Should we establish a minimum amount of time for this trope to take effect? Otherwise, I fear trope decay setting in. I suggest five years as the minimum.
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I'd say a good rule of thumb for the minimum is however many years is a normal production cycle of a given medium or series. Off the top of my head, a year or two seems to be a good benchmark for that minimum for a book series, while two to three years is the average for a movie sequel. Video games are trickier, since you have one-a-year series, but then also others that come out steadily, but once every two or three years instead.
It's all relative. If a series goes from one release every three years, a five year gap wouldn't really be significant. But if they went from one release a year, five years would be more significant.
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You can’t just join a discussion that’s already been decided after six years and start deleting things willy-nilly, jharrison. What you’re doing is vandalism.
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"Already been decided"? No, there certainly isn't a consensus. "Vandalism"? Be careful there, you're going to unravel your pearls with all that clutching. No, vandalism is blanking a page and replacing it with "I luv Justin Bieber!" Deleting utterly unmarketable sequel gaps isn't vandalism.
Again, what you are doing is vandalism. You are unilaterally deciding what qualifies as the trope and deleting everything you think doesn’t qualify. That’s not the way we do things around here.
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The main text says Sequel Series and Franchise Reboots don't count, but there are tons of those in here. Should I delete them all?
Although from a "know it when you see it" perspective some sequel series might be ok, as they are essentially just another series of the show but they gave it a subtitle and reset the numbering.