Talk:List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War

message: I believe this article should be named "List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War." Cla68 21:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't agree. Yes, right now it's mostly a lame list. But eventually we'll want an actual article on military leadership in the war -- there are plenty of good secondary works on the subject. Will anyone ever get around to writing it? I dunno. —Kevin Myers 14:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name

message: Took out "wow wikipedia" from list
--Mus640 (talk) 22:11, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Israel Putnam does not seem to be on the list.  Rufus article Rufus Putnam in Wikipedia notes "His grandfather was a half-brother to the father of Israel Putnam, the renowned general during the American Revolution."
Dalcrow (talk) 21:26, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Can we archive old requests for inclusion?  Putnam was added a long time ago (for anyone else reading the talk page). Canute (talk) 13:49, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Rufus Putnam Relative

message: Surely General Marion, the Swamp Fox, deserves a mention?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:A24C:FC00:226:BBFF:FE11:9033 (talk) 04:23, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Can we archive old requests for inclusion?  Marion was included some time ago (for anyone else reading the talk page). Canute (talk) 13:49, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Where is Francis Marion?

message: This article needs some sort of criteria for inclusion.  I propose, as a start, to remove anyone from this list who fails all of the following criteria:
* was a nation's top civilian responsible for directing military affairs
* held a commission of at least major general or rear admiral in an organized military during the conflict
* was the highest ranking member of a given nation's force that participated in the conflict (this allows for identification of the force heads of some of the small German principalities that might be headed by brigadiers or colonels)
* was the highest ranking member of a given state/colonial militia
* was a royal governor who is known to have directed a notable military action (i.e. one that is sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article -- this would allow for the inclusion of e.g. Lord Dunmore and William Tryon)
* was a tribal leader who is known to have had a leadership position in a notable military action
Comments? Magic♪piano 16:55, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, move the culled to List of leaders in the American Revolutionary War.  i might quibble and say brigadier general, or say was a leader in a notable battle (for example colonial side at Bunker Hill) Pohick2 (talk) 18:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I just wonder if adding brigadiers makes the list awfully long (not having researched the actual numbers) -- remember, this list covers all of the belligerents.  Your latter suggestion runs into the point that User:Albrecht raised in Talk:American Revolutionary War of objectivity -- which battles are notable enough that their less-than-otherwise-notable leaders deserve inclusion here.  (BTW, I believe Artemas Ward and Israel Putnam, the closest thing to overall commanders at Bunker Hill, became major generals or militia heads.  The leaders at Battles of Lexington and Concord and some other early actions are the most likely to be excluded under the above criteria.) Magic♪piano 22:53, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks as if time has added in brigadier generals, lots on the Continental Army side.  Figure I'll remove the "commenting out" of the British ones now as Magic♪piano's Inclusion criteria seems to have organically expanded.  72.234.220.38 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 12:29, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Inclusion criteria

message: I don't know if a policy has been established for referring to indigenous peoples. That is the term now accepted internationally, although it is always preferable to refer to them by their endonym (and perhaps with the relevant  exoname in parentheses). In the case of leaders who fought during the revolution, since most supported Great Britain it doesn't seem appropriate to call them "native Americans".
Would anyone object to changing all references in this article to "indigenous peoples"? Humphrey Tribble (talk) 06:24, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indigenous peoples 

message: I have deleted the specious nicknames applied to Tarleton and the British Legion. See the article Banastre Tarleton for the explanations. I have not worked on the article about the British Legion yet. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 05:50, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections re Banastre Tarleton 

message: I noticed that John André is shown as killed in action. Does this terminology include hanged by the enemy? Humphrey Tribble (talk) 06:02, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Executions