Talk:Manhole

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I restored this article to "Manhole." I, too, support society's use of gender-neutral language, but Wikipedia uses the most common name for a subject, not the name that we wish was most common (ie maintenence hole).  young  american (ahoy hoy) 01:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, a manhole is universally known as a manhole. Trumpy 12:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

In the UK, some holes commonly known as manholes are, more accurately, "rodding points". A manhole is one which a man (or woman) can climb into. 80.177.101.119 (talk) 16:45, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Gorrammit, this article is terrible. Here I was hoping for a reasonably long and thorough article I could just spork for Uncyclopedia, but no-oo... it's so... short and missing all the useful details... like where did they start? Now I have to make something up. 71.34.120.187 (talk) 02:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

speaking of names for it...
... this
 * utility hole, cable chamber, maintenance hole, inspection chamber,  access chamber, sewer hole, smellhole, flabhole, ding-dong or confined space

is a rather impressive list, but unsourced. I'm rather wondering especially about "smellhole", "flabhole", and "ding-dong". --Thnidu (talk) 15:58, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

"alternatively"?
"A manhole (alternatively utility hole, cable chamber, maintenance hole, inspection chamber, access chamber, sewer hole, or confined space) is the top opening to an underground utility vault "

I've been a sewer inspector for 6+ years and some of these are alternative names for the chamber/vault underneath a manhole, and do not refer to the top opening specifically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.114.165.146 (talk) 09:55, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

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Usage section does not explain usage
The Usage section does not explain what manholes are for, nor how they are used. 75.174.111.115 (talk) 21:37, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I've split up the section, as well as some other general clean up and adding a gallery section. Andrew Lorimer (talk) 00:19, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Dutch page link
The Dutch page links to https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putdeksel, which is actually manhole cover. Instead, it should link to https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rioolput. I am not good at wikipedia, so I hope someone else will do the necessary. 217.71.0.53 (talk) 17:45, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Man sized
Say if the diameter needs to be man-sized, in order to be a manhole. Jidanni (talk) 13:52, 4 October 2023 (UTC)