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Sad

It's sad that this has to exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.125.59.1 (talk) 21:31, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not really - I think it promotes Wikipedia in general and drives traffic to this site, which in turn helps make WP better. You have to take the good with the bad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bboorman (talk • contribs) 13:57, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly, for what it's worth, I'm against the policy at all. An editor cited this "policy" as an excuse to remove an xkcd link from "Miss Susie had a steamboat"... but the entire article is about an informal item of popular culture. No "author" of "Miss Susie" is going to dress up because of it, but the cartoon both provides notice of its continuing cultural relevance and comments intelligently on an irony in the most popular variant of the song. Removing the link in that situation is a disservice in a way that (eg) removing a link at thebacon—whose readers only expect and need technical information—obviously wouldn't be. But such needless mentions are already covered by other policies. This "policy" should simply be removed per WP:BROKE. —

Llywelyn II

16:32, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Randallism

I hereby propose that nonconstructive edits made solely for the sake of an xkcd meme be officially called "randallism" (Randall + vandalism). Idea from an xkcd forum post. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 14:56, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Now that's an xkcd neologism I could get behind. :) Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 12:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure it's actually a malamanteau — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craisintheroof (talk • contribs) 01:34, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Voynich manuscript mention

Given the type of editor we're dealing here, I would strongly recommend not including any specific examples of what not to do at all. I'll leave the one that's been re-added back in for now, but if the article in question suffers for it then I'll be removing it again. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 10:50, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dang. I so wanted to use thebacon and http://xkcd.com/1054/ as an example, since I was guilty of posting the reference myself, along with about ten thousand other people until someone sent me here, but yeah...I'll control myself, seeing as I'm, uh "the type of editor we're dealing with here."--Mark Asread (talk) 20:07, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How do you know the reference is being added because of this essay? It's more likely that it's being added because of the comic itself. - Sudo Ghost 21:24, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lock articles after every comic

I think there should be a Wikipedia administrator whose duty is to check xkcd.com whenever a new comic is posted, and then immediately lock any Wikipedia articles related to that day's comic. Comics are posted at midnight on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Eastern time. This would be fairly easy for an admin in a different time zone. For example, for an admin living in California, he'd just have to check xkcd at 9 pm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Navigatr85 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:SEMI: "Semi-protection should not be used as a preemptive measure against vandalism that has not yet occurred." It's also the MO of administrators at WP:RFPP, they don't protect pages due to anticipation of incoming vandalism. - Sudo Ghost 17:56, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What about a template like the one for recently deceased subjects? It could appeal to editors' better natures by encouraging them to research their new interest, while pointing them here. Arlo James Barnes 19:24, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

xkcd Wiki Watch

@NealCruco: regarding this edit, don’t you mean “not been updated since April 29, 2011”? or am I missing something on the blog? —DSGalaktos (talk) 18:17, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I forgot about that edit. Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for the notification. NealCruco (talk) 22:09, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Reference

Reference 2 links to content behind a password lock. Does anyone know of a working link / different, valid citation? An Inhumane person (talk) 23:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]