Talk:Operations in Western Virginia

History of the name of this article
I've reverted the change from a redirect to an unrelated article. "Operations in Western Virginia" covers a very specific campaign as described by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service at http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/bycampgn.htm. There are other articles still linking to Operations in Western Virginia and changing from a redirect to an unrelated article breaks the existing wikilinks. The article that was created is perhaps describing "Stoneman's Raid into Southwest Virginia", but in any case it is unrelated to the "Operations in Western Virginia" campaign. There's a reason this redirect is in place, please don't attempt to commandeer it for a different article. Mojoworker (talk) 07:28, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Purpose of the recent change?
Why the attempt to commandeer this article? Template:Campaignbox Operations in Western Virginia has been in place since 2004 and this change &mdash; replacing the current redirect with an article about things that happened to occur in western Virginia during the Civil War conflates the issue and causes confusion. Yes, there were battles in the western part of Virginia &mdash; so what? What is the purpose of the proposed article and why is it significant? What is notable in an encyclopedic sense about detailing a set of unrelated battles that happened to occur "west of the Appalachian Mountains' Eastern Continental Divide"? Fails WP:N. What next – "Operations north of the Rappahannock"? Mojoworker (talk) 04:05, 9 May 2012 (UTC)