Talk:MOD Corsham

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Proposed move

I note that the UK Ministry of Defence styles itself MOD not MoD (see Working for MOD). We already have MOD Chicksands and MOD St Athan. There may be merit in moving MoD Abbey Wood, MoD Bicester, MoD Boscombe Down, MoD Corsham, MoD Donnington, MoD Feltham, MoD Kineton, MoD Lyneham, MoD Sealand and MoD Shoeburyness for consistency. Or we could just go with the majority position i.e. MoD. Views welcome at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#MOD or MoD. Dormskirk (talk) 21:41, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dormskirk, I see all these moves have gone ahead. I am sceptical, as what surely matters is what the reliable sources say. Most seem to prefer MoD, which has the advantage of an immediately clear meaning. MOD sounds to me like something quite different. I suppose the point is that "Of" would never be capitalized in "Ministry of Defence". Even if some loutish civil servant has decreed its use, "MOD" is still uncomfortable as well as not being used outside the MoD. Moonraker (talk) 19:40, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I recently saw an article in The Times using MoD, and there are plenty of other examples of that format. I don't feel strongly about it but think we need consistency across all these articles. Dormskirk (talk) 19:46, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]