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all you need is to add a parameter for the last name if you want thse to sort by last name —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DESiegel60 (talk • contribs) 15:50, 31 August 2008.
- I noticed the category page itself encourages the use of "Last, First" rather than last name only so that names also get sorted within a given last name. Rather than changing the template parameter name to lastfirst a sneaky way that comes to mind is to include the PAGENAME along with the last name that was provided. Someone using {{Artist Category|last=Kirk}} on Tim Kirk's article for example would get the article categorized using [[Category:Artists|Kirk,Tim Kirk]]. Marc Kupper (talk) 19:04, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
- You can do that if you like. Frankly this is an example of why tempaltes that do notjhing more than put a page in a category are more trouble than they are worth. It would be better to just paste in the proper category link itself, with the proepr piped sort key. It is not significantly more trouble for users. -DES Talk 20:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)