James, I'm going to respectfully disagree with you. If this was the best path, we might as well just delete the biography section and just have bunch of radio button check points for marriage, children, job, etc. Or, a "fill in the blanks" spreadsheet, "Enter person's name, year born, occupation, year of migration, etc."
History is a bright and virbrant topic and we can learn so much about our culture, our ancestors, and about ourselves by studying the people and trying to understand what it was like for them to live in their times.
I didn't say, "understand their life facts." I want to have some understanding of what it was like for them. Writing "crossed the prairie in 1835," is quite different than putting into context that the area they crossed in was in a state of war and this many battles between colonists and native tribes occured in that time frame. The reader will better understand the risks taken to migrate and this may give some meaning to how bad it was say back in Ireland that someone would be willing to travel through a war zone to find a new life.
I believe that in a perfect bio of a controversial person, there would be the life basics and then when it comes to an historic perspective of their life, someone who is a big fan writes every other paragraph and someone who is a critic writes every other paragraph. If we read about a founding father, great statesman, slave owner, should we not understand all aspects of his life? Should we not also have a contemporary interpretation of them as well as an understanding of how he thought, how the people of the day thought, and how those he knew (to include those who were enslaved to him) felt and thought?
Wikitree is a wonderful place because it relies on collaboration. Part of collaboration is compromise. But it is harder to compromise when people are insulting others. We should not shy away from controversial biographies becuase we have differing opinions. Indeed, we should use the differing opinions to shape the narrative for a better understanding.
And I would hope that those who have anger in their hearts would sleep on it and come back and comment the next day.