Talk:Officer of the deck

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 08:54, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

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Officer of the Deck → Officer of the deck –

Per WP:CAPS and WP:TITLE, and because this is a generic, common noun, not a propriety term, the article title should be downcased. Please also see Category:Transport occupations. Tony (talk) 06:16, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

• Support. I agree with the proposer's rationale. Noetica^Tea? 01:44, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

According to this recent book by the U.S. Navy], it is capitalized (whereas "assistant officer of the deck" is not). Just kidding; I had to look pretty hard to find that. It's almost always lower-case in books, official, recent, or otherwise. Dicklyon (talk) 03:13, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

• Support. Haus^Talk 04:22, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

I do not agree. It is the title of a formal position, like Commanding Officer, which is always capitalized. Navy watch titles are always capitalized. Thus Officer of the Deck is appropriate. Rtsoule (talk) 20:22, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

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Other OOD

There is also Officer of the Day (OOD). I am working on other DAB issues at the moment and if I remember will come back to link it as necessary. § Music Sorter § (talk) 04:24, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Surface ships

This article is flawed as it covers surface ships only - USN submarines have slightly different procedures. (Having neither a quarterdeck or a CIC.) 24.16.160.127 (talk) 04:31, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Signalman

Shouldn't the signalman of the watch entry be modified, or at least referred to in the past tense, now that the rating has been combined in to the quartermaster rating? AlexFeldman (talk) 19:00, 15 October 2015 (UTC)