Talk:Trainband

Etymology
My prejudice is that they were originally support troops used to manage and defend the supply train of an army. However, by the time John Walker published his dictionary in 1791, he saw the meaning as "TRAINBANDS, The militia, the part of a community trained to martial exercise." (RJPe (talk) 19:12, 23 September 2009 (UTC))

Merge proposal
I propose merging Trained bands into Trainband. I think these are two pages on exactly the same subject, with the same scope (i.e. duplicate articles) The merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in Trainband.Lieutcoluseng (talk) 20:10, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Change redirect for "train band"?
I suggest changing the redirect for "train band" to point to the article about Train (band), rather than to this article.

WikiNav shows a significant difference in incoming traffic to Train (band) in comparison to trainband. ( vs., 55.6K vs. 364 in June 2024). The largest destination of outcoming traffic to trainband is to Train (band), whereas the reverse is definitely not the case.

It seems that when someone is searching for "train band," they're most likely looking for Train (band). Davidwbaker (talk) 18:24, 19 July 2024 (UTC)