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In response to this removal of sourced content. What I said on the David Cameron page applies here too. There is a lot of research explaining how family slave-ownership, wealth, and government positions are connected. Please note that the user who reverted this edit regularly spends time patrolling my edits, arguing that slavery and colonialism don't matter on articles where they are very important and relevant. This patrolling began after a failed attempt to have this page deleted. (fixing signature again) DoSazunielle (talk) 02:24, 16 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
@DoSazunielle: Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of all information. As en:WP:NOTEVERYTHING says, "A Wikipedia article should not be a complete exposition of all possible details, but a summary of accepted knowledge regarding its subject. Verifiable and sourced statements should be treated with appropriate weight". You mentioned above that the information is sourced, but this doesn't automatically mean it should be included and therefore nobody can remove it. This article should give factual, unbiased, and relevant information about McConnell. Relevant information includes his early life, political career, and some notable events surrounding his life. Perhaps if one of his ancestors was a particularly notable slave trader there could be a brief mention (probably a sentence or two in a longer article). This is not one of those cases. It is completely irrelevant to mention what his ancestors did and there doesn't seem to be a reason to include it in the article. I'll remind you that Wikipedia is not a place to add information deliberately designed to discredit politicians and other public figures you don't like. For now, I am assuming you just have a particular interest in this field and are not attempting to push your point of view. We write from a neutral point of view. You seem like you may have a strong viewpoint of this topic, and would suggest you edit in areas you don't have strong opinions about if you can't stop them from influencing your contributions. --IWI (talk) 02:41, 16 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
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