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When an article is about a military rank itself, the generic format is used for the title; for example, Able seaman, instead of Able Seaman. However, in article text, when used as title, the rank is capitalized; for example, "Able Seaman John Doe". When used generically it is not capitalized, for example, "John Doe has the rank of able seaman".
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
The general rule from MOS:CAPS is that wherever a military term is an accepted proper name, as evidenced by consistent capitalization in reliable sources, it should be capitalized in Wikipedia. Where there is uncertainty as to whether a term is a proper name, consensus should be reached on the talk page; the MOS:CAPS default is to use lower ...
Many British sources, maybe, but not usually, for instance, the BBC, who don't much go in for capitalisation. Note that you would also see military ranks capitalised in most military sources of all countries. And members of the USMC get all sniffy if "Marine" is not capitalised every time it appears.
Italicize but do not capitalize taxonomic ranks at the level of species and below: Berberis darwinii, Erithacus rubecula superbus, Acacia coriacea subsp. sericophylla; no exception is made for proper names forming part of scientific names.
The confusion regarding the "Ranking" of Strategos surely stems from the modern custom of granting Police Commissioners and Sheriff's, both Political Ranks, a badge-of-office that happens to be in the shape of what is commonly understood to be a very high rank within the traditional military hierarchy. This "rank-shaped" badge-of-office a ...
This is chronological list of action films split by decade. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between action and other genres (including, horror , comedy , and science fiction films ); the lists should attempt to document films which are more closely related to action, even if they bend genres.
Do not put the English title in bold, as this is not an 'official' title. If the native title contains characters not in the Latin alphabet , such as syllabaries or Chinese characters , treat the romanization as the common title and include the native script and any other transliterations.