Talk:Allen Telescope Array
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Just learning Wiki stuff. Starting 'improvements" on ATA, for which I led the design effort. --CommonModeNoise 05:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
ATA a failure?
Clearly there are differences of opinion on the success or failure of the ATA to date. Let's discuss this here. In general I prefer, for example, '1 year behind' to 'far behind'. Whether a 1 year delay is a failure or not is in the eye of the beholder. For example, the Green Bank telescope was several years late, but eventually worked and is not considered a failure.
Likewise I think the budget comparison is legit - ATA is a low cost project, with very thin margins for unexpected problems.
Also, adding 'when and if completed' to a target in the future adds very little. These adjectives always apply to any projected date.
LouScheffer 04:59, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Sources
Do you know of any publically available source for the ATA status that is more recent than July 2006? LouScheffer 16:38, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Copyright violation
User:CommonModeNoise appears to be officially associated with the array, and has edited the page, when it had much of the same content. Perhaps he/she can pursue getting permission? I will also write the SETI Institute and ask as well. LouScheffer 05:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
OK, I wrote the SETI Institute, who replied with their permission, as follows: To Whom It May Concern:
This email is to permit re-use under the GFDL of the article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Telescope_Array which is similar to materials published at the SETI Institute's website at: http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=179004
Please reply if there is further clarification for this permission is required. Edna DeVore
so it should be OK to put the page back, LouScheffer 18:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I strongly object to the assertion that the content of this page as having been lifted from http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=179004, to the contrary, I wrote most of the content for this page in 2005 (note the history of the page, June 2005), using the 2005 NSF proposal as source material with the permission of the research scentist G. Bower at the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at UC Berkeley. The RAL is acting as a sub-contractor to the SETI Inst for the ATA. It was a web editor at the SETI Institute that lifted the content of this page wholesale with no credit to the original wikipedia page (this one). I want this clarified by a change in the copyright notice above. -- Jcolbyk 16:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the Copywrite access notice from this page. As stated on 22 Nov 2006, this page was an original work by me and any claim by the web page editor at SETI is in error and it is in fact their responsibility to credit the original wikipedia page, not the other way around. Jcolbyk 23:35, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Updating summary so that history shows what's happened with the previous edit