History Administrivia / NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

Compare Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly, where examples must be within the same "verse" as the work being cited (Real Life counts as a "work" in this context). See Administrivia/KeepRealLifeExamples for tropes that have been discussed for NRLEP but deemed their RealLife sections not being problematic enough to remove entirely. A trope cannot be both NRLEP and [[Administrivia/DefinitionOnlyPages Definition-Only]], as D-O pages do not allow any examples, regardless of medium.

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[[note]]Each trope with this status should only be listed in ''one'' of the subpages. If you want to find a trope listed on any of the pages, press '''CTRL + F''' (on PC; '''CMD + F''' for Mac) and type the trope name.[[/note]]

* NoRealLife/TropesAToC

* SexTropes. We shouldn't focus on the sex lives of real people. That's part of Administrivia/TheContentPolicy.
* Gossip or stereotypes. TV Tropes is not a {{tabloid|Melodrama}} rag. We've historically had problems with this kind of thing (we're still cleaning up the PersonalAppearanceTropes), and we'd [[StopBeingStereotypical rather avoid being the kind of people who would focus on that kind of thing]], thanks.

* Tropes which are too common in real life to be worth documenting examples.

* NoRealLife/MoralityTropes
* NoRealLife/SexSexualityAndRapeTropes
* NoRealLife/NarrativeCharacterizationAndPlotTropes
* NoRealLife/ImpossibleInRealLife
* NoRealLife/TooCommon
* NoRealLife/TooControversial
* NoRealLife/GossipAndStereotypes

On this wiki, the markup '''[=[[=]noreallife[=]]=]''' will appear when editing any of the pages indexed in the pages below.

Administrivia/RealLifeTroping is the broader policy, describing the difference between what we consider "Real Life" and what we consider a story with the potential for tropes. To summarize; {{trope}}s only exist in relation to a story with creative intent. Because real life isn't a story being told to an audience (at least not any that we know about), it cannot be said to include tropes. The Real Life folders on trope pages are not really examples of tropes; they're amusing trivia about how reality and storytelling is related.

For many tropes, having RealLife examples can be fun and sometimes even informative. For others, though, it just causes problems. For those tropes, we don't allow examples from RealLife, and they're listed on the subpages below.

But first, let's clarify what we mean by "Real Life". On TV Tropes, RealLife is an [[ShrugOfGod admittedly somewhat nebulous]] category that operates a little like a {{Useful Note|s}}, describing examples that may have inspired (or ''will'' inspire) the kind of examples you see elsewhere on the page. "Real life" doesn't include works ''about'' real life, like a biography or a documentary. In those cases, we're not actually troping "real life", but rather that work's creator's perspective on "real life", which is usually a lot less {{ambiguous|Situation}} than what "real life" really is. Instead, we're looking at real people, things, and events divorced from anything we might call a "work", even if there might actually be a work about it.

So now that we've defined "real life", these tropes cannot include examples from real life. That includes any real person, living or not, or any real institution, organisation, political party, nation, ''etc.'', existing or historical -- in other words, real people or things.

Think of it this way -- here at TV Tropes, we try hard to make everything look like it's written in one voice. That means that when a real person or thing is listed as an example of a trope, it looks like the ''entire'' wiki has judged it so. And for certain tropes, such a judgment isn't exactly fair, especially because it can often depend on the perspective of an individual editor which doesn't apply to everyone. Say, for instance, that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Sikh walk into an Internet cafe[[note]]and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the barista asks]], "What is this, a joke?"[[/note]], and each edits the page ScamReligion to add the other two religions as examples. To each of them, what they said is absolutely true, at least from their perspective. But when they see their ''own'' religion added as an example, then they get mad, and they blame everyone else at TV Tropes for having added the "wrong" example. And this is how {{Flame War}}s start. But the ScamReligion as a trope is well-established, and there are tons of uncontroversial examples of it in fiction. The problems only start when you add the "real life" examples, which is why they're not allowed.

To provide a little more guidance on these tropes:

* Similarly, even if a RealLife person or thing appears in a work, don't list it as an example of one of these tropes if the ''work'' doesn't do so. That's just you shoehorning your own opinion into the article.

* Don't apply these tropes to creators unless they appear in a work. Even if a creator is well-known to be an example, or even describes themselves as an example, we aren't just going to link to random blog posts. The example has to be part of a work. This is a particular issue with musicians, because the line is particularly blurry; musicians often write about themselves, but not all the time, and it's important to keep track of the artist's opinion of themselves and ''your'' opinion of that artist.
* RealityTV and stuff like it is a funny scenario here. Yes, the subjects are real people, and ostensibly we're troping them as if they're real people. But reality show participants are very much characters in a work, which is sufficiently edited (often [[ManipulativeEditing misleadingly]]) to be separate from their lives ''outside'' the work. Reality show characters should only be listed as examples for things we see them do in the work, not offscreen.
* We have UsefulNotes pages about a lot of real life things, which are particularly subject to the Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment where these tropes are concerned. In those cases, they're not ''completely'' banned, but we'd also be wandering into Website/TheOtherWiki's "neutral point of view" and "due weight" and [[VastBureaucracy the rest of its immense policy]] on this kind of thing, so if we can't easily come up with an uncontroversial way to include the trope in the UsefulNotes page, it should stay off the page.
* Be aware of your own biases when dealing with tropes like this. Some people [[OpinionMyopia can't fathom that anyone can think differently than they do]], and they also [[Administrivia/RightingGreatWrongs tend to overstate the importance of this site and what's on it]], so they end up expending a lot of time and energy trying to get the wiki to conform to ''their'' version of reality. Don't be one of those people. There's a reason why starting an Administrivia/EditWar is a bannable offence.

Compare Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly. See Administrivia/KeepRealLifeExamples for tropes that have been discussed for NRLEP but deemed their RealLife sections not being problematic enough to remove entirely.

Please do not list any page indexed in Administrivia/DefinitionOnlyPages, as those do not allow examples ''at all''.