Real Life Examples, Troper Tales, and Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement.
The main page says, "no real life examples, please", which I assume means, "don't edit in stuff about a politician you don't like". (Correct me if I'm wrong.) I would think there's nothing wrong with, for example, an example about reactions of Magic The Gathering tournament players to Scrubs who think they're tournament players. So where's the line between a legitimate example (that), a Troper Tale (e. g., how I personally reacted to someone), and something too controversial (political stuff)?
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No personal objection to real-life examples, as long as they're not too flame-baity - in fact, a lot of the examples offered back in YKTTW were real-life ones, usually about the ways this trope gets invoked over what look to outsiders like minor differences between e.g. different kinds of gamers, or near-indistinguishable musical genres. So not quite sure what the person who added the "No Real Life examples" had in mind - though I know that e.g. the geek hierarchy can lead to ugly arguments at times...
Amended to allow Real Life Examples, subject to Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgement.
I think that this trope needs to be renamed. It seems that the trope is trying to be about an Attitude, however its expressed. Presumably this would include if it is never explicitly said in a work, but permeated the work. The title "pretender diss" makes it sound like it is only when someone is called a wannabe to their face.
Honestly, I think the attitudes this trope tries to capture are encompassed with the title "Wannabe". Further, I think having a "Wannabe" super-trope would be useful. There's a bunch "wannabe" potential subtropes out there: Vampire wannabes, neitsche wannabe, obi wannabe, cassanove wannabe...all of these and more exist on TV Tropes.