Talk:Jack Straw

message: As with many political pages, this one has issues with the tone employed throughout. Pages on any topic where the writer is likely to be employed by, or a fan and follower of the subject can veer towards making them the everyman protagonist in a drama! Instead it's supposed to be factual and neutral. I'll amend the expenses paragraph for this reason. The content regarding Craig Murray; allegations of complicity in torture (about which there's much to include), and his election activity, to be completely frank, certainly reads as if it was written by an aide - apologies if this isn't the case, but I'm sure people would agree that the tone is inappropriate. If you have any suggested amendments, or think I've made it too dryly factual, then feel free to let me know. Marty jar (talk) 18:33, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As I noted above, the pages of politicians have a reputation of being marketing tools, making them sound like a stereotypical action-hero-cum-everyman, like Vladimir Putin with charisma. In this example there's a great deal which doesn't meet Wiki's requirements of neutrality. A section I removed some months ago has returned a couple of times now - a sentence explaining that Straw (the high profile politician) is known to campaign vigorously around election times(!) If somebody can make a case for that now having been added to the article at least three times, then feel free to put forward the argument to the contrary.Marty jar (talk) 21:20, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: General Tone

message: I beleive that he is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society but I could find no mention of this in the article.  Can this be added as I think it is a high achievement and an important qualification.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.247.57 (talk) 17:09, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can find some sort of source - something online that's half reliable for example - then please either add the link to the source here or add to the article with the source. We can always sort out any formatting for the source afterwards. Blue Square Thing (talk) 18:39, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I’ve looked into this further and it seems that being a Fellow of the RSS is not a professional qualification (this is covered by being a chartered statistician) and so it is not actually such a high achievement.  Furthermore I have checked the List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 – 2007 and could not find his name.  This web site:  does however state his membership.  I do not have any direct evidence of his status as a fellow, but a look on the web does show he has a keen interest in statistics and I think this needs to be mentioned in the article.90.208.247.57 (talk) 10:30, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Statistical Society. 

message: The detailed report by the standard committee should NOT go in the wp:Lede.  This is important but the correct procedure is to put a brief summary in the lead and the rest in a more detailed section later.  I've made 2 attempts to do this & both have been overwritten. JRPG (talk) 19:57, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
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