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Political parties edit

'That have been able to find' is not a fair standard, also do you propose to link to all local organisation on all pages about settlements? I dissagree that political parties are relevent. Linking to the council or a local MP I would agree with but this would belong on an articles titled Politics in Wimbledon etc --Nate1481( t/c) 11:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC) p.s. sorry I was writing this response and hadn't saved it.Reply

I'd support linking to the Merton-connect page, as it covers all of the current ones and isn't directly promoting any of them --Nate1481( t/c) 11:18, 18 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Anthony. The reason I deleted the links that you added was that they only covered one party. As Nate1481 has already stated, wikipedia aims for a neutral point of view and a link to just one party is not neutral and could be seen as promoting one political agenda in preference to others. I personally don't think that there is a need for links to political parties to be present in the borough article. To improve the NPOV for the Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency) article, I have added a link to the sitting MP's site and converted the links that you added to references. We thus have references for candidates for the three largest political parties - this though could become an untidy mess, and distract from the main thrust of the article, if multiple links to all parties are added and should that happen I will probably delete them all. --DavidCane (talk) 23:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Conflict of interest edit

Hi, I note the chairman of your local Liberal Democrats has the name "Anthony Fairclough" and you've promoted their site here and have edited a significant number of Lib Dem articles: http://www.mertonlibdems.org.uk/contact-us-mainmenu-3/12-contacts/4--anthony-fairclough.html

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The conflict of interest policy is not contrevened by my contributions on Liberal Democrat-related articles, and your assertion that I have "promoted" the website of the local Liberal Democrats is simply not true.AnthonyFair (talk) 21:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

I should also add that I am broadly identifiable by my Wikipedia ID (AnthonyFair), which makes my contributions more transparent than your own. AnthonyFair (talk) 21:52, 29 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

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