Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24081824-20160305040159/@comment-6986530-20160305042337

I particularly agree with the point that trivia is not supposed to be speculation--because, as the Sickle example shows, if you have multiple "may be inspired by"s in a trivia section it's probably not that good of a connection. And I know that we'll be removing some good speculation if we were to revise our policy against this, but it's good speculation that we don't actually need because it's not confirmed anywhere. We have multiple examples of mothy confirming things by direct quotation (the Marie Antoinette and Trinity test examples,) his own commentary, or responses in interviews.

Some of these things are just not trivia. They aren't little factoids about the character and their conception, they're people saying "hey this character shares similarities to Napoleon/etc. isn't that neat :0"

When it comes to the name meanings thing, I would like to specify my position as being that if mothy has made specific commentary on picking names because they mean a specific thing, it can stay. But otherwise this is another thing where we'd be getting rid of some decent things but also cutting out miscellaneous stuff that doesn't really need to be there.

Or maybe like a case by case basis. < <