Talk:Confederate Artillery during the American Civil War

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[edit] Merge to Field artillery in the American Civil War proposal.

Why does this need a separate page when there is already an article about Field artillery in the American Civil War? I'm going to suggest that it be merged to that article unless someone has a valid point as to why this deserves it's own article. Vanguard 16:46, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I suggest that this article stay its own article due to the fact that Field artillery in the American Civil War has 1 paragraph about the Confederate Artillery. It makes no mention of the Armstrong, or the Volley Gun. Additionally, it does not even address the issues surrounding the Confederacy's acquisition of ordnance. Therefore, this article should remain independent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smartinr89 (talk • contribs)

The first paragraph is pretty much all mentioned in the field artillery article. As for the guns they could easily be integrated into the article without having to create a separate article. There are two paragraphs for the confederate artillery and three for union artillery - I'm sure another paragraph or two wouldn't make the sections too large especially since most of the information in this article (apart from the guns) is already mentioned in the field artillery article. Besides, shouldn't union artillery have it's own article if you're going to do this?

This article also needs a major clean-up if it's going to follow Wikipedia's style guidelines. Vanguard 17:19, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree, Union Artillery should have its own article, however that is up to someone else, I have provided the Confederate article. It is my hope that others, including myself, shall add to this article and allow it to grow as a very inclusive article detailing the separate identity of the Confederate Arillery. I do NOT believe that this should simply be lumped together with a generalization of all Field Artillery used in the Civil War, seeing as how there was a definite difference between what was used by the Union, and that used by the Confederacy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smartinr89 (talk • contribs)

The two needed to be added as wiki links in the Field artillery in the American Civil War under each respective headline so you really should have created both at the same time. Anyway, I think you have a valid point but doesn't it say that Confederate artillery was largely made up of captured union artillery? As such is there enough information to qualify this as a separate article if all you have to go on is two guns that could easily be mentioned in the main article? Also, there's a fair number of guns mentioned in the main article so, while the guns in this article aren't mentioned, is there any point in repeating them again in a separate union article?

Erm, basically what I'm saying is there's no point in creating two separate articles if there's no more information than is already mentioned in Field artillery in the American Civil War and what's missing can easily be slotted in.

I'd suggest creating an article for union artillery because then we can see if there's enough information on the two that can qualify them as separate articles. Either way the current state of this article is pretty poor so I'm going to attempt a clean-up for now. I'll see how things look after that and - possibly - start research on a union article if I can find enough information. --Vanguard 18:42, 25 October 2007 (UTC)