User talk:Xymph/Pages starting with an article

Re: "bot script at your service"
LOL! That's extremely impressive &mdash; thank you.

If you're actually interested in this (and LOL again because as my page says, you take it seriously at your own peril), then I suggest the following based on past approaches:
 * 1) Make the table sortable.
 * 2) Include Category: and Template: space (to catch WAD titles).
 * 3) Omit redirects unless the page contains additional non-whitespace text (e.g. categorization, HTML comment).
 * 4) Detect sort keys in category links, e.g. .  I confess I tend to leave these alone, even though I think 99% are errors, because they're better than nothing and I have no idea what consensus is.
 * 5) Include map pages, which are also supposed to be sorted by name ignoring the map slot and leading article.
 * 6) Detect sort keys applied by templates.  This, according to Wikipedia's bot operators, is very difficult; I assume you would implement parameter-related logic case by case, e.g. name within Template:Map, rather than "simulating" transclusions in a general way.

Again, don't do this unless it's fascinating :>  but it's true that this has been a lingering issue over the years. We want to help readers navigate any way we can. Ryan W (living fossil) 21:25, 15 February 2018 (CST)