He always was so quiet on biz front, seemingly always in the shadow of more open artiste. The lack of attention to and information about him was, honestly, the main reason I started this project.

Rest in peace Dave, and thank you for everything.

Like many of us, I am absolutely gutted by the news of Dave's death.
There was nobody like him, and I never hid that I was way more drawn to his works than of Marc's, for various reasons.

I'm just a fan site account, not official band page! Cheers

coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/three-...

However, I'm coming out of the cave with not yet widespread big #softcellnews!
Cold Spring Records announced gorgeous vinyl and digital reissue of #MarcAndTheMambas live album Three Black Night Of Little Black Bites.
Coming in August 2025.

I'm just a fan site account, not official band page! Cheers

I guess unofficial MediaWiki discord server, which works pretty much like volunteer tech support.
re: DDOS attacks in your further replies, while I don't know the context, Miraheze has suffered some big ones in the last year, currently relying on Cloudflare protection.

In mid 2023 Miraheze was at the brink of shutdown, but it soon recovered and continued to work.

Fandom should follow content licensing rules. While I don't know how is situation on Wikidot, in majority of CC cases the source of content should be provided in case of copying/remixing, lack of credits is plagiarism and is eligible for takedown; Fandom's support is responsive in such cases.

There's an old script that should convert Wikidot database to MediaWiki format, however it's a rare sight to see a Wikidot wiki forking and there's not much guarantee it will work.
Here's a more recent fork of it
github.com/bodekerscien...

Fandom still has to follow CC licencing, and since indie wiki has a strict one, incompatible with Fandom's version, plagiarism here is very much eligible for report and rollback.

They also butcher MediaWiki to appeal to Google's crawlers, like hiding "See source code" and "History" buttons or File namespace from unregistered users.

If you are an admin and don't know where to start there are FAQ and guides on Meta Wiki (Miraheze central hub). The platform is run by volunteers, you can ask stuff on Help desk page over there too, or in their Discord or IRC.

It means the wiki became private (was public), members is a user group on wiki itself. Could be an initiative by local admins or measures imposed by Miraheze stewards (global admins) due to possible violation of hosting's policies.

In more, solo focused #softcellnews
- Third, Christmas themed entry of #MarcAlmond limited 7" series is out - The Coldest Night Of The Year / My Christmas.
- And another #TheLoveless gig is swiftly approaching on 15th, with band's first live album, from previous year show, to go along.

And just in case you missed, exciting bits from November newsletter.
#softcellnews
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