Talk:Traffic sign

message: There is much work on signage colors, which is not addressed here.  A new section, perhaps near the font section, is warranted.  Marquess (talk) 07:23, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Colors

message: Added a picture of a portuguese 17th century traffic sign to this section - ref. (in portuguese): http://www.ansr.pt/Portals/0/Padrao%20de%201686%20final.pdf
Couldn't find any reference to a type of vehicle described, named sége or sege - here's a few 18th/19th cent. examples:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FkKgTDI7ngU/S92vyv4wYqI/AAAAAAAAAzI/1ST2QepliMw/s1600/seg1.jpg (A.P.D.G. - “Sketches of Portuguese Life, manners, costume and caracther”,
London printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave Maria lane, 1826)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FkKgTDI7ngU/S92vyPf_ijI/AAAAAAAAAzA/8GiRNtIYT3Q/s1600/seg2.jpg (rev. William Morgan Kinsey (1788-1851)b - Portugal Illustrated Letters, London, 1829)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FkKgTDI7ngU/S92vx2YJJuI/AAAAAAAAAy4/Ckv87GpDfaI/s1600/seg3.jpg (later 18th cent., Museu Nacional dos Coches, Lisboa)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FkKgTDI7ngU/S92vnqF8diI/AAAAAAAAAyw/IFJoncCdWu4/s1600/seg4.jpg (later 18th cent., Museu Nacional dos Coches, Lisboa - four wheeled, later known as traquitana)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.153.62.138 (talk) 01:07, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: This article has too many images that are incongruous, wrongly positioned/sized and offer nothing to the understanding of traffic signs. For example, an Australian sign of a kangeroo? And? Most countries have animal images for the indigenous wildlife. Deer in Europe, Moose in North America etc. The same types of signs are just repeated again and again, and they have little to do with the text. IMO this article needs a top down hard core edit.86.145.3.102 (talk) 12:58, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Over "pictured"

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I was quite shocked to find that no signs in the form of Road surface marking are currently included in this article, is there a reason for this? I appreciate that not all markings on the road are signs i.e symbols that convey meaning, but many do and (in the UK at least) are backed by act of law.Mighty Antar (talk) 19:44, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The word "sign" is used with a very precise meaning in the context of "traffic signs" to mean signage (that is, vertical information-bearing surfaces mounted next to or over the road), not symbols. You're confusing the category of "traffic signs" with the category of "traffic control devices," which is a much broader category of all devices attached on or next to a road that are intended to communicate something to drivers.  Traffic signs and road surface markings are both types of traffic control devices. This is rather elementary ontology in civil engineering that one should be able to pick up quickly from reading professional magazines and textbooks.  --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:52, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this ontology accepted internationally? I can see that in the introductory text at least, yours is the delineation currently imposed, in which case should the image of the cycleway sign, currently on the page be removed? The photo of the camel symbol? The Irish warning sign? Civil engineers aside, perhaps the lay person may be best served by a Road traffic control device infobox? Mighty Antar (talk) 11:15, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is internationally accepted. All three photographs you just mentioned are of traffic signs, so they are all eminently appropriate for this article. Please go to a library and read some textbooks or take a MOOC if you still don't understand the subject. --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:48, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for another patronising response, please read that bit at the top of this talk page and don't bother responding if you've nothing constructive to say. This article is supposed to provide the justification and analysis, not some textbooks that nobody has bothered to source here. Your inference that your understanding is internationally accepted certainly isn't provided by the handfull of references currently on the page. Sort it out and you won't keep getting asked tiresome questions by people who can't differentiate between a sign and a symbol. Thanks. Mighty Antar (talk) 12:08, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

text:  Coolcaesar, you have the whole thing backwards. It is categorically wrong to expect prior knowledge of specialized fields in order to read a general encyclopedia. If this is basic knowledge for understanding the subject, then Wikipedia needs to lay it out in black and white near the top of the article for those who didn't already know. Wikipedia exists precisely to tell such people what they came to find out, or else tell them which other Wikipedia article to look in; expecting them to already know the thing they came to find out is perverse.  TooManyFingers (talk) 17:38, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Road surface marking 

message: The Quebec government has posted the designs of its road signs at http://www.rsr.transports.gouv.qc.ca/Dispositifs/Accueil.aspx Some of the designs might be worth mentioning here. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 18:45, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quebec road signs 

message: -•-Is there a ‘Cool shake’ warning?-•- Avery 917 (talk) 23:40, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warnings and construction 🏗 ⚠️ 

message: Is there a pedestrian memory sign? Avery 917 (talk) 23:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: What are you referring to? What's the meaning of the sign you're asking about? TooManyFingers (talk) 18:16, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pedestrians and cyclists 🚶 🚲 

message: There are currently a number of photos in the gallery that, while they *do* show signs which *are* meant for drivers, they might potentially be unofficial signs; in any case, they're certainly intended as informal humorous advice rather than required information. 
(a) Do they belong here at all? (b) If yes, do we really want more than one? TooManyFingers (talk) 18:29, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Over two years later, I have reduced them to one. But I agree in wondering if it still belongs in the article. EthanL13 | talk 18:22, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery photos: on topic? 

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