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Each word Baroque, Classical, Romantic etc. is called "time period" here:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Browse_by_composer_time_period but it is called "Piece Style" when you go into a specific score page. I think "Piece Style" should be "Time Period" everywhere.

Moreover some composers write - aware of this or not - in the style of an earlier time period

Indeed I saw some new Neo-Baroque compositions uploaded to IMSLP unashamedly listed as “Baroque”. ;-)

It merely shows that the musical world moves at different speeds in different places around the world – at one time England was the leading influence in music, and the style of full, triadic polyphony in four or more voices known as the “Contenance Angloise” was widely disseminated and imitated through Europe. In Portugal during the 17th century the renaissance “prima prattica” continued to be practiced by composers almost totally undisturbed for decades after the baroque “seconda prattica” had been widely adopted throughout Europe. Who would have thought some people are still writing Baroque music two and a half centuries after the fact, eh? ;-)

The problem with changing it is that some living composers do write "Modern" even though their work might be neo-something.

This means that the change would fix all those pieces that are named after their style, but the reverse wouldn't be true, so the ones that are named after period would have to be changed to reflect the style -- a mammoth task for whoever volunteered to be crazy enough to do it. (And no, don't even ask . . .)