Talk:Electric light

Semi-protected edit request on 13 March 2019

Please add the inventor of the light bulb. thank you. 2600:1700:ECB0:9D30:89D7:5AC9:592F:E73E (talk) 22:54, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. DannyS712 (talk) 23:41, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2019

I believe that talking about the history of ELECTRIC LIGHT without mentioning Edison's contribution is a huge mistake. 189.6.241.78 (talk) 16:53, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. --MrClog (talk) 18:03, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done: I added a mention of Edison in the paragraph on early history. You may be interested in the article Incandescent light bulb, which has a much fuller exposition of the history of this technology.--Srleffler (talk) 21:12, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Remove circuit symbols section

@Srleffler:, @זור987:, @Gusfriend:, @Wtshymanski: The "Circuit symbols" section is not really deserving of a main section. It has some merit but not fit into any of the other sections. With the addition of the "Electronic symbol" section of the new infobox, I think the "Circuit symbols" section should be removed. This will allow editors and readers to have greater focus on the cultural symbolism section, which should be expanded, and the history section, which could use some restructuring – Kjerish (talk) 15:02, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 9 October 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure) SnowFire (talk) 15:23, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

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Electric light → Electric lamp – Article is about a lamp (the device), not about light (the phenomenon); significant source of confusion. Kehkou (talk) 22:28, 7 October 2023 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). Kehkou (talk) 02:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Oppose. That doesn't really make sense. To the extent that one can talk about a phenomenon of "electric light", it would be just the light that is produced by the device, an electric light. That phenomenon would be correctly covered in this article. You assert that this is a "significant source of confusion", but you haven't really given any evidence of that nor said anything that makes me think that you are even remotely likely to be correct.

On the other hand, confusion over electric light (the device) and electric light (the phenomenon) is nothing compared to confusion over electric lamp (the thing that sits on a table) and electric lamp (the element that produces light). In much of the English-speaking world, it is not typical to refer to a light bulb as a "lamp", and using that term for it is genuinely confusing.--Srleffler (talk) 03:56, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

"Light" is the 'stuff' that comes out of a lamp; the 'stuff' you "turn on".

A "lamp" is any device intended to produce light and can be electric, gas, etc., and not necessarily visible (i.e., infrared lamp). Such devices produce electric light, gas light, candle light, etc.

The device that holds the lamp (such as a table lamp) is called a "luminaire" or "fixture".

Hope that clears it up. I live in the English-speaking USA, and very regularly refer to them as "lamps". I've seen the individual LEDs in an LED lamp refered to as "wicks", but that's just silly. Kehkou (talk) 04:42, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose while some people might refer to it as a lamp, the vast majority refer to a device which generates light using electricity as an "electric light". Apart from the OP, who is confused about this? Polyamorph (talk) 11:50, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:16, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose A lamp is a subcase of the more general case, electric light – Kjerish (talk) 04:17, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

• Close The consensus is quite clear; please close this request.

Incidentally, "light" is also a device used to start a fire, the act of using said device, the opposite of heavy, and a lesser than normal amount or magnitude.Kehkou (talk) 09:27, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Wiki Education assignment: Technology and Culture

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