What category or template or whatever specific coding for WW2 US Army ?

Question

I received an email that requested "Due to the standardization of military categories, please change the following: Category: World War II, United States Army to Category: United States Army, World War II.

However the link to Category: United States Army, World War II. has the comment THIS IS A MISNAMED CATEGORY AND SHOULD NOT BE USED.

Answer 1

The category has been kicked around for a bit, I guess. When I first started categorizing world war vets last year, I used "United States Army, World War II" because it seemed logical to me. I was corrected to use "World War II, United States Army" because that was the correct use. Now that it's been decided, it's the way I originally had it. 

Anyway, when I click the category, the description calls it a mid-level category, which means it's preferred NOT to use it for individual profiles. Further down there is the statement: 

If all that is known from an obituary, gravestone, etc. that the person was in the Army in World War II, add them to this category.

 

 

So, if that is all that is known, go ahead and use it.Hopefully, this is the final change for these war categories, aside from adding subcategories. 

Answer 2

not sure what you did... 

Category: World War II, United States Army  goes to a misnamed page

when i go to his profile and clink on the Category: United States Army, World War II  it goes to an active page, not a misnamed category page.

i did see that you had an incomplete template for his POW info, so i fixed that...  it was missing the element category=  which drops the profile into a default Roll of Honor Project category instead of an appropriate POW one.

Answer 3

I left the message because I'm helping with the change over process. It isn't a misnamed category. The link to the one on the page is the misnamed category. The changes in process right now for the military take you from the smallest unit to the largest. In the past it was the opposite.  It is actually preferable for you to have a regiment that the person served in before the United States Army, but you did not have one that I could use in the request and explanation. Sometimes the PM simply doesn't know and can't find out which regiment or division. If you can research it a bit, it would be better to have something like Category: Regiment, Branch of Service, Name of War.  The war is at the end because it is a larger unit than the branch of service and branch of service is larger than regiment. Thank you for working on it.