<span data-sort-value="(({last))}, (({first))}">[[(({first))} (({last))} ((({dab))})|(({first))} (({last))}]]</span>
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- Usage
((sortname|first|last|optional link target|optional sort key))
Alternative version of ((sort)) tailored to the wikilinked names of persons, to be used in a sortable table (created with class="wikitable sortable").
- The default sort key is "last, first".
- The link label is "first last".
- The default link target is "first last"
The optional link target is useful when "first last" is a disambiguation page instead of the desired article, or when linking to a section of a page.
The optional sort key is useful in the case of special characters such as é.
- Optional parameters
|dab=disambiguator- Wikilinks to "first last (disambiguator)".
(Note: ignored if optional link target is not blank.)
- Wikilinks to "first last (disambiguator)".
|nolink=1- Suppresses wikilinking the name, useful for list entries which are likely to never have articles so shouldn't be redlinked.
(Note: optional link target ignored when "|nolink=1" used.)
- Suppresses wikilinking the name, useful for list entries which are likely to never have articles so shouldn't be redlinked.
Examples
| # | What you type | What's generated |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ((sortname|first|last))
|
<span data-sort-value="last, first">[[first last|first last]]</span> |
| 2 | ((sortname|first|last|nolink=1))
|
<span data-sort-value="last, first">first last</span> |
| 3 | ((sortname|first|last|dab=disambiguator))
|
<span data-sort-value="last, first">[[first last (disambiguator)|first last]]</span> |
| 4 | ((sortname|first|last|target))
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<span data-sort-value="last, first">[[target|first last]]</span> |
| 5 | ((sortname|first|last||sort))
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<span data-sort-value="sort">[[first last|first last]]</span> |
| 6 | ((sortname|first|last||sort|nolink=1))
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<span data-sort-value="sort">first last</span> |
| 7 | ((sortname|first|last|target|sort))
|
<span data-sort-value="sort">[[target|first last]]</span> |
| # | What you type | What's displayed | What's sorted | What's linked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ((sortname|Tom|Jones))
|
Tom Jones | Jones, Tom | Tom Jones |
| 2 | ((sortname|Tom|Jones|nolink=1))
|
Tom Jones | Jones, Tom | (no link) |
| 3 | ((sortname|Tom|Jones|dab=singer))
|
Tom Jones | Jones, Tom | Tom Jones (singer) |
| 4 | ((sortname|Tom|Jones|Tom Jones (singer)))
|
Tom Jones | Jones, Tom | Tom Jones (singer) |
| 1 | ((sortname|Fábio|da Silva))
|
Fábio da Silva | da Silva, Fábio | Fábio da Silva |
| 2 | ((sortname|Fábio|da Silva|nolink=1))
|
Fábio da Silva | da Silva, Fábio | (no link) |
| 3 | ((sortname|Fábio|da Silva|Fábio Gomes da Silva))
|
Fábio da Silva | da Silva, Fábio | Fábio Gomes da Silva |
| 4 | ((sortname|Fábio|da Silva||Silva, Fabio))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fabio | Fábio da Silva |
| 5 | ((sortname|Fábio|da Silva||Silva, Fabio|nolink=1))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fabio | (no link) |
| 6 | ((sortname|Fábio|da Silva|Fábio Gomes da Silva|Silva, Fabio))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fabio | Fábio Gomes da Silva |
Things you might not expect
| # | What you type | What's displayed | What's sorted | What's linked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | [[Mark Evans]]
|
Mark Evans | Mark Evans | Mark Evans |
| - | [[Mark Evans (general)|Mark Evans]]
|
Mark Evans | Mark Evans (general) | Mark Evans (general) |
| 1 | Sir ((sortname|Mark|Evans))
|
Sir Mark Evans | Sir Evans, Mark | Mark Evans |
| 1 | ((sortname|Sir Mark|Evans))
|
Sir Mark Evans | Evans, Sir Mark | Sir Mark Evans |
| 3 | ((sortname|Sir Mark|Evans|Mark Evans (general)))
|
Sir Mark Evans | Evans, Sir Mark | Mark Evans (general) |
| 6 | ((sortname|Sir Mark|Evans|Mark Evans (general)|Evans, Mark))
|
Sir Mark Evans | Evans, Mark | Mark Evans (general) |
| 1 | ((sortname|Fábio da|Silva))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fábio da | Fábio da Silva |
| 2 | ((sortname|Fábio da|Silva|nolink=1))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fábio da | (no link) |
| 3 | ((sortname|Fábio da|Silva|Fábio Gomes da Silva))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fábio da | Fábio Gomes da Silva |
| 4 | ((sortname|Fábio da|Silva||Silva, Fabio))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fabio | Fábio da Silva |
| 5 | ((sortname|Fábio da|Silva||Silva, Fabio|nolink=1))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fabio | (no link) |
| 6 | ((sortname|Fábio da|Silva|Fábio Gomes da Silva|Silva, Fabio))
|
Fábio da Silva | Silva, Fabio | Fábio Gomes da Silva |
Note
To link to a section within the page in which the template appears, encode the number sign:
((Sortname|Examples||#Examples))
- gives: Examples
and for an inline Interlanguage link the initial colon must be encoded as %3A
((Sortname|Hanning|Schröder|%3Ade:Hanning Schröder))
- gives: Hanning Schröder
Microformat
The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's name parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.
To include a URL, use ((URL)).
Classes
The hCard in this template uses at least some of these HTML classes:
- agent
- family-name
- fn (required)
- given-name
- honorific-prefix
- honorific-suffix
- n
- nickname
- org
- url
- vcard
Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.
See also
- Help:Sorting#Specifying a sort key for a cell
- ((sort)) – see talk for central sorting talk
- ((Date table sorting)) – for using dates in sortable tables
- ((Number table sorting)) – for using alphabetic sort mode for numbers in sortable tables
- ((Last word))
No description.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Name | 1 | no description
| Unknown | required |
| Last Name | 2 | no description
| Unknown | required |
| Optional Link Target | 3 | no description
| Page name | optional |
| Optional Sort Key | 4 | no description
| Unknown | optional |
| Disambiguator (no brackets) | dab | no description
| Unknown | optional |
| No Link | nolink | Type "1" for no wikilink to appear
| Unknown | optional |
| sort | sort | no description | Unknown | optional |
| last | last | no description | Unknown | optional |
| first | first | no description | Unknown | optional |
| link | link | no description | Unknown | optional |