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<span data-sort-value="{{{last}}}, {{{first}}}">[[{{{first}}} {{{last}}} ({{{dab}}})|{{{first}}} {{{last}}}]]</span>

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 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.)
|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.)

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}} <span data-sort-value="last, first">[[target|first last]]</span> 5 {{sortname|first|last||sort}} <span data-sort-value="sort">[[first last|first last]]</span> 6 {{sortname|first|last||sort|nolink=1}} <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||&#35;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:

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.

See also

No description.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter Description Type Status First Name 1

no description

Example
Tom
Unknown required Last Name 2

no description

Example
Jones
Unknown required Optional Link Target 3

no description

Example
Tom Jones (singer)
Page name optional Optional Sort Key 4

no description

Example
Jones, Tom
Unknown optional Disambiguator (no brackets) dab

no description

Example
singer
Unknown optional No Link nolink

Type "1" for no wikilink to appear

Example
1
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

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