User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130519181606/@comment-1432718-20130520133720

I think the problems you're looking for have already-existing solutions.

1. The Brigadier - according to Tardis:Honourifics, the Brig is a special case with regard to honourific redirects, so why not let him be a special case here?

2. "You're propsing that we adopt a practice that is not a standard in the real world" - there's really no problem here. We already have practices that are not standard in the real world — for example, we use British spelling but we follow the American use of quotation marks because of coding limitations. The benefit in alphabetizing by first name is "making the box a little less vertically inclined", which we already try to practice for infoboxes. This reduces the load time for an article. Some people have slow connections, some use mobile devices; anything that speeds up their load time is a benefit, even if it doesn't affect you personally.