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12th Indiana Infantry Regiment (3 years) should be merged here to reconcile the confusing overlap between the two articles (which lack hatnotes between them). It looks like this article at the base name concerns the initial regiment that served in the east, but was mustered out in 1862, even though the article says it served until 1865. The number was then re-used later in 1862 for a unit that served in the west, which is the 3 year article. Unlike other cases where unnecessarily separate articles have been written about the same exact unit based on enlistment terms (and I have proposed merges for some already), these two articles actually do detail separate units, so could be kept separate, though it would also be easy to combine them into a single article and detail the separate history. There was previously rough consensus for a merge back in 2013, but it looks like the merge never actually happened. If kept separate, I think the 1861-1862 version should be moved to something like 12th Indiana Infantry Regiment (Eastern Theater) and then the later western version either made the primary topic or moved to 12th Indiana Infantry Regiment (Western Theater) and the base term made into a disambiguation page, but I still lean toward having everything in one article will be less confusing and more useful to readers than having separate articles that need disambiguation. In any case, something needs to be done to clean up the confusion here. Mdewman6 ( talk) 02:26, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
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12th Indiana Infantry Regiment (3 years) should be merged here to reconcile the confusing overlap between the two articles (which lack hatnotes between them). It looks like this article at the base name concerns the initial regiment that served in the east, but was mustered out in 1862, even though the article says it served until 1865. The number was then re-used later in 1862 for a unit that served in the west, which is the 3 year article. Unlike other cases where unnecessarily separate articles have been written about the same exact unit based on enlistment terms (and I have proposed merges for some already), these two articles actually do detail separate units, so could be kept separate, though it would also be easy to combine them into a single article and detail the separate history. There was previously rough consensus for a merge back in 2013, but it looks like the merge never actually happened. If kept separate, I think the 1861-1862 version should be moved to something like 12th Indiana Infantry Regiment (Eastern Theater) and then the later western version either made the primary topic or moved to 12th Indiana Infantry Regiment (Western Theater) and the base term made into a disambiguation page, but I still lean toward having everything in one article will be less confusing and more useful to readers than having separate articles that need disambiguation. In any case, something needs to be done to clean up the confusion here. Mdewman6 ( talk) 02:26, 15 February 2022 (UTC)