Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-27645505-20160120205024/@comment-6697950-20160120211941

Assumptions should not be made on articles, no matter how good they sound. You may make them on the forum, but you need a reliable source for information on articles, and should include your source as a reference on the article. Otherwise, such suspicious edits will be undone even if they are accurate.

If you had used just JSDF in general, I probably wouldn't have done anything about your edit, since it would be accurate even if a more specific version was known. The only reason I checked the raw was because I had encountered JSDF ranks before, and thus recalled that the ranks have a character that denotes which part of the JSDF the soldier belongs to. So, just be careful about being overly specific next time, unless you have references.

Oh and please refrain from using abbreviations on articles. Abbreviations may only be used if the full version has already been used on the article and a shorter version was provided next to it, or in infoboxes due to space limitations. Otherwise, people may be confused by the abbreviations and that's not a good thing.