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Hello! I was doing New Page Patrol and I came across your Kentucky battlefield articles. I just wanted to thank you for bringing this information to Wikipedia. As someone with a strong interest in the U.S. Civil War, I greatly appreciated your contributions. Thank you! Pastor Theo ( talk) 02:28, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I know you said you were planning to start creating articles for Kentucky's Confederate military units. I ran across some info last night I thought I'd share. E. Polk Johnson's A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians gives some good information about the formation and action of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry on page 794. The unit was raised in Richmond just after the Battle of Richmond by a man named David Walter Chenault. The unit participated in Morgan's Raid, and Chenault was killed at the Battle of Tebbs Bend. James B. McCreary, later twice-governor of Kentucky, took command following Chenault's death. Because of this, there might be more info on the 11th Cavalry than many other Confederate units. Powell's Kentucky Governors mentions that the unit may have been called the 7th Kentucky Cavalry at some point. Hope this helps you get a start. Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 11:58, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
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I noticed that you have been attributing text in some of your edits (eg this one), which is of course the correct thing to do. However I notice that you have been attributing the same source in a lot of articles. I think it would be a good idea if you were to create a specific template for that source, so that the articles that rely on "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick Henry Dyer" can all be placed in an separate specific category. (one of the reasons I had for writing the general template was to flag frequent usage like this). You will find example that you can use at Category:Attribution templates. If you decide to implement one, although I am no expert on them, I will help you if you run into problems. -- PBS ( talk) 11:25, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for some clarification on the Wilkinson article. I have Harrison's Kentucky's Governors, but I try to expand one source at a time and hadn't gotten there yet. I hope to get the article ready for GA in the next week or two. Any sources, etc. you can find are most welcome. Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 14:49, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
You seem to have excellent sources on Civil War soldiers and units, so I'm turning to you for some help, if possible. I'm composing an article on Parker Watkins Hardin, several times attorney general of Kentucky and three time gubernatorial candidate. Many texts refer to him as "General Hardin", yet I cannot find even the briefest mention of his military service. He was born in 1841, so I consider it likely that he served in the Civil War. A passage from Klotter's Decades of Discord mentions that the entire slate of Democratic candidates in 1883 (which included Hardin) was composed of ex-Confederate soldiers or Confederate sympathizers. This leads me to believe that Hardin was probably a Confederate officer. Complicating the research is the fact that his name is variously given as "Parker", "Watt", "P. Wat", "P. W.", and even a nickname "Polly Wolly"! I cannot fathom how someone could rise to a generalship and not have a single thing written about their military service. Can you give me anything to go on? Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 15:27, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. I have noticed your ACW edits for a long time and admire the sense of quality you put to the task. A brief question: what does CE refer to in an edit summary? Hal Jespersen ( talk) 23:32, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, thank you! I had no clue about copy editing. I was thinking continuous enhancement or something. Confederate ennoblement. :-) Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:42, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Let's discuss the battle of Fort Stevens here rather than reverting each other. Two points. When you make a statement in an article such as "it was the only the second time" that something happened, it behooves you to identify the first time, either parenthetically or in a footnote. Second, I do not have the Wills book, but did some searching of the contents on Google and Amazon, where I could find no mention of Madison participating directly in the battle or his cabinet being almost captured. In fact, I found a reference to him and his cabinet back in Washington. The Wikipedia article on James Madison mentions nothing about this incident. The article on the battle of Bladensburg does mention it in the aftermath section, although it does not cite the assertion. Doing some other searches around the web came up with nothing. If you are convinced that the Wills book indicates he participated directly in the battle – was under fire, as Lincoln was at Fort Stevens – can you please add an appropriate citations of the Fort Stevens article, including page numbers? Thanks, and best regards. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Here is an additional data point. I found online a copy of Glenn Tucker's Poltroons and Patriots (Bobbs-Merrill, 1954) and in vol 2, p. 537, he writes:
So Monroe's actual actions are still a bit ambiguous, but I think that Tucker would have worded his claim differently if Monroe had been under fire, as Lincoln had. Perhaps it would be best to word the Wikipedia article about Lincoln at Fort Stevens in the way that Tucker did. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 23:38, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Nope, this level of specificity from a reliable source is good enough for me. Thank you for researching. (I am now unwatching your page.) Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Since I have temporarily been watching your user page in conjunction with the Madison issue, I noticed the public domain squabble you are having with a bot. I have a superior reference citation for Dyer's work, which you may find useful because it has a link to an online copy:
Hal Jespersen ( talk) 22:19, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, friend. Me again. Hoping you might be able to track down the Civil War service of another politician. According to the National Governors Association, Governor John Y. Brown enlisted as a cavalry colonel in the Confederate Army during the war, but none of my other sources about Brown mention such service. I don't know a lot about military ranks, but it seems to me that colonel is a non-trivial rank, and some record should exist of his service if he indeed had such a rank. Do you know or can you find out anything about this? Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 17:52, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
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I've noticed you've done many articles concerning the "American Civil War" with a single reference of "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" (1908) by Frederick Henry Dyer. It may be in the public domain since it was published in 1908, while my point being is that the body of text of each article seems to be confusing to the average reader. If I may list my points which seem to be wrong with these articles:
In my opinion, if you go back to the articles you've written and made the grammer, punctuation and sentences, references (and sources) appear you've taken a really long good effort to make it into a good article such as "B class" which at WikiProject Military History, we encourage Users to do good articles. Please don't be offended, would like you to be aware that it is a concern. Adamdaley ( talk) 23:02, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. Thanks for adding those pesky DOBs (i.e. Lynne Abraham, et al). I don't have a subscription to Ancestry.com and used up my free trial, so I don't have access to that info, I don't believe. Thanks again. Quis separabit? 16:43, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
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Just wondering why you tagged her DOB with a [citation needed] when there's already a citation for it in the infobox. Did you overlook the infobox? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 07:09, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Spacini, I see that Proud Irish Aspie is adding hundreds of flags to biography infoboxes. I have reverted many but he (?) keeps on going. As I understand it, flags in infoboxes are valid to denote armies engaged in conflict, as in American Civil War, but not for individual combatants. Is that your take? Cheers. Span ( talk) 11:36, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
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At the William Dennes Mahan article, written by you, is a piece of fascinating testimony from the minutes of the presbytery. Can you say where you got these? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.68.196.116 ( talk) 20:54, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I posted some info at Talk:United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers regarding the five pointed star. I'd suggest filing a FOIA request with the VA about this. - Thanks, Hos hie 09:22, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
I would appreciate your opinion on changes I propose to make in the last column of the article, List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union). When I completed the list in the article, except for the last column, I began to add information to the last column. After more or less finishing with the names which started with the letters A and B, I stopped the additions but for a very few types of entries for a few of the listed officers. Based on my experience with the List of American Civil War generals (Confederate), I was afraid that complaints would be made that the article was too large and should be split. I saved that from happening mainly by deleting quite a lot of the information of the type in the last column. For various reasons (cross references, among them), I would prefer that all the names be on the same page. The table gridlines add quite a few bytes but I do not know a way to organize the information without them. That was the only other way to cut the size of the article without eliminating information that I thought should be included.
I put some of the information in the table because of its value as a quick reference in writing or revising other articles as well as to provide identification of the officers. Also, I think it unlikely that all of these officers will have articles about them so this may be the only information Wikipedia will have about them. Also, there is much misunderstanding even among some people who are familiar with Civil War history about when most of these appointments really were made and what they mean. That is why, for example, I have added the appointments by President Lincoln as a note in the last column. All of the others were basically commendations.
I added some small amount of information in fewer categories to some of the other names and some may still need that information. Other editors have added some of the types of information I have for the names with the first two letters to some later names. What I propose to do is limit the types of information in that last column, which will result in deleting some information currently there, mostly for names under the letters A and B. The purpose would be to eliminate some clutter and large boxes for some of the generals. Also, it would be to keep complaints about article size from arising. I do note that the article has existed for some time now without such complaints. Most of the information that would be eliminated would be about political offices and other accomplishments which would be information which would make it more likely than articles would exist or be written about the persons. I would keep Medals of Honor, KIA, appointment by President Lincoln and a few other types of military facts.
I don't know how it looks to others but I think the final column either seems to be unfinished after the letter B or that the information for the names starting with the letters A and B are overdone. Actually, I would rather add the information down the line but I think that carries some risk of calls to pare it down.
You have worked on the article and are interested in American Civil War topics. So I ask your opinion on whether you see any problem with cutting back the information as noted. Of course, there are two other options: leave it the way it is so that no attention is drawn or judiciously add a little information to later entries. That is readily available to me since I own the main sources, Civil War High Commands and Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. The latter title seems to be almost a misnomer since brevet major generals are included; I suppose all or almost all of them were brevet brigadiers as well. Still leaving out the "brigadier" appears more accurate.
Thanks for considering this. Donner60 ( talk) 04:38, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
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Just out of curiosity--and please understand that this is not a complaint, simply a curious question--why did you remove the flag icons from the James A. Mulligan article? Are they being removed from all similar articles, or was there a specific reason, here? Like I said: this is not by any means a complaint, simply a question. Thanks! - Ecjmartin ( talk) 02:35, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
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I noticed you have been creating lots of articles on regiments that were involved in the American Civil War. I wanted to thank you for your work. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 04:00, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
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I saw you removed mention of George Hanks from the 12th Connecticut article. While I don't have any citations showing that Hanks' actions in the regiment were notable to the regiment, it seems that a reader of the page on the regiment would be interested to learn about notable members of the regiment. Can you explain your edit a bit more? Is there a policy on this? To me, a list of notable members of a regiment makes similar sense to a list of notable people from a city, for instance. Smmurphy( Talk) 06:06, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
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If the formation was active in other years, it shouldn't say it was active just from 1861 to 1865 in the infobox. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:45, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
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Your removal of Establishment and Disestablishment categories from Civil War articles. Establishment/Disestablishment by location is appropriate. Your edits are bordering on vandalism. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 19:37, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for doing so much work to add Civil War units to the wiki. I am thinking of moving articles such as 2nd U.S. Light Artillery, Battery G to "2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery G" because "Light" was not part of the artillery regiments' names during the Civil War. Artillery regiments had both light and heavy batteries until de-regimentation in 1901. I notice there are about 15 of these articles. RobDuch ( talk) 16:34, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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I've been going over a few of your Civil War military unit articles, notably 1st Maine Battery and 34th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. I would like to notify you about the fact that the content of these articles are simply incoherent and do not present any valuable information to the average reader. Much of the rich history of the units seem to be lost in the words that comprise the Detailed Service section. To see articles written about men who died for your country in such a lazy and inconsiderate fashion is, with all due respect, insulting. This problem is further exacerbated by the fact that you were already a highly experienced Wikipedia editor upon these articles' creations. I'm not sure whether you have created any more articles in this style, but if you have, I highly urge you to redo them. As I am not an expert in military units of the Civil War and finding every one of these types of articles is quite tedious, I believe this job is best in the hands of you the creator. I have raised this topic in the discussion page of the Military History Wikiproject, and other users seem to agree that such articles are in dire need of editing (see below). From WikiProject Military history talk page:
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I have been reviewing certain military articles recently (1st Florida Cavalry Regiment (Union), 1st Maine Battery, 34th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry) and have found the pages absolutely unreadable. The service detail is so densely and monotonously packed together such that many of the rich and detailed history of the units have been lost in a mountain of words. However, after editing the 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment page, I discovered that many of these incomprehensible articles were written in the same style. Are minor military unit articles all supposed to be written in this style or is this is a major problem that I should continue correcting? Thanks GeneralPoxter (talk) 20:46, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
They look like info dumps from their unit diary. Possibly all the original author(s) had access to. Somewhere to start from, at least. (Hohum @) 20:53, 8 September 2019 (UTC) I assume what you´re referring to are sections that aren´t written at all but directly copied public domain material from respective entries in Dyer's Compendium (like e.g. the 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment (Union) over here). A compact way for lots of information without going into details per se as the compendium needed. I´m sure that nobody has any objections if you want to do the work and turn that into actual prose or expand any articles accordingly. ...GELongstreet (talk) 21:00, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Yes, articles that are copied and pasted from Dyer's Compendium like most of the Union regimental articles with service details should definitely be rewritten to both make the prose readable (coherent sentences) and to add information from recently published secondary sources. Kges1901 (talk) 21:10, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your attention. GeneralPoxter ( talk) 02:26, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you added an entry at Newton County Courthouse for Kansas. Since there is no Newton County, and your sandbox list has Newton at the Harvey entry, I am assuming you meant Harvey County? I'm removing it from the courthouse disambiguation page, but I just want to be 100% sure that's what the issue is. Thanks for working on that list. kennethaw88 • talk 21:40, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hello! I was doing New Page Patrol and I came across your Kentucky battlefield articles. I just wanted to thank you for bringing this information to Wikipedia. As someone with a strong interest in the U.S. Civil War, I greatly appreciated your contributions. Thank you! Pastor Theo ( talk) 02:28, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I know you said you were planning to start creating articles for Kentucky's Confederate military units. I ran across some info last night I thought I'd share. E. Polk Johnson's A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians gives some good information about the formation and action of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry on page 794. The unit was raised in Richmond just after the Battle of Richmond by a man named David Walter Chenault. The unit participated in Morgan's Raid, and Chenault was killed at the Battle of Tebbs Bend. James B. McCreary, later twice-governor of Kentucky, took command following Chenault's death. Because of this, there might be more info on the 11th Cavalry than many other Confederate units. Powell's Kentucky Governors mentions that the unit may have been called the 7th Kentucky Cavalry at some point. Hope this helps you get a start. Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 11:58, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
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I noticed that you have been attributing text in some of your edits (eg this one), which is of course the correct thing to do. However I notice that you have been attributing the same source in a lot of articles. I think it would be a good idea if you were to create a specific template for that source, so that the articles that rely on "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick Henry Dyer" can all be placed in an separate specific category. (one of the reasons I had for writing the general template was to flag frequent usage like this). You will find example that you can use at Category:Attribution templates. If you decide to implement one, although I am no expert on them, I will help you if you run into problems. -- PBS ( talk) 11:25, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for some clarification on the Wilkinson article. I have Harrison's Kentucky's Governors, but I try to expand one source at a time and hadn't gotten there yet. I hope to get the article ready for GA in the next week or two. Any sources, etc. you can find are most welcome. Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 14:49, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
You seem to have excellent sources on Civil War soldiers and units, so I'm turning to you for some help, if possible. I'm composing an article on Parker Watkins Hardin, several times attorney general of Kentucky and three time gubernatorial candidate. Many texts refer to him as "General Hardin", yet I cannot find even the briefest mention of his military service. He was born in 1841, so I consider it likely that he served in the Civil War. A passage from Klotter's Decades of Discord mentions that the entire slate of Democratic candidates in 1883 (which included Hardin) was composed of ex-Confederate soldiers or Confederate sympathizers. This leads me to believe that Hardin was probably a Confederate officer. Complicating the research is the fact that his name is variously given as "Parker", "Watt", "P. Wat", "P. W.", and even a nickname "Polly Wolly"! I cannot fathom how someone could rise to a generalship and not have a single thing written about their military service. Can you give me anything to go on? Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 15:27, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. I have noticed your ACW edits for a long time and admire the sense of quality you put to the task. A brief question: what does CE refer to in an edit summary? Hal Jespersen ( talk) 23:32, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, thank you! I had no clue about copy editing. I was thinking continuous enhancement or something. Confederate ennoblement. :-) Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:42, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Let's discuss the battle of Fort Stevens here rather than reverting each other. Two points. When you make a statement in an article such as "it was the only the second time" that something happened, it behooves you to identify the first time, either parenthetically or in a footnote. Second, I do not have the Wills book, but did some searching of the contents on Google and Amazon, where I could find no mention of Madison participating directly in the battle or his cabinet being almost captured. In fact, I found a reference to him and his cabinet back in Washington. The Wikipedia article on James Madison mentions nothing about this incident. The article on the battle of Bladensburg does mention it in the aftermath section, although it does not cite the assertion. Doing some other searches around the web came up with nothing. If you are convinced that the Wills book indicates he participated directly in the battle – was under fire, as Lincoln was at Fort Stevens – can you please add an appropriate citations of the Fort Stevens article, including page numbers? Thanks, and best regards. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Here is an additional data point. I found online a copy of Glenn Tucker's Poltroons and Patriots (Bobbs-Merrill, 1954) and in vol 2, p. 537, he writes:
So Monroe's actual actions are still a bit ambiguous, but I think that Tucker would have worded his claim differently if Monroe had been under fire, as Lincoln had. Perhaps it would be best to word the Wikipedia article about Lincoln at Fort Stevens in the way that Tucker did. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 23:38, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Nope, this level of specificity from a reliable source is good enough for me. Thank you for researching. (I am now unwatching your page.) Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Since I have temporarily been watching your user page in conjunction with the Madison issue, I noticed the public domain squabble you are having with a bot. I have a superior reference citation for Dyer's work, which you may find useful because it has a link to an online copy:
Hal Jespersen ( talk) 22:19, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, friend. Me again. Hoping you might be able to track down the Civil War service of another politician. According to the National Governors Association, Governor John Y. Brown enlisted as a cavalry colonel in the Confederate Army during the war, but none of my other sources about Brown mention such service. I don't know a lot about military ranks, but it seems to me that colonel is a non-trivial rank, and some record should exist of his service if he indeed had such a rank. Do you know or can you find out anything about this? Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 17:52, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
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I've noticed you've done many articles concerning the "American Civil War" with a single reference of "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" (1908) by Frederick Henry Dyer. It may be in the public domain since it was published in 1908, while my point being is that the body of text of each article seems to be confusing to the average reader. If I may list my points which seem to be wrong with these articles:
In my opinion, if you go back to the articles you've written and made the grammer, punctuation and sentences, references (and sources) appear you've taken a really long good effort to make it into a good article such as "B class" which at WikiProject Military History, we encourage Users to do good articles. Please don't be offended, would like you to be aware that it is a concern. Adamdaley ( talk) 23:02, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. Thanks for adding those pesky DOBs (i.e. Lynne Abraham, et al). I don't have a subscription to Ancestry.com and used up my free trial, so I don't have access to that info, I don't believe. Thanks again. Quis separabit? 16:43, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
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Just wondering why you tagged her DOB with a [citation needed] when there's already a citation for it in the infobox. Did you overlook the infobox? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 07:09, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Spacini, I see that Proud Irish Aspie is adding hundreds of flags to biography infoboxes. I have reverted many but he (?) keeps on going. As I understand it, flags in infoboxes are valid to denote armies engaged in conflict, as in American Civil War, but not for individual combatants. Is that your take? Cheers. Span ( talk) 11:36, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hi ..I noticed your revert... I understand the philosophy ...and somewhat understand the point of view.. but what about the issue whether Maulsby was the commander?...
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At the William Dennes Mahan article, written by you, is a piece of fascinating testimony from the minutes of the presbytery. Can you say where you got these? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.68.196.116 ( talk) 20:54, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I posted some info at Talk:United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers regarding the five pointed star. I'd suggest filing a FOIA request with the VA about this. - Thanks, Hos hie 09:22, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
I would appreciate your opinion on changes I propose to make in the last column of the article, List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union). When I completed the list in the article, except for the last column, I began to add information to the last column. After more or less finishing with the names which started with the letters A and B, I stopped the additions but for a very few types of entries for a few of the listed officers. Based on my experience with the List of American Civil War generals (Confederate), I was afraid that complaints would be made that the article was too large and should be split. I saved that from happening mainly by deleting quite a lot of the information of the type in the last column. For various reasons (cross references, among them), I would prefer that all the names be on the same page. The table gridlines add quite a few bytes but I do not know a way to organize the information without them. That was the only other way to cut the size of the article without eliminating information that I thought should be included.
I put some of the information in the table because of its value as a quick reference in writing or revising other articles as well as to provide identification of the officers. Also, I think it unlikely that all of these officers will have articles about them so this may be the only information Wikipedia will have about them. Also, there is much misunderstanding even among some people who are familiar with Civil War history about when most of these appointments really were made and what they mean. That is why, for example, I have added the appointments by President Lincoln as a note in the last column. All of the others were basically commendations.
I added some small amount of information in fewer categories to some of the other names and some may still need that information. Other editors have added some of the types of information I have for the names with the first two letters to some later names. What I propose to do is limit the types of information in that last column, which will result in deleting some information currently there, mostly for names under the letters A and B. The purpose would be to eliminate some clutter and large boxes for some of the generals. Also, it would be to keep complaints about article size from arising. I do note that the article has existed for some time now without such complaints. Most of the information that would be eliminated would be about political offices and other accomplishments which would be information which would make it more likely than articles would exist or be written about the persons. I would keep Medals of Honor, KIA, appointment by President Lincoln and a few other types of military facts.
I don't know how it looks to others but I think the final column either seems to be unfinished after the letter B or that the information for the names starting with the letters A and B are overdone. Actually, I would rather add the information down the line but I think that carries some risk of calls to pare it down.
You have worked on the article and are interested in American Civil War topics. So I ask your opinion on whether you see any problem with cutting back the information as noted. Of course, there are two other options: leave it the way it is so that no attention is drawn or judiciously add a little information to later entries. That is readily available to me since I own the main sources, Civil War High Commands and Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. The latter title seems to be almost a misnomer since brevet major generals are included; I suppose all or almost all of them were brevet brigadiers as well. Still leaving out the "brigadier" appears more accurate.
Thanks for considering this. Donner60 ( talk) 04:38, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
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Just out of curiosity--and please understand that this is not a complaint, simply a curious question--why did you remove the flag icons from the James A. Mulligan article? Are they being removed from all similar articles, or was there a specific reason, here? Like I said: this is not by any means a complaint, simply a question. Thanks! - Ecjmartin ( talk) 02:35, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
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I noticed you have been creating lots of articles on regiments that were involved in the American Civil War. I wanted to thank you for your work. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 04:00, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
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I saw you removed mention of George Hanks from the 12th Connecticut article. While I don't have any citations showing that Hanks' actions in the regiment were notable to the regiment, it seems that a reader of the page on the regiment would be interested to learn about notable members of the regiment. Can you explain your edit a bit more? Is there a policy on this? To me, a list of notable members of a regiment makes similar sense to a list of notable people from a city, for instance. Smmurphy( Talk) 06:06, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
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If the formation was active in other years, it shouldn't say it was active just from 1861 to 1865 in the infobox. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:45, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
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Your removal of Establishment and Disestablishment categories from Civil War articles. Establishment/Disestablishment by location is appropriate. Your edits are bordering on vandalism. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 19:37, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for doing so much work to add Civil War units to the wiki. I am thinking of moving articles such as 2nd U.S. Light Artillery, Battery G to "2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery G" because "Light" was not part of the artillery regiments' names during the Civil War. Artillery regiments had both light and heavy batteries until de-regimentation in 1901. I notice there are about 15 of these articles. RobDuch ( talk) 16:34, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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I've been going over a few of your Civil War military unit articles, notably 1st Maine Battery and 34th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. I would like to notify you about the fact that the content of these articles are simply incoherent and do not present any valuable information to the average reader. Much of the rich history of the units seem to be lost in the words that comprise the Detailed Service section. To see articles written about men who died for your country in such a lazy and inconsiderate fashion is, with all due respect, insulting. This problem is further exacerbated by the fact that you were already a highly experienced Wikipedia editor upon these articles' creations. I'm not sure whether you have created any more articles in this style, but if you have, I highly urge you to redo them. As I am not an expert in military units of the Civil War and finding every one of these types of articles is quite tedious, I believe this job is best in the hands of you the creator. I have raised this topic in the discussion page of the Military History Wikiproject, and other users seem to agree that such articles are in dire need of editing (see below). From WikiProject Military history talk page:
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I have been reviewing certain military articles recently (1st Florida Cavalry Regiment (Union), 1st Maine Battery, 34th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry) and have found the pages absolutely unreadable. The service detail is so densely and monotonously packed together such that many of the rich and detailed history of the units have been lost in a mountain of words. However, after editing the 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment page, I discovered that many of these incomprehensible articles were written in the same style. Are minor military unit articles all supposed to be written in this style or is this is a major problem that I should continue correcting? Thanks GeneralPoxter (talk) 20:46, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
They look like info dumps from their unit diary. Possibly all the original author(s) had access to. Somewhere to start from, at least. (Hohum @) 20:53, 8 September 2019 (UTC) I assume what you´re referring to are sections that aren´t written at all but directly copied public domain material from respective entries in Dyer's Compendium (like e.g. the 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment (Union) over here). A compact way for lots of information without going into details per se as the compendium needed. I´m sure that nobody has any objections if you want to do the work and turn that into actual prose or expand any articles accordingly. ...GELongstreet (talk) 21:00, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Yes, articles that are copied and pasted from Dyer's Compendium like most of the Union regimental articles with service details should definitely be rewritten to both make the prose readable (coherent sentences) and to add information from recently published secondary sources. Kges1901 (talk) 21:10, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your attention. GeneralPoxter ( talk) 02:26, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you added an entry at Newton County Courthouse for Kansas. Since there is no Newton County, and your sandbox list has Newton at the Harvey entry, I am assuming you meant Harvey County? I'm removing it from the courthouse disambiguation page, but I just want to be 100% sure that's what the issue is. Thanks for working on that list. kennethaw88 • talk 21:40, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
As far as I'm aware, including the state as a parenthetical disambiguation in county courthouse articles is only necessary if there are multiple counties with that name; otherwise, "X County Courthouse" without any disambiguation is preferred. So Doniphan County Courthouse doesn't actually need the state name in the title. TheCatalyst31 Reaction• Creation 02:29, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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Good evening. I'm curious why you keep deleting Category:Defunct museums in Kentucky from the James A. Ramage Civil War Museum article. It is a valid category, as other states also have the same category for defunct museums. Please see Category:Defunct museums in Alabama, which is a subcategory of Category:Defunct museums in the United States. I look forward to your explanation. Many thanks, Spacini ( talk) 01:34, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
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