Editing Talk:2532: Censored Vaccine Card

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Huh,his birthday was a week ago. Happy belated brithday![[Special:Contributions/162.158.48.115|162.158.48.115]] 04:03, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

What if this card is from the future and Cuedall is legitimately censoring his fourth dose.
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.43|162.158.255.43]] 22:38, 22 October 2021 (UTC) Running Gazelle

Numbers: Patient number is digits of pi after 3.1; 1138 and 2187 seem to be Star Wars references; 5309 is...Jenny? and 1729 is the Ramanujan-Hardy number.
[[User:Clam|Clam]] ([[User talk:Clam|talk]]) 23:16, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

I should be used to it by now (several decades of personal exposure to it) but I *still* have to double-take at dates in the illogical MM-DD-(YY)YY format. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.161|162.158.155.161]] 23:34, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
:Agreed. This "mixed endian" format makes no sense.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.105|172.68.133.105]] 19:43, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
::Yeah, I prefer D-YY-M-D-Y-M-Y (for example, for January 13, 2021, I would put 1-20-0-3-2-1-1) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.193|172.70.211.193]] 04:41, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

This is timely for me, I'm getting my booster tomorrow. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 00:32, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

The date of birth corresponds to the date formerly on {{w|Randall Munroe|Randall's Wikipedia article}}, which never had an acceptable citation (only a now irretrievable wiki). The year is cited there, but not the rest. [[User:Yngvadottir|Yngvadottir]] ([[User talk:Yngvadottir|talk]]) 01:42, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Randall's pretty young. I wonder (it's none of my business, of course) whether he got a booster because his wife is a cancer survivor. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 03:05, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

"This is the first comic including a sentence in Spanish." Well, it includes most of the sentence in Spanish, but it not a complete Spanish sentence, because it is heavily redacted.  So there has not actually been a Spanish sentence in XKCD yet. [[User:Nutster|Nutster]] ([[User talk:Nutster|talk]]) 04:15, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

I've added the rest of the text to the transcript, but someone who knows wiki markup and/or transcript convention better than me should definitely revise the formatting. [[User:Esogalt|Esogalt]] ([[User talk:Esogalt|talk]]) 07:46, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

I was wondering why is Randal still using CVS, surely by now he has migrated to git? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.105|162.158.159.105]]
: Don't know if this is a joke about code repositories or not, but CVS is a pharmacy chain in the US. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.87|172.69.34.87]] 09:21, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

:: I've added this to the explanation. [[User:Esogalt|Esogalt]] ([[User talk:Esogalt|talk]]) 09:36, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

This feels very SCP-esque. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.214.17|172.69.214.17]] 17:31, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
: [REDACTED] [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.106|172.69.68.106]] 23:23, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

It's interesting that the censor bars are parallel to the card, rather than the ''photo'' of the card, implying either a painstaking attention to detail (not implausible for Randall), or that he has actually physically blacked out the information on the card itself. [[User:Esogalt|Esogalt]] ([[User talk:Esogalt|talk]]) 17:37, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
:The entire image of Randal's card is a drawing, BTW. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 04:05, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
:: Yes, my analysis was "in character", so to speak. [[User:Esogalt|Esogalt]] ([[User talk:Esogalt|talk]]) 05:02, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Doesn't that say "Clinician #5309"? that would not refer to the store, but to the employee who administered the shot. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:43, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to describe it as a redacted vaccination card rather than censored? [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 13:45, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
:If it has been wafted through the purifying smoke of a thurible (there's no indication it hasn't!) we could say it has been censered..? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.81|141.101.107.81]] 15:37, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

I dislike that the explanation is taken the comic extremely literal. In several places it refers to Randall and seems to identify Randall with the author of the comic, for instance when pointing out a place of living not mentioned in the comic. This is in particular crucial when it comes to the date of birth, which coincides with the date of birth typically assigned to the author of the comic. However, the English Wikipedia sees insufficient evidence in the public record to name his birthday.   --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.214|162.158.93.214]] 05:42, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
: I mean, Randall Munroe is both the name on the card and the author of the comic, but I would agree(?) that xkcd Randall is more of a fictionalisation of Real Life Randall. I don't see a problem with comparing the locations though -- what would a less literal interpretation look like to you? There was some back-and-forth on the birth date thing, and I think someone took Randall's page on this wiki as a reliable source, which isn't proper (though it's an entertaining example of citogenesis).
: There was already a mention of the last line being blank; yours felt a bit easier to read so I've attempted to merge them. [[User:Esogalt|Esogalt]] ([[User talk:Esogalt|talk]]) 07:30, 26 October 2021 (UTC)