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* '''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:
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