906: Advertising Discovery - Revision history

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141.101.77.47: No reason obvious for removing, apart from anything else, those valid Category tags.

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No reason obvious for removing, apart from anything else, those valid Category tags.

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 ==Explanation==
-On {{w|Wikipedia}}, a well-referenced text or statement indicates credibility. References for particular facts are linked to by bracketed blue little numbers in {{w|superscript}}.<font color="#36b"><ref>Aha! I fooled you and this is a real ref tag! However, there are no references.</ref><sup>[3][4]</sup></font> When faced with a statement followed by these, readers will normally believe it without further ado,<sup><font color="#36b">[6][10]</font></sup> since they take it on trust that there are directions on the bottom of the page, leading to a reliable source or two, agreeing with what the statement says. The effect becomes strengthened when such information is often confirmed to be correct.
+On {{w|Wikipedia}}, a well-referenced text or statement indicates credibility. References for particular facts are linked to by bracketed little blue numbers in {{w|superscript}}.<font color="#36b"><sup>[1][3][4]</sup></font> When faced with a statement followed by these, readers will normally believe it without further ado,<sup><font color="#36b">[6][10]</font></sup> since they take it on trust that there are directions on the bottom of the page, leading to a reliable source or two, agreeing with what the statement says. The effect becomes strengthened when such information is often confirmed to be correct.
 In the comic, Cueball reads part of an ad for a penis enlargement drug. As the footnote numbers<font color="#36b"><sup>[1][2][3]</sup></font> are not a contiguous sequence<font color="#36b"><sup>[1][3][4]</sup></font> starting from 1, the ad contains other content<font color="#36b"><sup>[5]</sup></font> before the shown portion.<font color="#36b"><sup>[2][4][6]</sup></font>
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-* Randall changed the image name from advertising_discovery.png to citations.png, since adblocking extensions interpreted it as an ad and made the comic blank. He had the same problem just three months earlier with [[870: Advertising]].
+Randall changed the image name for this comic from "advertising_discovery.png" to "citations.png", because many adblocking extensions interpreted it as an ad and blocked it. He suffered from a similar issue three months earlier with [[870: Advertising]].
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 * Randall changed the image name from advertising_discovery.png to citations.png, since adblocking extensions interpreted it as an ad and made the comic blank. He had the same problem just three months earlier with [[870: Advertising]].
 {{comic discussion}}

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	* Randall changed the image name from advertising_discovery.png to citations.png, since adblocking extensions interpreted it as an ad and made the comic blank. He had the same problem just three months earlier with [[870: Advertising]].		* Randall changed the image name from advertising_discovery.png to citations.png, since adblocking extensions interpreted it as an ad and made the comic blank. He had the same problem just three months earlier with [[870: Advertising]].
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	* Randall changed the image name from advertising_discovery.png to citations.png, since adblocking extensions interpreted it as an ad and made the comic blank. He had the same problem just three months earlier with [[870: Advertising]].		* Randall changed the image name from advertising_discovery.png to citations.png, since adblocking extensions interpreted it as an ad and made the comic blank. He had the same problem just three months earlier with [[870: Advertising]].
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 Advertisers have realized that it has gone so far that people in general will take any nonsense for granted if there is just the right amount of Wikipedia-style reference tags to it. The penis enlargement e-commerce business can suddenly flourish (again?) and the spammers won't even need to bother making up findings to cite.
-Turgidax{{w|Registered trademark symbol|®}} is something [[Randall]] formed from ''{{Wiktionary|turgid}}'', meaning swollen. One reason that the attaching of ''-ax'' creates a typically pill-like name is simply that ''-ax'' (and ''-ex'') are common Latin adjectival word endings, and that many drugs have names formed from Latin words. -Ax is also, specifically, the root of the -acious ending in English, as in "audacious" or (appropriately) [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bodacious bodacious], meaning "extra" or "especially". The idea is it makes the genitalius extra or especially turgid. ''{{Wiktionary|Cardiovascular}}'' means relating to the heart and blood vessels.
+Turgidax{{w|Registered trademark symbol|®}} is something [[Randall]] formed from ''{{Wiktionary|turgid}}'', meaning swollen. One reason that the attaching of ''-ax'' creates a typically pill-like name is simply that ''-ax'' (and ''-ex'') are common Latin adjectival word endings, and that many drugs have names formed from Latin words. -Ax is also, specifically, the root of the -acious ending in English, as in "audacious" or (appropriately) [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bodacious bodacious], meaning "extra" or "especially". Therefore, the name suggests that the drug causes male genitals to become extra or especially turgid.
 The title text is about how Wikipedia users have been able to add "disputed"-tags (nowadays "disputed – discuss") after challenged facts, with {{w|Template:Disputed-inline|this template}}, since the dawn of time.<sup><span style="color:#36b">[11]</span>[<span style="color:#36b">disputed</span> – <span style="color:#36b">discuss</span>]</sup> So when faced with the new advertising trick {{w|Real life|IRL}}, we could counter by scribbling those tags all over with blue {{w|Sharpie (marker)|Sharpie}} marker pens, and so automatically revive the {{w|critical thinking}}.

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 On {{w|Wikipedia}}, a well-referenced text or statement indicates credibility. References for particular facts are linked to by bracketed blue little numbers in {{w|superscript}}.<font color="#36b"><ref>Aha! I fooled you and this is a real ref tag! However, there are no references.</ref><sup>[3][4]</sup></font> When faced with a statement followed by these, readers will normally believe it without further ado,<sup><font color="#36b">[6][10]</font></sup> since they take it on trust that there are directions on the bottom of the page, leading to a reliable source or two, agreeing with what the statement says. The effect becomes strengthened when such information often is confirmed to be correct.
-In the comic, Cueball reads part of an ad for a penis enlargement drug. As the footnote numbers<font color="#36b"><sup>[1][2][3]</sup></font> are not a contiguous sequence<font color="#36b"><sup>[1][3][4]</sup></font> starting from 1, the ad contains other content before the shown portion.<font color="#36b"><sup>[2][4][6]</sup></font>
+In the comic, Cueball reads part of an ad for a penis enlargement drug. As the footnote numbers<font color="#36b"><sup>[1][2][3]</sup></font> are not a contiguous sequence<font color="#36b"><sup>[1][3][4]</sup></font> starting from 1, the ad contains other content<font color="#36b"><sup>[5]</sup></font> before the shown portion.<font color="#36b"><sup>[2][4][6]</sup></font>
 Advertisers have realized that it has gone so far that people in general will take any nonsense for granted if there is just the right amount of Wikipedia-style reference tags to it. The penis enlargement e-commerce business can suddenly flourish (again?) and the spammers won't even need to bother making up findings to cite.