User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130510215247/@comment-7302713-20130512213213

Why is Joan the clear choice? If you look at both episodes, she's called Joan a grand total of four times. She's referred to as Redfern seven times. If we're going by usage Redfern wins. And why is Matron all right? For people that have names we tend not to use titles, and that's what Matron is.

I still say that if we're going to use first names then we use first names unless the source material provides a compelling reason not to. And frankly I still prefer using last names for in-universe articles. We're writing encyclopedia articles. Granted it's an encyclopedia of Doctor Who but still an encyclopedia. This use of first names is highly informal and out of place when you consider what we're doing. At the very least we should use last names for in-universe articles about real people. Episode pages (prose pages, comic pages) are recaps. It makes perfect sense to allow informality on them. But in-universe pages are supposed to be encyclopedia articles. Why are we equally familiar on these pages?