Talk:Luciana Berger

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"Crash landing for Labour candidate parachuted into Liverpool" - 23rd April article in Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/crash-landing-for-labour-candidate-parachuted-into-liverpool-1951962.html

"Luciana Berger is a strong, committed candidate for Liverpool Wavertree - others should join the campaign, not criticise" - article by local student who saw her selection process. http://www.labourlist.org/luciana-berger-strong-committed-candidate-livepool-wavertree

£5000 car number plate LU51 ANA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257810/The-numbers-Labour-candidates-working-class-credentials-hit-buys-5-000-numberplate.html Francis Irving (talk) 00:46, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Done

Allegations about selection of a friend of Blair's son http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247403/Labour-war-Blair-sons-glamorous-friend-chosen-safe-seat.html Was Euan Blair ever her girlfriend, not according to this: http://mtpt.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/minor-disagreements-in-wavertree-or-berger-my-arse/ Francis Irving (talk) 22:29, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

was on board of NUS in 2005 and resigned http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/apr/15/highereducation.uk

Was director at Labour Friends of Israel http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/20897/independent-columnist-slammed-lfi

Union official confirming questions raised about selection process http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/02/02/top-union-official-waiting-for-answers-about-selection-of-luciana-berger-for-the-liverpool-wavertree-seat-100252-25740583/

http://blogs.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/dalestreetblues/2010/01/more-bad-news-for-luciana-berg.html

Election leaflet in 2010 in Liverpool, Wavertree - lists her priorities http://www.thestraightchoice.org/leaflet.php?q=914

Kelvin Mackenzie

There's nothing obvious from the text as to why appearing on a talk show with someone is a controversy. If there's no evidence of this being an actual controversy, BLP says we must remove it. I'll wait a few hours. --Dweller (talk) 14:26, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

I've re-removed this. In my edit summary, I said Dweller hadn't removed it yet, but I was wrong (in my defence, the WP has been buggy, so I couldn't check history as I normally would). In reality, he was reverted by the IP editor who added the material in the first place. In any event, the whole discussion is not worthy of inclusion, and proponents should bring the discussion here before trying again to add the material to this stable article. -Rrius (talk) 02:18, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

This is the text in one recent diff:

On 31st October, she caused outrage after appearing in a Radio Five Live show along with Kelvin MacKenzie . MacKenzie was editor of The Sun newspaper at the time of the infamous "The Truth" headline , which Liverpool residents boycott to this day.

I think this is quite close to being acceptable, but a few fundamental changes are necessary. I'll work on it below. --Dweller (talk) 11:12, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed rewriting:

According to the Liverpool Echo, on 31st October 2010, Berger "sparked outrage online" after appearing in a Radio Five Live show, which also featured former editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie.. MacKenzie was editor at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, and the paper's coverage of the story led to a widespread boycott of the paper on Merseyside that lasts to this day, and villification of MacKenzie. The Echo wrote that Berger responded to the criticism on her Twitter feed, writing, "Was there for the MP bit with Amber Rudd, wasn't told before who the other guests were."

How's that? --Dweller (talk) 11:26, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

If there's no dissent, I'll add that section next time I'm onwiki (and remember). --Dweller (talk) 17:59, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

About to do that now. --Dweller (talk) 10:40, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

This seems to give undue weight to the incident. It's not clear that it would ever be important enough for inclusion, but with the relatively small size of the article, any treatment of this minor event is surely blown out of proportion. It's currently the largest part of the section about her parliamentary career: is it really the most important part of career in parliament? -Rrius (talk) 21:13, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

It seems to be notable - it's hard to diminish it without losing the sense or her riposte. The best way to address UNDUE would be to add some decent content about what she's been up to. --Dweller (talk) 10:26, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I imagine that, given time, this section will increase and the weighting will decrease. She has only been an MP for almost a year --[[User:anon] (talk) 15:54, 24 January 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.157 (talk)

Given what's above, I've added a couple of things about what she's been up to in Parliament - stuff with Video Games and the info she got from the MoD --MattBlackburn (talk) 14:38, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

References

New Sections

I'm opening this section up straightaway so we can be open about it. I personally don't think the complete deletions of new sections that describe an MP's activity is a reasonable approach to keeping a wikipedia page updated about an individual's life. (and I don't work for Luciana Berger). If anyone thinks they are unbalanced then I'm open to discussion about how to balance it, but can't help feeling that outright deletion of them is not helpful...... (I'm sure there are people close to the MP who would like to delete the sections on Kelvin Mackenzie and the Echo quiz...) I look forward to ideas.Scouseinthehouse (talk) 18:51, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Surely if people wished to view what their MP has said they were up to..... they go and visit the MP's website? If you look around other MP's sites there are no others that go into detail. And does an MP doing their job really constitute an entirely new section every time, as you have added? Look at Chris Bryant's page. No details of much parliamentary work other than anything that made national headlines. I'd say that the only casework that Luciana has done that did make headlines is the question regarding items of military equipment going missing (> £100). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.157 (talk) 10:33, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

-Good suggestion - I'll write that up.Scouseinthehouse (talk) 20:34, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Why would you not want this information recorded? I'm unclear why evidence of her activities in parliament should be suppressed, so long as it is reported in neutral terms. There is little standardisation between articles about MP's, just pointing to one and noting its dissimilarities does not demonstrate anything conclusive.Alistair Stevenson (talk) 10:38, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

I can't see how this is anything other than pure promotion which is against rule 7 of the Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. And regarding balance, did any of the casework listed earlier actually make headlines beyond the MP's own twitter feed/website?

See the below: (cur | prev) 20:48, 17 January 2011 Rrius (talk | contribs) (10,481 bytes) (organisation; removes items that seem to have been inserted by her campaign or parliamentary office; removes alternative medicine bit as her signing one or more EDMs isn't noteworthy) (undo) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.157 (talk)

I agree with Alistair Stevenson - Greg Mulholland, John Leech, Andrew Stunell - all MPs whose pages include their parliamentary interests in one form or another, but plenty others don't. As for headlines - I'm concerned that only negative coverage in the media is considered valid. The Save BBC radio campaign was featured in local media as extensively as the Kelvin Mackenzie episode, so why shouldn't it feature? Scouseinthehouse (talk) 20:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Can't think why the BBC and local media outlets were so interested in a campaign to Save BBC Radio Merseyside? :-) I'm not against including it, but looking at the site on her page it's just a link to a facebook site and tells you to write your own letter to the BBC/Your MP..... does that count as a campaign? The article would just end up as a copy of her own website/twitter feed. The MP's you mention above have quite substantial references to their campaign interests and they're under a single header. Perhaps a line for each?

I've made some changes to the page today in the hope of making it a bit more balanced. I'm new on wikipedia, so wasn't really aware that it was the done thing to discuss things on here first. What do you think of the changes? --MattBlackburn (talk) 19:41, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Maiden Speech

I put in the Luciana Berger's Maiden Speech because I thought it would be a valid contribution to the page, as the only speech you can guarantee each MP gives, is usually uncontroversial and gives an insight into the priorities and focus of new MPs.

However, I can't find another MP's page with detail of their maiden speech to back up my argument and am now wondering what others think about their addition, before I re-insert it. --Scouseinthehouse (talk) 18:56, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Maiden speech I'm not so bothered about, but I can't understand why someone keeps reverting the insertion of the information about her role as a shadow minister. It's well sourced and certainly encyclopedic. I'd suggest we readd the shadow minister, but leave the maiden speech. Most maiden speeches are thoroughly unencyclopedic fluff. --Dweller (talk) 11:14, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

fluff?!?!?! (mock outrage...;-) fine - agreed Scouseinthehouse (talk) 20:29, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

It looks like there's consensus. I'll readd that material then. --Dweller (talk) 08:41, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Date of Birth

Given to be 13/05/1981 based on the below, agree to include?

"This May I'm going to be living below the line! From May 8th -12th - the last five days of my 20s - I'll be surviving off just £1 a day for all of my food and drink"

http://my.livebelowtheline.co.uk/personalPage.aspx?langPref=en-CA&Referrer=http%3a%2f%2fwww.livebelowtheline.org.uk%2fpartners%2fpositive-women%2f&registrationID=353348 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.198.156 (talk) 09:10, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

I'd say possibly... the problem is that anyone could have set up that page in her name. How do we know it's her? (If it is her, she's better at winning elections than she is at fundraising) --Dweller (talk) 15:26, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

She refers to the page on her twitter feed. http://www.lucianaberger.com/2011/04/fighting-poverty/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 23:38, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

I'd say this is pretty conclusive:

http://lockerz.com/s/101334497 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 22:35, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Logically, yes. But is that a reliable source? --Dweller (talk) 09:39, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes. If you go to labour.org.uk, navigate through "Our People" to "MPs" to Berger, you get a link to http://www.luciana4wavertree.org.uk/ (identical to lucianaberger.com), which has her twitter feed, which in turn links to the things discussed above (see especially this tweet) and contains her responses to several birthday wishes on 13 May. -Rrius (talk) 09:57, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Publications

Quick one. There are numerous articles written by Luciana from various Publications including the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Family Life Media, Jewish Week, the Jewish Times, the Guardian etc. I've started a new section for publications but don't see a standard format for such a section. Should this just be a list of external links?

Any ideas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 18:05, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Jewish Body memberships

Hi, the user Shylocksboy undid all edits I added which list memberships of professional bodies / organisations etc. I don't see how any of these are irrelevant? Signing an Early Day Motion appears to have been ok to include, and that's an archaic throwback that takes less than 1 minute of an MP's morning. Being a member of a political organisation seems somewhat more relevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.157 (talk) 08:58, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

They are irrelevant because most MPs belong to large numbers of organisations allied to their special interests. Who cares that she is the patron of a cemetery? You don't need to bulk out her entry by listing every organisation she belongs to. EDMs are included because they can show an MP's interests and on the rare occasion can lead to changes in government/law etc. Luciana being a patron of a cemetery does not. --Shylocksboy (talk) 12:47, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

That's ridiculous. Signing an EDM that will not become of anything and is simply a throwback from how Parliament worked 200 years ago is just bizarre. Each MP will sign close to 300 EDM's within a year.

Membership of an exclusive International body made up of government officials from various countries in the pursuit of pressuring into support of pro-Israel policies - you don't think is relevant? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.198.157 (talk) 13:41, 29 June 2011 (UTC) You wrote "in the pursuit of pressuring into support". What does that mean? It's not even proper English.

She is also a member of the Labour Jewish Movement, an affiliate of the World Labour Zionist Movement, who's aim is to work to promote a secure, progressive, just and succssful State of Israel. [20] It helps if when contributing anything that you can spell.

She is a member of the Zionist Federation, and attended their annual conference in London in January 2011. [21] Was she the only MP to attend? Just checked. No she wasn't. Louise Ellman MP attended but there is no mention of this on her wikipedia entry so why it is relevant to Luciana's entry? Even the Jewish Chronicle report only accorded it around 200 words.

She is a patron of the Deane Road Jewish Cemetery in Kensington, Liverpool. [22] Do you SERIOUSLY think anyone cares? --Shylocksboy (talk) 16:15, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Your logic makes no sense. Because other MP's do not have as up to date wikipedia entries that means we shouldn't edit anyone's? Why not make yourself more useful and add it to Louise Ellman's page too? Because it's irrelevant! Even the Jewish Chronicle doesn't think it's that important. And why would anyone care she is the patron of a cemetery????

Those descriptions were copied and pasted from the "ABOUT" section of the website, any spelling mistakes are theirs. By all means correct the spelling, but should this really be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 17:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Just because most people in this country are ill-educated thanks to terrible education policies from both parties does not mean MPs should spell like them. There is still a spelling mistake in that sentence! --Shylocksboy (talk) 18:02, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Looking at around at other MP's sites they do indeed contain listings of memberships of other bodies. In almost all cases these come under Parliamentary career when this is associated with their westminster role, or within career if it is outside their public position. I suggest a subsection of career. A line or two including all bodies that she is affiliated with, along with citations (deleted by Shylock, restored by me) of those bodies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 18:40, 29 June 2011 (UTC) I did put such a list on here and it was deleted by someone else before you put them all back in. In addition, I don't doubt MPs' websites do contain lists of their affiliations - after all, they want their constituents to think they work for a living - but that doesn't mean they have to be added en masse here. If someone is that concerned about which MP is a patron of a cemetery, for example, they can search the individual MP's site. --Shylocksboy (talk) 18:43, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Shylocksboy - the site does not list their affiliations. An MP's website is their own PR, and as such they wish to appeal to their constituents. This is not what an encyclopedia is for. Now, could you please desist in undoing the work done by others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 18:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC) Which "site does not list their affiliations"? And what on earth are "affiliations"? --Shylocksboy (talk) 18:54, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

She is MP for Liverpool Wavertree not Jerusalem North. Do you think the majority of her constituents are interested in all her Jewish interests? And I write as a Jew. --Shylocksboy (talk) 19:03, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

This isn't her Parliamentary page, it's an encyclopedic entry. If people want to know what she's been up to in Wavertree, they go to lucianaberger.com Her Jewish interests are as relevant to an encyclopedic entry as her parliamentary career. Infact, half of them are Labour party movements, or affiliations she is only a member of through parliamentary status. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 19:16, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Article protected

I've protected the article against the stupid edit-warring. I'm going to go back and revert the article to how it was before you started your edit war. Discuss proposed changes here and gain consensus before asking an admin to make them for you. And be very grateful I've not blocked you both for breaching WP:3RR. --Dweller (talk) 09:17, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Fine. Any reason why we cannot include memberships of bodies as mentioned in the above? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.157 (talk) 10:55, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

No. But when it comes to WP:BLPs, we are all the more concerned about breaches of WP:CHERRY, which is what you're appearing to do. The fact that you are not comprehensively listing her memberships and EDMs etc, but picking ones from a particular area of her interest, makes me wish to remind you to read WP:NPOV. --Dweller (talk) 14:51, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm not Cherry picking. The reason these have all come at once is that I picked them off the JewPi (Press International) site, which has a collection of about 30 press articles. If you look further down last week I've added Hansard, Guardian Profile, Parliamentary profile etc which were sourced differently. Whilst one day's contribution may come from one source, another day it may come from another - as is the nature of collaboration.

Also, I can't recall adding nor removing any EDM's.

~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.198.157 (talk) 15:28, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

If you're adding a variety of stuff, you're not cherrypicking, so I apologise. However, you'll still need to get consensus that the material is encyclopedic, which was the other editor's problem. I'll not give an opinion on that. --Dweller (talk) 16:12, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

No problem. I have only used reports in various legitimate and trustworthy sources, and in many cases used multiple sources. I understand it looks as if these links were added objectively (you mean subjectively --Shylocksboy (talk) 14:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC)), but it just happens to be the case that this MP has a heavy involvement with pro-Israel bodies. eg. visited Israel over 20 times over the past few years, was director of Labour Friends of Israel, etc.

I've tried in vain to find any information on pro-Green politics/memberships of bodies prior to September 2010, but there appear to be none. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.157 (talk) 16:28, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Since we've established concensus, can this please be unlocked and reverted to the below (436751525)? I had been planning on tidying up after adding info, before shylocksboy started removing everything/edit war. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luciana_Berger&oldid=436751525 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 11:16, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

No consensus has been gained. --Dweller (talk) 21:50, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

No one else has offered an opionion! lol. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 07:09, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

True, but that is not consensus. If you'd like, I could post to the WP:BLP/N to see if some neutral BLP experts can venture opinions? --Dweller (talk) 08:58, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Fine by me. ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.157 (talk) 15:48, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

The 'career' section as presented in this edit [1] is clearly a breach of WP:NPOV, as it focuses almost entirely on Jewish issues. Much of it is of little encyclopaedic interest in any case. Frankly, I find the claim that this is merely a result of those particular sources being found first rather implausible. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:20, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I take exception to that. I know Luciana well, as well as her brother Alex and parents. Luciana has for always been involved in Jewish politics within the Labour party. Her great uncle is Manny Shinwell. http://www.progressives.org.uk/columns/column.asp?c=715 . I have a copy of her political CV in front of me, and it's dominated with Jewish interests. She would not be embarassed with any of this. You seem to be suggesting that these links to Jewish organisations which are all factual, referenced and encyclopedic is some how defamatory? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 23:59, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

It's not defamatory - just not encyclopaedic which was my point in the first place which is why I removed it. It would appear other users agree with me. --Shylocksboy (talk) 17:35, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Dude, no one agrees with you. Pray explain. "A compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge" Encyclopedia Er, what about this ":::::The 'career' section as presented in this edit [2] is clearly a breach of WP:NPOV, as it focuses almost entirely on Jewish issues. Much of it is of little encyclopaedic interest in any case. Frankly, I find the claim that this is merely a result of those particular sources being found first rather implausible. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:20, 5 July 2011 (UTC)" --Shylocksboy (talk) 05:30, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

That was my point but Mr Anonymous who doesn't even sign his edits disagreed, --Shylocksboy (talk) 14:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

'Personal life' section

Tabloid tittle-tattle about who Ms Berger is reported to be dating has no place whatsoever in this article. I suggest we delete the section accordingly. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:13, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

There's always a debate in WP articles about the notability of such content for well-known people. I assume the slightly spurious "reason" it's being included is that she is generally considered to be "good-looking" but that's hardly a valid WP criteria. I doubt there's a justification for it based on her being an MP, even if it is sourced, unless there was some political question of import arising from her personal life associations. I would agree on balance it should come out. Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 14:18, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

A personal life section is a standard part of any biographical article, it reflects an aspect of a person's identity that is always significant. Berger's personal life has a particular interest since it has included reported attachments to well known political figures. There's no reason to delete it. Exok (talk) 14:31, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

The article cites a denied relationship with Euan Blair (not a political figure), A relationship with Siôn Simon where the dates given don't match the sources, and a report of her being 'romantically linked with Chuka Umunna' based on comments from an anonymous friend. Tabloid garbage. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:42, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Quite. References 31 and 32 (the Daily Mirror's "most fanciable" list and a gossipoidal tatbit from the Mail) hardly bear being in Wikipedia. In fact, I think those refs and that sentence should come out immediately. Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 14:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Semi protect

With discussions under way here, I'm going to cautiously reduce the protection to semi-protect. I'll be liberal with blocks if editors take advantage to resume edit warring. --Dweller (talk) 15:46, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks - consider us so advised. :) Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 15:47, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I wonder if we could remove the thing about her being a committee member of the London Jewish Forum - I checked, and she's not. She resigned when she was elected in 2010.

Also, could we re-add the thing I was trying to get in about her Shadow Ministerial role. This: In June 2011, Berger secured an important amendment to the Energy Bill, the Green Deal apprenticeship programme. It is designed to create jobs installing cavity and solid wall insulation in homes to make sure that the Government’s plan to retrofit millions of British households with energy saving materials is backed up by expertise I think it's worthwhile - it was the first time the Government had been defeated in a committee stage. --MattBlackburn (talk) 17:05, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

This amendment will not make the bill. Instead, a replacement will. Firstly, the government were not defeated - they supported the amendment. The minister then attempted to replace it, which was opposed by members of the government in a vote.

"I will deal now with new clause 10 and the consequential amendment 36. The new clause has been tabled to replace the Opposition’s amendment on green deal apprenticeships, which we accepted in Committee—a great personal victory for Luciana Berger. As I said at the time, it is important that we take expert drafting advice on any amendment to a Bill," http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2011-09-14a.1043.2&s=consultations — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 07:51, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

This still seems to be rambling on. The point is that the government did accept the ammendment. There may be scope for different phrasing but blanket deletion of the point is wrong as it is notable. Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 10:41, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

It goes as this. Labour tabled 34 potential amendments. The government accepted one (Green Deal amendment). The minister attempted to remove it, since it would not be workable - this was defeated. In the end, they've agreed on a new amendment which "captures the spirit" of the original amendment. One further point, to say "it will create jobs" is ludicrous and speculative. The new amendment will attempt to encourage apprenticeships to firms offering employment to school leavers. The creation of an appreticeship is not the creation of a job.

To quote: "It requires the Secretary of State, before making the first framework regulations, to report to Parliament on the steps that he has taken to encourage green deal installation apprenticeships." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.134.29 (talk) 18:42, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

References

Changes made

I made a couple of changes to this article due to concerns that it was giving too much attention to trivial stories. There was a section about Berger being the subject of antisemitic abuse from a local man who was convicted and fined; I'm not sure this belongs in the article at all, as it's not really about her, but for now I've cut it down to one line and merged it into the 'Personal life' section.

I've also removed entirely a line about her being voted 'sexiest female MP', which is both entirely trivial and arguably somewhat derogatory. That sort of detail might be worth including in biographies of celebrities like actors and models, but doesn't belong in the biography of a politician. Robofish (talk) 11:40, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

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Lede

The lede is for the most relevant facts in the body. "The lead serves as an introduction to the article and a summary of its most important contents." See wp:lede. Here, the action of the main party, not her action at all, while worth reflecting in the body, is not sufficently relevant to the subject of this bio - Berger herself - to reflect in the lede. There are all manner of more relevant facts in the body, actually reflecting her actions and statements, than this that we do not reflect in the lede. --2604:2000:E010:1100:ED46:DD44:FFC7:C857 (talk) 13:59, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

I would disagree. I think this is pertinent information for the lede as it indicates that there was some controversy at the time of her selection as a prospective MP. Sh emay not have personally caused said controversy, but it occurred nonetheless. Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:57, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Liberal Democrats

I've re-added the part about a member of her team saying she had no intention of joining the Liberal Democrats as it is correctly sourced and fits the criteria for being notable (see WP:GNG). 83.218.151.178 (talk) 10:33, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Anti-Labour commentary

Even after leaving the Labour Party, she has continued her longstanding behaviour of attacks on its leadership, as have most of the others who set up the Change group. I suggest that, almost a year after she left and now that she is in yet another party, we don't need to include such attacks, which will undoubtedly continue. They are not notable but of course are covered by a hostile media. I propose that the following sentence is dropped.

In December 2019, she said the anti-Semitism complaints which had prompted her to leave the Labour Party were still unresolved within the Labour Party. Jontel (talk) 14:14, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Comments a subject makes (be they positive or negative) on the issue they cited when leaving a party, even if months or years later, will be relevant in the context of antisemitic abuse received and/or their decision to leave the party. If, in five years time, the subject made a comment to the effect that she no longer believes x to be an issue in their former party, then that would also be pertinent.

I must admit, I am very troubled by your viewpoint on this issue. It is not for editors to remove content purely because they believe it to be critical of 'their' party. Any content disputes (content additions and removals) must, first and foremost, be based in Wikipedia policy. Articles must be balanced in terms of the prominence given to specific aspects – downplaying certain aspects of a subject's career (or playing up others), purely because you disagree with their stances, runs completely counter to this principle. Domeditrix (talk) 14:39, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

"Hostile media"? I submit that this is may be a case of IDONTLIKEIT. If the media really aren't reliable you would expect RSN to agree. buidhe 09:30, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

I agree with Domeditrix, the reasons for Berger leaving are very important to this article given that it is one of the most notable things she has done. Bellowhead678 (talk) 10:58, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

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