally, another crucial aspect of the performance grade comes in the form of a ranking box. If a judge decides that your group merits 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in the overall competition, they circle one of these choices, which comes to correspond with an additive point value. So, if a judge decides you are the 1st place group, another 30 points are added to that individual judge's overall score. If they decide you are 2nd, you receive an additional 20 points, and if they decide you are 3rd, you receive an additional 10 points. These go towards the eventual rankings at the end of the night's performance, when the judges announce the first-place winner, the runner up, and the second runner up.

Occasionally the event has caught the attention of national media. The greatest television exposure was three successive performances on The Today Show in 2001, culminating with a Monday morning performance by the champions, the University of Michigan Compulsive Lyres. The following year, competitors the Skidmore Dynamics were the subject of a New York Times article a few days before they took the stage at Lincoln Center.

Following their first ICCA win, and appearance on The Today Show in 2008, the SoCal VoCals were featured in an article in Newsweek Magazine.

In fiction
Various ensembles compete for the ICCA national title in the comedy Pitch Perfect, while a fictionalized World Championship competition is portrayed in the 2015 sequel. Pitch Perfect 3 was released on December 22, 2017.

Previous Champions

 * (WC) - The 2012 and 2021 champions, The SoCal VoCals and Faux Paz, respectively, qualified for finals through the wild card round after placing 2nd at regional semifinals


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Backup systems and recovery

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Backup Systems and Recovery and Information Technology Audit - Operations
Not an encyclopedia article, possibly copied from somewhere. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 19:18, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete agreed --Xcali 19:41, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Google doesn't seem to indicate that it's copyvio, but it reads almost like a preface to a job listing. At any rate, certainly delete this; it is not encyclopedic. --Idont Havaname 20:25, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * See Votes for deletion/Information Technology Audit - Regulation. This is part of a larger project by a group of (graduate?) students. I'm not sure about the feasiblity of such a project, but rather than delete this, some of which might be valuable information on an encyclopedic topic, it should be cleaned up and probably all merged into a main article. Since it's a class project, the authors should all be dedicated contributors to the articles. Let's see what they can do with it and then judge the final product. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  21:25, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * To the authors of these pages: have you registered usernames? You can do so here. I would also suggest reading Help:Starting a new page and Manual of style, for starters. Please feel free to leave questions on my talk page or send me email – I will respond as quickly as I can. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  21:25, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry about that; I'll try to talk to them about the formatting of their page when next I see them. Sorry for the inconvenience ~ M
 * Keep We are the group in charge of this article, and we have cleaned it up a bit, hopefully to wikipedia's standards. Thanks -Group6 25:35, 5 June 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It is coming along nicely.  - DS1953 00:07, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * keep Yo, I'm just a user, but I sought out this page today, looking for general ideas on data backup philosophies and schedules. The article wasn't exactly what I wanted, so it could be improved, but better than nothing.

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 * Comment. Thanks a lot guys. My other hard drive isn't booting, and I wish I knew of some good recovery programs.--67.190.25.121 07:54, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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Robert Campbell (fur trader)

Robert Campbell (21 February 1808 – 9 May 1894) was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and explorer. He explored a large part of the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia. He established the short-lived Dease Lake Post, and in 1838 he was the first European to reach the Stikine River overland. He established Fort Frances, Yukon on Frances Lake in the Liard River basin. In 1840 he crossed from Frances Lake to the Pelly River becoming the first European to explore the upper Yukon River Basin. He established Fort Selkirk, Yukon, at the juncture of the Yukon River and the Pelly River.

His discoveries led to little financial gain at the time. All of the posts that he established were abandoned within a few years, largely because of to the high price of transporting trade goods from Hudson Bay, via the Methye Portage and Mackenzie River. Meanwhile, there were already well-established native trading routes leading to nearby Russian Alaska on the Pacific Ocean.

He was also for a time in charge of Fort Halkett.

Campbell Peak, just south of the British Columbia community of Liard River, is named after him., as is the Robert Campbell Highway, Yukon and the Robert Campbell Bridge which connects the suburb of Riverdale to the downtown of Whitehorse, Yukon.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St ham's day

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St ham's day
A vanity holiday created by students at a particular grammar school and only celebrated there. See WP:VAIN. Meelar (talk) 19:19, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

I have personally heard reports of this holiday being celebrated at other secondary schools in the area, and it is a genuine 'cult'. (unsigned comment made by "80.43.94.161", the article's author)
 * Speedy delete Hoax/fiction. Zero Google hits.  --Xcali 19:29, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Burn with fire, like you would anything heretical. ;) --Scimitar 20:03, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Damn. THE WORD OF ST HAM WILL BE SPREAD! Speedy delete.

 * Delete - incitement to violence arguably illegal. Not funny enough to be excused as satire. Hell with it, it's just lame. AlexTiefling 20:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Just leave it up, ferchrissakes. At least until I get the webpage working...
 * Sorry. Wikipedia is not a hosting service. Meelar (talk) 20:20, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a hosting service. --Idont Havaname 20:22, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

I mean, what webpage? Please delete it! Jamie Graham is threatening a lawsuit! I'm begging you!
 * Speedy delete as patent nonsense. Martg76 22:15, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as utter dreck and waste. 216.158.31.195 14:29, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nonsense. JamesBurns 09:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Wives of Henry VIII

Family Tree of these wives
As the article mentioned, all the six wives are descendants of Edward I. I found this site (https://tudorqueen6.com/2012/09/22/english-ancestry-of-the-six-wives-descent-from-edward-i/) about the lineage, although all of them had more than one way to trace ack to Edward I, I would like to make these word into a family tree. How about this? - George6VI (talk) 16:31, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

 * The family tree should probably also include Henry himself, just for reference. 2603:9001:1408:2C69:D08C:CD61:7B9E:52A0 (talk) 17:58, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Coat of Arms Table
The article is lacking content and is mainly composed of tables. I was thinking we could help make the Coat of Arms Table shorter by making the notes in that table its' own section. (BrittLovesCats (talk) 17:31, 12 October 2020 (UTC))

How many times did Henry VIII sleep with all his wives? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:DB0A:3801:C189:9808:3B39:FDA0 (talk) 20:22, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Ancestry
Henry and Jane Seymour are more closely related than the ancestry chart shows. Philippa, Countess of Ulster, is their common ancestor, but she is only shown as an ancestor of Jane on the chart. The Kings of the House of York are all descended from her, as is Henry's mother, Elizabeth of York. NoSeptember 19:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
 * It has been fixed now by the template's creator. Keivan.f  Talk 02:30, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Henry VIII
Which of Henry VIII wives had Edward VI 80.41.132.88 (talk) 18:17, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Jane Seymour. Keivan.f  Talk 00:49, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Queen consorts vs queens consort
Hello. Per Merriam-Webster, our queen consort article and Category:Queens consort, these women should be collectively queens consort. Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) disagrees and says the plural is Queen consorts. My understanding is that "in forming the plurals of compound nouns, the significant word takes the plural form." Thus, rights-of-way, mothers-in-law, chargés d’affaires, prisoners of war, sergeants major, but deputy sheriffs and general counsels. I would argue that queen is the more significant word here, and thus queens consort should be used. Thoughts? jengod (talk) 17:41, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

The six Thomases
The last three of the six Thomases listed (Howard, Wriothesley, Cranmer) do not correspond to the fates listed in the mnemonic ("Self-slaughtered, burned, survived"). Both Howard and Wriothesley survived Henry and died natural deaths; Cranmer was the one who burned. None of the six listed are generally accepted to have committed suicide, although it has often been rumored of Wolsey. Clearly, Cranmer should be the fifth; either Howard or Wriothesley could be last (and Howard is the more prominent of the two), but we have no one for the fourth spot. In short, this is a mess. 2601:C6:4100:F980:6100:E6DC:F7FF:EF92 (talk) 01:03, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mawbea, North Sodor

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Mawbea, North Sodor
Total fiction. Original author tried to blank it. -- RHaworth 19:20, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
 * Delete. The various railway references remind me that the Isle of Sodor is the setting for the Revd Wilbert Awdry's Thomas the Tank Engine children's stories. I think 'Sodor' actually relates to the southern part of the Scottish Western Isles, as a former part of the diocese of Sodor and Man. AlexTiefling 20:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I live in Mawbea! =0  ~Ray Wight, Mawbea NS, 1 Jun 2005
 * Delete. Hoax.  See also Votes for deletion/Kimberly L. Browne for more of the same.  Postdlf 07:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, fiction/hoax. --bainer (talk) 08:34, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. JamesBurns 09:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Vanilla Ninja

Name Problems
Look,people,this section looks like it was definately written from a strong point of view (an angry fan):

"Then somebody went and registered the name at the Patent Office, as a trade-mark.

After the girls quit from BROS Music (following the Chart Scandel in 2005, where David Brandes had bought his own CDs to lift up chart positions for Gracia and Vanilla Ninja), 'David Brandes systematically tried to destroy the group and the fanship. In which he did not succeed thanks to the great co-operation of fans, blocking each new attempt'." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sloba (talk • contribs) 21:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Article
I've completely written this. I think its fairly complete. Hedley 19:21, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Peer review
This article was on peer review from the 1st to 4th of June, 2005. The review can be seen at Peer review/Vanilla Ninja/archive1. Hedley 23:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Main Page
In about 50 minutes time this article will be on the main page. Hedley 30 June 2005 23:10 (UTC)

Misc. Talk
That band sounds like it's name is from vanilla ice's song.. GO NINJA GO NINJA GO! ::Cyberman starts to breakdance:: --Cyberman 1 July 2005 00:03 (UTC)

 * LMAO!!! XDXD --Thorns Among Our Leaves 1 July 2005 00:52 (UTC)

I have forgotten my Wikipedia rules for editing, I apologise, but I contend that this article is by definition POV or even worse is simply an exercise to see if it can be done ie. get your article on the front page of wikipedia. By definition, because, the article appears in the year they have had the pinnacle of their careers ie. competing in the Eurovision Song Contest. Had the article been one or two or more years later I would not be writing now. Contrast this article with that of Johnny Logan who won the thing two times and see if my challenge of POV is not fair.

Cyberman is a nay nay

is or are
I'm always confused about this - Vanilla Ninja is... or Vanilla Ninja are..? I'd say 'are', because we are referring to the band members. I don't know.. If they were called Vanilla Ninjas, it would def be are.

This is an American/UK English thing (see elsewhere in Wikipedia). I think it goes like: UK say "the Team are X, Y and Z" American "the Team is X, Y and Z". Your choice.

 * Since it's a Germanic language we're questioning, maybe the German itself will help. In German the Team (die Mannschaft) is in the singular and carries the singular verbal conjugation (die Mannschaft ist), whereas the Teams (die Mannschaften) would carry plural conjugation (die Mannschaften sind). I'm afraid for once the Americans might be right.Billy P 1 July 2005 19:31 (UTC)
 * Why are we looking at the German usage exactly? Vanilla ninja are/is popular in a lot of German-speaking countries, true, but this is an Estonian band we are talking about. Estonian is not Germanic—it's not even Indo-European—and if I'm guessing correctly, the conjugation for "to be" is the same for "it is" and "they are" (on for both). And it is not clear why we're looking at non-English usage in an English-language Wikipedia in the first place. --Iceager 09:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify for those at home, is and are are based on numbers, as in, how many "objects" you're talking about. For example, let's say we're talking about....chairs. If there is one chair, you would say "That chair is...." However, if there are many chairs, you would say "Those chairs are..." This particular instance, however, is special. You see, ninja is a Japanese word, and Japanese has no plural form. The word "ninja" is used to represent both one and many ninja, and it has always been my feeling that this carries over when porting words from language to language. So you would say "Look at that ninja!" or "Look at those ninja!" as opposed to "Look at those ninjas!" That said, the band's name itself is not a viable source for validation of it...plurality? Whatever. Anyway, my point is that, due to the ambiguous nature of the band's name, that we treat it as a singular, as though we were reffering to the ONE group itself, the single entity composed of the many band members, as opposed to the band members individually (isn't that why they give themselves a group name, anyway?) IE: We would say "Vanilla Ninja is a good band." as opposed to "Vanilla Ninja are a good band." (Now, if there were a preceeding "The" (ie the band's name was "The Vanilla Ninja" then that would be another story alltogether...) SuperKawaiiNeko 13:57, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Featured despite objections?
Why did this article reach featured status despite the fact that two seemingly valid objections were left unresolved? The article still has very little info on the actual music of the band and the music video section is hogging a substantial part of the article despite being quite questionable in its interiety.

Both these things seem to me as being very easy to amend, so I'm even more surprised that they were disregarded from. Could someone explain this?

Peter Isotalo July 1, 2005 11:39 (UTC)

 * There is information on the music of the band, I think. It states the genre, their influences, and the differences in sound for each released song. I think thats sufficient. As for hogging part of an article with a section - Its detail, and thats why people use sources such as Wikipedia. Hedley 1 July 2005 17:29 (UTC)

Query regarding Featured Article Candidacy
Hi, Whilst I personally had little knowledge of Vanilla Ninja before reading this article, and thus cannot comment on their musical aptitude, I would like to know why articles about well-known bands such as the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are seemingly overlooked for candidacy? The reason I quote the RHCP article is because it exemplifies many of the required principles of FA candidates - for example in-depth and concise, stability, citation, well-licensed images. It just seems that articles about well-known bands, individuals or entities are overlooked in favour of articles like this, even when they meet all the requirements. I for one was astonished to see the excellent Titanic article on the main page when it had been preceded by the likes of "Our Gang" and "Military History of Puerto Rico" - no disrespect is intended to the authors of these articles. Is there an offical channel where I can query this issue?

Also, I agree with Peter, there should be unanimous support for a Featured Article on the voting page before it is thrust on to the main page. Clearly this wasn't the case here,as there were at least two valid objections, and I'm somewhat dismayed. Again, I'd like to know if there's an official channel where I can query these issues? Thank you. Rdysn5 July 1, 2005 12:01 (UTC)

 * Why shouldn't an article on an 'obscure' band be featured? This article tackles systematic bias heavily. Hedley 1 July 2005 17:30 (UTC)

I like this article, it's different from the mainstream Western bands you hear about all the time. And it's a well writen article. --LeoTheLion 1 July 2005 17:44 (UTC)

 * Hedley, if you tried to actually amend our quite easily amendable objections instead of arguing against them, I think the article would be a lot better. It's also somewhat disrespectful to simply ignore almost everything Rdysn has to say on FAs by making it seem as if he wants to ban obscure topics from being FAs. I've noticed myself that people have a tendency to concentrate way too much on various sub-articles instead of writing on the far more important general topic articles. That, for example, military history of Puerto Rico is favored over the general history of Puerto Rico is not good in the long run as I see it.
 * Peter Isotalo July 2, 2005 09:28 (UTC)

National Socialism
I don't see it! What does this article have to do with National Socialism? Wjbean 1 July 2005 13:33 (UTC)
 * I think it's a case of vandalism, after being featured on the front page. At least.. that's what I sincerely hope. -- Harry 1 July 2005 16:36 (UTC)

Language
This article suffers a defect. It should be made clear very early on in the article what language the girls sing in. Although the song and album titles are in English, you still need to specify clearly that they sing in English, and that these song titles aren't translations. Paragraph 4 of section 1 finally gives this information. It's very salient info and it needs to be in the introduction, not buried in the main body. I couldn't readily determine the langauge. I had to go looking for it.
 * Paragraph 3 of section 1 states the language. Hedley 1 July 2005 17:44 (UTC)
 * It now notes the debut album's language in the opening. Hedley 1 July 2005 19:50 (UTC)

Spit & Polish
The article as it currently stands has a bunch of typos (similiar, Apparantely, inparticularly); inconsistent use of capitalization (Gothic vs. gothic); missing apostrophes (the groups first slow, soft); wording fumbles (bought many copies of were the groups; The video begun). At the very least, someone should run a spellcheck on it. (Probably not the time now, with the current flurry of edits/vandalism. But at some point.) –Hajor 1 July 2005 15:23 (UTC)

 * If this band is in any way Gothic then Ice Cube is Ska and Motley Crue is polka.76.181.251.199 (talk) 12:42, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Phwoar!
no really....PHWOAR!

Intro DOBs
I think the intro is a little difficult to read given the inclusion of the dates of birth. I think it might be better to place them into a section later on, so that the lead paragraph flows better. violet/riga (t) 14:14, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Kohuke
Hajor made an edit, with the summary containing the question "what is a kohuke?". While this is quite not the right talk page for this, it is the only one I can think of (since it's the only article linking to kohuke). Basically, kohuke is a sweet made from cottage cheese (that's what a dictionary says the Estonian word kohupiim is in English). I don't know if there's an English equivalent to it or not. PeepP 22:22, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the information. –Hajor 22:30, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

- Aug 4 2005 According to the producers information - Kohuke is actually a cheese curd snack. Latvian producers call ir "Curd snack" http://www.piens.lv/eproducts_curdsnacks.html Estonians - "Cheese curd" http://www.tpt.ee/?structure=005&language=EN&rnd=18578

It's also popular in Lithuania. I have no information about it's popularity in countries outside Baltic states, however I would be suprised if it was completly unknown. And it's not made of cottage cheese (which is a specific form of curd. All cottage cheese is curd, but not all curd is cottage cheese). This misunderstanding comes from deficient, outdated english-estonian dictionary (it says "cottage cheese" where it should say "curd"). The most popular Latvian-English dictionary has been updated to correct this mistake - however maybe Estonian-English is not.
 * There's a short stub now at kohuke, mainly just to get rid of the red link in the intro to this article. Hedley 20:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

plagiarism
I really think there should be a mention about how the video for Cool Vibes actually comprised of modified footage of the video for Mindmachine by German cult-band Deine Lakaien.

check it out here: --83.118.141.133 13:47, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not the place to put unproven accusations. I left the apparent accusation itself in the article since there was media attention on the matter, but added this line: "It should be noted, however, that there is currently no proof that the band members of Vanilla Ninja knew about the alleged stolen material." The addition needs to be in there because both sides of this story need to be told, and there is indeed no proof that Vanilla Ninja actually knew about the alleged stolen material; it is thought that their manager stole it after they split and produced it himself, though there is no great proof of that either as far as I can tell. Oh, and your link to the story does not work.

Either way, I cleaned it up and put the rest of proper information in the article. If anyone else finds any other verified information on the matter, feel free to add it in. -Brandon Harwell —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.201.55.10 (talk) 20:29, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Response to evaluation and comments
Thanks for the quick evaluation that I asked for.

Lead: I've moved the final sentence to a more appropriate position; I don't think there's much I can expand upon right now, though

Comprehensiveness: Possibly, but not being in Germany or Estonia I can't really do anything on this

Pictures: "Fair use rationales"? I think the claims for fair use seem pretty reasonable

Audio: I don't think we can upload it; It's copyrighted and the only reason it's linked is because the site being linked to has permission

References: I think the references are pretty good as is; Inline citations aren't mandatory, and a lot of the references are in German so it's not a feasible option

Discography: The Estonian charts aren't archived online, and until Hitparade.ch expand a bit further I can't see them being anytime soon; Thus I can't locate the positions —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esteffect (talk • contribs)

 * The pictures need fair use rationales. Please read Image_description_page for more information. Inline citations are now a requirement for featured articles. The standards has changed since the article was promoted. If this doesn't get fixed within reasonable time, the article may again be put up for FA removal. --Maitch 12:55, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Four members
No, there's three. Triinu left in 2005. Esteffect 22:43, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Image problems
All images in this article lack fair use rationales, which are required per Fair use. Most of them also lack copyright information and sources. Given that this is a featured article, this should be taken care of as soon as possible. --Fritz S. (Talk) 18:09, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I just found several images from Vanilla Ninja. I think that these should be apt replacements. I just wonder who would dare to do the job.
 * -Mardus 05:33, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

FARC
Someone post it there please. As the only person who gives a shit about this article, to be told that I have to use a certain style of referencing pisses me off. I don't intend to update this, and while I appreciate Mardus' efforts, quit while your ahead because this article will die through being out of date anyway.

I am no longer a regular member of Wikipedia. Thanks. Esteffect 12:36, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

 * That certain style of referencing is important with regards to encyclopedic content. It's not obligatory by any means and I think in the case of this article, where specific references are few and far between, their correct style should be applied only where possible. — For example, in the Baltic Times reference case, where there was a minor citation in this article, which clearly referred to the Baltic Times writeup, so a footnote and its respective endnote applied better, therefore it now looks more correct and invalidates the use of two external links.

 * You don't have to use that style, but here in Wikipedia, it is very likely that eventually someone is going to fix that anyway. A reference is a reference, when it points to something specific, otherwise it's just an external link.

 * Also, if you look at the article's history page, people have consistently updated it with bits and pieces from here and there, so the probability of the article "dying" is small. In my case, I just want the article to look more professional and encyclopedic, never mind that it has outdated content: There will always be someone who is interested enough to add more information to it.

 * Please expand on what FARC means to you.
 * I do feel sorry that you feel needlessly angry, because you felt that someone told you that you have to use a certain style of referencing. (Before you announced your feelings of anger here in Talk, then if anyone here in Wikipedia told you this — "You have to use only a certain style of referencing!", then please point me to that place, so that I could also see who it was that told you so.)
 * -Mardus 17:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

 * See Maitch's post above for me being told it's necessary for FAs. To be a honest, I'm far from a new user, and I wrote this article from a stub to a featured article. The fact there's never been a single major contribution by another user tells me that this won't survive. I've lost my interest in the "Wiki way", and namely I've begun to feel that I want credit for my contributions. That doesn't fit well with Wikipedia and this article won't find a good enough, interested contributor to maintain it. Esteffect 19:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not very knowledgable in unknown acronyms, therefore I don't use them just as liberally when unreferenced.

 * What made you be disillusioned in the wiki way?

 * If you want credit for something, but wish your work to be available for free, you could use any of the Creative Commons licenses, then create your own blog and attribute your desired license to your work. See creativecommons.org/text for more.
 * -Mardus 04:50, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * So, FARC stands for Featured Article?
 * -Mardus 04:53, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Nope. It stands for featured article removal candidate. --Fritz S. (Talk) 09:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Just that the acronym explanation to this is only here and since almost two hours ago, to boot.
 * -Mardus 11:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I felt my work wasn't being appreciated anymore, and that and other things made it no longer worthwhile. And FARC is the former name for Featured Article Review - I still call it FARC, I didn't know the name was changed until I listed this there. Esteffect 12:25, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The article is good material and it was up to the standards of FA at the time, but it will not pass today, because the standards have changed. It is very important to have fair use rationales for the images and inline references are now a requirement. I do not wish to nominate this for removal. That is why I'm making you aware of this, so the article again could get up to FA standard. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, but we have to deal with the article and not the editor. --Maitch 22:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I've already nominated it for removal some time ago. I'm strongly opposed to this inline requirement crap that got brought in. Great way to make editing completely boring. Esteffect 12:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I've removed all but one of the "fair use" images per the WP:FAR discussion. I left the one in that seemed particularly important to demonstrate an argument being made.  Jkelly 04:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 * There goes any thin, thin hope of my restoring this. I bet this article dies miserably. Esteffect 16:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

VN-Linn fanclub
It is not an official fanclub, nor is approved by the Ninjas. A link to its homepage and forum would be enough. No need for a section about it. It sounds more like an advertisement. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.237.158.71 (talk) 22:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

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Fair use rationale for Image:Vanilla ninja-best of a.jpg
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Who of the band can actually play their instruments?
I faintly remember discussions that they couldn't play ANY of their instruments, and that even the credits on their 2006 "Love Is War" album were fake, and both guitars and keyboards were entirely played by studio musicians. Which of all this is actually true? -andy 2.242.148.30 (talk) 20:38, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Breakup?
In the German wiki and here, the band was active until 2008. But no official breakup of the Band is known. In 2010, the played as "Vanilla Ninja". Any sources on the breakup? Saemikneu (talk) 09:43, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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User talk:Etalk

Hello Etalk and welcome to Wikipedia!

I wanted to act as your personal welcome committee and relay some tips I received from others along the way.

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If you need help, post a question at the Help desk or ask me on my my talk page. I realize that this is no baseball or surfing, but try to have fun!

Aloha,

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Nöther (crater)

Nöther is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located in the far northern latitudes, to the northwest of the walled plain Poczobutt. About two crater diameters to the north-northwest of Nöther lies Niepce.

This is an old, eroded feature with an outer rim that has become round-shouldered and marked with several small craterlets. The inner wall is narrower along the northeastern side, while the southern half is the most heavily marked by impacts. The interior floor is nearly level and featureless, with only a small craterlet near the north-northeastern inner wall and a tiny crater in the south-southwest.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Nöther.

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Trifluoroethane

Trifluoroethane may refer to either of two isomeric fluorocarbons which differ by the location of attachment of the fluorine atoms:
 * 1,1,2-Trifluoroethane (R-143)
 * 1,1,1-Trifluoroethane (R-143a)

Both are used as refrigerant and propellant gases.

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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a 1983 American-Canadian science fiction action film. The film stars Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci and Michael Ironside. The film's executive producer was Ivan Reitman, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. The film's music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. When the film was originally released in theaters it was shown in a polarized, over/under 3-D format. The film became part of the 3-D film revival craze of the early 1980s, being widely released after Comin' at Ya! (1981). The film is about a bounty hunter who goes on a mission to rescue three women stranded on a brutal planet and meets a vagrant teenage girl along the way.

Plot
Set in the early 22nd century, the film opens with the destruction of a space cruise liner by a bolt of nebular lightning. The only apparent survivors are three beautiful women—Nova, Reena, and Meagan—who take refuge in an escape pod and land on the nearest habitable planet. There, they are quickly accosted by the hostile natives and taken aboard a sail-driven vehicle resembling a pirate ship on rails.

In space, an alert is broadcast for the safe return of the women with a reward of 3,000 mega-credits. A small-time salvage operator named Wolff intercepts the message and heads to the planet along with his female engineer Chalmers. They learn that the planet, Terra XI, is a failed colony that fell victim to a deadly plague and civil warfare. Wolff risks the dangers, believing that the reward will solve his debt problems.

After landing on the barren world, Wolff and Chalmers set out in a four-wheel-drive vehicle called the Scrambler. They become involved a battle in progress between a group of marauders (called the Zoners) and a band of nomads (the Scavs). The Zoners take the women before Wolff can stop them and fly away on jet-powered hang gliders. Wolff learns from the Scavs that the women were taken into The Zone which is ruled by Overdog, the Scavs' sworn enemy. Returning to the Scrambler, Wolff finds that Chalmers—revealed to be a gynoid—has been killed during the battle. Wolff continues alone, but he soon catches a teenage Scav, Niki, trying to steal his Scrambler. She convinces Wolff that he needs a tracker if he is to survive The Zone, and Wolff reluctantly takes her lead.

In the meantime, the three women are taken before The Chemist, the chief henchman of Overdog, who administers pacifying drugs to the women and prepares them for Overdog's pleasure. Overdog is a hideous cyborg with giant metal claws for hands.

Elsewhere, Wolff and Niki make camp, but soon come under attack by a strange plow-like vehicle. Wolff manages to disable the machine and learns the driver is a former military acquaintance of his, a soldier named Washington, who reveals that he, too, has come to rescue the women. His only problem is that he crashed his ship and has no way off of the planet. Wolff refuses to help his rival and leaves him to fend for himself.

Still led by Niki, Wolff gets into more predicaments, from being attacked by mutated humanoids, to strange Amazon-like women and a water dragon (which the Amazon-like women fear). He loses his trusty Scrambler and is forced to continue on foot. Eventually, they are found by Washington, and Wolff finds the situation reversed as he now begs his rival for help. They agree to a 50/50 split of the reward.

Now a team, Wolff and Washington sneak into Overdog's fortress, where they find the Zoners entertained by captured prisoners forced to run through a deadly maze of lethal obstacles, hazards and traps. Wolff spots the women being held in a cage and forms a rescue plan, but a bored Niki (who was left out of the rescue for her safety) decides to snoop around. She is captured and sent into the maze. Wolff spots Niki in the maze and tries to rescue her, but she uses her prowess to reach the end. Overdog congratulates her and drags her back to his lair. There, she is hooked to a machine that slowly drains her life energy. The energy, in turn, recharges Overdog.

Wolff comes to the rescue and jabs a sparking power cable into one of Overdog's claws. The power feedback fries Overdog and thus causes cascading blowouts throughout the entire fortress. As the fortress explodes around them, Wolff and Niki run for cover and are rescued by the timely arrival of Washington, who is driving the plow machine with Nova, Reena and Meagan driving another commandeered vehicle. They all race out of the fortress just as it explodes behind them.

Wolff invites Niki to team up with him, and she agrees since they made good partners.

Development
The film, which was announced in February 1982, was one of a number of 3D films made in the wake of the success of the Spanish-American 3D Western film Comin at Ya. Ernie McNab, the 3D designer on this film, said the effects would enable the audience to "really feel space". Producer Don Carmody said, "We never stoop to pop popcorn in your face. We do have one scene where laser beams and flame-blasters are bombarding the audience fast and furious, but these effects occur during a battle scene and appear valid." In 2015 Reitman said: "We had to have two cameras. We just shot it in what is now called “native” 3-D, and it was hell. And there were no screens that you could show it in. That was not really a practical idea in 1981."

Casting
Ernie Hudson says when he was first cast he was told Jeff Bridges would play Wolff. Then Peter Strauss was cast in the role.

Filming
Filming started under the title Adventures in the Creep Zone in October 1982. The original director was Jean LaFleur who had co written the original story and previously worked with producer Don Carmody. However, after only two weeks of filming, LaFelur and several other crew members were fired, reportedly because Columbia was unhappy with the film's progress. His replacement was Lamont Johnson.

Strauss said this led to changes to his character. "There were attempts to make him a little less tough and a little more gentle and responsive to the girl, Niki. Some of his grittiness in the earlier version was replaced with a notion of more gentleness." "It was difficult because things were always changing," said Hudson. "We changed the script entirely. When Lamont came in, we got a new script, a new everything. I ended up really liking Lamont. But it was very confusing, especially in the beginning."

Molly Ringwald said "I was always attracted to the character. The script was pretty — uh — but I figured that maybe I could change the dialogue a little when I got there. As it turned out, they were desperate to change the dialogue. I was quite relieved when Lamont showed up and said, 'This is awwwful. Let's change all this!' The script was re-written a lot. There was a train which started out as evil and wound up being good. People who were supposed to be friends ended up being enemies. It was confusing. I was lucky, though. All my material was improved."

Hudson felt the movie "was a real stretch for" Strauss "and the confusion didn't help [...] Wolff was a wonderful, Harrison Ford type, but that's not Peter. An actor has to take it his own way and do something totally different. Unfortunately, you're working with people who want the Harrison Ford thing, and they want it from you [...] Peter had to carry his first big feature through all that confusion, and it was very difficult."

Parts of the film were shot in Utah, including location shooting in: Kane Creek, Bull Canyon, along the Colorado River, Potash, Lower Shafer Trail, Potash Settling Ponds, Grey Hills, U.S. Highway 91, and the area south of Canyonlands Regional Airport. It was also shot in Vancouver.

Soundtrack
The film's music was done by Elmer Bernstein who later called the film "too rushed. The studio's only concern was getting it to the box office to make quick money, riding an anticipated, lucrative 3-D boom. ... The producers didn't want to fool around. They were looking for a more conventional approach. So, I wrote it like a Western with lots of straightforward heroics and a conventional orchestra, except for the Ondes Martenot."

Release
The film's advertising emphasized the 3D aspects. Columbia released Spacehunter on May 20, 1983, timed to be a week before Return of the Jedi.

It took $7 million in the first week However ticket sales dropped sharply. The film ended up grossing $16.5 million at the United States box office.

Hudson says he felt people went to the movie "and expected to see something different. If you don't have something really special and different, people just ask why they should spend money to see this thing? I don't think Spacehunter was daring enough; it wasn't really risky. We never lived up to our own publicity. It wasn't a bad story as movies go. And with Peter in it, I think people expected Spacehunter to be a serious film, and it wasn't serious at all."

While the film went mostly ignored at the U.S. box office, it did find some success on home video becoming the 10th best selling videocassette of 1983.

Reception
Variety called it "a muddled science fiction tale" whose editing prevented audiences from enjoying the well-shot action scenes. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film did more with its 3D than its contemporaries but was too crowded with derivative ideas to be memorable. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 27% and average rating of 3.3/10 based on 15 reviews.

C.J. Henderson reviewed Spacehunter in Space Gamer No. 65. Henderson commented "Watch for this one when it is finally released to cable, or to the video stores. This is one of those movies one gets more from in the living-room than in the theatre."

In a 2015 interview, Ivan Reitman referred to the movie as "...a terrible movie in 3-D.."

Home media
The movie was released on DVD in the US by Columbia/Tri-Star in December 2001. It was released on Blu-ray by Mill Creek Entertainment in the US and Canada in May 2017 (without any supplemental features), by Via Vision Entertainment in Australia in March 2019, and by 101 Films in the UK in March 2020 (featuring a commentary with film historians Allan Bryce and Richard Holliss).


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User talk:Tim Starling/Password matches/Archive1

I don't like it. Eric B. and Rakim 16:01, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You should be damn sure these matches aren't coincidence. V V   07:14, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

In Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/User:Tim Starling/Password matches, Lir claims it can be used to find out the passwords of various users. In theory this is true.

But it's only a problem if some innocent user picks the same password as someone who wants to abuse their account. In this case, Lir has a valid point, and it's horrible to think about. The malicious user can then use the innocent party's account to impersonate them, hiding behind their goodwill and destroying their reputation.

I don't think this is likely to occur, personally.

If two different users pick the same password, then until one of them reads this page (and you'll notice Tim hasn't linked it to their user pages, so what links here won't show it) there's no damage at all. Nobody else knows what this password is, just those two users, and neither of them knows that the other is using it. A troll or vandal isn't likely to send them a message saying "please tell me you password", or to get any useable information in response even if the do.

As soon as one of them does happen to read the page, then they should change their own password immediately, and then contact the other user to suggest they do the same. That's what most of us would do, and again no damage. We're a pretty mutually supportive bunch, most of us. If we were all trolls and vandals, that would be a different story. Andrewa 12:14, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Andrewa, you argue that it's not a security problem — I disagree. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that A) this page has low visibility, so it's unlikely users listed here will notice the match. B) users are generally a trustworthy bunch. "A" is easily repudiated; it's appeared on mailing lists, votes for deletion, and I came here after it caught my eye on the IRC recent changes channel. As for "B", well, while "assume good faith" is a good rule of thumb for Wikiquette, it's not the best heuristic for security.
 * (copied from votes for deletion for reference and further discussion): "I think this sets a dangerous precedent; if even one of these accounts is not actually a sockpuppet, then at least two users have had their passwords revealed to each other. If this "outing" becomes a regular tool for analysing sockpuppetry, then it seems likely that a legitimate user is eventually going to be listed by mistake. If we're comparing MD5 hashes, we then don't know how common the password is, and users have a habit of choosing common passwords. (Also, don't we salt (cryptography) the passwords?)" — Matt 00:00, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't think you do understand me correctly. I certainly didn't mean to say what you've called A. I do think that it's unlikely that either one of a pair of users who have innocently chosen the same password will find this out from this page. You haven't actually said whether you agree with that, you've just easily repudiated something which I did not say, but I guess you also disagree with what I did say. Is this just because you misunderstood me?

 * Indeed, It seems I have misunderstood you; sorry about that. What I do think is a risk is that a non-sockpuppet user will eventually get listed in amongst a set of sockpuppet accounts, and that as a general principle it is unwise to reveal any information whatsoever about user passwords — even MD5(Password1) = MD5(Password2). — Matt 05:06, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * If this were to be set up as a complete, automated, unreviewed special page, I'd agree. But I've seen no suggestion of this. What I've seen is a once-off, competently designed, reviewed and edited, which significantly increased the accountability of a few irresponsible users, and which they want deleted for that reason.

 * As for assume good faith, I didn't say that either. I agree it's wrong and not compatible with security. Nor did I say that users are generally trustworthy, that's your term and I suggest you avoid it, it's very confusing. Trustworthy means always and generally means not always. I do think that most users are well-intentioned, but this is a different thing IMO.

 * I didn't use the phrase "generally trustworthy". What I meant by the phrase "users are generally a trustworthy bunch" was that "most users are trustworthy". — Matt 05:06, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * If I've misquoted you I apologise. We speak of trusted systems so I'd avoid using the term trust or even trustworthy in any weaker sense than that.

 * Your approach seems to be assume bad faith. IMO that's equally wrong, quite unnecessary, and exactly what some of the ungodly want us to do.

 * OK, I'm not entirely sure what you mean here either, but a healthy dose of suspicion and paranoia are useful attributes in cryptography, and (I would have thought) in computer security in general. — Matt 05:06, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Agreed. See below for some clues as to part of what I mean.

 * You raise some good points, but I don't think any of them support your opinion that this page should be deleted. You seem to be assuming that it is a complete, automated listing, posted without much thought, that will be rerun regularly with equally little thought. I'm not convinced that it is any of these things. Andrewa 04:10, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, there's no information given here as to the usage or intentions; one user voted to expand the page. I could easily imagine a well-intentioned developer running a script to automatically extract collisions from the password table. As I mentioned above, I think the premise of revealing any information about user passwords is a flawed one; hence I voted to delete. — Matt 05:06, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * You don't need to imagine it, that's exactly what Tim has done. The principle that no information on passwords is to be revealed is in general a good policy, I've even written it into many policies over the years, and it should be the default policy in the absence of other factors. But there are other things going on here. We have a rather different user base than any commercial or defence system, for example.

 * The most important factors in maintaining security in any system are morale and motivation. This page, as it stands, has IMO enhanced both. Deleting it would, conversely, weaken security. Not by very much, I think the point has been made and the page has largely served its purpose and its usefulness, Tim may even quietly put it up for speedy delete himself before too long. The main problem of deletion now would be the vote of no confidence that it would give to him. Andrewa 10:13, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Here's my reply to this from VFD:

 * I was considering checking for weak passwords by running the hashes through a standard password cracker. I couldn't find one that would accept plain MD5 input, though. Perhaps I could write my own and run a few dictionaries through it. As noted on the page, at least one of the passwords was indeed weak, namely "Troll". -- Tim Starling 01:29, Jul 8, 2004 (UTC)

The existence of weak passwords is a fair criticism, and I don't intend to post any more lists before I have some means of checking hashes to see if they represent weak passwords. And no, the hashes aren't salted. -- Tim Starling 01:02, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Also note when Wikipedia takes over the world and expands to have around 264 users, you're likely to get MD5 hashes matching even when the users don't share a common password...(the least of our problems, of course)... ;-) — Matt 02:10, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I still don't like it. Andrewa, you seem to be building your core argument on a variation of "security through obscurity" - the assumption that two well-intentioned users are unlikely to find the page under discussion and, even if they did, will be unlikely to abuse the security weakness that this page creates. I disagree. If the page is going to be effective as a troll-fighting tool, it must be made visible, not hidden.

 * It's already been devastatingly effective, that's what Lir doesn't like! And as I say above, possibly not of much further use. You seem to be arguing there are problems with something that Tim might be careless enough to do in the future. Fair enough, if that worries you, propose a policy to restrict this. I predict you'll find it more difficult than you think, and that if we adopt it we'll find it counterproductive. But have a go.

The premise of the page is that at least one of the people on the page is a probable troll - by definition, a person with ill intent. The troll is likely to know that he/she is being targeted and will be more likely than the average user to watch for these kinds of pages. While I applaud the effort and have no problem with a page that lists out probable aliases and/or sockpuppet, I think the danger came when Tim exposed his methodology by telling the world that he did built the list through password matching. Unfortunately, without exposing his methodology, the list would not have had as much credibility. It's a tough problem, but I feel strongly that we should err on the side of protecting passwords. Rossami 18:11, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You also argue that the innocent user will find this quickly and will promptly change their password

 * I certainly didn't mean to. Where do I say this? I did say that if and when they find it, then they should quickly change their password, and that most of us would. That's not the same thing at all.

 * I think it's far more likely that they'd first find out when someone else (such as Tim or even me) sent them a message quietly suggesting that they change their password. If both looked innocent, it might easily be that they were valid accounts of the same person. We don't ban sock puppets, I have considered setting one up myself on occasions and in one case I sometimes wish I had. But I don't think we're interested here in one or two alter egos.

- which implies that we will only be taking this risk for a short period of time. I disagree here as well.
 * 1) Not all of our users log on every day.  Even if they did, I doubt that many people religiously watch the "my contributions" link to see if their account is being abused.  Someone could steal my account and I might not know about it for weeks.
 * 2) I again remind you that the troll is, by definition, ill intentioned.  If the troll finds the page first, this security hole could become permanent because an ambitious troll (especially after being educated through the excellent resources in Wikipedia including, unfortunately, this very discussion thread) can go to the innocent user's page and change the password.  Now, not only does the troll have another sockpuppet but this one has a real and valid history.  It will be much more difficult to verify as a sockpuppet account. And the innocent user is left screaming in the darkness, unable to even tell anyone that his/her account has been highjacked. (Okay, that was a little bit of hyperbole there at the end, but I hope you get my point.) Rossami 18:11, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Agree with points 2 and 3 (sorry, that's now points 1 and 2 as I've messed up your format, and I can't see a better way), it's exactly what I meant to say in the second paragraph of my very first post above. Hopefully now you will understand what I was saying.

Last, I do not think these objections should be taken as a "vote of no confidence". The effort to confront sockpuppetry is a valuable fight. It is simply a concern with this particular tactic in the battle. Rossami 18:11, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, I don't see what else they achieve. You seem to be proposing policy matters, most of them irrelevant to this page as it stands and instead expressing your fears at the stupid things you think might be done someday but haven't been yet. I think this discussion is important. A policy that would prohibit what Tim has done on this occasion would IMO be counterproductive, and I doubt you'll get support for it. But I could be wrong.

 * If you do propose a policy, and it's accepted and works, I'll be impressed. I'll try to be constructive in my criticism of it, and I'd certainly support a good one. Have a go.

 * One suggestion. Security and privacy are related but separate issues. I think you'll have far more joy here on the privacy line than the security line. There is no security problem. There may be a privacy concern IMO, but again I think you'll find a policy more difficult to write than you think. Andrewa 22:12, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Not quite. I'm concerned that Tim might already have swept an innocent into this trap.

 * Let's be quite clear that there are only five passwords involved. That's all, history included. You are concerned that one of the accounts listed as using one of these five passwords may be innocent, I take it? You are then proposing that this risk will be reduced by now deleting the page. Is that it?
 * Yes. Granted, it's weak protection given how much visibility this page already has, but it's better than leaving it in history forever.
 * It's almost impossible to know. How will you or Tim send that "message quietly suggesting that they change their password" without alerting the troll? How will you sort the wheat from the chaff?
 * I'll just say it's not difficult. I'll also say that I don't think describing the exact techniques, or revealing the data that supports the choice, is in the interests of security.
 * Sorry, but I don't buy it. I may not know every trick in the InfoSec playbook, but I know a lot of them and they are either subject to their own weaknesses or they amount to very subjective and labor-intensive judgements (such as comparing edit histories).  If you or Tim are doing such a labor-intensive review, that should be the basis of the accusation of sockpuppetry, not a possible coincidence of password.  In any case, I think it's too late to try to claim that you're going to protect the information by hiding your methodology.  No offense to Tim, but if he'd chosen not to discuss how the list was compiled in the first place, we'd never be having this discussion.
 * This is admittedly a catch-22. Before I will trust you (or anyone) with the right to make such accusations and with the right to hide your methodology, you must prove your trustworthiness which means exposing your methodology - which defeats the purpose.
 * Unless I am completely misunderstanding you, the troll is one of the two in your paragraph above. As soon as the troll discovers that the list exists, he/she will be able to exploit all the IDs on the list. He already knows the password and does not need to ask the innocent victim for anything. I voted to delete the page because the longer it stays around, the more likely the probable troll is to find and abuse the account. Clearly Lir has found it, but the others on the list may not have yet.  Rossami 23:19, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, that's the sort of thing I described. I also said I didn't think there was any credible risk that it occurs on this list. I think all the IDs listed as using these five passwords are sock puppets of five users.
 * I believe you when you state your opinion that these are all sockpuppets. I do not, however, believe that statement can be proven.
 * I'm inclined to agree that we need a policy discouraging this sort of thing in the future as well. I do not see this as a privacy issue because there's not really anything of mine that you can steal except my history of contributions and my reputation as a valuable contributor. (Email address, I guess, but most people seem to make that public anyway.)  I see it as a security issue because I do care about the possibilty that someone could steal my identity and force me through the trouble of reestablishing a reputation under a new ID. Could you recommend the appropriate place to start this discussion of a proposed policy? Rossami 23:19, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * I guess a meta page. It's a whole project issue. There may be a suitable page already, I had hoped someone would provide a pointer to it. One problem will be preserving MWOT. We used to talk of motherhood security, meaning security based on high-sounding and valid principles (aka motherhood statements) that was in practice unworkable. This is far worse than none, because it gives a false sense of security and is a pure and often large overhead. I've seen lots of it over the years, don't get me started. IMO putting controls on what the developers do at this stage of Wikimedia development runs a great risk of being in that category. I could be wrong.

 * It would be a privacy issue if for example I had created a second account to deal with the discussion surrounding the Time Cube hoax, and was using its user talk page to keep my main one free of the sort of tangled illogic that surrounds that particular page. Under those circumstances I'd be a bit upset if someone blew my cover. But I don't think Tim would do that. It's not a major issue for me personally, but someone who had contributed personal experiences or frank opinions on discussion pages under one name and had also identified themselves under another could suffer enormously if those two were associated against their will. IMO these are both legitimate uses of sock puppets, and privacy should be respected. But IMO there are also cases where it's legitimate to disclose evidence that two or more accounts are the same person, as has been done here.

 * Establishing a set of rules for this may not be easy. Food for thought? Andrewa 02:20, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree with you that this will not be easy. Your comment about "motherhood security" is well-taken.  It's still worth trying.  We can always take it back out if it's not working.  Let's continue this discussion at Draft privacy policy.  Rossami 16:12, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

May I suggest one thing? I think less controversial approach to this is to follow steps like this:

 * 1) Create the list first.
 * 2) Ask people if any two accounts deserves checking of this sort.
 * 3) Only for those ones that many people suspect, disclose the result. Regarding other accounts, no disclosure.

Tomos 23:04, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Good suggestions IMO. Two points. One, perhaps that's what already happens. The results we have look like the output of such a process, don't you think? Two, probably something like it does (I don't know), but it's not in the interests of the Good Guys (us) to say exactly what. Security is like that. But I say again, good suggestions. Andrewa 02:20, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Here's how I picked my targets. People had been asking me to check on identities, and I had been using this password method secretly for a few instances. I would then hint that yes, the evidence is pretty strong that these two people are the same. But a private tip-off leaves those Wikipedians open to attack when they make accusations and they're unable to talk openly about the evidence. This was the case with Lir and Rienzo. At this stage I also checked on a few other random people, such as Nico. But there wasn't really anything I could do with the list, since publishing the whole thing would give away my methods.

I decided that it was inappropriate to keep this method secret. It's analogous to criminal justice: everyone knows about fingerprints and DNA and gas chromatography, and the people who collect the evidence are obliged to present it to the public in full. Otherwise there is potential for abuse. Despite the fact that everyone knows about it, people are stupid and still get caught.

So I decided to go public. I recognised a lot of names from the Lir and Nico lists, and I had confirmed some of their identities in the past using IP addresses. I thought that the trolls would probably change their passwords once I had published my method, so I decided it would be better if I pre-emptively published the lists. That probably wasn't a good justification in hindsight. I checked on a few well known trolls, but only came up with the Trolls of Navarone list. I then went through Vandalism in progress, running names and looking for interesting matches. I was only interested in matches where there were a large number of matching names, and where most of the names were known vandals. WikinaziHunter was the only one to come out of that process. I then asked on IRC if anyone had any ideas for names to check. LlortTheehtTroll was suggested so I ran that one.

To those people who were worried about me accidentally revealing their passwords: if you are worried about password security, use a strong password. If you use a weak password, say a word from a dictionary, then it's trivial for an attacker to discover from the password hash, taking just seconds of computing time. Password hashes are sent in cookies if you use the "remember password" feature. -- Tim Starling 01:17, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)

As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed professor of cunning at oxford university... nice idea!

Ojw 19:59, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC) just don't compare my MD5-hash to slashdot! ;-)


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Brayan Peña

Brayan Eduardo Peña (born January 7, 1982) is a Cuban-American former professional baseball catcher. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. He is currently the Manager of the Detroit Tigers Class A team West Michigan Whitecaps.

Early years
Peña was born and raised in Havana, Cuba and was a member of the Cuban National 18-and-under team. He graduated from Espa Julio Trigo. He grew up with professional baseball player Yunel Escobar.

Peña left Cuba for the United States in 1999.

Atlanta Braves
Peña was called up to the big leagues early in the 2005 season because of an injury to Eddie Pérez. He made his debut on May 23, 2005 in an 8-6 home win over the New York Mets. Starting at catcher and batting seventh, Peña went 1-4 and scored a run. His first hit was a second-inning single off Kazuhisa Ishii. At the big-league level for the year, in 18 games he batted .179 with four runs batted in.

For the next three seasons, 2006-2008, he saw part-time action for the Braves, playing in 23, 16 and 14 games, respectively, and totaling 22 hits including two home runs. On May 28, 2006, he hit his first Major League home run, a seventh-inning solo shot off Roberto Novoa in a 13-12 Braves win.

On May 23, 2008, the Braves designated Peña for assignment.

Kansas City Royals
On May 30, 2008, Peña was claimed off waivers by the Kansas City Royals. However, he was designated for assignment the next day, and did not appear in a game. He was promoted from the Royals' AAA affiliate on May 31, 2009. He then saw his most big-league playing time to date, appearing in 64 games and batting .273 with six home runs and 18 RBIs.

In 2010, he earned a spot in the big-league roster during spring training and spent the 2010 season backing up Jason Kendall. He looked to earn a spot as a starter for the future in the last month of the season, as Kendall was out due to injury. Peña received the bulk of the playing time behind the plate in September. For the season, he played in 60 games and batted .253 with one homer and 19 RBIs.

In 2011, Peña shared starting catching duty with Matt Treanor. By the end of the season, he served as the backup to Salvador Pérez. He played in a then career-high 72 games, batting .248 with three homers and 24 RBIs.

On January 16, 2012, Peña signed a one-year deal for $875,000 with the Royals, avoiding arbitration in the process. On the season, he batted .236 with two homers and 25 RBIs.

On November 20, 2012, the Royals designated Peña for assignment as they made room on the 40-man roster ahead of the Rule 5 draft.

Detroit Tigers
On December 10, 2012, Peña signed a one-year contract with the Detroit Tigers and was the backup for Alex Avila during the 2013 season. He played in 71 games in 2013, and posted the best batting average of his career at .297 to go with four home runs and 22 RBIs.

Cincinnati Reds
Peña and the Cincinnati Reds agreed to terms on a two-year contract, covering the 2014 and 2015 seasons. In 2014 Peña shared playing time with catcher Devin Mesoraco and played first base while first baseman Joey Votto was injured. By the 2014 all-star break, Peña was on his way to a career year, playing in 65 games and batting .250 with three home runs, 17 RBIs and an already career-best 12 doubles. On November 2, 2015, Peña became a free agent.

St. Louis Cardinals
On November 30, 2015, Peña agreed to a two-year, $5 million contract with the St. Louis Cardinals to be the primary backup to Yadier Molina. In mid-December 2015, Peña accompanied an expedition to Cuba composed of former Cardinals including Joe Torre and Jon Jay, and other MLB officials and players. It was MLB's first visit there since 1999, and one anticipated as an important step to help normalize relations with the United States that had begun to ease earlier in the year. He began the season on the DL after surgery to remove loose cartilage in his left knee, which he attributed to slipping on the dugout steps in spring training. On July 5, 2016, Peña announced that he was planning to join the Army Reserve after the 2016 season. Later that day though, he was informed that he was unable to enlist because such an action would violate the terms of his contract. Peña chose to become an ambassador for the troops instead. On November 21, 2016, the Cardinals designated Peña for assignment.

Kansas City Royals (second stint)
On February 7, 2017, Peña signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals that included an invitation to spring training. In 43 games for the Triple–A Omaha Storm Chasers, he hit .274/.308/.298 with no home runs and 15 RBI. Peña elected free agency following the season on November 6.

Return to the Tigers
On January 9, 2018, the Detroit Tigers signed Peña to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. He was released on June 11, 2018. Peña announced his retirement from professional baseball on June 18, 2018.

Managing career
Peña served as the manager of the Tigers' Gulf Coast League West team, who won the Gulf Coast League Championship in 2018. During the 2019 season, he served as manager of the short season-A Connecticut Tigers. On November 12, 2019, he was named manager of the West Michigan Whitecaps.

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Getting started
I've begun using Wikipedia for reference, and started doing minor spelling and grammar corrections. This should be easier as a user; in addition I may now contribute to some discussions and take a stab at more edits.

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Contemporary A Cappella Society

The Contemporary A Cappella Society (of America), or CASA, is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that fosters and promotes a cappella music of all styles around the world. CASA was founded in 1991 by Deke Sharon in San Francisco just after graduation. In his Tufts University dorm room during his senior year, Sharon published a newsletter, The "C.A.N." (The Collegiate A Cappella Newsletter for the first 2 issues, then The Contemporary A Cappella Newsletter), mailed to all known collegiate a cappella groups by merging "The List", founded in 1988 and distributed by Rex Solomon, with the database maintained by his college a cappella group the Beelzebubs. The organization boasts over 6,000 current members, and serves as a resource for media and scholarly work in the area of contemporary a cappella.

Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards
Since 1992, the annual Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards (aka the "CARAs") recognize the best recorded a cappella and aim to support this burgeoning culture of instrument-less enthusiasts. Every a cappella album produced each year is automatically considered in this celebration of the best a cappella recorded around the planet.

The CARA mission reflects that of its parent organization, the Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA) : an aim to reward artists that create outstanding work and to promote innovation, creativity, and continued growth of the a cappella modality. Furthermore, the awards aim to foster the a cappella community by having its best and brightest participate in the CARA nomination and judging process. Finally, CASA uses the application process as a means to provide resources to charitable programs such as Tunes to Teens (free a cappella recordings for students).

A Cappella Video Awards
The annual A cappella Video Awards (AVA) aim is to recognize the best of a cappella video. The AVA mission reflects that of its parent organization, the Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA), to reward artists that create outstanding work and to promote innovation, creativity, and continued growth of the a cappella medium.

A Cappella Community Awards
The "A Cappella Community Awards" (aka the "ACAs") are voted on annually by registered users of CASA.org to allow fans the chance to award their favorite a cappella groups. Often called the "People's Choice Awards of the A Cappella community", the ACAs aim to further award excellent groups and individuals in the a cappella community, including non-American groups, by giving fans a venue to reward their favorite groups.

Educational programs
CASA produces weekend-long educational festivals open to the general public several times a year around the US, including the Los Angeles A Cappella Festival ("LAAF") in February, the Boston A Cappella Festival ("BOSS") in April, and the Southern A Cappella Festival ("SoJam"). Past festivals have been held in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

CASAcademy
CASAcademy is a web portal through which CASA members can learn more about a cappella, hear selected music samples, view performance videos, read about forming and managing groups, and read about various a cappella-related topics (vocal health, etc.).

Acapedia 2.0
The CASA Acapedia is a large database of a cappella groups, solo artists, beatboxers, studios, producers and more. The Acapedia is free and editable by any registered CASA member. It includes information on former groups, as well as current ones. The database is configured as a wiki, wherein any user can add and modify information. All changes are tracked and can be un-done in the event of error or vandalism. The Acapedia currently features over 2400 profiles.

Each Acapedia profile is designed to include group information such as school or affiliation, current roster of members, concert listings, history, recording information, and tour dates.

Ambassador Program
The Ambassador Program aims to unite singers and groups across the U.S. and world via an organized networking system. CASA Ambassadors are individuals responsible for involvement in their own a cappella communities – gathering information about groups, events, auditions, a cappella friendly clubs, singers, technology, opportunities and anything else that touches on a cappella. They upload that information to CASA.org via the Acapedia so it can be shared with the entire community.

Ambassadors also keep abreast of a cappella happenings globally via CASA.org, and share that information with their respective communities while encouraging them to become CASA members, to sing in Contemporary A Cappella League groups, to attend CASA festivals, and to support the vocal arts.

Ambassadors serve a one-year volunteer term, and are offered a number of incentives which have included free memberships to CASA.org, free copies of CASA-sponsored compilation albums and free tickets to CASA-sponsored festivals such as SoJam.

Tunes To Teens
Tunes To Teens (TTT) gives donated a cappella CDs to junior high and high school chorus students. The program's goal is to spark interest in a cappella music in up-and-coming singers, and to help directors to teach their students the basics of music theory. Since 2003, more than 2000 students in 23 US states and Canada have received CDs from TTT.

A Cappella Radio International was aired on over 50 stations worldwide from 1996 to 2004.

CASA establishes contemporary a cappella choruses across the United States, having done so from the San Francisco Bay Area to Maryland.

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LGBT art in Singapore

LGBT art in Singapore, or queer art in Singapore, broadly refers to modern and contemporary visual art practices that draw on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender+ imagery and themes, addressing topics such as LGBT rights, history and culture in Singapore. Such queer art practices are often by Singaporean or Singapore-based visual artists and curators who identify as LGBT+ or queer.

Queer visual art is a notable countercultural facet of contemporary Singaporean society, which currently criminalises, albeit unenforced, consensual, private sexual acts between men (legal for women) through the continued presence of laws such as Section 377A of the Penal Code.

As homosexuality has been considered a taboo subject, practitioners in Singapore have historically contended with a host of limitations, with the avoidance of positive queer representation in local mainstream media, to operating with the risk of being blacklisted by the state, or vilification due to homophobia and transphobia from conservative aspects of wider Singaporean society. Ever since the early 2010s however, LGBT+ topics have been gradually liberalised, with regular discussions about such topics in the public sphere and local mainstream media. This was also in tandem with the rise of Pink Dot SG, which has now also influenced such events in many countries around the world.

In Singapore's contemporary art history, openly out queer artists whose art practices engage with notions of queerness have been documented since the 1980s. Queer art practices from Singapore have also been exhibited internationally, more often beyond the specific curatorial framework of a queer art exhibition. These art practices are loosely connected, and not determined by a specific medium, spanning wide-ranging forms such as performance art, installation art, video art, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, and mixed media, for instance.

Regulations
Practitioners of LGBT+ visual arts have to contend with various restrictions imposed by Singaporean law. Alongside Section 377A of the Penal Code, which de jure but not de facto criminalises consensual, private sexual acts between men, strict censorship laws remain in place regarding LGBT+ representation in Singapore, among other sensitive topics.

At the end of May 2005, in an amendment to the Public Entertainment and Meetings Act (Chapter 257), nine categories of arts entertainment events including "displays or exhibitions of art objects or paintings" were exempted from having to apply for a Public Entertainment Licence from the Media Development Authority (MDA). The decision was made after consultation with MDA's arts advisory groups, following the recommendations of the 2003 Censorship Review Committee appointed by the Government arts watchdog of the time, the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MITA) to exempt more arts entertainment from licensing. The 2005 exhibition at The Substation, Bao Bei, by Singaporean artist Jason Wee, which featured pixelated male genitalia, was mentioned in the press release and deemed to be "innocuous" by the state.

Early contemporary activity (1980s to 1990s)
From the 1980s to 1990s, artists such as Jimmy Ong, Teng Nee Cheong, and Ho Soon Yeen were notable for being some of the few openly queer artists of the time, or whose practices engaged with notions of queerness in Singapore. Ong's work from the 1980s, for instance, would feature black-and-white charcoal drawings that depicted nude, queer male bodies in various contexts and relationships. Around the same period in the 1980s, Teng would be known for figurative works across watercolour, pastel, charcoal and oil, with sensual and homoerotic depictions of male nudes.

In 1992, as part of The Substation's New Criteria exhibition series, Ho would exhibit alongside artist Dominique Hui for We Kissed, a show that would explore notions of sexuality through drawings, collages, and three-dimensional works. One of her paintings on display was a self-portrait, titled Monkey & Thinker, now in the collection of NUS Museum and shown at their 2017 exhibition, Radio Malaya: Abridged Conversations About Art.

From 20 to 28 February 1993, Singapore artist Tan Peng and US artist, John C. Goss held an exhibition entitled Flowing Forest, Burning Hearts at The Substation gallery, and Tan notably came out publicly in mainstream press as a gay man. Tan's large pastel drawings tackled topics such as HIV caregiving and police entrapment.

Brother Cane (1994)
From 26 December 1993 to 1 January 1994, the Artists' General Assembly (AGA) was held at the 5th Passage art space, an arts festival co-organised with The Artists Village. During the 12-hour AGA New Year's Eve show from 31 December 1993 to 1 January 1994, Josef Ng staged a performance work, Brother Cane, in protest at the arrest of 12 homosexual men during anti-gay operations in 1993, whose personal details were published in local mainstream newspapers.

During the final minutes of the performance, Ng turned his back to the audience and trimmed his pubic hair, a moment photographed by The New Paper. Media coverage of the performance portrayed this as an obscene act. Following the public outcry, 5th Passage was charged with breaching the conditions of its Public Entertainment License, blacklisted from funding by Singapore's National Arts Council, and evicted from its Parkway Parade site. Iris Tan, as the gallery manager of the 5th Passage art space, was prosecuted by the Singapore High Court alongside Ng. Described as one of the "darkest moments of Singapore’s contemporary art scene", the incident led to a ten-year no-funding rule for performance art, a ruling lifted only in 2003.

Activity in the 2000s
In August 2004, three LGBT+ art exhibitions were held at local galleries as part of the cultural activities surrounding Nation.04, an early LGBT+ pride event in Singapore, featuring the work of queer artists both locally and regionally. Red + White = Pink was held at Utterly Art, with participating artists including Genevieve Chua, Tania De Rozario, Jane Porter, Aidah Dolrahim, Teng Nee Cheong, Martin Loh, Desmond Sim, Ernest Chan Tuck Yew, Justin Lee, Michael Lee Hong Hwee, Han Kiang Siew, Zulharli Adnan, Brian Gothong Tan, Lim Jit Hwang, Sazeli Jalal, Jason Wee, Daniel Poh, Wong Hong Weng, Nicholas Chai and Aiman Hakim. Other exhibitions included Erotica at Art Seasons and Private Edge at B2G Gallery.

In May 2005, New York-based Singaporean artist Jason Wee held an exhibition at The Substation gallery titled Bao Bei, which examined the ways through which identity was constructed in gay online personal ads, also using online self-portraits to recreate a scene from the late Singaporean playwright Kuo Pao Kun's Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral.

At the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, Ming Wong represented Singapore at the national pavilion with Life of Imitation. The exhibition explored cinema history and featured video installations in which Wong cross-dressed to play various characters from world cinema. This performance was viewed by Wong as a form of drag. Wong was awarded a Special Mention during the Biennale's Opening Ceremony, the first for a Singaporean artist at the Venice Biennale.

Activity in the 2010s
At the 3rd Singapore Biennale in 2011, Japanese-British artist Simon Fujiwara's work, Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2010), was censored by the Singapore Art Museum, despite appropriate advisory notices put up by the museum itself as the organiser of the Biennale. The homoerotic content of the work was considered to contravene the law on pornography by the museum, and contextually relevant gay pornographic magazines were removed from the installation without prior consultation with either the artist, biennale director Matthew Ngui or curators Russell Storer and Trevor Smith. While the curatorial team and artist were informed later, extended discussions and negotiations took so long that the temporary closure of the work, called for by the artist, became permanent as the Biennale came to an end.

In February 2012, as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, Loo Zihan staged a one-night only performance of Cane, which controversially re-enacted the significant 1994 performance art piece, Brother Cane, by Josef Ng. In December 2012, Loo organised his first solo exhibition Archiving Cane at The Substation, which consisted of an installation of 12 artefacts from Cane and Loo's artistic practice, along with a durational performance.

In 2016, the queer-themed exhibition, Fault-Lines: Disparate And Desperate Intimacies, was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, guest curated by Singapore-based curator and writer Wong Binghao. For the exhibition, Loo Zihan presented Queer Objects: An Archive for the Future, an installation consisting of 81 objects such as perfume bottles and torch lights used at Pink Dot, the annual LGBT+ rights event in Singapore; all of which presented without context to "permit viewers to construct their own narratives for the objects based on their individual experiences". Two objects, both of which were sex toys, were later removed as the institute was concerned that they contravened Section 292 1(a) of the Penal Code, which prohibits the display of obscene materials. Other Singaporean artists in the exhibition included transgender artist Marla Bendini, known for her work exploring transgender issues.

Loo Zihan would open the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2015 with With/Out, a performance installation based on The Necessary Stage's Completely With/Out Character (1999), a monologue by the late Paddy Chew, the first person in Singapore to come out as being HIV-positive. In the same year, Loo was awarded the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council of Singapore, and selected to exhibit for the President's Young Talents competition at the Singapore Art Museum.

In December 2017, Singaporean filmmaker Tan Wei Keong won Best Singapore Short Film at the Singapore International Film Festival with Between Us Two, a documentary about a gay son’s conversation with his mother. The jury felt that the depiction of gay marriage and topics addressed by the film were important and that the personal approach by Tan made it “even more poignant”.

IndigNation art events
In August 2005, after organisers of the annual Nation party had their application to hold the event in Singapore abruptly rejected by the police, gay activists organised Singapore's first month-long gay pride celebration called IndigNation. An exhibition by openly gay artist Martin Loh opened in July 2005 at the Utterly Art exhibition space in South Bridge Road entitled Cerita Budak-Budak, meaning "Children's Stories" in Peranakan Malay. The second art exhibition of IndigNation was held from 10 to 16 August 2005 at The Box, entitled Solitary Desire and featured pieces by Ong Jenn Long and Steve Chua, both of whom were young artists.

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