Removed some historically inaccurate, misleading and slightly jingoistic information from this page.

Here here. Leave these alone.

This page technically should go, but I will miss it.

The argument for having Real Life examples on the individual trope pages is that they get to show how the trope is actually Truth In Television or conversely how Art Imitates Life. They actually have little to do with the trope otherwise. They don't count for actual examples when you are trying to launch a page and an overbearing in size Real Life folder is considered a bad thing.

Now some of the subjective tropes can still have that Truth In Television element but there is a problem in both having examples for thing that are just "This was funny; this was sad; this was heartwarming; this was awesome." and also for real life sections that get their own page.

When CMOA sport was cut, the issue was related to the cut real life It Just Bugs Me pages. There are explanations for those on the Just Bugs Me discussion page but in short, these solo pages end up gathering a life of their own and take focus away from the actual trope and give an impression of "we're here to bitch and/or praise". There's been this thing before of "Well praising isn't as toxic as complaining" and we've naturally been set up to prefer the former but they are both as damaging when it comes to losing focus and believe me it happens. In a really long Real Life folder on a page it looks like people have forgotten the original trope as you go down.

Also, we're moving more towards treating those ill defined subjectives as what they've actually become - looking at works through a whole new filter (normally rose tinted) and are moving towards a namespace based solution. The real life pages are The Artifact of starting with individual pages with bloated real life folders but if we'd started with the solution then we would not have had them. It's all part of moving towards a more consistent organisation.

How does deleting Real Life sections of articles lead to a more consistent organization? I always thought that Real Life was just treated as another Genre of Fantasy. I see no true difference, as both demonstrate tropes. Deleting Real Life examples is no different from deleting Literature, Theatre, or Mythological examples. Just being Real Life is not a cause for deletion. Subjectivity may require a bit of fixing up, but I don't think that deleting things for being Real Life and subjective is really going to push us to consistency.