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Sortkey recommendations

Regarding this:

The special sortkey τ (lowercase Greek letter Tau) is used to sort templates at the end of the related Commons-category, see for example Category:Transport templates sorted in Category:Transport. (Sorting in Commons is not case sensitive so only uppercase Τ (Tau) is shown.)

I wonder whether this is a good recommendation. I tried it for a few categories and I found it quite confusing because the uppercase Tau is, in practice, visually indistinguible from the latin letter T. I see a lot of template categories with a sortkey of ~ and would actually consider that a very good idea because it's sorted after Z, it's visually recognizable, and it's a character which you probably can find on way more keyboards than the Tau.

On a side note, I would expect using three different dashes as sortkeys to create a lot of confusion, and for many people it will be hard to understand the difference between them. So I would also suggest to remove any mention of the emdash and the endash here.

Thanks -- Reinhard Müller (talk) 15:35, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

agreed. i think common practice is using ~ for anything commons-, or more broadly, wikimedia-related stuff.

the dashes were added by https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons%3ACategories&diff=prev&oldid=703824439 . RZuo (talk) 15:40, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

@W like wiki: any input from your side? --Reinhard Müller (talk) 15:53, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Grüß Dich @Reinhard Müller: Yes, I agree. I can't remember on which Commons page I read this recommondation with the Greek Tau before including it here, but I had always the same problems, need to copy paste it from here or even made a copy of this on my user page. And also about the equal look to normal "T" I was not so happy, but when I wrote this chapter I can not create a new rule. But when we do this now I appreciate!

Same with the dashes. Maybe some have an idea if they are useful, but also here I would apreciate a changing, deletion in this case. Best Regards -- W like wiki  ^{Please ping me! • Postive1 • Postive2}  16:25, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks to everybody who commented! I updated the page and hope that I didn't mess up anything regarding the translation. --Reinhard Müller (talk) 18:15, 22 February 2024 (UTC)