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Real life people are not supposed to be troped, even in reference to their career.
At most you can include common elements of their work, but troping their personal life is not what Creator pages are for.
"Grandmaster Combat, son!"Yeah, it's not restrictive; we don't treat real-life people as though they're characters.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallNote that for Creator pages (not sure about Music) Trivia entries are fine on the main page, e.g. Real-Life Relative or Those Two Actors.
I serve at the pleasure of President Pritchart.There's an ongoing discussion
on whether Brahms should go in Creator/ or Music/, which seems relevant to link here.

Lord Gro and I have had an amiable PM discussion on a particular topic, though we haven't reached an agreement, and I'd like to bring the matter up for broader discussion. There is a forum thread
here which may apply, but it hasn't be active for a couple weeks now. If the discussion should be moved to the moribund thread, let me know.
This involves the troper's deletions from Creator pages, specifically Johannes Brahms, in which almost all the tropes were cut. I can understand some of the removals, as they referenced Brahms's personal life with no mention of his music or career. Some however involved Brahms's musical career, which I'm not in favor of. Specific examples:
Lord Gro's position is based on this page
and this passage was cited from there in the deletion note: "Please resist the urge to apply character tropes to Real Life people."
This is a more restrictive implementation of the approach than I'm comfortable with.
Thoughts:
My wish is to reinstate the entries in the first folder. It might not technically be an edit war if I do, but I don't want to do this ill-advisedly.
Thanks!
Edited by BoltDMC