Talk:John and Donald Parkinson

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Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was moved to John and Donald Parkinson. --BDD (talk) 16:49, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Parkinsons → John B. and Donald D. Parkinson, or The Parkinson brothers (Architects) – The name seems inadequate and too vague; plus it doesn't appear they were ever generally referred to as "The Parkinsons" by themselves or anyone else. To me, the article's name sounds like the title of a TV show (and I see that it is the name of a punk rock band!)...there might also be some confusion with Parkinson's Disease. Another idea would be to create seperate articles, as John B. Parkinson is obviously the more accomplished of the two. Relisted. BDD (talk) 21:47, 8 August 2013 (UTC) WQUlrich (talk) 18:23, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support in principle; prefer John and Donald Parkinson as the simplest and reasonably current formulation [1][2][3][4]. No such user (talk) 10:47, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Requests and Suggestions[edit]

Attribution[edit]

Many of the buildings designed were by John B. Parkinson only, or with different partners. His don, Donald, also trained as an architect, and joined his father and the firm in later years. Some of the buildings mentioned were designed long before Donald was born, so lumping the two together obscures the fact that many of the buildings referenced were designed by the father only or with different partners, with later buildings being a joint design effort of father and son. William J Bean (talk) 12:23, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Building List[edit]

I suggest that Selected works be retitled Designed Buildings or some such. I also think the list should be reordered, by date, and include a date of build on the far right. William J Bean (talk) 16:57, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OOps[edit]

How embarrassing...I didn't notice they were father and son, not brothers (and I live in Los Angeles). Anyway...Good Move!WQUlrich (talk) 01:09, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

De-merge?[edit]

Would it not make more sense to have a page for each of those two individuals? So two separate articles, in other words. Did they really design every single building together? That seems unlikely.Zigzig20s (talk) 11:04, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why not WP:MOVE to John B. Parkinson (move over redirect) or John Parkinson (architect)? This article is now essentially a biography of the father with a list of his businesses (all partnerships?). We must have thousands of biographies of persons that cover their families in greater depth than this; hundreds of biogs of creators that cover some collaboration with a sibling, spouse, or child. --P64 (talk) 19:47, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree these should be separate articles, but it would be a great task to divide the list of buildings between the two men. One solution would be to maintain the current, joint list on both new individual articles, if they are ever made. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 17:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]