User talk:Miasnikov

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[edit] June 2008

Hello, Miasnikov! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on [[User talk:Wwheaton (talk) 06:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)|my talk page]], or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Wwheaton (talk) 06:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Talk:Large Hadron Collider, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Wwheaton (talk) 06:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

By and large the editors seem unwilling to let the article be taken over by the safety issues and other non-technical matters. It might be possible (but not easy, I think) to start a new article specifically addressed to such concerns, and have a link to it from the present article, which would thus not lose its focus. Those of us who believe the risk to be negligible would no doubt watch and work to prevent such an article from becoming a dumping ground for nightmare catastrophe scenarios not supported by reliable outside sources, but at least the relevance issue should not be a problem, if a Wiki-acceptable article can be put together.

The funding was of course mainly the same as all CERN's funding over the past 40+ years, with the addition of monies from the non-CERN partners in the LHC. It would be interesting to have more details about the national contributions in the article. Regards, Wwheaton (talk) 06:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)