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This article is a joke. Please someone fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trust Is All You Need (talk • contribs)

If you're not going to explain what you think is wrong with it, it's mighty hard for anyone else to doing anything about it. Rd232 ^talk

Please explain this edit. This is notable according to cited book. Do you want more direct quotation? There is no other way to prove notability except citing a reliable source (an academic book in this case) that claims something to be notable.Biophys (talk) 20:37, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note the title of the book I quoted: "A Short Encyclopedia of Real Socialism".Biophys (talk) 20:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

While the fact that "real socialism" was subject of many political jokes is notable, specific examples of jokes are not. There is no evidence of widespread use or lasting importance of this specific jokes.DonaldDuck (talk) 05:13, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Notability guidelines are about creating articles, not about the content. The relevant policy here is WP:NPOV. It requires all significant views on the subject (and sourced to WP:RS) to be fairly represented. I included one of the views, as described in a book. You can include others.Biophys (talk) 14:27, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quoting notable political jokes is no different from any other quoting in WP articles. If Sarnov used examples of political jokes, songs, poetry and other folklore to illustrate his points in the books, we can quote him. No problem.Biophys (talk) 15:34, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relevant policy here is WP:UNDUE. There is no evidence of importance of this particular jokes. Wikipedia is encyclopedia, not collection of jokes. DonaldDuck (talk) 02:37, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's not collection of jokes. Hence I quote the book named "...Real socialism".Biophys (talk) 05:19, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]