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I don't think you would be Edit Warring if you restored the deleted content if you didn't add it to begin with.
If you restore it, and they delete it again, they will be edit warring.
I created the latter page in question, so I cannot add it back.
Are you adding to the discussion on this site, or just taking away from someone else's contributions?Glanced at the page. Does this trope real life? This work states it's a documentary, so if the saddening thing occurred in real life, it can't be called a Tear Jerker.
The edit reason on the Tear Jerker page mentions removing real-life examples (which means that the deletion is correct in this case), while the edit reason for the main page is...well, they kinda have a point, but I'm not sure.
Many of these examples are mentioned in-universe and would therefore fit. If it relates to a fact not shared on the show (one example had a man who lost his family to murder and he never remarried or had anymore children, but it's not mentioned at all), then so be it, but if it is something that is referenced/discussed in the episode (a woman was brutally murdered before she could testify against a man who previously assaulted her and in the years between her murder and before it was solved, both her parents and her widower all died before justice was served), then it should stay.
Are you adding to the discussion on this site, or just taking away from someone else's contributions?But it's a docuseries, there is no "universe" to it. The only thing I could see possibly making it are tropes about the reenactments because that's the only thing that isn't "real life" in the show.
CSP Cleanup Thread | All that I ask for ... is diamonds and dance floorsTropes for the reconstruction (like the anachronism ones) are fine. But those about the cases themselves are not. Especially those with tropes marked No Real Life Example Please, like Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics which is only about the underlying case.
Edited by GhilzI'd like to pitch for the return to this example in Forensic Files
- This Is Reality: Donna Pendergast points this out at the end of "Deadly Knowledge" when lecturing the audience on how dangerous the call girl world can be:
If Tina [Biggar] was brought into this double life under some kind of illusion that it was going to be like a scene from Pretty Woman and Richard Gere was going to come rescue her and, you know, bring her wonderful gifts, and she was going to fall into this opulent lifestyle, that that's not the reality of the call girl world. You can meet up with some desperate characters and some very bizarre characters. In this case, unfortunately, the person that she met up with was not Richard Gere; it was Ken [Tranchida]. And where Tina ended up, lying in that field, is more the reality than the movie, I think.
This was an interviewee using this trope at the end of the episode

In The Gallbladder seems to take a strange umbrage with the edits on the Forensic Files page, having deleted a large portion of the page without valid reason.
Thankfully, another user restored all of the deleted edits due to it being crucial to the show and certain episodes, but they've done this before, even deleting examples that were mentioned in-universe,
which of course I cannot re-add myself without being accused of edit warring.