I recently realized that Tideman actually called his method "Ranked Pairs". So, I'm going to start referring to it as Ranked Pairs rather than Tideman's method. I don't consider calling it Tideman's method to be wrong. It certainly is Tideman's method. However, I think that for the purposes of advocating a method, it makes sense to have it at least vaguely descriptive, if only as a mnemonic. It also makes sense to use the same name as the inventor, and to use the same name as a prior publication. So, I'm changing my web site to reflect this. I urge other Tideman advocates (ie Mike) to change the name on their web sites too. --- Blake Cretney
