Category talk:Extra comics

I sincerely believe that we should place this comic here due to this comic, while apparently part of the 5-minute comic series, is not a numbered one, despite still being one by Randall Munroe: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/940:_Oversight Greyson (talk) 17:30, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

"What If" Illustrations/Comics?

Is there a dedicated place for What If? images? Else, I'd like to propose a major new subcategory here for them.

TPS (talk) 04:37, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

As per disappearing comics...

I think this removal of (example) reasons detracts from the experience. Any comic linked to should have its own explanation (in full/not needing extra references) but a brief summary of how/why can have been listed here (does not need to 'pre-repeat' any links) would be useful. And if new reasons develop, the category explanation can (eventually) be appended to at leisure. 141.101.98.106 13:38, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure if I understood your comment fully, but I had removed the deleted comics note because I also added the Category:Deleted comics to the Extra comics category. I'll restore the old first bullet point in a few hours --FaviFake (talk) 15:39, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

I perceive a bit of a garden path to my earlier comment, so just FYI:

• Of course every comic explanation page for "Extras" will have full details of "This is outside the normal release, because <blah>", or whatever.
• This also applies to "Deleteds"
  • ...which may or may not be a subset of the "Extras" - I'd class bonus comics separate from removed/replaced comics, normally, although there has been a one-day bonus comic which inhabits both sets quite obviously.
• Within these two Cats, we obviously want to avoid saying "<link>Comic X</link> was extra/deleted because... <link>Comic Y</link> was, because... <link>Comic Z</link>, because..." just above the list that consists (mostly?) of X, Y and Z links, seemingly already covered by the linking prose above.
• However, perhaps remove the specifics and just summarise that "known reasons for <the special status of these comics> have been: ...", sufficient to generalise the full details as written up here (or past versions of here) and the full-blown Explanation version.
• As future bonuses/deletions happen, normal Cat-adding will put them in the auto-list but it'll need intervention to determine if you need to add to the reason summary (say "typo, misclico, change of mind" hypothetically at least) with any additional classification ("corporate malfeasance"? Well, whatever... :P )

...well, I leave it to you (and anyone else both willing and able to reshape things accordingly), this was just an opinion/suggestion on what works best for me. YMMV, etc. 172.71.178.153 18:18, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

If I didn't fully understand what you said in the last comment, I definitely don't understand what you're trying to say now. What's a garden path??? What do you think should be done, about what? I only removed the "some of these comics were deleted" notice, is that what you're talking about? I don't mind if it is put back, I guess. I really just don't understand, sorry. FaviFake (talk) 21:11, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

2793: Garden Path Sentence - and if you don't understand my gist, still, then my gist clearly isn't worth further expanding and explaining with yet more words. 172.71.178.153 06:32, 4 July 2023 (UTC)