Talk:University of Westminster

Jihadi John, Washington Post

I'm no good at altering wikipedia entries, but could someone please add an entry about this university is notorious for the creation of radical Islamist terrorists. You could quote the Washington Post article listed here as a source:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jihadi-john-a-graduate-of-my-radical-university/2015/02/27/2e36ea64-bde4-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html

I can't believe this hasn't been added already. There must be thousands of people coming to wikipedia to find information and links to Westminster University and its connection to international Islamic terrorism but there isn't any mention of it. Surely this warrants as relevant information given Westminster University has appeared on numerous TV and newspaper articles? The fact that its embarrassing to the Uni should not prevent it from being prominently displayed, as terrorism has become the University's biggest and most famous export. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.171.246 (talk) 10:07, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

The University has apparently taken some significant measures to counter the nagative publicity:

• "increased the limitations imposed on public meetings organised by staff and students, and moved to cancel events that it deemed "at risk"".
• "suspended all ‘sensitive’ events"

Malaiya (talk) 03:39, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Boosterism

There is a great deal of boosterism being added in recent edits of this articles lead:

• removal of reference to its history as a polytechnic - the lead should summarise the article, not change history (Westminister didn't receive a charter until 1992)
• links to Oxbridge and Westminster School, not apparent in source
• boosterism of the university rankings which are favourable, most sourced to the university itself!

Find reliable sources if you are going to make bold statements which may not be believable, WP:RS, the university is not a reliable source. Please also read WP:UNIGUIDE, the style guide for university articles. Aloneinthewild (talk) 22:11, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Hah! Just got an edit conflict and saw you'd made all the same edits :) . Bromley86 (talk) 22:21, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Notable people

Ezra Pound and Cherie Blair are both featured prominently as notable people, but on checking the List of University of Westminster alumni, neither appear on that page. So, on checking Cherie Blairs page the information about her training to be a barrister at the institution is not supported by source. The mention of the institution on Ezra Pounds page is about a temporary job as a lecturer, where it also gives details of his graduation at Hamilton College and then MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. There is nothing on the criteria for inclusion of notable persons in WP:UNIGUIDE but simply having a short term job for a few weeks doesn't suggest that Pound is sufficiently affiliated with the institution to create a link of this nature? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoga Mat (talk • contribs) 01:25, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Smoke Radio

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result was merge. Raymie (t • c) 20:05, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

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As it currently stand it only has one notable reference in the Guardian. The subject is already mentioned on the University article Aloneinthewild (talk) 17:10, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

With only one notable reference and most of the article describing its inseparable connection with the University I support the merge. Poltair (talk) 20:37, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.