Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-122657-20140514170130/@comment-122657-20140514184425

Well, doing both at the same time is impossible.

For example, if a character first appears in Uncanny X-Men #13 in 1964 (or whatever) and then in Amazing Spider-Man #29 in 1965, the chronological order is directly opposite of alphabetical, which is first ASM then UXM.

The other drawback here is that Wikia's fancy category sorting for alphabetical doesn't handle our issue numbering correctly. It sorts issue 10 before issue 1, so it's not 100% alphabetical, but pretty close. So I want to make sure no one is absolutely in love with alphabetical sorting before I change the default. We can always specify alphabetical sorting for specific categories, and chronological for others (as is in Category:1999 the year categories), but we need to identify which needs to be which, and if we want the appearances categories to be chronological, we have to change the comic template's default sorting.