Alphabetical listing of reviews

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   When one views reviewers profiles in the archive zone, the listing method "alphabetical" brings the albums in that order correctly, but wouldn't the list be more interesting, if the bands would be listed alphabetically, and their albums in release year order, like in the PA artist entries?  You could see easily which period of some band of long career is fond to reviewer f.ex.

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Eetu Pellonpaa Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 17 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 4828	Topic: Alphabetical listing of reviews Posted: September 16 2006 at 17:09
	When one views reviewers profiles in the archive zone, the listing method "alphabetical" brings the albums in that order correctly, but wouldn't the list be more interesting, if the bands would be listed alphabetically, and their albums in release year order, like in the PA artist entries? You could see easily which period of some band of long career is fond to reviewer f.ex.

Australian Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 13 2006 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 3278	Posted: September 16 2006 at 18:46
	You mean chronologically? That is a good idea.


Eetu Pellonpaa Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 17 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 4828	Posted: September 19 2006 at 02:55
	^ Yes, that was the correct word I meant!

progaeopteryx Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 03 2005 Location: Refrigerator Status: Offline Points: 3613	Posted: November 03 2006 at 18:14
	I think that's a good idea. In addition, for just a pure alphabetical sort, initial articles should be removed from the sort. For example, albums that begin with "The" or "An" or "A" or "La" or "Die." This would probably require some programming so that the German "Die" does not conflict with the English "Die" which is not an initial article. This way "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" will sort with the P's instead of the T's, etc. There are quite a few of them as can be seen here at the Library of Congress' MARC Standards page: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdapp-e.html For the purposes of this site, only the most common ones would need to be addressed, unless of course, for those interested, the complete list could be programmed in.