History Administrivia / NoRecentExamplesPlease

* FirstInstallmentWins (6 months): To prevent knee-jerk reactions.

* TheBusCameBack: If a character [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome wasn't explicitly written off]], one season after the character's absence for episodic works or two sequels after the character's absence for non-episodic works. No waiting period for characters who were explicitly PutOnABus.

* CompleteMonster (2 weeks): Since all examples require group consensus, this allows more people to experience the work so that consensus may be reached on newer examples. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok Cleanup thread here]].

* MagnificentBastard (2 weeks): Since all examples require group consensus, this allows more people to experience the work so that consensus may be reached on newer examples. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15255322860A44444400&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].

* AcclaimedFlop (After the work has finished its initial theatrical run): To prevent knee-jerk reactions.

* AcclaimedFlop (After the work has finished its initial run): To prevent knee-jerk reactions.

* VoteEarlyVoteOften: (30 years for Real Life examples): In order to avoid knee-jerk Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment-violating reactions.

* VoteEarlyVoteOften: (30 years): In order to avoid knee-jerk Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment-violating reactions.

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness (no examples until after the work has ended): Recent changes in the formula that are seen as weird in the moment can become the new standard over time. Troping after the work has concluded ensures that the late episodes stay as an anomaly.

* DeadFic (2 years, unless confirmed by WordOfGod or [[DiedDuringProduction author mortality]]): Per our rules on FanficRecommendations, and to match its sister trope QuietlyCancelled. This restriction long predated the NREP thread.

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness (no examples until the work has ended): Recent changes in the formula that are seen as weird in the moment can become the new standard over time. Troping after the work has concluded ensures that the late episodes stay as an anomaly.

* LaterInstallmentWierdness (no examples until the work has ended): Recent changes in the formula that are seen as weird in the moment can become the new standard over time. Troping after the work has concluded ensures that the late episodes stay as an anomaly.

* FanPreferredCouple (1 month after the work releases/season ends): The romantic landscape and fan preference for a work can change drastically in a relatively short time, which can lead to a fanon ship either becoming falling out of favor with the audience or becoming canon.

* CompleteMonster (2 weeks): Allows more people to experience the work so that consensus may be reached on newer examples. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok Cleanup thread here]].

* MagnificentBastard (2 weeks): Allows more people to experience the work so that consensus may be reached on newer examples. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15255322860A44444400&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].

* TheBusCameBack: If a character [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome wasn't explicitly written off]], one season after the character's absence for episodic works or two sequels after the character's absence for non-episodic works. No waiting period for characters who were explicitly PutOnABus.

* NeverLiveItDown (6 months after the moment happens): What can be seen as a major embarrassment in the moment can die down quickly after its release. We ask that you to wait and see if the character's reputation still stands in the long-run. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15828442380A78428600&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse (1 month): To prevent knee jerk reactions and to also see if a character remains popular in the long run.

* WonTheWarLostThePeace (No Real Life entries until 20 years after the war’s end): To prevent people from adding examples about recent events.

* NeverLiveItDown (6 months after the moment happens): What can be seen as a major embarrassment in the moment can die down quickly after its release. We ask that you to wait and see if the character's reputation still stands in the long-run.

* WonTheWarLostThePeace (20 years after the war): To prevent people from adding examples about recent events. Only applies to RL examples

* CreatorKiller (10 years, unless officially confirmed): In order to prevent knee-jerk reactions. Note that official confirmation only applies to studios and production companies, ''not'' individual creators.

* FanPreferredCouple (1 month after the release of a work/completed season): The romantic landscape and fan preference for a work can change drastically in a relatively short time, which can lead to a fanon ship either becoming falling out of favor with the audience or becoming canon.

* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica (Nothing past the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement of the 1960s): Due to concerns around the Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment.

** OvershadowedByControversy.RealLife (10 years after leaving office, only applies to heads of state and politicians): Due to the subject matter being more contentious than others, political examples need more time to allow passions to die down enough to properly judge their legacy.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece (10 years): Most entries need at least ten years to determine what the dated hallmarks of a given time period are. In rare cases, works released before the waiting period is up can be added if there are exceptional circumstances that make a work dated. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14387018770A95034700&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].
* Values Tropes (20 years after a work's initial release, only applies to time period dissonances): In order to ensure that the values of the times are different enough to be noticeable. Cultural dissonances do not require a waiting period. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15943768520A49909700&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].

* WrittenByTheWinners.RealLife (200 years): To minimize the potential of political edit warring. Note that this restriction [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170425011548/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/RealLife/WrittenByTheWinners was already in place]] before it was officially required by the NREP thread.

* DuelingWorks (released within a year of each other, or overlapping runs for series): To ensure that the listed works are in fact competing with each other. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1632187675075650300&page=7#comment-168 TRS discussion]].

If not mentioned otherwise, the time listed is the mandatory waiting time after the work, or the relevant part(s) of the work, is released. For RealLife events, it is the waiting period after the event in question occurs or ends.

* CareerResurrection (5 years): To see if the resurrection sticks.

* CompleteMonster (2 weeks): The waiting period allows more people to experience the work so that consensus may be reached on newer examples. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok Cleanup thread here]].

* CreatorKiller (10 years or, for studios or production companies, official confirmation): In order to prevent knee jerk reactions.
* CreatorsPet (6 months after the character is introduced): Due to requiring the character to be TheScrappy, which has a waiting period.

* EndOfAnAge.RealLife (5 years): To prevent potential knee-jerk reactions.

* FanPreferredCouple (1 month after the work releases/season ends): The romantic landscape and fan preference can change a lot relatively quickly, leading to a fanon ship either becoming canon or falling out of favor with the audience.
* FranchiseKiller (5 years or official confirmation): When there isn't any official confirmation, an extended period of inactivity is required to prove the franchise "dead".
* FullCircleRevolution (50-100 years for the real life section): In order to allow time for historians to assess revolutions accurately rather than being used for knee-jerk complaints and shoehorns about current regimes.
* GenreKiller: (10 years): Per [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1605977622057292000&page=3#comment-70 TRS decision]], in order to avoid knee-jerk reactions to recently failed pieces of media.

* ItWasHisSled (5 years after release or if the spoiler becomes a LateArrivalSpoiler; whichever is sooner): To give the PlotTwist enough time to become known to the general public.
* MagnificentBastard (2 weeks): The waiting period allows more people to experience the work so that consensus may be reached on newer examples. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15255322860A44444400&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].
* OneHitWonder (5 years or artist's retirement/disbandment): Due to knee-jerk reactions to a succeeding work flopping.
* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica (No Real Life Examples past the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement of the 1960s): Due to concerns around the Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment.
* OvershadowedByControversy (6 months after the work is released or becomes controversial, whichever comes later): Controversies often burn bright and then flare out, meaning that controversies that seemed important in the moment can be forgotten soon after. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15417159170A60176600&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].
** OvershadowedByControversy.RealLife (For heads of state and politicians: 10 years after leaving office): Due to the particularly contentious subject matter, political examples need more time to allow passions to die down enough to properly judge their legacy.

* QuietlyCancelled (2 years after the final entry in the series, unless confirmed by WordOfGod): Season premieres usually have a one-year gap between them, two in some cases. Gaps longer than this are usually rare if the network wishes to proceed with a new season.
* RoleEndingMisdemeanor (2 weeks after a controversy negatively affects an artist's role): The wait period is to ensure the termination of the role sticks. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1632140731005032700 TRS discussion]].
* TheScrappy (6 months after the character is introduced or becomes hated, whichever comes later): Waiting period introduced due to constant misuse and character-bashing. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13598973560A64980100 Cleanup thread here]].

* "So X, It's X" tropes (1 month after initial release): To prevent knee-jerk reactions based on pre-release information.

* StillbornFranchise (5 years or official confirmation): To ensure that the work will likely only have one installment.
* TwoHitWonder (5 years after the second "hit" or artist's retirement/disbandment): Due to knee-jerk reactions to a succeeding work flopping.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece (10 years): Most entries need at least ten years to determine what the dated hallmarks of a given time period are. In rare cases, works released before the ten year limit can be added if there are exceptional circumstances that make a work dated. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14387018770A95034700&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].
* Values Tropes (For time period dissonances: 20 years after a work's initial release): In order to ensure that the values of the times are different enough to be noticeable. Cultural dissonances do not require a waiting period. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15943768520A49909700&page=1 Cleanup thread here]].

* WrittenByTheWinners.RealLife (200 years): To minimize the potential of political edit warring. Note that this restriction [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170425011548/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/RealLife/WrittenByTheWinners had already been in place for several years]] before it was officially required by the NREP thread.
* WTHCastingAgency (1 week): To prevent speculative entries made without the context of how people reacted to the performance once they saw the work.

* DuelingWorks (released no more than 1 year apart, or have overlapping runs in the case of series): To ensure that the listed works are in fact competing with each other. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1632187675075650300&page=7#comment-168 TRS discussion]].
* RoleReprise (5 years between appearances[[note]]excluding voice-only "appearances" in primarily live-action franchises[[/note]]): To limit the tropes to actors being brought back after significant time away from the role.
* SequelGap (5 years between releases): To ensure a long gap between the previous instalment and the sequel itself. %% "Instalment" is British English, not a typo.

* ItWasHisSled (5 years after release): To give the PlotTwist enough time to become known to the general public.