#collation

for English titles, it's common practice to sort titles that begin with "the" as though the article were either not present or at the end of the title instead (Shining, The). this is sometimes extended to titles beginning with any article at all, as in Series of Unfortunate Events, A or Extremely Goofy Movie, An.

whether or not this is best practice depends on the use case. if you're only alphabetizing a short list of titles, it's probably fine to leave the articles unchanged, but if it's a longer list, if you don't do something with the titles that start with articles you're gonna have this huge section of stuff that starts with "the", which can be inconvenient.

other languages have different common grammatical words that are often ignored when alphabetizing things, with articles and grammatical particles being the most common cases. however, if these are non-English titles included in a mostly-English set, it would probably be confusing to apply these rules to them.

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