Talk:Commemoration of the American Civil War

who wrote this?
[copy ex talk:Am Civil War] Hello, I represent a history class at the University of South Florida. We added a great deal of information about the Civil War Sesquicentennial that we hope you all appreciate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apirok1188 (talk • contribs) 01:34, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * thanks for all the good work and fresh ideas! The additions are so important that they now form a separate article, which has now been expanded some. See Commemoration of the American Civil War  Rjensen (talk) 12:44, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * High praise indeed when given by RJensen! I echo his sentiments. And moving was a great idea, as well. Student7 (talk) 22:59, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Centennial
Note that the battles that favored one side or the other, were promoted as battlefield memorials. For example, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield was a "tactical" Confederate victory, located in Georgia. It was dedicated in 1966. Contrast that with Salisbury National Cemetery, North Carolina. While it has been a national cemetery for a long time, it didn't make the National Register of Historical Monuments until 1999, despite being the largest prison in the South. It is not promoted locally, and can be found, with some difficulty, by following National Park signs and information from guidebooks. While the South could not really have done anything about it at the time (like Andersonville), a lot of the prisoners were starved to death at the end of the war. Understandably, the residents are not exactly proud of this monument. Around 1864-5, the locals were vying with their own soldiers for food destined for the prisoners. Student7 (talk) 22:47, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Appleman-Jude award
The article mentions an award local to the National Park Service which several superintendents received. The problem is that this is only local. Not like you and I could win it! Sort of like setting up a Wikipedia Civil War article award and voting one of our numbers as having won it. I mean, somebody local has to win it. Kind of like "Employee of the Month." Not really notable outside the NPS, and therefore should probably be removed from the article. Student7 (talk) 22:54, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The National Park Service is a very large organization with many top professionals. Its awards represent genuine achievement and should be included, in my opinion. Rjensen (talk) 00:08, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia has entire articles on medals and awards that are only available to soldiers, sailors, etc. We don't claim that these aren't notable outside the military.47.139.41.66 (talk) 21:16, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

stamps
there is an article in progress on the stamps of the war; it should be connected here. see Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/American Civil War history on stamps Rjensen (talk) 00:03, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Citations in history articles: Please include author, title and year
Citations in history articles like this one require at the minimum the author, the title, & the year. That is taught every college freshman class and is in all the standard guidebooks. With that information, the student or the librarian can actually find a book or a scholarly article. More than that, It is important for the reader to know who said what -- names, titles, and dates are intrinsically important. A statement written in 2014 has a different weight than one written in 1914. Furthermore, Wikipedia recommends against bare URLs Bare URLs because of Link rot. If URL is changed five years from now, it will be a mystery to readers unless they know how to go through year after year of edit history to find the original source With author, title and year. Rjensen (talk) 18:21, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Cleanup of refs with bare links
Head's up. I'm in the process of cleaning these up. I'll do more later. Note that for now, I'm only applying links to titles to improve aesthetics, not doing full re-writes of the refs. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:45, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

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Use of present or future tense to refer to events 5-10 years ago
Someone please go through the article and update things like the following:

"When the Interior Appropriations bill for FY 2010 is passed later this week"

"Titled "The Address," this documentary is set to be released in April 2014."

It's now 2019.

I'm pretty sure than the bill FY 2010 passed already.

And maybe the documentary is set to be released in the future or it was released in 2014 -- but it can't still be set to be released in 2014.

47.139.41.66 (talk) 21:12, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You can fix it yourself. Giving other people chores doesn't tend to work very well.deisenbe (talk) 23:54, 20 July 2019 (UTC)