User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/Should we have a page about Remnant's naming rule?/@comment-4403232-20150207020924/@comment-26018514-20150207075000

but Maki, how are new people even supposed to find the characters page? the dropdown menu right now doesn't exactly tell one to click the word character.

I was really annoyed the first few times I looked for Zwei's page because I kept forgetting how to spell it, and forgot how to get to the characters page, so I looked in every freaking menu... and he just wasn't there, I know a lot of people who are artistic and wouldn't give anywhere near as much time as I did finding that page, but would then try to create their own OC without that much research... and we would want the first thing they see to be that these rules exist, and how they work, so that they don't create these characters that don't work with the rules that they then find themselves attached too.

Because at that point they become attached enough that the rule may just make them fed up with canon... or at very least sour their experience

as RWBY is (at least hopefully is) a growing show/fanbase, the best thing to do is appeal to new viewers/fans sense of creative passion, so inspiring this ASAP and ensuring no confusion in the process is how to best attract and keep fan interest, and if you don't put rules out upfront... you end up with the Fanon Wiki.....