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Projects: Long Term/Perpetual: Real Life cleanup 04/14/22
14th Apr '22 1:22:06 PM

Crown Description:

Vote up to forbid real life examples; vote down to Keep Real Life Examples.

To add a trope to a No Real Life Examples Please index, its crowner option must meet the following criteria:

  • 2:1 ratio needed for NRLEP
  • Must have been up for a minimum of a week
  • If the vote is exactly 2:1 or +/- 1 vote from that, give it a couple extra days to see if any more votes come in

After you bring up a trope for discussion, please try to wait at least a day or so for feedback before you add the trope to the crowner. Entries that have been called are marked with "(CLOSED)" and are no longer up for discussion.
   18 (Yeas:20 Nays:2) 10.00 : 1
One-Steve Limit - Too Common, meta and RL folders continue to list aversions even though same first names are very common (added Apr 16th) (CLOSED)
   17 (Yeas:18 Nays:1) 18.00 : 1
Raptor Attack - Impossible in real life (added May 7th) (CLOSED)
   17 (Yeas:18 Nays:1) 18.00 : 1
Chocolate Baby: Gossip about people cheating on their partners. (Added Apr 17th) (CLOSED)
   16 (Yeas:18 Nays:2) 9.00 : 1
CIA Evil, FBI Good - Morality trope applied to real world organizations (Added Apr 22nd) (CLOSED)
   11 (Yeas:15 Nays:4) 3.75 : 1
Required Secondary Powers - Impossible in Real Life - Real people do not have superpowers, let alone prerequisite superpowers (Added April 26th) (CLOSED)
   10 (Yeas:13 Nays:3) 4.33 : 1
Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers - Morality trope, calling real life people bad guys (Added Apr 27th) (CLOSED)
   10 (Yeas:13 Nays:3) 4.33 : 1
Mood Whiplash - Narrative trope as real life does not have a mood/tone (added May 10th) (CLOSED)
   7 (Yeas:15 Nays:8) 1.88 : 1
Secret Test of Character - Too Common, attracting natter and shoehorns (Added Apr 16th) (CLOSED)
   7 (Yeas:13 Nays:6) 2.17 : 1
Simple, yet Awesome - Attracts chairs-y entries at best, such as food items with few ingredients, and examples that aren\\\'t actually simple at worst. Could also be subjective as to what counts as awesome. (Added April 26th) (CLOSED)
   5 (Yeas:13 Nays:8) 1.63 : 1
Last Stand - Too Common, attracts natter and page bloat (added May 28th) (CLOSED)
   4 (Yeas:13 Nays:9) 1.44 : 1
Disaster Dominoes - Attracts ROCEJ-violating edits, to the point that an ATT query was created regarding some of them. A lot of other examples are shoehorns that make no connection between the disasters and the events preceding them. (Added May 8th) (CLOSED)
   -4 (Yeas:0 Nays:4)
DUPLICATE added in error.
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