I m going to step back from this a bit and see if we can come to a satisfactory resolution It is clear to me that Ali G must be covered somehow in this article perhaps in a manner that acknowledges wide public opinion while including a more robust analysis e g distinction between a chav and a wigger if there is one and if they are not overlapping sets The problem here is that to a vast number of people Ali G is not merely a chav but is the canonical chav And since the character pre dates the term part of the popular definition of chav is person that resembles style language etc Ali G That is a difficult thing to handle One of the things I found annoying in Chocolateboy s edits was reference to the Ali G material as an anachronism That s simply inapposite Sacha Baron Cohen created a character that satirized a particular stereotype of class language clothing etc Simply because that stereotype later became referred to as a chav does not make it incorrect to report the label