User talk:FaviFake - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al at 18:05, 15 May 2026

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42.book.addict: /* "never reply again" */ new section

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FaviFake: /* "Per the discussion at the community portal, ..." */

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42.book.addict: /* The 'admin' complaint about Transcripts */

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‎The 'admin' complaint about Transcripts

FaviFake: /* The 'admin' complaint about Transcripts */

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‎The 'admin' complaint about Transcripts

82.132.239.97: /* The 'admin' complaint about Transcripts */

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‎The 'admin' complaint about Transcripts

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42.book.addict: clarifying

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clarifying

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	Is this just a gut feeling that you have, or is it because of the time that he's spent not replying to you? Just wondering about your thought process. Cheers, [[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#4A86A6">tor</span><span style="color:#C0728D">i :3</span></span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#7E7E7E">talk </span><span style="color:#C0728D">to </span><span style="color:#4A86A6">me!</span></span>]]</sup> 17:27, 15 May 2026 (UTC)		Is this just a gut feeling that you have, or is it because of the time that he's spent not replying to you? Just wondering about your thought process. Cheers, [[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#4A86A6">tor</span><span style="color:#C0728D">i :3</span></span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#7E7E7E">talk </span><span style="color:#C0728D">to </span><span style="color:#4A86A6">me!</span></span>]]</sup> 17:27, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
		+	:Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't. Randall's got lots of stuff going on, including having to constantly maintain the webcomic while handling everything else. He seems willing to humor us but it's probably incredibly low on his priority list. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 18:05, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

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	I had no strong opinions about the grouping of Blondie/etc, merely don't feel comfortable about clearly misleading edit reasons. (Like just saying "grammar" for what was purely spelling/typo fixes, which happened again the other day, that I saw someone else do. Fair play for the correct correction, but still... Same with you mass re-edit. Probably valid, just looks a bit wrong.) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.246.233\|82.132.246.233]] 15:29, 9 May 2026 (UTC)		I had no strong opinions about the grouping of Blondie/etc, merely don't feel comfortable about clearly misleading edit reasons. (Like just saying "grammar" for what was purely spelling/typo fixes, which happened again the other day, that I saw someone else do. Fair play for the correct correction, but still... Same with you mass re-edit. Probably valid, just looks a bit wrong.) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.246.233\|82.132.246.233]] 15:29, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
	:Oh, I was calling it a discussion in the sense that it was on a talk page. I meant it as a way of saying, "given the reasons posted at the community portal, I'm doing etc." I'll change the edit summary, thanks. [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 15:33, 9 May 2026 (UTC)		:Oh, I was calling it a discussion in the sense that it was on a talk page. I meant it as a way of saying, "given the reasons posted at the community portal, I'm doing etc." I'll change the edit summary, thanks. [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 15:33, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
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		+	== "never reply again" ==
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		+	Is this just a gut feeling that you have, or is it because of the time that he's spent not replying to you? Just wondering about your thought process. Cheers, [[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#4A86A6">tor</span><span style="color:#C0728D">i :3</span></span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#7E7E7E">talk </span><span style="color:#C0728D">to </span><span style="color:#4A86A6">me!</span></span>]]</sup> 17:27, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

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	I had no strong opinions about the grouping of Blondie/etc, merely don't feel comfortable about clearly misleading edit reasons. (Like just saying "grammar" for what was purely spelling/typo fixes, which happened again the other day, that I saw someone else do. Fair play for the correct correction, but still... Same with you mass re-edit. Probably valid, just looks a bit wrong.) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.246.233\|82.132.246.233]] 15:29, 9 May 2026 (UTC)		I had no strong opinions about the grouping of Blondie/etc, merely don't feel comfortable about clearly misleading edit reasons. (Like just saying "grammar" for what was purely spelling/typo fixes, which happened again the other day, that I saw someone else do. Fair play for the correct correction, but still... Same with you mass re-edit. Probably valid, just looks a bit wrong.) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.246.233\|82.132.246.233]] 15:29, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
		+	:Oh, I was calling it a discussion in the sense that it was on a talk page. I meant it as a way of saying, "given the reasons posted at the community portal, I'm doing etc." I'll change the edit summary, thanks. [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 15:33, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

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	:Sure! [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 23:03, 28 February 2026 (UTC)		:Sure! [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 23:03, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
	::I think that the OP also refers to when we use <nowiki>'''bold text'''</nowiki> to show bold text, such as in [[3120]]. [[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#5CA7CF">tor</span><span style="color:#F08DB0">i :3</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#9E9E9E">talk </span><span style="color:#F08DB0">to </span><span style="color:#5CA7CF">me!</span>]]</span></sup> 03:28, 1 March 2026 (UTC)		::I think that the OP also refers to when we use <nowiki>'''bold text'''</nowiki> to show bold text, such as in [[3120]]. [[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#5CA7CF">tor</span><span style="color:#F08DB0">i :3</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#9E9E9E">talk </span><span style="color:#F08DB0">to </span><span style="color:#5CA7CF">me!</span>]]</span></sup> 03:28, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
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		+	== "Per the discussion at the community portal, ..." ==
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		+	Your likely right to do as you're doing, but... there ''was'' no discussion about the Blondie/Miss Lenhardt/etc thing. Are you mixing it up with the (unresolved) discussion about the Superheroes category, immediately above it?
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		+	I had no strong opinions about the grouping of Blondie/etc, merely don't feel comfortable about clearly misleading edit reasons. (Like just saying "grammar" for what was purely spelling/typo fixes, which happened again the other day, that I saw someone else do. Fair play for the correct correction, but still... Same with you mass re-edit. Probably valid, just looks a bit wrong.) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.246.233\|82.132.246.233]] 15:29, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

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	And, now having actually checked... the relevent [[explain_xkcd:Editor_FAQ#What_is_the_format_of_the_transcript_section.3F\|FAQ section]] is a little less comprehensive than my 'summary', above, but anyone who has read it (and obeyed the instruction to check established comic pages to get more of the gist) is well on the way to being able to comply with the general requirements. Of course, those who haven't read/remembered this bit of FAQ (also unlikely to read the Community Portal thoroughly, or even ''this'' page) are probably going to continue to have the 'wrong' idea about how to write a Transcript, but there really is little that can be done (except maybe for named-accounts having individual Talk-page interventions, assuming they read even them!) except for what we normally do. - i.e. 'fix' things, as and when, and if the person we had to fix notices it then they might even pick up the better method for future times. If only by osmosis! But that's the kind of thing me and you already expect to happen, I think I'm correct in saying, for all kinds of things. Not ''just'' with Transcripts. Or, on those few occasions where we (and others) may even slightly disagree with each other, land upon a happy medium that works for all. :D [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97\|82.132.239.97]] 14:05, 28 February 2026 (UTC)		And, now having actually checked... the relevent [[explain_xkcd:Editor_FAQ#What_is_the_format_of_the_transcript_section.3F\|FAQ section]] is a little less comprehensive than my 'summary', above, but anyone who has read it (and obeyed the instruction to check established comic pages to get more of the gist) is well on the way to being able to comply with the general requirements. Of course, those who haven't read/remembered this bit of FAQ (also unlikely to read the Community Portal thoroughly, or even ''this'' page) are probably going to continue to have the 'wrong' idea about how to write a Transcript, but there really is little that can be done (except maybe for named-accounts having individual Talk-page interventions, assuming they read even them!) except for what we normally do. - i.e. 'fix' things, as and when, and if the person we had to fix notices it then they might even pick up the better method for future times. If only by osmosis! But that's the kind of thing me and you already expect to happen, I think I'm correct in saying, for all kinds of things. Not ''just'' with Transcripts. Or, on those few occasions where we (and others) may even slightly disagree with each other, land upon a happy medium that works for all. :D [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97\|82.132.239.97]] 14:05, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
	:Sure! [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 23:03, 28 February 2026 (UTC)		:Sure! [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 23:03, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
		+	::I think that the OP also refers to when we use <nowiki>'''bold text'''</nowiki> to show bold text, such as in [[3120]]. [[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:11pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#5CA7CF">tor</span><span style="color:#F08DB0">i :3</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font:8pt Cormorant Garamond"><span style="color:#9E9E9E">talk </span><span style="color:#F08DB0">to </span><span style="color:#5CA7CF">me!</span>]]</span></sup> 03:28, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

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   Cueball is shown doing something.
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 And, now having actually checked... the relevent [[explain_xkcd:Editor_FAQ#What_is_the_format_of_the_transcript_section.3F|FAQ section]] is a little less comprehensive than my 'summary', above, but anyone who has read it (and obeyed the instruction to check established comic pages to get more of the gist) is well on the way to being able to comply with the general requirements. Of course, those who haven't read/remembered this bit of FAQ (also unlikely to read the Community Portal thoroughly, or even ''this'' page) are probably going to continue to have the 'wrong' idea about how to write a Transcript, but there really is little that can be done (except maybe for named-accounts having individual Talk-page interventions, assuming they read even them!) except for what we normally do. - i.e. 'fix' things, as and when, and if the person we had to fix notices it then they might even pick up the better method for future times. If only by osmosis! But that's the kind of thing me and you already expect to happen, I think I'm correct in saying, for all kinds of things. Not ''just'' with Transcripts. Or, on those few occasions where we (and others) may even slightly disagree with each other, land upon a happy medium that works for all. :D [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97|82.132.239.97]] 14:05, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

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	...maybe now is the right time (as if it wasn't before!) for me to go and see what the FAQ (or other 'how to' guide) ''does'' actually say about Transcript-writing. I know I'll have read it, if it exists, but my head's more full of how it has been ''practically'' applied, over theyears, so I might have been long labouring under a more descriptivist standard than any prescriptivist one. :p Still, HTH. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97\|82.132.239.97]] 13:47, 28 February 2026 (UTC)		...maybe now is the right time (as if it wasn't before!) for me to go and see what the FAQ (or other 'how to' guide) ''does'' actually say about Transcript-writing. I know I'll have read it, if it exists, but my head's more full of how it has been ''practically'' applied, over theyears, so I might have been long labouring under a more descriptivist standard than any prescriptivist one. :p Still, HTH. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97\|82.132.239.97]] 13:47, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
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		+	And, now having actually checked... the relevent [[explain_xkcd:Editor_FAQ#What_is_the_format_of_the_transcript_section.3F\|FAQ section]] is a little less comprehensive than my 'summary', above, but anyone who has read it (and obeyed the instruction to check established comic pages to get more of the gist) is well on the way to being able to comply with the general requirements. Of course, those who haven't read/remembered this bit of FAQ (also unlikely to read the Community Portal thoroughly, or even ''this'' page) are probably going to continue to have the 'wrong' idea about how to write a Transcript, but there really is little that can be done (except maybe for named-accounts having individual Talk-page interventions, assuming they read even them!) except for what we normally do. - i.e. 'fix' things, as and when, and if the person we had to fix notices it then they might even pick up the better method for future times. If only by osmosis! But that's the kind of thing me and you already expect to happen, I think I'm correct in saying, for all kinds of things. Not ''just'' with Transcripts. Or, on those few occasions where we (and others) may even slightly disagree with each other, land upon a happy medium that works for all. :D [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97\|82.132.239.97]] 14:05, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

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		+	== The 'admin' complaint about Transcripts ==
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		+	I agree with {{diff\|407393\|this thing you removed}} not being an Admin Request, but I think the meaning is understandable, if it (ironically) had been written better by the OP.
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		+	Some people are just creating the (initial) Transcripts with source (without the indent) like:
		+	Cueball is shown doing something.
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		+	"I like doing something!"
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		+	Something happens in the next panel.
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		+	...
		+	...when it ought to be ''more'' like:
		+	:[In the first panel, Cueball is shown doing something.]
		+	:Cueball: I like doing something!
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		+	:[In the second panel, something happens]
		+	:...
		+	...or ''something'' like that. Exact transcriptive styles vary, but I'd normally go with the global use of :-indents (in part to prevent lines running into each other, without double-linefeeding), [bracketing] purely descriptive bits, ascribing quoted text to their source (which could also be [bracketed], especially if the style of text itself needs describing) and extra entirely blank linefeeds (normally) ''only'' between 'scene changes'/subsequent action-panels. That's basically what I'd do, in creating a 'first transcript', or correcting a more format-unfriendly one in the prior style, but I know you've probably got your own (subtly different, but just as acceptible to me) variation on the theme. It ''might'' even be written down somewhere (the FAQ?), perhaps better/more accurate than I have done here... I haven't even checked how authoritative my own 'remembered' style guide is, but if ever I personally start/fix a Transcript I'm ok with any useful-looking necessary (re)fixing that others may make where I've perhaps not adhered to everybody's higher expectations.
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		+	But sometimes the exact needs of a Transcript (especially for particularly large, interactive and/or animated comics, of the kinds that Randall occasionally likes to spring on us, and which we also like to have been sprung on with!) do end up straining the 'standard' format(s) of Transript. Plus I would never, personally, begrudge an individual who went to the trouble of (at least ''semi-''accurately) typing in a whole lot of bare-bones 'text' from the comic, around which someone else can add the more proper and ultimately necessary transcriptive notes. It's all good, in the end, and all further collaboration must start off from ''some'' basis, however rushed and incomplete it might seem.
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		+	So, while I see where that particular editor was coming from. I wouldn't have written it like that myself. Nor with the same sort of exasperation/adm9nishment. (Nor would I take what I've tried, myself, to write above and suggest it be added to/supplanted on the FAQ... This is just from me to you, as it looks like I 'got' the linked-to issue a bit easier than you did. Or mistook it for what I've said, perhaps!) But, assuming I'm not wrong about the whole thing, I thought I'd give you my thoughts. For what they're worth. ;)
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		+	...maybe now is the right time (as if it wasn't before!) for me to go and see what the FAQ (or other 'how to' guide) ''does'' actually say about Transcript-writing. I know I'll have read it, if it exists, but my head's more full of how it has been ''practically'' applied, over theyears, so I might have been long labouring under a more descriptivist standard than any prescriptivist one. :p Still, HTH. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97\|82.132.239.97]] 13:47, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

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 ::::I don't see the 40x40px thing anymore so maybe someone did it already?[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 07:44, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
 :::::I think 42/Tori sorted it all out. (I could be wrong about who, but there were both 'hard' uploads and a small change to the template done by somebody. Checking the various history details would confirm who, but it certainly happened.) Doesn't stop other things like this going gaga, occasionally, but the two different 'under construction' images are certainly the ones that get used the most, i.e. across more of the most recent comic pages than anything else, so the occasional other cross-site image won't be as noticed. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253|81.179.199.253]] 18:10, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
+::::::Yup, I did it! Sorry for not notifying earlier... '''[[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:#A9C6CA">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#516874">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 03:06, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
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