Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-366087-20160330130152

As articles are done now, the wikia sorts them by default in the way the pages are named. In other words a page "The General Aaron Zanatos" will be sorted in all lists and categories under T for The. Not G for General, or A for Aaron, or Z for Zanatos.

Is this how we want things?

There is a Magic Word,   (note, case important) which when added to a page allows us to set a sortkey as to how it is seen internally by the wikia. Searches will not be affected as they only see PAGENAMEs

So for this example
 * will sort him under G
 * will sort him under A for his first name
 * will sort him under Z for his last name
 * will sort him under A for his first name
 * will sort him under Z for his last name
 * will sort him under Z for his last name

In proper List Sorting standards, indefinite articles such as "A", "An" and "The", etc, are skipped and often displayed as appended to the back of the label. Same for titles, which are often dropped from names. And of course, you know that the most popular standard is surname first.

Since we'll be hitting most of the pages, now is a good time to decide how we want internal list sorting logic to be handled. 