User:Joseph A. Spadaro/Sandbox/Page76

Academy Award	Oldest Living Winner	Date of Birth	Current Age
Best Director	Clint Eastwood Film: Unforgiven	May 31, 1930	94 years old
Best Actor	Sidney Poitier Film:Lilies of the Field	February 20, 1927	97 years old
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland Film: To Each His Own and The Heiress	July 1, 1916	107 years old
Best Supporting Actor	Martin Landau Film: Ed Wood	June 20, 1928	95 years old
Best Supporting Actress	Eva Marie Saint Film: On the Waterfront	July 4, 1924	99 years old

Academy Award	Oldest Living Nominee	Date of Birth	Current Age
Best Director	Michael Anderson	January 30, 1920	104 years old
Best Actor	Kirk Douglas	December 9, 1916	107 years old
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland	July 1, 1916	107 years old
Best Supporting Actor	Hal Holbrook	February 17, 1925	99 years old
Best Supporting Actress	Olivia de Havilland	July 1, 1916	107 years old

Why is the last column not sorting correctly?

In both tables below, why is the last column (on the right) not sorting correctly? The one that is entitled "Current Age". There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to the sorting results. Also, does not the "age" template return a value that is a number (that should be easy for the computer to sort)? (And not a "string" where the number 100 is considered the characters "1" and "0" and "0".) Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 00:58, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Academy Award	Oldest Living Winner	Date of Birth	Current Age (Years)
Best Director	Clint Eastwood	31 May 1930	94
Best Actor	Sidney Poitier	20 February 1927	97
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland	1 July 1916	107
Best Supporting Actor	Martin Landau	20 June 1928	95
Best Supporting Actress	Eva Marie Saint	4 July 1924	99

Academy Award	Oldest Living Nominee	Date of Birth	Current Age
Best Director	Michael Anderson	January 30, 1920	104 years old
Best Actor	Kirk Douglas	December 9, 1916	107 years old
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland	July 1, 1916	107 years old
Best Supporting Actor	Hal Holbrook	February 17, 1925	99 years old
Best Supporting Actress	Olivia de Havilland	July 1, 1916	107 years old

• Hello Joseph A. Spadaro. Your tables' second column was also not sorting. I've corrected the first table. You could make the same changes in the second. Thanks. Lourdes 01:10, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Repinging. Lourdes 01:11, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. But, you didn't really "fix" the last column. It used to say "years old" and I still want that "years old" in there (not deleted out). Why does it not work correctly? Also, what do you mean about the second column? The actor names? They sort just fine, no? Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 01:12, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

I have fixed the last column in the second table by inserting data-sort-type="number" in the header cell. See Help:Sorting#Forcing a column to have a particular data type. I guess Lourdes was referring to people usually being sorted by surname. {{Sortname}} can help with that. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:24, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

My original charts

Academy Award	Oldest Living Winner	Date of Birth	Current Age
Best Director	Clint Eastwood	May 31, 1930	94 years old
Best Actor	Sidney Poitier	February 20, 1927	97 years old
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland	July 1, 1916	107 years old
Best Supporting Actor	Martin Landau	June 20, 1928	95 years old
Best Supporting Actress	Eva Marie Saint	July 4, 1924	99 years old

Academy Award	Oldest Living Nominee	Date of Birth	Current Age
Best Director	Michael Anderson	January 30, 1920	104 years old
Best Actor	Kirk Douglas	December 9, 1916	107 years old
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland	July 1, 1916	107 years old
Best Supporting Actor	Hal Holbrook	February 17, 1925	99 years old
Best Supporting Actress	Olivia de Havilland	July 1, 1916	107 years old

Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 01:20, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, all! Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 03:39, 5 May 2017 (UTC)