Talk:Infantry battalion

It occurred to me that to answer the question "what sort of thing did my ancestor's unit do?", the specific unit type is much more informative than an abstract Arm. Making the unit type in the infobox into a link to a page like this avoids:

• trying to define Arms separately from actual legal and administrative structures
• having to show an extra piece of information in a unit infobox that partly duplicates info already there
• having to assign every regiment/corps to an Arm

--GavinRobinson (talk) 03:29, 7 November 2014 (PST)

Do you mean 'templates' as in 'preloaded text for new pages' or transcluded text (which seems to be the mediawiki definition of 'template'?

And I agree that categories would be useful. While I was focusing on infantry battalions to keep this phase manageable in size, it should allow for future expansions. --Mia (talk) 07:31, 10 November 2014 (PST)