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Cut it like it's the head of an evil Highlander.
Yeah, definitely too soon for such a claim. Cut.
Cut, and I agree that DarkestHour.Real Life should have a waiting period.
Keet cleanup
Cut for sure. I'd say a ten to twenty year waiting period at minimum, preferably twenty-five or more.
It frankly shouldn't even exist as a page.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
I also found this on DarkestHour.Real Life:
- In late 2012, this began for The BBC — one of the world's most respected broadcasters — when an ITV documentary claimed that their legendary youth/children's show presenter Jimmy Savile, who had died the previous year to nationwide mourning, was actually a serial sexual offender who used his showbusiness clout and charity work to sexually assault children and young women while avoiding scrutiny from everyone from fellow BBC employees to authorities to the National Health Service. Worse, the initial testimonials from victims had been made for a BBC documentary that was quashed by higher-ups. After the documentary aired, hundreds of additional claims of wrongdoing by Savile were made, resulting in a Scotland Yard investigation and criticism from Parliament. (Between this and a separate report that falsely accused a British politician of pedophilia, the just-elected Director-General of the BBC resigned after less than three months at his post.) How The BBC can live this disaster down remains to be seen, especially when Savile himself can never be brought to justice.
Is this necessary? If so, then we should put the Bill Cosby/Harvey Weinstein/#Me Too! fallout.
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I'm all for cutting the entirety of the page, to be honest.
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I think Darkest Hour should be No Real Life Examples, Please!.
Edited by shadowblack
^ Agreed. This shouldn't have real life examples.
Oof. I'm bringing this page to the Real Life Cleanup thread.
^And I brought it to the No Recent Examples thread. It definitely should be one or the other.
That is "Yikes" levels of too soon.
pee pee poo poo
Torch it. I am sick and tired of all the “it’s The End of the World as We Know It and we’re all gonna die” fear-mongering that is all around me right now.
One of these days, all of you will accept me as your supreme overlord.
I don't think this trope should have real life examples at all.
A great Mascot Mook.
I think it's actually a very educationally page. None of its content is all too offensive or controversial, except for the BBC one. I'm in favor of a lock after some cuts.
But I get why we should cut it. Cutting it could be a good thing.
Edited by EarthboundFan
^ The problem isn't that the entries are controversial in themselves, but that they aren't even examples of the Darkest Hour trope, since it's a narrative structure trope and real life on this wiki is considered narrative-less.
Not to be that guy, but too soon and definitely needs to be cut.
I also support cutting the entry.
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.
Consensus on the RL thread is also unanimously supportive of a cut, though we're still doing the crowner thing, so go vote y'all.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
To be clear, the crowner is for declaring Darkest Hour completely NRLEP.
This particular entry has already been cut.
DarkestHour.Real Life
The "will inevitably follow" means it's speculative as opposed to have happened. We cut some other COVID-19 related stuff here
so there is precedent of it being used knee-jerk. Cut?
DarkestHour.Real Life is the sort of thing that's had a lot of overly reactionary, ROCEJ, and too soon to call examples. Thoughts on a 5 to 25 year waiting period? (I'd go with 25 as we need a lot of context to say if it really was darkest in retrospect.)