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Split

It's nasty having two unrelated people in the same article. I propose splitting them into Peter Thompson (soldier) and Peter Thompson (footballer), and leaving a disambig page here. Objections? -- John Fader (talk · contribs) 02:06, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I am all for that I just didn't know how to do it....Thanks, Seesdifferent.

Done. What one does is:

move one article (it doesn't matter which, really) to one name
cut 'n' paste the content for the other guy into a new article
edit the redirect your move made and make a disambig page, which points to the two new pages
but backlinks into both new pages back to the disambig (so that someone who ends up on the wrong one can find the one he wants)
go through the "what links here" list of the disambig page, and fix all the links to the correct person.
in the process of this last step, one frequently finds unexpected matches, meaning one has to add more entries to the disambig page (this wasn't unusual in finding more people, but I was surprised to find the horse Peter Thompson).

It's quite a lot of work, but if you think how long people have been hitting that link about the horse and ending up reading about an english footballer instead, then we know we've fixed a fairly major snafu. -- John Fader (talk · contribs) 17:43, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Rewrite

I hope you don't mind my rather radical rewrite. I think I've kept all the content, but shifted it into the more flowing, prosaic style prefered by wikipedia (as opposed to the rather abrupt, telegraphic style one gets in biographical dictionaries and similar publications). I think a couple of lines on Thompson's account of the battle would be good, and anything we can find out about his life after Homestate would be valuable too. But frankly I'm shocked we don't have an article about the Homestake mine. -- John Fader (talk · contribs) 00:25, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Website content

I don't understand why the link to my Peter Thompson website was deleted. There has been a link on the Peter Thompson page to my website for years but I recently changed the URL and was merely trying to update with the correct new address. Granted, I am a self-described history buff but that doesn't mean that the many newspaper articles, obituaries, photos, etc. are not accurate. Indeed under the Reference section on this same Peter Thompson wikipage, there is a link to a PDF I transcribed from articles that Thompson wrote back in 1914. I certainly don't consider these as "disruptive" additions. Please reconsider. KG0GD (talk) 21:59, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@KG0GD: Please read WP:BLOGS, and WP:ELNO (item #10). The prohibition isn't based on the actual accuracy of this particular blog's content; the prohibition applies to all blogs, because they're self-published. If you are the author of the content, and it's relevant to an article on Wikipedia, you certainly can add verifiable facts to a Wikipedia article – but you need to include citations to the original reliable sources you got them from, not citations to a blog. You can't cite your own blog as a source, and Wikipedia can't be used to promote the blog in external links. Lwarrenwiki (talk) 16:32, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy / medal

Does the controversy about his story have any connection with the actions that lead to his medal ? (I suspect not). I think that should be made clear. -- Beardo 21:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]