Talk:Western Theater of the American Civil War
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A few points about this lengthy article:
- Admittedly, it is a long article, but I am hopeful that people not clamor to split it up. After all, the reason it was created is that there are too many separate articles describing the major campaigns and nothing that really ties them together in detail.
- I am using some bogus maps from a National Park Service brochure as a temporary measure while I draw maps specifically designed for this article. If anyone knows of a good public domain map of the southeastern United States that shows the terrain and rivers, but not modern cities or highways, please let me know.
- I chose the photos of the men I considered to be the 10 most important generals of the theater. The selection was somewhat arbitrary, but I hope people will not add a lot of additional pictures.
- I do intend to write the other overview articles shown in See also, so please be patient (it takes a long time to write these). However, if someone has a burning desire to do one of them in a comparable scope and style, let me know, and I will steer clear. Hal Jespersen 02:14, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
- Some comments:
- It's not that long, actually—a little over 40K. That's on the low end of featured articles these days.
- Since you've abandoned, to an extent, the NPS campaign classification, it may be appropriate to rework some of the campaignboxes for this theater to match the layout used. You may also want to consider including the campaignboxes directly into this article, in the appropriate sections.
- Gallery-style layouts are somewhat unusual; you may want to scatter the pictures through the article in order to put them closer to where the individuals are actually mentioned.
- More generally, though, this is an excellent article. —Kirill Lokshin 02:26, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestions. I added the campaign boxes, although this highlights how many details I omitted! :-) I experimented with moving the photos from the gallery, but found that they aren't very compatible with the right-aligned campaign boxes. If you want to tinker with it to make it look OK, be my guest. Hal Jespersen 17:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
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- I'm afraid this is hardly an excellent article. No, the word I'd choose is brilliant. ;) Guapovia 10:22, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- I second this, thanks so much! I hope others follow your lead and create similar articles for the other theaters. MarcusGraly 15:16, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- I'm afraid this is hardly an excellent article. No, the word I'd choose is brilliant. ;) Guapovia 10:22, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks to you both. I actually do intend to write the other Theater articles when I get undistracted. But if other want to jump in earlier, go ahead. It would be nice to use a similar format to the one I created here. Hal Jespersen 15:32, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
