Talk:William James (Carlisle MP)

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A fact from William James (Carlisle MP) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 July 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the slave-owner and MP William James received £4,713, equivalent to about £6 million today, as compensation following the British Slavery Abolition Act of 1833?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William James (Carlisle MP).

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Inclusion in Category:Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies

I am not sure that this article should be in Category:Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies as it currently is. The article never once calls William James a Whig or mentions him using that label. The opening of the article states he was an "an English Radical politician" and the articles for the Carlisle constituency and the East Cumberland consultancy also class him as a Radical rather than a Whig. Although the notion of political party was much looser during James' time in politics and there is often debate on whether someone was a Radical, a Whig or both (or something else entirely) I think that without anything in the article to show that he ever described himself as a Whig, or was described by others as such, then the article should not be in any Whig category. Dunarc (talk) 20:29, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]