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    The Orange Box

    Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Oct 09, 2007

    The Orange Box is a video game compilation that packages Half-Life 2 (including Episode 1 and Episode 2), Team Fortress 2, and Portal into one.

    Shouldn't this be under "O" for "Orange Box, The"?

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    #1  Edited By Doc_Zaius

    just seems like a common way to organize a database/library like this.  I used to help organize one of  the largest music library's in the US and "The" was not an alphabetical category (well, except for "The The")

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    #2  Edited By BlackWaterCO

    Oh who gives a damn, mr. english teacher

    Stick in the mud

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    #3  Edited By Doc_Zaius

    people who create databases, dropout.

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    #4  Edited By Vaxadrin

    That's something important to consider.  You can't have 5000+ games that all begin with "The" listed under "T".

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    #5  Edited By Kevin

    I think using O would be more efficient than "The,"  ^states it all up there.

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    #6  Edited By BlackWaterCO

    Drop out? Im still going to school

    I don't think your doing the database here anyway asswipe

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    #7  Edited By Dolphin_Butter

    Some databases have it listed as Half-Life 2: The Orange Box.

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    #8  Edited By Leone

    Speaking specifically about the Orange Box, I believe it is officially "The Orange Box" so if you wanted to incorporate the Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, I'd probably do it as a redirect. In terms of in the database, I'd go with "Orange Box, The" because like people have said above, we don't need a few thousand pages of games that start with "The"

    Look at it this way: do you go to T to find The Sims or The Legend of Zelda?

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    #9  Edited By Vinchenzo

    I can see where you're going with this, TC. It's something to think about.

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    #10  Edited By Hamz

    Yeah definately seems like it could do with being changed, too many games starte with "The..." and having them all under T would be a little silly.

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    #11  Edited By BlackWaterCO

    It's like when you go to Gamefaqs and goto SNES then look at the Database for games with letter S. Theres like 65 Super games

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    #12  Edited By Homer
    BlackWaterCO said:
    "Oh who gives a damn, mr. english teacher

    Stick in the mud"

    I lol'ed.
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    #13  Edited By Protocol

    Sorry for the "me too!" post, but yes, I agree that databasewise, they should be Orange Box, but only for sorting purposes. Visually it should be The Orange Box, obviously. But I wonder how hard that is to program (you'd have to have it as an Active Sort Filter, I think, because passively you'd have to make an entire new database column for "sorting name" as opposed to "display name", which gets kinda large when you index 22 thousand games, I would think).

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    #14  Edited By NinjaHunter
    BlackWaterCO said:
    "It's like when you go to Gamefaqs and goto SNES then look at the Database for games with letter S. Theres like 65 Super games"
    "Super" isn't as common as "the" and also that is a console specific usage of the word. If there was a console named "The" than you would have a point.
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    Doc_Zaius said:
    "people who create databases, dropout."
    I know this is 9 months old, but Burn!

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