Template:Thai people category
 | Names of people in this category are sorted by given name, according to Thai practice.
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Usage
The template is placed in categories for which both of the following applies:
- it is a "people category" as defined at Wikipedia:Categorization of people#Definitions and scope
- the category contains nearly exclusively people with a Thai name living in Thailand
What the template does
The template explains in a banner that the names of people listed in the category are sorted by given name as is customary in Thailand (instead of by surname, which is the standard for other categories)
Transclusions in category namespace of the template can be found here
Sort keys of biographical articles added to categories with this template
Since biographical articles in Wikipedia mostly have an article title starting with the given name of the person about whom the biographical article is, sort keys are redundant when no {{DEFAULTSORT}} changing the order of the words in the article title is defined, and the article is not listed below as having an article title that is otherwise different from the preferred sort key.
Mostly, a {{DEFAULTSORT}} defining sorting by "surname, given name(s)" will however be defined in the biographical article, in which case sort keys for categories in the Category:Thai people categories category will need to be added, usually in this format:
- [[Category:<A Thai people category>|<Article title>]]
Please refer to Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand/Thai name sort keys for the detailed list.