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The entire Characters.Eminem and Music.Eminem needs a bleach, maybe a Short-Term, as troping anything outside of music videos in trope lists is not allowed.
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Yeah, that needs work.
We have precedent for treating fictionalised versions of real people as characters when they appear in tropeable works.
But to make that work here, these sheets would have to be purely based on the person as portrayed/caricatured in the diss track. It's hard to draw that line, as sometimes the portrayal only makes sense when we have context on the real person.
And a quick look suggests that some of the examples aren't character tropes anyway.
Edited by Mrph1
Looking at the edit history, the page was created by Pi Da, who has a history of making gushy and Wall of Text-heavy edits about Eminem (with repeated mentions of "imperial phases" and lengthy descriptions about Eminem's personal history). Might be worth keeping an eye on them in relation to this.
Edited by bowserbros Be kind.
Huh, is that where they're coming from? I've been noticing for a while now that there's an awful lot of entries in Music folders that are weirdly overdetailed about Eminem, and suspected an entry pimp at work.
Started up a short term cleanup thread in the forums
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Eminem — Beefs is a sub-page to Eminem's character page, and the "characters" it documents are real other artists that Eminem (the artist) got into beefs with and targeted in diss tracks.
Is this page actually allowed? I can kinda understand doing a character page for Eminem's music given he raps as alternate personas (ex. "Slim Shady" is not the same as Marshall Mathers), but this sub-page just seems like it's a really weird way to document real-life drama, in addition to troping real people (granted, usually based on the context of the raps and music, but it still skirts a little too close for comfort).