Talk:XXX

XXX on bottles

I'm pretty sure I've seen XXX written on bottles of alcohol in old cartoons. Is anyone else familiar with this usage? Gary 06:02, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

From the page: "A generic depiction of Moonshine or other alcoholic beverage". Thanks/wangi 11:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I must have missed that. Sorry! Gary 16:15, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

--80.92.184.169 (talk) 19:02, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Clan

XxX is also a clan I own. How can I make a page about it? -Dave Sven Co-op is fun! 08:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Articles must meet standards of notability in order to be considered for inclusion in Wikipedia. I don't think that a clan that you own would meet such criteria unless it has been spoken about in some sort of newspaper/article/website (other than those created by you or someone affiliated with you). - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 20:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

use as shorthand for love, kiss, etc

I could find no documentation on wikipedia of this use for xxx. of course its real, but until its added, no link should be here. perhaps someone would like to add that to the article on love, kisses, or abbreviations. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

What about porno theaters or other adult businesses? 165.91.13.58 (talk) 04:49, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Recent wholesale edits!!!

Three editors (or perhaps one editor on three computers?) identified only by IPs that have been highly disruptive in the past - made some really drastic edits (mainly deleting stuff as innapropriate to a dab - while leaving other stuff equally questionable). I have reverted quite a lot of this - including the basic layout of the article, which was more helpful as it was - while restoring, on second thoughts, some re-sectionising and other obviously good faith edits.

Please - I know we're suppose to be bold - BUT

Do log in (or get a proper account if you haven't already). Many of us have substantial watchlists of articles we are watching for vandalism - and using IPs (especially "bad" IPs with a record of disruptive nonsense) when you make good faith edits is a sure way of getting reverted.

Where you feel an article (even a dab) needs drastic work please bring it up on the talk page first.

Feel free to criticise my current version of this one - which attempts to restore what should not have been deleted - while maintaining useful improvements from these very obviously good faith edits. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 09:36, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

P.S. I've deleted a few links that seem not to be very useful/relevant. Soundofmusicals (talk) 09:46, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

"Classified" section headings

Not sure what the rationale was behind the layout this article is periodically reverted to, which puts half the lines nowhere near the conceptually similar ones. Honestly, it is easier to read like this (or was that the problem?) --Soundofmusicals (talk) 06:24, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Arrangement of sections

There have been several attempts to re-arrange this disambig. page. The current arrangement is not random, but carefully considered. Human nature being what it is, most readers arriving at this page are actually looking for pornography - so that removing this most likely heading altogether, or moving it to the bottom, which a large proportion of the more thickheaded portion of our readership never get down to anyway, looks very much like censorship, not to mention what is much worse, deliberate unhelpfulness. On the other hand it would be a shame if the use of "XXX" to mean "extra strong porn" were to swamp out the other uses detailed on the page - so putting the "porn" usage in context by listing it as a subset of the "extra-strong" meaning (which it IS of course) may serve to point out to the slightly more thoughtful that the other meaning are there. (Given that most users very probably only get onto this page to find the link for their favourite subject anyway). This does NOT mean that anything here is set in stone, and that constructive comments about the way the page is arranged should not be debated, but... --Soundofmusicals (talk) 05:08, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Edit reversions 24 Nov

@Soundofmusicals: you reverted my edits twice. What is the issue with my edit? There are a number of problems with the page as you prefer it, among which are a section "Communications" which is non-standard and not about communications; a variety of non-standard formattings; and breaches of MOS:DAB guidelines. Common uses (and I concede pornography is one), can go at the top, but the rest of the section is unacceptable. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 12:33, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

I've already been to your talk page - basically to apologise for being a little curt. Realised after a little poking around that you had a more thoughtful objection than I was giving you credit for! There are really far fewer "real" variant uses of XXX than might appear - bringing the ones that logically "go together" works - it all looks very disjointed and incoherent otherwise. (I know this is not an uncommon thing with DAB pages but that's no reason why this one has to be!) If the "Communications" section heading is the main objection (and I can see why it might seem a little strange) can you think of a better word than "communications" to bring together the uses under the current heading? Usefulness always trumps uniformity!! (pun totally UNintended for once) --Soundofmusicals (talk) 12:51, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello @Soundofmusicals: How about the latest revision: Codes and symbols? Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 13:11, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

OK - I can live with that... --Soundofmusicals (talk) 13:21, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks @Soundofmusicals:. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 18:10, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Well...

Same as Talk:XXXX. This page has received a lot of blank edit requests. Thoughts? ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 14:45, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines#Removing empty edit requests

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines#Removing empty edit requests. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:58, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

XXX in fiction

XXX is often found on bottles containing alcoholic beverages in cartoons and comics. See also the comment from 2006 on the top of this talk page. I'm not sure if this should be added as a separate line or integrated into the existing entry regard beer measurements from where this labeling practice is derived from. It is not restricted to beer when used in cartoons and comics. --188.22.148.58 (talk) 03:03, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

On a disambiguation page (such as XXX), we require that every entry have a link to an article about the linked term. So we would need to identify an article that, if not primarily about such use in cartoons, is at least about, say, themes in cartoons and which includes a sourced section describing the meaning of XXX. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:05, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Failing this, perhaps a mention, direct or otherwise, in the article on moonshine? In the absence of either it is just not the place of a "disambiguation" article (as such to) provide the link. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 07:47, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Add the Kim Petras song

Kim Petras has a song named "XXX" from her 2022 EP, Slut Pop. 84.69.3.175 (talk) 23:53, 8 March 2024 (UTC)