User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130510215247/@comment-26975268-20130512182800

Woah, woah, woah, I can see the real world creeping in here... We're not going to refer to someone by their last name simply because they're a "real person." In-universe articles will use whatever name is most common in-universe; not whatever's most common in the real world. Lucky you, though — since they're known by their last names in the real world, they're usually referred to as such in-narrative.

William Shakespeare, however, is correct in its current usage of his name. It uses it within context; he's called "Will" as a boy and "Shakespeare" as an adult. In the same way that Amy Pond was called "Amelia" as a child — calling her "Amy" when talking about her childhood would be factually incorrect.