User talk:UpdatorBen/Brockman

This article grew organically over time and there are some confusing strands and themes. The Beachborough line of Brockmans in the UK is sort of emphasized, but then there is an international disambiguation theme to the rest of the page just regarding the surname, ancient and linguistic origins et cetera. Mixing the ancient/linguistic/archeaological international with the near term genealogical is probably more confusing than it needs to be. I plan to move some of the beachborough Brockman content to the Beachborough page and get this page more in keeping with a more typical wikipedia surname disambiguation and background page. Brockmanah 13:46, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Unreferenced 2011

I have moved the references into a section called further reading, and I have reformatted them and added links to online information where available. I have moved them into further reading because without inline citations it is impossible to tell where the information in the article comes from. In this case an identical list of general references were given for three articles:

• Brockman
• Henry Brockman (colonist)
• Sir William Brockman

It is not credible that exactly the same references would all be needed for all three articles. Each article needs to have specific inline citations with a list of general references for those citations -- hence my moving the articles. To give two examples:

• Burke, John (1836). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. R. Bentley. pp. 368, 369. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) -- gives some details of Sir William Brockman's life, his ancestors and some his descendants down to some of his great-grandchildren.
  • Hasted, Edward (1797). History of Kent,: Corrected, enlarged, and continued to the present time, from the manuscript collection of the late Rev. Thomas Streatfeild and ... the public records, and other sources (2 ed.). Printed by W. Bristow. p. 206. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) -- This book gives very little details a search of its content returns only two entries of which only one on page 206 is of note:

  "William Brockman of Bytchborough, in Newington, near Hyth, in the 18th year [of the reign of king Charles], being appointed by the king, then in arms at Oxford; but being a person of known loyalty to king Charles, he was soon superseded in his office [of sheriff] by the authority of the parliament then sitting, and sir John Honeywood of Evington was appointed by them to serve the remainder of the year."

  This possibly makes the book suitable for a specific footnote but not as a general reference for this article, as it only covers one small fact about one of the people who appear on this page. So that the information on the page can be verified it is necessary that the information supported by inline citations not general references. As information in the further reading list is cited then the entries shoudl be moved up into a references section.

-- PBS (talk) 11:34, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Sandbox

Please do not treat this article like a sandbox. --I am One of Many (talk) 05:24, 27 January 2014 (UTC)