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The change in acronym has been taken up by the recent ICFA Beam Dynamics newsletter, #76, [http://www.icfa-bd.org/Newsletter76.pdf]. On page 10, they state: "Finally, the change of acronym to FFA (referring to Fixed-Field alternating gradient Accelerators). The original acronym brought to mind a perjorative term used against members of the LGBT+ community. We have acknowledged this and followed organisations at SLAC and CERN and possibly elsewhere, that have changed their acronyms. Our Japanese colleagues have led the way in the accelerator world by labelling last year’s workshop FFA’18. I have accordingly tried to use “FFA” only throughout this Newsletter; of course, there should be no attempt to re-write history, so references to published works containing the old acronym remain unaltered. We have found it quite easy to make the change and if we can avoid causing offence at little or no cost to ourselves, there is no reason why we should not do it." <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Boazhsan|Boazhsan]] ([[User talk:Boazhsan#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Boazhsan|contribs]]) 03:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

* <s>'''Oppose'''</s> . I absolutely agree that the page should be moved to reflect the new acronym (FFA), but I don't think that "Fixed Field Accelerator" is the right destination page. As such I support ''a move'' but not ''this move''. The sources listed above all seem to agree that they are called [[Fixed Field alternating gradient accelerator]][s], so perhaps that should be the new page name, with FFA listed as the correct acronym on the page. Another option would be renaming the page to [[FFA (particle accelerator)]], or similar. In fact a redirect from one of those to the other would probably make sense too. It doesn't seem like they are anywhere referred to as simply "Fixed Field Accelerators" (although if they are, in sources I haven't seen, I'd reverse my position and support this move). [[User:Kronhjorten|Kronhjorten]] ([[User talk:Kronhjorten|talk]]) 11:15, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

:* '''Support''' Move to [[Fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator]], per reasons as above (and below) -- [[User:Kronhjorten|Kronhjorten]] ([[User talk:Kronhjorten|talk]]) 20:12, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

* Hello [[User:Kronhjorten|Kronhjorten]], thanks for your comment. I can agree that my original suggestion wasn't ideal. A fixed field accelerator could refer to cyclotrons as well, and we want to capture the concept of an accelerator that uses quadrupoles for focussing. What do you think about [[Fixed Field alternating gradient Accelerator (FFA)]]? I would also agree with your suggestion of [[Fixed Field alternating gradient accelerator]], and then changing the acronym in the article (which will need to be done in any case. I'm not very familiar with this move process, so I appreciate the help in this. [[User:Boazhsan|Boazhsan]] ([[User talk:Boazhsan|talk]]) 19:42, 19 April 2019 (UTC)