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Response to Mr Paul Hopfensperger

I hope you have reached this response. I wasn't sure where to put it, but clearly where you had responded to me was not the right place. I shall comment on each of your points in turn:

1. Please be assured that my conributions are not politically motivated, even if I were to restrict them to Conservative politicians. I am interested in adding to any Suffolk politician who I can find listed. There are not many, and those that are, like Paul S Farmer are not notable politically but for some other aspect. Similarly, you would presumably claim to be notable for your swimming rather than your political history. Given the lack of Suffolk politicians' entries, I may create some. For the sake of balance (in true Wikipedia style) I shall continue to look for local politicians of all parties, including independents. If you know of any already on Wikipedia I should appreciate being told.

2. I simply think a more balanced approach would be to say what you failed to do and not just where you succeeded.

3. I apologise for saying you removed controversy. I am new to this and misinterpreted your history page. I am categorically not one of your vandals, although I do think a self-deprecating reference to your perjorative nick-name would not go amiss, to balance "Hoffy".

4/5. I am not certain that your motivation for contributing is worthy, if you only did so because another local politician had. I believe I have already made some positive suggestions that you could have acted upon but chose not to. Establish what you think is notable, reduce the repetition, and cut out anything unnecessary except to give context. --Errater (talk) 09:29, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Errater and welcome! I've added a few links to your page which you may find useful. Regarding Mark Ereira-Guyer which you created, I have removed references which linked to other wikipedia articles per WP:CIRCULAR. If there is a reference to back up the information in the new article in a current article, you should copy that over to your article, rather than using the wikipedia link. If you wish to create more articles on local politicians, please make sure that they meet our notability requirements for biographies in general or politicians more specifically. I would be surprised if many of them should be included (personally, I think the decision for Paul S Farmer to be kept was erroneous). Let me know if you have any questions by replying below or dropping a note on my talk page. Thanks SmartSE (talk) 16:19, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --Errater (talk) 16:35, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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