Template:Sortname

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Usage

{{sortname|first|last|optional link target|optional sort key}}

Creates a wikilinked name that can 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 parameter

|nolink=1

Suppresses wikilinking the name, useful for list entries which are never likely to have articles so shouldn't be redlinked.
(Note: optional link target ignored when "|nolink=1" used.)

Examples

#	What you type	What's generated
1	{{sortname|first|last}}	<span style="display:none;">last, first</span>[[first last]]
2	{{sortname|first|last|nolink=1}}	<span style="display:none;">last, first</span>first last
3	{{sortname|first|last|target}}	<span style="display:none;">last, first</span>[[target|first last]]
4	{{sortname|first|last||sort}}	<span style="display:none;">sort</span>[[first last]]
5	{{sortname|first|last||sort|nolink=1}}	<span style="display:none;">sort</span>first last
6	{{sortname|first|last|target|sort}}	<span style="display:none;">sort</span>[[target|first last]]

#	What you type	What's displayed	What's sorted	What's linked
-	[[Tom Jones]]	Tom Jones	Tom Jones	Tom Jones
-	[[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]]	Tom Jones	Tom Jones (singer)	Tom Jones (singer)
#	What you type	What's displayed	What's sorted	What's linked
1	Sir {{sortname|Tom|Jones}}	Sir Tom Jones	Sir Jones, Tom	Tom Jones
3	{{sortname|Sir Tom|Jones|Tom Jones}}	Sir Tom Jones	Jones, Sir Tom	Tom Jones
#	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|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 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

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

• {{sort}} – see talk for central sorting talk
• {{dts}} – for using dates in sortable tables
• {{nts}} – for using alphabetic sort mode for numbers in sortable tables

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