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I think it\\\'s obvious that nouns aren\\\'t useful examples. The names of people would be FlameBait (\\\"Alexander the Great was not great at all!\\\") and/or useless (\\\"John the Baptist was a baptist named John\\\"). One should also note that saying that there is nothing to a person beyond what can be inferred from the name is very reductive and inflammatory, i.e. bad style. The names of places could be valid examples, I guess. Those could be put under a new category: Geography. The names of products already go under advertising. The names of works are sorted by medium, as always. I\\\'m probably forgetting something, but those are at least the arguably \\\"real life\\\" examples I can think of for now.

The \\\"why would the InUniverse section be safe\\\" bit is a fair point, I will admit. However, it simply doesn\\\'t seem to happen that often that people add such examples, for they would need to find someone in a work pointing out that bananas are indeed bananas.

Come to think of it, this page, CaptainObvious, ShapedLikeItself, and DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment probably contain a lot of examples that actually belong on one of the others. This is probably something that should be brought up at the TRS when the current discussion is resolved.

Bottom line: Useful RealLife examples would go somewhere else. Useless ones we don\\\'t want.

EDIT: I suppose one could create folders for Geography, Biology, Politics, and other RealLife subjects if one comes up with examples. However, I don\\\'t think a RealLife \\\'\\\'category\\\'\\\' would be a good idea. It seems my decrying RealLife examples was too hasty a decision. I considered (as I still do) the category to be a bad idea (it would seem to validate virtually anything that isn\\\'t non-indicative as an example, as explained above), and assumed that the real life part was the problem, instead of the category part. This, in hindsight, seems to have been a grave error on my part. \\\'\\\'Mea culpa\\\'\\\'.

I think it\\\'s obvious that nouns aren\\\'t useful examples. The names of people would be FlameBait (\\\"Alexander the Great was not great at all!\\\") and/or useless (\\\"John the Baptist was a baptist named John\\\"). One should also note that saying that there is nothing to a person beyond what can be inferred from the name is very reductive and inflammatory, i.e. bad style. The names of places could be valid examples, I guess. Those could be put under a new category: Geography. The names of products already go under advertising. The names of works are sorted by medium, as always. I\\\'m probably forgetting something, but those are at least the arguably \\\"real life\\\" examples I can think of for now.

The \\\"why would the InUniverse section be safe\\\" bit is a fair point, I will admit. However, it simply doesn\\\'t seem to happen that often that people add such examples, for they would need to find someone in a work pointing out that bananas are indeed bananas.

Come to think of it, this page, CaptainObvious, ShapedLikeItself, and DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment probably contain a lot of examples that actually belong on one of the others. This is probably something that should be brought up at the TRS when the current discussion is resolved.

Bottom line: Useful RealLife examples would go somewhere else. Useless ones we don\\\'t want.

EDIT: I suppose one could create folders for Geography, Biology, Politics, and other RealLife subjects if one comes up with examples. However, I don\\\'t think a RealLife \\\'\\\'category\\\'\\\' would be a good idea. It seems my decrying RealLife examples was too hasty a decision. I considered (as I still do) the category to be a bad idea, and assumed that the real life part was the problem, instead of the category part. This, in hindsight, seems to have been a grave error on my part. \\\'\\\'Mea culpa\\\'\\\'.

I think it\\\'s obvious that nouns aren\\\'t useful examples. The names of people would be FlameBait (\\\"Alexander the Great was not great at all!\\\") and/or useless (\\\"John the Baptist was a baptist named John\\\"). One should also note that saying that there is nothing to a person beyond what can be inferred from the name is very reductive and inflammatory, i.e. bad style. The names of places could be valid examples, I guess. Those could be put under a new category: Geography. The names of products already go under advertising. The names of works are sorted by medium, as always. I\\\'m probably forgetting something, but those are at least the arguably \\\"real life\\\" examples I can think of for now.

The \\\"why would the InUniverse section be safe\\\" bit is a fair point, I will admit. However, it simply doesn\\\'t seem to happen that often that people add such examples, for they would need to find someone in a work pointing out that bananas are indeed bananas.

Come to think of it, this page, CaptainObvious, ShapedLikeItself, and DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment probably contain a lot of examples that actually belong on one of the others. This is probably something that should be brought up at the TRS when the current discussion is resolved.

Bottom line: Useful RealLife examples would go somewhere else. Useless ones we don\\\'t want.