User talk:Demelza381

Managing a conflict of interest

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 13:22, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Do you work for UWE?

I live locally too - have done for 32 years. I don't know why you'd assume anyone editing the Frenchay page didn't live locally. Anyway, fair enough, I was rounding up (I was citing the distance from the common to UWE campus, which is 2 and a half miles), and that sentence now reads fairly (as opposed to "the campus is right next to the village"!). But I'm curious - what's your agenda here? You've seemed very keen to make it seem like UWE is much closer to Frenchay than it really is. Does the UWE prospectus claim Frenchay right on its doorstep, or something? Are you trying to add credence to some fuzzy truth in the promotional literature? Cardinal Wurzel (talk) 07:17, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! No, I do not work for UWE, nor do I have any agenda either. You seemed to be very opposed to the university, which is fair enough if that's the case, but we are next to Frenchay campus, and the walking distance is closer than we think. I suppose the way we measure depend on individual circumstances and I'll leave it there! Demelza381 (talk) 13:13, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Harmanswater

I see you did a small change to the Harmans Water article regarding it being once part of Winkfield. In the dim and distant past this was indeed the case, most of Bracknell was built on what was originally the Winkfield parish. More recently, 1990s, there was a realignment of the local ward boundaries and the Harmanswater ward was slightly increased to include parts of Winkfield and Bullbrook. The rest of Harmanswater, since it was built as part of the new town in the 1960s, has always been Harmanswater. I have not reverted your edit at the moment but I don't think what you wrote is actually correct. Do you have local knowledge? I live here in Harmanswater. Dsergeant (talk) 17:09, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That is true. I was indeed writing from a somewhat "ancient" point of view and had unintentionally missed that out - I do apologise. Perhaps it might be more accurate to describe it as: "...formerly part of Winkfield and later expanded as part of plans for the new town of Bracknell" (?) Demelza381 (talk) 00:13, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

But until Bracknell new town was built Harmans Water was just the name of the lake that was there. It never existed as a place before and was never 'expanded'. Dsergeant (talk) 05:46, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but it is my understanding that the lake had been part of Winkfield too. There are maps of Winkfield with Harmans Water being part of it. If you think I made a mistake, feel free to revert my edit. Demelza381 (talk) 15:15, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]