User:Dicklyon/MIL precedents

From 2020–2024 RM discussions on military equipment and such. These prior discussions may be useful in reviewing the kinds of considerations users have raised in case discussions within the field of military names (weapons, vehicles, equipment, and such), and how the consensus settled out. The results have generally favored lowercase, particularly including these:

• Talk:Motor Gun Boat#Requested move 23 January 2020 – Result: Moved to lowercase gunboat.
• Talk:Motor Torpedo Boat#Requested move 12 January 2020 – Result: Moved to lowercase torpedo boat.
• Talk:Steam Gun Boat#Requested move 31 March 2022 (3 articles) – Lowercase boat types; proper names? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Harrier Jump Jet#Requested move 18 October 2022 – Proper name? Result: No. Lowercase "jump jet" in the title.
• Talk:Helicopter Flight Rescue System#Requested move 22 August 2023 (1 article) – Change to use sentence case? Result: Changed to sentence case.
• Talk:Ranger tab#Requested move 10 February 2024 (1 article) – uppercase tab? Result: Not moved; no support for capping tab.
• Talk:T1 Light Tank#Requested move 19 February 2024 (9 articles) – Lowercase "Light"/"Medium"/"Heavy"/"Super" and "Tank"? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Heavy Tank M6#Requested move 21 February 2024 (7 articles) – More tanks: Result: Lowercase, with model numbers moved to the beginning of the titles.
• Talk:A7 Medium Tank#Requested move 22 February 2024 (4 articles) – More tanks, plus an armored car: Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Ford 3-Ton M1918#Requested move 22 February 2024 (1 article) – A 3-Ton (or 3-ton) tank: Result: Lowercase ton, model number moved to the beginning, "tank" added at the end.
• Talk:M1 Armored Car#Requested move 25 February 2024 (3 articles) – Two armored cars and a combat car: Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:M1126 infantry carrier vehicle#Requested move 18 March 2024 (10 articles) – Lowercase vehicle descriptions? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Motor launch (naval)#Requested move 12 May 2024 – Lowercase "Launch" and disambiguate? – Result: Moved from "Motor Launch" to lowercase as Motor launch (naval). ("Motor Launch" was redirected to Launch (boat).)
• Talk:King Armored Car#Requested move 7 March 2024 – Lowercase "armored" and "car"? – Result Lowercase.
• Talk:M6 Bomb Service Truck#Requested move 4 August 2024 – Lowercase "bomb service truck"? – Result: Lowercase
• Talk:Improved Military Rifle#Requested move 13 August 2024 – Generic improved military rifle powder instead of brand? – Result: Lowercase (with added "powder").
• Talk:All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment#Requested move 24 July 2024 (3 articles) – Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle#Requested move 27 August 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase "automatic rifle"? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Aerial Rocket Artillery#Requested move 21 September 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase rocket artillery? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Humber Armoured Car#Requested move 8 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase armoured car? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Python Minefield Breaching System#Requested move 18 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle#Requested move 18 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Daimler Armoured Car#Requested move 19 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:M3 Scout Car#Requested move 20 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:M21 Mortar Motor Carriage#Requested move 28 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Textron Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicle (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Modernized Load-Carrying Equipment#Requested move 24 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Austin Armoured Car#Requested move 18 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:AEC Armoured Command Vehicle#Requested move 19 October 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:M1117 Armored Security Vehicle#Requested move 2 November 2024 (1 article) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:Leyland Armoured Car#Requested move 11 November 2024 (8 articles) – Lowercase? Result: Lowercase.
• Talk:MAP45 Armoured Personnel Carrier#Requested move 13 November 2024 (3 articles) – Lowercase type? Result: Lowercase.

RMs above resulting in titles of the form "ModelNumber descriptive phrase" with lowercasing of the descriptive part include Talk:T1 light tank (9 articles), Talk:M6 heavy tank (7 articles), Talk:A7 medium tank (4 articles), Talk:M1918 Ford 3-ton tank (1 article), Talk:M1 armored car (3 articles), Talk:M1126 infantry carrier vehicle (10 articles), Talk:M6 bomb service truck (1 article), Talk:M1918 Browning automatic rifle (1 article), Talk:M728 combat engineer vehicle (1 article), Talk:M3 scout car (1 article), Talk:M21 mortar carrier (1 article), Talk:M1117 armored security vehicle (1 article), Talk:MAP45 armoured personnel carrier (3 articles).

Here are the few that did not have consensus for lowercase:

• Talk:Ballistic Missile Early Warning System#Article title (1 article) – Use sentence case? Result: Title case, since it's the name of a one unique system.
• Talk:Landing Ship, Tank#Requested move 4 August 2024 (8 articles) – Six Landing Crafts and a Ship, Word Order and Capitalization of – Result: Not moved (capitalization not the primary focus of discussion).
• Talk:M40 Gun Motor Carriage#Requested move 27 August 2024 (14 articles) – A whole bunch of * motor carriages. Result: No consensus. (One of the 14 later lowercased as Talk:M21 mortar carrier)