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:[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 20:35, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 
:[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 20:35, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 
::Ohh, you did write this while I was creating a more general section below here. I don't like edit wars, so I'm talking to you.
 
::*I fully agree on your "totalitarian police state" statement and much more.
 
::*But comparing the best civil space telescope to a task even NRO is not capable of should be mentioned here. Of course this could be still enhanced.
 
::*Randall jokes about the accuracy of spy satellites. This is still unknown and has to be compared to current high tech machines like the HST is.
 
::--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:01, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 
  
 
== Trivia sections in general ==
 
== Trivia sections in general ==
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The common layout here is that the trivia section is below the transcript, ask David on this.
 
The common layout here is that the trivia section is below the transcript, ask David on this.
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So, in conclusion: Anything doesn't explain the comic itself has to go to a separate section. And I would prefer a position before the transcript, but David doesn't agree.
 
So, in conclusion: Anything doesn't explain the comic itself has to go to a separate section. And I would prefer a position before the transcript, but David doesn't agree.
  
 
I'm looking only for the best explain for a s simple reader here.
 
I'm looking only for the best explain for a s simple reader here.
 
--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:41, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 
--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:41, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 
:Yes, trivia goes after the transcript because its content should be less important to understanding the comic than the transcript. This way blind people using screen readers will hear the transcript before tangentially related information.
 
 
:What belongs in a trivia section are small (or meta) facts about the comic, or the time that the comic was written in. Things like, "Did you know that all the cancer comics came about because Randall's wife was diagnosed with cancer, so it consumed his life for a period of two years?". I would categorize most of these "trivia" things as general interest that are related to the comic but don't have much to do with the comic, or xkcd, or Randall. For example: on [[Su Doku]] I just took out a bit of trivia saying that hexadecimal sudoku games exist. While this fact is of general interest to geeky people, it did not explain the comic or the title text, it was not trivia about the comic. Had it been posted by the original author on the discussion page I think people would have commented with their favorite one, or asking for a link to a good one. That's the perfect place for it, somewhere that sparks a conversation on the topic that the comic covers, but not about the comic. The same is true about your post on the [[Chess Enlightenment]] explanation. While it did relate to chess, it didn't relate to the comic. Putting it on the discussion page would be a good place for that kind of content.
 
 
:Adding sections makes an explanation look more complicated, and that's not what we want to do here. I'm not saying don't add sections, but seriously think about what kind of content you're adding, and see if there's all ready a place for it to go on the page.
 
 
:[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 21:56, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 
 
::I agree on that what belongs to the trivia section, but I don't agree on your statement on what belongs not.
 
::Wikipedia says, that {{w|Stefan Zweig}} "...was one of the most popular writers in the world." Maybe not in the US. He flew from the German Nazis and committed suicide in 1942 at exile in Brazil; I didn't mention this at my post.
 
::The novella {{w|The Royal Game}} was instantly in my mind when I did read the title text, but younger people probably don't know.
 
::If that trivia adds are not welcome here any more I wish you a good luck on removing of hundreds trivia sections.
 
::And sorry, I think we have more serious issues here.
 
::--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:35, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
 
 
:::The novella is not trivia about the comic, certainly it has an association in your brain, which is why it is fully, completely, and totally acceptable in the discussion section. But, this is a website about ''explaining'' xkcd comics. It is not a general trivia website with an xkcd bent. We should make an attempt to keep the information we provide domain specific (and I'm not talking about URLs). We intentionally do not duplicate content that is on Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is doing a fine job of housing its own data on its own.
 
 
:::Those kinds of factoids have and are always been welcome, but they belong in a different place than ''creating'' a section that does not need to exist on pages. If we listed every random fact that was minorly associated with every strip, it would never be complete as there would always be cultures we don't know about with histories and stories we haven't read and heard.
 
 
:::If you feel so strongly that there are more serious issues to address, then I suggest ''you'' get to work ''fixing'' them rather than making passive aggressive passes at the work other editors are working on.
 
 
:::Thank you for the well wishes,
 
 
:::[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 21:29, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
 
 
::::No time yesterday, so I'm sorry for the delay.
 
::::*In general I do only a revert when I think an edit would have been the better explain instead a former revert.
 
::::*Today I did clean up the transcript of [[1360]] and copied the content of that crappy template [[Template:1360/list]] to the explain. That's still wrong, content is missing, I did just NOT a simple UNDO, I did work on that line by line. Costs time. What a rhyme...
 
::::*If you are an admin you should see my request and understand.
 
::::TRIVIA is still a matter on discussion, and I still can accept most of your edits. But sometimes a sidestep for non US people sould be possible.
 
::::--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Attempt to break through an unjustified block ==
 
 
I'm trying this because nothing else has worked.  Your name appears as the agent who blocked my account, apparently mistaking my User page for spam, as noted at:
 
 
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User:Ornithikos
 
 
The page was an exact copy of my Wikipedia user page, which demonstrates a characteristic of visual perception and gives credit to the MIT professor who created the demonstration.  You can see the unchanged original page at:
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ornithikos
 
 
I committed no infraction at all, and don't plan to.  As evidence, see my Wikipedia editing record, which goes back to early 2010 and is visible at:
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Ornithikos&offset=&limit=1000&target=Ornithikos
 
 
I request that you restore my account, which I never misused.  You can write me at [email protected] or on my Wikipedia Talk page:
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ornithikos
 
 
Thanks,
 
Ornithikos Paleologos
 
 
:Sorry about that. You signed up before we had adequate spambot blocking measures. We'd ([[User:Davidy22]] and I) had noticed a pattern: a bot creates an account and then creates a user page and a user talk page with random gibberish and links to pages they want to up the google ranking of. Your account creation looked very bot-ish, especially since you didn't go and improve any explanations, or comment on a comic discussion page. Glad to know you're a person. I apologize for not looking closer at your case while cleaning up pages marked as spam. I hope you'll stick around and help improve the wiki! [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 06:00, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 
 
== Bad Link ==
 
 
I saw a strange comment by user E-Inspired and saw there was a talk page, only to realize he was banned. I looked through the “blocked” text and noticed a link to “make useful contributions”, which linked to {{w|Five Pillars}} using the code Wikipedia:Five Pillars. This demonstrated the page you were trying to go too quite well, but the actual page linked to was a disambiguation page, and not the actual page “Wikipedia:Five Pillars”. I believe putting a w| in front of Wikipedia: Five Pillars to create {{w|Wikipedia:Five Pillars|this}} should fix the issue. Not pressing but didn’t want to just let it happen. Thanks in advance! [[User:Netherin5|“That Guy from the Netherlands”]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 16:43, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 
 
== Edit War Policy? ==
 
I would very much appreciate your advice and/or opinion regarding [[Talk:977: Map Projections#Wording disagreement]] - [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 17:06, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 
 
== Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls ==
 
Is that deliberate? [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 11:21, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
 
 
== User page ==
 
 
Hi, I'm a new user and for some reason I cannot edit my user bio page or use my user talk page. I have not found an explanation for this and because you seem to be 'official' I thought I could ask you why and how to change it.--[[User:Obscure xkcd reference|Obscure xkcd reference]] ([[User talk:Obscure xkcd reference|talk]]) 20:30, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 
 
:Oh jeez, if I'm what counts for official... I haven't been active here in a hot minute.
 
 
:Can you create any pages? Or is it just your User: and User talk: pages? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 21:08, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 
 
:: Yes it is just my User: and User talk: pages. Is it some sort of spammer blocker or is it a bug? And how can I change this? (I know that you shouldn't start a sentence with 'and' but I can't find any other way to phrase this.)--[[User:Obscure xkcd reference|Obscure xkcd reference]] ([[User talk:Obscure xkcd reference|talk]]) 17:35, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 
 
::: I'm pretty sure, but I don't think it's in any of the admin pages I have access to, that there's a 3 day new account policy for creating a user page or a user talk page. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 04:56, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 
 
::::Thank you☺️--[[User:Obscure xkcd reference|Obscure xkcd reference]] ([[User talk:Obscure xkcd reference|talk]]) 19:33, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
 
 
== Spam Bot ==
 
 
This user,
 
[https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Explain_xkcd_server_admin&offset=&limit=500&target=Explain+xkcd+server+admin], is replacing entire pages contents with the word "crap." Been trying to revert their changes, but seems to be a bot. They've changed thousands of pages.
 
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.20|172.69.69.20]] 00:26, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 
 
== Becoming an Admin again? ==
 
 
Hi. After the recent explosion of vandalism, where I did a bunch of the cleanup, Jeff agreed to make me an admin, with a trial period of a week. As the week's end approached, I asked if I could continue, but Jeff never responded and my adminship lapsed.
 
 
You're the only other bureaucrat on this system; would you mind restoring my Powers For Good? Thanks... -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 13:51, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 
 
: No sign of either you or Jeff. I'll ask what I asked Jeff; if you swing by, would you please promote someone else to be a bureaucrat? Otherwise the next time there's a vandalism spree we'll have nobody to help us peons out. -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 22:16, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 

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