Talk:Battle of New Market

message: There are a number or quotes and informative resources that have no citation whatsoever. This needs to be fixed, either by finding the original resources or deleting about half the quotes in the article
201.43.6.118 17:36, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can clear that for you. I am a VMI cadet and this page is copied verbatim from the Rat Bible. Pretty sad how much that is engrained on you that you can recognize it on a wikipedia article. --144.75.141.51 (talk) 02:29, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works Cited 

message: The assertion that VMI is the only school to have a battle streamer is incorrect. The Merchant Marine Academy, at King's Point, NY, holds one for World War II, during which several cadets died while serving in convoys
Al-Nofi (talk) 18:17, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle Streamer 

message: The entire last paragraph has been deleted for being TOTALLY FALSE and a long standing myth, why do VMI people keep repeating stuff they know isnt true. Keep deluding yourselves but dont post such blatant lies in public.
1) at least 23 cadets remained at VMI as guards, so it obviously wasnt "the entire corps" as claimed (per VMIs own history - http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=6271, par. 2)
2) the entire student body of William and Mary fought against the British in a Revolutionary War battle; the entire cadet corps of Georgia Military Institute, Florida State, The Citadel and The University of Alabama fought as a unit in various Civil War battles.
3) the claim about the fixed bayonets is another example of somebody not having a clue, USMA has been parading with fixed bayonets for eons and USNA used to; the honor is afforded to MILITARY UNITS not CADET CORPS.
4) The above mentioned schools were all awarded battle streamers for their Civil War service, the Merchant Marine Academy was awarded a battle streamer for service in World War II.Bob80q (talk) 17:01, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This IP blocked for treating Wiki as a battleground. — Berean Hunter (talk) 14:04, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  FALSE CLAIMS 

message: This section is a response to an ip blanking cited information on VMI casualties. I have reverted this blanking once and another editor reverted it as well. Why is this being removed re WP:NOTMEMORIAL? IMHO this is a misreading of the policy. BusterD (talk) 20:03, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll reply to this, although personally I don't see it as an issue of being a memorial but rather of just being too much detail. The names of the dead VMI cadets are just not notable. Yes, they died in this battle. So did 33 other Confederate soldiers, along with 96 Union ones. None of their names are listed, nor are the names of ordinary casualties listed in any other civil war battle on Wikipedia. These are ten deaths in a war that killed hundreds of thousands, and they did not die in any unique fashion. The only difference between them and the thousands of other dead is that years later those ten would become part of an ongoing tradition at a military college, which just doesn't make them important enough to be mentioned individually (Saying that ten VMI cadets died is of course fine). Such lists belong on VMI's website and not here. Voteins (talk) 00:12, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated blanking of VMI casualties section