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Underground cave

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I make edits to the tautology of "underground cave". The reason it is redundant is that all caves exist underground by definition. There is no such thing as a cave that is above ground. All caves are within the ground, and therefore under it; and that's why "underground cave" is redundant. I'd recommend if you want to specify where a cave is located, that you mention it is beneath something in particular, like a city, home, farmland, adjacent fields, etc. Dictionaries define a cave as being within the earth, which is the ground. Adding underground to cave doesn't enlighten the reader.

Additionally, this article makes some inference to living in caves. I'm no expert on this subject matter of this article, but it seems to me that it is referring to man-made caves and that distinction should also be made, if that's what is in the cited material. Leitmotiv (talk) 22:35, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here is some bad news for you: I wrote a couple dozen articles, and nearly nobody ever edits them but for a couple of wikignomes , so you will not find much discussion here. You yourself suggested to discuss the issue in "Cave" article, which is supposed to be watched by cave experts, whose numbers must be way much larger than that of experts in troglodyte Jews. Loew Galitz (talk) 23:08, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
If that was your takeaway, you should probably reread what I put on your talk page. I understand English is not your first language, and I'm hear to help if you have a misunderstanding. Other than that, I see no refuting of my comment here. After editing this article, I see it's not even referring to natural caves, but manmade ones. I've added edits to reflect that as it gives more context. Leitmotiv (talk) 02:08, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]