Talk:Electrical wiring

message: The article says it's about building wiring, and then goes off babbling about transmission systems.  I'm not sure that it is at all useful to lump the disparate wiring practices of different parts of the world in one article. The transmission stuff is better covered in a different article.  Do  we really want an article about lights'n'plugs and panelboards?  Here's what I would expect to see covered in a real article on electrical wiring (cribbing wildly from the table of contents of the Canadian Electrical Code)
* Brief overview of building wiring systems (power, commnications, controls)
* Historical facts, early wiring systems, fire hazards
* Purpose and origins of electrical wiring codes (US, Canada, UK, other parts of the world if we can get any contributions)
* Service Equipment
* Design considerations, loading of circuits
* Protection
* Grounding (earthing) and bonding
* Modern wiring methods, conductors, cables
** North American practice
** UK practice
* Special power circuits
* Hazardous Locations
** Examples of locations with explosion hazard
** Wet and corrosive locations
** History
** North American vs. IEC practices
* Installation of equipment such as transformers, capacitors, etc.
* Lighting Systems
* Emergency Systems
* High Voltage Installations
* Communication Systems
* Pools
* Airports
* Marinas
* Railways, Telecomm, Electrical Utilities
--Wtshymanski 00:13, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: From Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not: "Instruction manuals - while Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instruction - advice (legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes. Wikibooks is a Wikipedia sister-project which is better suited for such things. ..." I think we have to be particularly careful here since wiring codes and practices vary so much. --agr 14:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How Should this Article be Organized?

message: I think there should be a discussion of connection methods: terminal blocks vs. wire nuts vs. soldering, etc. I'm under the impression that US and European practices differ here. --agr 16:07, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection methods 

message: I am partly color blind and wire colors have been the bane of my existence. This chart is no different as the wire colors are pictographs. Fine for the non color blind. But for me, frustrating and confusing. Is that brown or green? Maybe dark red? Copper color or brown? I can't tell. So I humbly request that someone please also put the color in the table along with the pictographs. An example of a problem I have reading the chart:
At the top of the table under flexible cord we have the row "Australia, New Zealand (AS/NZS 3000:2007 3.8.3)". Two pictographs represent two wire colors I can not make out on first glance. The wire to the left could be dark green or brown. The wire to the right darker orange or red. I then have to look around the chart at the other colors to get a feel for the shades used to be able to figure out the colors. Thaddeusw (talk) 14:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Named colours added (as per SpinningSpark's suggestion). Sgryphon (talk) 02:03, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

text: The colour can be made to show as a tooltip on mouseover like in this example. Is that any use to you?  It should also get read out by screenreaders for the blind.SpinningSpark 22:40, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Table Modifications for the Color Blind