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In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :) DumZiBoT (talk) 16:08, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * "hopkins" :
 * Aaron Glazer, Doonesbury Delivers Satirical Satisfaction, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, March 16, 2000
 * Glazer 2006

What happens in the newspaper if a comic strip is dropped?
Some comic strips/episodes have been dropped by some newspapers because they were deemed to be too sensitive/politically incorrect or simply because the paper has no guts. What appears instead? Just another comic strip? Or is the space where Doonesbury would normally appear left blank? --Soylentyellow (talk) 09:44, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe they rerun an old story arc. Czolgolz (talk) 11:34, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Dan Quayle
"a feather for the “lightweight” Dan Quayle" - I always assumed it was a White feather because of allegations that he dodged the Vietnam draft. Is there a definitive source one way or the other? Peter Ballard (talk) 05:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought the feather was because he was a 'quayle.'Czolgolz (talk) 12:22, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Out of date reference
Reference number 10 (# ^ a b Aaron Glazer, Doonesbury Delivers Satirical Satisfaction, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, March 16, 2000) appears to no longer point to the proper content. It now just points to the main page for this newsletter, and the archives don't have an entry for march 16th, 2000 Licensedlunacy (talk) 04:01, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Long interview in Guardian Newspaper
Just thought I mention it here for someone with more knowledge to add the link somehow. Lots of background and the first interview since many, many years. LinkNostrada (talk) 00:10, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Anything from Obama?
Is the sentence "Outspoken critics have included members of every US Presidential administration since Richard Nixon’s." still accurate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.160.157.241 (talk) 19:03, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Quite frankly, I'm not sure it was accurate then. It really needs a citation. Czolgolz (talk) 17:00, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Strip discrepancies?
It recently came to my attention that the early doonesbury strips in the online archive at gocomics, and the strips in the early books do not match. Some have been edited for content (one he tries to gross out a bad date by inviting her to sleep in his bed, has been changed to his couch) Some are simply missing from the online archive as far as I can tell (including one where Mike is called a skinny little frosh by a woman he is hitting on, and thinks to himself that if he wasn't so skinny and little he would "rape her for that")

I'm not unhappy to see them go (especially that last one) but does anyone know when the revision occured and why? (other than the obvious reason of good taste.) Also, if we can find outside sources, is this important enough to be in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.78.182.21 (talk) 01:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I have most of the early books. Could you give me titles and page numbers so I could look these up? I don't recall any of that.Czolgolz (talk) 01:10, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, I just left the house that has those books. I'll look up page numbers tomorrow if I remember.  I remember that the specific books were "Doonesbury, Origional Yale Comics" (sic) and "There are still a few bugs in the system."  The comic that was edited was http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1970/12/12 and it was dated 2-26 (in the copyright in the strip) in the book.  (I think that was in the Yale strips book)  The missing comic comes from the mixer sequence, starting here: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1970/11/20.  (Interestingly, the strip following this, http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1970/11/21 also seems to be in response to some of the strips in the book, which are not on the net, but the strip does not appear in the book. )


 * One I have no explanation for is http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1970/11/26 which in the book has a train in the background, but is otherwise very similar.


 * They should all be pretty early on in the books.Jared Thaler (talk) 03:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure what happened is that Trudeau recycled a lot of jokes from his original Yale 'Bull Tales' strip and put them into Doonesbury. That would explain the differences in artwork and the self-censorship. Here's the uncensored 'share my bed' strip from the Doonesbury website: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/yale?page=3 ICzolgolz (talk) 04:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


 * That would explain a lot of it, if the "Doonesbury, the origional yale comics" were actually the Bull Tales strips. I thought there were still some discrepancies from the "bugs in the system" strips, but I'll have to check tomorrow.


 * The "rape" strip immediately follows strip 8 in the Origional Yale book IIRC, but seems to be missing from the online collection you linked.Jared Thaler (talk) 04:39, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


 * All the ones I can find in "bugs" are the same as online, though I haven't been able to check throughly, because the strips are somewhat out of order in the book.Jared Thaler (talk) 16:45, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Top Importance?
There's a discussion on which comic-related articles should be listed as "Top Importance" on the importance scale, and I feel this article should not be included. If any user disagrees or wishes to contribute, please do so there. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Reruns
The article states "From March 3, 2014, the strip offers reruns starting from the very beginning of its history as opposed to the recent ones that re-run when Trudeau is on vacation." However, today's rerun references President Ford, who wasn't president till 1974, so every strip is obviously not being rerun, even though the first rerun was the first strip from 1970. Ulmanor (talk) 16:49, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The strip does offer reruns starting from the very beginning of its history. I am not sure what you think is inaccurate - the article obviously does not state that the entire strip is being re-run, as this would take 44 years! Mezigue (talk) 18:28, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Good point. Thanks. Ulmanor (talk) 19:50, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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Treatment of Donald Trump
Given the length of the list that is the redirect target, I'm thinking this may not be a notable publication, but I wanted to include it in Sad (disambiguation). I used a piped link for Sad!: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump but the actual title is #Sad!: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump. I'm thinking the publication is not notable enough for its own article, though there is this, which mentions the publication briefly, but seems to go into more detail about Garry Trudeau's satirizing of Donald Trump. Perhaps I'm looking at adding some information to the Doonesbury article. There may be more detail to add than just the one publication.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  16:01, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

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