Talk:Colonel general

message: *Article: :de:Generaloberst 
*Corresponding English-language article: none, perhaps place at Colonel-General?
*Worth doing because: It's the next rank below Generalfeldmarschall in the WWII German military hierarchy, and the German article looks comprehensive 
* Originally Requested by: Ellsworth 17:18, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Generaloberst mit dem Rang eines Generalfeldmarschalls":
correct might be: "Generaloberst im Rang eines Generalfeldmarschalls"
:Every source I have, including original German publications from the Second World War, list the title of Colonel General with Field Marshall rank as Generaloberst mit dem Rang eines Generalfeldmarschalls -Husnock 4 Jan 2004
::Sounds right to me. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:38, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
I think that General-Colonel (with or without the hyphen) is preferable for the following reasons: the lower ranks Lieutenant General and Major General are, respectively, three- and
two-star ranks in most Western armies but in the Soviet military General-Lieutenant (SIC) and General-Major are two-and one-star ranks and thus all ranks which do not 
carry the same number of stars as Major/Lieutenant/Colonel General should, IMHO, be written in the order General-Colonel/Lieutenant/MajorGwgoldb (talk) 21:08, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 2

message: I invite someone to move out all the names from htis article into a seperate list.  I feel they are really cluttering up the article.  Opinions? -Husnock 09:00, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List needed 

message: It says now in the article: Colonel General (Generaloberst) was also the second-highest rank in the Austrian Army, although it was not used between 1915 and 1918. It's my understanding that it was exactly the opposite: the rank of Generaloberst was introduced in 1915 following the German model. -62.183.251.50 08:09, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Austrian colonel-generals 

message: There are some problems with the Russian "colonel general" section.
#The traditional translation of генерал-полковник as "colonel general" leaves a lot to be desired (as per the German discussion above), but this not made clear in the text. 
#The section states that "The rank of colonel general did not exist in Imperial Russia", but Russian Wikipedia says that it was introduced in 1852 (генерал-полковник article) or used from the time of Peter the Great (Генерал-лейтенант article), depending on which article you read.  
#None of this is helped by the confusion in Wikipedia over the comparative ranks of Russian army officers - does a colonel general rank with a 4-star general per Comparative officer ranks of World War II or a 3-star OF-8 lieutenant general per Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation? The fact he wears 3 stars doesn't mean he is the same as a US 3-star lieutenant general - after all, a full Russian general only wears one star!
Shem (talk) 21:38, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the problem with comparative ranks ain't serious at all, because Russians got the same number of supreme officer positions as the British and Americans - five. Here is the comparison:
Russia                           	UK                	US
Marshal of the Russian Federation	Field Marshal     	General of the Army
General of the Army              	General           	General
Colonel General                  	Lieutenant General	Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General               	Major General     	Major General
Major General                    	Brigadier         	Brigadier General
Though Russian MRF is unused in peacetime exactly as American GA. Lex4570 (talk) 01:58, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian "colonel general" 

message: For an explanation of my revert to this article, see User talk:94.221.58.197.  Shem (talk) 17:36, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditto User talk:92.72.224.185. Shem (talk) 17:43, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert explained