Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25176701-20141223182251/@comment-25112275-20141224125921

I thought about this idea a long time ago. At first I really liked the idea, when you find a character’s name it's nice to know how or why it was chosen.

That beings said, I don't think it's possible to find the proper meaning for every name. I know Jason mentioned that a lot of Grounders were named after national monuments but we only know a few. Like Lincoln being named after the Lincoln Memorial. The rest, we would have search for manually and speculate that it’s the right one for the right Grounder. We try not to speculate on main article content.

It is also hard to find the right meaning for the right name. Many sites show different meanings for the same name. When you come across a name that's super unique they don't even have a meaning. This in turn makes the wikia section look pointless for that character.

I do have to ask, if we put this feature in the wiki who would be editing it? Who would update every character? Who has to research the name? The most likely scenario is that I’ll fall to the admins, due to the users not wanting to edit the section or not creating pages correctly. The admins already have a long list of things that need to be finished or added to the site.

Make pages are over flowing with content and I feel that this would just add more content to the pages that isn’t needed.

We do however; add little trivia notes for names. Like for Octavia we explain how it was chosen and who named her. We have trivia about Abby and Clarke's names originally being Walter but changed to Griffin.

Unfortunately there is already so much to do on site and this just adds more work. For right now, I am not in support of this idea. But I am not opposed to considering the idea in the future.