Talk:William S. Rosecrans
Don't know if useful, so I've refrained adding to the page (which looks like a temporary stub no doubt to be amplified):
The Military Academy at West Point has been issuing for about a century and a half now a 'Register' of all its graduates, with details, sometimes very extensive, of their careers after graduation. Until a few decades ago, it was referred to as "Cullum's Register", since much like FortWiki, it was originally the work of one man, Gen. George W. Cullum.
For very important West Point graduates, like Lee, Grant, MacArthur, Cullum represents a bare skeleton compared to subsequent full biographies and even online material like Wickedpedia, so the Register for them is less useful. The more minor the figure, the better the Register entries serve as essentially primary sources. For intermediate figures like Gen. Rosecrans — where a further considerably more detailed biographical sketch is often given by the link at the bottom of the page ("See Annual Association of Graduates…"), it's a judgment call.
You will have noticed Template:Cullum put in by John years ago, a version of which might be used on link pages like this?
Bill Thayer (talk) 07:19, 12 March 2025 (PDT)
I don't like redlinks, so was just adding the stub to give an outlet to some information source. I don't plan to add any more detail to the stubs myself. It would be easy to add Cullum as an option to the External template so it could be used instead/as well as wikipedia, or the cullum template could be used. I see cullum is your project so you are best placed to assess where it might be useful in stubs.
As you can see the external template uses a Wikidata number to reference my Warlike website, but only plan to have buildings/equipment/battles there, not people, there are too many. Wikidata records lots of different information sources, cullum included, so you could do clever automatic indirections, but that's probably a step too far for a site that I see as being moth-balled as John's involvement fades, as I doubt anyone will put in the time he has. John Bray (talk) 10:48, 12 March 2025 (PDT)