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Thank you, Loren, for your improvements to the style of this article. I am afraid it was not one of my better efforts. :-) Dieter Simon 18:47, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
"The landsknechts owned [citations needed] the redoubtable Swiss mercenaries"
- the usage of the word "owned" is questionable
There are tons of woodcuttings of landsknechts out there -- surely we can do better than images of models of fantasy soldier models and computer game pictures. I'll dredge some images up and replace those with more historically appropriate ones. Larry Dunn 20:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Thxs - Thus encouraged I've just stuck another Hopfer up, though it's not great as a thumb. What about the spotty but spectacular Holbein you put on Commons, with great caption? Johnbod 17:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
I moved Tross down from a "see also" in Organization to a generic see also at the bottom, as it's not really particularly a part of organization per se. I also finally removed that horrid Games Workshop image, now that the lovely image of the standard bearer in battle has been added. Larry Dunn 20:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
I added the early 15th C terms for the clothing listed and added a link to the GermanRenCostume list on Yahoo. Cherylyn Crill-Hornsby 11:41, 2 October 2008 (PST) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.129.240.2 (talk)
(Sorry, no umlaut on my keyboard.) Richards' book Landsknecht Soldier says, on page 13, that the term means "double pay soldier," so I have inserted that instead of "double soldier" or "double mercenary," which terms make little sense in English. Larry Dunn 16:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
If there is no umlaut, then ä,ö,ü become ae, oe, ue. --Alex1011 (talk) 13:05, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
The notion that 1800 landsknecht slayed nearly 15 000 Swedish farmers is ridiculous, as that many men hardly ever partook in any of Swedish revolts. Even if it's just a quote from a soldier of that time, it adds nothing of value to the article. On the contrary, the landsknecht underperformed repeatedly in the Swedish Kalmar union rebellions which in the end would allow Sweden to secede from Denmark.
I will delete that section eventually if nobody protests. --94.255.146.227 (talk) 01:32, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
I've removed the clothing section as it appears to have been entirely plagiarized from Luca Stefano Cristini's The landsknechts: German militiamen from late XV and XVI century. --2604:6000:A640:2500:6CBE:8337:D76B:C03D (talk) 16:10, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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