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wingedcatgirl MOD (Holding A Herring)
14th Jan, 2021 08:19:07 PM

How to Alphabetize Things, but also, what kind of list even is this?

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Madison14 Since: Dec, 2015
14th Jan, 2021 08:23:29 PM

HeReallyCanAct.Film. I don't know if I should treat Tiny as his first name and Tim as his last name (which I've seen some people do), in which case he would go before Timberlake, or if I should treat both as one word, in which case he would go after Timberlake.

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MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
14th Jan, 2021 08:56:06 PM

Obviously, "Tim" isn't meant to be regarded as a last name. Treat it like a band name. You'd file "Spice Girls" under S, so put Tiny Tim after Justin Timberlake.

Madison14 Since: Dec, 2015
crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
14th Jan, 2021 10:12:33 PM

Even if Tiny was a first name (let's substitute Tony), it would've gone after Timberlake; timb comes before timt. For this site, we don't include spaces when alphabetizing.

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Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
15th Jan, 2021 07:02:16 AM

On English articles, the names of persons should be alphabetized by surname, even names from languages that use different ordering. In case of identical surnames, the sorting is then done by first names.

(emphasis mine)

Shorter entries alphabetize before longer entries containing them. Big Bad comes before Big Bad Ensemble.

This says to me that the first name is not considered until and unless surnames are identical.

So that suggests that Bo, Zack comes before Boe, Aaron.

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