Much humour involves some kind of offense to a particular group of people. It is a very difficult issue, someone will complain regardless of who is targeted. I do believe, however, that examples of jokes are necessary to an article about jokes (perhaps a couple of audio clips in which famous comedians deliver a joke or two). An article about novels will contain the names of many novels, this not being the case would strike most as odd.
Are there any extremely widely known offensive jokes such that their documentation by us wouldn't be offensive to anyone?
On 11/07/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
I removed the jokes. Mikka reverted. My reasoning:
- no reliable sources for these being considered representative of the
classes of joke discussed
- this is about the concept of the joke, it is not [[List of jokes]]
(and most especially not [[List of randomly selected and generally abysmal jokes]])
- several are gratuitously offensive. It should be possible to read
the article on joke, be told that racist jokes exist, but not be subjected to them unless you visit a separate article
- WP:NOT a joke book
- cruft, cruft, cruft and more cruft. Most are drive-bys.
Guy (JzG)
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG
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