| | *'''Suggestion''': reduce the definition to something like {{temp|form of|Alternative capitalization of|civil war}} ''used when referring to a specific one.'' Explain in the usage notes that in the context of American/English/Irish history, it means the American/English/Irish Civil War (as those are the ones fought by English-speakers), and that in other contexts it refers to other civil wars. (And keep all of the citations I added. Why would you want to bin those?) [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 13:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC) | | *'''Suggestion''': reduce the definition to something like {{temp|form of|Alternative capitalization of|civil war}} ''used when referring to a specific one.'' Explain in the usage notes that in the context of American/English/Irish history, it means the American/English/Irish Civil War (as those are the ones fought by English-speakers), and that in other contexts it refers to other civil wars. (And keep all of the citations I added. Why would you want to bin those?) [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 13:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC) |
| | + | *'''Delete''' all specific senses, leaving only the general definition ("Any specific civil war") and several quotations to illustrate different usages. The phrase "Civil War" can refer to ''any'' specific civil war, and trying to enumerate them all is absurd. "Civil War" doesn't refer solely to some well-defined, specific set of civil wars; it can be applied to ''any'' civil war when the context is clear, whether that's the American Civil War, the Lebanese Civil War, or the Klingon Civil War. It wouldn't make sense to have our entry on [[Constitution]] be a bulleted list of dozens of different constitutions (all of which are sometimes called "the Constitution"), or [[Parliament]] have links to the dozens of parliaments that exist in the world (since each of them can be referred to simply as "Parliament"), and similarly it doesn't make sense to treat [[Civil War]] as a term referring to an ever-expanding list of specific wars. —[[User:Caesura|Caesura]][[User talk:Caesura|<sup>(t)</sup>]] 18:04, 22 July 2012 (UTC) |
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