Well, I've been thinking about this, and thinking about the first sentence I wrote up there: In general, trying to map RPF fandoms onto media fandom models is--difficult.
Maybe we shouldn't try. What would happen if the Real People category got moved out from under Fandoms by Source Text and this new fandom policy applies only to FPF which are all in Fandoms by Source Text by themselves?
That leaves the door open to categorize Real People in a way that suits the pages that start to appear--right now there are not very many. Let the structure form more organically. Aka, it ain't broke--don't fix it.
I think we're having problems because, as a genre, RPF is growing faster now than it ever has since Popslash hit LJ, and it's hard to see the shape of something in that state of flux.
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Maybe we shouldn't try. What would happen if the Real People category got moved out from under Fandoms by Source Text and this new fandom policy applies only to FPF which are all in Fandoms by Source Text by themselves?
That leaves the door open to categorize Real People in a way that suits the pages that start to appear--right now there are not very many. Let the structure form more organically. Aka, it ain't broke--don't fix it.
I think we're having problems because, as a genre, RPF is growing faster now than it ever has since Popslash hit LJ, and it's hard to see the shape of something in that state of flux.