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This isn't my field at all, so hopefully someone else who knows who to judge sources can add some of the relevant details from those links. HTH. -- Quiddity (talk) 16:55, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That encyclopedia article troubles me. Equating a clean room with a white room is misleading. The terms are sometimes used interchangeably in the media and they both refer to rooms where some effort is made to keep the environment clean but the levels of cleanliness is very very different. Dictionaries equate the terms as well but ISO doesn't. A cleanroom must meet a graduated requirement scale measuring the size and number of particles in the air. A white room doesn't need to meet those requirements. Electronics manufactures and pharmaceutical companies will list their clean rooms and their white rooms separately for this reason.
I know of no reason to capitalize "white room". There are many white rooms on many service structures. The only reason its capitalized in the article here is that it's a section name. Have you seen NASA documents that capitalize it as "White Room" ?
The Boston Globe photo is a great one and appears to be a NASA photo. I'd include it in the article but its a bit big and the white room isn't really the subject of the photo. Other better photos must exist. Incidentally, the white room in that photo is now on display at the Kansas Cosmodrome. If anyone has visited there and would like to share a photo, it would make a great addition to tha article.--RadioFan (talk) 17:46, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding capitalization, the item I linked to above ([1]) says "An environmentally controlled chamber, known as the White Room, is at the end of the arm ..." but I haven't read much else, so could not say whether they consistently use both capitalization styles. -- Quiddity (talk) 02:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
All lowercase seems most appropriate to me. --RadioFan (talk) 22:16, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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