Talk:Lz x-ray

Source Material
I added a further reading section and included ISBN 0060975768, which is a difinitive account of this battle. All the information in the article can be verified with this book. I don't know if that is enough to recategorize this article. Perhaps a more experienced editor can look at this. Crockspot 00:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Redirects
The creator of this article (Bpaulson) used lower case letters in the title. Conventional use of the name generally is in all caps, or mostly caps. This created an issue with Go finding the page when I linked existing references to LZ X-Ray on other pages, so I created several "R for other capitalisation" redirect pages, such as LZ-XRAY, LZ X-ray, and LZ X-Ray.Crockspot 03:31, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * You can modify the redirect pages. If you wish to do so, follow this link, and then you can change this article into a redirect to LZ X-ray. However, 2 points - 1) The Battle of LZ X-Ray or something along those lines might be a better title 2) As this is part of the Battle of Ia Drang, this content might be better suited as a subsection of that article. It's really a smaller battle/firefight within a larger battle. Hard to say if it really merits its own article. Perhaps this content could be placed into the Ia Drang article, and this turned into a redirect to Ia Drang. --Nobunaga24 04:12, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought about those things, but I am relatively inexperienced at wiki, wasn't sure how to change the title or move, and since I did not create the article, I did not want to destroy someone else's work. Crockspot 14:25, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Barring any objections in the next couple of days, I'm going to change this into a redirect to Battle of Ia Drang. This battle is thoroughly covered in that article, and any new info in this can be added to the LZ-Xray section of that article.--Nobunaga24 01:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I actually have an objection. I think LZ X-ray deserves its own article, but I think this one should be incorporated into Landing Zone X-Ray. Someone put a lot of work into this article, and I think it should be preserved. Crockspot 03:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I realize work has been put into this, but if you look at the Battle of Ia Drang article, there is quite a bit more there about this exact same subject. This is part of a larger battle, and this really has become a duplicate effort. If you want, we can take the debate to the US military history project page to get more input from other editors. At the very least, the title should be more along the lines of Battle of LZ X-ray - LZ X-ray is just a generic name for a particular landing zone.--Nobunaga24 04:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, looks like a lot of work wasn't put into the original article. This appears to be a possible copyright violation from and here  and here  (even the Kipling quote)...--Nobunaga24 04:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Didn't realize that there was copyright problems. But I do feel that X-ray and Albany are seen as two distinct battles. They involved two different US batallions. Someone else recently petitioned to have the other X-ray article I linked above changed from a redirect back to a standalone article, though they haven't done much with it. Crockspot 13:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I feel strongly that the battles within the ia drang campaign be addressed separately within their contexts.