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Never Live It Down sounds better as the backlash again the Federation unfairly ignores only a fraction of there worlds (14 out of last I heard 150) expressed anti-Romulan sentiment and the pragmatic reasons the rest of the Federation did, if not had no choice but to do, what they did. The second bullet can be moved to Word of God.
Never Live It Down does sound like a better fit. Common Knowledge is for something widely believed that is factually untrue. Never Live It Down is for something that is factually true that gets a great deal of focus from the audience.
The only argument against it that I can see is that Never Live It Down, as written, is about characters, not factions or organizations. I'm comfortable with including it anyway as Tropes Are Flexible, but it's worth bringing up in case others feel differently.
Edited by HighCrate
NeverLiveItDown.Real Life (which has far more stringent standards) has Places, Countries, and Organizations. I'd say groups are allowable as they are composed of characters and get treated as characters on Character pages (listing tropes that apply to them in general which NLID would be as it's an unfair generalization). The characters only is to prevent NLID from being applied to works all examples of which were misuse.
I'd say it's valid but I asked NLID cleanup
on the matter.
UPDATE: they gave the go-ahead to add the entry as groups count as characters in this case.
Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught
^ Good call, didn't realize there was a dedicated cleanup thread.
The following entry has been the subject of a long, drawn-out, multi-person Edit War on YMMV.Star Trek Picard:
I'm of the opinion that it's Not an Example. It's unclear from the show precisely how much of the decision to pull out of the Romulan evacuation effort was due to a lack of ships and how much was due to anti-Romulan sentiment, however it is clearly stated that fourteen Federation member worlds were threatening to secede before the attack on Mars led to a lack of ships, specifically because of anti-Romulan sentiment. Characterizing the Federation as having an element of anti-Romulan racism is canonically correct.
As for the improperly indented second bullet point, Word of God is interesting trivia and everything, but if it didn't make it into the show proper then it didn't make it into the show proper, and even if it did, it doesn't change the main point at hand.