Talk:Civil War

Intro
Does the introduction even make sense?????
 * NO someone got rid of the disambiguation page CharlieP216 20:22, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

omitions
There are several omitions in this list. Conflicts that are considered wars but are actually civil wars. Like the Korean War, for example, and to some extent the Vietnam War.

Also, other civil wars should be on the list, like the Uruguay Civil War, (or Guerra Grande), or the Argentinean Civi War, (between the Unitarios and Federales), just to name two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.127.83.235 (talk) 23:14, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Andrew Hall is a big fat chunky ****

Moved Latin to bottom
17-Jan-2009: I have moved the Latin phrases to the bottom, under heading "Other". By far, any German language titles would be more common for English consideration, but even German is not English, so such translations should go to the bottom. However, if there were an uber-famous Latin title, known for centuries as "Civil War", then that might get top billing. Otherwise, putting the Latin at the top seems like POV pushing to avoid English meanings of "civil war". -Wikid77 (talk) 10:52, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Capitalized word: List
17-Jan-2009: I have capitalized the title "List of civil wars". When using the word "See" to link an article, the text that follows is the article title, not a lowercase wikilink. It also helps to add a colon, as "See:" versus "See what I mean". Technically, a title of an article should be in quotation marks, but this style is rarely used, in the format:
 * See "List of civil wars".

Instead, adding a colon helps indicate a title will follow:
 * See: List of civil wars.

Many people omit the colon (as just "see") with the implication that the word "see" might be used to introduce an article-link or some other connection, depending on the particular situation, which could be confusing for the readers:
 * See your local library, for those books.
 * See: Your local library.

In the 2nd instance, "Your local library" is the title of an article. Also consider:
 * See: Plutarch's Lives.

The title "Lives" is the common name given to Plutarch's books about biographies of notable people.

Although, technically, a title of an article should be in quotation marks, the visual problem has been excessive use of quotation marks, similar to over-emphasizing: "everything" that is intended as an "article title" should not be "quoted" by itself ("per se") because the text can become "over-quoted" by just "too many" quotemarks like "some people" with "obsessive compulsive disorder" or "OCD". Because of that problem of excessive quotation marks, it is simpler to just add a single colon (as with using "See:") to indicate that the text afterward is to be read literally, as a title. That colon-style can be extended to similar situations, as follows, for the film: X-men, the talk-page: Talk:Hyperlink, or the word: List.

For those reasons, the style was changed to display "See: List of civil wars". -Wikid77 (talk) 10:52, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

the civil war
The Civil War was about the north and the south fighting for their country...The south wanted to become their own country while the north wanted to become one country with the south..The north ened up winning and the slaves at the time were freed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.30.3.1 (talk) 02:33, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Uh hugh. Go tell that to africa--Ssteiner209 (talk) 16:27, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Guns N' Roses Civil War
Someone changed the links to the civil war song, essentially destroying the links, so I fixed those up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.204.16.10 (talk) 18:42, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Civil War in America
Hello, I am a Japanese person looking for informations about the civil war which Americans fought each other. I could not find it on this page. Should it not be here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.230.44.232 (talk) 07:37, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * American Civil War 50.107.146.96 (talk) 06:38, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

No reference to the American Civil War? With the 150th Anniversary of it beginning this week this has got to be the biggest missing thing on this list. Somebody has to put this on here. Did vandalism take it off? I'd do it, but this is the first time I have ever did anything on Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.155.155 (talk) 02:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

American Civil War?
People in the United States often refer to the American Civil War as just the Civil War (and Civil War redirects here). Maybe that should be added here, in the See also section (unless all countries are like that and refer to their Civil Wars as just the Civil War, in which case we would have to put all countries that ever had civil wars in order to be fair, and that would be just overboard, especially given the link to List of civil wars).

50.107.146.96 (talk) 06:38, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 19 April 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: not moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:57, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Civil War → Civil war (disambiguation) – Currently, Civil war is the main topic page, and this page Civil War (note the capitalization) is the disambiguation page. Both Civil war (disambiguation) and Civil War (disambiguation) redirect to this page. This is contrary to the guidelines on the naming of disambiguation pages. I would like to move this page to Civil war (disambiguation), and have both Civil War and Civil War (disambiguation) redirect here. LK (talk) 11:12, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. I agree with and have nothing to add to nom's rationale.
 * Civil War repeatedly collects bad links, mostly but by no means intended for American Civil War. The proposed move would not affect this: User:DPL bot would continue to find them. Narky Blert (talk) 12:17, 19 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Good faith request, but far different from how we usually handle these. Per WP:SMALLDETAILS, civil war and Civil War are fundamentally separate primary names. For the lowercase, the topic article is WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. For "Civil War", there is WP:NOPRIMARY, and so a disambiguation page is placed there. Per WP:DABCOMBINE, we tend to place terms that differ only in capitalization together on a single disambiguation page, and per WP:DABNAME the combined disambiguation page is placed at the title using the spelling that reflects the majority of items on the page. -- Netoholic @ 12:49, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Netoholic. There is only one topic titled civil war but a number of topics titled Civil War, so the current setup makes sense. Station1 (talk) 01:08, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:SMALLDETAILS. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 19:34, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose per above, while I understand the fact that this would make it clear its a DAB, this has been rejected per WP:MALPLACED so in this case we should keep it under the simpler title.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 18:12, 23 April 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.