User talk:Dav4is
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[edit] Harrison family
I think that within the Cat:Harrison family, everyone should be sorted by their first name, and not by the default order. That's why I had [[Category:Harrison family|Benjamin Harrison]] left in that article. It overrides {{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Benjamin}} in that case. What do you think? Neier 23:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, I disagree. The convention is to sort by surname, even when the list elements are presented as "given-name surname". See Wikipedia:Categorization#Category_sorting, particularly the example of Category:Presidents of the United States.
I know that, in the case of a family category, this may seem to overload one particular index (H, in this case), but to sort by given name just confuses things, with some name categories sorted by surname, others by given name. -dav4is 10:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- I put them all back under the H, including a few which were under W before I started. Neier 14:10, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Tx. -dav4is
[edit] John Wayne / Tommy Morrison
I liked that one approach of citing answers.com (a wikipedia mirror site). In Geometry class, we used to call that "using the theorem to prove the theorem." If it's really true, it ought to be out there somewhere. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:57, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
