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Randall Munroe (talk · contribs)

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Mariss Martinelli (6 September 2019). "Xkcd Creator Randall Munroe on the Joys of Overthinking Everything". Slate (magazine). Retrieved 8 September 2019. On the talk page for the "Randall Munroe" entry, one user speculated that Munroe pranked Wikipedia editors into putting the fact that he was raised as a Quaker in his bio to illustrate the fake-news cycle of "citogenesis," a concept perhaps explained best by Munroe himself.

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Reassessment of quality

I've reassessed this article's quality and consider it is better than a "Start" and is (at least) a C-class.

Start-class standard: "An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources."
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This article has a number of reliable sources and covers all core information to some extent. This brings it past Start-class. HenryCrun15 (talk) 21:52, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Birth date?

I found the deletion dates for the two citations for Randall Munroe's birth date - https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Randall_Munroe&direction=next&oldid=937919437 and https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Randall_Munroe&direction=prev&oldid=937928182. Why were these sources deleted, and can we find new ones?

Bookipedia2001 (talk) 17:38, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Two? I only see one citation in those revisions. A recent edit (re-)removed this date (which showed up in today's xkcd) and noted in the edit comment that the reference was to a "now vanished, unarchived wiki". So that's probably why it was removed. But! It turns out it is archived (Wayback Machine 2017-12-22). I'm not saying the date should be re-added on the strength of this citation alone (it's not exactly a paragon of WP:RS), but at least it's available to us to check. -- Perey (talk) 05:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well found! For some reason I didn't see that when I checked Wayback. I suppose I should not label that an open wiki, but I don't think it meets the required standards for a BLP, and the xkcd could be Munroe's own version of citogenesis '-) In any case, under WP:BLPPRIVACY we do not give full birthdates that have not been widely published. I've just reverted reinsertion of the full date in the infobox with the xkcd as a reference. I understand from Explain XKCD that other-language versions of Wikipedia still have it, so it will likely get reinserted. Perhaps a footnote in the lead paragraph stating that the vaccination certificate in the comic gave that birth date, and a hidden note in the infobox? Of course, this morning's New York Times may mention that he revealed his birth date in the comic ... Yngvadottir (talk) 11:35, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good Question column

Since 2019 (and perhaps a bit earlier), Munroe has had a column in the New York Times entitled Good Question. The most recent article can be accessed here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/science/randall-munroe-question-popcorn.html Could someone add a bit about this coloumn or perhaps just acknowledge its existence? 72.138.144.38 (talk) 14:27, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"President of the Internet" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect President of the Internet and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 15#President of the Internet until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Plantdrew (talk) 18:51, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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-== Quaker ==
-There is no reference for Munroe being a Quaker except a footnote in a joke comic.  Additionally, engineering is an, um, /unusual/ career for a parent who is a Quaker.  This is likely an attempt from Munroe to generate a case of citogenesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting, https://xkcd.com/978/) as a small-scale Wikipedia prank. [[User:Xargque|Xargque]] ([[User talk:Xargque|talk]]) 17:04, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
-:While I appreciate your rationale and agree that it cannot be included at the present time, I would suggest that we [[WP:AGF]] about Munroe's motives here. I am not sure where you get the idea that Quakers should shun engineering education and careers, especially based on a read of [[Quakers in science]] and a working knowledge of their beliefs. Are you perhaps confusing them with Amish or Mennonites? Furthermore, [[Pennsylvania]] is the place where you would expect Quakers to be, albeit only 10,000 in the present day. And I don't honestly see how this particular claim, of all things, should be an attempt to induce citogenesis. I think Munroe has better things to do. And by strict definition, this would not be a case of citogenesis, because the origin of the claim is not Wikipedia, it is a [[WP:RS]]. [[Special:Contributions/2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26|2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26]] ([[User talk:2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26|talk]]) 01:34, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
-::A little late, but here is a source:[https://slate.com/culture/2019/09/xkcd-randall-munroe-interview-how-to-book-wikipedia.html]. [[User:Gråbergs Gråa Sång|Gråbergs Gråa Sång]] ([[User talk:Gråbergs Gråa Sång|talk]]) 15:05, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
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