Airplaneman ✈ 02:11, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you. -- SineBot ( talk) 06:32, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for spotting this. It's not quite a duplication, but nevertheless, it's confusing, unnecessary and unhelpful. I've searched the article history to see how this arose. Way back, around 2010, an editor seems to have thought it a good idea to provide an initial, more or less generalised "overview" of historical trends in the army's development, following generally accepted date parameters. The same editor (and others) expanded these periods as subtopics, below. Then someone else seems to have noticed that the time periods in the summary were the same as those further down; and quite naturally, they altered the "Historical overview" format to suit. So what started out as an attempt to provide a brief summary under the heading of "Historical trends" or somesuch has evolved into something else. It's hard to believe that nobody noticed this before now - but they didn't (I certainly didn't). PS I'll post this at the article talk-page. Best, Haploidavey ( talk) 09:26, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for noticing the error on the Nigeria, it has been corrected. Many thanks ʍaɦʋɛօtʍ ( talk) 09:10, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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Airplaneman ✈ 02:11, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you. -- SineBot ( talk) 06:32, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for spotting this. It's not quite a duplication, but nevertheless, it's confusing, unnecessary and unhelpful. I've searched the article history to see how this arose. Way back, around 2010, an editor seems to have thought it a good idea to provide an initial, more or less generalised "overview" of historical trends in the army's development, following generally accepted date parameters. The same editor (and others) expanded these periods as subtopics, below. Then someone else seems to have noticed that the time periods in the summary were the same as those further down; and quite naturally, they altered the "Historical overview" format to suit. So what started out as an attempt to provide a brief summary under the heading of "Historical trends" or somesuch has evolved into something else. It's hard to believe that nobody noticed this before now - but they didn't (I certainly didn't). PS I'll post this at the article talk-page. Best, Haploidavey ( talk) 09:26, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for noticing the error on the Nigeria, it has been corrected. Many thanks ʍaɦʋɛօtʍ ( talk) 09:10, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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