Talk:Revolutionary War (disambiguation)

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Capital W?[edit]

Should the "W" in "Revolutionary Wars" be capitalized? That implies it's a proper noun. It's not, right? --A D Monroe III (talk) 21:22, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We use proper names for specific wars: French Revolutionary Wars is the proper name of specific wars. American Revolutionary War is the specific name of a war; revolutionary war is just an everyday term for a generic type of war, that is one that is associated with a revolution. – Wbm1058 (talk) 19:48, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Other wars, that are not primarily known by this name[edit]

Philippine Revolutionary War redirects to Philippine Revolution – redirect was created 6 April 2013
Irish Revolutionary War redirects to Irish War of Independence – redirect was created 31 October 2015‎
Indonesian Revolutionary War redirects to Indonesian National Revolution – redirect was created 1 November 2015‎
Cuban Revolutionary War redirects to Cuban Revolution – redirect was created 1 November 2015‎

I get the editor's point, but if we create redirects for every possible "X Revolutionary War" as an alternative name for every revolution, war of independence, of national liberation, etc. etc., we will just end up with another content fork of List of revolutions and rebellions and List of wars of independence (which are arguably themselves forks of each other). Disambiguation pages are intended for commonly used names, not for every possible alternative name of a war that can be invented. – Wbm1058 (talk) 13:17, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To show that this practice isn't specifically US-centric, National Revolution redirects to Révolution nationale, with a hatnote there: "National Revolution" redirects here. For the Indonesian War of Independence, see Indonesian National Revolution. There is no primary topic for War of Independence because that is the most commonly used name for this type of war.

Liberation War, which should really be titled in lower case (liberation war), seems like a WP:content fork of war of independence, as it is not clear to me what the distinction between the two terms is. If there is no material distinction, then liberation war should redirect to war of independence. I wouldn't object to redirecting Liberation War to Bangladesh Liberation War, if that is the war which is primarily known by this name. – Wbm1058 (talk) 13:48, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Consensus"[edit]

Editors appear to be operating under the assumption that a "consensus" was reached about disambiguating Revolutionary War. I have reviewed this talk page and the talk pages for American Revolutionary War and found nothing, except a request to move the page to American War of Independence, which was rejected. However, a consensus was reached here, to KEEP American Rev War as the primary topic (in fact, it was to keep Revolutionary War as a REDIRECT to American Rev War). I believe the fair thing to do is to keep the disambiguation page, but indicate American Rev War as the primary topic, since there has already been discussion and consensus that it is. If editors disagree, they should probably make another disambiguation request. --SchutteGod (talk) 16:57, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi SchutteGod, The discussion you are looking for is on the talk page of Revolutionary War here Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2017_September_21#Revolutionary_War. This page is a redirect to that one. Hope this clears things up. Regards --Ykraps (talk) 10:01, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]