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Villaged, if the information is included in a footnote, it's not missing from the article. But as to the point you made, it's probably not terribly productive to get into various users' motivations for editing in certain ways. I have no doubt that some users edit this article in an attempt at apologetics and to make Smith look as good as possible. I have no doubt that some users edit it to discredit Smith and make him look as bad as possible. (There are also many who attempt neither, of course, and try to be ""fair"".) I've seen editors throw accusations at each other both ways on issues such as this, and it tends to go nowhere and doesn't really help things. I find that for each individual editor, it's best if I just assume good faith, even when I know that there will in fact be some percentage of them who edit in bad faith. When I disagree with a particular editor on an editing issue, it's just not fair for me to assume that they are editing in bad faith, because I think most of them will not be.  (talk) "