User blog comment:SelenaZephyr/An Open Letter to the Community/@comment-4681758-20140120154531/@comment-24087318-20140120160853

There's been quite a MANY OC that were made before Montys official naming conventions, as such the Fanon doesn't nessicarily enforce the naming scheme itself. (Otherwise we'd have to go back and ping EVERY character whos name we can't see as a Color, and given some Canon names like Yang Xiao Long and Lie Ren, that would take quite a lot of research to prove for every single case.)

However, Monty has said that if he has a contest for OCs, they WILL need to follow the conventions he set forth.