Talk:3015: D&D Combinatorics - Revision history

Megan: apparently this comic was posted on reddit

2025-10-10T17:00:08Z

apparently this comic was posted on reddit

FaviFake: /* Am i the only one being extremely confused by the trivia section? */

2025-08-17T20:59:09Z

‎Am i the only one being extremely confused by the trivia section?

FaviFake: :::Yeah actually I have absolutely no idea what was wrong, I've restored your version. Feel free to edit war over this until they give you an actual explanation. --~~~~

2025-08-17T20:57:34Z

:::Yeah actually I have absolutely no idea what was wrong, I've restored your version. Feel free to edit war over this until they give you an actual explanation. --~~~~

Revolutionary girl euclid: formatting

2025-08-16T04:17:35Z

formatting

Revolutionary girl euclid: added comment. i'm dying over here. 90% chance that i'm gonna be so embarrassed when I find out what mistake I'm consistently making on these pages.

2025-08-16T04:17:00Z

added comment. i'm dying over here. 90% chance that i'm gonna be so embarrassed when I find out what mistake I'm consistently making on these pages.

FaviFake at 19:43, 15 August 2025

2025-08-15T19:43:56Z

Revolutionary girl euclid: formatting

2025-08-14T20:34:34Z

formatting

Revolutionary girl euclid: added comment

2025-08-14T20:33:22Z

added comment

FaviFake: /* Am i the only one being extremely confused by the trivia section? */

2025-07-26T15:26:02Z

‎Am i the only one being extremely confused by the trivia section?

NiceGuy1 at 05:33, 26 July 2025

2025-07-26T05:33:32Z

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	:::Yeah actually I have absolutely no idea what was wrong, I've restored your version. Feel free to edit war over this until they give you an actual explanation. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 20:57, 17 August 2025 (UTC)		:::Yeah actually I have absolutely no idea what was wrong, I've restored your version. Feel free to edit war over this until they give you an actual explanation. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 20:57, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Apparently this comic was posted on Reddit and has 8.1K upvotes as of this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1o2otba/request_as_a_dm_how_would_you_handle_this_issue/ <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan\|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan\|contribs]]</span> 17:00, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

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 :I believe what you might be missing, that it seems everyone else missed that you missed, is that there are bots who create the new ExplainXKCD pages '''''using''''' XKCD's new page when one appears. So, if Randall put it wrong - as everything keeps saying - that means the bots copy said mistake into the new ExplainXKCD page. What all these authors are doing is assuming everyone knows that THIS is how this site works. Have I addressed your issue now? (Assuming you ever come back and see this, and assuming I ever come back and see your reply, LOL!). I note that, running 5 months late, that the webpage title on XKCD is still "D", not "D&D", while the visible title is correct. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:07, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
 ::Thank you. Yes, I knew that the bot creates the new page, and that this also meant the page on this wiki was wrong initially, but, unlike xkcd.com, this wiki's RSS was seemingly broken by this comic, while xkcd.com wasn't. Anyway, I think i have a pretty good picture, but it still isn't clear enough to rewrite the Trivia section. Good catch! I had also noted that incorrect tab title on xkcd.com on my last comment, which further complicates explaining the situation in the actual trivia section. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:53, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
 '''Ok so here's what we know so far:'''
 * The xkcd.com page for [[3015: D&D Combinatorics]] https://xkcd.com/3015/ still has the browser title "xkcd: D Combinatorics" instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics". This was never fixed.
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 ::::So, to recap, what we need to add to the trivia section is:
 * The xkcd.com page for [[3015: D&D Combinatorics]] https://xkcd.com/3015/ still has the browser title "xkcd: D Combinatorics" instead of "xkcd: D&D Combinatorics". '''<u>This is also what appears in Google results.</u>''' This was never fixed.

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	::Do you mean the bullet points that I largely used as a basis when making my edits? Look, I don't know, maybe I just lose all my sanity and intelligence when I open this site. I'm barely even kidding, I might honestly just be doing a terrible job at comprehending things and mucking it all up for everyone else. But I certainly don't ''see'' what I'm getting wrong. Apologies, but I could use an actual explanation, if anyone wants to give one. [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid\|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid\|talk]]) 04:17, 16 August 2025 (UTC)		::Do you mean the bullet points that I largely used as a basis when making my edits? Look, I don't know, maybe I just lose all my sanity and intelligence when I open this site. I'm barely even kidding, I might honestly just be doing a terrible job at comprehending things and mucking it all up for everyone else. But I certainly don't ''see'' what I'm getting wrong. Apologies, but I could use an actual explanation, if anyone wants to give one. [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid\|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid\|talk]]) 04:17, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	:::Yeah actually I have absolutely no idea what was wrong, I've restored your version. Feel free to edit war over this until they give you an actual explanation. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 20:57, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

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	:You can read everything that was wrong in your edit by reading what's above your reply. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 19:43, 15 August 2025 (UTC)		:You can read everything that was wrong in your edit by reading what's above your reply. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 19:43, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

−	Do you mean the bullet points that I largely used as a basis when making my edits? Look, I don't know, maybe I just lose all my sanity and intelligence when I open this site. I'm barely even kidding, I might honestly just be doing a terrible job at comprehending things and mucking it all up for everyone else. But I certainly don't ''see'' what I'm getting wrong. Apologies, but I could use an actual explanation, if anyone wants to give one. [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid\|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid\|talk]]) 04:17, 16 August 2025 (UTC)	+	::Do you mean the bullet points that I largely used as a basis when making my edits? Look, I don't know, maybe I just lose all my sanity and intelligence when I open this site. I'm barely even kidding, I might honestly just be doing a terrible job at comprehending things and mucking it all up for everyone else. But I certainly don't ''see'' what I'm getting wrong. Apologies, but I could use an actual explanation, if anyone wants to give one. [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid\|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid\|talk]]) 04:17, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

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	:You can read everything that was wrong in your edit by reading what's above your reply. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 19:43, 15 August 2025 (UTC)		:You can read everything that was wrong in your edit by reading what's above your reply. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 19:43, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Do you mean the bullet points that I largely used as a basis when making my edits? Look, I don't know, maybe I just lose all my sanity and intelligence when I open this site. I'm barely even kidding, I might honestly just be doing a terrible job at comprehending things and mucking it all up for everyone else. But I certainly don't ''see'' what I'm getting wrong. Apologies, but I could use an actual explanation, if anyone wants to give one. [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid\|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid\|talk]]) 04:17, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

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	Hey, [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228\|92.23.2.228]], what was actually wrong with my edit? (For some reason when I made that edit I was logged into an old account I had forgotten about, [[User:Unexplainedthing]]; I guess the login was saved in my browser... but only used that account in that tab... idk, probably user error, but anyway, it was my edit.)<br />		Hey, [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228\|92.23.2.228]], what was actually wrong with my edit? (For some reason when I made that edit I was logged into an old account I had forgotten about, [[User:Unexplainedthing]]; I guess the login was saved in my browser... but only used that account in that tab... idk, probably user error, but anyway, it was my edit.)<br />
	I summarized some of the points that had already been made just above. The parts I added were things I could confirm for myself: the browser title is wrong, the archive of the site shows that the on-site title was originally wrong, the same holds for 3028. And the explain xkcd RSS feed is what was broken, according to all of the other discussion I see, though I don't really know how to go about verifying that myself. I did remove part of the explanation that (to me) felt pointlessly speculative, and I removed the 'incomplete' tag because I felt the explanation was now adequate; this may have been mistaken and/or premature, but based on your edit summary, it doesn't seem to me like that's the part you took issue with. Am I missing something? [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid\|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid\|talk]]) 20:33, 14 August 2025 (UTC)		I summarized some of the points that had already been made just above. The parts I added were things I could confirm for myself: the browser title is wrong, the archive of the site shows that the on-site title was originally wrong, the same holds for 3028. And the explain xkcd RSS feed is what was broken, according to all of the other discussion I see, though I don't really know how to go about verifying that myself. I did remove part of the explanation that (to me) felt pointlessly speculative, and I removed the 'incomplete' tag because I felt the explanation was now adequate; this may have been mistaken and/or premature, but based on your edit summary, it doesn't seem to me like that's the part you took issue with. Am I missing something? [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid\|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid\|talk]]) 20:33, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	:You can read everything that was wrong in your edit by reading what's above your reply. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 19:43, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

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 ::::And i think that's everything? Now we just need to actually polish it and put it in the two articles. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
-Hey, [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228|92.23.2.228]], what was actually wrong with my edit? (For some reason when I made that edit I was logged into an old account I had forgotten about, [[User:Unexplainedthing]]; I guess the login was saved in my browser... but only used that account in that tab... idk, probably user error, but anyway, it was my edit.)
+Hey, [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228|92.23.2.228]], what was actually wrong with my edit? (For some reason when I made that edit I was logged into an old account I had forgotten about, [[User:Unexplainedthing]]; I guess the login was saved in my browser... but only used that account in that tab... idk, probably user error, but anyway, it was my edit.)<br />
 I summarized some of the points that had already been made just above. The parts I added were things I could confirm for myself: the browser title is wrong, the archive of the site shows that the on-site title was originally wrong, the same holds for 3028. And the explain xkcd RSS feed is what was broken, according to all of the other discussion I see, though I don't really know how to go about verifying that myself. I did remove part of the explanation that (to me) felt pointlessly speculative, and I removed the 'incomplete' tag because I felt the explanation was now adequate; this may have been mistaken and/or premature, but based on your edit summary, it doesn't seem to me like that's the part you took issue with. Am I missing something? [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid|talk]]) 20:33, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

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	::::And i think that's everything? Now we just need to actually polish it and put it in the two articles. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 16:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)		::::And i think that's everything? Now we just need to actually polish it and put it in the two articles. --[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 16:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Hey, [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228\|92.23.2.228]], what was actually wrong with my edit? (For some reason when I made that edit I was logged into an old account I had forgotten about, [[User:Unexplainedthing]]; I guess the login was saved in my browser... but only used that account in that tab... idk, probably user error, but anyway, it was my edit.)
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		+	I summarized some of the points that had already been made just above. The parts I added were things I could confirm for myself: the browser title is wrong, the archive of the site shows that the on-site title was originally wrong, the same holds for 3028. And the explain xkcd RSS feed is what was broken, according to all of the other discussion I see, though I don't really know how to go about verifying that myself. I did remove part of the explanation that (to me) felt pointlessly speculative, and I removed the 'incomplete' tag because I felt the explanation was now adequate; this may have been mistaken and/or premature, but based on your edit summary, it doesn't seem to me like that's the part you took issue with. Am I missing something? [[User:Revolutionary girl euclid\|Revolutionary girl euclid]] ([[User talk:Revolutionary girl euclid\|talk]]) 20:33, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

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 ::We can now either rephrase the current trivia sections, or write up new ones. Since you seem to be the only person actively engaged in this discussion, could you give it a try, even if the details about the RSS feeds aren't known yet? You can use [[#help|this list I made earlier]] if you want. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:39, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
 ::: Funny, I just reached 3028, with the same issue. I note down a list of which comics I've edited/commented on, to try to remember to check for replies, and seeing the issue there I realized I forgot to note this one so came back to double-check if I had done anything here, and saw your replies :) I feel fairly sure that once upon a time I got some familiarity with the terms "RSS" and "RSS feed", possibly in a class, but that'd be 20, 25 years ago. I now have '''NOTHING'''. I don't know what it is, what it does, how to check if it's broken, why to care, or even how to look at it. Therefore I am completely unable to speak about it, and all I'm getting here about it is that's the main thing anyone thinks should be in the Trivia! Meaning, no, I'm not the one to write/edit the Trivia. What I know is what I said, that the issue is obvious to those of us who have handwritten webpages: Ampersand is an escape character used in HTML, to do special things, like display itself, non-breaking spaces, even an alternate way to show special characters like accented characters, music notes, things that can't be typed on a standard keyboard. It's worth noting that in programming for Windows, ampersand marks a character to underline, usually for menus to identify the hotkey, like "<u>F</u>iles" means Alt-F opens the Files menu, the name would be typed programmatically "&Files". I've seen programs that don't sanitize their input that would render the name of this comic as "D<u>D</u> Combinatorics". BTW, for this I went to the Wiki Editing help to check what I had to do for an ampersand (turns out: nothing, it's generally fine), and the Wiki editor ALSO makes use of the ampersand for such things as special characters, so you could look there to see examples - I spotted one was to display such a code instead of interpret it, like &amp;nbsp; [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 05:22, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
 :Our RSS didn't break twice. It was made broken, due to [[3015]]'s error making it invalid, and was still broken by the time [[3028]] added its own example.