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This topic sometimes slides into PeopleSitOnChairs. If A is named after B and it\'s somehow \'\'meaningful\'\', that seems legitimate. Ditto if it\'s a running joke, or if particular name schemes are a family tradition (e.g. as in the NationalTreasure movies). But not, IMO, just if it\'s \
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This topic sometimes slides into PeopleSitOnChairs. If A is named after B and it\\\'s somehow \\\'\\\'meaningful\\\'\\\', that seems legitimate (e.g. the character who\\\'s named after a general ends up leading the fight). Ditto if it\\\'s a running joke, or if particular name schemes are a family tradition (e.g. as in the NationalTreasure movies). But not, IMO, just if it\\\'s \\\"person A is named after B\\\". Shall we list every person who\\\'s named Mary as an example (named after the mother of Jesus)? Or Muhammed? Martin Luther King, William Tecumseh Sherman? Very very few people in the world \\\'\\\'aren\\\'t\\\'\\\' named after someone.

All my longwinded way of saying why I don\\\'t think \\\"Benjamin Franklin Pierce from MASH\\\" was worthy of keeping on the page...
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