Talk:Lustron house

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I believe we should open this page with a better Lustron photo, and not painted one. The Nicolett ave Lustrons are both painted over and this photo should be replaced with a Lustron having original exterior finish-porcelain. Rickster77 (talk) 17:24, 8 August 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickster77 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

People who apparently don't understand the unique features of a Lustron home are editing this page into something meaningless and void of the true color and flavor of the Lustron Home. Someone has removed the important coating information and reduced the description of the Lustron's finish as being "enamel." Enamel is an extremely generic word. This destroys very important descriptive information on the Lustron home. The very essence of the Lustron home was the porcelain enamel (vitreous-glass) coating applied to panels used on the walls, exterior siding and ceiling. It was these baked porcelain panels and the factory to produce them, that were at the roots of the origins of the Lustron home. A baked on porcelain enamel finish is much more expensive and time consuming to produce, and requires far more costly production methods and equipment than sprayed on enamels that are made of organic chemicals such as alkyd, epoxy, latex and urethane coatings/enamels. This distinction is so critical and someone without any knowledge went in and removed this detail from the article.

It is very frustrating to work on Wikipedia anymore. There are too many individuals removing meaningful, rich content from Wikipedia articles, leaving the articles lifeless and incomplete. I live in a Lustron home and have studied all the major written works on the Lustron. Yet someone who apparently doesn't have a thorough understanding of the home is going into this article and removing extremely important, relevant content!! Please, leave material alone unless you are 100% sure of what you are doing. Rickster77 (talk) 17:24, 8 August 2011 (UTC)


 * What you're describing is just one of the inherent qualities of Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it, so there's inevitably a lot of bad edits (not to mention the unending siege of vandalism). The solution is to correct the mistakes; if it results in an edit war, you submit it to conflict resolution, or if that fails, arbitration.
 * Wikipedia grows constantly. Like any garden, it has to be constantly weeded. That's the price you pay for having a resource like this.  Ormewood (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I changed the initial description of the coating of the panels on Lustron houses from "enamel" to "vitreous enamel." Ormewood (talk) 16:48, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

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Current status section...is it necessary?
There is already a separate article titled "List of Lustron houses." It does a much better job of doing what the "Current status" section is attempting to do. It's far more organized and far more complete. It's listed alphabetically by state, with street addresses for almost every house. It even has links for separate articles about individual houses. The "Current status" section of this article, though, is pretty much a train wreck. It's a disorganized, incomplete list which is trying to pass as a coherent paragraph of text, and every person that chimes in with a mention of the houses that they personally know about in the towns they live in just contributes to the sense that it's a collection of individual unrelated sentences thrown together randomly. I tried to clean it up a bit, but after looking at it afterwards I really think it's better just to get rid of it.

I think just deleting an entire section without any consensus is a big step, though, so if anyone has any comments or opinions counter to what I mentioned here, please speak out. I will leave this up for at least a few weeks. If nobody has any objections by that time, I'm going to take the section out. Ormewood (talk) 19:06, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Reworded to only include a notable example. More could be added. Full list is linked. ɱ  (talk) 23:07, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

"Lustron house" vs. "Lustron Home"
The official name of these structures is "Lustron Home," not Lustron house. I can provide TONS of literature that confirms this. Is there any way to change this (and direct "Lustron house" enquiries to "Lustron Home")? 73.255.216.196 (talk) 13:21, 6 October 2022 (UTC)