Edit Bot - Civil War fought for USA?

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I noticed this morning that EditBot is changing the US Civil War templates on numerous profiles.

Each one that I checked in my feed says - Fought for the USA.  As this is the US Civil War - shouldn't that be either Union or Confederate and not USA?
in Genealogy Help by Chris Hoyt G2G6 Pilot (866k points)

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Fought for country, USA or CSA

This rename is part of the shell game we had to play getting the templates in line with the new standards

{{US Civil War}} project became {{US Civil War Project}} project box and only has profiles that are managed/protected by the Civil War Project and have the Civil War project account as manager

{{US Civil War}} profiles changed to the {{US C W}} sticker with parameters updated/added to what the sticker allows

{{US C W}} sticker code was updated and simple edit checks added for parameters that should be present/have specific values

{{US C W}} profiles moved back to {{US Civil War}} which is now a sticker

profiles with {{US Civil War}} that do have proper/complete parameters are added to maintenance [[Category: US Civil War Project Needs Template Update]]. that category page explains the parameters that are checked, and how to get it to pass / bypass the edit checks and remove it from that category.

and from another G2G a couple days ago, Fought is being changed to served and side since it is more generic and doctors, hospital stewards, etc did not "fight", many soldiers died before being in battle, were assigned to units that never engaged the enemy, etc....
by Keith McDonald G2G6 Mach 9 (99.5k points)
Keith: noticed that you changed a profile for me on Mar 12, and that the BOT altered another 10 today. Thank you very much, to you and anyone else involved, really appreciate your interventions.
intervention....  more like 3 card monte, but the end result is things should be stable now, until a new regime change and standards get "updated" again.

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