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| quote = 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.
| quote = 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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== Radiation ==

The following unsourced sentences were added recently to the section about the '''radiation''' chart by an anonymous IP editor:
{{quote box | quote = However, the chart is designed to be visually misleading by representing radiation doses for significantly differing periods of time for the circumstances depicted and at differing distances from the radiation source. E,g. Whilst many of the examples given represent one year's accumulation of radiation those representing the Fukishma and Chernobyl events are for periods of two weeks and one hour respectively, creating a false impression foR anyone not reading and understanding the significance if the small print.|align=center}}
They have since been adjusted and citation tags added. I have looked for evidence to support the claim that the chart has been criticised on these grounds, and have not found any. I am sure the chart can, and possibly has, been criticised, but I feel that the circumstances of its creation, the value that it does have, and the avowedly non-expert nature of its creator are adequately covered in the preceding paragraph, so I have removed these sentences. If there is encyclopedically significant criticism that should be acknowledged here perhaps someone can add it with appropriate citations. [[User:Mooncow|''mooncow'']] 14:23, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

:Well it's probably a moot point by now, but if Randall is comparing doses of an hour, two weeks, and a year; then I think this is ''extremely'' important and should be noted. Verdana<span style="color:red;">♥</span>'''Bøld''' 14:37, 27 October 2015 (UTC) <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Verdana Bold|Verdana Bold]] ([[User talk:Verdana Bold|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Verdana Bold|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


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Infobox "area"

Hmm, very curious as to why there's a "Pen and pencil" in the infobox for Monroe's area of interest/expertise. SPD 17:49, 27 December 2016 (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. Xargque (talk) 17:04, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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. 2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 (talk) 01:34, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
A little late, but here is a source:[1]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:05, 12 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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

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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]