Talk:witness panel

Deletion debate
Any idiomatic meaning that anyone can think of? Mglovesfun (talk) 13:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes in fact but I couldn't track it down. I was watching a Discovery Channel show on demolitions where they set up a detonation wrapped in a material designed to contain the exploding fragments. To show how well it worked they set up nearby a large panel of flimsy material, perhaps polystyrene foam. The idea is that if anything escaped the containment it would easily damage this panel. This was described as a "witness panel".
 * Searching the Internet I could find hits but not enough to come up with a definition. And of course there were lots more hits that illustrated a courtroom sense also exists, which is probably more sum-of-parts than the demolition sense. &mdash; hippietrail 11:11, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Now that ht mentions it I have heard this sense of "witness" in some technical contexts, I think. A physical thing, like a board, that is used to record a chalk-line impact, a high-water level, a pencil or scribe mark, etc. It corresponds to sense 4 of witness. That sense would benefit from some usage examples or citations.
 * But a "witness panel" as defined in the entry is just a panel consisting of witnesses, entirely analogous to a truck convoy. delete. DCDuring TALK 17:23, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * A third opinion would be nice. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:41, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Deleted anyway. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:42, 1 March 2010 (UTC)