Talk:Epping, Essex

Marks & Spencer Simply Food

Before anyone says anything, I know M&S isn't officially open in Epping yet but thought best to add now, as it will be open no later than October 2008. The Epping Forest Guardian confirms that the Epping Simply Food store is the biggest in the district at 12,000sq.ft, the second biggest is in Loughton which is 10,000sq.ft.(Spymo (talk) 15:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC))

Deletions

I don’t see why so much information had to be deleted; it is far more concise than other towns (e.g. Loughton) and is no way ‘information overload’. Due to this I have re-applied some of the information. Perhaps in further deletions could be discussed first!(Spymo (talk) 18:48, 27 May 2008 (UTC))

Protection

I have 'semi protected' this article as I feel it is being edited by Anonymous users and not for the better. I feel by doing this, it will raise the quality of the article.(Spymo (talk) 19:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC))

Think again, that is an WP:administrators function only. Kbthompson (talk) 22:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, un-protect it, so anyone can delete the good work that has been done on this page, as has happened! Thought articles were meant to be of a certain quality, guess not!(Spymo (talk) 07:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC))

That's my point, it wasn't protected - you only told people it was - and that is a no-no. The general rule is that page protection is only instigated when a page suffers constant vandalism from a number of different sources. Individual acts of vandalism can lead to individual IP addresses being blocked (see WP:AIV).

Good articles develop through consensus between multiple editors. If individuals make edits you don't agree with - that are not vandalism - ask them to discuss it on this page, they may represent a point of view you had not considered. thanks Kbthompson (talk) 08:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

My apologises for the 'school boy error' on my part. However, I'm no 'little Hitler' I want nothing more than a great article for Epping, being an Epping resident myself, but there have been a number of edits that have 'dumbed down' the article on Epping and I feel that is wrong. As you can see I have asked users to "discuss" edits first and can only hope that this will happen.(86.21.90.165 (talk) 10:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC))