Talk:Nigel Lockyer

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proposal to remove majority of "Fermilab" section

The "Fermilab" section of Nigel Lockyer's page was introduced with the edit for this diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nigel_Lockyer&diff=702976938&oldid=701999638

Please note that the ip address for the edit (131.225.19.238) is allocated to "Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory".

When taking the source and tone of the edits into account, this section comes across as vainglorious. For example here are some selections from it:

"Fermilab has the most powerful neutrino beams in the world"
"LBNF would be the most powerful tool in the world to study neutrinos"
"the highest priority domestic construction project."

Much of the language is aspirational:

"Fermilab will improve its Short-Baseline Neutrino Program with three detectors"
"construction at Fermilab is scheduled to be completed between 2024 and 2026"
"Construction of an underground is expected to be completed in 2023" (they are still just excavating and have been since 2017...).

Within the aspirational language, we have an intention of convincing the reader that everything is going fine when referencing projects that are incomplete e.g.:

"making great progress towards its goal of a major leap in our understanding"

It's clear that the edits were posted with little review as typos have remained since 2016 (still present in 2023): "intense bean of neutrinos"

Given that there is already a wikipedia page for Fermilab, and the lack of citations for much of the details mentioned in the section being directly because of Lockyer's leadership, and that much of the information in the section is out of date (often due to timelines that have been pushed back several times under Lockyer's leadership), I suggest that the Fermilab section in this page be replaced with a short paragraph that states that Nigel Lockyer was the director of the site from 2013 to 2021, accompanied by a link to the full article on Fermilab.

Perhaps a list of the major projects that were begun or finished during his leadership would also be appropriate. Antialias (talk) 16:43, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]