Talk:Tanning booth

What does the words "and these numbers are considered proprietary" mean? Is the intended meaning "is commercially sensitive information"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 05:33, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Tanning hot or cold?
Can anyone tell me - do the tanning booths tan better when they are warmed up? Or do they tan the same when they are cold? June 5th/14 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.73.231.93 (talk) 18:26, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Late, but yes, they do. Tanning lamps produce more ultraviolet when the ambient temperature around them is between 90F and 110F.  Below and above that, the output drops.  Above 110, it drops rapidly.  Below 90, it tapers, but drops rapidly below 60F.  There isn't any literature on this that I know of, but I've actually done the thermal testing with them.  Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 13:07, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Mostly unsourced - merge?
Most of this article is unsourced, especially the specific descriptions and the comparisons to tanning beds. If there are no sources discussing booths in particualr then this should just be merged to the tanning bed article. This article has been tagged for sources since 2012. 2602:306:C5B4:E3D0:F05D:49AD:7B3C:978C (talk) 09:04, 11 November 2015 (UTC)


 * And since there's no sourced material specifically about booths, by "merge" I mean "redirect". Maybe add a sentence saying that people lie on beds and stand in booths. That much is obvious. 2602:306:C5B4:E3D0:F05D:49AD:7B3C:978C (talk) 10:10, 11 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Actually, they are different in construction, we aren't going to run out of hard drive space, and this needs to be expanded instead of merged. Just as we have different articles on cars and pickups, even though they are similar. Part of the problem is the difficulty in quality sources. I know tons about them, but that is original research.  There are also spray booths and such, I haven't looked to see if we have an article on that but assume so.  Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 13:09, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Right now, the entire article is original research. The article has been tagged for sources for three years and no one has added any. Let's start deleting the unsourced material and see what we have left. 2602:306:C5B4:E3D0:F05D:49AD:7B3C:978C (talk) 22:46, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The difference between tanning booths and pickup trucks is that the latter article has 27 cited sources that talk about pickup trucks. This article? I see one source which mentions "booths", but it's unclear if those are tanning booths, in this sense, or booths that contain tanning beds. Certainly not enough to build an article upon. Booths and beds seem similar enough that they could be easily covered in the same article. Can we produce even a single sourced paragraph explaining what makes booths different from beds? 2602:306:C5B4:E3D0:F05D:49AD:7B3C:978C (talk) 23:12, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * FYI: here's the only material in the sources about "booths" -
 * So the one thing that we know about booths from sources, that they're coin operated, isn't even in the article. 2602:306:C5B4:E3D0:F05D:49AD:7B3C:978C (talk) 23:23, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * So the one thing that we know about booths from sources, that they're coin operated, isn't even in the article. 2602:306:C5B4:E3D0:F05D:49AD:7B3C:978C (talk) 23:23, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

For example - take the "common use" section. I don't know when it was added or by who but it basically says right in the text that it's unverifiable. See the very first post on this talk page asking about the proprietary info mentioned there. That was back in February 2012. I'm not the first person to question this stuff. If we can't find sources that actually talk about the relative popularity of booths over beds we can't make claims like this. Even I know that - Wikipedia 101. 2602:306:C5B4:E3D0:FD6A:87EF:A89E:DD53 (talk) 09:44, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I just searched for sources for this article. I learned that there's a whole genre of porn set in tanning booths! In addition to some lurid tales of hidden cameras, and a somewhat famous negligence case in wihch someone's fingers were amputated,, I couldn't find much that's usable. I only found one source that seems reliable: It's from a publisher of juvenile non-fiction. It only has a paragraph about booths, mostly about the relative hygiene vs beds and the evenness of exposure. If this is the best we can do I'll redirect this to the "beds" article and add a short section with that book as a source.  2602:306:C5B4:E3D0:4811:21A:B873:1A02 (talk) 23:56, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * There is a lot more on the technical side in particular, you just have to be patient. Deleting by redirecting would be too strong to do without a clear talk page consensus, and would be unacceptable.  For starters, there are a number patent and research papers you can find in a Google Scholar search, which has dozens of hits.  Some are calling booths beds (another story), but there is a lot of material to sift through if you look deeper than Google web and book hits.  WP:V doesn't require everything is verified, only that it is able to be verified.  Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 02:47, 13 November 2015 (UTC)