Talk:History of the French Foreign Legion

RfD?
Is this article really necessary? It seems to be a straight-up cut-and-paste of text from the history section of French Foreign Legion. Alcarillo 22:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I created the article and will soon expand it.Carl Logan 22:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks. Alcarillo 18:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Suggestions for improvement
Some initial recommendations following a request to look over this article: Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 16:41, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Lead: This needs to be fleshed out. A lead section should summarise the main points in the body of the article, and will generally range from one to three paragraphs in length.
 * 2) Referencing: There need to be many more inline citations to reliable sources. Each paragraph should have at least one citation. Also, style-wise, citations should appear immediately after punctuation, unlike in the first and second paragraphs of Formation of the Legion, where there's space between. The formatting of citations vs. reference works can also be improved: see Citing sources for a useful guide.
 * 3) Headings: Headings use sentence case, for instance First Operations In Algeria should be First operations in Algeria.
 * 4) Structure/detail: The basic structure of the article looks okay, progressing chronologically from formation through major actions to the present day. However the article is unbalanced in that the formation section is quite detailed, but the remaining sections are light-on, particularly the First and Second World War parts. We're actually in the odd situation where some of the campaigns mentioned in this article have less detail than the equivalent subsection in the History section of the main French Foreign Legion article! For this article to really be worth its salt, the sections after the formation one need to be fleshed out to a similar level of detail. As a guide for structure and detail, you might take a look at History of the Royal Air Force.

long history?
1830 to 2014, that is nothing, compared to the 1,100 years of French history! 184 years may seem a long time to a US-American, since your country declared its independence in 1776, but France was founded in 834. That's thousand years more!! 93.219.144.71 (talk) 10:31, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Paragraph needing attention
Could someone with the requisite knowledge examine the paragraph "Number of soldiers served"? It is clearly machine translated from another source and the sense isn't at all clear. It also refers to images which don't exist in the English version of the article.Monstrelet (talk) 12:14, 23 July 2016 (UTC)