Forum:Conflict in War Templates

Something I've noticed with several of the war templates on the wiki is the Conflict section being filled in to incorporate the actual name of the war, even when the name is listed directly above in the template and on the page itself, (i.e. Second Russo-American War; conflict says World War III).

In my opinion, and in all technicality, the Conflict section should only be filled when the template being created/edited is for a particular battle that occurs within a larger war. The Battle of New York and Battle of Berlin pages from the Call of Duty Wiki are good examples, with the entire page and template being dedicated solely to the battle at hand; the only time the Conflict panel is filled to mention that the conflict that the battle occurs in is World War III.

In the case of the Second Russo-American War, the Sino-American War, or any war for that matter, the conflict should be left blank. If I were to, say, create a page titled the Battle of Wake Island (2007) (with 2007 being in parentheses in the case of a series of pages also called the Battle of Wake Island), then it would be appropriate to fill in the Conflict panel of the template with the appropriate war that the battle occurs in, this case being the Sino-American War. Green light ops (talk) 19:47, November 28, 2013 (UTC)