Talk:Melcombe Bingham

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Proposed merging of Melcombe Bingham with current parish[edit]

It seems detrimental to researchers using Wiki to have the centuries-long existence of Bingham's Melcombe, the family seat of my ancestors, Melcombe Bingham extant, further muddled by modern merging of this very distinct locale, since this separate entry, regardless of some redundancy, clarifies historical records, family seats, exists clearly on the OS maps, and is intimately tied to family history research records of hundreds of years' existence. In this age of digital records, space for a small, linked article that may contain references to another closely associated locale, is within reason. Would an article on The Tower of London be merged with "London" because there was redundancy? There is always overlapping data when dealing with ancient sites, making it all the more important to clarify specifics by delineating differences, rather than attempting to erase those differences by merging data. After all, the parish used to exist. It was a fact. Clarity is critical in research. Countrygirl2of6 (talk) 16:26, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for contributing. The discussion on this issue has been occurring here, so I shall add a copy of your comment over there. Please add any further comments over there, so all the discussion is in one place. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 16:36, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]