Talk:Sinai (surname)
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Chronological vs. alphabetical order
editSeveral discussions at WP:ANTHROPONYMY have not produced any strong consensus on enforcing either alphabetical or birth-year order of entries on name pages:
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anthroponymy/Archive_4#Regarding_the_order_of_names_on_name_pages
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anthroponymy/Standards#Proposal:_Sorting_by_birth_year,_death_year_and_alphabetically_with_a_sortable_table
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anthroponymy/Archive_6#Format_for_lists_of_people
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anthroponymy/Archive_8#Strange_list_format
Similarly, MOS:DABORDER does not mandate either alphabetical or chronological order: Within each section, entries should be ordered to best assist the reader in finding their intended article. Entries are typically ordered first by similarity to the ambiguous title, then alphabetically or chronologically as appropriate
. (Yes, WP:SETNOTDAB, but there are generally similarities between how the two types of pages are structured.)
Given that there are arguments for both (in particular, a reader who's looking for a particular person with the surname is less likely to know the first name than either their occupation or the broad period in which they lived.
) and no strong consensus either way, the best thing to do for the moment is not to change the order around when you come across a page that's already been sorted one way. Regards, 59.149.124.29 (talk) 04:00, 6 October 2019 (UTC)