Talk:Caroline Spelman

message: Caroline my local GP advised me to contact you regarding a matter which I would like to discuss with you. Regards Serena  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.121.44 (talk) 14:13, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an encyclopedia, not a means of contacting its subjects. Try www.theyworkforyou.com --Jameboy (talk) 12:41, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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message: Breaking news is that Caroline Spelman's teenage son has said he is "deeply sorry" for taking banned drugs after a judge ended a privacy injunction preventing the story being published. This is not directly related to Caroline Spelman and is mainly notable because of the privacy injunction. I'm 50-50 about whether this is relevant enough for the article as it is currently a news story.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This would never have been a big news story without the injunction. There are also some WP:BLP issues as Jonny Spelman is under 18 years old. Unlike Jack Straw's son who was taken by his father to the police station in 1997 after selling an undercover reporter £10 of cannabis  it does not appear that Jonny Spelman has done anything illegal. The personal possession and use of anabolic steroids is legal in the UK (unlike the USA or Australia) although it does fail the RFU's guidelines. This article is primarily a biography of Caroline Spelman, not a discussion of the rights and wrongs of steroid use. To avoid concentrating on controversies which could lead to WP:RECENTISM, it would be best to give this a few days to settle down. Incidentally, the article Jack Straw does not mention the 1997 incident at all.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 07:01, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This certainly should be discussed, as a "six-figure" legal expenditure is big news in the lives of most people, and the issues of publicity, politics, and freedom of the press overshadow even that.  I do not support having a separate article because it should be properly detailed in this one.  By properly detailed I mean without neglecting the details of the story, including the inclusion of appropriate "exculpatory" information that can be sourced, such as that the steroid use is legal in the UK and only banned by the rules of a league in which the boy couldn't apparently play due to his injury. Wnt (talk) 23:32, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The "six-figure" sum is a media estimate. It is known for a fact that the Spelmans' costs were £60,994  and they will have to pay the costs of the Daily Star Sunday as well . This means that the costs will almost certainly top £100,000, but the exact figure is not known.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 06:27, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow.  Now that's the kind of detail we should have in the article.  I don't believe in government injunctions against newspapers, and apparently they're not a tool for the poor or the faint of heart! Wnt (talk) 17:09, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

text: While we're at it, does anyone have the nitty-gritty about the actual substances involved?  I've called them "commonly available supplements" in my recent edit  because Caroline Spelman said only "banned substance" and the headline might use, shall we say, a sensationalistic notion of what a 'drug' is.  I've left out "steroid" because again, this has different meanings - anabolic versus anything vaguely related to cholesterol - and I think it might be unnecessarily pejorative.  The article referenced after this says it is "widely available on the Internet" - I'm going to assume, for now, legally.  My guess is he was taking something you'd never think twice about being a banned drug, and that's why he hobbled in to take the drug test without a second thought, but I could be wrong.  The actual identity of the stuff would really help solidify the context, even if it is only suitable for a footnote.  (I noticed someone linked to a RFU statement about Methylhexaneamine/DMAA, but that's not a steroid by even the remotest definition! Wnt (talk) 17:35, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the RFU has not completed its investigation, it is not clear exactly how Jonathan Spelman failed the test or what drugs he took. The Telegraph story says that it was steroids, but the specifics may have to wait until the RFU findings are published.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:39, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

text: RFU has now completed its investigation, so I have added the detail. This is highly pertinent information, given the lengths to which Ms Spelman has gone to keep facts from the electorate. Given that the injunction was lifted, we have legal authority to publish what Ms Spelman was trying to hide.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.3.46.198 (talk) 15:19, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a WP:BLPNAME issue here. Also, the article is primarily about Caroline Spelman.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 15:31, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
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message: Is it worth noting that she speaks excellent German. I saw her interviewed here: 
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