[WikiEN-l] Joke

[Oldak Quill]

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 at 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)
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