804: Pumpkin Carving

Banach-Tarski paradox

A "round about reference" definitely merits a place in the external links section.

800: Beautiful Dream

The Rules

Yes, this strikes me as the sort of page with a definite need for an "In Popular Culture" section.

803: Airfoil

Airfoil

Thumbs up if you're an idiot.

It's like they know it's going to get reverted anyway, so they don't bother with subtlety anymore.

800: The Rules

The Rules

Thought question: How popular does something have to be before you can call it "In Popular Culture"?

792: Password Reuse

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997&action=history

I'm just going to leave that right here.

766: Green Flash

Green flash

Totally relevant.

"Green Flash" sounds like a DC superhero mix-up. I'd read it.

740: The Tell-Tale Beat

Daft Punk

So funny we vandalized it twice!

The page for Tell-Tale Heart wasn't actually vandalized, leading me to the theory that the caliber of genius that resorts to this behavior is not aware of the reference.

Lies, lies, dirty lies

Randall claims not to have foreseen exactly what would come of posting a Wikipedia-related comic.

For extra laffs, see the idiot wonderful individual who didn't catch that the "disambiguation" reference was an attempt at a joke as well as the responses thereto.

739: Malamanteau

Uh-oh, Randall made a Wikipedia-themed comic!

Edit: For clarification, the page didn't exist before yesterday (I think), but there have been countless attempts to create it since. As of last night, the page was a deletion log; today, it redirects to xkcd. The interesting stuff is, as usual, in the discussion and history pages.

738: Operation

Yes, I'm lazy.

But more importantly, someone thought this would be funny. Tell me which is more appalling!

710: Collatz Conjecture

Collatz conjecture

The Adam Conjecture: If fans have to look it up, it will be vandalized. (Check the edit history for over 9000 a ton of unfunny internet meme edits starting March 5.)

708

Wikipedia does not have a page for "sex dice."

...but if it did, it would have an xkcd link right now. I wouldn't be surprised if one surfaced in the next couple days. If it happens, you read it here first.

705: Sysadmin

System administrator

Four comics in a row, ladies and gentlemen. We're on a roll.

704: Principle of Explosion

Principle of explosion

"If you run a webcomic, you can reference it in any Wikipedia article. It's called the principle of xkcd."

"Any Wikipedia article? Let me try."

703: Tautology Club

Tautology

That was quick.

702: Snow and stuff

Higgs boson

This just in: xkcd lacks relevancy.

Twofer

695: Spirit rover
"Perhaps." Huh.


696: Prisoner's dilemma
Yeah, that's germaine.


I'm not dead! Just busy! This blog still updates, ladies and gentlemen.

Notable

What makes someone "notable"? As David Segal said, "Wiki-worthiness has quietly become a new digital divide, separating those who think they are notable from those granted the imprimatur of notability by a horde of anonymous geeks." (Ouch, burn.)

I don't claim to be an expert on Wikilaw. I leave it to you to judge our friend Randall Munroe. You and I know him as the author of the webcomic xkcd. You may not know, however, that he is...

• a famous Slashdotter


• a notable resident of Chesterfield Court House, Virginia (aside: I thought he lived in Massachusetts)


• a notable person from the Lehigh Valley


• a notable endorser of Barack Obama


• a notable Browncoat


• a notable Randall


• a notable Munroe

The guy gets around.

Vandalism in action

Talk:Centrifugal force (rotating reference frame)

There are two relevant sections in this talk page: one of them is a discussion about the comic's relevance to the article and the other is "stop reverting the removal of the xkcd link."

There are reasonable people on both sides of the relevance argument, of course, but the point of interest to me is the "please stop adding the comic as if we'd reached consensus" discussion. Oh, those wacky xkcd fans!

Playing catch-up

Hello, internet. I am back from vacation. Let's see what I missed OH MY GOODNESS

681: Gravitational wells
Yes. This deserves to be in the introduction. Absolutely.

682: Erotic asphyxiation
Curse you for making me look up this article, Randall Munroe. Incidentally, including a reference to Wikipedia inside of the actual comic is a guarantee that Wikipedia will be vandalized as a result of the comic.

Oh, and the edit in question is particularly awful.