User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130519181606/@comment-188432-20130520140822

But the source material itself does things that aren't a standard practice in the real world. Not that "standard practice in the real world" is a legitimate concern anyway, cause this is a wiki about a show where a guy who can have multiple lives travels in a police box through time and space. But for the rhetorical fun of it, let's examine things through the filter of "the real world". In the real world, you wouldn't travel with someone for years and never ask their last name. The practice of using full names and alphabetising by last name does not work for everyone because we know surprisingly few companions' full names.