Talk:Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet

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Requested move 11 September 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. No prejudice against a future RM discussing whether it should be spelled out in full. Jenks24 (talk) 13:21, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ComSubPac → COMSUBPAC – Official capitalization, which is already in primary use throughout the article. – 72.200.151.13 (talk) 04:50, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@ComSubLant: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:02, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But it is not an acronym. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:02, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. It is. COMmander, SUBmarine Force, U.S. PACific Fleet 72.200.151.13 (talk) 05:47, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support I'd disagree it's an acronym (I'd say initialism), but it's also the way USN has been doing it for decades. WP should, too. TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 06:31, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support either COMSUBPAC or Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Greg Kaye 10:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Just an addendum: the two terms are frequently used interchangeably anyway, but generally speaking, in an initialism, all the letters are pronounced separately: FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.. In an acronym, the term is spoken as if it were a word: NATO, LASER, RADAR, etc. COMSUBPAC and COMSUBLANT are spoken as words. Hence, acronyms. Also, I wouldn't be opposed myself to simply writing out the whole thing in both cases, but COMSUBPAC and COMSUBLANT just hit my eyes and ears better. 72.200.151.13 (talk) 00:30, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]