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A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion edit
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Better photo edit
We should find a better photo at some point. This one is blurred and leaves her face half in the dark. Jontel (talk) 16:08, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
"Controversies" edit
WP:CSECTION makes it clear we should avoid a controversies section, as we did with for example Change UK. Are we to remove this section? KarstenO (talk) 17:47, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Removing a questionable sentence edit
For biographies of living persons, Wikipedia ask that they are balanced and avoid guilt by association WP:BLPBALANCE. This might be an issue for the sentence referencing the killing of Israeli athletes at Munich.
For convenience, the sentence reads ‘’ The newspaper (i.e. The Jewish Chronicle) noted that in 2018, on Sky News, Shaheen had defended Corbyn's attendance at a ceremony in 2014, in which a photo appeared to show him standing opposite the graves of Atef Bseiso and Salah Khalaf, two senior Palestine Liberation Organization officers who had been accused of links to a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, which had killed 11 Israelis.’’
The context is that Corbyn was attending a conference about Palestine in Tunis with multi-party British parliamentarians and visited the cemetery with other conference delegates for a ceremony commemorating those killed in the Israeli bombing of the PLO headquarters in Tunis nine years earlier, a bombing condemned by the United Nations Security Council and the governments of the United States, Tunisia and Egypt.
Shaheen, who was a newly selected Labour parliamentary candidate, was interviewed on television in 2018 and, when asked about the recent Daily Mail article referenced above, expressed the Labour party position which was that Corbyn, who was party leader at the time of the interview and under multiple attacks from the media, condemned the Munich attack and had laid a wreath at the memorial of those killed in the bombing, not at the nearby graves of the two assassinated PLO officers.
Without going into the details of everything further, which is covered in other articles, I suggest that Shaheen expressing the official party position and defending the party leader in a TV news interview is what politicians generally do and is not noteworthy, so we should drop the sentence from her article. Keeping it, especially without any of the context enabling an understanding of the disputed events, seems to me to engender guilt by association and is unbalanced with respect to her biography. Jontel (talk) 17:11, 26 February 2024 (UTC)