Talk:TheyWorkForYou

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Barring the addtion of vast amounts of other information on the history and management of this site, I feel it would be more appropriate to add this one-sentence fact to the Hansard article. The site, as the article suggests, seems to be nothing more than a searchable, online version of the Hansard transcripts. A paragraph or so about the site, when it came online, and its usage would fit well within the Hansard article, and we can always break it into a seperate article should a large amount of prose about its history start cropping up.

A redirect seems inappropriate, although I'm not familiar enough with the topic to have any degree of authority on that matter. If this fails to generate much discussion, I'll recommend this site for deletion and add the relevant information to the Hansard article. Consequentially 22:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC) [reply ]

I have actively participated in a major political campaign since 2003 and use the site regularly- though I had no idea it had a Wikipedia entry! Nor perhaps is my useage commonplace. The servers seem faster than Parliament and it shows a small picture of the MP. This is useful for identification after attending debates as the TV screens in Parliament do not always show the individuals names.

I'll update to show other reasons for its existance -but accept this might be a minority of people.

JRPG 10:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC) [reply ]

Prompted by an email from JRPG, I've made a number of additions to this page. I obviously declare an interest as someone working on the site, but hope that anything I've done is purely factual to address the non-notability issue. Dracos 23:30, 7 August 2007 (UTC) [reply ]

There is a curious irony here. TWFY.C is so well indexed by Google that the site won't suffer if it doesn't appear in in Wikipedia. However, outside MP's websites, arguably the the site is most referenced by ..Wikipedia itself! Please identify an MP whose entry in wikipedia does not include a TWFY.C reference -and the editors inserting these references are all different!!! JRPG 19:57, 7 September 2007 (UTC) [reply ]

I agree that TWFY.C is notable, and I think that the current version of the page is well-enough sourced for the notability tag to be removed. For my part, I generally consult TWFY.C as well as WP when looking up MPs and peers, and have just added a TWFY link to the article on Patrick Carter, Baron Carter of Coles.--RichardVeryard (talk) 19:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC) [reply ]

I agree — this is avery notable site — and I have just removed the notability tag. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC) [reply ]

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Just to be open - I volunteer for another MySociety project but not FixMyStreet. I don't get paid anything and I am not a trustee.John Cross (talk) 19:27, 1 August 2011 (UTC) [reply ]

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