Talk:Military of the Falkland Islands

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Rename article ? To Falkland Islands Defence Forces - this is more correct.--jrleighton 10:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it is very important (move it if you want to). Falkland Islands Defence Forces is already a redirect if you move the page just make sure that Military of the Falkland Islands directs to Falkland Islands Defence Forces insted. However, there is an almost defacto standard that overview miltary pages are at Military of the... titles (see Military of the United States) but there is also precidence for using the proper name (for the UK, for example). As long as there is a redirect, I don't see that it matters (but I may be in a minority of one). Andreww 21:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

There is a cultural difference issue here. In US English, as I understand it, the word "military" is used to mean what in UK English would be "armed forces". The Concise Oxford Dictionary allows such a use to mean only the senior officers of armed forces (as in "Burma has been governed by the military for many years"). The US usage is creeping into UK use (probably as a result of bad practice by pretentious journalists who like to show how cosmopolitan they are), but is not there yet. Wikipedia prefers UK usage on UK topics, and therefore that usage should be preferred here. I shall move unless there are objections. Deipnosophista (talk) 06:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)