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Not a title
A significant number of the biographical articles of past Admirals of the Fleet have styled the named officer as 'Admiral of the Fleet Sir Joe Bloggs' - this is not appropriate! Admiral of the Fleet is a rank, not a title. Further, to style someone as such is contradictory to the Wikipedia Manual of Style - no other articles fail to conform to such a vast extent! AJMW 18:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
- Not true at all. Military ranks do not contravene the MOS, as you will see if you read it - only academic titles and honorifics are mentioned and military ranks are neither. In fact, many military biographical articles use the ranks. -- Necrothesp 21:40, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
A question
The Article on Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald describes him as 'Great Admiral of the Fleet', a link that refers to this article- yet Cochrane is not mentioned by name or by title. Is the article on him inaccurate or incorrect or perhaps is the 'Great Admiral of the Fleet' a courtesy title? Proberton (talk) 02:59, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Insignia / Cochrane
The sleeve rank insignia depicted has inaccurate dimensions, and the shoulder-board rank insignia is extremely inaccurate.
An officer of the rank of Admiral of the Fleet may be described as "great", but there is no such thing as the title "Great Admiral of the Fleet". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.216.163 (talk) 11:53, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
George V?
The George V article states he was named Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy) in 1910, but he does not appear here. Which is correct? Ecphora (talk) 12:46, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Honoraria
Why don't the opening paragraphs of articles begin by describing or defining whatever it is Now or when last sighted? History can follow at the end? I hope I have not given offence by amending this to suit my own idea and I have put this message here in case a discussion should take place.
Why is Navy or Air Force classed by Wikipedia as military when my dictionary says they, military, are soldiers? I refer specifically to "Admiral of the Fleet is also used as a title in some of the world's militaries" but it holds true throughout Wikipedia. I'm beginning to feel militant about this. Hmmm, fleets of Wild Geese?
I can see this particular rank style or title (you choose) can reasonably be regarded as 'honorary' but I bet in this case the honorarium is substantial whereas in most cases an honorary post is described that way to indicate the poor holder of the post is unrewarded and must regard it as an honour to have been picked on. This follows through to succession boxes where "Honorary Titles" (some include holders of this particular Admiral of the Fleet post) include people posted to positions with real responsibility (I mean real liability for any mistakes in their duties under law) and many readers would assume that the rank/title was another bit of curiously antique hot air like 'Mother of the Nation' (joke) or whatever. Eddaido (talk) 00:53, 26 December 2010 (UTC)