User talk:Pigotfamily

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Hi glen, so far I can’t say it has been awesome to find the changes made have been deleted, so I cannot say editing has been fun. However I will discuss with you why I made them. I have no idea about what you know of pedigrees in the uk, but hey are complex, and I often find that well meaning editors conflate members of the pigot family with one another. It is annoying to say the least that so many parents chose to call their children by the same 4 names, over and over again. This means in practice that as many as 6 George Pigot’s were alive at any one time. Some were in the army, some the navy, and so on and so forth. I think you get the idea. Well meaning people have changed the spellings, conflated sons and grandsons, nephews and uncles, and some members of the family have not been mentioned at all. 3 brothers are all noted in the national archives for services around the globe - particularly during the american revolution. They have been mixed up, even by noted historians on the BBC. As far as I can see, I do not have a conflict of interest with anything other than misinformation - I am a member of the family and the items which I am changing I have contemporary documentation to prove it. Yes, I have letters from the early 1700’s with seals and signatures. If some one was born, there’s a note of it in parish files. All clearly documented. My father looked up his father, and noted to his sadness that his fathers first wife was not mentioned at all. His second wife has tried very hard to obliterate her husbands first marriage, my father and his sister. No mention of his work with MI6, just a link to her honour from the queen. Much of the information is easily verifiable in either Burke’s or Debrette’s so I am not in any way seeking to misinform anyone. Quite the contrary, I am seeking to correctly inform anyone who finds my family’s history interesting, whether good or reprehensible to modern eyes. I am not working for anyone, and I am not being paid for the work. If you deem me to be unsuitable to change the information then I would cordially ask that you become a Pigot historian by researching the family in books such as those names, Who Was Who, Who’s who, and the national archives, or alternatively delete the Pigot pages. I look forward to your reply, yours, M. Pigot. Pigotfamily (talk) 10:28, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , I can understand the frustration in having your changes reverted but it's only because they are unsourced per our citation guideline. Note they haven't been "deleted" - they are still there in the page history and can easily be put back. However, with that being said, citations aside, I do see some issues with the tone in which you are writing. You'll see above I linked to the five pillars of Wikipedia, one of which is articles must be written in a neutral point of view. Statements like Isabella, who was great friends with... aren't really written in the tone of an encyclopedia. So please bear this in mind when writing. Finally, you'll see that you are currently blocked due to having a user name representing a group which is in breach of our user name policy below. You can request an unblock and change of user name by following the instructions in the blue box below, or, simply click Special:CreateAccount to create a new account that represents yourself as an individual.
 * I do apologise for the bumpy start you've had here, though please bear in mind policies like the neutral point of view and citation policies are there to ensure articles like that about your family are written accurately and neutrally. Welcome again. Glen (talk) 10:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I do apologise for the bumpy start you've had here, though please bear in mind policies like the neutral point of view and citation policies are there to ensure articles like that about your family are written accurately and neutrally. Welcome again. Glen (talk) 10:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

September 2020
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