Talk:Confederate States of America

message: Remove text and condense through more subeheadingd. 64.189.18.30 (talk) 04:03, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Condense there is insane amount of words 19,000! 

message: the term depicting the border states as "Northern" is wrong and should be redacted. At no point were the border states considered Northern. They were by all means still Southern, in Kentucky's case in particular which had both a Unionist and Confederate state governments and was by all respects no different than North Carolina or Tennessee culturally, geographically, or demographically, and having a Southern plantation economy, and was considered an equal member state by the CSA, multiple sources confirm KY as Southern throughout. Missouri is also another case of having a Unionist and Confederate state government and still considered Southern as done so in Lloyd's map. At the very worst they were the Border South. RIII98 (talk) 04:35, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Northern" slave states is wrong 

message: Regarding the sentence "The Modern display of the Confederate battle flag primarily started during the 1948 presidential election, when the battle flag was used by the Dixiecrats."
Change "Modern" to "modern". It should not be capitalized. HertzDonuts (talk) 05:43, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch, thanks. Plus a few other common nouns. — Smuckola(talk) 05:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2024 

message: Regarding the paragraph:
Add links to Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864.
I suggest changing it to this:
 HertzDonuts (talk) 00:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, except that I don't see the need for the second piped link, since it links to the same article. Readers will get the idea if they click on the first, which, sadly, statistics show most seldom do. Carlstak (talk) 01:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2024 

message: The top infobox image for the CSA uses incorrect terminology in its caption and all in all seems pointless, remove it. At least change the caption to read something like "Map of the United States with states that joined the C.S.A. shaded." 50.205.215.149 (talk) 03:30, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2024 

message: In the map labels, make the ‘West Virginia’ lead to the page of said state. Hiyabud (talk) 00:49, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: It seems there are already multiple instances of "West Virginia" that have wikilinks. Shadow311 (talk) 15:45, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2024 

message: Remove words and divide up the text so it is readable. 64.189.18.34 (talk) 08:16, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please condense and add subheadings to apre down the word count of 19.000 words.  

message: "The 1860 United States presidential election served as the catalyst for economic discussion; the North was a heavily populated, industrialized society fed by immigration, while the South was a traditional agricultural society, economically laissez-faire, and dependent on plantations. Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis argued every state had the right to resist Federal regulation, and could choose the economic system it wanted. Illinois representative Abraham Lincoln opposed this, arguing the Federal government had the right to intervene economically. "
This doesn't reflect any contemporary scholarly consensus; it obfuscates what is clearly stated later in the lede about causes of the war; identifying Lincoln and Davis by their positions prior to 1861 is inappropriate; and it cites a children's history book from the 1950s as its only source. 12.172.251.101 (talk) 23:36, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the lede text you've quoted because it's not mentioned in the body of the article as far as I can see, and the lede is supposed to summarize the contents of the body. We really shouldn't be citing children's books to support the content of an encyclopedia anyway. Thanks for pointing this out. Carlstak (talk) 00:14, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede cites a children's book for early argumentation