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This page discusses what to do with sort keys.

Extended Latin alphabet and special characters

The extended Latin alphabet is automatically sorted according to the Unicode collation algorithm, so it is not necessary to manually assign sort keys for them for the most part; however, þ should be sorted as "th".

For the most part, punctuation should remain intact. However, & should be sorted as "and". Additionally, character names with an apostrophe in them (that is not possessive or a contraction) should be sorted without the apostrophe (e.g. O'Neill should be sorted as Oneill and L'Arachel should be sorted as Larachel). Also, colons before game subtitles should be removed.

Other

Real people should be sorted by "Family name, Given name". Fictional characters whose family names are in their article titles (such as the characters from Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE) should still be sorted normally, however.

Roman numerals should be sorted as the equivalent Arabic numeral.

If a page is the primary subject of a category, sort it as a space in that category (e.g. on "Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon", put [[Category:Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon| ]] at the bottom).

For categories where most pages will have the same prefix, omit that prefix in said category. For example, list articles should be sorted in Category:Lists without the leading "List of". This does not apply for every single case.

Articles whose titles have an article at the beginning should be sorted with the article at the end, e.g. "The Ageless Palace" should be sorted as Ageless Palace, The.

Characters who have a title before their name in their page names, such as "Lord Arundel", should have the title sorted at the end (in this case, Arundel, Lord).

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