Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130412143615/@comment-188432-20130421221225

Would it though? I'm talking about which of the two to use when talking about the title generally, and which to use when talking about a story that doesn't have it spelled at all.

I mean, is Skaldak Grand Marshall or Grand Marshal? Do we actually have a clear indication on the audio version of Mission to Magnus?

I don't see this as strictly analogous to the artefact/artifact discussion at all. That decision said, essentially, "prefer artefact, but use artefact where is is specifically used". And it's unlikely that we'll have a page called artefact, whereas the case for a page at Grand Marshall or Grand Marshal is much stronger, since it's just a rank like Captain or Sergeant or whatever.

To my mind, the more flexible "artefact decision" won't work as readily here. We need to choose one of the two on some sort of logical basis. I think it would be less confusing for readers in this case if we chose one of the two spellings, and where the alternate was used, we left a BTS note to the effect of "in fact, Marshal(l) was spelled Marshal(l) in this source, but to minimise confusion, we've decided to consistently use the other spelling."