Delirium wrote
I agree---I use these all the time. In some academic disciplines it's common to refer to well-known or even moderately well-known people by surname only. If I don't happen to be familiar with the person myself, I find out who they are by looking up the surname on Wikipedia, and scanning down the list for someone of the right occupation and right era.
Glad to hear it.
I'm hoping to start some work on [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (human name pages)]]: see on the Talk page of [[WP:MOSDAB]] for some discussion starting.
Charles
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