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Yeah.
That's giving two conflicting reasons why it's marked NRLE and I'd be inclined to remove the first one because it's edgy and confrontational as hell.
It needs to be revised. For one, the implication on No Real L Ife Examples Please is that this trope attracts complaining and natter — not that it is "too common" as that second sentence implies.
I suggest removing the Truth in Television sentence completely since it doesn't make sense (we don't do general "examples"). And the other sentence could be revised as "Due to problems in the past, we are asking for No Real Life Examples Please"
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty
I want to zap that second paragraph with the words "Truth in Television". Anyone agree?
Both versions need to be perma nuked.
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Both of them are bad. Simply stating the reason for why it's listed on the NRLEP page should be enough.
Edit: The "you're just another sheep in the herd" part of the first sentence was added in November with no edit reason, presumably unilaterally. Still, the first sentence (including the part that was already there) is oddly negative coming from a trope that's listed as forbidding real-life examples because it would attract flamebait and complaining, and the second sentence is redundant with the site's policy against general examples.
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Nuke both. If nothing else, discussing RL people's sanity or lack thereof is gossiping, besides the reasons on the NRLEP page.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
I cut it down to just NLREP.
The description for Only Sane Man has this:
No Real Life Examples, Please! You are not the only one that doesn't belong in an asylum, contrary to what you might think; you're just another sheep in the herd.
And then:
It is sufficient to say this trope has been very much Truth in Television, both in the past and in the present and any specific examples are therefore redundant.
Aren't these two points contradictory? Is the first one there to discourage adding it, even though it's not necessarily true? Or is it just hyperbole?