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The rank, currently rendered in the article as " divisional general", is better rendered in English as "division general". The word "division" serves in this context as an adjective modifying "general", as does "divisional", but the "-al" is unnecessary and clumsy. Nihil novi ( talk) 20:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus, but correcting capitalization. -- tariqabjotu 01:54, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Divisional General → Division General – The words "divisional" and "division" both serve as an adjective modifying "general", but the "-al" is superfluous and clumsy, creating a clang between "divisional" and "general. Relisted. BDD ( talk) 18:13, 12 August 2013 (UTC) Nihil novi ( talk) 19:30, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Google and Google Books searches show an order of magnitude more citations for "Division General" than for "Divisional General". In each case, however, most of the citations appear to involve business, physics, engineering, law courts, universities, medicine, etc., rather than the military rank. Nihil novi ( talk) 06:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I'd like to propose merge of Division General (Bosnia) - single sentence stub at present which appears to be about the same topic as this article - well, into this article. Cheers-- Tomobe03 ( talk) 18:20, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
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The rank, currently rendered in the article as " divisional general", is better rendered in English as "division general". The word "division" serves in this context as an adjective modifying "general", as does "divisional", but the "-al" is unnecessary and clumsy. Nihil novi ( talk) 20:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus, but correcting capitalization. -- tariqabjotu 01:54, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Divisional General → Division General – The words "divisional" and "division" both serve as an adjective modifying "general", but the "-al" is superfluous and clumsy, creating a clang between "divisional" and "general. Relisted. BDD ( talk) 18:13, 12 August 2013 (UTC) Nihil novi ( talk) 19:30, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Google and Google Books searches show an order of magnitude more citations for "Division General" than for "Divisional General". In each case, however, most of the citations appear to involve business, physics, engineering, law courts, universities, medicine, etc., rather than the military rank. Nihil novi ( talk) 06:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I'd like to propose merge of Division General (Bosnia) - single sentence stub at present which appears to be about the same topic as this article - well, into this article. Cheers-- Tomobe03 ( talk) 18:20, 31 July 2014 (UTC)