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A few weeks ago I edited the article to replace all instances of the subject's given name "Kitahara" with his family name "Hakushū", in line with the Manual of Style. Subsequently, User:MChew added this hidden comment to the article:
Kitahara is the family name, Hakushū is the given name; when referring to authors by their pen-name in Japanese, it is common practice to refer to them by the given name
I can't find any trace of this practice in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Subsequent_uses_of_names or in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles), and have had no response to an enquiry on MChew's talk page. I also note with increasing confusion that in Morita Sōhei, written by User:MChew himself and where (to my eyes) an identical situation exists, he has chosen to use the family name throughout.
Name order is already confusing enough in Japanese biographical articles without throwing away the general biographical rule of referring to the subject by their family name. Even if it is accepted practise elsewhere, it doesn't seem to be so on Wikipedia, so I'm moving the hidden comment out of the article and here into the talk page to avoid confusing other editors. Ben Ram 10:01, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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A few weeks ago I edited the article to replace all instances of the subject's given name "Kitahara" with his family name "Hakushū", in line with the Manual of Style. Subsequently, User:MChew added this hidden comment to the article:
Kitahara is the family name, Hakushū is the given name; when referring to authors by their pen-name in Japanese, it is common practice to refer to them by the given name
I can't find any trace of this practice in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Subsequent_uses_of_names or in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles), and have had no response to an enquiry on MChew's talk page. I also note with increasing confusion that in Morita Sōhei, written by User:MChew himself and where (to my eyes) an identical situation exists, he has chosen to use the family name throughout.
Name order is already confusing enough in Japanese biographical articles without throwing away the general biographical rule of referring to the subject by their family name. Even if it is accepted practise elsewhere, it doesn't seem to be so on Wikipedia, so I'm moving the hidden comment out of the article and here into the talk page to avoid confusing other editors. Ben Ram 10:01, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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