Good morning,
I am Barry Slemmings. I was a professional journalist for 30 years finishing as a sub-editor/proof reader before my retirement in 2003. I now work as an unpaid volunteer on Brancaster Beach. I live in Docking and near to Fakenham.

You have queried some changes that I have made on the Brancaster page.
If you check the page history you will find that I am the original author of the whole section entitled 'National Trust and the beach'. There is no 'original research' anywhere on the entire Brancaster page as it is all written from the local knowledge of myself and others who came to it before me. That is the nature of town and village pages on Wiki. The changes I have made to the NT and the Beach section were due to recent changes 'on the ground' and were at the request of my boss to keep it inline with the National Trust's own information policy. My boss knows that I edit the Wiki page and it is highly regarded locally. I would ask you to revert my changes.

On the rest of the Brancaster page I also wrote Geography and Geology and substantially re-wrote Shipwreck on the Beach a couple of years ago. Again most of this is local knowledge and very hard (almost impossible) to 'prove' as original research. As local knowledge I assurre you that it is accurate as otherwise you would have received complaints or someone else would have re-edited my errors. In the UK Wiki is highly regarded for such local knowledge.

The other changes regarding Fakenham and Docking were minor edits and are due to changing information. Towns and villages are not sterile, they change and evolved. I was merely up-dating, as a good sub-editor would. I would again ask you to reconsider reverting to my changes.

Elsewhere - in other subjects - I often make minor edits to correct spelling, punctuation or minor errors. That's that old sub-editor and proof-reader coming out in me. Once a wordsmith, always a wordsmith and I hope that Wiki benefits from your efforts and mine.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Barry Slemmings