Talk:Thompson (surname)

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

Redundancy
If we have List of people by name: Thomb-Thomz, 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 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)

Merge discussion

 * merge Paul Thompson here, as separately there are people each disambig page may miss. Chris 08:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * 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)


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

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)
 * 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)

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)
 * Oppose. As above. --BMT (talk) 19:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose as above. Neelix (talk) 20:27, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

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)
 * Oppose as per above. Neelix (talk) 20:26, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

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)
 * 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)
 * Oppose is a tiny article and no need fopr a split, SqueakBox 19:10, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 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. Mind  matrix  19:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)


 * Looking for my family coat-of-arms (Thompson of England) lead me to this, in 1992 one of my family members got my grandfather the family coat of arms with its history and it was the same as what I found (I was searching only recently so there is quite the time difference) except that it has the family motto "Dum spiro spero" which means "While I breathe, I hope." at the bottom, but you are right, there are different coats of arms, one for England, which came after the one used in Scotland (Thomson, but Thompson has a COA for Scot) and one for Ireland, here are the other two that are not shown. (Cerebriac (talk) 02:17, 25 October 2010 (UTC))
 * Then let's post them!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 14:55, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Chris, British coats of arms are personal. They don't belong to families, they don't belong surnames, they belong to individuals. They editor above you is a little confused about heraldry, the one above him was bang-on. There are gonna be dozens upon dozens of coats of arms for people with this surname. We aren't going to list them all. Can you see how it's misleading to put a coat of arms in the infobox with a caption like "Thompson coat of arms"? The entire surname simply doesn't have one.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 07:50, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * A better image might illustrate something to do with the etymology of the name (like here: Randal and Randall (given names)); or maybe something showing an old form of the name in an old document; or maybe a map showing the distribution of the name. Something actually about the surname. Something that doesn't single out a few families or individuals over the countless others.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 08:04, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Many Americans etc. do not understand Coat of arms. In Britain they are only issued by the College of Arms. A lot of unscrupulous companies will issue you with a fake coat of arms, but these are frauds. Real coat of arms are not associated with surnames, but with people. I understand they can be inherited down the male line. The things on the page (and in the link above) look like obvious fakes to me, and should be deleted. 2.97.215.11 (talk) 12:23, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't automatically say they are fake, they could be real, but it's irresponsible to show them so prominently without stating who they belong/belonged to. Then it comes down to whether so-and-so's coat of arms is relevant to this surname as a whole.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 09:04, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The ones linked to above are obviously fake. Apart from COAs not having a surname included, the flowery parts around the shields are identical, apart from different colouring. http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/About/09.htm See also Armiger. 2.97.219.104 (talk) 15:53, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

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