Talk:Spallation Neutron Source
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[edit] Miss Charlie Horakcm
Horakcm is invited to justify his/her cavalier edit to this article. Did a gallery of eight photographs and a collection of external links count for nothing? Note to both Horakcm and Scottfisher - all your photographs require copyright tags. Unless you are both private pilots, the aerial photos are definitely not yours. -- RHaworth 02:32:05, 2005-07-28 (UTC)
- Scott Fisher and I both work for SNS, and, as the communications contact and technical writer for SNS, I was requested to edit this article by the director of SNS. Scott is aware of this. Also, because we are a U.S. government agency, all of the photographs were paid for by U.S. tax payer funds and are considered to be in the public domain. Horakcm (Charlie)
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- Thanks. That's all I wanted, just a few words of explanation - a note in the edit summary would have been enough. You have not answered the question - why is Charlie's version better than Scott's and why can't we have all the pictures? This is Wikipedia - we (that is Wikipedians except Charlie and Scott!) do not have to do what the director of SNS says. But I will leave the two of you to fight it out. It is no use telling us here that the photos are public domain - you must put that info on the image description pages, eg. Image:Sns_aerial_1717_april_2005_sm.jpg. -- RHaworth 09:43:30, 2005-07-30 (UTC)
Charlie, Not a problem here;
Presently in San Jose Ca. silicon valley on vacation.
Indeed you are our best!
I worked hard with Roger on the page. RHaworth
Wikipedia is open to the whole world, and anyone can modify as long as it's not garbage, and valid, Etc..
(I like what you did, as always.) See you back at work next week. Scott
Scottfisher Fri July 29, 2005. 14:45 Pacific Standard Time
[edit] Many Thanks
to Roger RHaworth and Miss Charlie, for making this page not only available for easier understanding but also for the scientific community and comman laymen to digest. Also grateful to Wikipedia.
[edit] Article name
Isn't the article name misleading? "Spallation Neutron Source" sounds like a general article on spallation neutron sources, but it is actually about a specific institution. Alternatively, the article name could be taken as implying that there is only one spallation neutron source. As an alternative name, I suggest: "Spallation Neutron Source, ORNL, USA" --Anthony Duff 03:06, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
- I think it's fine, note the use of caps. There are potentially other Relativistic Heavy Ion Colliders and Large Hadron Colliders, no? I would put general info under spallation neutron source, neutron spallation, or just spallation. - mako 09:51, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
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- I agree, the spallation article serves well as the generic one discussing the process, this one (with caps) is specific to the US SNS, and, as far as I know, this name is unique. The only possible confusion I can see would be with the Japanese Spallation Neutron Source (JSNS), which currently doesn't have an article (hmm, I'll see what I can do about that). -- Kaszeta 14:28, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Alchemy?
I removed this:
- The liquid Mercury target of the SNS will be transmuted into Gold , Platinum and Iridium which are lower in atomic number on the periodic chart of elements.
I suppose it's possible, but SNS's site doesn't make mention of it. Rather, it says: "When a high-energy proton bombards a heavy atomic nucleus, causing it to become excited, 20 to 30 neutrons are expelled." The other contribs of 24.164.121.106 (talk ยท contribs) are also in the same vein. - mako 20:04, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
