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A fact from Mary Stuart Fisher appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 May 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Mary Stuart Fisher, a Temple University professor of radiology who was named Physician of the Year in 1996, was discouraged from following her chosen career path by her father, a physician himself?
I noticed that in the early life section we refer to her as Blakely. This is more historically accurate, and avoids the oddity of refering her by her last name when mentioning her marriage, the event that gave her the last name Fisher. However it seems that in many cases the short name reference is standardized in all references to avoid confusion in the article. Either way, the move away from referring to her by her first name as was previously the case in one of the mentions in the early life section is an improvement. I am not fully decided about which form is best, and so am hoping others will consider the pros and cons of historical accuracy verses clearity of all references in the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:22, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
