Talk:Arizona Territory

message: Is there any historical documentation for the confederate history of Arizona?evrik 00:15, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Confederate History

message: Just out of curiosity, is there much of any history at all about this Territory that isn't Indian war?  This is about ten parts Indian conflict and one part anything else.    Ravenswing  09:55, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm removing the tag.  The only 'notable' occurrences in the territory days were the Indian wars, essentially wars for territory.  This is similar to how an overview of The German Army 1939-1945 would have most about the war, and probably very little about the army band.  It's not undue if it was by far the most important. 71.231.179.83 (talk) 06:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've got to say that I agree with the tag.  I don't know a damn thing about Arizona's history, but I was just dropping by to find out how the Territory decided to become a State, a pure element of curiousitly borne out of the fact that it was the last of the coniguous 48 states to do so.  Surely this is the right place to look, but it's not here.  Neither is a list of Governors, any summary of the development of the population size over time...  This is a long article, yet still missing significant meta/summary information that casual researchers would clearly come here to find. AshleyMorton (talk) 13:11, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balance 

message: As noted above, this article is dominated by details of the Indian conflicts within Arizona.  At the same time other important historical trends such as creation of a territorial government and legal systems, development of industrial and transportation systems, or even the events leading to statehood are either missing or truncated.  This represents a clear case of WP:UNDUE balance within the article.   As a result a tag has been added to show that this is a known problem. --Allen3 talk 01:30, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm removing the tag.  The only 'notable' occurrences in the territory days were the Indian wars, essentially wars for territory.  This is similar to how an overview of The German Army 1939-1945 would have most about the war, and probably very little about the army band.  It's not undue if it was by far the most important. 71.231.179.83 (talk) 06:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've got to say that I agree with the tag.  I don't know a damn thing about Arizona's history, but I was just dropping by to find out how the Territory decided to become a State, a pure element of curiousitly borne out of the fact that it was the last of the coniguous 48 states to do so.  Surely this is the right place to look, but it's not here.  Neither is a list of Governors, any summary of the development of the population size over time...  This is a long article, yet still missing significant meta/summary information that casual researchers would clearly come here to find. AshleyMorton (talk) 13:11, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: POV tag added

message: I moved this to avoid format conflict with the infobox. --Pete Tillman (talk) 23:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: History of Arizona template

message: I have been working on some articles about Cochise County in the Old West and was surprised to find so little in this article about this important period in the area's history. Somehow all of the history around Tombstone, the mining industry, the outlaw Cowboys, the Earps, the Clanton and McLaurys have been overlooked.
What I found instead was an article with 2/3 of the content devoted to American Indian persecution in "Civilian militias and the Arizona Volunteers" and "Indian-American relations and settlement".
These dominate the article to such an extent I get the impression that this is the most notable information about the entire county. This seems to give undue weight to the topic. I suggest this important part of Cochise County's history be spun off into its own article and leave just a summary here. — btphelps (talk) (contribs) 22:28, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Having received no comments for or against the proposed split, I've moved the (completely unreferenced) section on Indian subjugation to its own article. — btphelps (talk) (contribs) 21:33, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Undue weight to Indian-American issues

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thread_title: Copyright concerns

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This article was recently renamed "Territory of Arizona (United States)" without prior discussion. My recollection is that the the  Territory was more commonly referred to as "Arizona Territory" (A.T.), at least in later years. The designation as a United States territory seems superfluous, as the Confederacy never controlled much of their proclaimed Arizona Territory. --Pete Tillman (talk) 07:04, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted the undiscussed move. - BilCat (talk) 23:07, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming issues 

message: Something is wrong, for Tuscon was banned from being considered for the Capital as it was the Confederate sympathetic stronghold of the territory; and the after the Battle of Picacho Pass, Tuscon would never be considered, even though it was the largest city in the Arizona Territory at the time. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 16:19, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tuscon as capital? 

message: The article states that the first proposed north-south border (proposed in February 1968) was at the 109th meridian, and the second proposal (1862) was at the 107th west meridian. No more mention of the border is made, implying that the final boundary was at the 107th meridian. But in fact the border between Arizona and New Mexico is the 109th west meridian (actually slightly west of it, at about 109°02'49"W). Are the two numbers backward in the text, or was 109° later agreed upon before the territory was finally created in 1863? —Mahāgaja · talk 15:56, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  AZ/NM border