Talk:Ancient oil lamp

Merge
I don't see the need to have a separate "Ancient oil lamp" article; why can't the info be covered in the "oil lamp" article? Unless there is a pressing reason for different articles, I suggest material be merged into the long existing "oil lamp" article. -- Infrogmation 16:12, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Infrogmation I created this article as a separate one because of the following reasons,


 * 1. The term oil Lamp encompasses both ancient lamps and lamps in current use, or ones used in the last century which can not be termed ancient. Thus the title oil lamp is very comprehensive. This article aims at a particular group of oil lamps which are ancient from prehistory to byzantine times. The type of oil lamps we see in museums and that are bought by antique collectors.


 * 2. It is clear from the atttempt to write the article oil lamp that it is difficult to adequately describe all sorts of oil lamps, modern and new, in one article. Such an article will be too general and we wil still need to grow branches from it for each category.


 * 3. ancient oil lamp stand out as a sunject separated from all other forms of oil lamps. It is a big subject in archaeology. It is a subject by itself.


 * Thus my openion is that we leave the article oil lamp the way it is, as a general introduction to oil lamps. And to create separate articles for ancient oil lamp; which I did, and modern oil lamp, and oil lamp in art and so on.


 * actually the article I started;ancient oil lamp is a too general term in itself. Future additions will make us create separate article stemming from it, like Samarian oil lamp, Greek Oil Lamp for example. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thameen (talk • contribs).


 * Yes, they should be merged. The oil lamp is an ancient technology, and anyone reading oil lamp will be expecting to read about ancient oil lamps. The existence of modern curiosities and replicas deserves brief mention, but does not change that fact. The only truly modern thing that is commonly (albeit erroneously) referred to as an oil lamp is the kerosene lamp. Mkweise 14:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the merger, under the name oil lamp. While it's true in principle that oil lamps, as a topic, is much more comprehensive than ancient oil lamps, in practice the oil lamp article is pretty sparse compared to the ancient oil lamp article. I recommend:


 * 1) Merge the two into oil lamps (with most of the content coming from the current ancient oil lamp)
 * 2) Make ancient oil lamp a redirect

If you want to make separate articles for particular kinds of oil lamps, go for it, using the standard main template to point at the new articles from the main article (e.g. or  ).

Waitak 07:12, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree to the merge. I hope some more experienced member can do it, I never did article merges before. Thanks --Thameen 15:18, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll give it a try, but I won't be able to get to it for a while yet. --Waitak 00:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Lamp symbolism?
where is the symbolism of lamps? 134.193.168.223 00:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC)