Talk:Safety of the Large Hadron Collider

Redirect target

I contend that the target for this redirect should be Large Hadron Collider#Safety issues since this covers all aspects of safety at the LHC. Another editor contends that it should go to Safety of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. The name of the latter article was changed specifically in order to clarify that it was not about the general topic of safety and, since the title Safety of the Large Hadron Collider was thought inappropriate for that article, this title should point to a more appropriate place. Colonel Warden (talk) 12:08, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

The only safety issues discussed in the "Large Hadron Collider" article are the "Safety of particle collisions"; the other matters concern operational challenges, delays, one security issue and one accident, which are not "safety issues". Furthermore, it's safe to say that 99% of readers typing "safety of the Large Hadron Collider" in the search field will be looking for information about doomsday black holes and the like. In the case that some reader is looking for information about general safety issues and does a search for "safety of the Large Hadron Collider", the reader will quickly see that "Safety of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider" is not the article he or she is looking for and will look at the "Large Hadron Collider" main article (but of course the reader won't find what he is looking for in that article either). --Phenylalanine (talk) 22:06, 23 September 2008 (UTC)