Talk:Leo Rafael Reif

Deleted a reference to Aaron Swartz
Regarding the reference to Aaron Swartz: I deleted a reference to Aaron Swartz in the intro. As mentioned in the edit summary, it was in the introduction, even though there was no content on it in the actual article. If you feel it is important, then it would make sense to first have a section on it, or a mention of it in another section. Only then, after that, if it is deemed extremely important, would it also deserve an additional mention in the intro. With that said, I do not think you will convince many objective people that it is worthy of any mention in this article, let alone in the intro. Of course, this is coming from an MIT IP address (I am a grad student), so please, others, weigh in. I would first raise the argument that Rafael Reif was not president when this happened. Susan Hockfield was. There is no mention of this in her article. Reif has much less relevance to this than Hockfield did, so it stands to reason that Hockfield's article content sets a precedent for this. This also appears nowhere in the main MIT article, which also has a greater connection to the Aaron Swartz situation than Reif did. I know a lot of people are upset about MIT's actions involving Aaron Swartz, but I think it would require a great deal of explanation and agreement to argue that it is worthy of mention in Reif's biography. Should we mention all the MIT student suicides that occurred at MIT during the presidency for each MIT president? Some of them received considerable press. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.111.13.158 (talk) 20:45, 5 March 2013 (UTC)


 * There is now a reference to Aaron Swartz in the "Personal Life" section of the article, where it also does not make sense. It could be appropriate or not to have a section about Swartz (I'm not qualified to judge about that), but it definitely is not a part of the "personal life" of the subject of this article. 138.238.254.109 (talk) 19:55, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

AAAS update
I added that L. Rafael Reif is an elected member of the AAAS and provided a citation to AAAS's membership roster. Shannonmccord (talk) 14:58, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

External link in opening paragraph
I'm a new Wikipedian. I noticed that this article has a link where it says "president" in the first paragraph, and the link goes to the person's webpage at the university. Is this a normal/accepted practice? Fact Checkmater (talk) 06:44, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * No, this is non-standard. I've removed it. Links like this should go in the "external links" section. Thanks for asking! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:18, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

News that Reif is to step down
There was a new article that just came out, saying that Reif is stepping down as president of MIT at the end of 2022. I think that this is relevant to this article, but I don't know how to incorporate it.

https://news.mit.edu/2022/rafael-reif-to-step-down-mit-president-0210 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.29.29.215 (talk) 15:50, 10 February 2022 (UTC)