Editing Talk:Captain (armed forces) (section)

== Removal of "Common military ranks" box ==

[[User:Don'tKnowItAtAll]] has canvased the idea of the removal of this box<br>The following is derived from [[User talk:Pdfpdf#Captain (land and air)]]:
*'''Remove''' - I think that the "Common military ranks" info boxes ought to be deleted because they are not necessarily common to all nations, they have a footnote about the UK, etc.  Therefore, I think that the info box ought to be deleted.  This was also a concern of an anonymous user back in Sept see [[Talk:Captain (land and air)#UK Centric]] above.  Thoughts? [[User:Don&#39;tKnowItAtAll|Don&#39;tKnowItAtAll]] ([[User talk:Don&#39;tKnowItAtAll|talk]]) 12:51, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
*'''Retain until we can find a better way to provide the functionality.''' - Although I don't particularly like that box, it's a reasonably concise summary of the ranks, and shows where a rank fits into "the grand scheme", so it does serve a useful purpose. That raises some questions: 1) How well does it serve that purpose?  2) If you removed it, would you be able to replace it with something that better serves that purpose? Although I can't find anything to disagree with in what you say, it would seem that I think the box serves a useful purpose, and I can't think of a better way to serve that purpose. Therefore, I don't think removing the box is the best way forward, unless we can find something better to replace it with. [[User:Pdfpdf|Pdfpdf]] ([[User talk:Pdfpdf|talk]]) 14:33, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
*'''Retain'''.  If there is a problem with the Common military ranks then it should be improved.  Personally, I think the box is pretty good as it is, although as with most things it might stand some improvement.  While it does not include every single rank in every single language (that would be a vast amount of information), it does include the generic name of almost all ranks in all English-speaking countries. [[User:Greenshed|Greenshed]] ([[User talk:Greenshed|talk]]) 19:17, 22 August 2009 (UTC)