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Which should the image use? Do we even need an example, when we could have a short sentence distinguishing name-calling from ad hominem? --[[User:McGeddon|McGeddon]] ([[User talk:McGeddon|talk]]) 17:41, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 
:With no response in a month I've gone ahead and reverted it, as "idiot" seems less of a profanity, making the image and this article more widely reusable. (Reading up on "ass hat" as an insult it may be intended to mean "to have one's head up one's ass", which would make it even more of an ad hominem than "idiot" anyway.)
:I tried editing the SVG directly in a text editor to a third option - something like "jerk" might be a better word to use - but the text isn't editable. If anybody wants to make or implement suggestions, feel free. --[[User:McGeddon|McGeddon]] ([[User talk:McGeddon|talk]]) 15:25, 30 November 2015 (UTC)