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* '''Ignore ''articles'' at the beginnings of titles.''' That is, the words "a", "an", and "the". They're incredibly common and removing them doesn't usually change the meaning of the trope, so it's better just to pretend they're not there at all. For example, [[The Magic Goes Away]] should be alphabetized under M; [[A God Am I]] goes under G.
** Do this even for foreign-language articles. The vast majority of all
** Be careful, especially with "a", that it's being used as an article in the trope name. For example, [[A-Team Firing]] is about ''[[The A-Team]]'', not just about "a team", so it should be alphabetized under A.
* '''Ignore spaces and punctuation.''' There are different English-language standards about what to do with spaces; this is the one that best corresponds with the way the wiki's internal database works.
* '''Shorter entries alphabetize before longer entries
* '''Treat special characters as though they were the corresponding ordinary character.''' Mostly this is so accented and non-accented versions of the same name get alphabetized in the same way. For example, ''[[Pokémon]]'' should be alphabetized as though it were spelled "Pokemon".
* '''Numbers and symbols come before letters.''' For example, [[100% Completion]] should come before [[Alpha Bitch]], since numbers are alphabetized before letters.
* '''The order is ''not'' case-sensitive.''' "AA" comes before "ab"; "aa" comes before "AB".<ref>The Windows application "Notepad++" ignores this rule. If you copy text to Notepad++ and sort it there, please fix the sort before copying it back to the wiki.</ref>
When creating pages, you can help the wiki automatically sort things correctly on Category pages and elsewhere by using the DEFAULTSORT markup if your page's name starts with an article or punctuation. For example, if your page is called "The Page Name That Starts With an Article", then you would put the following at the bottom of the page:
<nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT:Page Name That Starts With an Article, The}}</nowiki>
If your page name starts with a punctuation mark, remove all the punctuation for the DEFAULTSORT.
You can (and should!) use the same DEFAULTSORT on subpages. If you put <nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT:Page Name That Starts With an Article, The}}</nowiki> on both "The Page Name That Starts With an Article", "The Page Name That Starts With an Article/Trivia", and "The Page Name That Starts With an Article/YMMV", the wiki software is smart enough to sort the Trivia and YMMV subpages in alphabetical order after the main page.
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