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[edit] Questionable contributions

These contributions seem questionable to me.

From Special:Contributions/TurnedWorm(talk) - Conygar Tower, is a folly used as a landmark for shipping. It is situated on the top of Conygar Hill and overlooks the village. It was designed and built by Richard Phelps in 1776 and was commissioned by Henry Fownes Luttrell. It has no strategic or military significance. 

If the tower has no strategic or military significance why is it mentioned in the article? Also whose folly it was, and why, is not explained. If the reason for the folly is because the tower had no strategic or military significance then it is perhaps better reworded as Conygar Tower, was commissioned by Henry Fownes Luttrell, and designed and built by Richard Phelps, in 1776. Though situated on the top of Conygar Hill and overlooking the village, it has no strategic or military significance and is only used as a landmark for shipping. Its construction is considered to be a folly by historians because Luttrell and Phelps ...' then describe whatever its design faults are, as well as delusions of grandeur, fraud and wasted public money or fortunes when into its construction. I might well let this pass, except the edit was made by a new editor who has been contributing to completely different topics and subsequent edits to the article shed a different light on things.

From LambOfDog(talk) - Some of the structures last to this day. Most noteable are the Pill Boxes on the foreshore of Dunster Beach. These are strong buildings made from pebbles, taken from the beach, and from which soldiers could hold their ground if the Germans ever invaded. For decades after the war these structures were used by the locals as latrines for which we were very grateful. Now they have been sealed. Probably as a measure to reduce the number of flies. 

There is some truth in this tale, though not all of the detail is accurate or well expressed. Fortifications are generally consructed from concrete, not just beach pebbles, though making the concrete from pebbles, sand and cement is the usual formulation for concrete. To be accurate this needs further explanation. The use of the fortifications for other less hygenic purposes is also not unheard of, nor is their sealling up. However the use of the second person "we" in this context is not appropriate and calls into question the value of the whole contribution. Re-writing is needed.

Also From LambOfDog(talk) - , though the station is over a mile from the village. It is in what is known locally as the Marsh. 

These are unverified facts, which might well be true, but are better said a bit differently. As currently stated, it sounds sarcastic.

Unfortunately, I do not know this place well enough to edit reliably. -- Cameron Dewe 04:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)