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  2. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    A double-barrelled name is a type of compound surname, typically featuring two words (occasionally more), often joined by a hyphen. Notable people with double-barrelled names include Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Sacha Baron Cohen, and JuJu Smith-Schuster. In the Western tradition of surnames, there are several types of double surname (or double ...

  3. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    A standard example is the Unicode Collation Algorithm, which can be used to put strings containing any Unicode symbols into (an extension of) alphabetical order. [14] It can be made to conform to most of the language-specific conventions described above by tailoring its default collation table.

  4. Surname - Wikipedia

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    A surname, family name, or last nameis the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal namethat indicates one's family. [1][2]It is typically combined with a given nameto form the full nameof a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.

  5. Delimiter - Wikipedia

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    A stylistic depiction of values inside of a so-named comma-separated values (CSV) text file. The commas (shown in red) are used as field delimiters. A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text, mathematical expressions or other data streams.

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    For example, a name beginning with two letters representing a single sound is treated as a single two-character initial in some European languages (e.g., Th. for Theophilus), and hyphenated given names are sometimes abbreviated with the hyphen (J.-P. for Jean-Pierre). If reliable sources consistently use such a form for a particular person, use ...

  7. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    The four hyphen/dash-like characters used in Wikipedia are: - is a hyphen-minus (ASCII 2D, Unicode 002D), normally used as a hyphen, or in math expressions as a minus sign. – is an en dash (Unicode 2013). This can also be entered from the Special characters: Symbols bar above the text-entry field; it's between the m³ and —.

  8. Parenthetical referencing - Wikipedia

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    If parenthetical referencing is combined with alphabetic order of author names, this can lead to discrimination of authors with last names starting with a letter in the end of the alphabet. Studies have demonstrated that alphabetical lists can lead to a significant discrimination of authors with last names in the end of such lists (e.g ...

  9. Wikipedia:Categorization/Sorting names - Wikipedia

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    Spanish names are similar to Portuguese names in that they are commonly composed of one or two given names, and two family names. However, in a compound family name, the first name is the father's name, while the second name is the mother's name. The sort value depends on how many names are in the articles title.