Talk:Will Straw

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I vote to edit and merge with the article on Jack Straw (politician). While I firmly agree that Will Straw himself isn't notable enough to warrant an entry, his antics have probably cost the elder Straw politically; that is notable. --Mitsukai 17:15, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

This page was created in good faith but has become a vanity page. I second Mitsukai's proposal. Furthermore, Lincolnite, who seems to consider himself custodian of this article despite having not been in Oxford at the time Straw was president of OUSU, seems determined to blank any additions to this article which he believes to not be complimentary to Straw. The truth is Will Straw was a very controversial president of OUSU, who brough a considerable amount of bad will onto himself and the organisation he was elected to lead. This needs to be referred to in a NPOV way, which I have tried to do. I speak as one who was in the university at the same time as Straw. --82.35.78.232 14:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

GOLD PAINTED FEES PROTESTS - another used deleted refs to this, I have restored them - not only was Straw's involvement in these reported in a national newspaper, I can also vouch for the fact they occured as I was present. --213.121.207.34 09:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletion discussion
How is this guy worthy of a page? He is famous for being Jack Straw's son. What is he notable for?

I agree and am in favour of deletion, with the important bits being merged into the article for his father Jack Straw. --SandyDancer 15:54, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

this is a highly tendentious entry but the material that would be required to provide a more balanced and less hostile presentation of the facts is essentially Oxford University Student Union arcana of no possible interest even to 99% of those who were at Oxford at the time. it would be preferable to delete it until such a time as this becomes a subject of genuine enough public interest for people to expend energy on correcting these biases.

20 March 2012 hmmm... I disagree and think it's odd not to have a page for this scion of numptiness. The whole point is that nepotism and dynasties are alive and well and functioning in the UK: wishing such phenomena away won't get rid of them. Having said that, Willie-Boy-Straw, son of Jacky-Boy-Straw, may have talent... or at the least there may be people who believe he has qualities. But a Wikipedia biog should be about facts... and I think this boy has enough of a "media profile", for wrong or for very wrong, to justify a short entry on Wikipedia... PLUS: he isn't actually mentioned AT ALL on the Jack Straw page, despite having this redirect there... hilarious: the media politics of Wikipedia, and the coyness of familial links
 * Ten years on, I also think this page ought to be deleted -  CBE or no CBE (Jesus wept)! Valetude (talk) 17:03, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Disagree - he's worthy of a page since not only was he a politician's son, but also made headlines in the UK (and probably abroad) because of his arrest while his father was Home Secretary. I searched for a wikipedia page on him after reading a historical piece about the arrest. Enough said. Indieshack (talk) 17:57, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

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