Talk:Light fixture/Archives/2013

History
An integral part of the article's beginning should include a breif history of the development and production of light fixtures. While General Electric was a clear leader with lighting, tandum with fixture production, there were other companies who manufactured fixtures as well of incandescent lighting. This is added for fluorescent fixture history as it is an important part of the commercial success of these light fixtures.

All Lighting is not Stage Lighting
I will preface by saying my 15 years of architectural lighting experience is converse to my limited experience in Wikipedia, so forgive me if my terminology to explain my thoughts is all off.

Moving this article into stage lighting is simply backward. Stage lighting is a subset of lighting, thus the reason we have added the qualifier "stage" to the word lighting.

A "flood" and a "spot" in Stage lighting reference the shape of the distribution exiting the luminaire. The same would apply to Architectural lighting. However, a "floodlight" is a completely different animal if we are talking about exterior lighting - be it architectural, area, or sports lighting. See these 3 pages: Architectural Floodlight Area Flood Sports Light All of these are very different products to the lighting industry.

The disambiguation should occur by spawning into different areas. If a reader wants stage lighting information, then they aren't going to care about how the architectural lighting industry describes or uses these products. If they do, then they will see that there are different types of lighting and go that way. Trying to combine it all to make it "clean" just doesn't make sense Ericbikeco (talk) 18:07, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Moved from Talk:Lighting fixture
This article should either be merged into Stage lighting, or have a considerable part of Stage lighting moved into it ColinFine 01:00, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


 * This page can become (or move) to a Stage lighting instruments, within the existing Category:Stage lighting. If moved, this filename can be a disambiguation page for architectural "light" fixture vs. theatrical "lighting" fixture (instruments).


 * The floodlights and spotlights chapters in the Stage lighting article can turn into their own articles, or expand existing ones (e.g.:See main article - Follow spot). The introduction to lighting instruments can stay in Stage lighting, and then the article can focus on the interesting techniques, tools, all the different personnel in stage lighting, and as a gateway to topics and articles in Category:Stage lighting. -- Dogears 04:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree with your proposal to turn this into a Stage lighting instruments, although I don't think that this page has much additional content that's not already present in Stage lighting. I'd like to help with a major re-write of the Stage lighting article, and related topics, although finding the time is going to be tough. I also like your ideas about what to do with the Stage lighting article. Maybe we could even create a stage lighting portal? --Squigish 00:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Revised proposed List of stage lighting instruments to Stage lighting instruments (article)
 * Dogears (talk) 01:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Merge to Stage lighting instruments
I see no problem with using this page for a disambiguation between architectural and theatrical fixtures. This article has nothing that Stage lighting instrument doesn't already have, and Stage lighting instrument is contains much more information. This article could just become a disambiguation without merging (what is there to merge?) JWGreen 01:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It's done, in accordance with WP:BB. Please discuss any objections or comments.

multiple (two typically) twists/clicks lamps need explanation
There's a thread on physics forums that'll come up high in search results but nothing for wikipedia. There is no real good definitive explanation that I can find. The idea of turning on separate filaments, but I don't know how that would work with the Edison screw. There's nothing linked from this page that has any info on how the multiple twist/click system works, and I'm sure many wonder. Help us, Wikipedia! --TIB (talk) 08:26, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Study lamp
I suggest an article about study lamps.--Nudecline (talk) 23:17, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

"Light socket" redirect
Why does "light socket" redirect here, when the page doesn't mention them? 114.75.231.186 (talk) 03:55, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Light sockets are mentioned in the article. The light socket is such a simple device, that a single sentence in the introduction sums it up pretty well. Unless we were to write a history of light sockets (which is a rich history), the existing mention in the article is enough information for Wikipedia I believe. If you want to find out more information on old light sockets, then try http://antiquesockets.com, the forum at which I am a member of. [&#124;Retro00064&#124;&#9742;talk&#124;&#x270D;contribs&#124;] 03:07, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think at the time I was looking for a list of common light fittings (ie. the socket and the part at the bottom of the bulb) - perhaps I got the terminology wrong. 203.122.243.111 (talk) 03:33, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * You can try looking in Category:Electrical connectors, which is the category that most, if not all of the articles on light bulb connectors were moved in to. Radiojon's old organization was confusing, making it seem like "light socket" referred to the base of light bulbs (instead of the electrical device on lamps), so I rewrote the old Light socket article to be more about what the name refers to. Then, an other user started discussion with me over that article's notability, so now we have it like it is now. Radiojon had also moved all of the articles on light bulb connectors in to the old Category:Light sockets, which got deleted, and the articles moved back to close to their original categories.


 * If it would help, then we could make a sub-category of Category:Electrical connectors just for light bulb connectors, etc., if that would help group the articles in to one place. Regards. [&#124;Retro00064&#124;&#9742;talk&#124;&#x270D;contribs&#124;] 04:59, 9 February 2011 (UTC)