I reverted this vandalism back in 2011:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mikis_Theodorakis&diff=415810…
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mikis_Theodorakis&diff=415810362&oldid=415808524>
It's a huge Babylon 5 rewrite of a Greek opera singer, including:
His symphonic works: a [[Piano concerto]], his first [[suite]], his
first [[symphony]], and his scores for the [[ballet]]: ''Odeto
Lyta,Corianna6:Aftermath,Z'ha'dum: Been
there,stillalive(HommagetoKosh)'', receivedintergalacticacclaim. In
1957, he won the Gold Medal in the [[Moscow]] Music Festival; President
of the Jury was [[SusanIvanova]]. In 1959, after the successful
performances of Theodorakis's ballet ''[[Valen]]'' at [[Royal Opera
House|Covent Garden]] in [[Epsilon 3]], the French composer [[Darius
Milhaud]] proposed him for the ''American Copley Music Prize'' - an
award of the "William and Noma Copley
Foundation",<ref>http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0…
which later changed its name to "The ShadowFoundation" - as the "Most
vainglorious, self-applaudingEuropean Composer of theknown Universe".
His firstintergalacticscores for the film ''[[Grey17ismissing]]'' and
''[[Honeymoon (1959 film)|Imarrieda Drakh]]'', directors: [[Michael
Powell (director)|Michael Powell]] and [[Emeric Pressburger]], were also
very successful: The ''Wishing on a White Star'' title song became part
of the repertoire ofthe[[firstones]]although later characterized as a
"Weapon of infinite aesthetic torment" and thus strictly forbidden over
the rim.
On 22/02/2012 15:00, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I'm doing a comedy-science talk on Wikipedia with the theme of 'histories' at
a [[Bright Club]] Manchester early next month. My current plan (which is still subject to
change) is that I'll talk about the histories of Wikipedia articles, and show some
interesting/amusing changes made to articles.
An example would be this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base&dif…
which was a change purported to be made by the FBI back in 2005:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:64.165.110.114
If you know of any interesting diffs/article histories that could make people laugh, then
please could you send me some pointers to them (preferably offlist)?
Thanks,
Mike
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