Talk:Thomas Fairfax (Walton)

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I can't find very many sources about this person, besides John Marwood's History of Gilling. I would appreciate any help. -- La comadreja  formerly AFriedman  RESEARCH  (talk)  04:29, 21 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I have moved two templates to the talk page as I do not think that these do anything for the reader, but are instead inter-editor messages which is why we have a talk page. -- PBS (talk) 12:39, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * This page was obviously written to put up Kate Middleton's supposed ancestry which has not been proven. The next page has the same sentence in the beginning about Prince William and Kate having this same ancestor. I wrote about this on the talk page of Talk:Thomas Fairfax (Gilling) under unreliable sources. -- Lady Meg (talk) 10:11, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Also please note wiki's status on reliable sources and using self published sources from Verifiability: "Anyone can create a personal web page or pay to have a book published, then claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published media, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs, Internet forum postings, and tweets, are largely not acceptable as sources. Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications. However, one should take care when using such sources: if the information in question is really worth reporting, someone else is likely to have done so.

Self-published sources should never be used as third-party sources about living persons, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer." -- Lady Meg (talk) 10:22, 26 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I have removed two of the three flags:
 * The BLP flag on grounds that the links between him and any living people (Kate Middleton and Proince William) are well sourced (almost every national British newspaper link to Sir Thomas Fairfax jnr and the Harleian Society reference links to Thomas Fairfax Snr.
 * The Original Rresearch flag - every statement in the article was refereced to one of two sources (I have added a third).
 * I left the poorly sourced flag in place - I plan to look for independent verification myself. Martinvl (talk) 20:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)