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Semi-protected edit request on 15 October 2024

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Buy my products 110.175.99.62 (talk) 01:15, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. TyphoonAmpil (💬 - 📝) 01:17, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

geographical location?

The use in the lead of 'geographical location,' is weird, I can not see it in any reference, while culture is in the listing and makes sense, upbringing and religious views are missed, and intelligence and level of education is a bit redundant. 121.98.30.202 (talk) 11:46, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 7 February 2025

Link to Automatic Humor Detection is broken (and archive link is broken) and I can't edit the page to fix. Here is the correct link: https://aclanthology.org/N12-2012.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:646:9601:1910:C113:8DB6:5C77:3ABA (talk) 22:34, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thank you for pointing this out.—Anita5192 (talk) 00:41, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Caustic humour into Humour

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The result of the discussion was merge Caustic humour into Humour. FaviFake (talk) 15:24, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not much to say here. Very short article, one of the three sources is a quote archive. I think the content here would be better merged to a subsection of either Humour or black comedy. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 16:39, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Caustic humour should definitely be merged into Humour. Having a separate article is unnecessary, and a brief mention here would suffice. However, I don't believe caustic humor crosses the line into black comedy. — Staniu lis ✿ 01:23, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support – per nom, article is so short FaviFake (talk) 13:21, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support, unless article is expanded. Tokeamour (talk) 00:17, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Though subject of opinion, it is possible for it to be expanded if Wikipedians would like to attempt the challenge! Tokeamour (talk) 00:21, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Since after a few months no one here carried out the merge, identified any content worth keeping, or suggested where in the article it could actually go, I've carried out a WP:BLAR. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 23:07, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! FaviFake (talk) 16:01, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Tokeamour (talk) 17:13, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]