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I'm going to remove this sentence: "In 1985 Indonesia expressed interest in the AMX-30E, while in 2004 the Spanish and Colombian governments were discussing the possible sale of around 40 AMX-30EM2s. Ultimately, both of these possible trade deals fell through." because, the exact same information is in the Export section at the bottom of the article. Any objections? 24.143.44.195 ( talk) 01:40, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Editing Talk:AMX-30E (section) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia August 2008 (UTC)
That may be true, and to be honest I have never had a similar experience in any of the five articles I've taken through a FAC - normally, the weapon has been exported or it wasn't put into production to begin with. This is the only case in which the weapon was not exported, but many nations were interested in export (actually, the TAM is similar - it is currently an A-class article - and it mentions some export deals that didn't go through in the second paragraph in the lead). That's probably the reason why it's like that, otherwise I would have not mentioned it at all (nothing to mention) or I would have mentioned exports which actually happened; but, it isn't the case for the AMX-30E. To be fair, everything in the lead is redundant because it's mentioned again in the text (it has to be), but it is true that this seems more redundant because there is so little relevant information in the first place. I just feel that it fulfills WP:LEAD by mentioning it a little in the lead. JonCatalán ( talk) 04:32, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
I would just like to pose a question. Is this version of the AMX 30 significant enough to deserve a separate article? What makes it so different from French or Greek AMX 30's? Personally, I believe that it would be better if it were folded into the existing AMX 30 article. -- L1A1 FAL ( talk) 05:24, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
This article needs some explanation of context, or it will not make sense. The Labour Party's opposition, I would imagine, was as a result of the Franco regime - yet this is not explained once! — Brigade Piron ( talk) 08:48, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
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I'm going to remove this sentence: "In 1985 Indonesia expressed interest in the AMX-30E, while in 2004 the Spanish and Colombian governments were discussing the possible sale of around 40 AMX-30EM2s. Ultimately, both of these possible trade deals fell through." because, the exact same information is in the Export section at the bottom of the article. Any objections? 24.143.44.195 ( talk) 01:40, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Editing Talk:AMX-30E (section) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia August 2008 (UTC)
That may be true, and to be honest I have never had a similar experience in any of the five articles I've taken through a FAC - normally, the weapon has been exported or it wasn't put into production to begin with. This is the only case in which the weapon was not exported, but many nations were interested in export (actually, the TAM is similar - it is currently an A-class article - and it mentions some export deals that didn't go through in the second paragraph in the lead). That's probably the reason why it's like that, otherwise I would have not mentioned it at all (nothing to mention) or I would have mentioned exports which actually happened; but, it isn't the case for the AMX-30E. To be fair, everything in the lead is redundant because it's mentioned again in the text (it has to be), but it is true that this seems more redundant because there is so little relevant information in the first place. I just feel that it fulfills WP:LEAD by mentioning it a little in the lead. JonCatalán ( talk) 04:32, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
I would just like to pose a question. Is this version of the AMX 30 significant enough to deserve a separate article? What makes it so different from French or Greek AMX 30's? Personally, I believe that it would be better if it were folded into the existing AMX 30 article. -- L1A1 FAL ( talk) 05:24, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
This article needs some explanation of context, or it will not make sense. The Labour Party's opposition, I would imagine, was as a result of the Franco regime - yet this is not explained once! — Brigade Piron ( talk) 08:48, 17 June 2015 (UTC)