Talk:Bronze Star Medal

message: Why is this at Bronze Star Medal while Purple Heart is not at Purple Heart Medal? Rmhermen 21:08, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
:I have no idea.  I redirected the other one here because this article was much more complete, but I think the "Medal" part should be dropped unless that's the official name (which I'm not clear on). - Hephaestos 21:12, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Looked it up in AR 600-8-22; the official name actually is "Bronze Star Medal"; paradoxically, it also lists Silver Star and Purple Heart (without the word "Medal") as official names. - Hephaestos 23:31, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

text: Yep. Because of the bronze star device this medal has "medal" in its name. - Atfyfe (talk) 08:51, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Discussion 

message: Is there a source that lists approximately how many recipients there are of the Bronze Star Medal?  - NDCompuGeek 06:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  recipients? 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Bronze Star Medal's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Army":
From "V" Device: 
From Afghanistan Campaign Medal: Army Regulation 600-8-22
Reference named "CoastGuard":
From "V" Device: 
From Afghanistan Campaign Medal: Coast Guard Commandant Instruction 1650.25D
Reference named "AirForce":
From "V" Device: 
From Afghanistan Campaign Medal: Air Force Instruction 36-2803
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:55, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Bronze Star Medal]] 

message: The community recently decided to delete the category for recipients of the Bronze Star. I anticipate deleting the section on recipients in the article because it is inherently incomplete, constitutes original research, and suggests that some recipients are more important than others.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk  00:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is the community's consensus to delete the section, then so be it. If the entries are uncited, then they may be removed from the article, but I suspect there is likely a cite on the subject's page. Conflating Wikipedia's notability guidelines with picking and choosing who is more important is misguided. We don't look at importance, we look at who meets the encyclopedic guidelines for inclusion. EricSerge (talk) 14:45, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not OR if there is a reference present or the linked articles make the claim with references present. That the list is incomplete isn't as worrying to me as the fact that the list is getting long; I don't know if we want a separate List of Bronze Star Medal recipients as we'd have to provide prose on the distribution of the list. If the reader draws the conclusion that some awardees are more important than others is their problem, not ours. I understand that some find use in a list like this when reading about the medal itself so I'm not sure we could reasonably remove it. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:38, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I generally do not support having sections on "notable recipients" as it, by definition, involves OR -- who determines which recipients are "more notable" than others? I would support removing this section. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:38, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

text: Concur. K.e.coffman (talk) 21:47, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable recipients 

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message: After the RfC on Silver Star, suggest we name this article Bronze Star to match. Garuda28 (talk) 18:34, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed rename to Bronze Star