Wikidata:Property proposal/CWSAC classification
CWSAC classification
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Under discussion
| Description | Level of military significance for American Civil War battles as defined by the 1993 Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) report. |
|---|---|
| Data type | Item |
| Template parameter | cwsac |
| Domain | item, battle (Q178561) |
| Example 1 | Battle of Gettysburg (Q33132)CWSAC classificationClass A |
| Example 2 | Battle of Shiloh (Q943277)CWSAC classificationClass A |
| Example 3 | Battle of White Oak Swamp (Q4872730)CWSAC classificationClass C |
| Allowed values | items for CWSAC Class A, Class B, Class C, and Class D |
| Source | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles |
| Planned use | Populating approximately 384 American Civil War battle items with their official CWSAC priority rankings to enable structured historical queries. |
| Number of IDs in source | 384 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Single-value constraint | yes |
| Wikidata project | WikiProject American Civil War (Q10730244) |
Motivation
[edit]This property will structure the military significance ratings (Class A, B, C, D) for American Civil War battles as defined by the 1993 CWSAC report. These ratings are currently used as the primary organizational structure for the 'List of American Civil War battles' on Wikipedia, but they are not yet available as machine-readable data on Wikidata. Adding this property will allow researchers to perform complex queries across all 384 classified engagements. Loochster (talk) 01:29, 18 February 2026 (UTC)