Talk:Mark Hammond (admiral)

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Post-nominal and comma

Listen guys. Did you follow the links I provided, and did you read and understand the guidelines there?

MOS:POSTNOM prescribes the following:

Where post-nominal letters are used, they should either

be separated from the name by a comma and each set divided by a comma,
or no commas should be used at all.

WP:COMMA prescribes: Always use a pair of commas for this, unless another punctuation mark takes the place of the second comma.

Commas are important. For instance, if you see this:

"On June 18, 2000 construction workers came across [the mummified body of NN (or whatever)]" – you might think that's a pretty big construction site if there were 2000 workers, right?

That because a comma is missing after "2000".

So, the first sentence in the lead is either

Vice Admiral Mark David Hammond AO is a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ...

or

Vice Admiral Mark David Hammond, AO, is a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ...

You choose. HandsomeFella (talk) 10:04, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]