3015: D&D Combinatorics - Revision history

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92.23.2.228: Undo revision 384177 by Unexplainedthing (talk) Several of these 'updated facts' are just plain wrong, and the rest seem to misunderstand things enough to not be properly right.

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Undo revision 384177 by Unexplainedthing (talk) Several of these 'updated facts' are just plain wrong, and the rest seem to misunderstand things enough to not be properly right.

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 When it was originally uploaded, the title displayed above this comic on xkcd.com was "D&D; Combinatorics". This was later fixed.
-Similar issues occurred when [[3028: D&D Roll]] was uploaded.
+Similar issues occurred when [[3028: D&D Roll]] and [[3142|3142: <City>-Style Pizza]] were uploaded.
 Whatever the precise problem, the ampersand in this comic's title also presumably [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests#RSS_Feed_Broken|broke the explain xkcd RSS feed]], an issue that is said to be only fixable by [[User:Jeff]], who has been inactive for over a year now. {{comic discussion}}

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 ==Trivia==
-{{notice|This trivia is a mess. There's more info in '''[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:3015:_D%26D_Combinatorics#help this talk page section]. See also [[3028:_D&D_Roll#Trivia|the trivia section of comic 3028: D&D Roll]].}}
+{{notice|This trivia is controversial. There's more info in [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:3015:_D%26D_Combinatorics#help this talk page section]. See also [[3028:_D&D_Roll#Trivia|the trivia section of comic 3028: D&D Roll]].}}
 The browser title of this page is "xkcd: D Combinatorics", instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics", due to an apparent error on Randall's end. This is thought to be caused by literal interpretation of the '''''&D''''' as a {{w|List of XML and HTML character entity references|character entity}} by the code that created it, though it does not match any normally valid code.

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 ==Trivia==
-{{incomplete|The trivia section is incomplete. Add the missing info from '''[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:3015:_D%26D_Combinatorics#help this talk page section].''' See also [[3028:_D&D_Roll#Trivia|the trivia section of comic 3028: D&D Roll]].}}When this comic was originally released, the official title of this page was "xkcd: D Combinatorics", instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics", due to an apparent error on Randall's end. The reason for this is thought to be caused by literal interpretation of the '''''&D''''' as {{w|List of XML and HTML character entity references|character entity}} by the code that created it, though it does not match any normally valid code. Of the standard list, only the codes for "&deg;" and "&divide;" ''start'' with a (lowercase) "d" and do not ''always'' require a semi-colon at their end, though apparently even they still do so here. No entity name includes whitespace, so "&D ..." must theoretically only be sanitised out by a far too general converter of possible codes to plaintext.
+{{notice|This trivia is a mess. There's more info in '''[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:3015:_D%26D_Combinatorics#help this talk page section]. See also [[3028:_D&D_Roll#Trivia|the trivia section of comic 3028: D&D Roll]].}}
-Whatever the precise problem, the ampersand also presumably [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests#RSS_Feed_Broken|broke the RSS feed]], an issue that is said to be only fixable by [[User:Jeff]], who has been inactive for over a year now. {{comic discussion}}
+The browser title of this page is "xkcd: D Combinatorics", instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics", due to an apparent error on Randall's end. This is thought to be caused by literal interpretation of the '''''&D''''' as a {{w|List of XML and HTML character entity references|character entity}} by the code that created it, though it does not match any normally valid code.
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 ==Trivia==
-The browser title of this page is "xkcd: D Combinatorics", instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics", due to an apparent error on Randall's end. This is thought to be caused by literal interpretation of the '''''&D''''' as a {{w|List of XML and HTML character entity references|character entity}} by the code that created it, though it does not match any normally valid code.
+{{incomplete|The trivia section is incomplete. Add the missing info from '''[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:3015:_D%26D_Combinatorics#help this talk page section].''' See also [[3028:_D&D_Roll#Trivia|the trivia section of comic 3028: D&D Roll]].}}When this comic was originally released, the official title of this page was "xkcd: D Combinatorics", instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics", due to an apparent error on Randall's end. The reason for this is thought to be caused by literal interpretation of the '''''&D''''' as {{w|List of XML and HTML character entity references|character entity}} by the code that created it, though it does not match any normally valid code. Of the standard list, only the codes for "&deg;" and "&divide;" ''start'' with a (lowercase) "d" and do not ''always'' require a semi-colon at their end, though apparently even they still do so here. No entity name includes whitespace, so "&D ..." must theoretically only be sanitised out by a far too general converter of possible codes to plaintext.
-When it was originally uploaded, the title displayed above this comic on xkcd.com was "D&D; Combinatorics". This was later fixed.
+Whatever the precise problem, the ampersand also presumably [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests#RSS_Feed_Broken|broke the RSS feed]], an issue that is said to be only fixable by [[User:Jeff]], who has been inactive for over a year now. {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

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 ==Trivia==
-{{incomplete|The trivia section is incomplete. Add the missing info from '''[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:3015:_D%26D_Combinatorics#help this talk page section].''' See also [[3028:_D&D_Roll#Trivia|the trivia section of comic 3028: D&D Roll]].}}When this comic was originally released, the official title of this page was "xkcd: D Combinatorics", instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics", due to an apparent error on Randall's end. The reason for this is thought to be caused by literal interpretation of the '''''&D''''' as {{w|List of XML and HTML character entity references|character entity}} by the code that created it, though it does not match any normally valid code. Of the standard list, only the codes for "&deg;" and "&divide;" ''start'' with a (lowercase) "d" and do not ''always'' require a semi-colon at their end, though apparently even they still do so here. No entity name includes whitespace, so "&D ..." must theoretically only be sanitised out by a far too general converter of possible codes to plaintext.
+The browser title of this page is "xkcd: D Combinatorics", instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics", due to an apparent error on Randall's end. This is thought to be caused by literal interpretation of the '''''&D''''' as a {{w|List of XML and HTML character entity references|character entity}} by the code that created it, though it does not match any normally valid code.
-Whatever the precise problem, the ampersand also presumably [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests#RSS_Feed_Broken|broke the RSS feed]], an issue that is said to be only fixable by [[User:Jeff]], who has been inactive for over a year now. {{comic discussion}}
+When it was originally uploaded, the title displayed above this comic on xkcd.com was "D&D; Combinatorics". This was later fixed.
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]