Talk:Robert Thompson (designer)

Rename
Could someone please correct the name of the page - Mouseman not Mousey! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.30.232.1 (talk) 16:31, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Some time ago :) DBaK (talk) 19:02, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Steve "Unicornman" Wilkinson, Arthur "Bayhorseman" Smithers and others
At the moment we have this:

Others who continue in his style working in Yorkshire oak, have adopted similar identifying marks and nicknames, including Thomas "Gnomeman" Whittaker (1910–1991), Derek "Lizardman" Slater, Colin "Beaverman" Almack, Wilf "Squirrelman" Hutchinson, Albert "Eagleman" Jeffray, Malcolm "Foxman" Pipes, and Shaw & Riley "The Seahorsemen of Hessay".

It's marked cn and has been for quite a while; some of the (all uncited) text has been in for much longer than that. Do we need it at all? I do see that they seem real, you can Google them – but what do they add to the article that is notable? There is no link to any other article here and no claim of notability – it is just that they exist, make furniture, and are getting called "X AnimalNameMan Y". Is that notable and encyclopaedic? What useful function are these facts performing here? I'm very unsure and am wondering if (a) keep but with RS for everything or (b) just delete the lot. But what do you think? I am not planning on precipitate action and/or starting a fight. Best wishes to all DBaK (talk) 11:21, 26 July 2021 (UTC)


 * These other names are mostly former apprentices of Robert Thompson who made very similar looking furniture into the 1980s, and are now recognised in published antiques and style guides like Judith Miller's, now cited. This seems an interesting part of the story. It is fairly usual to briefly mention the careers of apprentices in artist/makers biographies.Unoquha (talk) 22:32, 10 December 2022 (UTC)