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47.144.29.103: /* Examples */ Fix first link (root article name changed)

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‎Examples: Fix first link (root article name changed)

PowerKitten: Some of the examples got moved to archive pages, one of them got purged entirely by a Wikipedia admin and needs a past revision to see . Fixed links accordingly.

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Some of the examples got moved to archive pages, one of them got purged entirely by a Wikipedia admin and needs a past revision to see . Fixed links accordingly.

FaviFake: /* Trivia */

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‎Trivia

FaviFake: added Category:Comics edited after their publication using HotCat

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added Category:Comics edited after their publication using HotCat

FaviFake: Undo revision 389286 by 2001:4450:813D:C800:FCCA:442D:8C9D:DF33 (talk)

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Undo revision 389286 by 2001:4450:813D:C800:FCCA:442D:8C9D:DF33 (talk)

42.book.addict: Undo revision 389288 by 2001:4450:813D:C800:FCCA:442D:8C9D:DF33 (talk) we don't use TOCs in comic pages

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Undo revision 389288 by 2001:4450:813D:C800:FCCA:442D:8C9D:DF33 (talk) we don't use TOCs in comic pages

2001:4450:813D:C800:FCCA:442D:8C9D:DF33 at 21:53, 22 October 2025

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2001:4450:813D:C800:FCCA:442D:8C9D:DF33 at 21:52, 22 October 2025

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2001:4450:813D:C800:FCCA:442D:8C9D:DF33 at 21:51, 22 October 2025

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DollarStoreBa'al at 15:48, 2 May 2025

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 ==Examples==
-*{{w|Talk:Key West, Florida/Archive 1#What's with the Chicken photo}}: ''If there is a reason like Key West likes to raise chickens, or rather it's people do it should be noted in the article otherwise it the photos serves no purpose[.]''
+*{{w|Talk:Key West/Archive 1#What's with the Chicken photo}}: ''If there is a reason like Key West likes to raise chickens, or rather it's people do it should be noted in the article otherwise it the photos serves no purpose[.]''
 *{{w|Talk:Rio de Janeiro#Oh, there's no crime in Rio?}}: ''What PR group promoting tourism to Rio has done an insanely good job of preventing this page from having any mention of Rio's horrendous constant warfare in the favelas[?] The truth hurts sometimes, but it's better than denial.''
 *{{w|Talk:Kirkcaldy/Archive 1#Derivation of the name}}: ''More likely, it seems to me, is that the name derives entirely from pre-Gaelic sources (e.g. Pictish and/or Brythonic) and is more likely to come from something like "caer" (fort, camp) + "caled" + "dynion" - or, indeed, "caledonii" - where the latter elements mean either "hard men" or "Caledonians"[.]''

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 ==Examples==
-*{{w|Talk:Key West, Florida#What's with the Chicken photo}}: ''If there is a reason like Key West likes to raise chickens, or rather it's people do it should be noted in the article otherwise it the photos serves no purpose[.]''
+*{{w|Talk:Key West, Florida/Archive 1#What's with the Chicken photo}}: ''If there is a reason like Key West likes to raise chickens, or rather it's people do it should be noted in the article otherwise it the photos serves no purpose[.]''
 *{{w|Talk:Rio de Janeiro#Oh, there's no crime in Rio?}}: ''What PR group promoting tourism to Rio has done an insanely good job of preventing this page from having any mention of Rio's horrendous constant warfare in the favelas[?] The truth hurts sometimes, but it's better than denial.''
 *{{w|Talk:Kirkcaldy/Archive 1#Derivation of the name}}: ''More likely, it seems to me, is that the name derives entirely from pre-Gaelic sources (e.g. Pictish and/or Brythonic) and is more likely to come from something like "caer" (fort, camp) + "caled" + "dynion" - or, indeed, "caledonii" - where the latter elements mean either "hard men" or "Caledonians"[.]''
 *{{w|Talk:Isfahan#Requested move}}: ''Isfahan → Esfahan — The Esfahan pronounce is correcter.''
-*{{w|Talk:Chattanooga, Tennessee#Crime}}: ''Besides, it's doubtful Chattanooga didn't have gangs until the summer of 2003.''
+*{{w|Talk:Chattanooga, Tennessee/Archive 1#Crime}}: ''Besides, it's doubtful Chattanooga didn't have gangs until the summer of 2003.''
 *{{w|Talk:Muara Bungo#Recent Editing Events}}: ''Please do not flag this page for deletion.''
-*{{w|Talk:Arvada, Colorado#"Police scandal" section is libelous, biased and does not have proper attributes, making it one man's opinion}}: ''Please show us in Attribution 17 where it says that "several members of the Arvada police" were convicted of "previous criminal conduct." Please show us in Attribution 17 where it says that it cost the city "close to half a million dollars defending the criminal actions of one police officer alone ... " If you do not have an attribution, it is only YOUR OPINION.''
+*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Arvada,_Colorado&oldid=1195359543#%22Police_scandal%22_section_is_libelous,_biased_and_does_not_have_proper_attributes,_making_it_one_man's_opinion Talk:Arvada, Colorado#"Police scandal" section is libelous, biased and does not have proper attributes, making it one man's opinion]: ''Please show us in Attribution 17 where it says that "several members of the Arvada police" were convicted of "previous criminal conduct." Please show us in Attribution 17 where it says that it cost the city "close to half a million dollars defending the criminal actions of one police officer alone ... " If you do not have an attribution, it is only YOUR OPINION.''
 *{{w|Talk:Sutton-in-Ashfield# }}: ''And about the Ashfield show? Worth menioning? It's got steadily worse over the years, they don't even have ferrets there anymore. :(.''
 *{{w|Talk:Abergele#Untitled}}: ''YES THIS IS RELEVANT!!! I MAY NOT BE FAMOUS TO YOU BUT I AM TO OTHER PEOPLE, I AM WELL KNOWN IN THE DENBIGH AREA, AND RECENTLY BEEN IN THE LOCAL PAPERS, SO IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU! BY DANIEL JONES! PEACE OUT!''

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 ==Trivia==
-*In the comic ''Webber'' was once spelled ''Weber''. This was a mistake by [[Randall]], as it has since been corrected.
+In the [http://web.archive.org/web/20160408153019/http://xkcd.com/1665/ original version of the comic], ''Webber'' was incorrectly spelled ''Weber''. This was a mistake by [[Randall]], as it has since been corrected.
-**Find the original [http://web.archive.org/web/20160408153019/http://xkcd.com/1665/ here].
-*In 2022, Randall [https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1501650939140362241 commented on Twitter that] "I don’t usually laugh at my own comics, but every time I stumble on this one and read through it again, it gets me".
+In 2022, Randall [https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1501650939140362241 commented on Twitter that] "I don’t usually laugh at my own comics, but every time I stumble on this one and read through it again, it gets me".
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 | date      = April 8, 2016
 | title     = City Talk Pages
 | image     = city talk pages.png
 | titletext = I don't think the Lakeshore Air Crash Museum really belongs under 'Tourist Attractions.' It's not a museum--it's just an area near the Lake Festival Laser Show where a lot of planes have crashed.

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 }}
 ==Explanation==
 The comic makes fun of Wikipedia talk pages. On Wikipedia, every article has a place to discuss the content of the page, called a "{{w|Help:Using talk pages|talk page}}". This comic presents the table-of-contents of the talk page of an article about a city, showing all headers and subheaders used by Wikipedia editors to organize discussions by topic. Unusually, many subsection headers are used to react directly to previous subsections (i.e. "Not how Wikipedia works"; "Also bleak"). While some of the topics are normal for a talk page (e.g. "Origin of city's name"; "Discuss: New picture") others are increasingly absurd. The topics discussed suggest that the city has many problems and is a bad place to live in or visit.

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	In the title text, it emerges that the Lakeside Festival's eponymous Laser Show is so impressive that it has caused a number of aeroplanes to crash. This refers to the dangerous behavior of deliberately aiming laser pointers at aircrafts, as they can be distracting or even blinding to the pilots, putting the flight at risk. The article has been promoting a location as the "Lakeshore Air Crash Museum", despite it having no such official status, and seems to just be the local scene of multiple accidents resulting from the recklessly recurring laser hazards.		In the title text, it emerges that the Lakeside Festival's eponymous Laser Show is so impressive that it has caused a number of aeroplanes to crash. This refers to the dangerous behavior of deliberately aiming laser pointers at aircrafts, as they can be distracting or even blinding to the pilots, putting the flight at risk. The article has been promoting a location as the "Lakeshore Air Crash Museum", despite it having no such official status, and seems to just be the local scene of multiple accidents resulting from the recklessly recurring laser hazards.
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−	~~===Notes===~~
−	~~{{reflist}}~~

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