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Category:Lamp posts, Category:Lamp poles & subcategories
[edit]These seem too synonymous with Category:Street lights. JesseW (talk) 04:54, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
- See the redirects to w:en:Street lights -- both of these phrases are redirects. JesseW (talk) 05:10, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, JesseW, a lamp pole is a utility pole. Meanwhile a lamp post is often a historcial and/or ornamented light support. Both are only one of several components. They are topped by the light source/lamp and its housing/lantern. A lamp post bracket is required for suspended lanterns. Whether you call them lamp poles or lamp posts, they hold not necessarily street lights, but all kind of park lights, garden lights, porch lights, courtyard lights, harbour beacons, they are beside promenades, footpathes, waterbodies, on piers and footbridges ... Sometimes they are lost in the countryside. For all those the Category:Lamp posts is absolutely indispensable. --Bohème (talk) 05:39, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, that helps explain the intended distinction. Could you add that to the category pages? I'd do it myself, but I'm still not sure how best to phrase it. JesseW (talk) 23:24, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, JesseW, a lamp pole is a utility pole. Meanwhile a lamp post is often a historcial and/or ornamented light support. Both are only one of several components. They are topped by the light source/lamp and its housing/lantern. A lamp post bracket is required for suspended lanterns. Whether you call them lamp poles or lamp posts, they hold not necessarily street lights, but all kind of park lights, garden lights, porch lights, courtyard lights, harbour beacons, they are beside promenades, footpathes, waterbodies, on piers and footbridges ... Sometimes they are lost in the countryside. For all those the Category:Lamp posts is absolutely indispensable. --Bohème (talk) 05:39, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
- Category:Lamp poles has since been renamed Category:Light poles, but no clear explanation has been added to the categories. If street lights are purely for lighting on streets (but not in parks, courtyards, etc), then the French and English category description shouldn't read "Public lighting." The category tree should also be logical. How are these things related? I've tagged Category:Lamp poles and Category:Street lights to encourage further discussion here. - Themightyquill (talk) 21:11, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill, Bohème, and JesseW: The current categories are Category:Lamp poles and Category:Street lights it would seem. A street light is a compound item combining a lighting fixture and a utility pole which is intended to illuminate ways. A lamp pole is a utility pole intended to support a lighting fixture. It would therefore seems that Category:Lamp poles should be a sub of Category:Street lights for files depicting the utility pole portion of a street light. If one wishes to subcat to Category:Ornamented street lights or such that would be fine. Josh (talk) 17:50, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
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Not done: stale. Category names have shifted in the 6+ years this went unresoled and ultimately requires fresh nomination to sort it out. --ƏXPLICIT 03:41, 10 March 2020 (UTC)