Talk:Yasmin Qureshi

Edits by user Accuray4parliament
Edits by this User: Accuracy4parliament need to be checked for neutrality. They all seem to be highly pro-Qureshi, for example editing the section on Raed Saleh to such an extent that it loses all meaning.--Shakehandsman (talk) 04:23, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Driving offences?
This article on a current British MP includes references to various driving offences, the most serious being driving while using a mobile device. There seems to be no reason to include this information other than to make the subject look bad. In such a short article, having a section entitled "Driving offences" which is longer than the section entitled "Personal life" clearly gives undue weight to these events. I am removing the section as a probable violation of WP:BLP. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 18:55, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The section consists of two lines and is entirely consistent with other articles about British politicians. In fact, as I have highlighted on the BLP noticeboard, those committing much less serious offences get almost as much space dedicated to such issues. The personal life section is practically non existent, so everything anyone ever writes is going to be shorter than that. Any solution to improve balance involves expanding such content rather than deleting notable material.--Shakehandsman (talk) 22:45, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * If other such articles have this kind of trivial information whose only function (I can't speak of intent) is to disparage the subject, maybe you should go and remove it from those articles. Undue weight is clear here--but even if her biography was ten times as long, this info is still trivial. Note what you're citing: tabloids. Drmies (talk) 04:40, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Well the BBC and even the Guardian also report it extensively and i don't' believe they're tabloids. . And the material on the other articles isn't "this kind of trivial", the offences here are at least twice as serious as those cases.--Shakehandsman (talk) 04:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Other undue weight issues
Along with the now removed section on driving offences, there are some other issues with undue weight in this biography. There is a section entitled "Meeting with controversial Arab Israeli cleric". By my reading of it, no meeting ever actually took place, so even the section title is misleading. According to the source used in the article "Ms Qureshi was one of several Labour MPs who had also been invited to speak at one of the events" in the House of Commons which included Raed Salah among the other speakers.

This appears to be an attempt to associate a Muslim MP with an (allegedly) antisemitic cleric. The source used quotes Qureshi as saying "This man has not entered the UK in secret and his visit has been well-publicised for weeks. If a person is convicted of the offences Mr Salah has been accused of, then there is no way I would want to share a platform with him". According to our article on Salah, the two other MPs scheduled to speak were Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Burden. The incident does not appear to be mentioned in the biographies of the other two MPs. I am removing it from the BLP as well. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 19:32, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

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