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GA Review edit
- This review is transcluded from Talk:Leves/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
The article is self-contradicting. It will be two weeks until I can check your sources on the leves being replaced in the Polybian system. The review will contnue when I have checked the facts. Wandalstouring (talk) 11:39, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
- The article is still self-contradicting and I couldn't check all sources. Wandalstouring (talk) 14:27, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
another contradiction edit
"They were usually outfitted with just a number of light javelins and no other equipment." AND "Leves typically carried a number of light javelins and a simple round shield about 90 cm (3 feet) in diameter." Lastdingo (talk) 01:45, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
certainly not: Scutum edit
"The larger rectangular Scutum was sometimes carried by those soldiers who could afford it." Scutum simply means "shield", although most often a certain type of legionary shield is meant. I'm sure the source has no evidence that such skirmishers (!) carried a heavy (about 10 kg) and huge shield - "Scutum" means in this context certainly a small shield, since no other javelineers/skirmishers in history carried such a huge and heavy shield. Lastdingo (talk) 01:48, 25 September 2015 (UTC)