Category talk:Anthropologist stubs

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There is something wrong with this category. A lot of entries with the anthropologist stub tag are appearing in the scientist stub category and not here. -- Etacar11   19:44, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Name alphabetization
Does anyone know why the names in this category appear alphabetized by first name, whereas the names in Category:Anthropologists are alphabetized by last name? I guess it has something to do with these names being recognized as article titles, rather than as names, but it seems like there should be a way to fix this so that the lists are consistent. rom a rin [talk ] 03:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)


 * First, note that when talking about categories you have to put a : in front of the category name (e.g. Category:Anthropologists ) otherwise you will get a category inclusion rather than a link!
 * Second, in order for the sorting order to use a surname, this must be explicitly specified at the moment of category inclusion using "|". For example, Levi-Strauss, Claude.
 * Since the stub inclusion happens automatically as part of the stub template (like all stubs) the stubs are alphabetized by firstname and not last.
 * To change this you would either need software that "recognizes" names (dangerous and unreliable) or would need to specify the surname in the template call, which seems like a lot of work for sorting stubs! --Saforrest 20:28, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that, I completely forgot. Thanks for fixing though. And thanks for the information. It makes sense, and doesn't seem worth it to fix, so I guess we'll just have to leave it at that. rom a rin [talk ] 22:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)