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"*": "<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\" id=\"mw-diff-left-l1\">Line 1:</td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\">Line 1:</td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><strong>MediaWiki has been installed</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"></strong></del></div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[[File:Ddn99.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Davey Dreamnation, photographed in 1999, just three years before his spectacular rise to fame (source unknown).]]'''Davey Dreamnation''' (1972\u2013?) was an [[Australalian]] musician, vocalist, pirate and record-label owner who now lives 'in the third person'</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\"></td><td class=\"diff-context diff-side-deleted\"><br/></td><td class=\"diff-marker\"></td><td class=\"diff-context diff-side-added\"><br/></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Consult the </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide</del>] <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">for information on using the wiki software</del>.</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Dreamnation is perhaps best known for his musical output between 2002 and 2004, which included a series of digital LPs and EPs released through his own [[Tribesco]]-based label, [</ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">DNRC Records]</ins>]<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">, and which redefined several musical genres</ins>. \u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\"></td><td class=\"diff-context diff-side-deleted\"><br/></td><td class=\"diff-marker\"></td><td class=\"diff-context diff-side-added\"><br/></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Getting started ==</del></div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">His incendiary debut album, ''[[Islands In the Stream of Consciousness]]'', 'issued' independently online in 2002, allegedly reached number 1 on the now-defunct MP3.com.au charts, despite being deleted shortly after its release.<ref>Davey Dreamnation, 'Holy mother of Davey - it's number 1 time!', 12 October 2002, </ins>[https://<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">daveydreamnation</ins>.<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">com</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">davey-dreamnation</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">holy-mother-of-davey-its-number-1-time</ins>/]<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">, accessed 9 April 2019.</ref> In fact, DNRC Records released and then deleted over 100 records over its short but colourful lifespan. This database of remarkable records has never been issued publicly.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[https://<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki.org</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Special:MyLanguage</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list</del>]</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https:</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">/www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ</del>]</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Dreamnation went under several aliases, including </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[d</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">dn]], [[Little Lord Damnation]], [[Bek-ho]], [[Davves]] and [[David Prater]].</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https://lists</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wikimedia</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/postorius/lists/mediawiki</del>-<del class=\"diffchange 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diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Early life ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https:</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">/www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam Learn how </del>to <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">combat spam </del>on <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">your wiki</del>]</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Of unknown parentage, Davey Dreamnation insisted throughout his life that he had been conceived during the playing of a Genesis LP in 1971 and then born on 1 April 1972</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">According to his own early writings, he was then raised on a sheep station somewhere in the Goulburn River Valley</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">This property later became the first iteration of the [[Camp Davey]] headquarters and nerve centre. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Described by persons who wish to remain nameless as 'a legend in his own signature drawstring jarmies', 'a colossus of lo-fidelity', 'a harbinger of [[jitches]] and drum fills' and \u2018the Skylab of his generation\u2019, little else is known about Dreamnation's upbringing, although he was rumoured to have been quite fluent in [[Desperanto]</ins>]<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">, and to enjoy both ice hockey and Joy Division.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Education ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">In 1994, Dreamnation graduated from the [[de Burgh Institute]], receiving a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Norman-era balladry. In 2004 he graduated from the </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[University of Australalia]], receiving a Master of Australalian Bush Studies. At the time of his disappearance he was in the final stages of his PhD candidature at [[Renaissance University]], Melbourne</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">His unfinished exegesis was an exploration of the lyrics of [[Christy Burr]], focussing on the early albums right up to (and including) ''Into the Fright''</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Musical career ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Davey Dreamnation was a founding member of [[The Spirit Levels]], a band whose half</ins>-<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">life was even shorter than its name</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Upon the band's split in early 2002, Dreamnation embarked on a relatively undocumented solo career, releasing two LPs, a string of EPs and countless picture discs</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">His debut LP, ''[[Islands In the Stream of Consciousness]]'', was once described as 'brimming with melody, technological sophistication, 120bpm drum beats, amazingly uplifting guitar solos and lyrics to kill for'</ins>. \u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">A resurrection of Dreamnation's fortunes failed to coincide with the </ins>release <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">of ''[[Recognition of Prior Learning]</ins>]<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">'', his incendiary though widely ignored sophomore album, due probably to his decision not to release every track as a single in its own right, a tactic which had served him well when he released ''Islands In the Stream of Consciousness''.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">A full discography of Dreamnation's musical output is currently under construction. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Literary works ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Dreamnation apparently released a number of commentaries and lyrics via a range of Australalian and international organs including ''The Page'', ''Speech Factory'', ''Coat'', ''Bush Telegraph'', ''Islet'', ''Meandjohn'', ''tilt'' (USA), ''Couch'', ''MARMITE'' (NZ), ''tallpoppies'', ''Bowing Out Gracefully'', ''pole position'' (UK), ''Southerland'' and ''various journals''. In addition his political views and rants are believed to have appeared in ''The Weekend Hibernation'', ''Southern Tuna'', ''Meritocratin'', ''The Big Fish'', ''Herpes'', ''New England Ravers'', ''Wakers Seance'', ''Crosstown'' and ''Fabulous Tasmanians'', although the back issues of these publications contain no trace of his name.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Collaborators ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Dreamnation is known to have collaborated with a number of musicians during his career, including the amazingly hirsute [[Clint Bo Dean]], a [[seething]] Kiwi Sting impersonator known as [[Stung]], his one-time manager [[Pixel Mouse]] and [[Scaramouche]], a ham-eating llama. In addition, he is rumoured to have launched the careers of a number of musical acts including [[Christy Burr]], [[Mead]], [</ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Eyna]] and others</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Online presences ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Originally presenting himself as a pixel-sized superstar via a private Intranet, Dreamnation also utilized a variety of Internet-based platforms to distribute his work</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">By the time of his disappearance, he was the sole operator of a fully-automated and interconnected international web portal and hyperstation, known as [[D</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">DN]</ins>]<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">, through which he sought to document his own troubled psyche. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Controversy ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">In 2004 the domain name pointing to the [</ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">D</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">DN]] international web portal was purchased by an unknown cyberporn squatter, rendering its contents unsuitable for general audiences. Dreamnation quietly repurchased the domain in 2007</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Disappearance ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">After suffering the indignity of an on-stage meltdown during the Goulburn River Valley Music Festival in 2010, an act which led to his retirement from the music industry (not to mention the deletion of his \u2018barnestorming\u2019 swansong EP, ''[[The Silence of Untold Sound]]'', among others), Davey Dreamnation regrouped, underwent therapy and changed his name to [[Davves]]</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Upon the UN-mandated deletion of his first DNRC Records single, Davves promptly announced both his total retirement from public life and his intention </ins>to <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">reside, from that point on, in the third person. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Legacy ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">In 2018 music critic and author [[Les Tombeaux]] announced that he was embarking </ins>on <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">a massive biography of Dreamnation and his ouevre, with the prospective title of [[The Rise and Fall of Davey Dreamnation</ins>]<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">]. At the time of writing, this project remains in stasis.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== References ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n"
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