Talk:285: Wikipedian Protester

2024-08-02T02:15:27Z

162.158.158.229:

[http://www.google.com link title]I wanna sneakily add {{Citation needed}} to EVERYTHING on the article -- [[Citation Needed on Wheels]]
: There is too much seemingly-spam edits that attempt to insert "citation needed" on various pages on this wiki. Many of these attempts got reverted. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.166.173|162.158.166.173]] 06:14, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
:: It seems to amuse some people, who may have just discovered the idea. More annoying than the attempt to tag every paragraph (at least once!) in every article, or so it seems, is not understanding that the tag goes on the ''other'' side of the punctuation (comma, and/or sentence/parenthetical ending), or plonking it down mid-sentence with seemingly no thought to "why there?".
:: As we have had a recent string of misplaced zeal (an IP, like me and you, so hard to tie down or try to tell them where they're going wrong), I suspect a newbie to the site. But it seems we have some people (other than me) who either edit or revert such 'errors'. Which is nice. Maybe newbie'll take note and pick up the art of subtlety. Or at least the conventional style. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.35|172.70.90.35]] 09:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
::: This appeared again twice in [[2466]]. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.220|172.69.22.220]] 09:55, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Does this need a citation? --[[User:Dalonacueball|Dalonacueball]] ([[User talk:Dalonacueball|talk]]) 16:30, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
:No.{{Citation needed}} [[User:SuperSupermario24|Just some random derp]] 03:54, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
My favorite {{Citation needed}} joke was the fact that the Wikipedia article for "{{w|List of cetacean species|List of Whales}}" used to have "Cetacean Needed" if it was missing an image or scale diagram of the creature in question. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 05:11, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
:Still does! Thanks for pointing that out. [[User:Zeusfaber|Zeusfaber]] ([[User talk:Zeusfaber|talk]]) 18:41, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
:Checked last week, there's still a cetacean needed for the page to be complete. [[User:ChessCake|ChessCake]] ([[User talk:ChessCake|talk]]) 22:20, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
:Some anonymous wikipedia editor was enjoying themselves far too much when writing that wiki. Its so genius that no-one has changed it yet! Wikipedia is normally maintained pretty well for the big pages{{Citation needed}}. sam0fc 14:49, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
::Amazingly, it's still there! There's 12 of them still! [[User:Lettherebedarklight|aoijgpisbHtejsykl7ekderhtsjk6r64os4kys\\\[]jsrtjgdrghtvgwrhtejyku5dli6;78t7l6rk5j4h|||||#Rty-----WWWWWWfflfllfllfllfeogk0q9wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww4-cv;c;;c;c[;]z\]d;v[\]????????OH GOD IT'S CRASIHNG MY PC��]] ([[User talk:Lettherebedarklight|talk]]) 12:22, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
::If you check the discussion, people have tried to change it before. But, strictly speaking, "cetacean needed" goes where they need an image of a cetacean. No citation is needed at all, and it is 100% fair to say that (an image of) a cetacean is, in fact, needed. [[User:Tsumikiminiwa|Tsumikiminiwa]] ([[User talk:Tsumikiminiwa|talk]]) 08:28, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Is it just me or does the politician in this comic (from almost nine years ago) look suspiciously like Mr. Trump?--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.85.129|162.158.85.129]] 22:09, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
:Nah, this one has better hair.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.29|173.245.56.29]] 00:25, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
:Plus, this came out a long time before he became...big.{{Citation needed}} [[User:Dontknow|Dontknow]] ([[User talk:Dontknow|talk]]) 19:42, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
::Don't know how you define "big," but by most definitions Trump has in fact been "big" since *long* before this comic. {{Citation needed}} [[User:Abcasada|Abcasada]] ([[User talk:Abcasada|talk]]) 22:20, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
Huh, in my memory, this comic specifically included the phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident". I guess not - but I wonder if some Wikipedians would consider a {{Citation needed}} for that one? [[User:Cosmogoblin|Cosmogoblin]] ([[User talk:Cosmogoblin|talk]]) 19:42, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

{{Citation needed}}. [[User:AnonymousSub61|AnonymousSub61]] ([[User talk:AnonymousSub61|talk]]) 15:32, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Does this mean you can play [https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/game SMBC's game] using this website? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.89.250|162.158.89.250]] 15:00, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
: I had the same idea! [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.193|108.162.221.193]] 14:31, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

[http://smbc-comics.com Funtime Activity]: Create citations for all pages with {{citation needed}} in them. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.88|172.69.68.88]] 02:35, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

== xkcd Volume 0 (book) ==

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:FYI, the character is Reddit's snoo mascot. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.214.72|172.69.214.72]] 02:25, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

== Alternatives for use on Wikipedia talk pages ==

Alternatives for use on Wikipedia talk pages (don't use these in articles; that would be vandalism): These alternatives are formatted to look exactly like the normal citation needed, but lead to other uses of the words. This tends to remain as an undiscovered easter egg because pretty much nobody actually clicks on citation needed links. You can test these without actually changing Wikipedia bu\y using the show preview button and not using the save changes button.

For use in a Wikipedia talk page comment:

<pre><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Citation (horse)|Citation]] [[Northern European Enclosure Dam|Need]][[ed (text editor)|ed]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></pre>

<pre><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Edsel Citation|Citation]] [[Northern European Enclosure Dam|Need]][[ed (text editor)|ed]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></pre>

<pre><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Citation (horse)|Citation]] [[Nee!|Nee]][[Ded Moroz|ded]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></pre>

<pre><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Edsel Citation|Citation]] [[Nee!|Nee]][[Ded Moroz|ded]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></pre>

For use as the edit summary (no formatting needed) when adding the above:

<pre>[[Citation (horse)|Citation]] [[Northern European Enclosure Dam|Need]][[ed (text editor)|ed]]</pre>

<pre>[[Edsel Citation|Citation]] [[Northern European Enclosure Dam|Need]][[ed (text editor)|ed]]</pre>

<pre>[[Citation (horse)|Citation]] [[Nee!|Nee]][[Ded Moroz|ded]]</pre>

<pre>[[Edsel Citation|Citation]] [[Nee!|Nee]][[Ded Moroz|ded]]</pre>

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== Addition to Trivia ==
The subtext of Xkcd 285 is "SEMI-PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION". I just checked, and the "Constitution of the United States" Wikipedia article is Semi-protected, as is the "Constitution" article. Should this be listed in the trivia section?[[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.229|162.158.158.229]] 02:15, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:285: Wikipedian Protester