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Added some more history to Machall. Not much new, just expanding the article. Crazyman

There are entirely too many links on this page. If you want to write about each episode, please do so, but don't create a link to every single one of them. RickK 05:06, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

It isn't each episode; it's just some of the more memorable ones. Do you think some links would be ok (say, for instance, linking to the most important episodes), as apposed to linking all of them? -- LGagnon

Only a very few. Wikipedia is not a link farm. RickK 05:39, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Aren't these references to specific strips a bit... excessive? Particularly the "appeared in" lists. It's ugly seeing multiple instances of four consecutive lines containing nothing but numbers in the cast page. Nor is it particularly relevant that we learn (character)'s last name in strip #xx.

Also, why call individual pages "episodes?" The dropdown on the main page calls them strips, why not call them strips? -- nifboy 22:40 8 Mar 2004

Ok, maybe the episode appearances might be a bit excessive, though I think some of the minor characters might deserve a list of the episodes they were in just so that it's easier for people to find the obscure ones. As for the last names, it makes an interesting bit of trivia, since Micah & Helen's last names were not mentioned elsewhere, and it clarifies as proof that those are their last names. As for episodes vs strips, that's a matter of preference; there isn't an actual need to change it. -- LGagnon 05:04, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

How often does Mac Hall update? --Decrypt3 18:53, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Significant changes 2 Citation 3 Hacked... 4 Matt Losing His Job (for talking) 5 Citation wrong, or just changed?

[edit] Significant changes

The appearance by strip number list for minor characters was unnecessary and the "notable episodes" section was grossly excessive, not to mention unencyclopaedic. This isn't a fan page, and Mac Hall doesn't have the dramatic continuity for specific strips to be notable as big story turning points. I see no particular reason to label the style of the strip as "similar to anime". The resemblance (besides the employment of "chibi style") is passing at best. I'll change that section when I have the time unless someone wants to defend it. Bulwark 10:55, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

That's what I said (see above). Nifboy 18:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Added some more history to Machall. Not much new, just expanding the article.

[edit] Citation

I've cited the Digimon strip as the article spends a paragraph talking about it. This is no call to start obsessively linking to the comic. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hacked...

Quoting the rant in Three Panel Soul's main page:

Oh for shit's sake...

Machall.com has been hacked again... Posted by Ian March 29, 2007, 12:36 ES

Again? I guess it has been hacked more than once. If you go to the Mac Hall website it (and the source code) currently only show "HACKER_ONUR ||". I figure this should be added somehow to the article. --Ihmhi 07:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I added it but it was deleted :\

[edit] Matt Losing His Job (for talking)

Matt apparently just lost his job for talking about buying a gun for paper target shooting on the day of the VA Tech shootings. He also apparently wrote a strip about it which he police then visited him because of, saying it was a “borderline terroristic threat.” Can someone write this up (better than i could). Source is here http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=44 (and www.threepanelsoul.com)

Seems like any mention of this should go on the Three Panel Soul page as it is the current comic. SirBob42 14:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I would tend to agree with the above, except for the fact that this refers to Matt's real life, not just the comic and a search for Matt Boyd links to the Mac Hall page for whatever reason. 204.69.40.13 12:57, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Fixable, and currently fixed. --DocumentN (talk) 06:20, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citation wrong, or just changed?

The first sentence is:

Mac Hall (debut: 2000-11-07) is a webcomic which was created through a bet between the creator Ian McConville and a friend who claimed he "couldn't make a comic like Penny Arcade".[1]

but footnote 1 (http://machall.comicgenesis.com/info/art.html) doesn't contain this quote, or anything like it, AFAICT. Perhaps it's changed since then. What's the wikipedia policy on citing things that then change on us? Or does somebody have another source for this? (Google turns up only this article and a mirror of it.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.147.176.66 (talk) 23:31, 30 December 2007 (UTC)