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Your draft article, User:2nd ABG/Historic African and African American Burial Grounds in Richmond, Virginia

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You may delete this draft. 2nd ABG (talk) 11:40, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

October 2023

Hello, I'm Pi.1415926535. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Richmond Main Street Station seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:42, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello, the information that was being added to the Richmond Main Street Station is both true and relevant. Telling half of the story and leaving the other half out does not seem neutral, but also has the appearance of being biased. All of the information that was being added to the article was supported with proof in the form of references and direct external links to the information. Published letters from the Federal Railroad Administration and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, along with an approved National Register Nomination were included, along with newspaper and other articles. The full story should be told, not part of it. It is a fact that the original tracks that were constructed by the Seaboard Airline in 1900, that run directly to Main Street Station were constructed on one of the largest African Burial Grounds in the country. It is also a fact that the DC2RVA high-speed rail project (as currently planned) will cause adverse effects to this same burial ground. Yet the 2017 report mentioned in the article minimized the burial ground, declared it not in their project area, and stated that there would be no adverse effect. This was not true. The work proposed to add additional train service to the Main Street Station will cause more harm to this burial ground. This has now been recognized by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Section 106 for the DC2RVA high-speed rail project was recently reopened because of these now recognized adverse effects.

I do not believe adding truthful information to an article is biased. The new information I contributed should not have been deleted. To suggest rewording is one thing, but to just remove the information from the article is not right. The information should be restored to the article, and more appropriate measures taken if you continue to disagree with the information. See below:

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The NPOV policy is used sometimes as an excuse to delete texts that are perceived as biased. Isn't this a problem?

Editors have different ideas about how Wikipedia should look "today". Some want it to be as fault-free as possible, even if that means cutting mediocre content; others think that all but the most serious flaws should be allowed to stand so they can be improved.

While the burden of establishing verifiability and reliability rests on those who are challenged about it, there is usually no need to immediately delete text that can instead be rewritten as necessary over time. Obvious exceptions are articles about living people or clear vandalism, but generally there is no need for text to meet the highest standards of neutrality today if there's a reasonable chance of getting there.

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Especially contentious text can be removed to the talk page if necessary, but only as a last resort, and never just deleted.

It is a frequent misunderstanding of the NPOV policy, often expressed by newbies, visitors, and outside critics, that articles must not contain any form of bias, hence their efforts to remove statements they perceive as biased. The NPOV policy does forbid the inclusion of editorial bias, but does not forbid properly sourced bias. Without the inclusion and documentation of bias in the real world, many of our articles would fail to document the sum total of human knowledge, and would be rather "blah" reading, devoid of much meaningful and interesting content. 2nd ABG (talk) 12:45, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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