I'd say prune the weaker examples. A sectionectomy isn't necessary.
Indeed weaker examples must go
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I'd say the best thing to do would be to just delete any of the examples without a news story to back them up and add a note to only include stories which have a link to a news site to verify them.
There doesn't seem to be any potential for controversy (a few "was in justified?" controversies aside) and flame wars, so I don't see any need to remove the section.
edited 26th Feb '12 11:27:27 AM by Bisected8
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Are there a lot of troper tales being thrown on there? It kinda sounds like it.
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I hope not.
I added a note to the markup a while ago warning people not to add them and I've nuked them every time I've seen them added.
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Tief girl with eartude
OK, I've pruned away all the Urban Legend-like examples which don't have a news story to back them up.
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I smell a wikipedia.
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Well, I couldn't think of any better way to avoid "Real Life" turning into a list of Urban Legend examples.
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Urban legends are a funny thing. If it's just tropers B Sing, then yeah, cut it. But if they're actual urban legends... well, those are actually better examples than real life cases, right? They're fictional, their narratives make use of tropes. Real life examples are fun trivia but less meaningful in terms of listing stories that use the trope.
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What exactly does that mean?
edited 3rd Mar '12 5:15:28 PM by Martello
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It means that a folder marked "urban legends" would serve the page better than real life examples. But yeah, better remove them altogether than put them under "real life."
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^ Nice idea. But we really do need something to verify them against, Wikipedia, Snopes, or so on.
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Not really, the point of an Urban Legend is that is isn't known if it's true or not. As long as it exists it would be a valid work of fiction (or not).
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I was referring to "I smell a wikipedia." Ninja'd.
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@ Martello: The Online EncyclopediaTM having funny ideas — Notability, tabloids being the Holy Writ...
edited 13th Mar '12 2:40:41 PM by TBeholder
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Ravenous Sophovore
Are we making an Urban Legends folder, or are we done here?
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Tief girl with eartude
I'll add one now. I can't see any reason not to, and if someone can think of some reason not to keep it then they can just bring it up in the page's discussion.
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Looks like we're done here. Nice work.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
The "Real Life" section is taking over the page, and has many entries that less the trope and more "I heard about this really cool thing". It seems to be a candidate for a Real life example section-ectomy, is there any consensus on doing this?