Recently, we showed that any $3$-Moufang
generalized quadrangle is automatically a Moufang quadrangle. In
another recent paper, Katrin Tent \cite{Ten:04a} borrowed an
argument of the second author to show that the half Moufang
condition implies the Moufang condition for generalized
quadrangles. In the present paper we show that this argument can
be used to further weaken the hypotheses: we define the half
$3$-Moufang condition as a kind of greatest common divisor of the
$3$-Moufang condition and the half Moufang condition and show that
it implies the Moufang condition.