Talk:New Appomattox Court House

message: This article states that the courthouse building burned down in 1892 and was not rebuilt within the village of Appomattox Court House but was instead rebuilt at the town of Appomattox, yet someone just posted a current photo of the building. Is that building a reconstruction, a case of mistaken identity, or a photo of the new courthouse in Appomattox? If it is the latter it does not belong in this article. — Joe Kress (talk) 07:12, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The disputed photo is of the front of McLean House (look at the photo of the rear of McLean House, same size, orientation and trees surrounding it). 142.109.70.187 (talk) 19:15, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Courthouse 

message: This article appears to be the result of one editor's will imposed against the will of others as well as, indeed, against rationality. Virtually everyone searching Wikipedia for "Appomattox Court House" would be looking for the historic town in Virginia where General Lee surrendered to General Grant. I can't imagine anyone searching Wikipedia for information about the modern, essentially historically-insignificant modern courthouse. If their names were not similar, it would be unlikely that this article about the modern building would even exist. Properly, this article should be about the former town in southern central Virginia, the, site of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War. Virtually deserted after the removal of the county seat to the new town of Appomattox in 1892, it became a national historical monument in 1940 and a national historical park in 1954.Theshoveljockey (talk) 01:19, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll have to agree and go along with what you say. Perhaps the name of this article should be something like "Appomattox courthouse (modern county seat)" and so note at the top of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Then when someone searches for "Appomattox Court House" have a redirect to Appomattox Court House National Historical Park.  If this sounds logical to you, you won't have any arguements from me if you just go ahead and do it. Any other ideas?--Doug Coldwell talk 12:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Point of this Article 

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for
—199.66.70.155 (talk) 15:59, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: . Though you haven't explained what you think is in error, I've emended the coordinates in the article to correspond to the building that this article deals with. Deor (talk) 17:42, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

message: This article is about the current courthouse.  However, look at the list of what links here. Few of those articles are expecting the current county court house building to be the target.  What most of them (about 200) are expecting is historical village of Appomattox Court House, site of the battle. It is time to move this page out of the way.  I suggest:
#Rename this article to "New Appomattox Court House"
#Make a new (short) article for "Appomattox Court House" to discuss its significance, how/why it was named, and providing a launch pad to the battle, restored buildings, or the old, no longer extant building.  Yes, its a fat disambiguation page, but it is much better than the wrong page.
#Leave the redirect for Appomattox Courthouse pointing to the re-purposed Appomattox Court House.
#Change Appomattox Historic District to use "New Appomattox Court House" where it mentions the 1892 building.
There are other good possibilities, but all of them would involve moving the content of this article elsewhere and using the Appomattox Court House/Appomattox Courthouse name to produce the expected right answer.  A more precise answer is to use Appomattox Court House as the village/battle site and Appomattox Courthouse as the pre 1892 and reconstructed buildings, but based on the usage in the articles, editors are using them interchangeably and errors will creep in again over time. Still - almost none of them want the 1892 building.  Another choice is to use Appomattox Court House/Appomattox Courthouse names as a standard disambiguation page - but that requires changing 200+ pages and might require a larger consensus.
I think the numbered steps proposal above is simpler and counts as a technical move - Appomattox Court House as the village/battle site is well entrenched in history, and its use on Wikipedia, as seen in the what links here list, is also clear.  This article has the wrong name. But, I seek at least a consensus of those watching this page before making a bold move. Generic1139 (talk) 12:16, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Support - the ideas of User:Generic1139 as article creator of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park and 16 related articles including Nebraska House. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:25, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Point of this Article, redux 

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