Talk:Tolomeo desk lamp

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no account so cannot add —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.255.14 (talk) 16:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

The most important fact about this lamp
The most important fact about this lamp is its secret of how it balances, because this technology is hidden in the arms. This belongs into the first sentence of the summary.

Ping welcome, Steue (talk) 18:51, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

The "Short description" needs a dash hyphen
Dear Macrakis

In the title/header/name of the article Balanced-arm lamp there is a dash. Therefore in the Short description of Tolomeo desk lamp there should be a dash too. I have changed this already.

Ping welcome, Steue (talk) 06:05, 11 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for correcting the short description by adding a hyphen (not a dash, which would be incorrect). This sort of change doesn't need a Talk discussion -- you can just explain it in the edit summary.
 * It is generally unnecessary (and not a good idea), to start Talk page comments with "Dear X". --Macrakis (talk) 08:33, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

@ Macrakis

Thank you. I meant hyphen, but I was not aware that there is a difference. English is not my mother tongue.

This is, what I normally do (just doing it and explaining it in the Edit summary). But because you deleted all my edits on this article, without any explanation (of the deletions), I decided I better explain it in plain text i.e. 'Talk'.

The same reason is for my address. I tried -- to be extra polite -- although I felt different.

Steue (talk) 09:58, 11 October 2022 (UTC)


 * My edits mostly reorganized the article. I didn't even delete your "See also" to Balanced-arm lamps -- I made it into an inline link in the article text, which is generally considered a better way to refer to something. And though hiding the spring inside the arm is a clever design, I don't think there's any unique technological or physical principle involved. As for "see also" to the Aeron chair, yes, they were both popular among dot.coms, but this isn't the place to mention that. Perhaps you should start an article on "dot com design" or something -- if you can find reliable sources for it, of course. --Macrakis (talk) 22:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)