Talk:List of past sumo wrestlers

(Revised) Rank sorting system
It seemed efficacious to be able to sort this list by ranks, so I devised a system to keep the sorting script from simply sorting alphabetically. For the list to sort wrestlers by their ranks top/down, I devised the following, revised, system:

Put the following code before the rank name in the rank column:


 * X

The X needs to be replaced by a number corresponding to the rank:
 * Yokozuna = a
 * Ozeki = b
 * Sekiwake = c
 * Komusubi = d
 * Maegashira #1-#9 = e
 * Maegashira #10 and up = f
 * Juryo #1-#9 = g0
 * Juryo #10 and up = g1
 * Makushita = h
 * Sandanme = i
 * Jonidan = j
 * Jonokuchi = k

Makushita downwards wrestlers have a lot of wrestlers and in order to be sorted correctly they would need even more numbers following them: i.e. Makushita #20-29 = g2, Jonidan #40-49 = i4, etc. I have sorted this way for the few Makushita wrestlers listed, though this is largely overkill unless a lot more lower ranked wrestlers are added, which is unlikely. FourTildes (talk) 04:10, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

For later
Putting retired Kagamio here for now, so I can move him to past list when I get a minute. 鏡桜
 * Kagamiō
 * Kagamiō
 * data-sort-value="j18e"|East Jonokuchi 18
 * 2003-7
 * Kagamiyama
 * February 9, 1988
 * 🇲🇳 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
 * best rank maegashira 9, first sekitori from his very small stable since the current coach Tagaryū was active in 1991, took jūryō championship after losing two playoffs in previous tournaments