Talk:Confederate States of America
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Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2024[edit]
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Regarding the sentence "The Modern display of the Confederate battle flag primarily started during the 1948 presidential election, when the battle flag was used by the Dixiecrats."
Change "Modern" to "modern". It should not be capitalized. HertzDonuts (talk) 05:43, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Done Good catch, thanks. Plus a few other common nouns. — Smuckola(talk) 05:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2024[edit]
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Regarding the paragraph:
Confederate conscription was not universal; it was a selective service. The First Conscription Act of April 1862 exempted occupations related to transportation, communication, industry, ministers, teaching and physical fitness. The Second Conscription Act of October 1862 expanded exemptions in industry, agriculture and conscientious objection. Exemption fraud proliferated in medical examinations, army furloughs, churches, schools, apothecaries and newspapers.
Add links to Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864.
I suggest changing it to this:
Confederate conscription was not universal; it was a selective service. The [[Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864|First Conscription Act]] of April 1862 exempted occupations related to transportation, communication, industry, ministers, teaching and physical fitness. The [[Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864|Second Conscription Act]] of October 1862 expanded exemptions in industry, agriculture and conscientious objection. Exemption fraud proliferated in medical examinations, army furloughs, churches, schools, apothecaries and newspapers.
HertzDonuts (talk) 00:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Done, except that I don't see the need for the second piped link, since it links to the same article. Readers will get the idea if they click on the first, which, sadly, statistics show most seldom do. Carlstak (talk) 01:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2024[edit]
The top infobox image for the CSA uses incorrect terminology in its caption and all in all seems pointless, remove it. At least change the caption to read something like "Map of the United States with states that joined the C.S.A. shaded." 50.205.215.149 (talk) 03:30, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2024[edit]
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In the map labels, make the ‘West Virginia’ lead to the page of said state. Hiyabud (talk) 00:49, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Not done: It seems there are already multiple instances of "West Virginia" that have wikilinks. Shadow311 (talk) 15:45, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Please condense and add subheadings to apre down the word count of 19.000 words.[edit]
Remove words and divide up the text so it is readable. 64.189.18.34 (talk) 08:16, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Lede cites a children's book for early argumentation[edit]
"The 1860 United States presidential election served as the catalyst for economic discussion; the North was a heavily populated, industrialized society fed by immigration, while the South was a traditional agricultural society, economically laissez-faire, and dependent on plantations. Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis argued every state had the right to resist Federal regulation, and could choose the economic system it wanted. Illinois representative Abraham Lincoln opposed this, arguing the Federal government had the right to intervene economically. "
This doesn't reflect any contemporary scholarly consensus; it obfuscates what is clearly stated later in the lede about causes of the war; identifying Lincoln and Davis by their positions prior to 1861 is inappropriate; and it cites a children's history book from the 1950s as its only source. 12.172.251.101 (talk) 23:36, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- I've removed the lede text you've quoted because it's not mentioned in the body of the article as far as I can see, and the lede is supposed to summarize the contents of the body. We really shouldn't be citing children's books to support the content of an encyclopedia anyway. Thanks for pointing this out. Carlstak (talk) 00:14, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
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