Talk:Science and Technology Facilities Council

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[edit] SciTech

I've never heard of Science and Technology Facilities Council being called SciTech. STFC maybe, but never SciTech. I don't think either of these nicknames should be on this page - a small number of people informally refering to an organisation by a nickname doesn't warrant a wikipedia entry. The text implies everyone in or associated with the council knows this alternative name. That's not true so it's not relevant for an encylopedia. J bellingham 15:12, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

You may never have heard them refered to as SciTech, but I do, regularly. I don't work for the Council, instead I am at University, studying Physics, and Rutherford is often mentioned when placement years are discussed, and pretty much whenever it's mentioned, so is 'SciTech', not the STFC, or anything similar. It would appear to me, (assuming that you do work for the council), that this is one of those rare circumstances when the nickname is widely used outside the organisation, but not within it. _TheIslander 17:38, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I broke a protocol by deleting without the discussion first - I wasn't sure if any discussions here are notified to editors on the page. I do work for the Council. I manage a large EC funded project so have lots of European contacts. I also manage a group for new graduates and students in RAL and so I meet nearly all the placement students. I have honestly never heard of SciTech and still don't think it should be re-added to the entry. J bellingham 22:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I also work at STFC and have contact with several partner organisations and I agree with J bellingham, I have never heard Scitech being used, it is always referred to as "STFC". pffinch 18:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I also work at STFC, it's always STFC - no-one ever calls it the "science and technology facilities council" day to day. try saying that quickly! I've never heard the phrase scitech used to describe it, but if it is used by HEIs etc then why not mention it as such? rog (talk) 17:05, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi - I work for STFC too and i have heard it called scitech, although this name is not commonly used. In fact the web-site http://www.stfc.ac.uk is also http://www.scitech.ac.uk/. A google search for scitech also gives STFC as the first result. Its certainly not just a nickname. However, as is becoming increasingly obvious over the past few months, just because you may work for STFC doesn't mean you necessarily know how it conducts its business, so i may be completly wrong about all of this :o) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.79.162.143 (talk) 10:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I've never heard it called scitech and I spend a lot of time at RAL and Daresbury and even occasionally at Swindon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.66.176.5 (talk) 09:10, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Budget cuts

I think the budget cuts should be mentioned but this is an encloypedia - it's not meant to be a platform for current political debate in a subjective tone. Now your MP, that's another matter. J bellingham (talk) 12:33, 13 December 2007 (UTC)