Talk:Randall Munroe

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)

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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)

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)

A little late, but here is a source:[1]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:05, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

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."
• C-class standard: "The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains much irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup."

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)