Talk:Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)

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[edit] 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)