Last modified: 2011-09-11 00:50:15 UTC
The {{DEFAULTSORT:}} magic word affects only the category sorting for the page upon which it is placed, and not that of the associated talk page (see, for example, the categories of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burrell_%26_Sons, where the page is sorted under B, and of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Burrell_%26_Sons, which is sorted under C), so I know that the sort key is definitely not inherited by the talk page. Is this non-inheritance (a) a MediaWiki limitation; (b) a deliberate omission for performance reasons; (c) a bug that can be fixed or (d) a feature which it's possible to implement?
This is probably a duplicate of bug 16448.
No, 16448 is about adding a means for finding the {{DEFAULTSORT:sort key}} within wikicode on the same page (such as in templates). This request is about making a {{DEFAULTSORT:}} affect the talk page as well as the page upon which it is placed. So, the {{DEFAULTSORT:Burrell, Charles}} on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burrell_%26_Sons should affect the category sorting of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Burrell_%26_Sons
I'm unconvinced this would actually be a good thing to do.
