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Requested move 8 January 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: Moved. (non-admin closure) Adumbrativus (talk) 08:11, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

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Lighting designer → Lighting design – Our standard convention appears to be for topics that apply to both a profession and the occupation to be named after the profession. This fits with the WP:BROADCONCEPT guideline, as noted by an editor on Discord, not all productions will have a dedicated lighting designer. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:05, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

• Support per nom. We only rarely have articles focused on the professional rather than the profession (e.g. Author, Philosopher), where there is something to say about the qualities of being such a professional distinct from what we have to say about the profession. That is decidedly not the case here. BD2412 T 20:26, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:05, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nom. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 16:08, 11 January 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.

Change article title to "Theatrical lighting design"

The article references "Architectural lighting design" as a different page (considering it is indeed a different topic). Therefore, this page should be changed to "Theatrical lighting design" — staying with the pattern. GaffTape (talk) 03:20, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

change title or scope (or maybe just delete)

As already noted by others, this article suffers from several issues:

• It is broadly titled "lighting design" but its scope excludes significant applications like architectural lighting design and landscape lighting.
• Its statements are poorly supported, with no inline citations (only a broad bibliography in the References section).
• In addition, it appears largely redundant to the better article for stage lighting.

Therefore, I propose that one of the following changes be implemented:

• Change the title to narrow scope to a subset of stage lighting, such as theatrical lighting (as previously suggested by user GaffTape). This would probably be simplest. If pursuing this approach, some content could be removed to streamline and avoid overlap/conflict with that better page.
• Alternatively, move anything worth keeping to the stage lighting page (but don't duplicate anything there). Then either use this page as a high-level hub linking to other pages (e.g., architectural lighting design, landscape lighting, stage lighting) or -- perhaps better still -- simply delete it to avoid overlap with the lighting page.

I'd be happy to help implement the needed changes, but wouldn't want to invest time making edits if they will be automatically rejected by others protective of content they've contributed to this article. Jrtuenge (talk) 01:49, 26 November 2025 (UTC)