On this site, I've often ran into the problem of not being able to find anything from a giant list of examples on a trope page because it wasn't alphabetically ordered (this is a bigger problem with example pages because they are so large). This can also cause the problem of duplicate works on the same example section, because a work couldn't easily be found.
Even though I'm a rather disorganized person by nature (my parents told me this all the time), I'm still bothered by the lack of A-Z ordering. I have been ordering some example pages A-Z and I've wondering, has this been a problem for anyone else? Is anyone else bothered by a lack of alphabetization on some pages?
If so, please link me some of those pages so I can reorder them when I feel like doing so.
UPDATE 2/28/22- Check Out Sandbox- Alphabetically Ordering Examples Clean Up
Alphabetizing special cases:
- El Goonish Shive: Place in "E".
- .hack and related articles: Ignore the dot, place in "H".
- ×××HOLiC: Place in "X".
Once examples on a page have been alphabetized, this tag can be added to the top:
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Edited by Twiddler on Nov 24th 2023 at 6:00:44 AM
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He/Him
Is it just me or does Short Story look confusingly alphabetized? Like maybe we should soft split it by author?
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I can think of only one work starting with a Roman numeral, XIII. Do others exist on this wiki?
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Aside maybe π we don't have roman Title by Number.
Edited by Amonimus on Dec 31st 2023 at 1:29:27 PM
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This would be more relevant for, say, ensuring that Final Fantasy VIII goes before Final Fantasy IX. (In practice, examples within a series are ordered chronologically anyway, regardless of titles...)
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Trying to clean up the ZCE on Manga.Tail Star, only to realize that the alphabetization is out of whack in the middle.
Edited by WarJay77 on Jan 2nd 2024 at 5:28:32 AM
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Characters.Randals Friends needs alphabetizing, from the looks of it. I'll try to circle back around to it later, but dropping it off here as well since my to-do list is already stupidly long ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Edited by Willowleaf24 on Jan 20th 2024 at 4:39:42 AM
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but while alphabetizing Wondrous Ladies Room I found this entry in the Western Animation folder:
- A series of cartoon shorts run during the Psych commercials show the ladies' room as being an all-female Mount Olympus.
I'm not sure if this is the correct media category, so I've removed it from the Western Animation folder, but don't know where to move it to.
Usagi's done something stupid again (she/her)
Added Giving Up the Ghost to the sandbox
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Edited by GracieLizzy on Jan 29th 2024 at 10:04:59 AM
So I can't think of anything right now... meh.
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The Comic Books folder on Salvaged Story seems to be the only one left to alphabetise. Once I'm done with that, should I go ahead and remove it from the sandbox? The subpages all seem to be in working order, as well.
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I have a question regarding alphabetizing music artists. IIRC, singers are usually sorted by surname (i.e. Paul McCartney would be listed under "M" rather than "P"), but does this rule apply for groups that uses Artist and the Band name? For example, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers — would that go under "J" or "M"?
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Artist and the Band seems to go by artist’s last name (at least where it is alphabetized).
Edited by vulpeculae on Apr 13th 2024 at 11:43:33 AM
I've asked this before but...
Should Roman Numerals like IV count as 4 and therefore go before any works beginning with letters?
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