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@ HangInThere1000: I see you removed [1] the language "Ties are ordered by surname or, if not a single person, act name." from the internal comments and re-ordered some entries by their first (given) name. It's been there and done this way for a while (it was inconsistent before, which caused me to write the comments). It seems to be kind of a normal thing when sorting alphabetically to use surnames (last names) of people and drop common leading articles so you find things more intuitively. E.g., "The Beatles" and "Justin Bieber" should be with the Bs. Is there a reason you don't like this approach?
If we do go to sorting by given (first) name, we would also need to remove the {{
Sortname}}
wrappers from all those individual names. The language would also need to be removed from two other internal comments as well as the edit notice.
Anyone else care to comment? —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 22:55, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Must be a certain genre or era. Johnny Mathis has sold 360 million records worldwide. 2603:8080:D3F0:7E30:445E:FC96:38E5:BF45 ( talk) 02:22, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
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@ HangInThere1000: I see you removed [1] the language "Ties are ordered by surname or, if not a single person, act name." from the internal comments and re-ordered some entries by their first (given) name. It's been there and done this way for a while (it was inconsistent before, which caused me to write the comments). It seems to be kind of a normal thing when sorting alphabetically to use surnames (last names) of people and drop common leading articles so you find things more intuitively. E.g., "The Beatles" and "Justin Bieber" should be with the Bs. Is there a reason you don't like this approach?
If we do go to sorting by given (first) name, we would also need to remove the {{
Sortname}}
wrappers from all those individual names. The language would also need to be removed from two other internal comments as well as the edit notice.
Anyone else care to comment? —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 22:55, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Must be a certain genre or era. Johnny Mathis has sold 360 million records worldwide. 2603:8080:D3F0:7E30:445E:FC96:38E5:BF45 ( talk) 02:22, 3 March 2024 (UTC)