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May 9, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
July 26, 2021	Peer review	Reviewed
August 24, 2021	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 28, 2018. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that on its tenth anniversary, the webcomic "Loss" was replaced by an edited version titled "Found"?
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Wikipetan pic to use as example?

We have a Wikipetan pic as an example for catgirl, and I think we used that pic of Jimbo from the old donation banner to make an example for another meme. Why can't we put a few Wikipetan and/or Jimbo pics together to make a "is this Loss" example? Lojbanist ^{remove cattle from stage} 20:51, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You might have to suggest this at Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan. GamerPro64 00:47, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for minimalism

It would be worthwhile to have the article reflect that the reason for the minimalist/abstract nature of the parodies originally started in order to skirt around the bans for posting the strip in 4chan. This followed in the steps of an older infamous 4chan meme, "Piccolo Dick", which also became banned there and resulted in a similar minimalist/abstract ban-skirting trend (in this one, the ultra-minimalistic representation was simply one green pixel and one purple pixel). However, I have no source to back this claim. 200.2.124.162 (talk) 15:17, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That makes it original research, pretty much by definition. DS (talk) 15:01, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Spike

There was a big spike in readership yesterday making this the #2 read article. I wonder why? Andrew🐉(talk) 11:07, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrew Davidson Could it be because of House of the Dragon? I haven't watched it but the synopsis of the first episode says a female character dies giving birth and the baby does not survive 86.15.177.182 (talk) 19:46, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 21 October 2024

It has been proposed in this section that Loss (comic) be renamed and moved to Loss (meme).

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Loss (comic) → Loss (meme) – The article itself says that the webcomic page "immediately" became an Internet meme. It is largely known due to its meme status rather than some manner of creative merit. The current disambiguation doesn't even match the subject, as "Loss" is not a comic in itself but only a page of a bigger webcomic. Even if not moved to meme it probably should be (webcomic page) ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:58, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The term "comic" is used for both a long-form serial story in graphic media, and for individual instalments of a given serial story. DS (talk) 13:39, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If this absolutely has to move, could Loss (Ctrl+Alt+Del) work better? O.N.R. ^(talk) 14:40, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it would be better than the current one for sure. I would not oppose a move there either if people agreed on that. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:30, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was trying to find either individual daily stripes that have been disambiguated (failed, so far) and webcomics, where I found Time (xkcd) gives some support for the CAD disambiguator. It'd be interesting if we could find other examples. I think that, since there's nothing else comics related to disambiguate, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)#Publications and other media types suggests we use "(comics)" (plural): "comic" is ambiguous, and should never be used. ... (when "comics" is applicable to more than one article of the same name) when describing when to use something other than "(comics)" but I could be easily missing more guidance about individual issues/comic strips. I think I'd oppose the original proposed change to meme, as it's still a webcomic and enough of its notability is from that and not just being a meme. Skynxnex (talk) 17:54, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd support a move to Loss (Ctrl+Alt+Del) (which is congruous with Time (xkcd) and TV episode/series titles like Pilot (Once Upon a Time)) and oppose a move to Loss (meme). —⁠Collin^{t c} 18:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]