Talk:Thompson (surname)

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See my comments at Talk:Baker. <KF> 20:02, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Redundancy

If we have List of people by name: Thomb-Thomz#Thomp, then isn't the people section of this DAB page redundant? Wouldn't it be better to simply have a straight-forward link to List of people by name: Thomb-Thomz#Thomp instead? Otherwise, we'll have two lists that both need to be updated together. It would be easier to have one list. -- Run! 10:25, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion

merge Paul Thompson here, as separately there are people each disambig page may miss. Chris 08:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
do not merge I believe there are enough different people with the name Paul Thompson for it to warrant its own disambig page. If you put everyone with the last name of Thompson on this one disambig page, it's going to get VERY large and unweildy. Let's take another example... of say,, the last name of Smith or Lee. If you take every wiki-article for everyone with one of those last names and jam them all onto one disambig page, it's going to be a huge long list. That's just not user friendly. Leave the Paul Thompson disambig page as is. ColtsScore 14:45, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

comment seven is not a great number, there are much longer lists than that. As the vote has been 2:1 for two months, merging here. Chris 08:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

merge Paul Thompson here, I agree. Turgidson 16:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... thanks for discussing this here instead of Paul Thompson talk page. By the way, why don't you merge John Thompson as well? -- ReyBrujo 15:38, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When a merge discussion template is put up, the discussion is automatically directed to the page suggested to be merged into. The tag was up for two months-you had plenty of time. And thanks for the suggestion! Chris 19:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge of David Thompson

Oppose. There are plenty of David Thompsons to warrant a separate page. Merging all Thompsons here will make this page way too cluttered to be useful. jwillbur 23:34, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. As above. --BMT (talk) 19:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as above. Neelix (talk) 20:27, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge of Thomas L. Thompson (disambiguation)

Oppose. With only two entries, a Thomas L. Thompson disambiguation page is probably not warranted. They should be merged into the Thomas Thompson disambiguation page, not this page, for the same reasons mentioned above for David Thompson. jwillbur 23:34, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as per above. Neelix (talk) 20:26, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Split-apart suggestion

I think that there is sufficient content to split this article into Thompson and Thompson (surname), the latter to handle the people information on this page. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would support that if John Thompson is merged back into the surname list, that fork is a mess and doesn't cover the same ground. Chris 02:14, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose is a tiny article and no need fopr a split, SqueakBox 19:10, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Also merge and redirect to the surname dab page all other Thompson surname dab pages and redirects, such as Thomas L. Thompson (disambiguation), Paul Thompson, etc. There are quite a few of them. Mindmatrix 19:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Les Thompson

-- Gerd Richter (Germany): Who knows Les Thompson, born 03.11.1951, died 25.07.2003 in a moto wheel accident in Germany (Saxony, B 171 between Sadisdorf an Obercarsdorf)? We live in Obercarsdorf and more often pass a the commemorative place. We would like to get to know whit pleasure a little bit mor about Les (Franzi 11, Flori 13 and grandpa 58). Email: richter-obercarsdorf@t-online.de (Please not spam!) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.14.232.250 (talk) 08:48, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Coat of Arms

Does that Coat of Arms really apply to every single person with the surname Thompson? That's inconsistent with my understanding of how these things work. I think the source for the association of this image and every person carrying the Thompson surname needs to be cited for encyclopedic use. 63.87.189.17 (talk) 19:06, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]