Talk:Space Mirror Memorial
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I have 10 images of this mirror and memorial that I would gladly let somebody integrate into this article, or I could attempt to do so... sbuckley 13:22, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Page move
This first came to my attention when I noticed on the Recent changes page that User:66.109.95.6 was changing (correctly) "Astronaut Memorial Foundation" to "Astronauts Memorial Foundation". I first thought this page should be moved to Astronauts Memorial, but looking into it further, this site seems to indicate that the official name is the Space Mirror Memorial. There are many, many different minor variations that appear on various government and press sites, but this seems to be the "official" name. I suggest a page move to Space Mirror Memorial, with redirects from Astronauts Memorial, Astronaut Memorial, Astronauts' Memorial, and National Space Mirror Memorial.
I would be happy to do it myself, including the gruntwork of fixing 15 double re-directs, but I don't want to be bold if, after all that work, someone has a problem with the move and wants to revert. Any comments? Does anybody mind? Does anybody actually have this page on their watchlist? --barneca (talk) 19:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. The foundation that runs the memorial appears clearly be the "Astronauts Memorial Foundation" and they consistently refer to the memorial itself as the "Space Mirror Memorial" in their materials. One twist, according to the [Spring 2007 newsletter], it is the "National Space Mirror Memorial". Are there any other citations for that longer name? Rillian
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- Rats. Until you found that, everything else I'd seen from that group either used "Space Mirror Memorial" or "national Space Mirror Memorial", so I felt comfortable assuming the "national" was descriptive, rather than official. Not quite sure what to do now; I've looked thru many NASA and other gov't sites, and there is absolutely no standard reference (some NASA sites just use Astronaut Memorial). Due to redirects, it doesn't matter too much, but if I'm going to the trouble (not sure why, now that i think about it) I'd like to get it right the first time. I'll poke around some more. --barneca (talk) 20:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- After further poking, I suggest sticking with Space Mirror Memorial, with lots of redirects. It seems obvious from the Foundation's site that some form of this is more appropriate than some form of Astronaut Memorial; the vast majority of times it is referred to, the "national" is either lowercase, or missing; it is never referred to as "Space Mirror National Memorial", which would make more sense if it truly was part of the name; and it's not listed either way, as far as I can tell, on the National Register of Historic Places, which in my mind would have been the tiebreaker. I'm comfortable now interpreting all this to mean the official name is Space Mirror Memorial, which has been designated a National Memorial. No rush, I'll see if anyone else shows up with an opinion. --barneca (talk) 20:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- Rats. Until you found that, everything else I'd seen from that group either used "Space Mirror Memorial" or "national Space Mirror Memorial", so I felt comfortable assuming the "national" was descriptive, rather than official. Not quite sure what to do now; I've looked thru many NASA and other gov't sites, and there is absolutely no standard reference (some NASA sites just use Astronaut Memorial). Due to redirects, it doesn't matter too much, but if I'm going to the trouble (not sure why, now that i think about it) I'd like to get it right the first time. I'll poke around some more. --barneca (talk) 20:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. I am User:66.109.95.6 who started these recent edits, and that sounds good to me. Incidentally, I saw the mirror in operation early on, and the sun tracking mechanism was really neat. I was brokenhearted when they decided not to fix it -- it was a really neat feature...
