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Like its temporal cousin, this is a form of [[Fan Myopia]]; the writer either unconsciously assumed everyone reading would always be from the same geographic location as he was, or would somehow automatically know what was local to him when he wrote it. Unfortunately, the result is instead the closest thing you can come to a [[Zero Context Example]] and still have a description -- for all anyone knows, this could be a completely bogus example because there's ''no real information'' on the example allowing you to find and actually review it, and no way to find any short of burrowing through Google until you get a hit.
In general, unspecific anecdotal examples like these are little better than inserting "There was this guy that did this thing", and the proper response to them would be [[Kill It with Fire]]. To keep that from happening, remember that no one will know where you're posting from when they read your example, whether they're reading it in ten years or ''five minutes''. And the extra 25 or 50 keystrokes it takes to specify a location is not an insurmountable barrier.
No Examples, please. Especially not [[Self-Demonstrating Article|"local"]] ones.
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