User talk:Utdtutyabthsc

DO NOT USE AI

Hi, and welcome. Please don't use AI in your contributions as they are often incorrect. I will go though all your contributions and fix them, but please refrain for using AI in the future, or you may end up being blocked. Thanks! FaviFake (talk) 11:24, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

OH - very sorry! i'll try to use normal ones from now on! --Utdtutyabthsc (talk) 20:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Normal ones? FaviFake (talk) 16:23, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

i mean normal edits. sorry, haven't checked this place in a while. --Utdtutyabthsc (talk) 06:54, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Incomplete

Regarding this, they often don't give a reason, because the template is there from page creation (historically to encourage it being filled in), when everything needs doing to it (that isn't there automatically) and the BOT doesn't know what to suggest (nor should it). ... As to why they hang around, it just takes someone (like yourself) to see that it no longer needs fiddling about with any more. (Though it's very possible that the person who removes the Incomplete tag essentially 'bumps' it in the attention of someone else who now realises that it needs a whole lot more editing... It happens!) As long as it's not under a week old (or not had some recent tweaking going on, that one was last edited 27/Jan, which suggests it hadn't), feel free to just remove the tag. No need to be surprised that it's still there, it just means that nobody else has noticed it (and thought it time to be removed) before you. Of course, be a bit more cautious is if it's still rather 'active', although the Incomplete tag, these days, isn't really the "quick, it needs an edit!" thing as much as a friendly marker that anyone who checks every week or so can enjoy (because there's usually a nice inside-joke embedded in it). 81.179.199.253 21:00, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

So, the incomplete tags in something older than a week usually mean either a. it really is incomplete or b. no-one's bothered to check them, or c. they haven't been checked for quite a bit and recently they realised they needed a lot more editing? got it, thanks for the helpful info! i'll try to keep this in mind later on. (sorry for the late reply, the message was sent at 1 am where i live...) --Utdtutyabthsc (talk) 03:21, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Sort of. And just choose almost any comic (back to around 1600 or so, at least) and look in the page history at its creation, and then (as you follow the changes from there on up) someone may well have edited the "by a BOT" bit into the joke version, along with or instead of their first manual edit (it's like a "First!" bragging rights, but more imaginative). The time it takes for the template to be removed is variable, but (if you care to run through the diffs between versions), you'll see that it probably lasts a little longer than you might expect when the Explanation is more or less bashed into shape, but then there's almost always post-Incomplete edits going on and I don't think you'll find many pages where the state of the page when the Incomplete is removed is completely unchanged from then on.

The {{incomplete template}}, on the other hand, is rather easier to consider resolved. Give or take minor corrections/reformattings, and the occasional really complicated (or even dynamic/evolving) comic, you can generally see when the Template section covers everything of note. Even when there's still not a good Explanation for why it's funny and/or smart. But that also gets added by the current BOT (it doesn't have a "created by a SOMETHING OTHER THAN A BOT" joke in it, which is another reason why it isn't left around longer than it more or less needs to be) with absolutely no information about what might still be incomplete about it... except for the initial "everything!", of course... 81.179.199.253 14:24, 10 February 2026 (UTC)