All I know is that the old version of the article was a lot more interesting.
On 7/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG 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.
Drive-by cruft is a good case for [[Wikipedia:Stable versions now]].
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