Talk:Demi-brigade

A fact from Demi-brigade appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Demi-Brigades were military formations created by France, to help better organize the French Revolutionary Army?

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I moved this article from Demi-Brigade (Military formation) to Demi-Brigade once, and it has been moved back again, so let us discuss.

As I said them I moved it, what other sort of Demi-Brigade is there, other than the (French) military formation? Pre-emptive disambiguation seems entirely unnecessary here - after they lost the qualms about the ancien régime name "régiment", even the Revolutionary French recognised that "demi-brigade" was a silly name; save for some later French formations, such as the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade, as far as I am aware, no-one else has used the term. Even following the MILHIST guidelines, they suggest an "optional disambiguator": none is required here.

Thinking again, I also wonder if the capitalisation is correct - surely it should be demi-brigade, unless talking about an actual unit? The French Wikipédia has its article at fr:demi-brigade, for example.

Finally, ignoring the "Demi-Brigade/demi-brigade", the disambiguator itself is incorrectly capitalised - surely it should be Demi-Brigade (military formation)? -- ALoan (Talk) 10:29, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I made an error with the upper-case on "Military" but some of my sources had "Demi-Brigade" others "Demi-brigade" but never "demi-brigade". I think the article should be called Demi-brigade (military formation) or "Demi-brigade".--Bryson 14:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. My preference would be Demi-brigade (articles cannot start with a lower-case letter anyway). -- ALoan (Talk) 15:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved it (and created some more redirects).

A nice article, by the way. It would be good to have some discussion of post-Revolutionary demi-brigades, such as the Foreign Legion, and Norwegian Campaign order of battle suggests in the Chasseurs Alpins and a Polish unit (perhaps a unit in the Free French army manned by Poles?). -- ALoan (Talk) 15:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A relatively large number of WWII units were Demi-brigades, mostly various types of Chasseurs (including the previously noted LE unit), Fortress troops but also the tank units of the Divisions Cuirassées de Réserve (DCR) all formed from individual battalions. Here is a general link for French forces in 1940, on that site's page for infantry regiments [1] the main link is [2], I believe all the material is in french.--Caranorn 21:57, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]