Talk:Pierre Martin (French Navy officer)

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Latest comment: 13 years ago6 comments5 people in discussion

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. Feel free to re-request other titles. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:15, 29 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Pierre Martin (French Navy officer) → Pierre Martin (Navy officer) — No other Navy officers so the ethnic adjective is not required. 199.126.224.245 (talk) 06:33, 15 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Comment How about Pierre Martin (admiral) instead? (Or Pierre Martin (officer).) --JaGa^talk 13:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Comment it's not an ethnic adjective, French Navy means the Navy of France, so it signifies which navy he served in. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 04:33, 16 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Oppose the ip is correct, it would be 'French naval officer' if it were being used as the adjectival form. Admiral, and other similar military titles like general, captain, etc have generally been deprecated as disambiguators because it assigns a particular rank to a person who would have held many as they advanced during their careers. To use the service appears to be a common form though, as seen in many examples in Category:Royal Navy admirals for example, with Henry Inman (Royal Navy officer) being the usual format. Benea (talk) 08:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Unnecessary over-qualification is a no-no for article titles; see WP:PRECISION. The simplest disambiguator is the best. --JaGa^talk 08:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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