Talk:Mitt Romney/Archive 6

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Wife's relation to a Princess

This article currently says that his wife is related somehow to a Princess in Sweden named Lilian. This assertion was previously made in the article about Ann Romney, but was removed after discussion.[1] And if it shouldn't be in the article about Ann Romney, I don't see why it should be in this article either, so I'll remove it.Ferrylodge (talk) 02:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Don`t tuch important information! "Princess in Sweden named Lilian", common ! You idiot ! HRH Princess Lilian of Sweden ( b 1915)! Lilian is a Ann`s distant relative.

His relation to a painter

The following was recently inserted into the article:

Mitt Romney is a kinsman of George Romney (1734- 1802), a genius English portrait painter.123456

Ths kind of stuff should go elsewhere at Wikipedia, if at all. For example, there's an article on the Pratt–Romney family where it might be discussed. Mitt Romney is related to all kinds of people, but this article is about him, and not about them. For instance, he's related to Rebecca Nurse, and to Romnichals, and to Anne Hutchinson, et cetera, et cetera. Plus he's related to all the people who are related to those people (e.g. Vincent Price, Leslie Southwick, et cetera, et cetera). But all of that is very tangential to this article.

Additionally, accumulating a lot of footnotes to support a statement does not necessarily justify inclusion of that statement in a Wikipedia article. Five of the footnotes here are search results from familysearch.org, and this seems an awful lot like synthesis and original research, which are not allowed at Wikipedia; the search results may be accurate, but they're strung together to prove a point. And the sixth footnote is a book that doesn't say anything about Mitt Romney. These footnotes do not show any reliable source implying that the relation to the English painter is notable.

I hope you understand that there are tons and tons of facts about Mitt Romney, and we have to use some method to pick out the main ones for inclusion in this article. Thanks.Ferrylodge (talk) 00:04, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Mitt Romney`s and George Romeny`s ( an genius artist) common ancestor were George Rumley ( Romney) 1642-1738. http://www.wargs.com/political/romney.html Of course as american you don`t understood nothing about world ! George Romney`s case explaine artistic nature of Mitt. Why he is so talented ? Because of Romney family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doom11 (talk • contribs) 12:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)