User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130510215247/@comment-1432718-20130512175543

SmallerOnTheOutside is right about it being on the part of the writers. If a writer uses a last name, then in writing the article I will use the last name.

I really don't see a need for an in-universe policy that will just lead to multiple edit reversions. The sources themselves aren't consistent. We have Ian Chesterton, who is known by "Ian" and "Chesterton". Jamie McCrimmon is usually called "Jamie" but sometimes "McCrimmon".

Then there's William Shakespeare, who is usually called "Shakespeare", but travels with the Eighth Doctor as a young boy and is called "William" (or even "Wilf").