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A fact from Breech-loading swivel gun appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that breech-loading swivel guns (pictured) have been widely used since the 14th century, although breech-loading is usually considered a modern innovation?

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I switched the picture of the breechloaders from the Swedish Army Museum for the original pic. I don't see a problem with cropping the picture, but skewing the image in attempt to make them appear in profile is not really appropriate. Distortions images in that way is a disservice to the readers.

Peter ^Isotalo 00:00, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Proposal[edit]

It is reasonable enough to want to merge these two articles into one, but the Swivel gun article is currently kind of a mess and there are orphaned and recursive links as a result of a half completed merge. The purpose of merging is to reduce confusion due to link sprawl, so I would suggest delaying a final merge until Swivel gun is cleaned up, because it looks like a dirty copy/paste right now, and that is not a merge.Jmackaerospace (talk) 16:21, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmackaerospace, can you help out here be proposing an appropriate article heading structure? Neither article has a particularly good structure at the moment; makes them hard to merge. A proposal for a rough sketch would save a lot of experimenting and tinkering. Peter ^Isotalo 18:05, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that is why I didn't just jump in and start editing, the final article needs to be broken down into sections,

ie,

"swivel gun concept and definition"

"history"

"history: navel"

"history: land use"

"types"

"types: muzzle loading"

"types: breech loading"

as well as eliminating replicated information etc

That is all a lot of work, which is why I left it at reverting the redirect.

82.9.243.50 (talk) 22:01, 26 September 2023 (UTC)jamck[reply]

Yup 177.247.127.56 (talk) 19:41, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]