: Perfect and thank you as I was thinking of adding something exactly like this section to help organize the ranks and also gathering up definitions from dictionaries and print encyclopedias as the reliability of some web sources is uncertain. I know the dead tree works can also be wrong but as the level of commitment is much higher, particularly for older books, the odds are are the data is more carefully researched. I'm lucky in that I live nearly directly across the street from the main library for our region and that it's also also a U.S. Federal depository library. If they don't have it they can get it assuming it exists. 

 : Agreed on the U.S. POV - It's looking like "6 star rank" and "6 star general" are informal terms in the U.S. and in a sense are unencyclopedic which is why it triggers the strong "hit the delete button before it gets out of hand" reaction. The term still worries me as more and more I see people turning to WP as the "official" source for their books, news articles, etc. I recently did a revert of what had been an edit war as a newspaper apparently used WP as a source for an article, which did not even have a byline other than the paper's name. This anonymous article was then immediately seized as "an official source and so you can't call the information wrong..." |