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- 18:15, 26 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+7) . . 2481: 1991 and 2021 (→cordless: No. It's not our job to define the terms used in the comic in ways that are inconsistent with the comic. Clarify literal meaning and wordsmith.)
- 17:04, 26 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m Talk:2481: 1991 and 2021 (my typo)
- 03:50, 26 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . 2481: 1991 and 2021 (→Explanation: Weaken claim of White Hat's confusion to "not expecting." Indeed, WH properly guesses "[It is] not the lasers." Arguably Cueball has mislead WH here anyhow. Needs RW to eliminate double negative? aircraft -> passenger (b/c airliner))
- 03:46, 26 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+424) . . Talk:2481: 1991 and 2021 (r: No.)
- 01:01, 26 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (-17) . . 2481: 1991 and 2021 (→Explanation: strengthen the lasers-at-airplanes section. I'm under the impression it can permanently damage pilot's eyesight, but citation needed.)
- 00:36, 7 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . m 2459: March 2020 (→Transcript: A needle is "inserted into" an arm, not "injected in to" it. (The contents of a syringe, i.e. the drug, would be injected.))
- 20:29, 6 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . m 2459: March 2020 (→Explanation: likely -> plausible; where do people get these outré claims of knowledge about Randall Munroe's personal life?)
- 02:05, 2 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+2,123) . . 2456: Types of Scientific Paper (→Parodies: -> →Derivatives: per Talk discussion (read Talk first!) and include table of examples.)
- 13:45, 1 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+2,311) . . Talk:2456: Types of Scientific Paper (→Derivatives: r and lots more)
- 18:40, 30 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+406) . . Talk:2456: Types of Scientific Paper (→Derivatives: new section)
- 18:37, 30 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+181) . . N File:2456-radioastronomy.jpeg (https://twitter.com/GreenBankObserv/status/1388148786707406854 Green Bank Observatory @GreenBankObserv: With apologies to Mr. Munroe, may we present: Types of Radio Astronomy Papers) (current)
- 02:50, 9 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+228) . . Talk:2422: Vaccine Ordering (21 or 28 days?; section off image quality conversation.)
- 13:47, 22 December 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 2401: Conjunction (→Explanation: official terms -> technical terms)
- 21:12, 24 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+383) . . Talk:2386: Ten Years (r to Kynde. N Years instead of X Years?) (current)
- 06:12, 17 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m 2386: Ten Years (→Transcript: years > Years)
- 19:54, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+492) . . Talk:2381: The True Name of the Bear (Limit of teleportation and ur-bears)
- 19:49, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-6) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: The only explanations -> One explanation)
- 01:04, 1 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+38) . . 2379: Probability Comparisons ({{#tag:references}} below table)
- 14:13, 22 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+234) . . Talk:1234: Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013) (→Passage of Time: Yes, also 1968, 1984.)
- 13:25, 5 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+12) . . m 2348: Boat Puzzle (Undo revision 196780 by 108.162.245.26 (talk). If we capitalize the T, we capitalize the P. Don't be mislead by Wikipedia's requirement to upcase the initial letter of all articles.)
- 20:47, 3 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-414) . . 2353: Hurricane Hunters (→Explanation: Cut irrelevant facts mistakenly in support of passenger non-participation in hurricane flight. Remove "certainly" (hyperbole).)
- 19:54, 3 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+126) . . User talk:NotaBene (— and also the reply.)
- 19:54, 3 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+725) . . Talk:2353: Hurricane Hunters (r re st. louis)
- 11:49, 3 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m Talk:2354: Stellar Evolution (formatting fix; separate prior comment)
- 11:42, 3 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+187) . . N User talk:NotaBene (Created page with "==Sept. 2020== Hi. Please see my note on Talk:2353: Hurricane Hunters, thanks! ~~~~")
- 05:53, 3 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 2354: Stellar Evolution (→Explanation: missing space after ))
- 05:47, 3 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+761) . . Talk:2353: Hurricane Hunters (NotaBene's statement that a flight to St. Louis was "presumably…far out of its way" is unsupported and needs to go. How best to do it?)
- 20:27, 22 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+36) . . 605: Extrapolating (→bottom: Transcript says that's Megan in the veil, so Category:Comics featuring Megan)
- 20:10, 20 August 2020 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m 2348: Boat Puzzle (→Missing Information: probably -> probable)
- 18:04, 18 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+333) . . User talk:Kynde (→Edit summaries: cf. Talk:xkcd_Header_text#Recent_BLM_edits)
- 18:02, 18 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,157) . . Talk:Header text (→Recent BLM edits: new section)
- 17:50, 18 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,061) . . User talk:Kynde (→Edit summaries: r in confusion)
- 12:59, 18 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+230) . . Talk:2334: Slide Trombone (Common usage is "waterjet" not "water cutter," fyi.)
- 12:55, 18 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . m 2334: Slide Trombone (→Explanation: wikilink Constant Pressure System. Arguably the patent should go, a wikipedia link is a lot more accessible.)
- 21:22, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+306) . . User talk:Kynde (→Edit summaries: new section)
- 21:18, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: black -> Black, when speaking of people, consistent with the prevalent style trend in English today.)
- 21:18, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . m Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: punctuation)
- 21:13, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-31) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: Simplify hierarchy, wordsmithing on the cartoon description. Don't use Cueball's left, which is our right.)
- 21:07, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-84) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: Remove claim about "Randall decided to take a stand." Randall speaks for himself, we're not in his head, and the existing bullet points are sufficient.)
- 21:06, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+9) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: Comment out confusing unfilled-in claim about "It was last up".)
- 21:05, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . m Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: George -> Floyd. spelling.)
- 21:05, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+9) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: We don't KNOW the reason Randall does this. Rewrite based on encyclopedic facts, not some omniscient style.)
- 21:01, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+143) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: Rewrite BLM definition. It is not possible to "found" a dcentralized movement. Wordsmith and wikilink. This is very sensitive stuff, take care with it.)
- 20:56, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-69) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter: Remove claim about Randall knows and does not know, re image links / image maps. We are not inside his head, we cannot know that. Also, it was ungrammatical.)
- 20:55, 16 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+237) . . Header text (→2020-06-17 - Black Lives Matter: changed from joincampaignzero.org to blacklivesmatter.com)
- 14:59, 4 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+9) . . 1820: Security Advice (→Change your maiden name regularly: A common security question is "your mother's maiden name," not your own maiden name, which would exclude most males and be an ineffective security question for at least half the population.)
- 14:52, 4 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+711) . . 1820: Security Advice (→Use a 2-factor smoke detector: Relegate to a comment debunked claim that dual function smoke detectors lessen safety, and explain why (complex threshold interactions).)
- 18:55, 25 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-14) . . 2324: Old Days 2 (→Explanation: floppy disks: "magnetic storage" sted "magnetic-based storage." Drop "early" because floppies were far later than, e.g., magtapes, which date from the 1920s (1950s for computer data))
- 18:50, 25 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . 2324: Old Days 2 (→Explanation: Magtapes were not primarily cartridge-based, although some were. Also, specify that as bulk data, as there was in-core and even hard drive storage avalailable, depending on system and era. Perhaps it wants "among other places"?)
- 18:29, 25 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-18) . . 2324: Old Days 2 (→Explanation: Drop "from the Internet" re modem connections. Modem connections need not be to the Internet, and historically most were not, esp. in a mainframe context.)
- 18:28, 25 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-11) . . 2324: Old Days 2 (→Explanation: Not only early dialup-modems, but all dial-up modems, by definition, use landlines. (Arguably all modems, but also arguably not.) "do" sted "did," there's no need for the past tense here, nor for emphasis on it.)
- 18:25, 25 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . m 2324: Old Days 2 (→Explanation: mainframes not ''necessarily'' near Sacramento rather than "specifically" which is confusing.)
- 12:03, 13 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+747) . . Talk:2319: Large Number Formats (→"Engineering" notation omitted?: r)
- 23:09, 12 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+396) . . Talk:2319: Large Number Formats (e12 ftw)
- 06:28, 11 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+765) . . explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous (→Should we* reference xkcd.com "black lives matter" banner: "We already do," sorta.)
- 19:01, 9 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+422) . . Talk:Header text (→Formatting this page as a visual gallery?: new section)
- 19:00, 9 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+331) . . Talk:Header text (→Black lives matter: done.)
- 18:57, 9 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter, how to help: Spoken by Cueball)
- 18:47, 9 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+162) . . 2315: Eventual Consistency (→Trivia: Note header text change and link to it.)
- 18:44, 9 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+434) . . Header text (→2020-06-03 - Black Lives Matter, how to help: New; also empy header in interim)
- 09:34, 8 June 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . m 2055: Bluetooth (→Trivia: Partial revert of PotatoGod's 192993. There's no obvious reason to put present this irrelevant parenthesis on specification date to the reader, and no reason for doing so was given in the es. It's in a comment to stop people from adding it.)
- 00:13, 25 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+449) . . Talk:1522: Astronomy (What if they're just white paint on the ceiling?) (current)
- 00:04, 25 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m 1522: Astronomy (→Explanation: consistent spelling: centimeter over centimetre. The former is the US usage anyhow and this xkcd is a US comic.)
- 00:03, 25 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-38) . . 1522: Astronomy (→Explanation: Remove {{Citation needed}}. None is necessary for the fact that stars are not 2 meters away, nor that microscopes are expensive. The former is axiomatic from the definition, the latter is simply well-accepted.)
- 00:02, 25 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-6) . . m 1522: Astronomy (→Explanation: Grammar. "takes approach by" and "attempts approach it" are improper. Go with "is using" and "attempts to view them")
- 12:08, 23 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-4) . . m 2310: Great Attractor (→Explanation: consistent casing throughout: lowercase 'the' but titlecase 'Great Attractor'; also, no 'the The'; also also 'wall' stead 'Wall' (once))
- 11:57, 23 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+42) . . m 2310: Great Attractor (→Explanation: wikilink strange powers of beret guy)
- 02:28, 19 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 1614: Kites (Category:Dogs)
- 01:41, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . m 1725: Linear Regression (Category:Dogs rather, one colon)
- 01:40, 18 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . 1725: Linear Regression ([[Category::Dogs]])
- 23:04, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 1552: Rulebook (Category:Dogs)
- 23:03, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 1252: Increased Risk (Category:Dogs)
- 22:55, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 1193: Externalities (Category:Dogs)
- 22:54, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 207: What xkcd Means (Category:Dogs)
- 22:45, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 1079: United Shapes (Category:Dogs)
- 22:41, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 1922: Interferometry (Category:Dogs)
- 22:38, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 1829: Geochronology (→top: Category:Dogs)
- 22:35, 17 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+86) . . N Category:Dogs (Dogs.) (current)
- 00:13, 14 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . 2306: Common Cold (→Explanation: elimination of common cold at the same time as covid19 is more "colaterally" than "incidently." Probably a more accessible word is appropriate, though.)
- 00:54, 9 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+146) . . m 2304: Preprint (→Explanation: ref to Adobe trademark guidelines; break graf; fix typo)
- 00:46, 9 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+287) . . 2304: Preprint (→Explanation: PDF is actually an open format and not even Adobe uses an ® about it.)
- 14:14, 5 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . 824: Guest Week: Bill Amend (FoxTrot) (→Explanation: sudo isn't POSIX-compliant (wow, 82660 from Jan. 2015!) so don't say POSIX, nor is it Linux-specific. It's a common addition to Unix systems that's included by default in many. Say Unix!)
- 01:26, 10 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+228) . . m Talk:2278: Scientific Briefing (subst:unsigned)
- 23:20, 9 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+178) . . Talk:2278: Scientific Briefing ("bad to worse.")
- 23:19, 9 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+227) . . m Talk:2278: Scientific Briefing (unsigned)
- 09:17, 19 November 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+229) . . Talk:2230: Versus Bracket (Visual representation?)
- 09:12, 19 November 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . N File:versus bracket 2x known.png (Annotated version of 2230.) (current)
- 02:56, 19 November 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+197) . . m Talk:2230: Versus Bracket (fix xkcdbraket typo in yomikoma's comment and link it while we're here)
- 00:48, 19 November 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+65) . . 2230: Versus Bracket (→Explanation: Convert 2nd round to wikitable to array the data consistent with the bracket)
- 18:44, 18 November 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+478) . . Talk:2230: Versus Bracket (What happens if we fill in known winners?)
- 21:57, 13 November 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-207) . . 2218: Wardrobe (Remove Trivia section per (extended) Talk discussion; the trivia doesn't rise to the level of relevance to this comic's subject matter.)
- 21:41, 26 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+2,470) . . Talk:2218: Wardrobe (strike+r,r,r: I was totally wrong to accuse Lupo of misrepresentation; address "validity" of trivia; EU style guide; reversion &c.)
- 01:42, 25 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . m Talk:2218: Wardrobe (unsigned)
- 22:47, 24 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,723) . . Talk:2218: Wardrobe (EU/E.U. doesn't belong in trivia either. Also various responses.)
- 20:22, 23 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,352) . . Talk:2218: Wardrobe (EU vs. E.U. is a style choice that is not pertinent to the explanation of this comic.)
- 20:22, 23 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-56) . . 2218: Wardrobe (Remove lecturing about EU vs. E.U. See Talk.)
- 04:29, 11 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . m Talk:2213: How Old (fix my typo)
- 23:57, 9 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+932) . . Talk:2213: How Old (r)
- 23:45, 9 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . m Talk:2213: How Old (cleanup unsigned reply and fixup indentation)
- 11:21, 9 October 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+207) . . Talk:2213: How Old (It's all about the logarithms, baby!)
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