Talk:Silver Star

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. Both sides are pretty even and have valid arguments. Moves to

Silver Star → Silver Star Medal – Firstly, consistency with Bronze Star Medal. Secondly, according to article, Silver Star Medal(SSM) seems to be official name. Footwiks (talk) 15:38, 13 May 2023 (UTC)— Relisting. >>> Extorc.talk 18:15, 19 May 2023 (UTC)— Relisting. >>> Extorc.talk 12:32, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Support per nom. Garuda28 (talk) 20:49, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Very definitely not the
  Bronze Star too. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:53, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply
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  Actually, I'm not sure the proper title, But I think that Wikipedia article title need consistency as belows.

  Silver Star and Bronze Star / Silver Star Medal and Bronze Star Medal.

  Footwiks (talk) 13:52, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  WP:COMMONNAME. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:53, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply

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• Support. Helps clarify at what this article is about. Shorter form "Silver/Bronze Star" is may be recognizable to Americans familiar with military culture, but not outside. Feels a bit slangy/jargony. A helpful improvement for clarity, consistency and is its official name too. Walrasiad (talk) 22:36, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment would we also replace it with the disambiguation page at "Silver Star" ? -- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 06:33, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  There are many similar disambiguation page. It looks hard.

  Bronze Medal (disambiguation)

  Bronze Medallion (disambiguation)

  Bronze Award (disambiguation)

  Silver Star (disambiguation)

  Gold Star (disambiguation)

  Bronze (disambiguation)

  Star (disambiguation)Footwiks (talk) 12:26, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Support On the first page of Google Scholar results for Silver Star, only 2 were for the medal[1]. Others included silver nanoparticle, Silver Star, Montana, a Chinese film journal, etc. From a global perspective, I'm skeptical that this is the primary topic in reliable sources. (t · c) buidhe 04:39, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose, and retain at current title. It seems to me there are three aspects to this - (1) is it primary topic for Silver Star, (2) is Silver Star the more common name for it than Silver Star Medal (or medal), and (3) If we include Medal, how should it be capitalised? Now on (1), I've checked the page views, [2] for some of the most likely entries at
  MOS:CAPS; and as recently as 2009, the Silver Star medal variant was in the lead. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 12:59, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Silver Star (medal) might be better titles, and would like to discuss that with the participants. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@Amakuru Alright, I will do that. Also, in future if you see any activity from the ExtorcDev account, you can address it to the Extorc account. This one is only used when I wish to test my scripts. ExtorcDev (talk) 12:29, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• For what it's worth, the Department of Defense uses the term Silver Star. There's no qualifier or 'medal' seen anywhere.Intothatdarkness 01:39, 27 May 2023 (UTC) (adding) The most recent version of Title 10, USC (the main authorizing document for the military in the United States) also refers to it as the Silver Star here. That same link does mention the Bronze Star Medal, but that could be because there are TWO varieties of the Bronze Star...the standard BSM which can be awarded for general conduct and the BSM with V device indicating it was awarded for Valor (actions in combat). The Silver Star is (in theory at least) only awarded for actions in combat. Intothatdarkness 01:48, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]