Talk:Yeoman

message: I was trying to read this article, and I think it needs a complete rewrite from blank page, although the material is here, it's too jumbled and incoherent. Several sections could be spun off to their articles, with short paragraph and a link tot he main content elsewhere. 
The number of quotes, some of them even repeated, is also surprising for a Wikipedia article, and taking up plenty of space to convey some minor linguistic points.
--86.115.23.185 (talk) 20:24, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, this is multiple articles stacked on top of each other and wearing a coat. Most of these types of Yeoman are unrelated concepts beyond sharing the same name. I added a too long template BananaBork (talk) 09:48, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that this article needs to be broken up. Unfortunately, the term yeoman suffers from having sometimes seemingly unrelated meanings at different times on history; which makes it difficult to describe what a yeoman was/is. My New Year's Resolution is to dive back into this article and create the necessary spin-offs.--AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 17:44, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

text: So ... you are saying this article needs to be dumbed down for the masses? adapted for Simple English Wikipedia (with all due respect to that undertaking)? I think us few people who are interested in "yeomen" might deserve a jumble of quotes and the occasional incoherence (?) to make it more fun to read, but I guess that is might be an unpopular opinion. Still, your partially rather favourable title of this discussion page - and the perceived disinterest, as by lack of it, in actually doing the actual implementaion work  - leaves me hoping. Unless some analytical hobbyist ... oh dear, there is more to read on this page. But I guess that all was rather reasonable work, since I still enjoyed reading the article, making this comment rather moot. Also, I did want to further  democracy add my ill-perceived opinion since there is no law against stupidity (yet), and I had already typed so many nice letters, which would not have happened in Gutenberg's time. Still, I hereby totally revise my opinion, thanks to @AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist's hard work. SwissGermanDude (talk) 23:41, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unfortunate mess of an interesting article 

message: Hi, y'all!! Unfortunately for me, I have to update/rewrite some of the articles that will become the Main articles for some sections of Yeoman. Then I can cleanup & streamline Yeoman. Right now, I'm working on updating & expanding A Gest of Robyn Hode. Anybody interested can visit that article's talk page for details. After that, I plan on returning to my draft of a new main article for the Yeoman#Yeoman archers. Then it's Chaucer's turn ...
Ta-ta for now!--AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 15:09, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be COPYing, not MERGing, the Canon's Yeoman content. Sorry about that; it's been a long session today :(    --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 23:27, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Streamlining of article has begun 

message: Hi, y'all!! Slight change of plans. I'll be splitting Yeoman#Household attendant or servant first in order to finish up A Gest of Robyn Hode#Historical analysis. Tally-ho!  --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 23:14, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  UPDATE 01: 

message: Hi, y'all!! Yeoman archer has been split off. I'm working on a summary for Yeoman#Yeoman archers right now. Looking ahead to Yeoman#English Navy yeoman, I'm considering copying the Yeoman-archer-on-ships stuff to Yeoman Archer as a separate section, but I have enough interesting stuff for a decent Start-class main article on the "King's Ships", the precursors to the RN. It doesn't exist. It would be a good place to talk about logistics/supply chain stuff for the Hundred Years War, as well as the cross-channel trade. I know there is an article on the Tudor navy, so this new article would stop there. Ideas?  Ta-ta for now!  --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 15:44, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  UPDATE 02: 

message: Hi, y'all!! Started work on streamlining Chaucer. I'm planning on merging the Canon's Yeoman; but leaving the Knight's Yeoman here. Since he has no tale, the Knight's Yeoman has no main article, nor do any other of the 'tale-less' characters. I'm considering a separate main article for medieval Yeoman Foresters as a split off the Forester main article (because of issues I'm running into with streamining Gest) -- maybe that would be a good fit for him ... Ideas???  Ta-ta for now!  --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 23:15, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be COPYing, not MERGing, the Canon's Yeoman content. Sorry about that; it's been a long session today :(    --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 23:27, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  UPDATE 03: 

message: First article split.  Because of size/content  --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 16:30, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split of /*Household Attendant or Servant*/