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Would you please stop editing "the" out of ship pages until there's a better consensus on this.  All WC fiction uses "The" all the time, so gramatically correct or not I don't think you should be editing it out of every entry.--[[User:AD|AD]] 03:45, 24 August 2007 (CDT)
Would you please stop editing "the" out of ship pages until there's a better consensus on this.  All WC fiction uses "The" all the time, so gramatically correct or not I don't think you should be editing it out of every entry.--[[User:AD|AD]] 03:45, 24 August 2007 (CDT)
:Ok, I'll stop, it's just that I've had to write and research a good deal of naval history and find all these 'the's... I don't know, unprofessional.  I understand that 'the's are thrown around a lot in the games, but it seems to come from ignorance of this aspect of grammar.  Referring to a ship as "the TCS Gettysburg" would be like saying "the Bill Clinton" or "the Russia" and it drives me nuts.  Anyway, I'll knock it off unless I hear otherwise.--[[User:Vinman|Vinman]] 03:55, 24 August 2007 (CDT)

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Would you please stop editing "the" out of ship pages until there's a better consensus on this. All WC fiction uses "The" all the time, so gramatically correct or not I don't think you should be editing it out of every entry.--AD 03:45, 24 August 2007 (CDT)

Ok, I'll stop, it's just that I've had to write and research a good deal of naval history and find all these 'the's... I don't know, unprofessional. I understand that 'the's are thrown around a lot in the games, but it seems to come from ignorance of this aspect of grammar. Referring to a ship as "the TCS Gettysburg" would be like saying "the Bill Clinton" or "the Russia" and it drives me nuts. Anyway, I'll knock it off unless I hear otherwise.--Vinman 03:55, 24 August 2007 (CDT)