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I am not entirely unsympathetic to the use of "gensui" instead of "field marshal" as the description of Hata's rank. The translation is unusually imperfect. Nevertheless, inasmuch as this is the English version of Wikipedia, it seems much preferable to me to use the conventional (if imperfect) English translation of his rank, and let the linked article on that rank explain the difficulties of translating it into English. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 14:54, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I´m not sure what you think you´ve changed, but the display has been Gensui already before my edit and is still Gensui after your edit. All you did was reverting the link so the article could not explain those translation difficulties you´re talking about as you relinked it to Field Marshal which contains no information on Japan or Gensui whatsoever. But he was a Gensui in the Imperial Japanese Army and both Gensui in general and Gensui specifically in the Imperial Japanese Army have their own articles. So be the display Gensui or Field Marshal is, in my opinion, secondary but the link should be to Gensui (Imperial Japanese Army). Therefore I`d ask you to either change it back or clear up if we´re talking past each other. ...GELongstreet (talk) 16:46, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure "speaking pase each other" is quite the right phrase, but it looks like I was thrown off by the syntax for links and got gensui and Field Marshal swapped from where I think they should be. I've checked in what I think is the right balance between using the common English translation and pointing readers at the more detailed article for the Japanese rank. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 23:34, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
