On 7/15/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:36:15 +0200, "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Honestly, I don't really see much need for a reliable source for a joke. If we say that a joke has a premise, a genre, a punchline etc, then we give an example that meets the criteria - I don't really see the harm if we invented the joke on the spot. If a better example comes along, so much the better.
Policy means nothing here, then? We can allow OR and subjective judgments as to which jokes do or don't represent the genre?
I don't think we require that illustrations need citations to prove they're representative, do we? We do allow subjective judgments on Wikipedia.
That said, academic citations would be cool - I'm sure there are academic papers on jokes.
-Matt