Talk:U.S. Army officer rank insignia

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Merge

Why was this merged into the U.S. Army article when U.S._Army_enlisted_rank_insignia was not? I think this page was valuable as a quick reference and a nice printable list of officer ranks. Perhaps it can be linked somehow to the chart in the main army article or otherwise reverted? Thanks. - 64.247.236.234 23:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Change of text position

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  (diff) (hist) . . m U.S. Army officer rank insignia; 16:32 . . Nricardo (Talk)   
     (moved intro., so as not to be obscured by table.)

Not sure I understand the motive. The text should wrap around the two tables. It did not? I ask because there are many other pages with the same style. If there's a problem, I need to identify it. The text wasn't intended to be a header, but I was hoping someone would fill in more text later. - Wguynes 00:36, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

Abbreviations

I've always had an issue with adding abbreviations, even before putting content on wikipedia. I've never found an official source for any abbreviations for any branch. Adding them is dooming you to endless edit revisions as personal opinions creep in. I used to host my own military rank pages and got endless "corrections" all contradicting each other. - Wguynes 07:52, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Wguynes. Below are official sources (i.e., the Department of Defense). These use the military's standard, which may deviate from civilian style guides. Also note that different branches have different abbreviations and that capitalization counts.

* http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/officers.html

* http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/enlisted.html

does the rank of General of the Armies, belong here as well? Xtra 02:53, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)