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This note to record that some issues/questions about alternative names for the site, reflecting some info in recent back-and-forth edits and edit summaries, in which Orlady and i were trying to get it right. It seems some more references would be needed to cover all alternative names; this note to record the issue for someone else later to address perhaps.
It is usual in wikipedia articles to state alternative names for a given site in the intro. Guidelines at Wikipedia:Official names covers this, and note various issues including that there may be competing official names for the same site. Currently this article is named X-10 Graphite Reactor and the intro includes former or alternative names Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile. I added redirects as necessary so those alternatives redirect to this article. For this article, X-10 Reactor is another official name for the site, as the official name of the NHL program and of the NRHP program. More specifically those programs both use X-10 Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I added a redirect from X-10 Reactor to this article. "X-10 Reactor" is not now stated as an alternative name for the site, although the full long name is (properly) given as the title of the NRHP/NHL infobox. Orlady has noted that "X-10 Reactor" may be a misnomer, because X-10 may refer to the larger site which includes or included other reactors. I tried editing in the following, suggesting: "It has also been referred to as the X-10 Reactor although X-10 describes the larger site, including other reactors." but that was removed, as possibly being wp:OR.
For the future:
I think it would improve the article to include some statement about the X-10 larger site, if that is different than just this reactor. Such statement could usefully include mention of how many reactors are in the larger site. Relationship of the site to the whole Oak Ridge National Laboratory (is X-10 the whole thing, or are there other numbered sites within the whole laboratory?) could be clarified.
It could improve compliance with wikipedia MOS to state the alternative name X-10 Reactor in the article intro. Such mention could include a footnote or other clarification that X-10 Reactor is technically a misnomer, if it is.
The official NHL/NRHP name X-10 Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory should remain in the NHL/NRHP infobox, as that is the NHL/NRHP title.
Note, if the NHL/NRHP name is in fact a misnomer, it would be possible to notify the NHL/NRHP programs and inform them of their error. I have previously notified them of other name misstatements in NHL program webpages about other sites. In at least two cases where there were quite blatant errors, the NHL names were corrected by the NHL program.
That's all for now, i am happy to leave this now. doncram (talk) 19:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
