Editing Project:Observatory Users Manual (section)

====== Sort As ======
 
* This field determines the alphabetical order to display lists of Articles in some contexts, such as lists.
* Headlines that start with “The” or “A” or “An” or a punctuation mark (including a single open-quotation mark) need this field filled in with any of those elements removed.
** For example, for the Headline '''The Headline''', we would fill in the Sort As '''Headline, The'''.
 
* If there are special characters in the Headline, such as an accented letter such as é or â or ç, an umlaut such as ö or ï, or a character i like ı, etc., you should put the Headline in the Sort As field with the letter presented in its standard way.
** For example, for the Headline '''Café Culture of Italy''', we would fill in its Sort As '''Cafe Culture of Italy'''.
 
* The first letter must always be capitalized (it won’t display this way, but it will sort out of order if the first letter is lowercase).
* Leave this field blank if the Headline does not start with “The,” “A,” “An,” or a punctuation mark, ''and'' it does not contain special characters. The sorting order for Articles with blank Sort As fields will be determined by the Headline field.