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Formal names of military units, including armies, navies, air forces, fleets, regiments, battalions, companies, corps, and so forth, are proper names and should be capitalized. However, the words for types of military unit (army, navy, fleet, company, etc.) do not require capitalization if they do not appear in a proper name.
The simplest de-capitalization rule is to capitalize if, and only if, the title is directly used as a title in front of a name, so "President Nixon" but everywhere else "president". Such a rule could actually be followed. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC) Thank you for replying here, Peter coxhead.
For a full list of ship prefixes, see Ship prefix. Military ship articles should follow standard Wikipedia naming conventions. These rules apply to both named and unnamed vessels. A typical military ship article name has the following form: <prefix> < italicized name > < (hull or pennant number or disambiguation)> [1]
For languages that do not use Latin-based alphabets, give a transliteration of the native-language form instead of (or in addition to) the "native" native-language form. For articles that mention military units that are not the subject of the article: Link the first mention of each unit's name to an article about it, but not any following mentions.
The general rule from MOS:CAPS is that wherever a military term is an accepted proper name, as evidenced by consistent capitalization in sources, it should be capitalized in Wikipedia. Where there is uncertainty as to whether a term is a proper name, consensus should be reached on the talk page.
The word Army in this case is the proper name of the U.S. military branch, but it is just one army out of many in the world — note lowercased army that time. Where you’re saying that military titles by themselves are capitalized, I assume you’re referring to §8.22: Exceptions to the general rule (15th edition).
These naming conventions are intended to encourage consistency and a high scholarly standard in articles that refer to military units. As mentioned in the conventions, they are intended to guide the use of names within articles, as well as the names of articles. Ideally we will expand this to cover all nations at all periods, noting any ...
Formal names of military units, including armies, navies, air forces, fleets, regiments, battalions, companies, corps, and so forth, are proper nouns and should be capitalized. However, the words for types of military unit (army, navy, fleet, company, etc.) do not require capitalization if they do not appear in a proper name.