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Convention for last name-first name cultures

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CriticalResist (talkcontribs)

I was editing Shinzo Abe's page (and his killer's, Yamagami Tetsuya) and noticed this interesting problem.

Shinzo is a first name, and Abe a last name.

However, Yamagami is a last name and Tetsuya a first name.

In some cultures, it is customary to put the last name first and even refer to people by their last name (In Japanese, Chinese and Korean that I know of).

However, in 2019 Japan switched conventions and agreed to use the First name-Last name convention for English romanisations.

This means Shinzo Abe (Fname-Lname) is correct per the Japanese gov guidelines, but then Yamagami Tetsuya (Lname-Fname) isn't.

This also changes how we would refer to people in articles: whether we would say "Abe died in July 2022" or "Shinzo died in July 2022".

Should we decide on a convention? We already use last names for theorists mostly, for example Marx or Engels.

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