rename Celebrities & Real People?

[aethel]

Over at the RPF talk page, a few of us are mulling over the possibility of changing the category Celebrities & Real People to something more recognizable to fans, like RPF Fandom or Real Person Fiction. I recollect the category used to be called just Real People, which was even more confusing because we had another category called People. "Celebrities & Real People" matches the fandom media type on AO3, but there's no law that says we must follow AO3's format.

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[frogspace.livejournal.com]

The "P" in RPF/RPS doesn't just stand for "person". Real People Slash (for example the Real People Slash Webring (http://web.archive.org/web/20010329174100/http://www.crosswinds.net/~katieoneal/rpsring.html)) and Real People Fiction (for example the Real People Fan Fiction Directory (http://web.archive.org/web/20011107175241/http://www.fanficweb.net/rpfdir/)) were terms in common fannish use. That's why the RPF page is named RPF and not Real Person Fiction or Real People Fiction. Renaming it RPF Fandom would reflect the use of the term on the subcat level.