User blog comment:Spartan-091/ProTips: Ludicrously Over-the-top Needlessly Gangling Names for Articles Make for Exasperation (LONGNAME)/@comment-138261-20100528141120

I think I was the first to do proper acronyms for SPARTANS and equipment, with everybody following suit afterwards (Though a lot of people forgot I had smaller links going to the articles, such as SPARTAN-IV Program (Ajax 013).

Though, I do remember kylie's excellent attempt at attempting to make one for the myrmikids. He ended up just picking random letters from inside the word, rather than the first letter, because he couldn't make it fit.