Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130510215247/@comment-7302713-20130510230219

It's incredibly sloppy though, and in articles where the men are all called by their last names and the women by their first names, it's really bad. This is a case where we have wide variation on how we refer to people when using one name. We have a lot of variation within the same articles--going between last name and first name. It seems abundantly clear that editors are simply using whatever comes to mind first or following their own standards, and it really shows. If we sit down and decide what is preferable, then editors at least have a guide for how the article should be written.