Talk:Nightstand

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Dicdef. RickK 03:43, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - and a badly written one at that. --bodnotbod 14:50, May 5, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't think pepople will be interested in this. DJ Clayworth 16:31, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete.--Samuel J. Howard 17:38, May 5, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikiddie article. Alcarillo 18:22, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gwimpey 21:44, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Who the hell would look up "nightstand" on wikipedia anyway? Some people do not think before they write. Delete please. Rdsmith4 01:45, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Expandable. anthony (see warning)
 * Delete. Pointless and badly written. I'm impressed - Andrewa has made this actually worth keeping. DS 01:01, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, esp. if we're going to keep bread clip (as I feel we should). Somebody, somewhere knows the history of nightstands, famous nightstands, etc. (and yes, I ripped that sentence off from somebody--credit is given). Meelar 01:11, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Expandable, I've started. Photo of an old one coming if we do keep it. Andrewa 04:46, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete or rewrite - poorly written --VTEX 05:23, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. There's probably something interesting to be said about designs over the years in the context of antique furniture etc. They always come up with stuff like that on Antiques Roadshow... DopefishJustin 05:59, May 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * I'll be doggoned. This went from kiddie-speak to useful stub!  Keep. - Lucky 6.9 21:39, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

Photos added as promised. Format is a bit iffy. It works OK but not great with IE6 and the default skin, and I've yet to find a skin that works at all with IE5 and any page containing photos. Please, if you think you can tweak it to work with all or even most browser/skin combos, do so. Andrewa 10:00, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Who the hell would look up nightstand, you ask. I did. I was looking at an art piece called Not-a-one-night-stand nightstand, and got curious about the derivation of one-night-stand. Having found that,I wondered how nightstand got its name.

Does anyone else think the statement "In the United States, pistols are often kept in nightstands for easy access if roused from sleep by an intruder." is slightly misleading? --Funkmaster 801 09:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Curious
I'm continually amazed at the number of contributors who assume that just because they aren't themselves interested in a topic, nobody else is either. See the deletion debate above for some good (that is, appalling) examples of this sort of thinking.

And I guess the removal of the images I added of a traditional nightstand is another case in point. Surely the term nightstand refers primarily to these traditional ones rather than to a modern bedside table? Interested in other views on this, but here in Australia that seems to be the case.

That being so, it's hard to understand why we'd have only an image of a modern "nightstand" in the article. The images were proposed for deletion as orphans, which is why I came here for a look.

Please don't remove content just because it doesn't interest you personally. Fans of old furniture love nightstands, and there's every chance this stub will become a good article if given the chance. Andrewa (talk) 20:45, 31 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Please add your photos back in where you feel is appropriate and I will remove the deletion nominations. Cloudbound (talk) 23:43, 31 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I had already done that, but as I said at the deletion discussion I also uploaded them to Commons, and apparently that was enough to make them elligible for immediate deletion here exactly as I had requested on the deletion discussion page, a good result. Andrewa (talk) 05:17, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

They are usefull to support...
Why does the article mention a mobile phone and not a phone in general. Is it so rare to have a landline telephone this days? Hrgwea (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 11:03, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Citations needed
This article is in need of citations. I added an editing banner. --SpiritedMichelle (talk) 02:17, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

History/origin of the term?
I've heard recently that the term of 'nightstand' comes from a servant who would stand by the bedside holding a candle at night, which by extension came to be used for the small table or locker that it is today? Has anyone else heard of this, or would know where to look?

The corresponding term in Portuguese is "criado-mudo", which quite explicitly comes from a term describing a muted domestic servant who would stand by the bed at night, and which has seen attempts at changing due to racist connotations recently, so I'm wondering if the English word is in any way related as the name suggests?109.79.116.207 (talk) 09:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)