Talk:Steve Brine

Hadyn Burton
Added a section with references to the Hadyn Burton protest outside Steve Brine's Constituency Office, the video of that protest, his resulting arrest, imprisonment and death. Given Steve Brine's role this is highly pertinent to his biography, that a constituent involved in a peaceful protest outside the MP's office would be subject to arrest, imprisonment, attack in prison, and was then found hanging in his cell. Two references included.

While adding this, I notice the page may be an autobiography rather than a biography. The page needs some cleaning up and I may do that later. For example, Stephen Brine goes by the name "Steve Brine", but reference to him in this page varies from "Brine", "Mr Brine", "Steve" or his full name: it looks untidy. Steve Brine is the name the MP goes under, so I propose that this be used everywhere. Due to the death in custody, any edits I do will be under Anon instead of my Wikipedia editors ID, using an internet proxy or VPN 37.152.196.188 (talk) 10:23, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

I notice 185.53.224.150 has tried to removed this material, claiming "removed exceptionally unreliably sourced and only marginally relevant story concerning a protestor". The death of a protestor as a result of protesting outside his offices, and the imprisonment of the protestor as a direct result of a complaint raised by his staff, is by no means just "marginally relevant", especially given the MP's role in the Ministry for Justice. As regards the references, these are to Fathers4Justice site and to the original material posted by the now deceased person, including the actual video of the protest - it is hardly therefore "exceptionally unreliable". If this is removed again I will complain directly to a moderator. 37.152.196.188 (talk) 12:56, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Voting in House of Commons
Have taken this to the talk page as suggested. I believe this is WP:NOTABLE, especially to local voters. Although perhaps this pattern of voting is in line with his conservative colleagues, I believe the Winchester constituents, and those interested in Brine, would be interested to hear how he has voted on key issues like welfare and the NHS. I would appreciate if you could expand on why you think this isn't notable? I didn't "select" the votes at all - this is all online on TheyWorkForYou. Anyone is welcome to add any other of his votes from there. TheyWorkForYou is actually more of a secondary source - they produce summaries of how an MP has voted on given issues from the primary source of the gov.uk voting information. LoudLizard (📞 | contribs | ✉) 11:34, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * An automatically-generated summary of primary sourced data doesn't qualify as an indication of notability with respect to a particular person's political career, sorry. This debate has been had numerous times in the past on numerous MPs' pages. His voters can always following the link to TheyWorkForYou or PublicWhip at the bottom of the page if they wish to check out his votes; this page is intended to be a biography rather than a voter guide. The majority of information you've included simply indicates that he's voted with the very well-publicised platform of his party. If there's newspaper coverage (preferably national newspapers) of comments he's made on particular issues or to justify particular decisions then that might be more relevant to include. Dtellett (talk) 11:52, 19 April 2017 (UTC)